Pictured here is me, on my last beach day this year, at the Rockaways. And while I’m always filled with sadness at the end of summer, looking out into the horizon and wondering when I’ll feel the cool ocean on my skin again, where I will be and who I will be and if it will feel the same, I’m always filled with gratitude that the sand, however unstable, is able to support me and that even when my tan fades, my skin will still withhold the same beauty and strength and irrepressible wildness that it showed all summer.
Let’s not grieve, let’s embrace this seasonal transition in all the best ways we know how. Or, the best ways I know and that you’re about to know how. Read on, your weekend is about to get so much better.
THURSDAY
Threes Brewing Forevermore IPA Release Party in Gowanus
What better way to commemorate the changing of the seasons than with an evergreen beer that promises to be with us for a long time? Threes Brewing releases their new Forevermore IPA in true Threes fashion – with DJs, dancing, beer, meats, meets, and absolutely no summertime sadness. Shed it away, dance it away, drink it away, do whatever you need to do. The event is free (and beer kind of is too, if you find the right room. That’s all I’ll say) Info here. 6-11pm, 333 Douglass St. at Threes Brewing, I’ll Try Anything Thrice!
Free Cookies and French Pastry Lesson with Banana Farm in Gowanus
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Decide your lunch is cookies and recognize that time is relative and it will all be free for you today. The lovely folks at the Banana Farm will open their doors to you and share their love of French pastries with a free cooking lesson and free cookies and free love. Just get there. Info here. 7-830pm, 98 4th st.
FRIDAY
THE LAST WEEKEND to see Atlas Obscura Presents See/Saw in Greenpoint
Do you believe in magic? Of course you do, why else would you have been drawn to this shining, shimmering city? Hone it all in this weekend at Atlas Obscura’s See/Saw event. It’s a magic show that immerses you in the mind, the mystery, and the mania of the magician. Where you won’t believe what you’re seeing or have seen or did saw. And such. Tickets are $75 and cocktail attire is required, so get fancy and forget your panties. Because everyone should have their secrets. Get your ticket here and plan to go to Brooklyn Safehouse afterward, because it’s Greenpoint’s dodgiest bar and everyone loves a good juxtaposition. 122 Franklin St.
Skins Exhibit Opening at the Greenpoint Terminal Gallery
Summer may be the best time to shed your clothing along with your inhibitions and feel good in your skin, and only your skin, anywhere you want. As Fall threatens to make us cover up and hunker down head to this exhibit that will remind us just how beautiful, tantalizing, seductive and unifying our skin is. Skins opens at the Greenpoint Terminal Gallery. Go and admire and appreciate the natural human form then go home and get naked with your lover and appreciate it all over again. And call it art. Opening reception 7-10pm. Info here, 67 West St.
Rumors New York at the Brooklyn Mirage in Bushwick
If you haven’t been to the Mirage yet, then you haven’t been listening very well. This is the best outdoor dance venue in the city, or outside of Ibiza for that matter. Three floors of open-air decks surround a massive garden, with panoramic projections surrounding an immersive music experience with all of the best djs spinning all night. All of the murmuring and whispers have been confirmed – Friday night they welcome back Rumors New York, and it will be the dance party you don’t want to miss this weekend. Tickets are $40 and available here. Party starts at 8pm and lasts as long as you do. Or your drugs do. 140 Stewart Ave.
SATURDAY
The Lot Radio BBQ on that magical triangle between Greenpoint and Williamsburg
Remember in the beginning of summer when those friends who you know that own grills were like, “Oh yeah! We’re going to have cookouts alll summer! Like literally, the coals will always be hot and ready! Yes come over every single day!” And how many cookouts have you been to… yeah. People with grills fucking lie. And they are fucking squares. Come instead to this very triangular cookout where the doors are open to everyone and they’ll be playing all the best music and you’ll forget all about those lucid invitations. It’s The Lot Radio’s annual BBQ and you don’t want to miss it. Noon-4pm, info here. 17 Nassau Ave.
Basque Happy Hour at Archestratus Books in Greenpoint
Bask in this celebration of Basque food, wine, and culture in North Greenpoint this Saturday at Arhcestratus Books. They welcome Marti Buckley, author of BASQUE to a dedicated happy hour with Basque-inspired arancini and wine. Talk to Marti and be inspired by her travels and buy her book and bask in the beauty of cooking Spanish things until you whisk your little heart across the ocean to the promised land. Or that’s my plan anyway. The event is free, 4-6pm. Info here. 160 Huron St.
Rubulad 2 Cool for School somewhere in Bushwick
Remember when back-to-school time filled you with dread? What would you wear? Who would you be? Who would you date and then whose heart would you break a few hours later? We don’t have to worry about that shit anymore. Because we are too cool for school. Come celebrate and commiserate with the woes of your youth this Saturday night with Rubulad and everyone else cool you know. It’s all happening at a yet undisclosed location, which is where all the coolest shit happens. Tickets, $10 available here upon which you will receive a location. And let’s just all hope it isn’t that creepy upperclassman Brock’s souped-up Volkswagon bug with the unnecessary soundsystem and the wet, dank smell of cigarette smoke. Yeah.
Roller Disco and Wig Out Party at House of Yes in Bushwick
Disco isn’t dead and neither am i and neither are you. Need proof? Head to roller disco at House of Yes Friday night and don your best, boldest disco getup and try to pull of your best (or worst) disco moves on roller skates. THEN, stay for the Wig Out party, and challenge the idea that you are not your hair. Become a ginger for the night and see what it feels like to be scared of. Have kinky-curly hairs and complain about the humidity before (and after) you have kinky-curly sex. Be a blue man and alleviate the need to kiss and tell and cover your tracks. Free before 11pm with RSVP, $30 after that. All available right here. 8pm-4am. 2 Wyckoff Ave.
SUNDAY
Babel NYFW Edition: Decompression, at the William Vale in Williamsburg
Fashion week sucks. Come be above it or pay your way into the in-crowd at the William Vale, that building that put the nail in the coffin for Williamsburg. Come see and be seen, drink and be drunk, eat and be eaten. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, glitter to glitter. Tickets $40 available here. No cash accepted because we are all machines. 111 North 12th St. You literally can’t miss it.
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