Things To Do THIS WEEKEND In Brooklyn
New York Cider Festival, All Over Town
When exactly did apples transcend into the poster foods for a healthy lifestyle? An apple a day and all that bullshit? Weren’t these the original sinful foods? The ones that tempted us out of paradise and into the world of danger and mischief we currently inhabit? Celebrate their sinful side this weekend at the New York Cider Fest. Come explore the intricacies, layers, and immense flavors that can come from these enticing fruits this weekend. Check out the full event list here and find my favorite picks and pits scattered throughout this weekend’s guide.
Things To Do THURSDAY In Brooklyn
Cave Music Volume 6 at Crown Finish Caves in Crown Heights
This is JUST A REMINDER to sign up RIGHT NOW for Crown Finish Cave’s email list. Their every-so-often Cave Music concerts sell out within minutes, like this one that you would have really enjoyed, where you could be sipping Farm Flor cider, eating cheeses and aging among them while music reverberates off of the acoustically-enhanced curved cave walls. It’s too late now for you though. Don’t let it happen again. Sign up here. Or, you know, storm the cave at 925 Bergen St.
The Other Art Fair at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint
Can’t contain your excitement for the upcoming Warhol exhibit at the Whitney? Head to the Brooklyn Expo Center this weekend for the Other Art Fair. You’ll be immersed in the best of Brooklyn’s emerging artists feel like a part of the thriving creative community that helped launch Andy Warhol and will continue to launch so much talent to be exhibited in the future. The kickoff party is Thursday but the art will be there all weekend so immerse yourself and take home a piece that you will purchase directly from its creator. I know I personally can’t wait to sit at West Wine Bar afterward sipping my chablis and talking lightly about just how immersed I was. Tickets and info here. 72 Noble St at the Brooklyn Expo Center; Expose Yourself!™
Taste Makers at the Museum of Food and Drink in Williamsburg
It’s about time we get beyond rating systems, chasing Michelin Stars and following the light of our smartphones into the next most Instagrammable restaurant. In 2016 Paul Freedman set out to ask us to take a step back and change the way we think about what makes a restaurant influential and ultimately, enticing, enjoyable, and edible. His book The 10 Restaurants That Changed America has shifted the conversation. Come hear him discuss the present and future of the restaurant landscape with Mayukh Sen and enjoy dishes from two of the restaurants in the reception that follows. And I’m not gonna tell you which two either. HA. Tickets, $30 available here. 6:30-8:30pm. 62 Bayard St.
Things To Do FRIDAY In Brooklyn
Opening Party for the 9th Annual American Beatboxing Championship at the Brooklyn Bazaar in Greenpoint
BOOM ba chippa bah boom boom ba CHIP BAH. Yeah. Yep, that’s right. That all came from my mouth and then through my fingertips and onto this screen, but at no point were there any musical instruments involved. It’s called beatboxing, fools, and the competition is this weekend, in Brooklyn. Come be way more impressed than you were with that intro at the opening party, Friday, where there will be dope beats, a confusing lack of instruments, and likely a little bit more spit than you’d prefer. All info here, It goes down at the Brooklyn boobada-baddada-bazaar. (HEY! not BAD!) 150 Greenpoint Ave.
Wolffer Estate Dry Cider and Cheese Pairing at Murray’s Cheese in the West Village
Is there any better reason to cross the river this weekend other than for Wolffer’s Dry Cider with cheese pairings? That was obviously a rhetorical question. So shut up and head to Murray’s Cheeses for a tasting of 6 ciders paired perfectly with 6 of their hand-picked cheeses and gain enough information and additional cheeses and ciders (for purchase!) to impress/annoy everyone around the Thanksgiving table this year. Tickets, $90 available here. 254 Bleecker St. 6:30-8pm.
Garden of Eden at House of Yes in Bushwick
Wash yourself clean of all of this political dirt and revive your senses, your body, your soul in the spirit of togetherness and unions. Join energies and other things with new people and old. Reinvent yourself and reinvite yourself to the House of Yes’s Eden party Friday night. Celebrate the changing of the seasons and come dressed as Autumnal gods and goddesses. DJs and dancing all night, plus artistic aerialists, massage stations, energy cleansing, and every chance you wish to get dirty again. The event is free before 11pm, then $40. Tickets and info here. 2 Wyckoff Ave. at House of Yes, where they put the sensual in consensual.™
Things To Do SATURDAY In Brooklyn
Annual Pancake Breakfast at the Diamond in Greenpoint
You know when you talk to your friends and say things like, “If I had a bar, I would…” and then you name something off-the-wall or super endearing or really inventive that makes you seem like the coolest person in the conversation? Well Dave at the Diamond actually did just that and has been doing just that for ten fucking years. Case in point, Saturday is the annual pancake breakfast when his parents come into town and cook breakfast for us loyal patrons. And you know what pairs best with pancakes? The expertly curated microbrews on tap, always, at the Diamond. It starts at 11am and includes pancakes, frittata, and baked goods, with the purchase of beer or wine. Info here, 43 Franklin St. Damn this event is stacked.™
The Well’s 4th Aniversary! in Bushwick
It’s The Well’s 4th anniversary and that means too many beers to consume, too many tunes to groove to, too many new friends to make and too many new lovers to make love to. Come celebrate all of the best things in life and all of the 1,460 days they’ve been bringing these things to you. They’ll also be releasing a special 4-way local brewer collab, their new Hop-erol Spritz”, a DDH NE-style Aperol-inspired Brut IPA with orange zest. Don’t miss this, or anything else happening Saturday from noon-3am. This event is free. Info here, 272 Meserole St. Be like Timmy, Fall in the Well!™
Please Resist, Thank You, a Cyberpunk party and political movement of sorts in Bushwick
In the weekend’s most epic fusion of immersive satire-corporate resistance-childhood throwback-and I actually don’t know what the fuck, Please Resist, Thank You will turn a warehouse into a cyberpunk Chuck E. Cheese, giving you pizza, prizes, pizzaz, the opportunity to participate in a laser tag deathmatch where nobody dies because of insurance implications, the chance to dodge cubicles and battle the big boss, the resources to smash tech and get hacks, and let’s be honest, the likelihood of seeing some rats that aren’t a celebrated food icon. Tickets are $40 and your first drink is free. Go please find out what the hell is happening. Tickets and (kind of?) info here. 529 Johnson Ave.
Brooklyn Crush Wine + Artisinal Food Fest in Industry City
My crush on Brooklyn I thought would be fleeting, but it’s been running around playing hard to get, toeing the line between friend and lover and heartbreak and mistake and muse for eight years now. If you’re reading this you probably know what I mean. Come feed your hunger and quench your thirst and crush that crush at the Brooklyn crush wine fest. It’s an all-day drinking and eating event, but you’ll be consuming some of the best local foods and wines available in the charming setting of Industry City. It’s happening from 2-10pm (there are time slots, don’t worry.) tickets available here. 220 36th st.
Things To Do SUNDAY In Brooklyn
Red Hook Open Studios all over Red Hook
Listen. You need to be spending more time in Red Hook. Just like you should have been spending more time in DUMBO before it became overrun with wedding photographers and very influential Instagrammers, or Bushwick before it became East Williamsburg, or Long Island City before it becomes Amazonia. This is the best weekend to explore what makes this industrial part of South Brooklyn so ironically enchanting, a weekend when resident artists open up their galleries and workspaces to you to give you an inside look at their lives and passion. Plus you’ll have uninterrupted views of Lady Liberty, a handful of amazing distilleries and breweries to explore, some of the best barbecue in the city, and a damn fun crab shack. Check out all of the spaces on display for you this year here then plan your tour by bike. It’s happening Saturday and Sunday.
Bushwick Cider Festival and Market at the Brooklyn Cider House in Bushwick
The closing party for this year’s cider fest, head to Brooklyn’s first urban cidery and two people who are making some of the most authentic Basque-style cider outside of Spain. Errr, I mean, Pais Vasco. Anyway, come enjoy an indoor market with free cider tastings, food from local purveyors, and some downhome bluegrass tunes live.
Make the right decision now to book yourself a seat at the table for their 5-course cider pairing dinner with the executive chef and cider maker Peter Yi. All info and tickets are here. The market is free to attend (but RSVP here!), dinner is $125/person. 1100 Flushing Ave.
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