The Weekend Guide | 22-25 March 2018

This week Springtime was welcomed with a ton of snow and cold and doubt about whether or not Winter will ever actually concede and set us free from its greedy little grip.

There’s hope on the horizon, Brooklyn. And it starts here with your weekend. Forget the snow. To hell with the equinox. Thermometer’s, be damned! If we wait for pleasant weather in this town we’ll only be happy for about 4.5 days out of the year. So get out there anyway. The weekend is setting in now and it looks so damn good on you.

THURSDAY

Spring Awakening at The Well in Bushwick

We can still awake the springtime within us, even underneath all of this snow and cold. Do so at the Spring Awakening at the Well. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Come to celebrate the women they are, the woman you are, the women in your life, and the limitless creative capacity of the women who put their passion, Before Anything Else. Yep. Come to celebrate BAE. It will be a night of music, art, performance, dancing, loving, sharing, and awakening. Join the event here for a $5 suggested donation and come alive, again. 272 Meserole St at The Well. Be like Timmy, fall in the Well.™

Dirty Dancing, Entirely From Memory at Videology in Williamsburg

The #1 event you don’t want to do with me this weekend is happening Thursday at Videology. The crew from Ten Bones Theatre Company hit the stage to blindly act out the film completely from memory after watching it just once, and requiring that they incorporate lines from the audience and also whatever sound effects are played by the tech booth. Goddamn, that’s hilarious. In the words of Ten Bones, “Love the movie? We got you covered. Never seen it? We got you covered. You think you saw it once and you kind of remember it? You’re probably in the show.” And me? Well, I’ll be that girl repeating the correct lines to you right after each one is messed up. Can’t help it, I love this film. Perhaps more than I care about your enjoyment of this event. Anyway, you don’t want to miss this. Tickets, $10 available here (and going fast!) Doors at 7:30pm. 308 Bedford Ave.

Spaghetti with Meghan at the Diamond in Greenpoint

In case you missed it, yesterday the Diamond had a snowman contest in the backyard… winners getting a free 90-min open bar. And if you did miss it, the snow will wait for you there tomorrow. And while I can’t promise that they will honor that prize again, what I can say is that any snowman is better with meatball eyes and a noodly grin. So go tonight for their Pop-Up Dinner, with Spaghetti by Meghan. Then make yourself a little whiskey snow slushy and finally find a way to appreciate this weather. Dinner starts at 7pm. Info here. 43 Franklin St.

Get Wet for World Water Day at House of Yes in Bushwick

So the first day of Spring was covered in snow… well, World Water Day is Thursday, and while we might not be able to be fully immersed in water to celebrate and appreciate it, the wonderfully imaginative folks at House of Yes will make us all into mermaids so we can swim, dance, and get wet together. In their words, “Soak in the vibes, mingle with mermaids, splash in our pool of performance and swim in the dance floor sea. Water is life and we are LIVING.” Eli Escobar spins all night. Ticket sales go towards + POOL, an organization dedicated to putting a floating, filtered pool in the East River, for all of us. So go. Tickets available here. 10pm-4am, 2 Wyckoff Ave.

FRIDAY

Puppy Day Trolley Tours with Madame Morbid

It’s National Puppy Day, and that means celebrating the tiny dogs that make our life happier by bringing them along on haunted tours of New York neighborhoods in an antique trolley fashioned into what you would imagine a funeral parlor on wheels to look like led by a rather sullen-looking macabre enthusiast who calls herself Madame Morbid. Hey man, I don’t know. I have a cat. If you have a puppy, consider this activity instead of a day at the dog park and one of those frostee paw treats. Because it’s an actual thing. Tours cost $49 and pick-up and drop off from Driggs Avenue & North 9th St at 4pm, 7pm, and 9pm. Sign up here. Let’s all go howl at the moon.

Dance All Night at Rose Gold in Bushwick

Dude. You trust me, right? You do. I can tell because you’re reading this. So, trust me when I say go to Rose Gold this Friday night. It’s the newly-renovated dance space underneath your favorite clam shack in Bushwick, and it’s begging for you to paint the town red beneath it’s rosey-glow. All the best djs and amazing live bands too. Lots of hidden corners for you to get dirty in. Plenty of open space for you to dance yrself clean upon. And a studio-54 vibe that will have you making for the bathroom. All night. (choose whichever way you want that pun to go. I won’t tell anyone.) Check out their schedule here and head there Friday night. Don’t find me, I’ll find you. 96 Morgan Ave.

Drink Along with Drop Dead Gorgeous at Videology in Williamsburg

Don’t let Kirsten Dunst let us forget this American masterpiece. Come, drink along with Drop Dead Gorgeous and along with all of your friends in this charming little theater off of Bedford Ave. Beer + Shot specials plus rules that go along with the film to make it all go down much easier. Tickets, $15 available here. Film starts at 11:59pm. 308 Bedford Ave.

SATURDAY

Sumo Stew at the Brooklyn Kitchen in Williamsburg

Few things are more intimidating than a really really big guy waddling toward you in a tiny diaper. But what if you knew that his belly was full of a big hearty stew? All of a sudden your urge to just barrel right into him is lessened as that small rubber band of a diapee becomes less and less capable of saving you from… well, you get where I’m going here. Sumo Stew is the traditional, hearty stew sumos fill up on to test the limits of those briefs before matches, and once a month the good people at The Brooklyn Kitchen are serving it up to us, along with a live streaming sumo match on the big screen, a bento box full of treats from famous Japanese chefs in the city, plus free beer from Asahi AND Japanese Whisky from Nikka AND Sake from Brooklyn Kura AND Tea from In Pursuit of Tea AND MOCHI FROM MOCHIDOKI. YEAH. All of this is happening. And if you want to go outside and strip down into your skivvies and ram your stew bellies into each other after the event, that’s encouraged. Not by them, by me. The event goes from 6pm-9pm, street sumo belly-ramming from 9:15 until late into the night. Tickets are just $65. Get yours here now then head to 100 Frost St.

Homecoming + Selamat Pagi Brunch Pop-Up in Greenpoint

You know what sucks? Brunch. Brunch sucks. Remember when we all just called it lunch? Anyway, two of my favorite spots in Greenpoint are helping brunch suck a little less by teaming up this weekend. Head to Homecoming to pick up a card for a free drink at Selamat Pagi this Saturday or Sunday, and at Selamat Pagi grab a $5 off card for all of your plant needs at Homecoming, or just choose one from Homecoming’s convenient pop-up shop and pick up a little something for the home that will last longer than your egg burps. (ew.) Check out the menu here and head to 152 Driggs Saturday or Sunday. Or both.

Intro to Hand Papermaking at Carriage House Paper in Williamsburg

It’s hip now to go “off the grid” and of course, to make a really big statement before, during, and after doing so. But let’s really slow things down, eh? Learn the art of papermaking before you take the plunge into virtual avoidance by showing everyone how serious you are. In letter form. And if nothing else, it will be a great test to how functional the Postal Service is here in the city. Sign up for this event by Carriage House Paper and learn how to create the basis of so many forms of art and communication forms. The class is $190 and goes from 10am-4pm (with a lunch break) (maybe even a paperbag lunch break) (you don’t know). Sign up here. 245 Kent Ave at Carriage House Paper; do you have the carriage?™

Working Women All Night at Nowadays in Ridgewood

There are so many ways to celebrate women’s month, and Nowadays is giving us the best way to celebrate with our bodies and this Saturday night, all night. Come heat up the dance wth Working Women, a group of female djs that has filled the speakers and hearts monthly since Nowadays began. They play all night but get there early because it’s free before midnight with an rsvp right here. Oh yeah, and they put a sauna in the backyard. so go, dance, make snow angels, make out in the sauna, and then dance yourself clean and do it all again. 56-06 Cooper Ave.

SUNDAY

Wake Up With Channing Tatum – Magic Mike Brunch Movie at Nitehawk

Stop regretting what you’ll be doing on Saturday night. Because Sunday morning you get to wake up with Channing Tatum. Yep. So go, get sloppy, make bad decisions, make-out with guys who aren’t Channing Tatum, because no matter what you’ll be waking up with all of the magic of Channing and his buddies baring it all on stage (via screen) at Nitehawk. Tickets available here, film starts at 11:30am. 136 Metropolitan Ave.

Women in Whiskey Tour at Kings County Distillery in the Navy Yard

Celebrate National Women’s Month like a man with Kings County Distillery. Come get into the spirit this at Brooklyn’s oldest distillery and hear the oft untold story about the frisky women behind whiskey throughout history. That’s right, fellas… without us, whiskey may not have existed at all. $20 gets you a tour of the distillery and whiskey tasting. Tour goes from 2-3pm. Get your tickets here, 299 Sands st.