Tell the genie three wishes and she will mix you a custom perfume of power!
Saturday & Sunday, May 19-20th, 2012
1-5pm
*While supplies last.
Kill Devil Hill
170 Franklin St
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Remember to check our calendar for ongoing events. And you can submit events, too!
WEDNESDAY 5/16
♫ Esque/Our Mountain/Bad Girlfriend/The Beach Arabs @ Public Assembly (70 North 6th St) 8pm, $8
THURSDAY 5/17
• Greenpoint Neighbors for Lincoln Restler @ Red Star (37 Greenpoint Ave.) 6:30-8pm, RSVP
• Lost Everything @ Word (126 Franklin St) 7pm, Brian Francis Slattery presents his new novel Lost Everything, in a launch party extravaganza accompanied by a performance by Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps.
*** ALL WEEKEND ***
♫ GYPSY TABOR 2012 Festival & Camp (5/18-20) @ Onderdonk House (1820 Flushing Ave, Ridgewood) $20/day, $35 – all weekend, Live music, DJs, yoga workshops, food, drink, informational lectures, dancing, camping, and celebrating world-roots and NYC’s immigrant culture are all on the menu, RSVP, More info
• Great Googa Mooga Festival @ Prospect Park (5/19-20) The Great GoogaMooga: n. an amusement park of food & drink; adj. something wonderfully great; excl. “oh my goodness!” or “how bout that! More info
FRIDAY 5/18
♫ Free Kids Concert @ McGolrick Park (Monitor St & Driggs Ave.) Rain Location: Messiah Church (129 Russell St) 11am, Mrs. Crabapple puppet show, performance by Mike Messer, lead singer of The Dirty Sock Funtime Band, a collective chalk flower drawing
• Williamsburg Walks Volunteer Meeting @ Nag Office (Kent Ave @ N8th, 2nd Fl) or picnic table in East River State Park, 6pm, Williamsburg Walks is a series of car-free Saturday afternoons on Bedford Avenue. The idea is for people to use the closure to cars to rethink their public space & celebrate the neighborhood, on 3 Saturdays -rain or shine- June 9th, 16th, & 23rd, RSVP
♦ Hut # 7 @ Arts @ Renaissance (2 Kingsland Ave) 6:30pm, Hut #7 is a hut built of trash found on and around the site of St. Nicks Alliance by choreographer and multi-media artist Jill Sigman, RSVP, More info
♫ Flash @ Loreley BK (64 Frost St) 10pm, Live – Jorge Velez, DJs: Marcos Cabral, Ron Morelli, Love On The Run (Secret Rendevous), RSVP
♫ Perfect Stranger @ Europa (98 Meserole Ave) 10pm, $15, psytrance RSVP
SATURDAY 5/19
* North Brooklyn Volunteer Fair @ McCarren Park Greenmarket (Driggs & Union) 10am-2pm, From soup kitchens to parks groups, we have brought together 20 organizations that utilize volunteers in North Brooklyn. This is a great opportunity to learn how you can connect to volunteer opportunities in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. RSVP
• Build It Green Grow NYC Block Party & Stop ‘N’ Swap @ Build It Green! NYC (3-17 26th Ave, Astoria) 12-3pm, More info
• Genie In a Bottle @ Kill Devil Hill (170 Franklin St) 1-5pm, Tell the genie your three wishes and she will make you a custom perfume of power.
♦ Pastoral Day Dreams @ The Home of Andrew Freedman (1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx) 1-5pm, Join Caroline Burghardt at the “Beach” in the Bronx. Enjoy her newest backdrop and take your own pictures or pose for one of mine, RSVP
SUNDAY 5/20
* Genie In a Bottle @ Kill Devil Hill (170 Franklin St) 1-5pm, Tell the genie your three wishes and she will make you a custom perfume of power
♦ Arts In Bushwick Benefit @ Grace Exhibition Space (840 Broadway, 2nd Fl.) 6-9pm, Meet the artists and have a preview of some of the works that will be shown during Bushwick Open Studios June 1-3.All artwork will be sold in a $50 raffle with the first ticket drawn having first pick, and so on, until all the pieces are gone, RSVP
MONDAY 5/21
* OCD Lecture: The Biggest Apple @ Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St) 7:30pm, Free, journalist Amy O’Leary for a panel discussion on population trends, urban planning, and the conceptual limits of density here in the Big Apple.
♫ Country Night @ Union Pool (484 Union Ave) 9pm, Free, Cowboy Mark & DJ Tony, a full night of vintage country music. Vinyl only always.
TUESDAY 5/22
♫ Yaya Herman Dune/The Fisherman Three/Turner Cody @ Union Pool (484 Union Ave) 9pm, $8
Coming up:
WEDENSDAY 5/23
* Is Greenpoint Safe: Cleaning Up Our Neighborhood’s Toxic Legacy @ Anella Backyard (222 Franklin St) 7-8:30pm, Rain or Shine, drink specials, Get the real deal about the public health and environmental situation in Greenpoint and learn what we can do about it. Greenpoint residents Kate Zidar (Newtown Creek Alliance), Laura Hoffman (Organizations United for Trash Reduction and Garbage Equity – OUTRAGE), and Mike Schade (Center for Health, Environment, & Justice) share their expertise in a conversation moderated by Cara Cannella (Speak Easy Series).
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
♥ Pheremones Likely
♦ Art Event
• Monday, May 21st, 7pm – Roberta’s Garden Dinner Series: Lamb (261 Moore St, Bushwick) – $95 – Look at that menu! I am talking about those adorable lamb baby angels… BUY TIX
• Wednesday, May 23rd – The Great, Pinch Head, Suck Tail Event – CRAWFISH FEST @ Brooklyn Brewery (79 North 11th St.) – $40, Just the name alone is enough reason to go! And the heaps and heaps of delicious daddies! BUY TIX
• June 23rd, 6pm – The Cheesemonger Invitational @ Larkin (47-55 27th St. LIC) - $50 – um, yeah, cheese, lots of cheese! And Beth from Greenpoint’s Eastern District is competing! BUY TIX
Remember to check our calendar for even more events. And you can submit event, too!
WEDNESDAY 5/9
♫ Social Media In Music Panel Discussion @ The Yard (33 Nassau Ave.) 7-9pm, Tatiana Simonian (Twitter), Benjamin Jacobs of (Fool’s Gold) Jonathan Pardo (Free Association Management), and Brandon Martinez (INDMusic)
♦ Drawings by Leszek Knaflewski @ Cleopatra Greenpoint (110 Meserole Ave) 7-9pm, the first US exhibition of drawings by Poznań based artist Leszek Knaflewski, part of an expanded series of works on paper produced during his involvement with the influential collective Koło Klipsa, More info
THURSDAY 5/10
• Newtown Creek Monitor Committee Meeting @ DEP (329 Greenpoint Ave) 6:30-8:30pm, The committee works with DEP to address odors, noise, dust, and other impacts related to the facility, More info
♦ Cage Transmitted @ Triple Canopy (155 Freeman St.) 7pm, $5, Robert Whitman’s performs Inside Out and screening of John Cage’s An Alphabet, More info
♫ Rolling Thunder @ Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Ave) 11pm, a night of Country and Southern Rock
♫ In Honor of MCA: Beastie Bowl @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave) FREE, 8pm, In honor of MCA, we’re screening “Awesome! I F*ckin Shot That”, directed by Adam Yauch, on all screens with full concert sound.
FRIDAY 5/11
♦ We Have Relocated To Our New Location @ Picture Farm (338 Wythe Ave.) 6-9pm, A group show of fine art editions printed and published by Kayrock Screenprinting, More info
• Improve Yourself with AJ Jacobs and Gretchen Rubin @ Word (126 Franklin St) 7pm, What does it take to become the healthiest person on earth, and how happy does it make you in the long run? Jacobs will also read from the book, and both authors will take questions and sign.
♦ Street Shadows @ One Stop Beer Shop (134 Kingsland Ave) 7-10pm, Chris Smith aka ‘subtexture’ is bringing the light and shadows of Greenpoint onto the walls of the One-stop Beer shop
SATURDAY 5/12
* Brooklyn Food Conference @ Brooklyn Tech HS (29 Fort Greene Place) 9am-6pm, FREE, Food activists, local farmers, academics, restaurateurs and health advocates and all those interested in food justice will gather to discuss the global food economy and its impact on our lives.
♦ Queens Museum RIDGEWOOD Art Crawl, 3-10pm, You know that part of town you thought was Bushwick… well, Actually, It’s Ridgewood. Help us set the record straight by celebrating Queens’ newest art community with a little bit of history, a lot of art, and the perfect amount of drink, More info
♫ Third Ear Training @ Newtown Barge Playground, 2pm, Free, Welcome the warm weather as we bring you one more time their “Intelligent Electronic Music For Well Trained Ears”. Come with your family, friends, kids, dogs, fresbies, blankets or just your dancing feet, More info
♫ Red Hook Ramblers/Rob Kendt/Holler! @ Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St) 4-10pm, More info
♫ Pleasure Island @ Spike Hill (186 Bedford Ave) 8pm, Ghost Beach/Triple Cobra/Frogg/Lushes
Sunday – 5/13 – MOTHER’S DAY!
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
♥ Pheremones Likely
♦ Art Event
Wagmag is a non-profit Brooklyn Art Guide that promotes art venues and exhibitions in Brooklyn, including Greenpoint. Tonight is their yearly benefit at The Boiler (191 North 14th) from 7-9pm. Tickets are $20 to attend or $200 to enter the artwork drawing. This is a great chance for collectors to get in on amazing Brooklyn artwork on the major cheap. By donating $200 you are guaranteed artwork. There is a raffle drawing which determines which order ticket holders make their selection. I hope I get to chose first!
There is some amazing artwork in the raffle. My money is on: Ward Shelley, Scott Chasse, Brian Leo, Daniel Zeller, Peggy Cyphers, Mark Masyga, Robert Walden & Lisa Levy.
Lincoln Restler is a great guy and good for Greenpoint. He has been supportive of Greenpointers, attends our events, supports the Greenpoint Church Soup Kitchen, helped with the Java Street Garden, wants to save the G train line extension and overall is great at getting community members involved!
Join him and his supporters tonight, 5/3/12 from 6-8:30pm at Brooklyn Winery (213 No. 8th St) to kick-off his campaign. Support here.
Party with us! We are excited to bring to Greenpoint (and nowhere else) the First Aguardiente Spirit Bar, and unveil our new spanking dinner menu and awesome vibrant look.
Known as ‘Fiery Water,’ Aguardiente is the premier spirit of Colombia.
$4 Colombian Mojitos • $4 Margaritas • $3 Aguardiente Shots • Great food and dinner!
Join us celebrating the launch of our bar!
Cafecito Bogota
1015 Manhattan Ave.
Sponsored post courtesy of Cafecito Bogota.
Tucked away off of Manhattan on Meserole is the most adorable mid century modern vintage furniture and home store called Vintage Modern. I’ve found so many great pieces there. I want to move in and live in the storefront.
Tonight, 3/3/12 from 6-9pm, designer Erica Savard is having a trunk show of her jewelry collection called We See Stars. Refreshments, 20% off jewelry & 15% off everything else in the store.
I want these vintage arrow studs! Only $18. See you later!
Vintage Modern
110 Meserole Ave.
Papacitos
999 Manhattan Ave.
Sponsored post courtesy of Papacitos.
Remember to check our calendar for more events. Submit your events there, too!
WEDNESDAY 5/2
♦ Birds & Other Animals @ Dandelion Wine (153 Franklin St) 8-10pm, Opening Reception for Artist Scott Chasse, paintings of birds & other animals, RSVP
THURSDAY 5/3
* Lincoln Restler Campaign Launch Party @ Brooklyn Winery (213 North 8th St) kick off Lincoln Restler’s Reelection Campaign as State Committeeman and District Leader for the 50th Assembly District, More info
♫ Funky Warsaw @ Warsaw (261 Driggs St.) 10pm, DJ Bobby J plays all vinyl, sassy-ass 60′s soul, funky funk, power-pop pop-pop, post apocalyptic punk, and pre-historic hip-hop
• Grand Opening: Beloved (674 Manhattan Ave) More info
• Crooked Man/ Hazel Rah/ Theologian/ Lost Coves @ Saint Vitus (1120 Manhattan Ave) 8pm, $10, BUY TIX
FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY (5/3-5/6)
• NY Food Book Fair @ Wythe Hotel (80 Wythe Ave) $15+, The first ever New York Food Book Fair is a celebration of cookbooks, memoirs, magazines, science, food systems, agriculture, urban design and food art and culture, More info
FRIDAY 5/4
* Penny Social @ Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (275 No. 8th St) 6pm, Hosted by: Kelly Pakowski. This event is for Adults only. Tickets are $8.00 in advance, and $9.00 at the door. Coffee and cake available with admission, plus a door prize ticket. Lots of great prizes including a Walt Disney World Vacation for a family of 5 as a grand prize, More info
• St. Stanislaus Kostka Drama Club Presents Grease @ St. Stanislaus Kostka School (12 Newel Street)
♦ A Mouth that Might Sing @ Pierogi (177 North 9th St) 7-9pm, Opening reception for artist Ryan Mrozowski, More info
♦ Represent @ The Habitat (988 Manhattan Ave) 7pm, a solo exhibition of drawings and video by Nick Hartman
♫ The Death Set/ Wild Yaks/ Total Warr/ Rompers/DJ Dityfinger @ Shea Stadium (20 Meadow St, Bushwick) 8pm, $8, all ages, presented by Bike in the Kitchen
♫ Bare Mutants/ Outer Minds/ DJ Vashti @ Union Pool (484 Union Ave) 9pm, RSVP
SATURDAY 5/5
• 5th Annual Go Green! Greenpoint Earth Day Festival @ McCarren Park, 11am-5pm, eco-friendly artists, crafters, educators, and community groups, as well as educational displays, Greencycle swap, art exhibits, contests for kids, and enviro-friendly handmade wares, more info
• Cinco De Mayo @ Papacito’s Backyard (999 Manhattan Ave) 11am-4am, mariachi, surf rock, cheap beer, tequila, margaritas, all day, all night, more info
• Greenpointers Cinco De Mayo Launch Party @ Greenpoint Heights (278 Nassau Ave) 9pm, Celebrate the launch of this website, meet the contributors, eat tacos, drink margaritas, Greenpoint photo booth, prizes, music by Cowboy Mark! RSVP
SUNDAY 5/6
• Discover Williamsburg Walking @ Greenpoint Renaissance Center (2 Kingsland Ave) $20, Explore the former Greenpoint Hospital Site, Old Bushwick Green, St. Nicholas Church, Jennings Hall, Huber and Hittleman’s Brewery, and other historic landmarks. Led by Historian John Dereszewski, BUY TIX
♫ NY Night Train Happening: Welcome Back Jonathan Toubin Dance Party @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave) 8pm, JONATHAN TOUBIN, derailed for five months after an accident in Portland is feeling better and on his way home to Brookyln to return to what he does – throwing down the wildest 45rpm dance vinyl you’ve never heard, RSVP
MONDAY 5/7
* OCD Lecture: The Biggest Apple @ Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St.) 7:30-9pm, FREE, panel discussion by journalist Amy on population trends, urban planning, and the conceptual limits of density here in the Big Apple.
♫ Total Warr/ Hello Phones/ Rimar/ RobertCop @ Glasslands Gallery (289 Kent Ave.) 8:30pm, $10, BUY TIX
TUESDAY 5/8
♦ WAGMAG Brooklyn Art Guide Benefit @ The Boiler (191 No. 14th St.) 7-9pm, a great event for art lovers in the area, with approximately 100 pieces of artwork generously donated by local galleries and artists for the raffles, BUY TIX
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
♥ Pheremones Likely
♦ Art Event
