Just like how you dance on your birthday, right?

1. Step in and out of Videology’s 12 hour Western marathon, featuring Unforgiven, Once Upon a Time in the West and a movie with some chump named John Wayne, among others (Monday)

2. Meg Wolitzer drops in to WORD to talk about her new book, The Interestings, which is an ironic tale about a boring family with the surname “Interesting.” Ah, just kidding, it’s not about that at all (Monday)

3. CSA Local Roots celebrates their second birthday at Local 61 with pinatas and a station to make instruments out of vegetables. Sounds like a party (Monday) (more…)

He’s not laughing at your dancing, he’s laughing with it

1. Test out some new material at Brooklyn Fireproof’s open mic. If you’re looking to test out new materiel, you should probably try Brooklyn Constantly on Fire (Monday)

2. What does the future of 3D printing hold, other than terrifying bands of 2nd Amendment nuts printing their own nuclear weapons? Find out, with input from MakerBot, Shapeways and more, at at Brooklyn Law School (Monday)

3. Nitehawk Cinemas’s Simpsons Club is learning biblical lessons and reuniting with long-lost family members this week (Monday) (more…)

I want YOU to come to Videology

1. Get thrizzled at Book Court by author Michael Kupperman’s stories of Einstein and Mark Twain solving mysteries (Monday)

2. Hampshire College hosts their alumni (including Eugene Mirman) at Union Hall in a display of how much better their college is than your college (Monday)

3. Find out if it goes to 11, at Videology (Monday)

4. Dive into Freddy’s back room for some comedy, but be careful: there are no lifeguards on duty (Monday) (more…)

John Holmstrom and all his rowdy friends get together at Powerhouse Arena Friday. via Punk Magaine

1. There’s big trouble in little China. Fortunately, Kurt Russel is here to make things right (Monday)

2. Feel better about your bad high school parties by making fun of Hollywood ones with the Crappy Cinema Council (Tuesday)

3. Gotham Writer’s Workshop is letting you try before you buy, so check’em out (Tuesday)

4. Will there be a box on Twin Peaks bingo for “falling desperately in love lust with Lara Flynn Boyle”? (Tuesday) (more…)

Sign outside Bedford-Hill, a coffee shop with a beer-and-wine license. Er, define dependent?

This looks like heaven. A close second will be Bedford Hill tomorrow.

Fall will be here before you know it (booourns) with it all those school buses and grad school syllabi and the inescapable feeling that you should be reading something important. But for the next month or so, you have official permission to keep reading deliciously pulpy, page-turning, pop literature because, as we all know, it’s too damn hot to think too hard. That’s why tomorrow TONIGHT we’re holding the Brokelyn Bookswappers Club: Beach Reads edition! Join us at Bedford Hill starting at 8pm to get some new reading material (and enjoy $4 beers!). But first, a primer on how it works and what to bring: (more…)

There’s a Beasties tour of Manhattan and Brooklyn on Saturday.

1. Mission of Burma: neither an assignment nor Southeast Asian. Discuss. (Friday)

2. You should never say no to free hushpuppies. Never. (Friday)

3. “Our Hideous Future” was also the campaign slogan of the aborted Cheney presidential run. (Friday)

4. You say you’ve been looking for the soul of Brooklyn, but have you tried looking, on, say, Fulton, between Lafayette and Carlton? (Saturday)

5. Rumor has it that at some point on this Beastie Boys tour, they’ll teach you how to make b-boy bouillabaisse. (Saturday) (more…)

Poster by Meghan Doherty.

One of the best parts of summer is that it is totally socially acceptable to get away with reading deliciously fluffy, page-turning, guilty pleasure books. After all, when you’re sitting on the beach, it’s just too derned hot to think too hard, which is why we can put away the Proust and Sartre until fall and not feel guilty crushing book after book in the Game of Thrones or Dragon Tattoo series. So let’s share! Join us next Wednesday (Aug. 8) for The Bookswappers Club: Beach Reads edition at Bedford Hill in Bed-Stuy. Not only will you get to mix and mingle among some pulpy paperbacks, we’ve also got drinks specials: $4 beers all night! (more…)

Graphic by Meghan Doherty

We all know that the roving cast of Brokelyn characters can round up the best $1 oysters like they’re slow-moving cattle. But when we’re not acting as low-budget sleuths, turns out we can still craft a line of pretty prose. In case you were wondering what kind of weird stuff Brokelyn’s journalists come up with in our spare time, on Wednesday you’ll finally have a chance to find out and quit your creepy questioning. Six of our contributors will be reading original essays and fiction works at the inaugural night of Words with Beers, a new reading series from our pals at Bedford Hill (the scene of the first Brokelandia episode), led by Brokelyn alum Meghan Doherty and your’s truly. (more…)

Crystal ball doubles as a chalice.

Psychics: you pass them by on the street all the time but something about that storefront soothsaying seems a bit too sketchy to ever check out. This is your chance to get a fun, cheap psychic reading in a … less intimidating … setting. Our friends at Bedford Hill are holding their first Psychic Night Thursday at the Bed-Stuy cafe and bar, with a for-real practicing psychic! For $9, you get a beer and a 10-minute reading; for $14 you get 20 minutes and a beer. Plus, even if you want to just psychic spectate, you can still enjoy $4 draft beers all night, along with food specials. And if our crystal ball is right, you’ll see Karina and Meghan, two Team Brokelynites, working the bar all night! (more…)