Just like our hearts

1. Go to the Gowanus Yacht Club, because summer (Friday)

2. Head to Brooklyn Fireproof, will they will take you back in time, to the 19th century. Steampunk attire encouraged (Friday)

3. You might think this reading at Unnameable Books is like any other reading, but there’s a twist: it’s outdoors

4. Brooklyn Skillshare will teach you anything from reclaiming vacant public land to making your own ricotta cheese, and it’s all free (Saturday) (more…)

So, you coming, or what?

1. Arts group nuMad has a bunch of their work to show off, and they’re so excited about it that they’re having a party (Friday)

2. Rock and roll wild men Wild Yaks help rock a packed bill at Living Bread (Friday)

3. See the dead baseball legends buried at Green-Wood Cemetery. Hopefully while you’re there Hell doesn’t run out of room and the dead start walking the Earth (Saturday) (more…)

CasHank will show you how to have a real hootennany at Freddy’s. via Facebook

1. Have a jam session at Greenlight Books with master jam maker Laena McCarthy of Anarchy in a Jar (Monday)

2. Legion Bar has a magic sack full of jokes for you (Monday)

3. Sim Lipsyte drops by Book Court to read the best parts of The Fun Parts (Tuesday) (more…)

When was the last time you went to a ball, really? via Facebook

1. Hang with Miss America and Marty Markowtiz at the Fairway grand re-opening (Friday)

2. Stick it to Ted Cruz: raise money for some communists (Friday)

3. Meet the rookies entering the world of the Gotham Girls Roller Derby this season (Friday) (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…)

Just another night under the little top

1. Rock and roll lizards Galapagos Now will be sunning themselves performing at the Grand Victory (Friday)

2. Sketch group American Candy looks to make something sweet out of America’s bitter racial history (Friday)

3. It’s Carnivale! at Launchpad. Not like, a Mardi Gras thing though, just a sweet-sounding fundraiser party with music and dancing and homebrew beer (Friday)

4. The Park Slope United Methodist Church book sale kicks off with its pre-weekend sale. Better get their if you want to stumble across that autographed copy of On the Road (Friday – Sunday) (more…)

We don’t know what Rhinestone Gorilla has to do with narrative stories, but we don’t seem to care either

1. Learn how to rewrite fairytales to avoid the “happily ever after” ending the patriarchy has insisted we go by for years (Monday)

2. Literary wunderkid Karen Russell pops in to Greenlight Books to make you wonder what you’re doing with you life read from her new novel (Monday)

3. Learn to make pretty covers for the books you’re ashamed to be seen reading (Monday)

4. Go to Tea Lounge prepared to tell a story (Tuesday) (more…)

Make it a dark and stormy night at Lavender Lake. via Facebook

Nothing makes winter seem less awful than a whole bunch of cheap drink specials and boozy holidays. The folks over at Yelp seem to recognize that, and they’re giving us a little end-of-season gift. Starting next Monday, Yelp is offering a weeklong happy hour at highly-rated bars all over Brooklyn complete with half-priced beers, wines and specialty cocktails, so you and your buddies can spend Monday through Sunday blissfully floating through a hot toddy-induced haze while the rest of the snow melts. Hangovers ahoy! (more…)

King Charles the Martyr rocks the Rock Shop, Saturday

1. Live your dream of singing in front of a live band, pray it doesn’t become a nightmare, at live band karaoke (Friday)

2. Go see a show for a $1. $1! That’s cheaper than 16 oz. of soda. Probably healthier too (Friday)

3. Freddy’s kicks off their second birthday celebration. Ah, the terrible twos. We feel bad for their neighbors (Friday)

4. Don’t go dancing at just any hall, go dancing at Arsenio’s Hall (Friday) (more…)

They’re calling it the Harbauwl this year. True story

The problem with throwing a Super Bowl party in Brooklyn apartments is one of simple logistics: it requires space you don’t have. Even if your Bushwick loft does have the capacity to host a couple dozen drunks and a fifteen-foot hoagie, chances are you and your nine roommates haven’t gone in for basic cable, and maybe even a couple of them loathe sports and the average loud, loyal football fan. You’ve already shelled out to learn about football, so what do you do to keep your investment from being a waste? As with so many Brooklyn conundrums, where-to-watch-the-Super-Bowl is a question best answered with a trip to the bar. Here’s a list of spots showing the Big Game. (more…)