Fun fun, oh baby, fun fun

1. A professional psychotherapist stops by BookCourt to talk about the WAR over the DSM V. Maybe he’ll diagnose you while he’s there (Monday)

2. Gowanus Open Studios is here to remind people that art happens in places south of Williamsburg, so see what they’re all about at their launch party (Monday)

3. McSweeney’s and Vanity Fair cartoonist Lisa Hanwalt drops by Powerhouse to talk about her wacky illustrations (Monday)  (more…)

Our girl Caroline shows off some of the wonders you can find at Dusty Rose. via Facebook

If this yo-yo weather has got you befuddled, try a new kind of spring cleaning to get you in the groove. At the end of the month, Greenpoint’s own Dusty Rose Vintage will be hosting their first ever “This for That” annual spring clothing swap. So if you’re super bored with what you have now, why not just trade it in? People do that in summertime with relationships too, so why not clothing? (more…)

We’re here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And we can’t afford bubblegum.

1. Check out the release for Louder Than Hell, an oral history of heavy metal. We hear if you read it backwards, it tells you to kill your parents (Monday)

2. We virulently disagree with Bad Movie Brooklyn that They Live is a bad movie, but hey, a free showing of They Live is a free showing of They Live (Monday)

3. Branded invites you to drag an item out of your family’s archive and talk about it and the people who owned it. So try not to grab something too embarrassing (Tuesday) (more…)

Get on your bike and ride. Photo by Dimitry Gudkov

1. It’s Greenpoint Gallery Night, so check out all the art they’ve been making up there. Or just wait until you see it on Girls (Friday)

2. In order to prove that Bushwick does in fact, rock, Brooklyn Fireproof invites you to their concert series, Bushwick Rock City (Friday)

3. Nerds + party = AWESOME, or at least that’s what the promo materials for Attack of the Party Nerds claim. But a bunch of nerds probably wrote them (Friday)

4. Punk rock karaoke will allow you to live out your dream of being Johnny Thunders, but without the crippling heroin addiction. But really, where’s the fun in that? (Friday) (more…)

Greenpoint Landing landed on them. via Inhabitat

Selling north Brooklyn’s waterfront to the highest bidder has become something of an art form during the Bloomberg administration, and yet somehow the people who they sell it to never get any better selling the public on their plans. The latest misstep comes courtesy of the people behind the hideous Greenpoint Landing, which already has the disadvantage of having a name that sounds like a WASP golf course. Greenpointers reports things didn’t go well at a public meeting on the project, almost from the start:

“’We’re creating a neighborhood on the waterfront.’

These were the poorly-chosen words of Melanie Meyers, a representative for the Greenpoint Landing development. “

Welp, that’s certainly one way to present yourself to the neighborhood fiercely protective of the uh, community, that they’ve built there over most of a century. It doesn’t sound like it got much better after that, be sure to read the whole post. Here’s a little unsolicited advice: offer another waterfront park to make people forget that one.

Life wasn’t always a party for original VJ Martha Qunn. Oh wait, yes it was.

1. Get civic at the Brooklyn mayoral candidates forum. An unsubstantiated rumor that started right here claims the boys from Vampire Weekend will be there to support Bill de Blasio (Monday)

2. Launchpad is welcoming all you knitters and makers and DIYers to come by, hang out and make some crafts. Beats doing it while hanging out with your cats. Or does it…? (Monday)

3. Franklin Park becomes a literal metaphorical orgy of hot literary talent as Ben Greenman launches his new novel with help from Sam Lipsyte, Toure, Claire Vaye Watkins and Amelia Gray (Monday) (more…)

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…)

Via flickr user jugarsan

If you’ve been yearning for the opportunity to put Rover on a fixie, or stick Lassie in jorts, a threadbare band tee and a flannel buttondown, well, today’s your lucky day: a hipster dog contest is coming to (duh) Greenpoint, and they’re calling for a whole bunch of doggies dolled up in ironic finery to compete. (more…)

Our promise to you: this is the only naked child you’ll ever see on this website. Photo for DNAInfo by Sarah Longwell-Stevens

If you’ve spent any time on our fabulous events calendar (and why wouldn’t you? it’s great), you may have noticed the occasional listing for a diaper elimination group. If you didn’t have kids, you probably skipped right over it, because unless you’re noted diaper fetish and gun enthusiast Senator David Vitter, you probably don’t have a huge need to think about diapers. But DNAInfo went and found out what the parenting trend was all about, and it will either make you never want to have children or rush out and buy a dog so you can train for the day when you have a kid. (more…)

Boulevard
579 Meeker Ave., at Monitor St.
Greenpoint
(718) 389-3252

What is it: Stationed under the BQE is the ultimate of neighborhood bars: The Boulevard Tavern. Here you have one of the best drinkeries in the McGlorick Park area of Greenpoint. You can stop in for a quick beer after work, or stay raging into the night with a bunch of friends.

Why we love it: Besides their continuous BBQ, they have nights like ROCKUMENTARY Mondays and screen shows like Portlandia. They are usually just the right amount of crowded and the possibility of getting to use the pool table is high. (more…)