Author: Oriana Leckert

Top 20: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this weekend, surreal puppets edition

1. Have a cartoonishly good time at the 13th annual Animation Block Party, with screenings all weekend from international shorts…

1. Put on your dancin' shoes for Urban Bush Women: How We Got to the Funk, a participatory examination of history…

1. Learn how to protect yourself at the CryptoParty, a hands-on evening of email encryption, cyberpunk geniuses, and digital defense…

1. Have a lovely literary time at the kick-off to this year's Books Beneath the Bridge, where a different bookstore…

1. Be mischievous at the Cradle Theatre Company's modern-day retelling of As You Like It. (Friday through Sunday, Prospect Park,…

1. Go your own way — right to C'mon Everybody for their monthly Monday Night Tribute. This month more than…

1. Art it up at the Endangered Species book release and party, with NYC street artists displaying their work and doing…

1. Prove that all this sun hasn't started to atrophy your brain at the launch of Nerd Nite's Sunset Trivia,…

1. Get your culture on at the 45th annual International African Arts Festival, a four-day extravaganza with music, dance, symposia,…

1. Nothing says Brooklyn summer more than eating Nathan's on the Coney Island boardwalk. If you've ever wondered how the iconic…