5-7pm (every fri-sat in august): Yay for free barbeque! the Bell House has a new patio, serves up free burgers + hotdogs. plus: $3 Newcastles and vodka lemonades all night. (via email)
8pm: Rooftop Films: doc. The Last Train Home follows one family during the largest human migration in the world, when 130 million people left China’s industrial cities to return to their homelands. followed by filmmaker Q + A. Old American Can Factory, $10.
8pm: Talking Heads tribute band This Must Be the Band will be burning down the house at Brooklyn Bowl, $5
SATURDAY
Three words: Free. Crumbs. Cupcakes. The company is giving away 1,000 of them at their new Brooklyn Heights location. plus, score a free med coffee (iced or hot) with every purchase for the next two weeks.
11am: tiny pets of all sorts (even turtles welcome!) compete at the first annual Coney Island Sweetheart Pet Pageant. Coney Island Sideshow, $10.
1pm: Enjoy an hour-long chamber music concert on a floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Free.
SUNDAY
1-5pm: Pie! In the park! pie! $5 to enter, $10 to gorge.
gates @ 2pm: Free Sunday pool parties continue with performances by Dance Rockers !!!, soul man Lee Fields, more @ East River State Park, free.
doors @ 9pm: Icon Bash: Watch tributes to Chaka Khan, Grace Jones, Prince + Michael Jackson. Get it on the action and dress up – prizes for best look! Littlefield, $5 adv, $10 dos.
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