WEDNESDAY: National Count
What do you get when you combine the brothers of The National and My Brightest Diamond, the Deal sisters, and visual artist Matthew Ritchie? Apparently a multimedia work about baseball, twins, and Mayan mythology. The sure-to-be-interesting project, The Long Count, premieres at BAM tonight, with two additional shows on the 30th and 31st.

THURSDAY: Band Doc
It takes a lot to make it in the New York music scene. For Brooklyn’s Girls of Porn, success–or at least a debut album–seemed to be around the corner when their lead singer quit. State of Rock, the documentary screening Thursday at Union Pool, follows the band on their search for a new lead singer, from Williamsburg to downtown Manhattan. The screening will be followed by a performance by the band, now called Speed Merchant, as well as a show by their friends Emok.

Point Setters
Our favorite travel newsletter, Jauntsetter, hosts a night of fun in Greenpoint, starting at 7:30pm. First, three writers from the Rough Guides read at WORD, and then go down the street to Diamond Bar for drinks afterward. Armchair traveler meets bar stool–we approve.

FRIDAY: Let There Be Rock (Photography)
Just as long as there have been musicians making rock & roll, there have been photographers around to capture them on film. The Brooklyn Museum celebrates these musicians and photographers alike with the exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, which opens today and runs through January 31. The featured contributors are a who’s who of rock photographers: Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger, Baron Wolman, David LaChapelle, Linda McCartney, Bob Gruen, Pennie Smith, Anton Corbijn. Their exhibited photos, of everyone from early icons Mick Jagger and Tina Turner to current stars like Amy Winehouse, capture their subjects in a range of settings from young artists on the verge of fame to performers caught in the throws of ecstasy.

SATURDAY: Fort Flea
Our curated corner of the flea pops up in Ft. Greene on Saturday from 10-5. Our vendors will donate a portion of their profits to the Bed-Stuy soup kitchen, St. John’s Bread and Life, so shop away! You’ll find Circle Candy custom hula hoops, Bundt Bakery mini bundts, Mama O’s Kimchee, Tiburon corduroy and plaid dresses, Kristiana Parn graphic prints, Maid Marian muffins, and our tote bags!

Phantom & the Organ
Crazy Halloween parties are a dime a dozen in the city. Saturday’s screening of Phantom of the Opera at Fort Greene’s Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church provides a classy alternative (or pre-party event.) The 1925 silent film, starring Lon Cheney, will screen in the sanctuary of the church with live organ accompaniment on the church’s 1910 organ. All proceeds from the event will benefit the restoration of the organ.

SUNDAY: Race Day
It’s New York City Marathon time again, and, since the race goes through all five boroughs, you don’t have to schlep to Central Park just to catch the action live. Optimal viewing spots can be found anywhere along 4th Avenue (runners hit the avenue soon after crossing the Verrazano Bridge) and Bedford Avenue, which also accounts for a long stretch of the course. (Note: If you’re planning to cheer for a specific competitor, Bedford or Lafayette are your best bets, as the runners will have spaced themselves out more by then.) If you like cheering to music, plant yourself near 10th Street on Fourth Avenue, where KTU blasts inspirational tunes, or a few blocks east of the Fulton Street G stop on Lafayette Avenue, where the sounds come courtesy of a generous neighborhood resident. Want to eat brunch before or after you watch? Try Sheep Station on 4th Avenue, which will also be showing the race on two big screens inside, or Five Leaves, right near the prime viewing locale of Bedford Avenue and Lorimer Street.

Rare Reading
Galway Kinnell, who has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his poetry, gives a rare public reading of both new and other works at the Brooklyn Lyceum. He appears as part of the venue’s First Sundays Writers Series, dedicated to showcasing both established and up-and-coming talent. The reading begins at 7pm.

MONDAY: Shellfish Speech
As much as New Yorkers love oysters, the bivalves we consume in restaurants across the city are frequently from such non-city locations as Prince Edward Island and the West Coast; New York City’s oyster beds, once a leading provider of oysters, were destroyed in the early twentieth century. Tonight, artist Mara Haseltine speaks at Pete’s Candy Store about her project to bring oysters back to the city. In 2007, she installed Transcriptease, a DNA-shaped solar-powered oyster reef, in Queens’ McNeil Park. Haseltine will be discussing the creative/scientific ideas behind the project, as well as the power of oysters to filter and clean wastewater.

Sent by Chrysanthe, Casey, and Nina. Photos courtesy of Jeanine Anderson and Brooklyn Based.