With over 80 events at this Sunday’s Brooklyn Book Festival, and too many A-List authors to see in one day, even we can’t decide what to attend. So we listed our top contenders. Note that for any reading in the Courtroom or St. Francis’s Auditorium, you’ll need a (free) ticket, available at the info booth […]

Ride Over?
Astroland owner Carol Albert has threatened to close down the park for good tomorrow, a few days before its official Sunday closing, so get your fill of Coney this weekend through a free walking tour (site>>), the chance to win or weigh in at the first annual beard and mustache competition (site>>) or one […]

Labor Day(ish) Parties
It doesn’t get more colorful than the 41st Annual West Indian-American Labor Day Parade, the Crown Heights festival that promises more than 70 floats, millions of revelers and, most importantly, tons of delicious Caribbean food. site>>
No backyard? You can still have a Labor Day BBQ at Williamsburg’s Art Land with grilled grub (free […]

Gone are the New York days of cheap artist studios for the ambitious but low on dough — unless you’re willing to trek to Industry City, where we found at least one space going for less than $2 a square foot.

Where exactly is this promised land? Bounded by 2nd and 3rd Aves., and 32nd […]

The Skaters from Mars
One of our writers tells us that the Dreamland Roller Rink in Coney Island is “more excellent than could be imagined” — and this Saturday’s Ziggy Stardust-soundtracked skate party, complete with spacey Bowie movies, seems too good to be true. Glammed up skaters get $2 off the $14 admission (site>>).
Poets in […]

Hop to it
White beers (think: Hoegaarden) are the perfect beers for summertime, and tonight, the Gate is the perfect place to find them. Billing the evening as a Whiteout, the Park Slope bar is serving twelve different takes on this light Belgian-style brew. The one-night-only menu features several New York microbrews, including the Apollo […]

If you could pick a movie to live in, which one would it be?
Film noir buffs like me would be right at home in “The Maltese Falcon,” and you can’t get much closer to Bogart — at least in real life — than a live, interactive show called “Suspicious Package.”

The production begins once the […]

Hungry Eyes
Whatever became of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey after “Dirty Dancing”? Their moves were immortalized in a scene-for-scene Bollywood remake. Saturday the two movies will be shown side by side at the recently renovated and reopened Monkey Town — because nobody puts Muskaan in a corner! (site>>)
Water Park
Four local boating groups and boathouses will […]

The buzzed-about second incarnation of Galapagos Art Space has finally opened its doors in Dumbo. The venue doubled in size to 10,000 square feet, yet its below-market rent and green features — like wells that help heat and cool the space and fill its reflecting pool — will afford even more creative programming.
Tonight at […]

Just when it seems like gentrification and IKEAfication have completely taken over Brooklyn, something stands out to remind you why you’re here: To be surrounded by art, music, words and ideas.
Desert Island is one of those places that shines in the consumer retail rough. Proprietor Gabriel Fowler opened the Williamsburg store in February of […]