Knife Skills
Tom Mylan, in-house butcher at Diner, Marlow & Sons, and the two Bonitas, carved up half of a 220-lb. Berkshire pig at The Brooklyn Kitchen last night before a dozen students, then gave cooking tips for the various parts: “Braise the shoulder meat, cure the belly, cook the loin hot and fast, and smoke the ribs,” he said, adding — with a lowered voice — that he preferred his own pork “rare.” To accommodate high demand, The Kitchen will be offering the pig butchering class again on April 8th and 15th; participants get to take home 6-8 lbs. of fresh meat. thebrooklynkitchen.com>>

Mixer
Fix Tape Exchange, Sound Fix’s monthly mix tape swap party, is this Sunday at 8 pm. The theme is “Cities,” so show up with your own urban-referencing tape or CD (which is what most people bring), and leave with someone else’s. Andrew W. K.’s “I Love NYC” or Cat Power’s “New York” would make an excellent first track… but that’s just a suggestion. To hear Luc Sante read from his new books of essays, Kill All Your Darlings, arrive at 6. soundfixrecords.com>>

Pop Life
Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami — as famous for his Vuitton bags as his technicolor paintings — is getting his biggest retrospective to date at the Brooklyn Museum, the last U.S. stop for the ©MURAKAMI exhibit before it moves overseas. It opens on Saturday, followed by a Japanese-themed First Saturday party. brooklynmuseum.org>>

The museum’s crowd-sourced exhibit Click! is now closed to photographers, but open to amateur jurors. You (yes, you!) get to judge the 398 photos submitted online between now and May 23rd. Your opinions will influence how they’re ultimately installed in the museum come June. brooklynmuseum.org>>

Harold Feinstein’s Coney Island black and whites inaugurate the new fine art photography gallery in Gowanus, Bond Street Gallery. His work is joined by that of other New York photographers like Bruce Davidson, who contribute their own candid, sideshow-filled portraits of the vintage playland from the 1940s to present day. 297 Bond St. near Union, bondstreetgallery.com>>

Brooklyn Bazaar
Sunday, April 6 at 10 am, the Brooklyn Flea opens, promising everything from Brownstone moldings to Belgian waffles. brooklynflea.com

Office Party
Saturday at 7 pm, Then We Came to the End author Joshua Ferris reads from his Great American office novel at BookCourt. bookcourt.org>>

P.S.A.
Local musician/engineer/producer Scott Harding was in a terrible hit-and-run accident in February while riding a MetroLine livery cab (which was involved in another scandal recently). The car was uninsured, as was Harding, who suffered a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the chest down. His friends have set up a trust for him, scottyhardtrust.com, to help with the medical expenses.

“Coney Island Teenagers,” 1949, © Harold Feinstein.

Sent by Nicole Davis, Leila Sales, and Jean Tang.