WEDNESDAY: Meet Your Match
We know there are a ton of you out there looking for love (or at least a little lovin’), so we hooked up with FIPS and Brokelyn to put together a big singles bash. We’ll even be on hand to help introduce you if you’re shy (look for the matchmaker name tag, and don’t worry, we’ll be subtle!). There’s a contest already underway — tweet the ideal person you want to “meat” tonight + include #bkmeatup for $150 in Babeland booty–and we also have a hand-stamped shirt from DC for someone lucky. Sara Schaefer’s making a special guest appearance, and DJs French Toast and Mr. F will keep the love connections moving. The male-female ratio is almost even, so we’re stopping the 2-for-1 deal, which is good for everyone!

FDNY Foodies
Fairway in Red Hook plays host to an FDNY fundraiser at noon today. NY’s firefighting finest will take part in this grill off (Beep Marty Markowitz judges) using a secret ingredient to be revealed during the event. Free and open to the public at the waterfront behind the Fairway.

THURSDAY: Mates of the State
The Bell House’s screening of rarities from The State–hosted by cast members David Wain, Michael Ian Black, and Michael Showalter–is sold out, but we have two tickets for the 9th reader who can answer this question about the sketch-comedy show: Before the comedy group was called The State, which comedian did they open for as their first paid gig?

Banned Books Blowout
This week marks the 27th annual Banned Books Week, an American Library Association-sponsored recognition of the right to read–and the necessity of defending that right. To celebrate, WORD in Greenpoint is throwing its second annual Banned Book Party, hosted by Mike Edison, who will explain the nuances of writing pornographic literature. He’ll be joined by Cursor’s Richard Nash and Lizzie Skurnick, of Jezebel’s fantastic Fine Lines. All that highbrow lit-talk will be followed by a “Name That Banned Book” contest.

SATURDAY: Short Takes
For the third year running, the Red Hook International Film and Video Festival brings Brooklyn residents two days of short, New York-oriented films. This year’s selections range from a one-minute-long animated piece to a brief documentary on Robert Guskind, the inimitable late author of the blog Gowanus Lounge. The festival runs from 1pm to 6pm both Saturday and Sunday at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Screening Room (499 Van Brunt Street).

Spice Fest
BBG’s annual Chile Pepper Fiesta features a variety of spicy activities this year with international bands, cooking demonstrations (and sampling), a chile pepper and chocolate takedown, and a new chocolate chile section with tastes from local chocolatiers Fine & Raw and Mast Brothers, among others.

Get Your Freak On
There’s a bounty of beers to be had at Public Assembly, host of the 2nd Annual Freaktoberfest Boutique Beer and Music Festival. Admission gets you five tasting tickets, though you may have trouble deciding how to use them–more than 20 craft breweries will be represented at the event. The festival kicks off at 2pm with the beer quiz Geektoberfest. Get your tickets quick, before they sell out.

SUNDAY: Fair Play
The 35th Annual Atlantic Antic Street Festival takes over Atlantic Avenue, boasting an as-always diverse lineup of food, crafts, and entertainment (where else can you get baklava and a pony ride at the same fair?). The Antic stretches down Atlantic from Hicks Street to 4th Avenue and runs from 10am to 6pm.

Improv Shakespeare
There’s nothing more tired than yet another by-the-book Shakespeare production. Enter The Macbeth Variations, playing this weekend (Thursday-Saturady) at the Irondale Ensemble Project. New York’s Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble uses excerpts from Macbeth as a canvas and blends soundpainting, a sign-language based method of structuring improvisation, modern dance, and physical theater for a Macbeth the likes of which the world has never seen.

MONDAY: Greenpoint Greens
New Yorkers are notorious for making the best of the space they have, and tonight’s Open City Dialogue at Pete’s Candy Store presents a lecturer who is no exception. Annie Novak, the founder of Growing Chefs, will be discussing Greenpoint’s Rooftop Farms, an organic farm atop a warehouse. She’ll let the audience in on how she and her partners did it–and how you too can grow more than just window box herbs.

TUESDAY: BB Presents
Next Tuesday, Brooklyn Based will be a part of the Digital Entrepreneurship installment of Galapagos’s Career Camp series, speaking before folks like Mark Mangan of Flavorpill and Sahadeva Hammari of Rumplo. Come for the two-for-one cocktails from 6-7, stay to ask us questions and show your love.

Sent by Chrysanthe, Casey, Nina, and Nicole. Photos courtesy of Auster Events, The State, and Brooklyn Based.