Sign Up for BB for The Best Summer Ever

Last chance! You have until 5pm today to enter our Best Summer Ever Contest. In addition to a ton of other cool prizes, we’ll be giving away two tickets to the Bon Appetit Grub Crawl this weekend, AND five sets of tickets for a party bus to the Rockaways this Saturday for Boardrockin‘ a super mellow day of $3 beers from Brooklyn Brewery, sunshine on the boardwalk and ’80s cover band, White Wedding, at Rippers at 6pm.

The other prizes are so good, too-from bike stuff to concerts to movie passes and beach trips—we kind of want to keep them for ourselves. Instead, we’re saving them for a few lucky new subscribers, or current subscribers who refer friends to our list. In fact, it’s an even better deal for current subscribers, since each time you refer a friend, you’ll be entered. We’ll contact winners at 6pm this evening, May 30.

Click here to enter, or forward this email to a friend who isn’t a subscriber-you’ll both be entered to win when they sign up. And check out the amazing prizes:

Win the Willow from Brooklyn Cruiser.

Foodies first: Two weekend passes to the Bon Appétit Grub Crawl (worth $500!) in Brooklyn, in which you can eat and drink yourself silly at fine establishments like Maison Premiere, Rye, Frankies, The Good Fork & more!

A sausage party from The Meat Hook-13 sausages (a butcher’s dozen) for your next barbeque (a $40-50 value, depending on the sausages). For extra fun, go butcher’s choice and put your fate in their hands.

A $50 gift certificate to Lobster Joint in Greenpoint. Get two lobster rolls (or a clam roll, or an order of lobster mac ‘n’ cheese), a pitcher of dark and stormies and an order of onion rings and make yourself at home in their spacious backyard.

Bike Stuff: A bike, for pedaling to the beach or park, your choice of his or hers, from Brooklyn Cruiser!

With a helmet this cool, there's no excuse.

And for safer riding, a handpainted bike helmet from Belle Helmets, a yet-to-be-released new design for summer. Seriously, these helmets designed by illustrator Danielle Baskin, make wearing one cool (you should love your brain enough to wear a helmet, anyway, but these really help).

Beach Times: Five pairs of VIP tickets aboard a luxury bus to Boardrockin’, the Rockaways beach party we’re hosting with Brooklyn Brewery and Rippers on June 2.
Two pairs of round-trip tickets (worth $90 per pair) to the beaches at Sandy Hook from the Seastreak Ferry. Just saying, you can choose from one of three beaches at Sandy Hook (one is a nude beach) and playing hooky on a weekday and taking the ferry there is one of the most luxuriant summer treats ever.

Music in the Air: Two premium Northside badges (worth $180 each) that get you into the music, film, and entrepreneurship portions of the festival.

Tickets to four benefit concerts at Celebrate Brooklyn (we’ll be giving away a pair per winner!): Childish Gambino June 26 with Danny Brown & Schoolboy Q; Dirty Projectors July 10 with Wye Oak & Purity Ring; Hot Chip July 18 with Gang Gang Dance; and M. Ward August 7 with Yo La Tengo.

Film Fest: Two memberships to Rooftop Films, which gets you into every regularly priced film of their 2012 summer season.

A pair of tickets to the blissfully air-conditioned Nitehawk Cinema.

Pageturners: Ten excellent summer reads from HarperCollins including celebrated titles like State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, the unputdownable We Need to Talk About Kevin; and two classics, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Bell Jar.