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• Box Street Park Meeting @ Bushwick Inlet Park (86 Kent Ave. at N. 9th St) 6-7:30pm, more info, RSVP: newtownbox [at] parks.nyc.gov
• Allie Brosh @ WORD (126 Franklin St) 7-8pm, the blogger and cartoonist behind Hyperbole and a Half presents her memoir of the same name, RSVP
♫ Gigawatts presents: Your Favorite Halloween Covers Show @ 285 Kent, 8pm, $10, your chance to belt Third Eye Blinds songs in public, with Dead Stars as Nirvana / Butter the Children as Pixies / Le Rug as At the Drive-in / Turnip King as Velvet Underground / Heeney as Third Eye Blind, RSVP
• Beco Movie Series: Halloween Special @ Beco Bar (45 Richardson St) Celebrate halloween with the first Brazilian horror film At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1963), More Info
♫ A Halloween Party with Neighbors! @ Glasslands (289 Kent Ave) 8:30pm, $10, costumes and music by Neighbors / Cosmonaut / C▲RL S▲G▲N, RSVP BUY TIX
* Spinnin’ Pizza Party @ Coco66 (66 Greenpoint Ave) 10pm, FREE, Groove to vinyl ONLY DJ’s spinning garage, soul and rock n’ roll, with FREE PIZZA at (about) midnight & $3 PBR/Yuengling, More Info
• Halloween Bash @ Brooklyn Fire Proof East (119 Ingraham St) 5-11pm, FREE, pumpkin carving/costume contests, free cinnamon tequila shots, and music from Computer Age / Grey Nurse / Journalism / Due Dilligence and tributes to Neil Young, The Ramones, Tom Petty, and the Velvet Underground, RSVP
* Haunted Canoe Tours to Dutch Kills @ North Brooklyn Boat Club (49 Ash St) 5:30-11pm, $15 for boat, Party FREE, Tickets to see the toxic creek monsters up close are sold out, but don’t despair! The Boatyard Party will still be raging with a bonfire, scary tales of Newton CREEP, and halloween tunes, guaranteed to be the most SUPERFUND party of the night (pun credit goes to the boat club for that one), RSVP
• Hair Metal Halloween Cocktail Party @ Hair Metal Salon (200 Franklin St) 5-10pm, FREE, Celebrate with tiki drinks, finger foods, and grab bags before heading out for the evening, RSVP
• Horror Film Composer Alan Howarth / Liturgy @ 285 Kent, 7pm, $13, Horwarth has composed all or part of the score for the Halloween movies, as well as sound design and effects for Poltergeist, Escape from New York, and many others, BUY TIX
* 5th Annual Greenpoint Zombie Crawl @ Black Rabbit (91 Greenpoint Ave) 7pm, Gather with your half-dead brethren at Black Rabbit, before crawling to Browerij Lane (8pm), t.b.d (9pm) and Mark Bar (10pm) for a feast, with a live performance from Skulk the Hulking (10:30) and drink specials for zombies all night
♫ SOUL DRACULAS: A Groovy Greenpoint Halloween @ Coco66 (66 Greenpoint Ave) 8pm, FREE, with Mighty Fine / Madam Robot & The Lust Brigade / The Juggs / DJ Shimmy / DJ Captain Heartlock / Cavestompin’ Near You, RSVP
*Halloween Dance Party @ Beloved (674 Manhattan Ave) 9pm, FREE, Dance party and costume contest at midnight, winner gets drinks and C$SH MONEY, RSVP
• Union Ghouls!! @ Union Pool (484 Union Ave) 9pm, FREE, DJ’s + death/booze/blood/satan/skulls and TACOS, with drink specials all night, More Info
♫ Tinderbox Music Festival @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (66 N 6th St) 5pm, $17 Adv/ $20 Dos, Line up of emerging female artists with Deerhoof / Lady Lamb the Beekeeper / Elizabeth & The Catapult / Awkwafina, plus many more, proceeds benefit non-profits for artistic women like GIRLS WRITE NOW, More Info
• Polish Halloween Party @ Warsaw (261 Driggs) 8pm, $20, Celebrate Halloween, Polish style, with costumes and ghoulish treats
♫ 2013 Zombie Prom @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave) 8:30pm, $10, The fifth annual prom of the dead featuring tunes from The Hollows / Lily and the Parlour Tricks / Leslie Dinicola, zombie dress encouraged, More Info
* Vintage Crawl @ Stores and bars all over Williamsburg, Greenpoint, & Bushwick, 12-8pm, Get sweet discounts at the raddest shops in North Brooklyn, with drink deals and a map guide, followed by an afterparty at Brooklyn Bowl with headliner, Alex Winston, RSVP, BUY TIX
• Danger Close: Writers on War @ Acme Studios (63 N 3rd St) 4pm, $10, the first of an ongoing reading series that includes both civilians and veterans whose work engages with war and its aftermath, NPR news correspondent, Quil Lawrence, will moderate
♫ Frankie Rose w/ Mahogany / Monogold / Heavenly Beat @ Bk Night Bazaar (165 Banker St) 6pm, FREE, RSVP
* Rococo Social @ Coco66 (66 Greenpoint Ave) 9pm-Late, FREE, opening night a month-long pop up art show/mixer/dance party organized by G-Spot (the elusive non-gallery) and GreenpointGalleries.org, with tropical ambiance provided by DJ’s Pleasure Island & Ning Nong, FYI one of the artists is OMG Webcats, More Info
* NYC Marathon 2013 @ All 5 boroughs, 8:30am, Cheer from Greenpoint, as runners pass through Manhattan Avenue and over the Pulaski Bridge into Queens, From the official marathon Spectator Guide: You may see signs in Polish—but don’t worry, you’re still in Brooklyn, More Info
♫ MoMA PS1’s Sunday Sessions @ P.S. 1 (22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC) 4pm, $12-15, Daniel Lopatin (experimental electronic musician) and Nate Boyce collaborate on a surround sound diffusion and abstract audio/visual seminar, More Info
MONDAY 11/4
Sunnyside Restaurant Week @ these restaurants through 11/8, Manhattan is so over, so head to Queens for $10 or $25 dinner at 17 participating restaurants, plus site-specific art installations, More Info
♫ Flavorwire Presents: Kirin J Callinan / Jenn Hval @ 285 Kent, 8pm $10, BUY TIX
TUESDAY 11/5
# Diamond Chili Season Begins @ The Diamond (43 Franklin St) 7pm, FREE chili is the best kind (can’t argue with that)
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
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