WEDNESDAY 8/23
♫ Ed Askew Band, Andrew Cedermark, New Love Crowd @ North Brooklyn Farms (320 Kent Ave), 7pm, $5, More info
☺ Brooklyn Comedy Festival, We Bee Spelling @ Union Pool (484 Union Ave), 8pm, $10, Comedy Spelling Bee Game Show Supporting Human Rights with Alex Greer, Will Miles, Tom Cowell & Casey James Salengo, Buy tix
THURSDAY 8/24
♫ Point Break Comes Alive! @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave), 6pm, $10, Point Break in all it’s ultimate glory with a live surf rock soundtrack!, Insidious Rays, Buy tix
♫ Handpan Workshop with Nadishana @ Golden Drum (97 Green St), 7pm, $35, Learn new techniques, rhythms, and percussion elements with Siberian virtuoso Nadishana, Buy tix
♦ Neighborhood Food Drive (Q&A with Director Jerzy Rose) @ Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Ave), 7:30pm, $16, (trailer), Buy tix
FRIDAY 8/25
* Art VS Life Presents Freedom Night: Discussion Panel X Art Event @ GAMBA Forest Gallery (231 Norman Ave), 7pm, FREE, Conversations & poetry performances dealing with incarceration, plus refreshments, art, entertainment, and music, RSVP
♫ Rooftop show: Wet Leather, Caravela, Fusilier @ Our Wicked Lady (153 Morgan Ave), 8pm, $10, More info
♦ Late Night Breakfast: My Cousin Vinny + Grits @ Videology (308 Bedford Ave), 9:15pm, $16, My Cousin Vinny + a bowl of slow-cooked grits, Buy tix
♫ Dance Yourself Clean @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (66 North 6th St), 11pm, $12, Buy tix
SATURDAY 8/26
* Breathwork to Reveal the Heart @ Narayana Integrative Center (191 Nassau Ave), 11am, $35, Breathwork is an active meditation that follows a three-part breath while lying on your back, More info
* Deep Beats Yoga @ House of YES (2 Wyckoff Ave), 12pm, $20, An hour of DeepBeats’ Vinyasa Flow accompanied by your personal soundtrack of atmospheric deep house grooves, Buy tix
♫ Afropunk Fest 2017 @ Commodore Barry Park (175 Division Ave), All day, $90, Join us to add your voice to the sound behind the movement. And most importantly, come ready to party, Buy tix
♦ Metropolis with live score by Reel Orchestrette @ Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole Ave), 9pm, $20, Watch Fritz Lang’s 1927 Classic METROPOLIS with an extra 25 mins of lost footage & set to a live score, More info
♫ Neaux, Wailin Storms, Unmaker, Bad Bone @ Bar Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave), 8pm, $8, Buy tix
SUNDAY 8/27
♫ Afternoon Hangs @ Afternoon Hang (484 Union Ave), 2pm, FREE, Erin Durant, Baby Copperhead, Garrett Devoe & Jessica Pavone. Music! Drinks! Tacos!, More info
♫ Eyehategod & Cro-Mags @ St. Vitus (1120 Manhattan Ave), 2pm, $30, Buy tix
♦ Urban Gardening 101 @ Catland (987 Flushing Ave), 6pm, $10, Take a tour of the Catland garden, discuss hands-on solutions to urban gardening problems, & explore unique gardening applications, Buy tix
♫ Mal Devisa, drama section, Crosslegged, Moonheart @ Sunnyvale (1031 Grand St), 8pm, $10, Buy tix
MONDAY 8/28
* Science on Tap @ Brooklyn Brewery (79 N 11th St), 7:30pm, $25, Discuss all things astronomical with three experts in the field, Buy tix
♫ Doug Tuttle, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Mad Alchemy Liquid Light @ Rough Trade (64 N 9th St), 8pm, $12, Special extended sets with live projections from Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show all night, Buy tix
♫ Liars Album Release Party @ Brooklyn Bazaar (150 Greenpoint Ave), 7pm, FREE, Celebrating the album release for Liars’ new album TFCF, reception + live DJ set from Liars founder Angus Andrew with a “a very romantic—yet twisted—wedding vibe,” RSVP
TUESDAY 8/29
♫ Washed Out @ Brooklyn Steel (319 Frost St), 8pm, $29.50, Enter the world Washed Out, aka Ernest Greene, conjures up on the ambitious new visual album Mister Mellow, Buy tix
* Cookbook Club Potluck: SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking @ Archestratus Books + Foods (160 Huron St), 7pm, $10, It’s a potluck party! It’s mad civilized! It gives us a monthly dose of hope for the universe!, RSVP
* Crawfish & Shrimp Boil @ Magick City (37 Box St), 7pm, $42, One lb of mudbugs each will be served up with corn and potatoes in a Garlicky Buttery Cajun sauce, Buy tix
^ Erin Carlson presents I’ll Have What She’s Having @ WORD (126 Franklin St), 7pm, FREE, Journalist Erin Carlson goes behind the scenes to tell the story of Nora Ephron and how she reinvented the rom-com, RSVP
* Greenpointers Pick
♫ Music
^ Literary Event
♦ Art & Film
☺ Comedy Event
# Foodie Event
♥ Pheremones Likely