Brooklyn Flea

50 Kent 50 Kent Ave, Brooklyn

This sprawling market offers food, clothing, accessories, knick knacks, furniture, bikes, crafts, artisan products and tons more. It's become so synonymous with New Brooklyn that…

Bushwick History Photo Walk with Meryl Meisler

Bizarre 12 Jefferson street, Bushwick

We all know Bushwick has changed, but none of us more so than Meryl Meisler. The photographer, who worked as an art teacher in Bushwick from…

Free

Hester Street Fair

Corner of Hester and Essex Street Hester and Essex, Lower East Side

Manhattan's counterpart to Brooklyn Flea has expanded into Seward Park this year, which means more food and vintage and craft vendors. Among those debuting this…

Free

Spoons, Toons & Booze

Nitehawk Cinema 136 Metropolitan Ave, New York

According the Nitehawk, the only thing missing from your weekend morning cartoons and cereal is booze. Compete in short contests with other cartoon-goers to decide which cartoon,…

$16

“The Party’s Over”

Topless 90-20 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Rockaway Beach

The inaugural exhibit of Topless, a new art gallery (that's right, art gallery) in Rockaway Beach. Features a trio of Brooklyn artists: there are paintings…

Manhattan Film Festival

Quad Cinema 34 West 13th Street, New York

The Manhattan Film Festival was founded in 2006, and showcases the work of independent filmmakers in order to help them reach a broader audience. In…

$11.00

Bushwick Art and Zine Fair

Signal Gallery 260 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn

BABZ 2014 will feature three whole days of celebration devoted to Bushwick’s zines and local publishing culture. There will be music and poetry readings as…

Free

"Football Head" at La MaMa

La MaMa 68 East 4th St. , East Village, New York

Visual artist, performer, and gay stage icon Chris Tanner brings true-life tales, and, in his words, “humiliating stories of the sexual awakening of a nerdy…

$10 – $18

Black Flag at Club Europa

Club Europa 98 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn

Black Flag is on their Victimology Tour, and they're currently recording material for a forthcoming album. The band's been around since 1976, and for those who…

$25

Silencio: A Tribute to David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti

le poisson rouge 158 Bleecker St., New York

Pittsburgh's Silencio isn't your typical cover band: they've mastered Angelo Badalamenti’s scores (from Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive, and Lost…

$20 – $25

One-Acts for a Cause Gala

Classic Stage Company 136 E. 13th St., East Village, New York

For the second year, Planet Connections, an eco-friendly arts organization, presents its One-Acts for a Cause Gala. Four renowned playwrights—Israel Horovitz, Erik Ehn, Winter Miller,…

$50

I'm Pretty Fucked Up

Clubbed Thumb 195 Chrystie Street, New York

Written by Brooklyn playwright and New Mexico native Ariel Stess, I’m Pretty Fucked Up is a play about three high school friends who skip class…

$18

The Macaulay Culkin Show

Shea Stadium 20 Meadow Street, Brooklyn

This stand-up show is hosted not by Macaulay Culkin but rather by Brett Davis, whose comic alteregos include wrestler Bobby Blayze, singer Craig Evanhalen and…

Nick Thune Vinyl Release Show

SubCulture 45 Bleecker St., New York

Comedian Nick Thune, who did this funny bit about his baby's penis on Conan, celebrates the vinyl release of his latest hour, Nick Thune: Folk Hero,…

$12

Play/Date

Fat Baby 112 Rivington St, New York

Interactive and immersive, Play/Date isn’t really a show as much as an experience: it takes place at a lounge (Fat Baby in the Lower East…

$30 – $85

Jacob Tomsky at KGB

KGB Bar 85 E 4th St, New York

Tomsky is the author of Heads in Beds, a Times bestseller that's essentially the Kitchen Confidential of the hotel industry. Read: These North Brooklyn Writers…

Free

tUnE-yArDs at Webster Hall

Webster Hall 125 E 11th St., New York City

Merrill Garbus heads up tUnE-yArDs, a four-piece project that defies genre: it's pop, it's rock, it's funk, it's jazz. Garbus, a former puppeteer, uses foot pedals…

$31