Trivia Night: Boulevard Tavern
2014-01-27 20:00, 2014-02-03 20:00, 2014-02-10 20:00, 2014-02-17 20:00, 2014-02-24 20:00, 2014-03-03 20:00, 2014-03-10 20:00, 2014-03-17 20:00 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates | Boulevard Tavern, 579 Meeker Ave., Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, 11222, United States
“Prizes to be won, fun to be had” at Boulevard Tavern’s Monday-night trivia showdown. Drinks specials (e.g. $6 martinis) often follow the game.

Steve Keene's Brooklyn Experience
2014-06-12 11:00 - 17:00, 2014-06-13 11:00 - 17:00, 2014-06-14 11:00 - 17:00 | Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY, 11238, United States
Steve Keene, speed painter extraordinaire and cover artist for Pavement and Soul Coughing among others, is Brooklyn Public Library’s artist-in-residence for the summer. An exhibition of Steve’s work will be on display in the Central Library’s grand lobby from June 12th until August 29th, while Steve will painting live (in his trademark, production-line style) in Grand Army Plaza every Thursday, Friday and Saturday between June 19th and August 16th.

Read more:
Steve Keene, Who Did Cover Art For Pavement, Is Painting in the Street

Nan Goldin: I Remember Your Face
2014-06-13 18:30 - 20:00, 2014-06-14 18:30 - 20:00, 2014-06-15 18:30 - 20:00, 2014-06-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, New York, NY, United States
Nan Goldin shot to fame with her visceral, heart-wrenching photographs of the drug-addled, sex-strewn lives of her East Village “tribe” in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Now, see Nan up-close and personal in the intimately shot documentary Nan Goldin: I Remember Your Face, screening as part of KINO! Festival of German Films.
Read more:
A Documentary Turns the Camera On Nan Goldin

Friday the 13th Brings All The Black Clouds
2014-06-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Mellow Pages, 56 Bogart Street 1S, Brooklyn, 11206, United States
Mellow Pages hosts this reading featuringMike “Fuck Novelists” Bushnell and Sarah Jean Alexander, both featured in Coping Mechanisms’ 40 Likely to Die Before 40. Carabella Sands and Juliet Escoria (who recently released her story collection,Black Cloud) will also be reading.

Hester Street Fair
2014-06-14 11:00 - 18:00, 2014-06-15 11:00 - 18:00 | Corner of Hester and Essex Street, Hester and Essex, Lower East Side, NY, United States
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 season are Hudson & Charles (a conscientious West Village butcher shop selling porchetta sandwiches, pork brats, Cubanos, and chili), Zha (the Asian fried riceball spot that popped up at Zucker Bakery on Saturdays, which will offer specials like Korean chicken and waffles), Ssam BBQ (your choice of Korean-style beef, pork, or chicken wrapped in lettuce), An Artistic Taste (a catering chef who’s cooked at The Plaza and Four Seasons does dishes like lobster and truffle mac).
More: Hester Street Fair Returns April 26

Northside: Graveyard Lovers
2014-06-14 12:00 - 18:00 | NY
Self-described “blues-inspired grunge band,” but it’s hard to glean either of those influences from their recordings. Sounds more like listless, slightly above radio-quality “alternative rock” to me. If your grandmother caught you listening to these guys you’d die from humiliation.

“The Party’s Over”
2014-06-14 12:00 - 20:00, 2014-06-15 12:00 - 20:00 | Topless, 90-20 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Rockaway Beach, NY, United States
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 by the prolific Andy Cross, foam forms by Yale painting major Caroline Wells Chandler, and video art by a recent RISD grad, Cindy Ji Hye Kim.
Related: Rockaway’s Art Scene Just Got Topless

The Quantum Eye at Theatre 80
2014-06-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Pl , East Village, NY, United States
Mentalist Sam Eaton performs in this weekly magic and mentalism show that explores the limits of perception and deception.

Northside: Lust for Youth
2014-06-14 22:00 - 2014-06-15 22:00 | Unnamed Venue, NY, United States
Darkwave minimal beats from Sweden. Ice cold vocals. God bless drum machines.

Tiki Disco at The Well
2014-06-15 14:00 | The Well, 272 Meserole St., Brooklyn, NY, United States
Since 2009, this party — which has stinted at Roberta’s and Rockaway Beach — has been a dependable, if often packed, way to get loose in the middle of the day and into the night. It’s quickly become a NYC summer staple a la Mister Softee.

MO-EMS
2014-06-15 15:30 - 17:00 | Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY, United States
What happens when a physician combines rap, poetry, and solo-performance art? Uh, we have no idea. But Maureen Miller is apparently extremely talented– not only is she a doctor, and an author who has lectured at Harvard, but she also founded the site RapGenius– so this performance is bound to be stimulating if nothing else. RSVP to this event.

Sideshow Goshko at KGB
2014-06-15 19:00 | KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Leslie Goshko hosts this monthly storytelling show that has seen appearances by Steve Burns, Jackie Kashian, Chris Gethard, Tom Shillue, and, of course, B+B favorite Dave Hill. Always with the same format: four storytellers each receive 10 minutes of performance time, with Goshko generously going third to settle the crowd after intermission. Also, four supremely difficult trivia questions are asked and Goshko always gives away a bottle of Sideshow Sauce (aka Three Buck Chuck wine from Trader Joe’s).
More: Sideshow Goshko Celebrates 5 Years of Comedic Storytelling and ‘So Much Alcohol

Northside: Dead Sexy Sheila
2014-06-15 20:00 - 23:00 | Union Pool, 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
Mix Nick Cave’s theatricality with slightly twangy surf vibes and you’ve got yourself some Dead Sexy Sheila. Slippery guitars and plenty of wah to go around.

Megan Lang + David Gilbert
2014-06-16 19:00 - 20:00 | The Strand, New York
Celebrate Bloomsday with authors David Gilbert (& Sons) and Megan Lang, whose novel The 16th of June is named after the day Ulysses takes place. June also marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Joyce’s The Dead, so this event might be extra scatological. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. There will be drinks, but you have to buy a copy of Lang’s book to get in the door.
