TV: Three Brooklyn rockers — with a delicious double-life — are proving that there’s a lot to laugh about when you’re in pursuit of a record deal in their debut television series, “Z Rock.” Comment.

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Wax poetic

Saturday, August 23: Today’s “2008 Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival,” MC’d by Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts’ head Laurie Cumbo, pictured, features poet laureates past and present, such as Hal Sirowitz (“Mother Said, My Therapist Said”).

3 pm. Rain or shine. Fort Greene Park’s Monument Lawn. Enter at Washington Park at DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene. Free. For information, call (718) 398-2883 or visit www.nywriterscoalition.org.

Go USA!

Sunday, August 24: It’s the 232nd anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn — but who’s counting? You can meet these patriotic folks and talk about the American Revolution at today’s commemoration ceremony at Green-Wood Cemetery. See battle re-enactment inside the main gate at 12:30 pm and more.

9:30 am. Green-Wood Cemetery, Fifth Avenue at 25th Street in Sunset Park. Free. For information, call (718) 852-8235 or visit oldstonehouse.org.

’Belle and whistles

Monday, August 25: Here’s some info that will give you a “new attitude”: Patti LaBelle will play a free concert in Brooklyn tonight! So feel free to put on “a new dress and new hat” because the last show of Borough President Markowitz’s star-studded Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert Series promises to be a grand finale indeed.

7:30 pm. Wingate Field, Brooklyn Avenue at Winthrop Street in Crown Heights. Free. Seating is limited; bring a chair. For information, call (718) 222-0600 or visit www.brooklynconcerts.com.

‘Shining’ moment

Thursday, August 28: Carroll Gardens movie mogul Glenn Sanders celebrates his 500th Fresh Air Flicks event tonight with a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s terrifying 1980 film “The Shining.” The Jack Nicholson vehicle unspools at sundown in DUMBO’s park, but show up as early as 6 pm to claim a spot on the grass and catch DJ Ayres spinning tunes.

6 pm. Empire–Fulton Ferry State Park, Main and Plymouth streets in DUMBO. Free. For information, call (718) 802-0603 or visit www.brooklynbridgepark.org.

Walk the plank

Friday, August 29: This weekend is a three-day long birthday celebration for Brooklyn’s floating concert hall. Tonight, as part of “Here and Now: A Labor Day Music Festival Celebrating Bargemusic’s 30th Anniversary,” the Voxare Quartet and others will perform works commissioned by Bargemusic.

8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East River in DUMBO. $40, $15 students. For information, call (718) 624-2083 or visit www.bargemusic.org.

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Back to school

By Paula Roth

Books: Growing up, Liza Monroy traveled the globe with her diplomat mother, yet the author of the gripping coming-of-age story “Mexican High” now revels in the suburban feel of Prospect Heights. Comment.

Hot jazz

By Lisa J. Curtis

Music: Enjoy a free jazz performance by the Charles Sibirsky Trio, while checking out the flavors of Park Slope’s new Aji Bar and Lounge, on Thursday. Comment.

Rockin’ Robins

By Rabiyya Smith

Cinema: We’ve all heard the beating of the drums at the south end of Prospect Park on a Sunday afternoon; now hear the story behind the music in Jeremy Robins’s new documentary, “The Other Side of the Water.” Comment.