Accordion attack
Friday, July 24: It’s time for some foot stompin’, barn raisin’, good ol’ fashioned music, and Buckwheat Zydeco has got the goods. The accordion-playing legend is one of the few musicians to achieve success with Zydeco music, a style that finds its roots in rural Louisiana.
7:30 pm. Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park band shell (enter park at Ninth Street and Prospect Park West in Park Slope). Free. For info, visit
www.briconline.org.
Suspicious audience
Saturday, July 25: Gyda Arber and Aaron Baker’s interactive, cellphone-enabled theater doesn’t just break the fourth wall, it has no walls at all! After assigning each of the six audience members a character, cast and audience will take to the streets of Williamsburg for a good mystery and a drink on the house when it’s solved.
4 pm. “Suspicious Package: Rx” at The Brick [575 Metropolitan Ave. between Lorimer Street and Union Avenue in Williamsburg (718) 907-6189]. Tickets, $20, reservations required. To purchase tickets, visit
www.theatermania.com.
Graceland at Metrotech?
Thursday, July 30: Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s work with Paul Simon won the male singing group a Grammy in 1987, and the troupe is still considered an emissary of South Africa at home and aboard, Office workers at the otherwise bland Metrotech complex in Downtown will benefit greatly thanks to a free concert by the group, right outside their windows.
Noon. Ladysmith Black Mambazo at the Metrotech Commons [Myrtle Avenue Promenade at Lawrence Street in Downtown, (718) 636-4100]. For info, visit
www.bam.org. Free.
Chill out
Friday, July 31: There’s no one better at teaching a writing workshop for teenagers than Ned Vizzini, the author of “Teen Angst? Naaah,” and his debut classic, “Be More Chill,” a high school story of crushes, drug experimentation, and putting tiny computers in your brain to become cool. Vizzini has been a legend ever since he lived across the hall from our editor.
5 pm. Teen Writing Workshop with Ned Vizzini. Barnes & Noble [267 Seventh Ave. at Sixth Street in Park Slope, (718) 832-9066]. Free.
Rumble in DUMBO
Saturday, August 1: DUMBO Fight Night is back, but this time, you can watch amateur boxers beat the Gowanus out of each other in the recently renovated, 7,000-square-foot archway under the Manhattan Bridge. And there’ll be the usual punches thrown by the great cocktails!
7 pm. DUMBO Fight Night in the archway (Water Street at Pearl Street in DUMBO). Tickets, $25 (standing), $50 (ringside). For info, visit
www.dumbonyc.com.