October 10, 2008 / News / The Weekender

The weekender! Here’s what you should do on Saturday and Sunday

The Brooklyn Museum's Gilbert and George retrospective continues.

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Anne-Sophie Coue, Chrystelle Sanaa, Stephane Mauget and Christian Matteau

The voters have chosen this for Grand Army Plaza.

The Brooklyn Paper / Daniel Krieger

This is the only Brooklyn burger that will compete tonight at the Burger Bash portion of the New York City Food and Wine Festival. You can thank Marty now.

Wildlife Conservation Society / Julie Larsen Maher

Our own Trey Dooley still loves these miniature horses.

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Whatta jam packed weekend it’s going to be in Brooklyn, so thank goodness that you have The Brooklyn Paper to make sense of it all. Click on the links below to be taken to our coverage of all the action:

• Breaking chews! Borough President Markowitz convinced the organizers of the Manhattan-centric New York City Food and Wine Festival to include a Fort Greene burger joint — 67 Burger on Lafayette Avenue — in Friday night’s Burger Bash. The event is sold out, but you gotta give Marty some credit! Go, Brooklyn!

• You can’t go without a ticket, but you’ll certainly hear the Diesel rap party on Pier 3 underneath the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on Saturday night, as our Sarah Portlock reports.

• This weekend is your last chance to see all the wacky designs for Grand Army Plaza, but it’s too late to vote, as a French team has already been chosen as the winner of the competition, as Portlock reports.

• Bay Ridge’s farmers market is in full swing on Saturdays. Our own Ben Muessig introduces you to the men and women who will be selling you cheese, bread, fish and fruit.

• How about a hot dog at one of two new joints?

• This may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but if you’ve got a gun and want to turn it into $200, take it to one of the following four churches on Saturday. The district attorney claims you’ll get the money with no questions asked. The churches are: St. Peter and Paul (71 South Third St., between Wythe Avenue and Berry Street in Williamsburg); St. Barbara (138 Bleecker St., between Wilson and Central avenues in Bushwick); All Saints (115 Throop Ave, near Flushing Avenue in Bushwick) and Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompei (225 Seigel St., between White Street and Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick).

• The Gilbert and George retrospective opened last week, but Sarah Portlock is still raving about it. Visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for complete info.

• Sarah Palin is inspiring all kinds of artistic reaction from Brooklynites this weekend at the Brooklyn Waterfront Arts Coalition show in Red Hook.

• And, of course, our own puppetry, kids theater and mine critic, Trey Dooley, still loves the new miniature ponies at Prospect Park Zoo.

As always, these and other great events are in our exclusive family calendar, our great nightlife calendar, and our matchless events calendar.

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