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

The Brooklyn Paper

It’s going to be a great weekend, but that doesn’t mean you don’t The Weekender:

• Go to Greenpoint and eat a great Vietnamese sandwich.

• Enjoy a great record store in Williamsburg before it relocates a block away.

• Vote for some Brooklyn filmmakers in a Netflix contest.

• Go to Bay Ridge and enjoy some cupcakes!

• Check out the new Cafe Grumpy in Park Slope.

• If we get another June shower, read some great poetry from our poet laureate short list.

• The Ringling Bros. circus is in town in Coney Island. Mike McLaughlin raved, while Dooley didn’t.

• On Saturday, jump on the free ferry to Governors Island.

• See “Do the Right Thing” at Cafe Habana or “Bottle Shock” at Enoteca on Court Street on Sunday.

• It’s not Father’s Day, but you can still bake Sweet Melissa’s cookies!

• There’s always the Brooklyn Flea on Saturday in Fort Greene and Artists and Fleas in Williamsburg.

And if you must stay inside:

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

Reader Feedback

Bernette Rudolph from Park Slope says:
Add a feast to your eye. Visit "Bernette's Open Art Studio/ Gallery on Saturday June 27. 11Am to 6 Pm @ 457 Third Street between 6th & 7th Ave.
Open to all..great Art at Studio prices, see Bernette's work www.BernetteRudolph.com
June 26, 2009, 2:41 pm
Brooklyn Historical from Brooklyn Heights says:
Don't forget about this:
http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html#0626

Tonight (June 26th)

Exhibit Opening 6:00 PM: No Jheri Curls & No Drugs, A David Lee Photo Exhibition

Images from "She's Gotta Have It" will be exhibited at the Brooklyn Historical
Society from June 26- July 5.

7:00 PM: Buggin' Out: Poetry Inspired by Spike Lee

Bug Out Poets include:
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Jeffrey Dessources
Abena Koomson
Eboni
Ngoma
Adam Faulkner
Caitlin Meissner
khalil almustafa
and more!

This event is part of BROOKLYN HONORS SPIKE LEE: A MULTI-FACETED TRIBUTE, orchestrated by PlanIt Brooklyn, that invites the five boroughs, and the world, to celebrate the breadth and scope of Lee's work and t the impact he has had on popular culture.
June 26, 2009, 4:18 pm

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