It’s such a jam-packed weekend, you need The Weekender more than ever:

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

• Go to a Cyclones game — the team is home all weekend against the Auburn Doubledays. And Sunday’s 5 pm game is a promotion for pregnant ladies!

• The Fifth Avenue art walk continues all weekend long.

• The BoCoCa Festival begins with two weeks of theater, art, music and mayhem spanning Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Gowanus. On Friday night, there will be parties at two venues: Deity Bar [386 Atlantic Ave. at Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill (718) 222-3692] and Ceol [191 Smith St. at Warren Street in Carroll Gardens (347) 643-9911]. For info, visit www.bococaartsfestival.com.

• Bring a canned food to Babeland and get a discount on your next vibrator!

• Head to Calexico for some great Tex-Mex.

• Sunday is your last chance to watch 120 men lift a three-ton statue at Williamsburg’s annual Italian food fest.

• The “Wine in Film” retrospective continues at Enoteca on Court Street on Sunday with “The Secret of Santa Vittoria.”

• Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead” opens on Sunday at the Old Stone House.

• The greatest movie ever made — “Drunken Master” — will screen outdoors at Habana Outpost on Sunday.

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

• There’s always the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, the Indie Market on Smith Street and Artists and Fleas in Williamsburg on Saturday. Or the Makers Market at the American Can Factory on Sunday.

• There’s still a few more performances of “Suspicious Package” at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg.

• It wouldn’t be summer without an outdoor “Hamlet,” so check out the one at the Old Stone House on Saturday.

• Puppetworks still has “Aladdin” running at its Sixth Avenue theater on Saturday and Sunday.

• There’s great art all weekend at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition pier in Red Hook.

• Our editor loved it last year, so it’s back: A kid’s version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Prospect Park on Saturday and Sunday.

• Eat a great pizza — and get a $3 beer — at Toby’s Public House in Greenwood Heights.

• Eat foliage with Wildman Steve Brill in Prospect Park on Saturday.

• On Sunday, bang your head at the Siren Festival in Coney Island, an all-day music fest.

And if you must stay inside:

• Curl up with Mike Sacks’s great new book about comedy.

• Or curl up and read all our coverage from Breukelen, Holland.

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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