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Five things to do in Brooklyn this week!

Five things to do in Brooklyn this week!
Danny Clinch

Friday

Aug. 12

‘Winter’ is coming!

Get a winter workout! New York Classical theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” will roam all over Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1 to tell its story of feuding kings, long-lost daughters, and ridiculous shepherds. The show will have another performance on Saturday.

7 pm starting at Fulton Ferry Landing (Old Fulton Street at Furman Street in Dumbo, www.newyorkclassical.org). Free.

Saturday

Aug.13

Fairy greens

It makes the heart grow fonder! Historical gastronomist Sarah Lohman leads a discussion of absinthe at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where you can examine that plants (pictured) that make up the recently legalized liquor, hear stories of the insanity it supposedly caused, and sample a batch made in Brooklyn!

11 am, 1:15 pm, and 3:30 pm at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [990 Washington Ave. between President and Carroll streets in Prospect Heights, (718) 623–7200, www.bbg.org]. $30.

Sunday

Aug. 14

Ruff game

Call them the diamond dogs! Bark in the Park is back at MCU, so you can bring your pooch pals to parade around the bases, watch some doggies do frisbee-chasing tricks, and then settle into the bleachers with a beer (and water bowls provided for the pups) to see the Cyclones take on the West Virginia Black Bears at 4 pm.

2 pm at MCU Park [1904 Surf Ave. at W. 17th St. in Coney Island, (718) 449–8497], www.brooklyncyclones.com. $10 for one person and up to two dogs.

Play date: Kids and dogs can step onto the field during MCU Park’s Bark at the Park event on Aug. 14.
Photo by Jason Speakman

Monday

Aug. 15

Come out and plaaaay!

The Brooklyn Historical Society looks back to the summer of 1978, when vest-wearing gangs roamed the subway, as recorded in the painstaking documentary “The Warriors” which gets a screening at the Society tonight, introduced by Newsday film critic Rafer Guzman.

7 pm at the Brooklyn Historical Society [128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222–4111, www.brooklynhistory.org]. Free.

Tuesday

Aug. 16

Adam begins

We love the ’90s! That decade keeps hanginaround, and you can revel in it tonight when Counting Crows and Rob Thomas (yes, from the band Matchbox Twenty) share the stage in the People’s Playground! It is the perfect show to enjoy during August (and every time after).

7 pm at Coney Island Amphitheater (3052 West 21st Street at Surf Ave in Coney Island in Coney Island, www.coneyislandlive.com). $25–$125.

Winter in August: The Classical Theatre Company will bring Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” to Brooklyn Bridge Park on Aug. 12–13.