Saturday
Aug. 6
We all float
Alcohol and ice cream: together at last! Today is National Root Beer Float Day, and also the one-year anniversary of the Coney Island Brewery, which will be serving floats made with its boozy root beer, as well as offering music, sideshow attractions, and a chance to taste an exclusive root beer aged in a bourbon barrel for four months.
1–6 pm at Coney Island Brewery (1904 Surf Ave. at W. 17th. St. in Coney Island, www.coney
Sunday
Aug. 7
First shot
The Alamo Drafthouse will whisk you away to galaxy far, far away at today’s Star Wars Marathon — a massive screening of “A New Hope,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” and “Return of the Jedi,” at the Kings Theater. Two warning: First, these are the “Han shot second” special edition versions. Second, you should put your phone away — the theater staff will be enforcing its strict rules against talking or texting during the show!
1–9 pm at the Kings Theatre (1027 Flatbush Ave. between Beverly Road and Tilden Avenue in Flatbush), www.kings
Monday
Aug. 8
Marvel-ous
For this month’s Franklin Park Reading Series, we are most excited about novelist and feminist critic Roxane Gay, who will soon be co-writing the new Marvel comic book “Black Panther: World of Wakanda” with Ta-Nehisi Coates — a spin-off that stars the African king’s female bodyguards (pictured). The bar also serves $4 drafts during the reading — and it serves a fine bourbon milkshake.
8 pm at Franklin Park (618 St. Johns Pl. between Classon and Franklin avenues in Crown Heights, www.frank
Tuesday
Aug. 9
Yadda yadda
Filmmaker and author Negin Farsad has literally written the book on comedy — the book being “How to Make White People Laugh.” Tonight the Muslim jokester will perform before the epitome of white-appealing comedy — a screening of “Comedian,” the documentary about Jerry Seinfeld’s return to stand-up.
7:30 pm at Nitehawk Cinema [136 Metropolitan Ave. between Wythe Avenue and Berry Street in Williamsburg, (718) 384–3980, www.niteh
Wednesday
Aug. 10
A-maze-ing music
Get ready to dance, magic, dance under the stars at this free outdoor screening of the fantasy puppet musical “Labyrinth,” starring David Bowie as the Goblin King. With an opening performance by Donny McCaslin Group, the band who backed Bowie on “Blackstar,” his final album.
8 pm at the Bric Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival [Prospect Park Bandshell, enter at Ninth Street and Prospect Park West in Park Slope, (718) 683–5600, www.brica
