Friday
June 17
Damn Yankees
It is the Opening Day of the Brooklyn Cyclones season at MCU, as they take on their rivals from across the bay, the hated Staten Island Yankees. Celebrate the inevitable victory by the Boys for Brooklyn, and stick around for the firework display afterwards.
7 pm at MCU Park [1904 Surf Ave. at W. 17th Street in Coney Island, (718) 449–8497, www.brook
Saturday
June 18
Blister in the park
Angsty and acclaimed acoustic punk band Violent Femmes will take the Bric Celebrate Brooklyn stage tonight. Expect old-school punks to scream along with hits “Add It Up” and “Blister in the Sun”, but the Milwaukee band will also bust out tunes from “We Can Do Anything,” its first album in 15 years.
7:30 pm at Prospect Park Bandshell (Ninth Street and Prospect Park W. in Prospect Park www.brica
Sunday
June 19
Bear witness
Bears have it tough in the big city — don’t they deserve a little food? Windsor Terrace author Julia Sarcone-Roach reads from her adorable kids’ book “The Bear Ate Your Sandwich” in Fort Greene Park today, and follows it up with bear finger-puppet crafting.
3 pm at the Fort Greene Park Redoubt (on Washington Park between Myrtle and Dekalb avenues in Fort Greene, www.fortg
TUESday
June 21
Believe the hype
This is a great week for free outdoor music! Legendary hip-hop group Public Enemy will bring the noise to this SummerStage show in Brownsville, with Chuck D and Flavor Flav leading the politically conscious rhymes.
7 pm at Betsy Head Park (Dumont Avenue and Strauss Street in Brownsville, www.cityp
Thursday
June 23
Let’s have a Kiki
The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinemafest heads under the stars for an outdoor screening tonight: “Kiki,” a profile of the queer and trans dancers in New York City’s contemporary vogueing scene — a kind of “Paris is Burning” for the new millennium.
8 pm at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 (Enter at Furman Street and Old Fulton street in Dumbo, www.bam.org). Free.
