Friday
May 18
Drop bear drops beats
Musical marsupial Kid Koala will throw his “Vinyl Vaudeville” party tonight, featuring dancing penguins, brass-playing ants, and a giant spider moving through the crowd. Before the show starts, you can play the dance video game “Floor Kids,” which Koala created the music for.
6 pm at Elsewhere (599 Johnson Ave. between Gardner and Scott avenues in Bushwick, www.elsew
Saturday
May 19
Cajun celebration
Start the second day of the Swamp in the City Cajun music festival at Threes Brewing in Gowanus (at 333 Douglass Street), where you can booze up and hear free tunes from 99 Playboys and Magnolia, then walk a block to Littlefield for a concert from the Pineleaf Boys (pictured), C’est Bon Cajun Dance Band, and more.
6 pm at Littlefield (635 Sackett St. between Third and Fourth avenues in Gowanus, www.littl
Monday
May 20
Get Ripped
Tonight is your last chance to catch the improbable historical musical “Impossible But True!” in its current form — performed in, and set at, a tavern. So sip the colonial cocktail “flip” and watch the 12-person cast fill the bar with songs about Rip Van Winkle, who slept for 20 years and missed the Revolutionary War.
7 pm at Franklin820 [820 Franklin Ave. at Union Street in Crown Heights, (718) 708–4113, www.frank
Tuesday
May 22
Cat power
At this newspaper, we believe in America, cold beer, and kitty-cats! Celebrate all three at the House of Wax bar tonight, where Dr. Paul Koudounaris will deliver his illustrated lecture “America: A History in Cats,” featuring the story of the world’s first balloon-propelled kitty, the U.S. Navy’s most decorated military feline, and many more tales of patriotic pussycats.
7:30 pm at the House of Wax bar at Alamo Drafthouse [445 Albee Square West between Fulton and Willoughby streets Downtown, (718) 513–2547, www.draft
Thursday
May 24
Bow now
Look, all the tickets to see “David Bowie Is” have already sold out for the weekend — but the Brooklyn Museum is open until 10 pm on Thursday nights, so if you buy one of the timed tickets now and plan to sneak out of work a little early, you can spend a few hours staring at the Starman’s stunning collection of outfits, music, and memorabilia.
2:15 pm–7:45 pm at Brooklyn Museum [200 Eastern Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 638–5000, www.brook
$20.
