Where to GO this week!

Friday

Aug. 15

Veg out

Rock out with your rootstock out. Brooklyn Grange — the 65,000 square-foot farm on top of a Brooklyn Navy Yard building — is hosting a show with The Brooklyn Paper-approved title of “Turnip the Beet.” Folksy outfits Free Advice, Due Diligence, and Willy Gantrim will play among the plants, while Sixpoint Brewery serves up some suds.

7 pm at Brooklyn Grange, Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 3 (63 Flushing Ave. between Seventh and Eighth avenues in Fort Greene, building three, www.brownpapertickets.com/event/798737). $20.

Saturday

Aug. 16

Enter, sand man!

It is little plastic shovels at 10 paces! The Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest is back on the beach for its 24th year. Come cheer on the artists and amateurs building amazing coastal creations, and help raise money so people affected by Hurricane Sandy can do some building and rebuilding of their own.

Noon at Coney Island Boardwalk [Boardwalk at W. 10th Street in Coney Island, (718) 266–4653, www.facebook.com/coneyislandsandsculpting]. Free.

Sunday

Aug. 17

Piano man

Talk about jazz hands — Arturo O’Farrill, founder of the Grammy-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, will tinkle the ivories and get Brooklyn Bridge Park grooving to Cuban rhythms with a free concert at Harbor View Lawn. Bring a picnic blanket and bring it early to make sure you secure a space.

Woof: John Wojtowicz was the real-life bankrobber who inspired “Dog Day Afternoon.”

Drafthouse

7 pm at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 (Old Fulton Street at Furman Street in Dumbo, www.brooklynbridgepark.org). Free.

Monday

Aug. 18

Dog days

You’ve seen “Dog Day Afternoon,” now see “The Dog,” a new documentary that tells the real story of John Wojtowicz, whose abortive stick-up at a Gravesend bank inspired the Al Pacino flick. Nitehawk appears to be the only place in Brooklyn screening the movie — and it would just feel wrong to see it anywhere else.

5:10 pm at Nitehawk Cinema [136 Metropolitan Ave. near Berry Street in Williamsburg, (718) 384–3980, www.nitehawkcinema.com]. $11.

Wednesday

Aug. 20

Grudge match

The Brooklyn Comedy Festival takes place at many venues around the borough Aug. 18–24, but this is our pick. “Impro(vs)tandup” brings improv artists and stand-up comedians together to do their thing — and then each other’s things. Performers will include “Saturday Night Live” star Sasheer Zamata and the US National Improv Team.

8 pm at Glasslands (289 Kent Ave. between S. First and S. Second streets, www.bkcomedyfestival.com). $8.