Friday
October 25
Get a clue
The game “Clue” is so much more than just Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick. The popular board game also spurred a hilarious movie that involved Tim Curry, three different endings, and the now immortal line: “Flames, on the side of my face, breathing breath heaving breaths.” Watch the cult-classic 1985 flick at the Actors Fund Arts Center, followed by a Q and A with director Jonathan Lynn (!!!). The event will also include a costume contest, so show up peacocking your best Miss Scarlet getup and make all the other contestants green with envy.
7:30 pm at the Actors Fund Arts Center [160 Schermerhorn St. between Hoyt and Smith streets in Downtown Brooklyn, (718) 640–1841, www.actorsfund.org/communityartsfestival] $20.
SATURDAY
October 26
‘Drown’ in Diaz
The weekend is brief but you can make it wondrous by checking out Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz as he checks into the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library to read and discuss his latest collection of short stories, “This Is How You Lose Her.” Diaz, the current fiction editor at “Boston Review” and a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is as refreshingly down-to-earth as his street smart, Dominican characters, and often offers insightful advice about the creative process.
4 pm at the Central Brooklyn Public Library [10 Grand Army Plaza at Eastern Parkway, (718) 230–2100, www.bklynpubliclibrary.org] Free.
SUNDAY
October 27
Easy as cake
Have a sweet tooth? Here is a sweet deal: show up Momofuku Milk Bar in Carroll Gardens, sign up at the counter, and do a cakewalk. What, exactly, is a cakewalk? Basically, someone hula-hoops on a platform to music while contestants circle, shuffle, and shake around the hula-hooper. When the music stops, everyone takes a seat. Whoever sits on the “hot seat,” gets, well, a cake! Hey, we didn’t bake up this idea, but the prize surely takes the … you get the idea.
1–1:05 pm at Momofuku Milk Bar [360 Smith St. between Frist and Second places in Carroll Gardens, (347) 577–9504, www.momofuku.com] Free.
monday
October 28
Goosebumps for grownups
If the titles “Say Cheese and Die!” and “Night of the Living Dummy” still send shivers down your spine, you can finally meet the man responsible for all those sleepless nights spent shaking under your covers as a kid. Author R.L. Stine makes a guest appearance at a live recording of the popular trivia, music, and humor podcast “Ask Me Another.” The inquisitive NPR and WNYC audio show gets into the Halloween spirit with a book giveaway and signing by the famed children’s horror author. Audience members are encouraged to dress as their favorite Stine character — bonus points for anyone who comes as King Jellyjam, complete with oozing, purple goo.
7:30 pm at the Bell House [149 Seventh St. between Second and Third avenues in Gowanus, (718) 643–6510,
www.thebellhouseny.com]. $10 advance, $15 at door.
WEDNESDAY
October 30
A Cookie Monster mash
Want to Count von Count on some Muppet-spiked spookiness this Halloween? Put on your favorite Sweetums costume and lurch over Union Hall for its “Muppet Vault: Monsters!” event where you will see Jim Henson’s creepiest creations sing, dance, and devour every cookie in sight. The evening will also include a screening of “the Muppet Show” guest-starring horror icon, Vincent Price. All participants who dress as their favorite Muppets get a prize.
8 pm at Union Hall [702 Union St. between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400, www.unionhallny.com] $8.
