A Slice Of Brooklyn Pizza Tour is the city’s only guided bus tour of Brooklyn’s best pizzerias. This 4 1/2-hour foodie romp through Brooklyn includes pizza, soft drinks and an audio-visual historical tour of Brooklyn’s famous movie locations, landmarks and points of interest. Guests will learn about and see some of the things that have made Brooklyn famous.

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Website: http://www.asliceofbrooklyn.com/pizza/information.html

Hop aboard NYC’s only guided bus tour that departs from Manhattan and leads you to Brooklyn’s favorite food, neighborhoods, landmarks and famous movie locations.

Stops include Grimaldi’s under the Brooklyn Bridge for their award-winning Neapolitan style pizza as well as L&B Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst for their award winning Sicilian style pizza. In between, you’ll learn about and visit DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Red Hook, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach and even walk along the famous boardwalk in Coney Island. You’ll also visit famous movie locations including Saturday Night fever, Goodfellas, Scent of a Woman, Annie Hall and more.

A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour was started by Tony Muia, a proud native Brooklynite who, for over 30 years, has been eating the phenomenal pizza that his tours now highlight.

After hearing complaints of not being able to find good pizza in Manhattan, Tony took a group of 10 friends on a guided tour of the best pizzerias in Brooklyn–while also highlighting the landmarks, movie locations and points of interest that have made Brooklyn world-known.

Word spread, and by the time Tony planned his next pizza tour, over 20 people wanted to join…thus was born A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour.

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Tony is a licensed New York City tour guide.

A Slice of Brooklyn Bus Tour

A Slice of Brooklyn Bus Tours was started by Tony Muia, a proud native Brooklynite who, for over 25 years, has been showing people around his beloved hometown. After hearing complaints of not being able to find good pizza in Manhattan, Tony started A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour highlighting the incredible pizzerias, landmarks, movie locations and points of interest that have made Brooklyn world-known. Two years later, he started A Christmas Lights Tour of Brooklyn showcasing famous the Christmas decorations of the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, made famous in the PBS documentary “Dyker Lights”, as well as a stop at Mona Lisa Pastry Shop. Now he’s launching his Brooklyn Neighborhood Tour highlighting other unique neighborhoods, landmarks and famous movie locations and a stop at World Famous Junior’s for cheesecake and an egg cream. Tony is a licensed New York City tour guide.

The Crooked Tail Café is pleased to present A Night Out on Smith Street Inked portraits by Philip J. Lockerby and Zartosht Soltani

When:  Friday, August 14, 2009.  7-10pm

Where:  Crooked Tail Café 272 3rd Avenue (between Union and President) Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 852-1414.

There will be an after party taking place at Canal Bar next door, right after the event.  Friday nights feature $4 Svedka Cocktails.  Canal Bar also has outdoor seating a pool table and free popcorn.

Exhibition continues through September.

Artists and animators Philip J. Lockerby and Zartosht Soltani have worked on various animated projects together over the past four years, but the work they take the most pride in is their sketchbook and napkin drawings from the dimly lit bars they frequent after work. “For this show we’re focusing on the bartenders,” Lockerby explains. “But generally we’ll draw whomever is at the bar.  Maybe we’ll get a free drink or two out of this as well.” The subjects featured tend bar at a selection of Carroll Gardens and Park Slope haunts, including Sample, Zombie Hut, Boat, The Bell House, Canal Bar, Great Lakes, The Gate, and many more. Usually, Lockerby and Soltani will ink a portrait and then gift it to their subject. “When we give a bar napkin portrait away, most times we’ve made that person’s evening,” Lockerby says. “We’re just trying to spread the love around, doing what we love to do the most, which is to draw.”

About the Artists: After a decade animating for television and film, most notably the Academy Award-nominated Triplettes of Belleville, Philip J. Lockerby is currently directing an animated sequence for an upcoming documentary on the Manic Street Preachers.  He is also working on a personal short film.  See his work at: www.drawingonnapkins.blogspot.com.

In 1999 Zartosht Soltani graduated from the Fine Arts at Azad University of Arts at Tehran. One year later he moved to New York, where he is now working as a freelance art director and illustrator for the animation studio, FlickerLab, creating cartoons, television commercials, and broadcast design. He has exhibited paintings in Tehran, and will be a part of the upcoming Too Art for TV show in September.

Last night team ‘ThisBarSucks’ took on team ‘ PS 20 Something’ at bocce ball at Union Hall (702 Union Street, Brooklyn 11215).  I am ashamed to say, that we got our arses well and truly wooped.  Although we did win the very prestigious and nationally recognised ’who can drink more’ challenge.  I am not sure that I let the guys and girls from PS 20 Something know that there were other challenges going on at the time, but let’s not let that small bit of information take away our glory. 

What did they get out of beating us.  Well, they got the most awesomest prize…..ever!!  They won the ‘Soul Of Union Hall’.  That is some seriously heavy shit right there.  Think about it, any time you apply for a mortgage, you can declare that owned assets include ‘The Soul Of Union Hall’, or when at a job interview, you can feel quite confident that when you get asked ’why should we hire you, all you need to do is flop it out, and declare quite confidently that you own ‘The Soul Of Union Hall’.  Truly awesome.

To make things worse, they bought along with them, their very own Sportscaster.  I just hope that his editing is as good as his recording (I think I let a few F bombs spill out onto the Bocce lanes).  Anyways, our abysmal attempt at bocce will no doubt be making it’s  way onto the electric pages of PS20Something.  Check them out, and if you are ever in a bar, and some guy in bright green pants and a collarless shirt approaches you, and challenges you to a game of boccie, you know to kick him in the nuts get him drunk first

I have never, not had a great time here. The food is very well priced and nice quality and their wine list is amazing. I believe that they currently have 30+ wines by the glass. I would say the only ‘not so good thing’ is, that I do not own a restaurant over the street, so I can catch the overflow from when it get’s packed out . Always best to call ahead of time.

Owners Peter Sclafani and Kristen Hallett opened Bar Tano back in February 2008, just before the shit hit the fan with the economy.  On top of the timing, they also opened in an area that was, and still is a bit of a dump (although it’s improving).

Stuck between the Park Slope toff’s, and the now industrial wastelands of Gowanus on 3rd. It took some guts to make a move over there. I am pleased things seem to be going great for them.

Check our their Brunch menu here
Check out there Lunch and Dinner menu here

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Bar Tano is located at
457 3rd Ave (at 9th Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11226

Website

(718) 499-3400

Open daily:
Lunch 11-4 Mon-Fri, Brunch 10-4 Sat & Sun
Dinner 4-midnight Sun-Thu, 4-1am Fri & Sat
Bar open late

ThisBarSucks.com just got word that the girls from Newcastle Brown Ale are heading into town. They will be showing up at Draft Barn this Thursday, for about an hour. The Draft Barn is located at 530 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Telephone (718) 768-0515 for more information.

Some Wiki Info about Newcastle Brown Ale

Newcastle Brown Ale is a brand of beer was originally brewed in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, in April 1927 by Newcastle Breweries, which became Scottish & Newcastle in 1960. S&N UK is now a division of Heineken International.

In August 2005, Scottish and Newcastle closed the Tyne Brewery, the last consignment of Brown Ale having been brewed in April of that year. Production was moved across the river to the former Federation Brewery in Gateshead, UK.

Newcastle Brown Ale had originally been granted Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status by the EU. Since Scottish and Newcastle moved production outside of the city its PGI has been removed.

In Newcastle, the beer is often called ‘Dog’ (or simply ‘Broon’). The ‘Dog’ name comes from the euphemism “I’m going to walk the dog” – meaning “I’m going to the pub” – and was further popularised by a 1980s advertising campaign. It is often referred to as Newcy Brown by those not from Newcastle, though never by those actually from the city itself.

Looks like guys at the Draft Barn, Decider.com, The Onion and Unibroue are teaming up to get you in the party mood for the weekend.  Below is the full invitation for the event.  The Draft Barn has well over 200 beers in a bottle and around 15+ on tap, it’s great hangout bar, where the staff are friendly and the patrons down to earth.

For those of you who enjoy great beer, below is a list of reasons you should try a Unibroue beer.

• A more refined taste
• Rich flavor
• Thicker foam that protects the beer
• Excellent source of vitamin B
• Almost unlimited shelf life (flavor evolves to a port wine after ten years)
• Ecological (no chemicals)

If the reasons listed aren’t enough for you to crack open a bottle or two or three, then how about RSVP’ing to NYCPromo@TheOnion.com with the subject being “Draft Barn” for a chance to win a lap dance* from one of the Russian Bar Tenders of your choice and a meal for two.

*Prize is currently only offered to women aged between 21 and 35, who are currently employed as a model and have $20k in cash to donate to a charity of the bars decision.

Please don’t forget to pass this invite on to your friends.  You can also join us at Twitter.com/ThisBarSucks, for upcoming events and a few crazy comments.    If you are on Facebook, then join my newly created group here.

It’s all about the Benjamins on Franklin street! Chris Smith is continuing the takeover of all the bars in Brooklyn with a show of affordable art at TBD in Greenpoint. Everything is priced around $100 or less! He’s created a new set of vibrant race car themed graphics and he’ll be showing letterpress prints, photos and paintings. Including signshadows, roadsign girls, vintage race cars and more!

There’ll be extended happy hour prices and drink specials after that. Check out the art, then enjoy tbd’s new massive outdoor beer garden.

The show will be up for the month of June, and we’ll be selling the work right off the wall so be sure to stop by often! If you can’t make it to the opening be sure to come by for Northside Festival on June 11th!

June 4 – July 2, 2009
Opening June 4th, 7pm

TBD Bar
224 Franklin st
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
tbdbrooklyn.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=87190853469

Next time you have family or friends come and visit, and your stuck for somewhere to take them, how about letting ‘Big Rick’ take care of them for about 3 hours. Big Rick’s family have lived here for over 100 years, so if there is anyone qualified enough to give a walking tour of Brooklyn, it would be Big Rick. Trust me, you are gonna love this guy!  He knows his stuff and he will have you smiling all the way.  Check out his website and give him a call. Heck, I live in Brooklyn, and I feel like going on one of his tours!!  www.BrooklynWalkingTour.com

 

Journey into the heart of BROWNSTONE BROOKLYN. Walk along Brooklyn’s 5TH AVENUE, where trendy boutiques line the street. Learn about the history of THE WILLIAMSBURG BANK, the borough’s tallest building. Visit THE OLD STONE HOUSE (pictured on this page), where George Washington’s troops battled the British in 1776. See America’s oldest piece of standing baseball memorabilia. Walk past the childhood home of AL CAPONE. See the beautiful architecture of the Raymond F. Almirall designed PUBLIC BATH NO. 7 where people bathed in the early 1900s. Visit the famous ARCH OF GRAND ARMY PLAZA. Enjoy beautiful PROSPECT PARK featuring the longest meadow of any park in AMERICA and over 200 documented species of birds! Also included with your tour is lunch at a real BROOKLYN PIZZERIA!

444 7th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

(718) 832-9800
Visit Website

Celebrate Brooklyn is one of New York City’s longest running, free, outdoor performing arts festivals.  The free events start June 8th and are set to run for 2 months in Brooklyn’s, Prospect Park.  Celebrate Brooklyn have presented over 1,700 artists and ensembles reflective of the borough’s diversity, ranging from internationally acclaimed performers to emerging, cutting-edge artists.

Kicking off this years line up of events is New York artist, David Byrne, with more great acts to follow from such artists as Dr. Dog, Escort, David Rudder, Blonde Redhead to name a few.

Below is  a list of all the events taking place at Prospect Parks Bandshell.  Celebrate Brooklyn does an amazing job of organizing these events, make sure you visit their website.  You can also help support the cause by signing up for one of their membership programs.

Monday June 8

5:30pm Opening Night Green Gala
David Byrne: Songs of David Byrne & Brian Eno

Gala tickets with reserved seats, cocktails, dinner & dancing: $325 and up. Call (718) 855-7882 x33

6:30pm Gates Open for Free Performance
8:00pm Performance: David Byrne, Songs of David Byrne & Brian Eno
Concert is Free
9:45pm Dance Party
Gala guests and Friends of Celebrate Brooklyn

Among iconic New York artists, DAVID BYRNE has few peers. In this concert he plays songs from his collaborations with Brian Eno, which began in the late 70s and span three Talking Heads albums, 1981’s groundbreaking My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and last year’s Everything that Happens will Happen Today. An ensemble cast including dancers, background vocalists, and a killer band amplify the spectacle—a legendary Brooklyn night in the making, sure to pass instantly into NYC folklore.

Thursday June 11

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm
Goran Bregović & His Weddings & Funerals Orchestra

Sarajevo-born GORAN BREGOVIC is a seminal figure in the Yugoslav rock world, a film composer who has been likened to Enio Moriconi and Nino Rota, and a co-conspirator with artists as varied as Iggy Pop and Cesaria Evora. With his own massive band, featuring brass, a classical string ensemble, an all-male choir, and traditional Bulgarian and Roma singers, he marries the dance music of a raucous gypsy wedding with Eastern European choral arrangements in “a mind-blowing return trip with no destination or port of arrival…a magnificent concert, one of the greatest marvels to be heard on stage today.” (La Vanguardia, Spain)

Friday June 19

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm
David Rudder | Samantha Thornhill

A performer of such innovation and vitality that Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner called him “the Bob Marley of soca,” DAVID RUDDER changed the face of Caribbean music with his heart pounding mix of classic calypso and soulful pop. Trinidadian born Brooklynite SAMANTHA THORNHILL, an author, educator, and slam poetess of the first order, will prime the crowd with some spoken word derring-do.

Saturday June 20

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm

Mexico Tourism Series
Music & Movies
La Nave De Los Monstruos With Live Score by Ethel and Gutbucket

“I wish there were more rock bands who played like ETHEL.” (Guardian UK) In a special Celebrate Brooklyn commission, the nation’s premier rock-infused, postclassical string quartet teams up with the artrock wild men of GUTBUCKET to perform a new original score to the vintage Mexican science fiction classic La Nave De Los Monstruos (The Monsters’ Ship, 1959). In the film, the last male on Venus has died and two Venusian hotties embark on a quest to find men on other planets. The two bands dig into this fertile ground after developing the project at a BRIClab residency this spring. GUTBUCKET performs an opening set. Friends of CB pre-performance reception sponsored by Aguayo & Hubner Fifth. See Friends panel for details.

Thursday June 25

Doors: 6:00pm | Show: 7:00pm
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force | Melvin Gibbs’ Elevated Entity

Having long established himself as the heir apparent to his famous father Fela’s superfunky Afrobeat throne, the unstoppable FEMI KUTI returns to the Bandshell to make all of Prospect Park into one giant Nigerian dance party. Brooklyn born MELVIN GIBBS, “the best bassist in the world,” (Time Out NY) starts the night off with his ELEVATED ENTITY project, something of a downtown NYC supergroup, which continues Gibbs’ exploration of African diaspora music with a fusion of Afro-Brazilian rhythms, funk and rap.

Friday June 26

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm

Mexico Tourism Series
Blonde Redhead

Vaunted NYC underground sensualists BLONDE REDHEAD have shape-shifted from dissonant noise explorations to ethereal, dreamy pop over the course of their career, always inspiring intense devotion from their fans. “It is as if they are pressing on piano keys and each key is a trigger that tugs a wire within the listener. There are keys for longing, possession, despair, and ecstasy—and Blonde Redhead travel fast and skillfully over the whole keyboard.” (PopMatters)

Saturday June 27

Doors: 6:00pm | Show: 7:00pm

Celebrate Brooklyn and LimeWire present
Dr. Dog | Phosphorescent | These United States

DR. DOG’s foot stomping, back porch blend of “a little folk, blues, indie rock, soul, bluegrass–and a whole lot of down-home harmonizing” (Philadelphia Weekly) channels The Band one moment, the Beach Boys another, and Pavement the next. In the music played by Brooklyn’s Matthew Houck, a.k.a. PHOSPHORESCENT, “you can hear Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Will Oldham—but the modern day folkie has a sound all his own.” (Gothamist) THESE UNITED STATES’ “distinct electro-folk sound” (NPR) rounds out the bill.

Thursday July 2

Doors: 6:00pm | Show: 7:00pm

Bud Light Latin Music Series
Obie Juan BermudÉZ | Cucu Diamantes | Rebel Diaz

The Latin Grammy-winning Puerto Rican pop star OBIE JUAN BERMUDÉZ, “a talent on par with Juanes or Alejandro Sanz,” (Houston Chronicle) pits his mojo against Yerba Buena singer CUCU DIAMANTES’ fiery mix of “salsa, funk, cumbia, hip-hop, pop-punk, mariachi, tango, disco and flamenco…just for starters,” (NY Times) and the political activist hip-hop of REBEL DIAZ, whose mesmerizing frontwoman Lah Tere unleashes rhymes with hurricane force.

Thursday July 9

Doors: 7:00pm | Show: 8:00pm

Dance
STREB: Invisible Forces

The breathtakingly acrobatic Williamsburg-based company celebrates 30 high flying years with Invisible Forces, which combines the thrills of the circus and the velocity of the Indy 500 in one crowd pleasing Action Event. STREB’s new Action Platform, a 20 ft. amped-up rotating floor, the Espana Whizzing Gizmo, and the 2 dimensional vertical pipe grid Airlines will dazzle and amaze. Beautiful bodies engaging sexy hardware in show stopping pieces will keep you on the edge of your seat, heart in throat. “Streb’s unique movement art—kin to sport, circus, physics experiment, and hard labor—has reached a peak of theatricality and dare-all virtuosity.” (Village Voice)

Friday July 10

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm

Bud Light Latin Music Series
Celebrate Brooklyn & LAMC present
Los Amigos Invisibles | Aterciopelados

A double shot of unfiltered South American pleasure in which the great Venezuelan party band LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES, a lusty outfit that combines a “love of disco and funk with their reverence for oldfashioned Latin dances like the mambo and bossa-nova,” (NY Post) locks horns with Columbian national heroes ATERCIOPELADOS. Proficient in everything from punk to electro-lounge to jangly Latin folk rock, the velvety ones (English translation, for all you gringos) have an uncanny ability “to take north-of-theborder musical styles…and breathe new life into them.” (Time)

Saturday July 11

Doors: 3:00pm | Show: 4:00pm

Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert
A Very Special Family Show With They Might Be Giants
Reader: Claudia Marshall of WFUV

Brooklyn’s own legendary alternative rockers THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS have made some astonishingly good kids’ albums, most recently the 2009 Best Children’s Album Grammy Winner Here Come the 123s, becoming in the process “the ultimate fan- and now family-friendly rock act.” (Billboard) They return to the Bandshell to headline our annual Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert, which also features readings of Keats’ classic stories by WFUV’s Claudia Marshall. Special appearance by Livable Streets Education’s big purple friend ZoZo!

Thursday July 16

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm

Mexico Tourism Series
Kronos Quartet | Luminescent Orchestrii

For more than 35 years KRONOS QUARTET has pushed, made fun of, made irrelevant, and pretty much pulverized the standard notion of the string quartet, assembling in the process “a body of work unparalleled in its range and scope of expression.” (NPR) Their repertoire runs the gamut from Bartók to Charles Mingus to Jimi Hendrix, and their collaborators have been as diverse as Philip Glass, Asha Bhosle, and Nine Inch Nails. They share the Bandshell stage with the frenzied and slightly diabolical LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII, a Gypsy punk string ensemble that “plays renditions of Appalachian and Gypsy tunes that run from lively and infectious to deeply melancholy.” (Time Out NY)

Friday July 17

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm

American Express Roots Music Series
The Robert Cray Band | the Sweet Divines

The five time Grammy-winning Stratocaster titan ROBERT CRAY’s “soul-infused blues has become the bridge between traditional and contemporary blues;” (Rolling Stone) he remains a strong persuader, as potent as ever after three decades of recording and touring. THE SWEET DIVINES, four young ladies with a smoking band behind them, pay homage to the traveling soul revues of the 60s with an authentic sound that evokes Stax, Aretha, James Brown, and funky New Orleans. “Sign them up, and let them bring the funk to the masses!” (BBC) Friends of CB pre-performance reception sponsored by Betancourt Realty & Associates. See Friends panel for details.

Saturday July 18

Doors: 1:00pm | Show: 2:00pm – 9:00pm

American Express Roots Music Series
African Festival With King Sunny Adé | Freshly Ground | The Mandingo Ambassadors | Cheikh M’Baye & Sing Sing | Abena Koomson | Yasser Darwish

Our annual day-long festival of music, food and crafts features a lineup of bands that will keep the dancers moving from day till night, with the great KING SUNNY ADÉ of Nigeria leading the charge. The bill includes South Africa’s FRESHLY GROUND, making a rare US appearance to whip the revelers into a frenzy with its mix of indigenous African sounds and contemporary urban styles; THE MANDINGO AMBASSADORS, from NYC by way of Guinea, whose music “has been structured to make you feel good” (NY Times); wild Senegalese drum troupe CHEIKH M’BAYE & SING SING; powerful Brooklyn born Ghanaian vocalist ABENA KOOMSON; and whirling traditional Egyptian dancer YASSER DARWISH.

Thursday July 23

Doors: 7:00pm | Show: 8:00pm

Dance
Stephen Petronio Company

“One of the few contemporary dancer makers who have created an instantly recognizable style,” (NY Times) STEPHEN PETRONIO celebrates his company’s 25th Anniversary Season with the dynamic and elemental I Drink the Air Before Me, an evening length work inspired by the power of extreme weather and storms both atmospheric and internal. Petronio’s predeliction for forward thinking popular music (his dancers have moved to Rufus Wainwright and Antony in the past) is satisfied here by a score from new classical composer and crossover sensation Nico Muhly.

Friday July 24

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm

American Express Roots Music Series
Buckwheat Zydeco | the Holmes Brothers

Swamp boogie accordion master BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO and his band “spit out the kind of crackling music that’s been missing since the heyday of Stax Records…on stage the attack is relentless.” (Wall Street Journal) THE HOLMES BROTHERS harmony-filled blend of American roots jumps from church to the juke joint and “recalls the era when soul seceded from gospel music,” (Mother Jones) with a healthy dose of blues, funk and country thrown in. Friends of CB pre-performance reception sponsored by Warren Lewis Realty Associates. See Friends panel for details.

Saturday July 25

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm
Kailash Kher | Electro Morocco

The South Asian superstar, Bollywood icon, and judge of Indian Idol KAILASH KHER moves “among styles without hesitation, adding elements of folk, reggae and rock to Indian pop…(he) has a voice as appealing as it is thrilling.” (Wall Street Journal) Comprised of five NYC-based Israelis, ELECTRO MOROCCO combines buzzing guitars with synths and beats to concoct a dance floor friendly mix of retro rock, Middle Eastern folk, and warped electro.

Thursday July 30

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm
Burning Spear | Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens

Roots reggae legend BURNING SPEAR brings his Rastafarian message of positivity back to the Bandshell for another epic performance. Last year’s vital Jah Is Real featured contributions from Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrel; Spear has never sounded better. “Four decades and still dropping knowledge: no other artist, with the possible exception of Toots Hibbert, can lay claim to being reggae’s true elder statesman.” (PopMatters) The evening begins with the righteous harmonies and church-inflected soul of NAOMI SHELTON & THE GOSPEL QUEENS.

Friday July 31

Doors: 6:00pm | Show: 7:00pm
The Royal Family: Soulive’S 10Th Anniversary Celebration With Special Guests John Scofield and Christian Scott | Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunk

The exceptional jazz-funk trio SOULIVE celebrates 10 years of “simmering instrumental funk” (Entertainment Weekly) by busting out THE ROYAL FAMILY, a hard hitting conglomeration of various side projects and special guests that will come together for the jam of the summer. Ivan Neville’s DUMPSTAPHUNK, “musically hard-nosed and rooted in 1970s inner city funk,” (Offbeat)” kicks off the show with a set of New Orleans’ nastiest grooves.

Saturday August 1

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm

Music & Movies
Mexico Tourism Series
Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests | Crystal Stilts

Luna alumni DEAN & BRITTA perform original scores to Warhol’s rarely seen short silent film portraits, which captured Factory superstars, celebrities, and anonymous teenagers in mesmerizing 4-minute shots. “The music unabashedly translates the ominous drone of early Velvet Underground songs like I’m Waiting for the Man and Venus in Furs into a more modern electronic mode reminiscent of Giorgio Moroder’s chic torture-chamber disco.” (NY Times) Commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum, the project is like an archeological dig unearthing NYC’s 1960s art scene, complete with soundtrack. Brooklyn’s CRYSTAL STILTS, “moody-sounding f***ers who make fabulous stripped-down garage-pop,” (Pitchfork) will set the tone for the night.

Thursday August 6

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm

Music & Movies
Purple Rain Sing-A-Long With Escort

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of history’s greatest pop albums, and the extravagantly, hilariously whacky and over the top film it inspired (the apotheosis of both the purple one’s genius and self caricature), we invite you to don something lacey and ruffled and come get your Prince on. We’ll have lyric subtitles, but you know the words already. Brooklyn’s own live disco orchestra ESCORT plays an opening set, and will lead the sing-along festivities. Rated R. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or guardian.

Friday August 7

Doors: 6:00pm | Show: 7:00pm
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals | Deer Tick | The London Souls

Fronted by the Joplin-like vocals and driving Hammond B-3 of their fearless frontwoman, GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS play “blues-based rock with glorious passion.” Hard to categorize—folk? indie rock? alt-country? Americana?—but easy to love, DEER TICK “write and play some of the most soulful, inspired music around, littered with lyrics as sharp as a shot of whiskey and rapid-fire guitar solos strong enough to blow the dust off your boots.” (Brooklyn Vegan)

Saturday August 8

Doors: 6:00pm | Show: 7:00pm

Celebrate Brooklyn & Lyricist Lounge present
Big Daddy Kane | Plus Screening of BDK: the Big Daddy Kane Story | Others TBA

The Lyricist Lounge returns with a once in a lifetime night of positive hip-hop featuring Brooklyn legend BIG DADDY KANE performing with his live band, preceded by a screening of the short documentary BDK: THE BIG DADDY KANE STORY, directed by Lyricist Lounge’s own Anthony Marshall. Other special guest performers TBA!
Benefit Concerts

Proceeds help support free shows at Celebrate Brooklyn!

July 1: MGMT (Sold out)
July 21: Jackson Browne
Aug 11: TV on the Radio
Aug 12: Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal
Aug 14 (Sold out) & 15: Animal Collective