At our Cinco De Mayo celebration this Saturday, not only will you enjoy awesome music, delicious tacos & margaritas and have a chance to win great prizes from: Five Leaves, Nights & Weekends, Paulie Gee, McCarren Bark, Freckle, Kill Devil Hill, Anella, Vintage Modern & Cato’s Army Navy, you will also get to pose in front of an infamous Greenpoint attraction, the digester eggs also know as the “shit tits”!
I think they call this the opportunity of a lifetime!
On Saturday TBD hosted the First Annual Brooklyn Mustard Festival. It was the perfect day to sit in the sunny yard and eat mustard covered Sigmund’s pretzels.
Mustard is one of those things I hated growing up and only recently acquired a taste for. Unless it’s a giant slab of kielbasa, I never find myself asking for anyone to pass the mustard. That all changed this weekend.
There was a line-up of mustard geniuses but one mustard stood out among the rest: My Friend’s Mustard. I find myself waking up in the middle of the night looking for anything to dip into “my tub” (not “my boyfriend’s” tub or “our” tub) – “my tub!” of “whole grain beer mustard from Brooklyn.”
It’s not yellow runny mustard or fancy french dijon. It isn’t the means to just spicing up your hot dog. My Friend’s Mustard is an end in itself. A spicy and sweet mustard with an addictive creamy nutty texture and that invigorating wasabe effect on your senses. I am hooked and taking every chance I get to slather it on everything!
Get ‘em while they last! Brooklyn Standard, Eastern District & Brouwerij Lane will only be carrying the mustard until their inventories runs out (meaning until I buy it all), then you can buy it directly from their website.
Singles Social Sports has both Thursday Night Kickball and Saturday Softball leagues at McCarren Park starting in early May.
Teams are 1/2 guys, 1/2 girls. Register now!
**Registration closes on Friday April 27th**
Spots still available for Girls in Softball and Guys in Kickball.
** Use the code “greenpointers” and get $30 off league fees!!! **
Each team gets two beer pitchers from 4th Down Brooklyn after the games!!!
“Social Sports Leagues Perfected”
With the desire to provide more unique, personal rec league experiences that focus on meeting new people as much as the sports themselves, S3 Leagues came to New York in Summer ’10 and has already seen over 1,600 players.
While of course winning is always ohhh so sweet, we definitely have as much fun at our post-game bars as at the games themselves. We’re more about simply having a good time than practicing to go pro.
So if you’re looking for a unique social league, where it’s ridiculously easy to make friends, have fun being active and also like the idea of playing on a team with others your age from your neighborhood, S3 has got cha covered.
Sponsored post courtesy of Singles Social Sports
Check out more events on the calendar. You can submit events to it, too!
WEDNESDAY 4/25
• Poker Unleashed Fundraiser @ TBD (224 Franklin St) 7:30pm, $100 to play, free to attend, benefits Dog Habitat Rescue
• Dinner with Eloisa James @ Le Gamin (108 Franklin St.) 7-8:30pm, $45, a special dinner and book talk. James will be introducing her memoir, Paris In Love, includes light dinner, drinks, and a copy of the new book.
♫ Party Time Excellent – Female DJs Only @ Trophy Bar (351 Broadway) 9:30pm, eSteady, Jenny Mörtsell & April Koester aka Luxxe Life celebrate the power of female spinning vinyl.
♫ The Bones of J.R. Jones & LadyBird @ Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St) 10pm, stomp blues & folk
THURSDAY 4/26
♦ The 22 Magazine Presents: Fixins @ Vaudeville Park (26 Bushwick Ave), 6pm, FREE, an evening of music, art, food, and puppetry with Andru Bemis, Anna Gevalt, Elizabeth Laprelle, and Katherine Fahey
♫ BIG EYES/DEAD DOG/MBATN/UNFUN/NUCLEAR SANTA CLAUST @ Death By Audio (49 S. 2nd St) 8pm, $8, All Ages
• Late Night Library Annual Party @ South 4th Bar (90 South 4th St.) 10pm-1am, Free, Late Night Library has invited Brooklyn- and Portland-based writers who have recently published debut novels or poetry collections to read in our home cities. Similar to last year’s Skyped reading, attendees in Brooklyn will be able see and listen to Portland readers in real time and vice versa, More info
FRIDAY 4/27
• Automotive High School Class of 2012 Rising Phoenix Scholarship VIP Event @ Red Star Bar (37 Greenpoint Ave) 5-10pm, Support a scholarship created by Automotive High School to support their top seniors! $15 – Free drinks
• Gypsé Eyes Magazine The Food & Drink Issue Launch Party @ Domestic Construction (218 India St) 6-10pm, cocktails, beer and hor d’oeuvres plus awesome music, More info
♦ A Mouth that Might Sing @ Pierogi (177 North 9th) 7-9pm, artwork by Ryan Mrozowski
• Mexico Judio @ Greenpoint Shul (104 Noble St) 7:30pm-9:30pm, $20, a pre-Cinco de Mayo celebration featuring cocktails, a Mexican dairy dinner and talk by Mexican-Jewish scholar Dr. Adina Cimet, More info
• goodgala @ goodyoga (73 Calyer St) 9pm, $25, food and beverage (+ beer & wine), live music, DJ sets, dancing, raffle prizes, auction. Proceeds go to fund to buy the building, More info
SATURDAY 4/28
• Obscura Day: 13 Steps Around Dutch Kills @ Albert E. Short Triangle Park (Corner of Jackson Ave and 23rd St, LIC) 10am-2pm, Join Newtown Creek Alliance Historian Mitch Waxman for an intense exploration of Newtown Creek’s Dutch Kills tributary, BUY TIX
• Flea Market @ Dupont Street Senior Housing Parking Lot (Eagle betw. Franklin & Manhattan) 10am-5pm, All kinds of “treasures” will be for sale: clothes, books, dishes, pots, other, etc. Rain or Shine.
• First Annual Brooklyn Mustard Festival @ TBD (224 Franklin St) 12-5pm, FREE, a celebration of the world’s most popular condiment, Meat Hook, sausages and Sigmund’s soft pretzels, More info
♦ Equality Now @ YES Gallery (147 India St.) 4-10pm, a benefit and exhibition featuring works by Lara Pacilio, curated by Lesley Doukhowetzky, art sales and donations will go towards achieving legal and systemic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world, More info
♦ Freehand Jobs @ Pandemic Gallery (37 Broadway) 7-11pm, like minded artists transform the gallery into a small town. Building with found and refuse materials, this group will work together to recreate different panoramas of a small, hand-made village. The show will emphasize the simple use of basic materials, hand-drawn signage, and original artwork, More info
♫ Alston DJs @ No Name Bar (597 Manhattan Ave) 10pm, 50s, 60s, 70, soul, funk, garage, old rock
SUNDAY 4/29
• Craft Pop-Up Shop @ SEW Moni (330 So. 3rd St) 11am-5pm, FREE, showcasing all things handmade from clothing to fashion accessories, décor items, stationary and more, More info
♫ METALOCALYPSE Season 4 Premiere Party @ Saint Vutus Bar (1120 Manhattan Ave) 8-10pm, More info
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
♥ Pheremones Likely
♦ Art Event
First, thanks for making Greenpoint awesome! Adopting this website has been one of the most fulfilling and demanding projects ever. And we did it! The new website is up and it’s pretty sweet and all I want to do is have a night of fun and celebration with everyone! Come eat tacos, meet the contributors, get your photo taken in the special “green screen” Greenpoint attractions photo booth, drink Mexican beer, win prizes and enjoy the music brought to you by the one and only Cowboy Mark!
Cinco De Mayo Launch Party
May 5, 2012 @ 9pm
Greenpoint Heights
278 Nassau Ave
If you love the new website and want to chip in for the new website fund, a donation in any amount is greatly appreciated! Any donation over $10 is automatically entered to win a prize during the launch party – and you don’t have to be there to win – but you should!
Either way – just come – hang – and have a great night!
(Yes, that is a skeleton riding the exhaust of a spaceship.)
Tuesday, April 24th join us at One Stop Beer Shop in welcoming Spring with our Spring Suds!
Try our 12 new Spring beers on tap consisting of:
Victory Whirlwind
Blue Point Spring Fling
Otter Creek Spring Ale (Kolsch)
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA
North Coast’s Brother Thelonious
Abita Golden Lager
Greenport Harbor Spring Turning Rye Saison
Pretty Things Jack D’ior
Ebel’s Weiss from Two Brothers
Naragansett Summer Ale
Troegs Nugget Nectar
And Beer Cocktails to match!
2 Hour Drink passes are the perfect way to sample all of the season best brews.
$20 Drink Passes
Or try our Spring Beer Flights ($14) – 8 large samples to discover your taste buds favorites.
This event will go till we are out of beer! So come in have a few beers and enjoy Spring!
One Stop Beer Shop
134 Kingsland Ave
Sponsored post courtesy of One Stop Beer Shop.
Heading over the Williamsburg Bridge, have you noticed the colorful oval tiles, an art installation that covers the rafters on your way down towards Manhattan? It is one of my favorite pieces of public art, not only because of how happy it makes me as I whiz down, but because of the intrigue the work inspires and how bold the artist is, not only in his color choice, but it makes you wonder, “how the hell did he do that?”
When I walked by Black and White Gallery on Driggs this past week, I spotted those eye catching ovals. Was he so audacious as to tape them to the outside of a gallery?
Of course I barged in and met Peter Brock, who was installing his first solo exhibition in the space.
The Most Exciting Part About An Old Brick opens tonight, Friday April 20th from 6-9pm, and he is giving out presents!
WEDNESDAY 4/18
* Greenpointers Comedy Night To Benefit Dog Habitat Rescue @ Saint Vitus (1120 Manhattan Ave) 8-9:pm, $5, RSVP
THURSDAY 4/19
• Williamsburg and Greenpoint say NO to segregated schools @ Juan Morel Campos (215 Heyward St), 6-8pm, Community Education Council for District 14 Hearing on “Citizens of the World Charter Schools, RVSP
• Earth Night @ The Yard (33 Nassau Ave) 7-9pm, a night of networking with eco-friendly businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals, green cocktails, sample great products, presented by SM&KK Studios, ImpactDash & Sprout Skincare
♫ The Agent Cooper Special @ Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St) 8:30-10pm, April 19th is the birthday of Special Agent Dale Cooper. Last seen in Twin Peaks, Cooper has been lost and very much missed for what seems like an eternity … As both an offering to Cooper, and a humble attempt to honor him on the day he was born (he would be 53), celebrate with an evening of sounds, images, words and tastes, music by Silent Drape Runners, readings by Ben Fama, and special pie by Michelle Levy
FRIDAY 4/20
♦ The Most Exciting Part of An Old Brick @ Black and White Gallery (483 Driggs Ave.) 6-9pm, Exhibition of artwork by Peter Brock, curated by Sasha Okshteyn
♫ UV Pop/Lost Tribe/Plastic Flowers (DJ Set) @ Saint Vitus (1120 Manhattan Ave) 11:30pm, $8, BUY TIX
♥ A Brawl of Loft-y Proportions @ 70 N. 6th St, 9pm-3am, Ladies Arm Wrestling is throwing a loft party, All proceeds will be going to to Callen Lorde’s Health Outreach To Teens (HOTT), a welcoming, non-judgmental, confidential program designed specifically to meet the medical and mental health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning adolescents and young adults ages 13-24, as well as homeless youth, runaways, sex workers, squatters, and other street-oriented youth, RSVP
♫ Greenpoint Pines with PSI @ Europa (98 Meserole Ave.) 10-4pm, FREE, In 1978 the United States declared 1.1 million of the Pine Barrens the nation’s first National Reserve. At the turn of the millennium a group of friends from Philadelphia and Brooklyn found refuge for their underground psychedelic music off the grid in the deep forests of the Pine Barrens, RSVP
SATURDAY 4/21
♥ Singles Social Sports Charity Kickball Tournament @ McCarren Park, 11-8pm, anyone (single or not) 22-42 can play, $35, includes team t-shirt, BBQ @ The Gibson & free drinks ALL DAY, all proceeds will be donated to Harlem RBI, an organization that supports inner-city youth, More info
♦ Exquisite Show @ Fowler Arts Collective (67 West Street #216) 6-10pm, an exhibition that is the result of blind collaboration between 4 BK artists: Elana Adler, Miles Debas, Dave Singley, and Stephanie Terao
♫ Terry Maltz/The Susans/Mainland @ Glasslands (289 Kent Ave) 8:30pm, $10 BUY TIX
SUNDAY 4/22
• DIY Workshop: Growing Mushrooms @ Hayseed’s Big City Farm Supply (218 India St) 10am-12pm, $40, students will learn how to grow Oyster mushrooms in coffee grounds, a free and abundant substrate and also get to make a miniature Shiitake mushroom log to take home, BUY TIX
* Clean Up Walk at Newtown Creek Nature Center (Paidge & Provost St) 12-2pm, Free, GBA sponsored walk, clean-up & planting, refreshments and frisbees for kids
♫ Brooklyn Record Riot @ Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave) 12-7pm, $3, 55 dealer tables! Live DJ’s, Polish specialties, More info
• Miracles Vintage Pop-Up Shop @ The Parlour Brooklyn (72 Greenpoint Ave) 12-8pm, free mimosas, spring vintage for women & men
MONDAY 4/23
* Rice Ball Class with Jen @ Paulie Gee’s (60 Greenpoint Ave) 7pm, $35, learn how to roll and fry rice balls, a traditional Sicilian dish, then eat them all with friends! ** VEGETARIAN FRIENDLY ** Wine included, sign-up in advance, More info
TUESDAY 4/24
• Masters of Social Gastronomy: Fake Meat @ Public Assembly (70 North 6th St) 7-10pm, FREE, Sarah Lohman will give you a run-down of vegetarianism in the west, while Soma takes charge of all your favorite modern imitation meats, samples of historic fake meats, drink specials, RSVP
* State of the Loft Law Panel Discussion @ Our Lady of Pompeii (225 Seigel St, Bushwick) 7-10pm, Assemblyman Vito Lopez & Councilmember Stephen Levin in a panel discussion with NYC DOB, the NYC Loft Board, and CM Erik Dilan about the current state of the Loft Law, RSVP
• Springs Suds @ One Stop Beer Shop (134 Kingsland Ave) 12 new Spring beers on tap, beer cocktails, $20 2-hour drink pass, $14 8 Spring Beer Flights, till the beer runs out!
* Greenpointers’ Pick
♫ Music
♥ Pheremones Likely
♦ Art Event
I am a supper club sucker! When I heard Table No. 1 would debut in the basement of my favorite bar, The Diamond, I RSVP’d right away. The menu was a mystery. The only information revealed was that each course would be paired with beer selected by Dave. Sold.
After the experience, I would term Table No. 1 a “pop-up restaurant” rather than a “supper club,” which is usually hosted in a home with mismatched plates and chairs, the food prepared by amateur chefs so the whole vibe is very casual, family style and home-cooked.
When we arrived our hostess Judy, of the Brown & Jackson Design Consultancy, greeted us with a clipboard and led us downstairs to our assigned seats at a long formal table in the basement transformed into a chic private dining room, surrounded by dark curtains highlighting the tablescape, which looked like it was right out of a home design magazine.
Greenpointers loves furry critters and hopes the website serves to both reunite lost pets with their owners and helps stray animals find loving homes. In support of this cause, we organized a hilarious Comedy Night at Saint Vitus on Wednesday 4/18/12 at 8pm. For $5 come and laugh your butts off. We are donating all the proceeds to our favorite animals rescue, Dog Habitat Rescue. We want this to be a big night so we can raise a lot of funding for animals in need, so come out, bring your friends and please help spread the word!
Comedians:
Tom Cowell
Mike Lawrence
Christine Meehan
Adam Conover
Tim Dillon
