So much to do, so little time. That’s why I scour the listings to find the best and the brightest things to do every weekend for readers of OTBKB. This weekend I plan to catch Brooklyn Omnibus at BAM and maybe see Howl at Brooklyn Heights Cinema (see below).
Movies
This weekend at BAM: Hereafter, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, The Social Network
This weekend at Brooklyn Heights Cinema: Howl, The Town and Wall Street Money Never Sleeps
Theater
This weekend at BAM: Brooklyn Omnibus by Stew, the Tony Award-winning creator and star of Broadway’s Passing Strange, joins his band The Negro Problem and co-creator Heidi Rodewald for an irreverent, genre-bending song cycle that considers what it means to call Brooklyn home.
This weekend at St. Ann’s Warehouse: Druid Penelope by Edna Walsh: “Based on the final chapter of Homer’s The Odyssey, Penelope is the newest play from Ireland’s Druid Theatre Company, written by 2010 OBIE winner Enda Walsh. This American Premiere marks St. Ann’s third collaboration with Druid and Enda Walsh, following the critical and popular productions of The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom at St. Ann’s Warehouse.”
Music
Friday, October 22 at 8PM at Zora Space: “Prolific. Prodigal. Profound: Jay Rodriguez. Sometimes the sound is explosive, wild and full of fury, other times his music aches with a passion that’s painful and bare. Always modest and reverent, Rodriguez harnesses the unbridled audacity of youth and melds it with the uncanny discipline of a hardened New York jazz veteran.”
Friday October 22 at 10PM at Barbes: The Moonlighters, gorgeous vocal harmonies interwoven with guitar and ukulele, the Moonlighters are as comfortable with classic Hawaiian melodies as they are innovative with their original songwriting.
Saturday, October 23 at 8PM at Barbes: Andy Statman truly extraordinary klezmer artist.
Saturday, October 23 at 9PM at the Jewish Music Cafe: Rav Schlomo Carlebach’s 16th Yartzheit with Soulfarm’s C Lanzbom and Noah Solomon.
Saturday, October 23 at 9-11 PM at Zora Space: “Guitarist Oscar Peñas epitomizes a new wave of emerging artists who are an integral part of New York’s flourish “unofficial” music scene.”
Sunday, October 24 at 8PM at Sycamore: Underground Works is a new jazz series curated by the members of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground and Connection Works. “The focus of the series is to create a greater awareness of the depth of creativity in composition and improvisation that exists in Brooklyn and extends beyond the scope of any one organization.”
Literary
Saturday, October 23 at 7PM at the Park Slope United Methodist Church: Brooklyn Poets Against the War with Sapphire, author of the novel Push (Random House, 1996) which was made into the Oscar-winning movie Precious, Tina Chang, poet laureate of Brooklyn, Donald Lev and Dayl Wise
Steampunk Shopping
On October 24 Brooklyn Indie Market presents the third annual Steampunk Day at the Dumbo Loft (155 Water Street, Dumbo) from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Steampunk Shopping and Fashion Show at 4 p.m. $20 Victorian/Steampunk portrait sitting with vintage camera by Tsirkus Fotografika $5 entry. Take the F train to York Street Station and travel to a re-envisioned Victorian age that features retrofuturistic fashion, brass and copper clockwork, ray guns, jetpacks, bustles and inventions that go far beyond 19th century technology. Think steam-powered mechanical wonders, brass-fitted computers, dirigibles, goggles, airships, and clockwork inspired accoutrements.