It’s Saturday and the Slope is a-hopping with activity. Lots of peeps on the street shopping and walking around. People are mulching trees, eating brunch, walking dogs, socializing.

First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum is TONIGHT and there are movies to see (my sis saw True Grit yesterday and URGES me to see it. Pronto. Others swear by The Fighter. Still others (the Henry’s of the world) are WILD ABOUT Black Swan.

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Movies

At BAM this weekend:The King’s Speech, Black Swan, True Grit, The Fighter

Met Opera LIVE Screening at BAM on Saturday 1/8: In Puccini’s Wild West opera Deborah Voigt (“a soprano of penetrating power and clarity” (The New York Times) sings the title role of the “girl of the golden west,” opposite Marcello Giordani. A love triangle that takes place during the California Gold Rush.

At the Pavilion this weekend: The Fighter, The Tourist, True Grit, Black Swan, Tangled, Tron, Little Fockers, Yogi Bear, Season of the Witch.

Music

Saturday, January 8 at 8:15 at Jewish Music Cafe: Brezlov Bar Band, The d’Safi Takht Ensemble

Here’s what  Now I’ve Heard Everything recommends this weekend!

Sunday, January 9 at 3PM at The Rock Shop: Care Bears on Fire, NowwhereNaughts (All ages)

On Sunday, January 9th at 2PM at PS 321: the Neighborhood Classics Series at PS 321 presents Bridget Kibbey, the award-winning harpist, who  will perform an international program that includes Benjamin Briten’s “Suite for Harp,” Andre Caplet’s “A L’espanol,” Kati Agocs’s “Every Lover is a Warrior,” and an arrangement of Celtic reels.

It’s a win-win for music lovers and parents, teachers and students at PS 321, who benefit from the proceeds of the concert series.

Theater

Through January 30th at St. Ann’s Warehouse: A British Stand up comedian and storyteller, Daniel Kitson, brings the story of Gregory Church, a story of a death postponed by life, to St. Ann’s Warehouse for its American Premiere.

Through February 6 at BAM: John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen. Greed is good, according to Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman—until it sends him to prison for embezzlement and leaves him ruined, disgraced, and desperate for a comeback. Three outstanding actors—Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman, and Fiona Shaw—join an ensemble from Ireland’s acclaimed Abbey Theatre to tell this timely tale of one man’s undoing in the wake of relentless deception and fraud.

First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum

First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum 5PM until 11PM: This month’s theme “Framing Our History: with the Fat Cat Big Band, The Great Debaters with Denzel Washington, Kalia Brooks on Lorna Simpson, artist talks, a dance party and hands on art.

Mulch, Mulch, Mulch

January 8th and 9th in a NYC park near you: Join the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. You can also take home your very own bag of mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree.