Friday July 27

Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Music: A Place To Bury Strangers
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Music Hall of Williamsburg
Food: Fornino
Bar: D.O.C. Wine Bar
Miscellaneous: Verb Café

New York noise rock act A Place To Bury Strangers bring a blend of space rock, psych rock and shoegaze to the stage. Also on board are Cymbals Eat Guitars and Hunters. What also rocks is finding a decent pizza! Fornino offers just that, wrapped up in an original concept. Serving wood oven burning pizza, the menu is broken up into three generations, the first being your basic pizza ingredients while the second and third go off the gourmet deep end, giving you more than 20 options total. For drinks, the D.O.C. Wine Bar has a homey atmosphere and an excellent wine list of strictly Italian wines and small plates of food. If coffee is your thing, The Verb Café offers not only coffee but sandwiches, desserts, and soup. Chill at a table and write that novel, look for jobs online, or hang with a friend like everyone else there.

Friday July 27

Location: Lower East Side, NYC
Music: King Khan & The Shrines
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Bowery Ballroom
Food: Social
Drink: 151
Miscellaneous: Bereket

King Khan & The Shrines make dirty dirty garage rock. With wild stage antics and a full band, they are reminiscent of old 60s soul with punk influences. Also playing is Hector’s Pets. Where to go afterwards? Go straight to the bar, and that bar would be 151, where happy hour is 7 days a week from 6pm till 10pm and includes 2 for 1 drinks. For those that don’t want a liquid dinner first, check Social for comfort food including the Mac and Cheese (Macaroni covered in Three Cheese Truffled Mornay Sauce and topped w/Seasoned Bread Crumbs). For a late night eat, a favorite spot of mine is Bereket for falafels and to watch drunks succeed at spilling their food all over themselves and failing at picking up chicks. Not for the faint of heart!

Saturday July 28

Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Music: Caveman
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Brooklyn Bowl
Food: Blue Ribbon
Drink: Brooklyn Bowl
Miscellaneous: Bowling at Brooklyn Bowl

Caveman make an awesome combination of chamber pop, dreamscape, and horror film score with spaced out guitars, synths, and four part harmonies. For dinner, check out Blue Ribbon, part of the highly rated eateries in the city, you’ll find southern fare including fried chicken and BBQ, some crazy shakes & floats, and more. For drinks, just walk about 20 feet to the bar where they offer nine draft beers from Brooklyn. Finally, and most obvious, there’s 16 lanes of bowling. While the wait is generally long, where else can you throw a strike and see a great band at the same time?

Saturday July 28

Location: Bushwick, Brooklyn
Event: The Total Bushwick Immersion
Show time: Noon – 4 PM
Venue: Bushwick Starr
Food: Northeast Kingdom
Drink: Life Café Nine 83
Miscellaneous: Stain

Join Brooklyn Brewery and Brooklyn Based in Bushwick for The Total Bushwick Immersion. These seasonal Immersions bring folks into communities in Brooklyn and introduce them to the finest pubs, dives and restaurants in those areas. The Bushwick Immersion will feature stops at Bushwick Tradesman, Pine Box Rock Shop and Miles, as well as other soon-to-be-announced spots. All will be pouring complimentary half-pints of Brooklyn Brewery beer for Immersion card holders from noon to 4pm. Northeast Kingdom, Brooklyn Fireproof and The Anchored Inn will all have complimentary pours along with brunch specials. For food in this neighborhood, Northeast Kingdom is where you want to go. With a seasonal menu of American cuisine with a culinary twist, like the Beef Bourguignon with herbed dumplings ($17), this place offers a relaxing atmosphere for an artist heavy crowd. For drinks, check out Life Café Nine 83. While it’s THE same Life Café that the RENT musical features in the play, it’s not the same location. This new Bushwick locale also possesses a boho vibe, an Americanized menu of ethnic food, and a fun selection of mixed drinks including martini’s and lemonade cocktails. A HUGE space decked out in old couches, Stain is an artsy bar that looks like an old-school coffeehouse yet serves local wines and beers.

Sunday July 29

Location: Midtown West, NYC
Theater: Potted Potter
Show time: 8 PM; Through August 12
Venue: Delacorte Theater
Food: Little Shubert Theare
Drink: Café des Artistes
Miscellaneous: Magnolia Bakery

The Olivier Award nominated Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by Dan and Jeff takes on the ultimate challenge of condensing all seven Harry Potter books (and a real life game of Quidditch) into seventy hilarious minutes. Fondue lovers, Swizz Restaurant & Wine Bar is the place to go and the menu is just as extensive as its wine. It’s romantic and cheesy. Get it! Café des Artistes is one of those old historic bars that’s as New York as it gets. This bar/restaurant was the meeting place of artists going all the way back to 1917. Today, it serves up new American dishes and cocktails to those in the know. To soothe your sweet tooth, check the uptown location of Magnolia Bakery and sink your teeth into one of the city’s best cupcakes.