Look, it’s a weekend on a woodpecker.
Your Perks: 1) Some of Banksy’s best work from his NYC residency is now ready for your walls. 2) A paper-thin portable battery charger. These should be mandatory. 3) A guitar signed by Eric Clapton or Van Halen or the Boss or... someone else equally legendary.
Important Downtown dinner update: Preux & Proper is now offering you po’boys filled with foie gras.
Because they can.
Pliny the Younger and seven other Russian River Brewing beers are on tap at Surly Goat tonight at 6pm. Doors open early if you’ve got a beer passport from the bar, and earlier if you have a beer passport with lots of beer stamps. If you don’t have a beer passport, now’s a good time to question your life choices.
Friday: You could swing by Ice Cream Lab’s new Little Tokyo digs for a scoop of
nitro-horchata.
Saturday: Hey, great ice cream weather. You could drop by the opening of Cream for an ice
cream sandwich on the house. Unless you’re prone to “couldn’t possibly”–ing gratis ice cream
sandwiches.
People dipped in honey. It’s art and it’s... strangely mesmerizing. Bring a date and see for yourself at the opening of this photo show on Saturday at Kopeikin Gallery. Honey-dipped-people art is a solid date barometer.
Starting Sunday, the ArcLight will screen movies from Slamdance, followed by filmmaker and actor Q&As. Sounds important. Oh, and the first movie is a documentary on the life of wrestler Jake “The Snake” Roberts. Definitely important.
