Going on (September 14-27).
Friday, September 14
Leonard Lopate Show: On Brooklyn and How the Mind Works, WNYC 93.9 FM
From noon to 2pm
Free
Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy
Through Sept 23
Free
Saturday, September 15 (and Sun 16)
Apple Picking at Prospect Park’s Lefferts Historic House
From 1 to 4pm
Free
Sunday, September 16
Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn Borough Hall & Plaza
From 10am to 6pm
Free
Monday, September 17
Derek Walcott and Ishmael Beah at the 92nd Street Y
From 8pm
$18 for Walcott, $26 for Beah
Tuesday, September 18
Naomi Klein reads from The Shock Doctrine at Barnes & Noble, Sixth Ave. btw 21st and 22nd Sts.
From 7pm
Free
Listen: Thurston Moore’s Trees Outside the Academy; Eddie Vedder’s Into the Wild soundtrack
Thursday, September 20
Cinderella Samba on Myrtle Avenue Meadow at Fort Greene Park
From 10am
Free
The Brooklynites reception at powerHouse Arena in DUMBO
From 6 to 9pm
Free
Margaret Garner at the New York City Opera
From 8pm (Sat 22nd 1:30pm, Wed 26th 7:30pm, Sat 29th 8pm)
Tickets $16-$130
Saturday, September 22
Hawk Weekend at Prospect Park’s Audubon Center
From noon to 5pm (also Sun 23)
Free
New York-Tokyo Music Festival feat. MF Doom and Teriyaki Boyz at Central Park
From 2pm
Tickets $22-$25
Sunday, September 23
Design for the Other 90% closes at the Cooper-Hewitt
From noon to 6pm
Admission $12
Tuesday, September 25
House, M.D. season premiere
9-10pm
Listen: Foo Fighters‘ Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace; Chaka Khan’s Funk This; Habib Koite’s Afriki; Meshell Ndegeocello’s The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams; Jill Scott’s The Real Thing (bring it this time, Jill!)
*Make a note of it now:
Friday, September 28
See: Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited; Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution