Team Members Needed!!!

*I need 3 other team members for

Board Game Olympics @ Union Hall!*

Monday, July 27th

7-11 PM

"Because playing is better than working, Metro Metro offers a night of classic board games in a competitive arena. Teams of four will compete round robin-style in a variety of games like: Trivial Pursuit, Jenga, Connect Four, Operation and more. The winningest team brings home the gold"...

It's $30 for a team of 4 -- that's only $7.50 for a night of fierce competition.

I know you're all as equally nerdy as I am, so let's do this!

*** UPDATE: Our team has been formed!!! Wish me, Avery Block, Jess Schary, and Lauren Bellhouse best of luck on our Board Game skills!! ***

Music, Dodgeball, & BBQ on Sunday!

The Pool Parties are back!!!

R.I.P. McCarren Pool...

(though who really wants to party around dead bodies anyways?)

This summer's parties have moved to the Williamsburg Waterfront.

Despite the change in locale, there will still be:

1. Dodgeball
2. Beer
3. Kiddie pools
4. B-B-Q
5. Music
6. Enough ridiculously dressed people to keep you thoroughly entertained all afternoon.
   

The Essentials:

When: Sunday, July 17

Where: The Williamsburg Waterfront, 90 Kent Ave btw N8th and N9th St

Who's playing: The Dirty Projectors, Crystal Antlers, Magnolia Electric Company

Cost: FREE!

Bikeable?: Yes, but I don't endorse drunken riding on the way home

ROCK!

i want.

i want to go bowling & drink beer.

Brooklyn Bowl just opened in Williamsburg.

how great does this place look?!

Check out the Making of Brooklyn Bowl (thanks Matt).

i want to go see this film.

kind of obsessed with Zooey Deschanel. (500) Days of Summer opens this weekend!

I want the hot/slighty nerdy guy that works at SIP to ask me out the next time I go there to buy a bottle of overpriced wine.

I only go there for you, you know! I could be going to that ghetto place on 4th Ave. But no, I don't. I buy your $15 Rioja so that I can attempt to flirt with you at checkout. I really just can't afford this anymore. So come on. Step it up.

Siren Fest is on Saturday!!

Crazy that this will be the fourth year in a row I go to Siren Fest... Each year it's a hot sweaty blur, full of too much cheap beer, obese women in bikini tops, fried food, encounters with about every hipster that ever graduated from Skidmore College, and music that's just about at your loudness threshold.

And it's always fucking awesome.

Ok, so I feel a little sub-par on my knowledge of the indie bands this time around, but I can't say I've ever really gone for the music anyways.

Last year, even after the Nathan's hotdogs, we waited in excruciating heat for Totonno's Pizza. SO worth it.

Who's with me?

The Essentials
Date: July 18th
Time: noon-9:00 p.m. or whenever we get into Totonno's.
Location: Coney Island (take the Q!)
Bikeable?: probably not... too many poor hipsters there who will want to steal your bike.

You asked for it.

Ok. So I'm in love with New York.

Especially my new home in the fabulous borough of Brooklyn.

The energy of this city is addictive. So much to do in every genre of activity imaginable. Yes, it's overwhelming.

But that's where I come in.

Come on, people. Let's not kid ourselves. I know what's going on.

As your unofficial Social Coordinator of Brooklyn & Beyond, I will attempt to compile all the events that I want to go to. Y'all know I'm big into music, so upcoming concerts will certainly be a highlight. But art, dance, films, restaurants, bars, you name it. You better believe I'll be on top of my shit.

My friends - let the M.Block Blog guide you through this crazy city of ours, and join me in taking advantage of all it has to offer. Ok, maybe not all. But at least some of the good stuff.

So here we go...


Wednesday, July 15th
The New York Philharmonic plays in Prospect Park!



Let's bust out those picnic blankets, bottles of vino, and baguettes and cheese from Brooklyn Larder.






The Essentials
Date: July 15th
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Prospect Park- Enter at 15th Street
Bikeable?: yes