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NYC WEEKEND UPDATES (4.6-4.8)
Happy Friday!! Have family in town? Enjoy your weekend outdoors with these delicious NYC offerings:

4.5-5.28 Thursday onwards
New York African Film Festival
Various New York locations
Various prices
The 19th New York African Film Festival follows the theme of Africans in the Diaspora: Expatriates and Homecoming, so look for quality shorts, full-length features, documentaries, and even experimental films exploring “notions of home and homeland.”

4.6 Friday 7–10pm
Minne-apple in the Big Apple
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St
Free
A monthly gathering of MN expats, this Minnesota Monthly happy hour is one of the friendliest nights in NYC. Come for the camaraderie, tater tot hot dish, and sometimes even delicious homemade bars.

4.7-4.8 Saturday and Sunday, 10am-6pm
Dekalb Market: Opening Weekend
138 Willoughby St. (at Flatbush Ave.)
Brooklyn
Free admission
Dekalb Market returns with a spring weekend celebration. This opening event will include a flower market, live music, beer and wine, clothing and food vendors and more. Take a class or workshop or participate in the market-wide Easter egg hunt.

4.7 Saturday 1-4pm, 7-10pm
Get Real NY presents Beer ‘n Balls
404 Tenth Avenue
$55-75
Sure, you’ve probably enjoyed a meatball while drinking a beer, but this food and drink fête elevates the experience with craft beers and meatballs made from farm-raised wild game. Produced by the team behind aPORKalypse and the Belgium Festival, the multi-hour affair lets attendees sample 20 varieties of meaty morsels made by chefs from the Guilty Goose, Zi’Pepe, and MexiQ while sipping beverages served up by over 55 craft breweries. Making the event even more special is its timing; it falls smack dab on one of our favorite holidays, National Beer Day. Bottoms up!

4.7-11.17 Saturdays 10am-5pm
Brooklyn Flea (Fort Greene)
Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
176 Lafayette Ave
Free
One of the City’s best treats makes its fifth annual return for the summer. The Brooklyn Flea takes place at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in one of the area’s most beautiful neighborhoods, and features over 150 vendors selling everything from rare soul 45s to handmade shirts and vintage furniture. And don’t forget the food! Comestibles from Porchetta, People’s Pops, Red Hook Lobster Pound, and pretty much everything in between, are also available. The Flea’s Fort Greene flagship location features 150 vendors every Saturday from April through November. The 40,000-square-foot schoolyard at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School is part vintage bazaar, part hipster hang, part old-fashioned town square, and part food bonanza.

4.7-11.17 Saturdays 11am-6pm
Smorgasburg
Brooklyn Flea Williamsburg
27 North 6th St
Free
Vintage clothes are great, but our favorite part of the Brooklyn Flea is the food: packaged, prepared, raw, and everything in between. So we were ecstatic when the folks behind the Flea started Smorgasburg, a collection of some of our favorite food vendors, as well as 20 GrowNYC Greenmarket farmers. On the sweet side, there’s Momofuku Milk Bar, Fine & Raw Chocolate — whose treats are so decadent you won’t believe they’re vegan — and Blue Marble Ice Cream. On the savory side, Empire Mayonnaise Co. sells fancy mayo with flavors like Emu Egg and Black Garlic, SlantShack Jerky offers up tasty grass-fed jerky, and Asia Dog slings hot dogs with kimchi. Get there early in the day, grab some grub, and take in the beautiful view of Manhattan; we know that’s what we’re doing, every Saturday from here on out.

4.8 Sunday 3:30pm
4.21 Saturday 3:30pm
4.29 Sunday 3:30pm
Explore the Epicenter of Graffiti Culture at 5Pointz
5Pointz
LIC, Queens
$35
If you’ve ever travelled the 7 train in and out of Long Island City, you’ve likely been awestruck by the aerosol art adorning a warehouse known as 5Pointz. The world’s premiere graffiti mecca, 5Pointz has legally existed for over ten years and could one day be a formal museum if its organizers have their way. For this session, arranged by SideTour, the 200,000-square-foot outdoor space’s head curator, Meres One, takes eager art beavers through the history of the building’s current embellishments, which change almost daily. At the conclusion, the cans come out and Meres makes a graffiti creation while you wait. You won’t be ready to tag tall buildings in single bound, but by the talk’s end you’ll know a lot more about aerosol styles and a very unique labor-of-love that resides in Queens.

Enjoy,
YL
http://yichinglin.com/

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