With so much to do in Brooklyn, we took it upon ourselves to filter our all the happenings and suggest how to make the most of your weekend.

FRIDAY JANUARY 27

120 db Opening Night Reception
6pm, Fort Useless (36 Ditmars Street), Tickets: Free
This exhibit, curated by Maryanne Ventrice, will feature concert photography by thirteen different artists. The photos aim to capture the energy level and audience interaction that comes along with a great show. Expect some music and booze.

Fair Trade Spirits Tasting
5:30-8:30pm, Dry Dock Wine and Spirits (424 Van Brunt Street), Tickets: Free
Enjoy a wine and spirits tasting at Red Hook’s French distillery. Fair Trade utilizes only organic and sustainably grown fruit and grains in their products, making for a unique taste and experience. This night will feature goji liqueur as well as quinoa vodka. That’s right, quinoa vodka.

Brooklyn For Peace
6:30pm, Word (126 Franklin Street), Tickets: Free
Calling on the Occupy movement and peaceful demonstrations around the world, Brooklyn for Peace Arts and Cultural Committee hosts a night dedicated to non-violent action and change. The evening will feature novelists, musicians, poets, and Occupy Wall Street’s poetry group, Rafiq Kathwari.

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SATURDAY JANUARY 28

Dances of Vice: The Diamond Ace II
10pm, Public Assembly (70 North 6th Street), Tickets: $15
Break out your red lipstick, glittery dress, and fedora for this film noir and pulp fiction themed edition of Shien Lee’s Dances of Vice. This night will feature burlesque stars as well as a performance by Morricone Youth and DJ sets by Michael Leviton and Devon E. Levins.

Art Hack Day
7pm, 319 Scholes (319 Scholes Street), Tickets: Free
This will be the last chance for patrons to catch Art Hack Day, an event dedicated to “cracking open” the process of art making. For this exhibit resident artists and collaborators have joined to explore the nature of technology and the “hacking” process. Attendees are invited to engage in the show, and this last night will also feature live performances and a party.

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SUNDAY JANUARY 29

Brooklyn Mac and Cheeze Takedown
2pm, The Bell House (149 7th Street), Tickets: $15
Mac and Cheese battle, need we say more? Fifteen dollars gives you access to twenty-five different types of the gooey good stuff, all cooked up by local foodies. Creativity is bound to run rampant, as the contestants can add as much or as little to their dishes as their cheese loving hearts desire. Your votes will determine the best in show.

Vinyl
Spectacle Theater (134 South 3rd Street), Tickets: $5
Directed by Alan Zweig, this documentary focuses on what life is like for an obsessive record collector and hoarder. Interviews with subjects are interspersed between shots of Zweig’s own life and home, giving the audience an honest and open portrait of music OCD.

New York City Above and Below
Noon-6pm, City Reliquary Museum (370 Metropolitan Avenue), Tickets: Suggested donation of $5
Artist Enrico Miguel Thomas has spent the last ten years capturing the life and movement of the NYC subway system. Using a sharpie marker and some watercolors, Thomas paints what most of us are moving too fast to see. Thomas uses his work to call attention to a system that we all take for granted.

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