What to do this week

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What to do this week(end): Aug. 27 to Sept. 2

And just like that, we are full steam ahead into Labor Day weekend in what has to be the year marked by the fastest passage of time in human history. Somewhere around, say, Friday, March 13, 2020, I sort of gave up trying to wrap my head around the peculiar way in which the hours,... Read more »

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What to do this week(end): Aug. 20–26

Another August weekend is *almost* upon us, and if you’re feeling paralyzed about what to do or how to make plans in light of the Delta variant, you’re in good company. As the great mask mandate debate continues in other parts of the country and vaccines are now required for most public indoor activities in... Read more »

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What to do this week(end): Aug. 13–19

How ya feelin’, Brooklyn (besides, obviously, HOT as all hell)? As per usual these days, there’s been a lot to digest in the past week or so, whether it’s confusing new COVID guidance, the conclusion of the weirdest Olympics in memory, a truly terrifying report on climate change, a new governor in Albany, or the... Read more »

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What to do this week(end): July 23–29

Hello and welcome to the cusp of a weekend that, as of press time, is not forecasted to involve flash floods, record-breaking heat, or drastically sub-optimal air quality and a sci-fi inspired red sun because of raging fires 3,000 miles away. Whew, between the wild weather everywhere lately and the Delta variant news, there’s never... Read more »

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What to do this week(end): July 16–22

Hooray for Friday, even if we are smack in the middle of the hottest, stickiest dog days of summer—with sort of staccato interjections of extreme weather events that mean that people in the Bronx are jet skiing in the street on a day when Brooklyn hardly gets any rain. After a brief hiatus, the mice... Read more »