[My Favorite Park Slope...]: Place to Party and Peep Free Art

If you're having "one of those weeks" this week -- the one where you have to go to the TD Bank Penny Arcade to cash in all of your loose change to get beer money -- you might be looking for something to do this weekend that's super cheap but still really fun. This FIPS post is your official reminder that Saturday, November 5th, is the First Saturday party at the Brooklyn Museum.

In case you've been living under a rock for the past 10 or 12 years, First Saturdays are when the Brooklyn Museum opens its doors to the community for free. They've got a bunch of special programs -- readings, performances, films -- and a big dance party, with a different musical theme each month. This month it's some kind of a world-beat/funk theme, which sounds crushingly awesome, if you ask me.

There's also a special exhibit of art from the 1920's going on right now. It doesn't exactly jibe with the funk theme for the month, but it sounds pretty cool, just the same. It's called Youth and Beauty: American Art of the Twenties, and I think it looks really fun and seck-see.

By the way, did you know that TD Bank has started charging a fee to use their coin machine? It just cost me five bucks to get paper money for all of those quarters, dimes and nickels! Yeah. So maybe we weren't talking about you after all. Maybe, once again, it's all about me. Meh. See you Saturday at the Museum.