Positively 4th Ave: Get Yer Immersion Tix!

If stumbling drunkenly along the major arteries of Park Slope isn't the best way to experience the 'hood, then I owe you a pint at The Gate. But don't be an intra-Slope snob about it. Venture off the 5th and 7th Ave strips for a solid crawl down their increasingly hopping younger sibling to the West: The Total 4th Avenue Immersion, brought to you by our brother-bloggers-in-arms over at Brooklyn Based, returns with a moveable beer-feast along the 4th Ave. strip. The get-down gets gettin' at noon and lasts until 6 pm.

Pick up FREE PINTS of Brooklyn Brewery Lager, Pennant Ale, Summer Ale and Brooklyner Weisse (um, free beer? I think I've had dreams like this before) at some of the most popular watering holes to sprout along the Gowanus border: Mission Dolores and its summer-ready central courtyard; newest Slope music venue, The Rock Shop; just-fucking solid pub, Cherry Tree; and the SF-themed beer-snob haven, Pacific Standard. The blossoming of cool pubs along 4th has been one of the coolest developments if you've been in the Slope area the last few years -- and some of the best evidence that gentrification is a virus that can't be contained. It's enough to pull scores of ballers down-slope away from the stroller-ridden Park towards the charmingly toxic Canal.

WARNING: Don't be lazy about the tix, which are FREEEEEE, y'all. There are only 500 available, at noon the day of the crawl, at Oaxaca and Cherry Tree. Get there early for a pass, or a friend can pick up a couple in case your Saturday mornings begin at the crack of one. Brooklyn Based will announce when they sell out via Google+ alternatives twitter and facebook.

Fooderies along 4th will also Immerse avenue crawlers in. Por ejemplo, $2 tacos at Oaxaca and $1-off slices at South Brooklyn Pizza. Booze up the midday meal over at Aussie-themed Sheep Station with a Beer Brunch, where they'll shoo off any lingering sobriety with a free bottle of Brooklyn Local 1 for each table. The arts and music venues along 4th are also ready to show off, particularly The Rock Shop, coincidentally celebrating its one-yearaversary that same day. A DJ spins upstairs during the Immersion and Urge Overkill urges over-partying downstairs at 8 to mark the occasion.

The Immersion wraps up wrapped in the tricolour with the Skint's Bastille Day French-down at Littlefield ($1 for Immersers, $2 without an Immersion card). Make believe your grandaunt is from Paris, or something, with Marie-Antionette-themed burlesquers, a troupe of mimes, and an eight-piece French jazz band. Between two and three, gin flows sans Francs (or, I guess, Euros).