Whassup: Leap Week Edition

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Good news, everyone: this February, it's a little bit longer than usual. What I mean is, it's a Leap Year! (And yes, I did write it that way so that you could all add your own "That's what she said" comments. And I hope that you did.) This next week includes the Leap Day -- an extra day, next Wednesday, to soak up all that life in Park Slope has to offer. So, get out there and get in an extra day of eating/drinking/making merry. It's Whassup: Leap Week Edition:

* This Week: Weather, Outside: It looks like the vaguely frightening spring-like weather is set to continue, with 50's and 40's for the week. So, get out there and have a picnic beneath Prospect Park's skeletal trees. You might be able to get a prime spot, without the haze of BBQ smoke and child screams that cover the place all summer.

* Thursday, Feb. 23: Uke Night, Freddy's: How obscure are your musical tastes, Brooklyn dweller? Do you feel like no matter how many bearded, indie bands named after woodland creatures you adopt, you just can't keep ahead of the music-foraging, hipster masses? Consider the ukulele. No matter how scraggly their beards are, a guitar-based band is just one more variation on the Beatles. So, try something actually different with Uke Night at Freddy's. Ukulele jam session at 7pm, followed by the singing, dancing Ukuladies and their "cowboy love songs" at 9pm. FREE.

* Friday, Feb. 24-Sunday, Feb. 26: Big Book Sale, Park Slope United Methodist Church: The PSUM used book sale is a feast of tables groaning under delicious paper. Your book-loving brain will cum right there in your skull. If nothing else, at $1-2 per volume it's a cheap way to fill out your bookshelves, and it will be doubly impressive to future dates because the books will all look read.

* Friday: Evening Preview, 6pm-9pm, $20 admission.

* Saturday: 8am-4:30pm, FREE admission.

* Sunday: 12:30pm-4:30pm, FREE admission.

 * Friday, Feb. 24-Saturay, Feb. 25: Johnny Cash 80th Birthday Bash, Bell House and Littlefield: Park Slope alt-country troubadour Alex Battles, with this band of highwaymen the Whiskey Rebellion, honor the Man in Black's 80th with two nights of prison rock: San Quentin at Bell House and Folsom Prison at Littlefield (taking over from Southpaw, RIP). Get rhythm. $15 each night, 8pm Doors.

* Sunday, Feb. 26: Witstream Oscars Party, Bell House: So, here's a question: if twitter comments make you laugh when you're all by yourself, in your underwear, in the living room, unemployed and depressed, how funny would they be with a whole drunken bar laughing with you? A lot funnier, right? That's the idea, it seems, behind Witstream's Oscar Party at the Bell House: the humor site's twitter stream will run alongside the broadcast, as comedians fire their snark at Hollywood's most self important. Kinda like a textual Mystery Science Theater 3000. Host Seth Herzog entertains during commercials. 7pm, FREE.

* Monday, Feb. 27: Sex Stories, Union Hall: Park Slope's monthly story series about all the naughty bits returns with a lineup of comedians, writers, and performers sharing true tales of sexiness and sexuality. And sex. And doing it. Also intercourse. 8pm Doors, $8.

* Wednesday, Feb. 29: Tea & Jam, Tea Lounge: Deep inside, we'd all like to be more cultured. We'd like to say hating on Snooki doesn't draw us in when perfectly good, unread masterpieces moulder on our bookshelves. And we wish, when people asked what music we're into, we didn't have to say, "You know, a lot of indie, some classic rock. You know, I really like the Beatles?" We wish we could say we liked jazz. Well, take that extra day the calendar is offering you this year, and go hear some unappreciated talent during Tea Lounge's "Tea & Jam" jazz session. Just snap your fingers and nod like you know what's going on. 9pm-11:30pm, FREE.