Hooray Brooklyn The summertime free music options keep on rolling out. Not to be outdone by the recent Summerstage announcement or River to River's Wire kick-off, Brooklyn's answer to free in-park music stepped up this week to show what they've got. The Celebrate Brooklyn series runs all summer long at the Prospect Park Band Shell, and will kick off with a free Isaac Hayes show on June 12th. From there, they'll host a number of......

READING: Check out today's interviewee, Peter Yarrow, tonight at Barnes and Noble where he'll be performing and signing the recently published Puff, the Magic Dragon book. C'mon, you know you've always wanted to hear that song live! 6pm // Barnes & Noble [Lincoln Center] // Free MUSIC: Daft Punk will be rocking Keyspan Park tonight, it's sold out but you can still get tickets on Craigslist. Elsewhere in Brooklyn The Hold Steady, The Big Sleep......

EVENT: If you haven't taken a trip back to the Summer of Love yet, head over to the Whitney tonight for the exhibit and enjoy their Whitney Live event. DJ Scientific and Dana Leong will be providing the tunes. Friday // 6pm // The Whitney [945 Madison Ave] // Free with museum admission MUSIC: Tonight at the Seaport Music Festival Menomena and Beat the Devil will rock the sun down. Menomena "makes experimental rock that......

Here's a heads up on sunny summertime shows. Sure, after the first week we'll be complaining about the heat, the smell of the city as it melts, and the lack of shade...but it's always nice to have some music to look forward to. So stock up on the SPF for the following shows: Celebrate Brooklyn picks (full schedule here, always the most diverse lineup) • June 16th Joan Osborne, The Jazz Passengers: The Supremes Project......

Last night we made our way to Red Hook for the Tag Team anniversary party. Can't really beat a night at The Hook, free food AND ice cream, full open bar and live music. Especially when the live music is provided by Broken Social Scene. The band played an amazing (and long!) set to a fairly unpacked (but incredibley enthused) room. Amy Millan provided the female vocals, and later played a song or two of......

Last night at the (Celebrate Brooklyn) Maceo Parker show at the Prospect Park Bandshell...guests who stuck around til the end got a treat when Prince took the stage. Brooklyn Vegan was there, and reports on the show. Above is a clip of Maceo Parker with Price, from what we can tell - it's from a few years back (the two have played together many times). Prince also played GMA at Bryant Park this morning......

Here at Ask Gothamist HQ, we've received tons of questions about fun summer activities, like the recent question about the New York Philharmonic Outdoor Concert Series. Gothamist readers seem to want summer activities that are fun (of course), free or low-cost, and easily accesible without a car. So, Ask Gothamist is glad to present the definitive guide to Summer of Fun 04 (SOF04). Beaches: New York has beaches aplenty, many that are easily reached by......

[Ed: Like clockwork, music picks from prodigious music blogger Coolfer. Also check out more at Gothamist Events.] Tonight, Los Lobos plays the opening night of Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park bandshell. It's basically free--a $3 suggested donation would be much appreciated. Ladysmith Black Mambazo performs at the bandshell on Saturday evening, and again it's only a $3 suggested donation to enter. (But we all know Gothamist readers will give much, much more...right?) After the......

My boyfriend's birthday is over July 4th weekend. I am looking for ideas of things to do or places to go to in NYC to celebrate that will make his birthday memorable. I want to stear clear of the traditional ways to celebrate - going out to dinner or getting together and going to a bar/club. Any help is appreciated! Heather, Hoboken, NJ The Fourth of July is all about the fireworks. If you feel......

According to the Times today, the Gray Line tourbus company will be running a route around the borough of Brooklyn. The tour will run two hours, covering the area from Downtown to the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens in Prospect Heights. The tickets cost $35, and are available from their website. Gothamist always tries to promote Brooklyn as a tourist destination when we meet out-of-towners. You wouldn't think it would be a......

There's all sorts of good stuff going on down at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn, but the one night you don't want to miss is Saturday, June 28th. That's when Hal Willner's Leonard Cohen Project comes to town with everyone who is cool in the world. Now it's not just that Gothamist has always been a huge Leonard Cohen groupie ever since back in College Days, or that the Bandshell is deep in......