On Friday June 10 at 8:15pm Andrew Bird will play the Celebrate Brooklyn! Opening Night Concert. Since 1979 Celebrate Brooklyn! has provided outdoor performing arts festivals in Prospect Park. The festival offers music, film, spoken word/theater, dance, and more. The best part is all Celebrate Brooklyn! performances are free! Obviously they couldn’t do it alone, so sponsors and friends help keep the festival alive. Opening night is part of a gala to honor longtime festival sponsors Jet Blue and Ray Levin. The evening will feature a lot more than Bird’s performance, but the extra’s require a ticket. They’re a bit pricey, but it’s a worthy cause.

Check out the schedule for this summer’s series running June 10-August 6 with benefit shows running until August 11. It’s worth getting out of Williamsburg for these shows.

Last month the guys at Forking Tasty put together a bike-in movie theater in Greenpoint, where they supplied snacks, space and a screen to show the classic flick Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. If you couldn’t make it (of if you could and want to spot yourself) check out the video recap below.

Bike-in-Theater: May 2011 from Manifold on Vimeo.

The video comes with the promise that more theater dates are in the works. And if you would like dinner and a movie without the biking part, they are having a screening of Caddyshack this Saturday. More info here.

We love Cubana Social, so we won’t hold it against him. From the New Yorker

A month later, Mann flew to Texas. He met his sister, in Austin, where they spent two days “laughing and crying and freaking out” before driving to his father’s ranch, in China Spring, near Waco. “There he was, standing on his porch with his big cowboy hat,” Mann said. “I thought I was gonna throw up or jump out of the car and run off his property.”

Mann pulled out his iPhone to look at photos from the trip: Big Ted and Little Ted kneeling before a grill covered with elk steaks; Little Ted aiming a rifle (his girlfriend: “I think you just got sexier”); the contents of Big Ted’s pockets—handgun, ammo, handkerchief—displayed as part of a lesson in “what a man should carry”; father and son, arm in arm, holding a semiautomatic rifle and an Uzi. “I couldn’t believe it,” Mann said. “Here I am, a grown man, and I wanted to make sure I hit the bull’s-eye so I could show my dad I can shoot.” Mann flicked to another photo: a deer carcass hanging from a tree. “He sends me random shots of everything he kills now,” he said.

In April, he joined his dad on a hunting trip in Michigan—his “baptismal bloodletting,” Nugent called it—and, earlier this month, Nugent came to New York. He was in town for a concert, at the Iridium, and several media appearances. Howard Stern told him to bring the kids. (Stern to Mann: “Have you gotten laid more now that Ted Nugent is your dad?”) Nugent also wanted to see his son at work, so they went to Cubana Social, Mann’s Williamsburg restaurant—Nugent wore the neighborhood’s only authentic National Rifle Association cap—for empanadas and chorizo burgers.

Remember Fireside Follies? Well the crew is back at Brooklyn Fire Proof for the summer, presenting Yr Friday Nite. It’s a multi-genre showcase, featuring artists, writers, musicians and whatever-elses. The series will be the first Fridays of June, July and August. Check out the flyer for Friday’s show below.

Tonight, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and a musical group of friends are getting together to reminisce about the 1990s in a much more enjoyable way than VH1 ever did. Members of Amazing Baby, Suckers, MGMT and Das Racist will all be present. I’ll probably be dressed like Joey Lawrence.

This event is not unprecedented. Back in December, a similar group of dudes got together to pump out the jams. Watch a video below of members of Suckers and Yeasayer covering “You Oughta Know” and tell me you are not stoked to come to Glasslands tonight!