Get the blues
Saturday, January 3: Blues legend Danny Kalb is a must-see tonight in Red Hook. This founding member of the Blues Project in the 1960s always puts on a warm, intimate show filled with rollicking numbers and performed in a blues style that’s anything but dull.
9 pm. Jalopy [315 Columbia St., between Hamilton Avenue and Woodhull Street in Red Hook, (718) 395-3214]. Cover, $10. For info, visit
www.dannykalb.net.
Vicious cycling
Sunday, January 4: Remember the cyclists who lost their lives last year by taking part in the annual Memorial Ride and Walk, which will lead walkers and pedal pushers to the scenes of fatal bike crashes around the city, including the corner of President Street and Eighth Avenue and the intersection of Livingston and Boerum streets, where cyclists Jonathan Millstein and Alexander Toulouse were killed.
12:45 pm. Meet at 41st Street at Sixth Avenue in Sunset Park. For other locations and times, visit
www.ghostbikes.org.
Drink it in
Thursday, January 8: Tonight, drunken art curator Peter Teraberry brings his roving collection of inebriated drawings to Sputnik in Clinton Hill. Teraberry himself is a master of this most-underappreciated art form, but no one is better than Sam Crees, whose muse may be killing his brain cells, but it’s also aiding his art.
8 pm. Sputnik [262 Taaffe Pl. at DeKalb Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 398-6666]. For info,
www.barsputnik.com.
Someday, someway
Friday, January 9: There have been many singer-songwriters trying to cloak themselves as “The New Dylan,” but only one deservedly earned the mantle of “The New Buddy Holly”: Marshall Crenshaw. Tonight at the BAM Cafe, the legend — whose “Someday, Someway” was the radio song of 1982 — will deliver what Nick Lowe always promised: pure pop for now people.
9 pm. BAM Cafe [30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene, (718) 230-4100].
Marks the spot
Saturday, January 10: If there was any one band that defined the post-punk 1980s, it was John Doe and Exene Cervenka’s X. Tonight, the pair (married from 1980 to 85, which should make for some nice stage tension!) will perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Expect a great show.