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Greene Music, Barclays Green Market and Sheila E Highlight Week

Music, readings, improvisational theater and more events around town.

Fill up your calendar this week with the best of local Brooklyn events. Here's what's happening around Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

Monday
Books Beneath the Bridge
If you've never checked out Brooklyn Bridge Park's weekly "Books Beneath the Bridge" series, tonight is the night. Community Book Store Park Slope will host a reading of Swann's Way in celebration of its 100th anniversary featuring Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, The Paris Review editor Lorin Stein, Carmela Ciuraru, and Damion Searls. Free at Granite Prospect.

Tuesday
Greene Music on the Main Stage
Enjoy the traditional Ethiopian sounds and scales blended with soul and funk of Red Baraat + Debo Band + DJ Duane Harriott performing at Greene Music on the Main Stage in Fort Greene Park's Myrtle Lawn from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Wednesday
Shop the Barclays Green Market
Stock up on locally grown produce and artisan snacks at the new Barclays Green Market taking place Wednesdays at the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hellooooo, Brooklyn foodies.

Thursday
According to Wikipedia, the first time Prince met Sheila E., he told her he and his bassist "were just fighting about which one of us would be the first to be your husband." Most women would have died happy at that point. Instead, Sheila E went on to record with him, Cyndi Lauper, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and countless others. Watch her perform today for free at MetroTech Commons at noon.

Friday
Point Break Live!
This live parody of 90s blockbuster Point Break invites the audience to ride along with FBI agent Johnny Utah and his target/wave-catching guru Bodhisattva as they tear through the coastline and various banks. Bonus: The role of Utah is performed by an audience member selected nightly in an impromptu Are U Keanu? contest. Tickets are $19-$46. Show starts at 8 p.m.

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