- On Friday, enjoy happy hour specials ($3 beer, $5 cocktails) and free live music at BAMcafé or have a quick drink and watch a Golden Globe-award winning movie like The King’s Speech or Black Swan at BAM Rose Cinemas. [BAM]
- Warm your numbed spirit with the Caribbean Garden exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden’s conservatory in the Bronx. [NYBG]
- Free yoga in Brooklyn this Saturday and Sunday. [theskint]
- Spice things up in the kitchen with kimchi after attending Brooklyn Brainery’s Make Your Own Kimchi Party on Sunday for $5. [TONY]
- Maybelle’s Cafe in Carroll Gardens is open for business with organic breakfast offerings and Intelligentsia coffee. [GrubStreet]
- Live music and free craft beer are on tap for this weekend’s Brooklyn County Fair. [BrooklynExposed]
- Bring your crafty kids to Cobble Hill this weekend for the Brooklyn Inventgenuity festival. [InvisibleDog]
- Museum of the Moving Image will show Oliver Twist and Autour de L’Argent this weekend as part of a new series, “Recovered Treasures: Great Films From World Archives.” [MovingImage]
Photo: Courtesy of BAM
Sarah Knapp is a Brooklyn based entrepreneur whose love for the outdoors and community building led her to the October 2013 creation of OutdoorFest. She has a BA in History, is a Wilderness First Responder and a NY state hiking, camp and boating guide. Her proudest achievement to date is reading the Aeneid in Latin. 
Allison was one of our first top writers and Chief Editor but is no longer working with offMetro. Allison is a native New Yorker, who has lived in Rome, Tuscany, Melbourne, Toronto and Los Angeles. She frequently contributed travel pieces to Family Travel Forum, using her own children as guinea pigs as they travel the globe. She never missed a chance to sample local delicacies, as her love for travel goes hand-in-hand with her love for food and wine. 
Josh Laskin is a freelance travel writer and photographer based in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. When he is not at work or on the road, you can find him in the mountains snowboarding, climbing, hiking, fly fishing, mountain biking, and eating bagel bites.
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Kate E. O’Hara is a New York based freelance writer and photographer who loves all things food—especially the people who make it and market it. Her writing aims to capture the essence of the food experience; the stories that go well beyond a plate of ingredients. In addition to her love of food, Kate is also known to have a hankering for red wine and craft beer. You can also find Kate on Instagram