Stand Up Comedy Night:
1st & 3rd Mon 9:30

Diorama Lodge:
1st Tuesday 8:00

Cringe Night:
1st Wed 8:30

Old Time Jam:
1st Thu

Brooklyn Guitar School Open Mic:
2nd Mon 6:00

King’s County Cinema Society:
2nd Wed 9:00

Knit PH at Freddy's:
3rd Sun 7:00

Opera on Tap:
2nd Thu

H.A.M.:
3rd Wed 9:30

Jazz from the
N.Y. Underground:
4th Tues

Blood Bath Cinema:
4th Sun 8:00

Donald O’Finn’s TV DREAMS:
This television show airs every Thursday! Brklyn at 12:30 am, Time Warner cable Channel 56, Cable Vision Channel 69, Manhattan at 10:30 pm, Time Warner cable Channel 56, RCN Channel 83
http://www.donaldofinn.com/
http://www.youtube.com/prognosisgrim/



FEBRUARY 2 0 1 0 CALENDAR

M O N T H L Y  O R I E N T - A S I A N
Freddy's monthly calendar is brought to you by InfoAsian™ (a subisdiary of SINO-It-All™). The Chinese "Year of the Tiger" and Valentine's Day fall on Sunday February 14 this month. What can this mean? Resolve your confusion over a beer!

On Monday January 11, manager Donald O'Finn and activist Steve Deseve spoke on Fox and Friends about eminent domain abuse.

Click Here for video

Hello patrons and friends,

The Village Voice recently voted us as one of the 10 Best Bars in Brooklyn, personally I don't think we had any competition. Booya! Bravo TV (yes the TV Station has a night life guide) said "...when God created the bar, he named it Freddy's." And yet, Freddy's (also one of Esquire magazines “Best bars In America”) has also been the subject of less flattering circumstances. Our vibrant, verdant neighborhood has been called "blighted" for convenient reasons of land-grabbing

"Media circus" said a few, but our campaign has been a huge media success! NPR, NBC, Boston Glob, the Village Voice, NY Post, Daily News, on and on... but most importantly a lot of you were there to bear witness. I want to thank you all for your tremendous support and for bringing intelligent awareness to the true blight on all of New York: "Eminent Domain Thievery." Check out our news links below.

Cheers,
Donald O'Finn

Singer Crystal Waters, Council Member Letitia James, and Senator Montgomery
protest the closing of a local homeless family shelter.
Saturday, January 16th
Click Here for Video

Freddy's Bar toasts George F. Will
"Avaricious Developers and Governments Twist the Meaning of 'Blight'"
Washington Post, Sunday January 3, 2010
CLICK HERE TO READ.

Event: Freddy’s Chains of Justice
Sunday, December 20, 2009
· Atlantic Yards Report
· Voice Coverage
· Found in Brooklyn
· New York Post
· Vanishing New York
· Huffington Post
· Brooklyn Bugle
· Tracy Collins Slideshow: Chains of Justice

Event: Freddy's 9 ft Guillotine
Sunday, December 27, 2009

· Atlantic Yards Report
· Daily News Follow their Brooklyn section for regular updates on Freddy's.
· Florida Today
· Nets Daily Mr. O'Finn comments. Feel free to lend an itelligent voice.
· Amy Greer Slideshow: Freddy's Guillotine


C U L T U R A L  I N V - A S I A N

Mon 2/1 9:30 Stand-up Comedy (1st Mon each month)
Oh my Gewd! Laugh yourself retaaaaded with your gifted and talented host Pat O'Shea and some very special people. Tue 1/5
8:00 DIORAMA LODGE: Got a hankering for liquor-fueled arts and crafts? For anyone with a hankering for liquor-fueled art and crafts. Our group sits around making dioramas and marveling at our own creations. The theme will be announced on the night of and there will be one first prize, voted on by all the creators (and drinkers) that show up. Bring your own shoebox plus> glue, found objects, foil, toothpicks, craft store doo-dads, string, cotton balls, cake toppers, general junk, and inspiration. Bring stuff for your own diorama - but you are also strongly encouraged to bring stuff to share with the communal stew of diorama ingredients.

Arrive at 8pm for 8:15 start. (8-11:00pm), Held on the first Tuesday of every month.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/09/yes_brooklyn_does_have_a_diora_1.html Read what New York Magaine has to say...
dioramalodge@yahoo.com
Thu 2/4 9:30 Old Time Jam (1st Thu each month)
Always a big night! American music from before the electric era. An immense wall of acoustic sound. Jug music, banjos, wash-board & wash-tub bass, tin-can drums.
http://www.strungoutstringband.com/2009/04/freddys-old-time-jam-2/
Fri 2/5
9:00 It's the Joe Cantor music hour with speical guest Joe Cantor.

10:00 Max Johnson: Max Johnson is one of New York's premier bassists, playing with a power and energy that will surely delight and surprise. His insane musical stylings have landed him jobs playing with everyone from Perry Robinson to the Butthole Surfers, Vernon Reid to Adrian Belew and many in between. With him, he brings a rotating cast of musicians playing original composed and improvised music. Ranging everywhere from jazz and cuban music to experimental music and klezmer, the music will bring enjoyment and excitement to all those who hear it.
www.myspace.com/maxjohnsonmusic

11:00 The Havens:
Sat 2/6
8:00 Phoebe Kreutz is a boozy floozy with a heart of gold. She sings silly songs about the things she likes best: boys and bars and Vikings and tacos.

9:00 The Debutante Hour, new-fangled, old-fashioned music from the Brooklyn-based accordion/cello and hobo drumming power trio.

10:00 Guignol, raucous, theatrical, spastic and melodramatic soundtrack for singing grifters, murderous marionettes, and grease-painted gutterballs. It?s an oom-pah wedding, squealing and lyrical, that hits like punk rockers and sings like a gypsy camp.

11:00 Otis Pike & Smoky Mirrors, Dust off your dancing shoes and get ready for some down home honky tonk and western swing with a dash of gypsy jazz!
Sun 2/7
8:00 E.F.O.L. 3 bands, if you have to ask...
Tue 2/9
8:30 Story Swap Open Mic Canceled
Wed 2/10 Film Screening (2nd Wed each month)
9:00 King's County Cinema Society is an organization devoted to the unfettered, unbiased love of film and the moving image. http://kingscountycinemasociety.org/
Thu 2/11
9:00 Ben Syverson Trio
Fri 2/12
8:00 Bob Prince: Bob Prince is a fingerstyle solo guitarist who plays his own compositions. From folk, through country, and into the blues. Fingered and slide guitar. A sweet Martin OM-21 steelstring and a nasty National Radiotone resophonic guitar accompany him to most of his gigs, along with an occasional appearance of his longtime nylon stringed friend.
http://www.bobprinceguitar.com

9:00 Sweethook (formerly Acoustic Onset) 10:00 Magpie: The Magpie will play all original songs in styles from Appalachia, 1920s France, 1930s Cuba, a Russian shtetl or the Roma region of Hungary.

11:00 Tunnel Rockets
Sat 2/13
8:00 Solar Punch

9:00 Paula Carino

10:00 John Sharples Band

11:00 Love Camp 7

12:00 Tom Warnick and the World's Fair
Sun 2/14 Readings
Who reads? The Brooklyn College Readers do, and they have a live reading series called the "Brooklyn College Readers Series"

The Chinese lunar calendar says it's the year of The Tiger!
Mon 2/15 Stand up Comedy (3rd Mon each month)
9:30 You can chase your winter blues away sitting at home swigging your meds with beer... all alone. Or you can do it with a group! Join hilarious host by Pat O'Shea and an bunch of funny folks.
Tue 2/16
9:00 The Epicures: The Epicures play original rock compositions that draw from influences such as Adrian Belew, Jeff Buckley, the Smashing Pumpkins, and also jazz and classical forms among others.
Wed 2/17 H.A.M.
9:00 Sing your ass off and win mediocre prizes at Humans Against Music, with your stewardesses of song H-Bomb and Bad Candy! Lower your musical expectations... and feel mighty big!
Thu 2/18 Reading Series
Author and Open City Founding Editor Thomas Beller founded Mr Beller's Neighborhood Reading Series in 2000. The site publishes stories about New York City life that follow in the tradition of Joseph Mitchell and E.B. White-- slices of life, portraits of memorable characters, scandalous encounters with public decadence and heartwarming displays of civil courage. Some contributors are successful, professional, sometimes famous writers and others write out of a passion to express themselves while working a variety of different jobs. This is their city. These are their stories.

About the host: Connor Gaudet is a Brooklyn-based writer and musician passionately pursuing a life of debt and poverty. Diarist, embellisher, and non-fiction storyteller, he keeps track of his triumphs and humiliations at:
http://thedailyhell.typepad.com
http://mrbellersneighborhood.com
Fri 2/19
9:00 Mike Bruno & King Darves: Two New Jersey folk legends, featured on He of the House Records and Destijl Records. Bruno delivers lullaby-esque ventures into misty graveyards. And "the bedrock of King Darves' New Brunswick based concoction is certainly folk based but there's no headband and he's not singing of pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue, or maybe a one-manned Meat Puppets. "This kid has really cobbled something together in his kitchen sink!" - T Rettman
http://200lbu.blogspot.com/

10:00 Human Adult Band - This alternative heavy rocker attempts a set of acoustic numbers, a little more somber than usual. "I seriously want some label, maybe ecstatic peace! or something to throw these guys a few bucks, get them in an actual studio and put some tracks down on wax. Live lo-fi cassette recordings are cool and all, but this band is too good to be as obscure as they are, especially outside of the eastern seaboard", writes Evan Wood of Smooth Assailing. Luckily the Adults have recently recorded and released a new EP on Third Uncle Records with a high quality of sound and are pumping out new sounds with the Brooklyn/New Brunswick junk jazz collective Pots and Powercells in the meantime.
http://smoothassailing.blogspot.com/

11:00 Wax Museum Pandemonium - Brooklyn's own hauntingly beautiful shanties. The Brothers Poole combine dark humor and a theatrical whimsy for an evening that revels in tales of evil, masks, and obscure insturments. The Austin Sound says: "WMP's sound is a kind of gypsy punk that leans more towards the White Ghost Shivers than, say, Gogol Bordello. They deliver a slab of wax that's guaranteed to knock you a little out of whack, but then that's exactly what you'd expect."
Sat 2/20
1:00 pm Spoon Phillips hosts the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum Open Mike. All players and listeners welcome. Unlike other open mics, we sign up and take turns doing one song. Each player can expect to get at least one song per hour. Each act takes turns doing 1 song, round and round untill we get hungry and go eat.

7:00 Jesus H. Christ
8:00 Life in a Blender
9:00 The Highland Shatners
10:00 Church of Betty:
11:00 Kenny Young and the Eggplants
12:00 Xylopholks & hula-hoop strippers

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/6/32_6_mm_blowhole.html
http://outside.in/park-slope-brooklyn-ny/tags/blowhole%20theater%20marathon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uke_til_U_Puke
Sun 2/21 Casserole Night & Knit Night
7:00 - 12:00 pm How can you call a neighborhood blighted when it has a casserole night and knitting? The Casserole Preservation Society of Prospect Heights and Knit Night at Freddy's Bar share the evening to celebrate the annual winter event: Casserole Night at Freddy's Bar. Put on some warm duds, bring your best cheer, your knitting and casserole... salad, desert, or bread, and a clean take-away container.
To participate...
1. RSVP for this night via the Knit PH MeetUp group or by email (subject: Casserole Night).
- http://MeetUp.com/KnitPH
- theYarnMonkey@yahoo.com
2. Bring a classic casserole, a hearty salad, bread or dessert
3. Label dish as meat or vegetarian, or if it has nuts or shrimp... etc.
4. Bring a take-away container

All food will be served at room temperature. Bring your own clean take-away container for the exchange. Paper plates, napkins, plastic ware and serving utensils will be available.
Keep your shirt on mister wall-eyed poet man. There's more to come.
USE: Freddy's Backroom is to be used for entertainment purposes, and for temporary relief from cultural weariness and symptoms of:
• general ennui
• mediocre televised programming
• malformed evening plans
WARNING: Late bookings, cancelations, and grave social misconduct may be hazardous to your evening plans. Call ahead to avoid making begrudging statements such as:
 • "If you don't let me perform a drunken indecent act in the men's room
   I will rip your window from its casing! I hate you all! Wah!"
• "I'm a medicated trustfund poet. My unstable realtor girlfriend and I
   are entitled to steal any seat here! You hate art! Boo hoo!"
• "This isn't O'Connors? Then hang a sign, you are all bastard liars!"
• "Cigarettes cost money, so like, just give me one. Wah! I hate you!"
   You ruined my 21st birthday! Wah!"
If Wah-wah-ing, name calling, and irritation pursist, consult this web site for updates or call ahead during daytime hours for more information on music, events, and stuff.
USAGE: To Ensure Proper Service and leisure enjoyment always be curtious to your waitstaff. You are encouraged to be mindful and respectful to other patrons, entertainers, and musicians. Mollycoddling after being 86-ed is not advocated. So don't be a super douche. Kamsahamnida.

-Esquire Magazine:
ESQUIRE'S BEST BAR'S IN AMERICA
Freddy's Bar and Backroom, 2006

Time Out NY:
"It's possible that Freddy's is as near a perfect saloon experience as you'll ever encounter."

New York Magazine:
"Greatness lies behind these doors."

New York Post:
"While Crane-Swizzle, wasn't the first to turn his local watering hole into something trendworthy - that honor could go to Donald O'Finn, manager of Freddy's Bar & Backroom (freddysbackroom.com) who began creating "an adult playground" with events like Cringe Night, Board Game Night and Quiz Night at his bar over 10 years ago - he's certainly taking advantage of New Yorkers' thirst for fun."

N.Y. Gamble Guide:
Voted ONE OF N.Y.'s 10 BEST DIVE BARS: "A Brooklyn classic worth the trek from Manhattan. Freddy's is like taking a day trip away from the city - the place is so darn welcoming. ...and there's much to love about this place - it's a spacious, beautiful old bar with friendly bartenders, polite patrons...... Also one of the best bars in N.Y. City for Sunday afternoon drinking."

The Brooklynite:
"Freddy's is one of the borough's most vital cultural hubs."

Village Voice, NYC Guide:
"Freddy's hosts some of the city's most original readings and performances."

New York Magazine:
(Best Of Issue) "The great Freddy's...seems to sizzle with life."

Shecky's Bar Guide (2006)
"This worn-in classic....a delectable dive...best known as a fringe art space."

New York Times:
"Freddy's... a friendly barkeep, good beer on tap and a generous backroom .... it's an exceedingly comfortable joint. Some of Freddy's clientele publish a literary 'zine, Lurch, out of the bar, and it decorates the walls ...The staff likes to keep things low-key... Freddy's is a little bit blessed....."

Zagat (2007):
"loads of atmosphere".... "this place oozes Brooklyn pride."

New York Sun:
(on Diva Night) "...raucous and sublime... un-elitist, imperfect, and fun..."

Time Out NY:
"This is the perfect neighborhood bar."

SOMA (South of Market Arts-San Francisco):
"Freddy's Bar waits patiently with a warm Brooklyn vibe ... Freddy's is mellow while still being interesting.... but most of all the place is comfortable."

Village Voice, Best Video Art In A Bar:
"Donald O'Finn's feverishly edited encyclopedically strange video collages are lively rivers... his editing is so hyper-intuitive that the culture shocks and time warps gel into a state of half vertigo and half trance. Catch his videos at Freddy's."

Village Voice:
BEST BROOKLYN BAR WITH A SMALL TOWN VIBE: also "Most comfortable hang."

CitySearch:
Freddy's is a great bar, all the beer you'd expect on tap, weird stuff on the walls, TVs showing bizarre sleazy movies, it's got it all.

CARA (Aerlingus Travel Magazine):
"undiscovered treasure...classic dive"

Spin Magazine, on Cringe night:
"The funniest night out in N.Y. City."

ESPN:
"Freddy's is one of the great dive bars in New York city... a far nobler institution than you are likely to find in proffesional sports"

GetUnderground.com:
"Hip...yet unyuppified"

Knotmag.com:
"a Mecca for artists and writers with no stomach for hipster poseurs or overpriced drinks.

Bavatuesdays.com:
"This storied speak easy represents the best combination of dive bar and underground cultural Mecca."

New York Magazine, New York's Best of Nightlife:
"The best spelling bee for Adults"

No Tourists Guide Book, Best Of Edition:
Voted Best Backroom

NOB (Not Only Brooklyn) Arts:
Freddys...is both wondrous and free, presenting a diverse selection of artists simultaneously down home and excellent.

Continental Airlines Travel Magazine:
"Freddy's...casual, free swinging atmosphere."

AM New York:
"One of the Cities most popular Dive Bars"

Metro (Mix):
Freddy's is all you would want (and more!) in a dive bar. The beer is cold. Their calendar is chock-full of interesting and offbeat events, including tons of live music, a diorama/craft night and something called "strip club." There is always something interesting on the TV sets, including amusing B-movie footage that you'll have to see to believe.