Friday:
• Throw on some beat-up Chuck Taylors and your favorite Dashiki — Afro-Punk weekend kicks off tonight with a screening of James Spooner's documentary at BAM, and culminates on Sunday at an all-day Brooklyn block party. [flavorpill]
• Everyone loves the nostalgia associated with fireworks. Everyone loves the nostalgia associated with Coney Island. Put 'em together and you have, well, a nostalgia-filled evening of fireworks at Coney Island. [Paper]
Saturday:
 • Everyone too poor to be drinking beer and eating burgers in the Hamptons will probably be doing so at P.S.1 out in Long Island City, where Warm Up 2005 kicks out with beats from DJ Harvey, Groove Collective, and Projections' Simon James. Sounds like more fun than the Star Room anyhow. [flavorpill]
• Just cause it's the 4th of July weekend doesn't mean you have to spend the entire time inebriated, drunky. Go get historically edumacated at the Cathedral of St. John Divine, starting point for the tour "Power, Presidents, and Peace: A Spotlight on American History." [ToNY]
Sunday:
 • If you're not out of town by now, stop reading immediately and leave. LEAVE!