Things to Do this Weekend

• Remember how I told you last week there were going to be fireworks in the East River, nicely visible from Brooklyn? Yeah, my fireworks party didn’t go so well either, as there were none. Sorry! But supposedly there are some fireworks Saturday night. (Don’t take it from me, ask someone else apparently. Fireworks credibility: ruined!)

• Warning: Sunday is gay pride. Don’t go west of Broadway. Upside: that means tonight is the drag march. Starts at 7 p.m., Tompkins Square Park.

• Tonight Bob Mould plays at the Highline Ballroom! Have you read his book yet? He’s on tour — reading tour — across (parts!) of the country. (Related: Pat Benatar is also on tour — music tour — and is playing in Jersey on Saturday!)

• And tonight “Perfectly Damaged” opens at Derek Eller Gallery — artwork that’s been “kicked, dragged, cut, burnt, melted, sprayed, shot, and tossed in a blender.”

• Did you know Housing Works is having an online summer sale?

• “From 1937 to 1941, ‘Pins & Needles’ was a hit musical comedy revue running on Broadway. But this was no ordinary Broadway musical: it was written for and performed by members of The International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union.” The just-opened revival “is a joint endeavor of the Obie-winning Foundry Theater and Families United for Racial and Economic Equality.”

• On Saturday, at 1 p.m…. “Cowgirl Cowhunt is a 90-minute strategic hide-and-seek variant set in 1919 that casts players as historically important cowgirls, rustlers or cattle, each competing head-to-head to be Queen of the Range.” For real.

• Or you can also stay home and read about Julie Taymor’s “Spiderman” disaster, the burning love of Bon Iver, the world’s best dinosaur TV show, how books really get their titles and what is up with all those bees. Just don’t fly anywhere.

Photo by Guian Bolisay