It’s time for Third Annual Battle of the BadAsses, brought to you by The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies.

This annual lecture battle features three lecturers who take each other on to prove which monarch was the biggest badass of them all. This year’s battle features: Empress Regnant Irene vs. Charlemagne vs. Queen Elizabeth I, with drink specials.

The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies (SASS!) is proud to present a series of free lectures designed to both entertain and enlighten. We meet at The Bedford, the 2nd Tuesday of each month to discuss historical topics that you probably knew at one point but don’t remember anymore. Plus, there will be themed drink specials!

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Near Santa Rita, New Mexico, the local Mimbreños have enter into a contract with a Mexican mining company that promises them continued use of their hunting grounds in exchange for safe passage for the company’s convoys. This arrangement has already robbed the band of its self-determination (“Remember the tales of life before the White Man? We lived well without relief flour”), and in any case it can’t last. An American mining company wants in on the profits, and the Mexican government has put a price on Apache scalps: $100 for a brave, $50 for a squaw, and $25 for a child.

APACHES a.k.a. Apachen, a.k.a. Apachen: Blutige Rache
Dir. Gottfried Kolditz, 1973
German Democratic Republic, 94 min.
In German with English subtitles.

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This is it, the Main Drag blowout Dog Days of Summer Sale, and it’s their biggest sale ever.

It all kicks off at noon Saturday with their traditional burgers, dogs and ice cold beverages! Dog Days are here! John Fells says: “So much juice in this orange I think everyone will be quenched.” Keep an eye here, and come in to sign up to win a beautiful new Silvertone U2 guitar!

Main Drag Music
330 Wythe Avenue, corner of South 1st Street
12-8pm, sale starts Saturday and goes through August 15

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Nitehawk’s Live Sound Cinema presents the Bruce Lee classic Enter the Dragon with a live score performed by Morricone Youth. Two midnight screenings, August 8 and 9. More info and tickets.

In his final film appearance, Bruce Lee goes undercover to spy on a reclusive crime lord named Han (believed to control an Opium trade) by participating in his brutal martial arts tournament. At the tournament Lee encounters two Vietnam war buddies, Roper and Williams, who are each having to fight for different reasons. Lee’s job is to get the information and the three off the crazy island alive! Enter the Dragon is the first Chinese martial arts film produced by a Hollywood studio and includes some of the most badass fight scenes in movie history!

Nitehawk Cinema
136 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg
August 8, 8, showtime at midnight, $16

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Free pizza and beer! FRLS! Brooklyn Comedy Festival is hosting a very special art gallery event in preparation for their 6-night festival (which begins on August 18th). Tonight’s event is free, everything is just free. Only rules are 21+, and come any time, and come and go as you please, from 6pm until 10:30pm.

Guest DJ Ashok, aka Dapwell, from Das Racist, will spin from 9:15-10:15pm. Check out the list of artists and RSVP here.

Free entry, free wine courtesy of Brooklyn Winery, free beer courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery, free cocktails courtesy of Drizly, and free pizza courtesy of Two Boots.

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