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Barbès
By Joshua M. Bernstein

Blocks from bucolic Prospect Park sits this French-flavored bastion of Brooklyn boho cool. Flickering candles set aglow the bespectacled literati mingling with Scotch-sipping filmmakers, rabble-rousing marching bands and sweaty revelers swaying beneath the punched-tin ceiling. 376 9th St at Sixth Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn (347-422-0248, barbesbrooklyn.com)

LOCAL CINEPHILES
Join film lovers the first and third Mondays of each month for the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series. Next program Nov 17 at 7pm: a selectionof short documentaries from the Brooklyn International Film Festival (brooklynindependent.com)

LITERATE ROCKERS
Come the first Sunday of every month for the rock-tinged 33 1/3 multimedia reading series. Joe Harvard talks about the Velvet Underground Dec 7 at 7pm. (33third.blogspot.com)

WORLD-BEAT DEVOTEES
Mondays bring Chicha Libre’s joyful Peruvian stew, while the Mandingo Ambassadors anoint Wednesdays with West African rhythms. Chica Libre: Mondays (except Mon 10) 7pm; Mandingo Ambassadors: Wednesdays 10pm

SONIC AFICIONADOS
WFMU DJ Bethany Ryker curates Wednesdays’ avant-garde performance series Stochastic Brooklyn. Next show Wed 12 with the Mary Halvorson Trio; 8pm, $10per set

DEMON DANCERS
Boogie to bombastic Gypsy brass and Balkan beats during Tuesdays’ hip-wiggling Slavic Soul Party! Tuesdays (except Tue 11) 10pm, $10 (slavicsoulparty.com)

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