Spring fever! I totally have it and I cannot stay indoors. I hope everyone is enjoying the new season in Bushwick. I’ve been seeing tons of dudes on bikes as well as ladies, of course. This weekend, we have a fine array of art, music (who needs SXSW?!), theatre, and getting down…

Tonight, head to STOREFRONT gallery for their 3rd Thursdays literary event.

Friday, Rescue Bird, Archipelago, Saint Seneca, ACLU Benefit (It’s a band name! I learn something new everyday. Thanks for keeping it interesting, kids), and Nicole Hale play Silent Barn.

Catch the second week of Target Margin Theatre‘s 2010 Lab Unknown Williams at the Bushwick Starr.

"Dance yo’ ass off" at Noise Pollution 1.0 at Beauty Bar BK featuring: "FREE makeup (for girls who show up early), drink specials, a local biz-sponsored Kissing Contest (ooh-la-la), best and latest in dance.funk.80′s.postpunk.indierock. glamdisco, and surprise guests." That is a lot of Friday in one night.

Saturday: Art!

Visit the studios of Lyndsy Welgos, Joseph Whitt and Jett Drolette for Starr Space’s first Open Studios. Videos, paintings, panels, prints, music, cocktails. Done. 6-10pm.

SUGAR will host an opening reception for A sense of Humor, "a select group of photographs that will hit your funny bone." Elliott Erwitt, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Diane Arbus, and more.

Celebrate spring with the folks at Numu Arts for their Vernal Equinox Show featuring: Doom Trumpet, Guitars, Living Sacrific, Heavy Birds, DJ Old and on Acid.

Big, huge, mega Mister Saturday Night at Market Hotel. This one featuring "sets from the expert residents in chief Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter, a bar stocked with the good stuff, an open bar from 10pm to 11pm, and guest Greg Wilson. He was the first DJ to ever mix records on TV, the original resident of the Hacienda, and when he plays these days, he brings his reel to reel tape machines."

Sunday at SUGAR: AIPAD weekend: John Adam Staszyn talks about humorous imagery. 2pm. RSVP 718-417-1180

Tuesday, visit the salons at ISCP on Metropolitan.

Wednesday is the first day of the DIY Bushwick Festival, presented by Bushwick Music Studios in association with The Deli Magazine and Arts in Bushwick with shows at nine venues: Bushwick Music Studios, Brooklyn FireProof, Castle Braid, Eastern District, Glassdoor, Goodbye Blue Monday, House of Yes, Northeast Kingdom, and The Opera House Lofts. "The inaugural festival will feature Brooklyn-based bands, DJs, and artists performing in alternative Do-It-Yourself spaces just a walk or a bike ride apart…The festival kicks off at Wednesday the 24th at Eastern District at 5:00 with a free show!" 

The Bushwick Food Coop Film Club is back at Tandem with drink specials, organic popcorn, and a special screening of "The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil."

Little Skips presents their weekly Bushwick Chess Club event from 5-7pm.