The Weekend: 12.3-12.5

Friday, Dec. 3

Fort Greene: Hot jazz comes to BAM this weekend with "Red Hot + New Orleans." The Big Easy never felt so Brooklyn. Also Saturday. For more theatrical fare, there's the stage adaptation of Kafka's "Metamorphosis." You'll be buggin' out.

Saturday, Dec. 4

Bensonhurst: Spend the day in Brooklyn's Little Italy with our handy guide.

Williamsburg: Comic book fans, your new mecca is the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, as the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival lands there today. Who knew?

Sunday, Dec. 5

Red Hook: Nadia Kalman reads from her "Fiddler on the Roof"-inspired new story, "The Cosmopolitans" at Sunny's Bar. Go ahead, order a Cosmo.

Greenpoint: Paul Murray reads from his critically acclaimed, and hysterical, new book, "Skippy Dies," at Word.

Gowanus: Get your fill of holiday fare at a seasonally inspired Food Experiments at the Bell House.