The Weekend: 2.25-2.27

Friday, Feb. 25

Williamsburg: Drink for a cause, as the Brooklyn Kitchen hosts a benefit for City Reliquary called Booze and Schmooze. We're sold.

Fort Greene: Kim Jee-woon, the gore-teur behind such films as "Oldboy," gets a retrospective at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, beginning tonight with his most-recent film, "I Saw the Devil."

Saturday, Feb. 26

Flatbush: Get your tango on at the Brooklyn Performing Arts Center at Brooklyn College as it hosts the Tango Buenos Aires company.

Sunday, Feb. 27

Gowanus: "Mr. Funny Pants" himself, Michael Showalter, celebrates the release of his new book at the Bell House with some pretty good friends.

Borough-wide: Don't have a functioning TV, or simply need an excuse to go to a bar? Here's a great guide to Oscars events around Brooklyn compiled by Brooklyn Based.