June 29: FUREE Takes The Stage

Besides having one the best acronyms ever, the folks behind Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, better known as FUREE, are a pretty talented bunch.

FUREE members will again take the stage at The Irondale Center in The Foundry Theater's production of "Pins and Needles," a Depression-era comedy reviewed by our arts writer, Jonathan Mandell, 

Click here for tickets. 

Here are your 5 Things for today:

1. The City Council is expected to vote later this morning on a budget deal that will avert thousands of teacher layoffs and save more than a dozen firehouses, according to City Hall News.

2. The second (and final) public input session on a new plaza at Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. 

3. It's Wednesday! And that means in Fort Greene Park, this time featuring AudraRox — an artist that Frugal Family columnist and stay-at-home dad John Rouse claims is . Maybe. 

4. In case you missed it: Khalil Gibran International Academy will be saying in the not-too-distant future. 

5. Barring a zombie apocalypse (or another bogus Rapture prediction) interrupting the morning rush hour, alternate side parking rules will be in effect today.