July 20: The Urban Night Sky

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meander through Fort Greene Park at night? Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered which constellations you were seeing? Have you ever imagined the wildlife that comes out at twilight?

If the answer is, "No," to any of these questions, then come out an enjoy a summer night's .

Here are your 5 Things for today:

1. Courtesy of A Child Grows in Brooklyn blog, check out this list of playgrounds in Fort Greene-Clinton Hill that you may be missing. 

2. A lawyer for former World Bank chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's French accuser met with the Manhattan DA on Monday—days after a rally in support of the Sofitel hotel worker at the center of the case was held in Harlem. 

3. The weekly kids-centric concert series Music in the Grove continues . 

4. As part of Greenlight Bookstore's , listen to a discussion on  political change with filmmaker/media activist J. Bob Alotta, poet/educator Kahlil Almustafa, visual artist/performance artist/AIDS activist Hunter Reynolds, and painter/performance artist Chaw Ei Thein, in a Q&A moderated by visual artist Dread Scott.

5. In case you missed it: allegedly behind a spate of wrought-iron fence thefts in Clinton Hill last May.