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DON'T MISS!: WELCOME TO BOOKLYN If a sci-fi apocalypse were to hit Brooklyn this weekend, affecting the borough the way, say, Karen Thompson Walker’s slowing of the Earth’s orbit wreaks havoc in “The Age of Miracles,’’ it would result in a future with a lot of empty bookshelves. That’s because more than 280 authors are taking part in the seventh annual Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, with events at Borough Hall and other nearby venues. Among the writers participating in talks, panels, Q&As, etc. are Kurt Anderson, Paul Auster, Edwidge Danticat, Lev Grossman, Walter Mosley, Sapphire, Amy Sohn — and, yes, Karen Thompson Walker, who wrote her book in a tiny studio in Fort Greene. Having just moved to Iowa, where her husband is in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Walker says, “I’m most excited to participate in the Brooklyn Book Festival because it was my hometown. I always loved going [to the fest] when I lived here,” she adds of her eight years in the borough. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Court and Joralemon streets. Full schedule and details at brooklynbookfestival.org. — Billy Heller

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SING IT OUT!: A HORA SHOW If you’ve got the Yom Kippur-fasting blues, hava look at this! Check out “Hava Nagila: A Song for the People,” an exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage dedicated to the history of the wedding/bar mitzvah fave hoedown. The melody goes back the late 18th-century Ukraine; it was first recorded in 1922. “The entire installation looks like a party in motion,” says Melissa Martens, director of collections and exhibitions. See how the dance-inspiring song has long leapt past the bar mitzvah circuit, with Harry Belafonte popularizing it in a performance at Carnegie Hall in 1959 — and since then being covered by everyone from Bob Dylan to Allan Sherman. With the exhibit space made to look like a giant dance floor (1,000 square feet!), Martens says, “We’ve had a few people gather in a hora.” Adults $12, seniors $10, students $7; 36 Battery Place, 646-437-4200; mjhnyc.org/hava. — Max Gross

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WATCH THIS!: SCREEN TEST Pint-sized 12-year-old David Bennent gives an unforgettable performance as a precocious 3-year-old who decides to stop growing to protest the rise of the Nazis in “The Tin Drum.’’ The 1980 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, it’s a symbol-laden adaptation of Günter Grass' novel of the same name. On its release, The Post’s Archer Winsten called it a “severe test for culture vultures, cinema addicts and those who want to wrestle with the values in flux found in German-Polish Danzig before, during and after World War II.’’ Film Forum is showing a new restoration — with 25 minutes cut before the original release added in — for a week’s run with director Volker Schlöndorff on hand to introduce tonight’s 7:20 showing. 209 W. Houston St.; filmforum.org. —Lou Lumenick

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LISTEN UP!: BEAR WITH US A lot has happened to Grizzly Bear frontman Ed Droste since last September. First his nuptials, then the making of the band’s just-released fourth album, “Shields,” and now the Grizzly’s headlining date Monday at Radio City Music Hall. “I’ve only been there once — to see Björk!” marvels the longtime Williamsburg resident. “It’s hard to even digest the fact that we’re playing there this time, but we’re really excited.” With a wide-ranging sound that embraces indie rock, pastoral acoustic folk and lush psychedelic pop, Droste and his bandmates know how to charge up an audience; even Jay-Z and Beyoncé are fans, and they’ve shared stages with TV on the Radio, the Strokes and Radiohead. “We’re always trying to do something that feels fresh to us. That’s a challenge when you’ve got four people in a band that’s a total democracy.” Tickets, $40. Sixth Avenue at 50th Street; radiocity.com. — Bill Murphy

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GET STYLIN!: IVY LEAGUE Most people don’t get into Harvard or Yale or Princeton, but many dress like they have. For some added inspiration, get schooled at “Ivy Style,” an homage to the prestigious preppy look at the Museum at FIT. On display are smart styles ranging from letter sweaters to a colorful ’70s-era madras jacket to Brooks Brothers fashions — from pre-WWII to the present day. The collegiate clothes are arranged around a grass-covered “quad” and in reimagined university settings: classroom, dorm room and frat house — all meant to evoke the feeling of strolling through a bucolic college campus. Co-curator Richard Press was asked to contribute his memories from his own days at Dartmouth in the 1950s. “We set up a dorm room which I copied from my monastic freshman room,” he says. Go on down and give it the old college try! Free; Seventh Avenue at 27th Street; 212-217-4558, fitnyc.edu. — Christina Amoroso