I’m out of town this weekend, but for those of you spending it in New York, here are some events to keep you out of (or get you into) trouble:

1. The Brooklyn Bridge is celebrating its 120th birthday tomorrow, and there will be a big walking tour over the bridge at noon, with some sort of Large Cake involved, as well. It’s $5 to join in, and everyone’s meeting up in front of the Municipal Building (at the corner of Chambers and Centre streets).

2. The first annual New York Burlesque Festival begins today and goes through the weekend. Tonight is a mixer and peep show at The Slipper Room, and tomorrow night the festivities move to the Knitting Factory (where I saw Rasputina a couple years ago). There’s a brunch on Sunday as well, but it looks like tomorrow night is the main event: 40 Burlesque sirens will take over 2 floors of lower Manhattans Knitting Factory for a night of titillating performance, live music and debauchery.

3. Sunday there’s the third anniversary of Motherfucker, which is of course no longer actually at Mother. Although word is Mother has reopened under different management and is now called Filter 14 - I haven’t been down there yet, but I’d be interested in going for nostalgia purposes.

For more, the MUG’s got a list of 10 Weekend Pleasures, although whether there’s any burlesque involved in it, I can’t say.