Jun 4, 2013 2 min read advice

The Day: Free Dance Classes, Gay Pride Month Events and South African Food and Music

A rainy day offered relief from the heat on Monday. (Photo by Francisco Daum)

Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

The heat wave broke yesterday with thunderstorms and late afternoon scattered showers. While local plants may have enjoyed the sudden downpours, we saw at least one you got caught in the rain.

Friends are mourning Antonio Wilson, the 23-year-old who was killed by a stray bullet during a fight on Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill late Friday night, DNAinfo reported. Wilson, who was known for his fashion sense and photography, was not involved in the fight. Friends say the Bronx man was “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” the website reported. The NYPD is adding more patrols in certain neighborhoods following last weekend’s spike in gun violence, in which seven people were killed and 26 wounded, The New York Times reported.

Madiba, Brooklyn’s only South African restaurant, is having a night of South African music, food and culture on June 5 at 7 p.m. at 195 DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported. Author Neville Frankel, who immigrated from South Africa as a teenager, will read from his latest novel, “Bloodlines,” which follows a family through 50 years of apartheid. Brooklyn native Nedelka F. Prescod and her band the Earth Tones will also perform. The event is free, but $50 will buy you a three-course South African meal and a signed copy of “Bloodlines.”

So you think you can’t dance? The Fulton Area Businesses Alliance let us know about free dance classes at the Putnam Triangle Plaza at Fulton Street and Grand Avenue in Clinton Hill. The classes, featuring instructors from the Mark Morris Dance Group and Cumbe will run every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. from tomorrow until July 24.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music kicks off its celebration of Gay Pride Month on June 13 with a night of comedy, starting 8 p.m. in the BAM Cafe. A film adaptation of a chapter from David Sedaris’s book “Naked,” a Pride Party and a documentary are among the events hosted by BAM to observe the month.