Nerd Nite
7 p.m.
Tonight's topics include Jewish gangsters, zombies, and swingers. Get your geek, er nerd on and enjoy lectures and drinks.
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street at Water Street
Subway: F to York Street, A,C to High Street
Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament Championship
8 p.m.
Watch "design as a spectator sport" as designers compete to create designs on a large scale against the clock.
Cheap Chick Info: $20 at the door, cash only
Location Info: Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 W. 34th St
Subway: A,C,E to 34th Street
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday October 16-18, 2009
The New Yorker Festival
Get your book on with a ton of literary-related events! All info can be found here.
Cheap Chick Info: Varies, Cheap Chick-friendly prices are around $20, looks like they go up to $35
Location Info: Varies.
Subway: Varies.
International Vintage Poster Fair
Friday: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Find something to cover those apartment walls once you get tired of that Van Gogh poster you've had since college.
Cheap Chick Info: $15 entrance fee
Location Info: Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 W. 18th Street, 4th Floor
Subway: 1 to 18th Street
Saturday October, 17, 2009
Halloween Harvest Fest
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Rock out with live music, a canine costume contest, and a performance of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Socrates Sculpture Park, Vernon Blvd., Broadway, and 31st Road
Subway: N to Broadway
Community Planting Day
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Get that thumb a nice shade green as you help bring plants to Bowling Green Park. There will be complimentary refreshments and a pumpkin giveaway though supplies are limited. Gardening tools and plants are provided.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Bowling Green Park
Subway: R,W to Whitehall Street
Enid's 7th Annual Apple Pie Bake-off
Pies due between 4 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. (looks like judging will be after this)
Sample pies that are competing for prizes for the prettiest and most creative. Music and drinks will also be on-hand. Of course you can always enter your own pie in the competition...will it be as easy as pie to win?
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Enid's 560 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn
Subway: L to Bedford
Grand Re-Opening of El Museo del Barrio
11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The museum re-opens with lots of activities including exhibitions, music, and storytelling. Schedule of events can be found here.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th Street
Subway: 6 to 103rd Street
Wycliffe Gordon at New York Swing Dance Society Dance
Dance lesson: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., band on after 8 p.m.
Dance the night away to the sounds of Wycliffe Gordon, a former member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet.
Cheap Chick Info: $11 for students and seniors, $15 for general admission
Location Info: St. Jean Baptiste Church, 184 E. 76th St at Lexington Ave.
Subway: 6 to 77th St.
Saturday and Sunday October 17 and 18, 2009
Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour (AGAST)
1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Meet artists in their natural habitats.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Various in Gowanus, a map of spaces is here.
Subway: F,G to Caroll Street
Sunday October, 18, 2009
Gravesend Cemetery Tour
11 a.m.
Just in time for Halloween, walk among the dead in a place that is rarely open for any living souls.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: McDonald Avenue on Gravesend Neck Road
Subway: N to King's Highway
Fall for Photography Walking Tour
11 a.m.
Enjoy a guided tour of Inwood Hill Park led by a park ranger, and take some memorable pictures of the fall foliage and other sights.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Inwood Hill Park (Did not get more specific info than this, you may try calling (212) 304-2365 for a more specific meeting location.)
Subway: 1,9 to 125th Street
Batman Screening
8 p.m.
See the original pre-Christian Bale Batman, sorry ladies, you'll have to settle for Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton for eye candy, do with that what you will...
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Habana Outpost, 757 Fulton St., Brooklyn
Subway: C to Lafayette, G to Fulton
The Food Obstructions
7:30 p.m.
Imagine yourself into the Top Chef kitchen, as you the audience fill out scorecards to decide the winner of this culinary competition, which includes, you guessed it-obstructions similar to TC challenges like needing a purple color and must contain one fruit and one vegetable.
Cheap Chick Info: $5
Location Info: The Gutter, 200 N. 14th Street bet. Wythe and Nassau, Brooklyn
Subway: L to Bedford, G to Nassau
Give My Regards to Broadway Walking Tour
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
No one will look at you funny if you decide to break out in song during this tour, it's perfectly natural to want to sing a song when you see a your true love, or a rival gang, or a phantom. Right...well anyway on this tour you'll learn about the history and current sites of the "Great White Way."
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Meet at the S.E. corner of Broadway and 44th St.
Subway: N,R,Q.W,1,2,3,S,7 to 42nd Street/Times Square
Writer's Studio Reading with Susan Choi
5p.m.
The author will read aloud with Lisa Badner, Lucinda Holt, Eleanor Kedney, Michele Herman, and Elliot Satsky.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Housing Works Bookstore,
Subway: 6 to Bleecker Street, F to Broadway/Lafayette
New York City Apple Day
11 a.m.
See if you can resist the temptation to stock your apartment with this forbidden fruit as Orchard Street becomes an actual apple orchard, with a cider press, walking tours, and apple treats.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Orchard bet. Broome and Grand
Subway: F to Delancey
92nd Street Y Festival
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Y opens its doors and the surrounding streets to the public with food, music, dancing, children's activities, fitness demonstrations, a discount on membership, and even a raffle.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Lexington Avenue, 79th to 94th Streets
Subway: 6 to 77th Street
The Bonk Festival is going on this weekend too, info is here!
Some other Cheap Chick news:
I am hosting a book swap on Oct. 25, 2009, at 12:30 p.m. at the Rodeo Bar (27th and 3rd). We'll be enjoying brunch and then trading books. Come even if you don't have any books to swap, I have tons to give away! RSVP to cheapchickinthecity@hotmail.com! Event is $5. Bags will be provided.
Also watch for a Halloween Guide later this w/e or early this coming week!
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