Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Cheap Chick Weekend Picks, October 30-November 1, 2009

There is lots going on this weekend, so be sure to check my Halloween Guide for all your bloody, gory, ghost, party, drink, tour, and candy needs! Plus there are additional weekend picks that may get those teeth chattering, goosebumps rising, and hair standing on end. Happy Halloween!

Friday October 30, 2009
Housing Works Spelling Bee
8 p.m.
Be sure to ask them to use your word in a sentence, that will help you to spell it..or will it? Come out to live your own version of Spellbound.
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street
Subway: Downtown 6 to Bleecker St., B,D,F,V to Broadway/Lafayette

Celebrate the new Wicked pop-up book
5 p.m.
The city of New York plays host to residents from the land of Oz at this event, which is likely to be "popular." Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Ruby slippers are optional footwear.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Triangle, 66th and Broadway
Subway: 1 to 66th Street

Variety Show at the New Museum
7 p.m.
Watch a contemporary variety show inspired by original artwork.
Cheap Chick Info: $10 for members, $12 for the general public
Location Info: New Museum, 235 Bowery
Subway: 6 to Spring, N,R to Prince St.

Mount Vernon Hotel Historic Halloween
6 p.m. (for children) and 7:15 p.m. (for adults only.)
This spooky candlelight tour includes scary ghost stories shared by Gerald Fierst.
Cheap Chick Info: $15 general admission, $10 members
Location: Mount Vernon Hotel, 421 East 61st Street between First and York Avenues
Subway: N,R,W,4,5,6 to 59th/Lex.

Critical Mass Halloween Bike Ride
Ride: 7 p.m., Party at 9 p.m.
See if you can ride your bike and wear a Halloween costume at the same time!
Cheap Chick Info: Ride is Free! $10 sliding scale cost for after-party admission
Location Info: Meet at Union Square, 14th St. for the ride, Party is at Surreal Estate, 15 Thames Street, bet. Bogart and Morgan Aves, Brooklyn
Subway: Ride: N,R,W,4,5,6 to 14th St./Union Square, Party: L train to Morgan Ave.

Saturday October 31, 2009-Happy Halloween!
Fright Night VHS Double Feature
8 p.m. to Midnight
Revisit the 80's at this totally awesome double feature of Chopping Mall and Killer Workout.
Cheap Chick Info: $12
Location Info: 92nd Street Y, 200 Hudson Street
Subway: E or 1 to Canal St.

Upper River Run, Thriller on the River
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"Canoe through Bronx River Forest past the Botanical Garden and end at the Bronx Zoo."
Cheap Chick Info: $20, for more info call (718) 430-4677.
Location Info: Bronx Park at 219th Street
Subway: 2 to 219th St.

Saturday October 31st, and Sunday November 1, 2009
Ghosts of the Upper West Side Walking Tour
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Learn about spirits past without a Ouija board! Hopefully this will be more interesting than your high school history class-the tour includes local ghost stories based on historic facts
Cheap Chick Info: $20, reservations required. Call 646-573-9509.
Location Info: Meet at 72nd Street and Central Park West
Subway: C to 72nd Street

Sunday November 1, 2009
New York City Marathon
8:20 a.m. (first wave starts)
When you hear the word Roadrunner, don't you automatically think-meep, meep? Just checking...squeeze through the costumed masses to cheer on the racers.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: The race starts at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island. This year the race is starting in waves, so the first race will be starting at 8:20 a.m. The race will go through all five boroughs and will be visible along First Ave. and Fifth Ave in Manhattan.
Subway: Varies on viewing location.

Galway Kinnell Reading
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The award-winning (we're talking the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award here people) poet will be making a rare (that's what they're saying on the website, you'll have to take their word for it...) appearance to read from his latest works.
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: Brooklyn Lyceum
Subway: R to Union St.

Fancy on Fifth From Rockefeller Center to the Plaza Hotel
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Maybe you really can have breakfast at Tiffany's? Or at least channel Audrey Hepburn walking along this stretch of skyscrapers and shops. On this tour you'll learn about the changes on this iconic avenue from the 19th to 20th centuries.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Meet in the courtyard of 457 Madison Ave. at 51st Street
Subway: F,D (remember the V and the B don't run on the weekends) to 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center

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