Cheap Chick NYC Weekend Event Picks, June 25-27, 2010

Friday June 25, 2010
"The Trojan Women"
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
"The Hudson Warehouse presents Trojan Women, a new adaptation by writer and director Nicholas Martin-Smith, based on the works of Euripides. With the city of Troy decimated by 10 years of war, the women of Troy are corralled into a refugee camp and await their fate at the hands of a bureaucratic system."
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Soldiers and Sailors Monument and Riverside Drive sidewalk, Riverside Park
Subway: 1 to 79th St.

We Hardly Knew V
11 p.m.
Newmindspace and NYCentric are holding a wake for the TK V line, which will cease existence starting Sunday. Dance to some tunes and put the fun back in funeral!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: 2nd Ave./LES Uptown V platform, E. Houston @Second Ave.
Subway: F,V (not for long!) to 2nd Ave.

The Swedish Midsummer Festival (http://www.swedenabroad.com/Page____13256.aspx) is tonight in Battery Park (hopefully it’s not cloudy with a chance of meatballs!)

Friday June 25 and Saturday June 26, 2010
Evil Dead 2
Midnight
Sure makes you think about getting away from the city, ahhh, I can picture myself relaxing in a cabin in the woods until the killing starts…
Cheap Chick Info: $12.50
Location Info: Landmark Sunshine, 143 East Houston Street
Subway: F,V to Second Ave.

Basic Instinct screening
10:30 p.m.
Better watch out for that ice pick…
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: 92ndY Tribeca, 200 Hudson St.
Subway: 1,E to Canal St.

Saturday June 26, 2010
Bubble Battle NYC
6 p.m.
Bring any bubble implements you can imagine, pipes, wands, guns, sounds like something out of Clue or Harry Potter. Man your stations!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Times Square
Subway: A,C,E,1,2,3,7,S to Times Square, 42nd St.

Waterfront Books and Authors Festival
12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Authors with a thirst for maritime history will be reading at this event, which features Ben Gibberd, Jessica DuLong, John Waldman, William Kornblum, Trevor Corson, George Matteson, Gabriel Cohen, Terry Walton, and Nathan Ward, as well as performances by Pinataland and a raffle. Refreshments are provided by Fairway and Arizona Ice Tea.
Cheap Chick Info: $6
Location Info: Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge, 290 Conover Street, Brooklyn
Subway: A,C,F,2,3,4,5 to Jay St./Borough Hall or M, N, R to Court Street

Before Stonewall: Gay and Lesbian History Walking Tour
2 p.m.
Big Onion Walking Tours will take you to sites associated with gay and lesbian history like The Stonewall Inn, the Duplex and personalities including Eleanor Roosevelt, Willa Cather, Bayard Rustin, and Audre Lorde.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and Washington Square North
Subway: 6 to Astor Place, R,W to 8th St.

King Michael: Tribute to the King of Pop
8 p.m.
Just “beat it” to this “thriller” of a performance that traces the late pop star from his Jackson 5 days to his post-plastic surgery days.
Cheap Chick Info: Cheapest tickets are $20, buy them here: http://www.lehmancenter.org/shows/michael.html
Location Info: Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY
Subway: 4 to Bedford Park Boulevard

Fishing Festival
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Urban Park Rangers are hosting this catch-and-release fishing event complete with rods and reels. Other activities include river-themed crafts, free fishing tutorial, Hudson River biodiversity discovery, and live aquatic animals.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: West Harlem Piers Park, 125th St. and the Hudson
Subway: 1 to 125th St.

There’s always room for Jell-O at the Jell-O Mold Competition (http://www.gowanusstudio.org/jello/) and The Coney Island Film Society is screening Attack of the 50-foot Woman tonight (http://www.coneyisland.com/films.shtml)!

Saturday June 26 and Sunday June 27, 2010
The Williamsburg You Never Knew
2 p.m.
Discovery Walking Tours takes you through this Bklyn hood, “from the hipster to the Hasidic” with stops ranging from Bedford Avenue, Peter Luger’s, the landmark Williamsburg Savings Bank, and the Williamsburg Bridge.
Cheap Chick Info: $18, call 212-465-3331 for reservations and meeting place.
Location Info: See above.
Subway: See above.

Sunday June 27, 2010
Bang on a Can Marathon
12 p.m. to 12 a.m.
This is exactly how it sounds…featuring Mira Calix, Buke and Gass, Vernon Reid, and Kyrgyzstan's jaw harp virtuosos Kambar Kalendarov & Kutman Sultanbekov.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: World Financial Center Winter Garden, 220 Vesey St. bet West St. and North End Avenue
Subway: 2,3,A,C,E to World Trade Ctr-Park Pl, 1 to Rector St

Veuve Polo Classic
Noon to 6 p.m. (match is at 3 p.m.)
Polo isn’t just for rich people (or Julia Roberts and Richard Gere), but you might want to practice your curtsy-Prince Harry is one of the attendees!
Cheap Chick Info: Bleacher seats are free! More info here: http://experience.veuve-clicquot.com/us/polo/information.html
Location: Governor’s Island
Subway: Take the 1 to South Ferry, 4, 5 to Bowling Green, R, W to Whitehall St. and then take the ferry over. Sked is here: http://www.govisland.com/visit_the_island/directions.asp

Stinkfest
11 a.m. to 6 p.m., contest at 2 p.m.
Hopefully the cheese is not old and moldy, (bonus points if you get this 90’s movie reference), as competitors race to finish the fromage, in this case Cantalet in two minutes at this cheese eating contest.
Cheap Chick Info: Free admission!
Location Info: Smith and Vine, 268 Smith St. at DeGraw
Subway: F,G to Carroll St.

Plus you can take free yoga classes at Yogamaya (http://www.yogadork.com/2010/06/24/nyc-free-classes-this-weekend-at-yogamaya-grand-opening/), get in touch with your inner vampire at Take Back the Twilight (http://www.takebackthetwilight.com/), and celebrate a Day of Fashion “Brooklyn Style” at the Brooklyn Museum (http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/3265)!

The Northside Festival (http://www.thelmagazine.com/blogs/NorthsideFestivalNews/) Williamsburg Walks (http://www.williamsburgwalks.org/) tons of Pride events (http://www.nycpride.org/) and the NYC Food Film Festival (http://www.nycfoodfilmfestival.com/) are going on all weekend too!