Cheap Chick Weekend Picks

Friday February, 13, 2009
Artists Talk on Art: Art or Pornography?
7 p.m.
Come take part in this debate with painters and gallery folks at the School of Visual Arts
Cheap Chick Info: $7, $3 seniors/students, and SVA alums
Location Info: School of Visual Arts, 209 E. 23rd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
Subway: 6 to 23rd Street

Saturday February 14th, 2009-Valentine's Day Guide!
Valentine’s Day Personal Media Mixer and Confessional Culture Variety Show
8 p.m.
Share secrets, mixed tapes, love letters, life stories, your old diary, and a couple of PBRs with total strangers at Housing Works. Enjoy an evening of performances and activities by PostSecret, Found Magazine, Mortified, Six-Word Memoirs, Cassette from my Ex, and music by Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero.
Cheap Chick Info: $15, includes a copy of Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak or a Mortified, FOUND or PostSecret book, while supplies last.
Location Info: Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street (near Lafayette)
Subway: R,W to Prince Street, F to Broadway/Lafayette

Heeb Storytelling: Valentine's Day Edition
8:30 p.m.
Come enjoy another edition of the mag's story night.
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: 92nd Street Y, Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street at Canal
Subway: E,1,6 to Canal Street

"Rejected" Valentine's Day Heartbreak
Improv comedy with free beer!
10:30 p.m.
Cheap Chick Info: $10, includes beer!
Location Info: Upright Citizen's Brigade, 307 West 26th Street
Subway: A, C, E to 23rd Street

New Yorker Speakeasy
Hear Gabriel Byrne, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Karen Russell talk about literature and love and check out an acoustic set by Grizzly Bear.
8 p.m.
Cheap Chick Info: $10-$15
Location Info: powerHouse arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO
Subway: F to York Street, A, C to High Street

Sunday February 16th, 2009
Open Reading at ABC No Rio
3 p.m.
Anything goes at these regular readings, come ready to witness creativity!
Cheap Chick Info: $2
Location Info: ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street between Clinton and Suffolk Streets
Subway: F to 2nd Avenue