Cheap Chick Weekend Picks, September 18-20, 2009

Friday September 18, 2009
Read-n-Rock-n-Roll YA Variety Show starring Frank Portman
8 p.m.
All the info you need is here!
Cheap Chick Info: $5
Location Info: Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street
Subway: B,D,F,V to Broadway/Lafayette, Downtown 6 to Bleecker St.

Nerd Nite Nerdtacular
Doors open at 7:30, event starts at 8:00 p.m.
You won't actually find many people at these monthly events wearing pocket protectors or glasses held together with tape, instead a group of hip urbanites gather together to learn about a wide range of topics. Tonight the subjects are "body-and-mind-contorting science acrobatics, presentations about foraging for food by a New York Times writer, Daoist sexual vampires, and Cold War-era pinball raids."
Cheap Chick Info: $12
Location Info: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street
Subway: A,C to High Street, F to York

Clue Viewing
9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Just in time for the remake, can you figure out whodunit? Was it Mrs. Peacock in the library with the candlestick? Colonel Mustard in the billiards room with the wrench? Miss Scarlet in the dining room with the revolver? Or did the butler do it...?
Cheap Chick Info: Free with $7 bar minimum
Location Info: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th Street
Subway: A, C or E to 14th Street, 1 to 18th Street

Also find pop-up art in parking spaces today for Park(ing) Day today.

Saturday September 19, 2009
Great Irish Fair
12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Look hard and maybe you'll see a leprechaun or a four-leaf clover at this festival that includes music, food, dancing, and Irish goods.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info:Coney Island, Keyspan Parking Lot, (off Surf Avenue between West 19th and West 20th streets)
Subway: D, Q N or F train to Stillwell Avenue

New York Swing Dance Society Dance
Classes are held from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Dancing after lessons.
Pretend you're in a Gap, er, Jitterbug commercial as you dance to the sounds of Ron Sunshine and DJ Larry Kang, not King.
Cheap Chick Info: $15 general, $11 students and seniors
Location Info: St Jean's Baptist Church - East 76th Street and Lexington Ave., downstairs
Subway: 6 to 77th Street

Hawk Day at Prospect Park
12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Now you can watch them like hawks at presentations put together by the Theodore Roosevelt Audubon Sanctuary. Other activities include (from the website) "hawk puppet crafts, interactive games, and Hawk Watch. Binoculars provided. Live one-hour bird shows each day starting at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Prospect Park, The Audubon Center, Boathouse, Prospect Park (inside the Lincoln Road/Ocean Avenue entrance)
Subway: F train at 7th Ave. station, 15th St./Prospect Park

Tuck Shop Meat Pie Eating Contest
Could not get exact time of this, but the event is part of the St. Mark's Place Block Party where these yummy pies are available for $5 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Cheap Chick Info: Free to watch competition (perhaps stop by to ask about the contest) and $5 for the pies.
Location Info: Tuck Shop, St. Mark's Place bet. First Ave. and Ave. A
Subway: F to Second Ave.

Saturday September 19th and Sunday September 20th, 2009
Free movies with Rooftop Films
Saturday: Burning in the Sun documentary, Doors Open at 8 p.m., movie at 9 p.m. Sunday: Independent Film Labs Sneak Preview Showcase, Doors open at 8 p.m., movie at 9 p.m.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Saturday: On the pier at Solar One, 23rd Street @ the East River (Kips Bay, Manhattan) Sunday: Brooklyn Bridge Park,
Subway: Saturday: 6 to 23rd St. Sunday: A,C to High Street, F to York St.

Sunday September 20, 2009
Taste of the West Village
12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Sample foods from different area restaurants at this fundraiser to benefit local schools.
Cheap Chick Info: Tickets are sold in packs of five, 10 or 20 tastes for $10, (cheap-chick price), $25 or $45; buy them here.
Location Info: The Yard at P.S. 41, at Greenwich Ave. and Charles St.
Subway: 1 to Christopher St.

Special Beer Week Pub Quiz
8:30 p.m.
Brew up some fun with this special event! Includes special mystery beer identification quiz.
Cheap Chick Info: The website was being mysterious and didn't list a price, so I assume it's free, but play at your own risk or call ahead!
Location Info: 82 Fourth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, D, N, Q, and R to Atlantic/Pacific

Don't forget that the Emmys air at 8 p.m. on CBS tonight!

For those of you who can't get enough of Fashion Week, you can venture off the island of Manhattan to Brooklyn for the Brooklyn Fashion Festival and Williamsburg Fashion Weekend.

Check out some art while you're downtown as part of the Lent Space program!

Country music lovers can head to Southpaw for the Brooklyn Country Music Festival!

Don't forget, the Queens County Fair and other fall events are listed in my Fall Guide!