Cheap Chick Weekend Picks, Nov. 13-15, 2009

Friday November 13, 2009
Rouge Soiree
6 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 7:50 p.m.
Sample holiday colors for the lips and nails as well as the latest Bacchus red wines. Also be entered in a raffle to win a spa service!
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Lancome Boutique, 201 Columbus Ave.@69th Street
Subway: 1 to 66th St.

1-Night Stand Music Festival
Various Times
Check out seven clubs, and 30 bands in one night!
Cheap Chick Info: Pay $10 at one club and get into the other six for free!
Location Info: For showtimes and bands, as well as venue info, visit http://www.myspace.com/djmisterx
Subway: Varies

Art Battles
7:30 p.m.
This event is almost like Project Runway except with paint. Teams of two create masterpieces in just three hours as music plays in the background.
Cheap Chick Info: $7
Location Info: M1-5, 52 Walker St.
Subway: 6,J,M,Z,A,C,E,Q,W to Canal St. (remember the R isn't running below 34th St. this weekend.)

Samurai Cinema Series
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
In honor of the museum's exhibit, "Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868, the Met is screening a number Akira Kurosawa's movies including tonight's showing of The Hidden Fortress from 1958, which I'm told was an inspiration for Star Wars.
Cheap Chick Info: $15, tickets can be purchased in advance here.
Location Info: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Subway: 4,5,6 to 86th Street

Saturday November. 14, 2009
Transfer: A Seminar With Naomi Shahib Nye
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
This is a round-table discussion for adults about how poetry can help people through different stages of life.
Cheap Chick Info: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members
Location Info: Poets House, 10 River Terrace
Subway: A,C,2,3 to World Trade Center

My Dinner With Andre Screening
2 p.m.
Feast on this 1981 Louis Malle film, where Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory dine and converse about their lives-I hope they get dessert too! A cocktail reception and a conversation with Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, and Bob Balaban follows the screening.
Cheap Chick Info: $10, main theater is sold out, but other tkts may be available day of show, and the cocktail reception is open to all.
Location Info: Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Ave.
Subway: A, C, B, D, 2, 3 to 125th St.

Radio Happy Hour
2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
An old-time radio show that features interviews, performances, and trivia. Today's event includes Craig Finn, Tad Kubler, and Chuck Klosterman.
Cheap Chick Info: $10 in advance, $12 day of show, 18+ only
Location Info: Le Poisson Rouge, 358 Bleecker
Subway: A,C,E,D,F to West 4th St.

Chelsea Art Gallery Hop With the Lunch Club
2 p.m.
Mingle with the arterati (is there such a word?) and don't forget your berets and black clothes.
Cheap Chick Info: $10 in advance or $15 at the door. RSVP here.
Location Info: Meet at Westside Tavern, 23rd bet. 8th and 9th
Subway: C,E to 23rd St.

Firefighter Auction
7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Things are sure to heat up with some of New York's hottest firefighters are auctioned off to the highest bidder! FDNY members will also sign their "City of the Brave" calendar.
Cheap Chick Info: Free, plus $3-$5 drink specials, but be careful on how much you bid ;-)
Location Info: Turtle Bay, 52nd and 2nd
Subway: E,6 to 51st and Lex.

Saturday November 14, 2009 and Sunday November 15, 2009
New-New Sale at Brooklyn Indie Mart
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Start your pre-Thanksgiving holiday shopping at the Indie Mart with new artists' wares on display.
Cheap Chick Info: Free to attend, make your own purchases, but here's a link to a 10% off coupon!
Location Info: Smith and Union Streets in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Subway: F,G to Carroll Street

Sunday November 15, 2009
Brooklyn Chocolate Experiment
1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
I don't know if there will be any Oompa-Loompas, but I'm sure imagination will be used to create some interesting treats!
Cheap Chick Info: $20, get tkts here.
Location Info: Bell House, 149 7th Street, bet 2nd and 3rd Avenues
Subway: F,G (the R isn't running past 34th Street this w/e) to 9th St./4th Ave.

233rd Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Washington
12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Travel back in time to the American revolution and visit a recreation of a Continental Army camp, complete with musket demonstration. Historic photos and maps will be on display and there will be a blacksmith demonstration, and bagpipe performance.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Fort Tryon Park, Fort Washington Avenue, north of West 190th Street Cafe Lawn in Fort Tryon Park. Enter the park at Margaret Corbin Circle and take the path on your right to the first lawn.
Subway: A to 200th Street

Dutch Bouwerie, Irish Ale House, and the Yiddish King Lear-Historic Diversity in the East Vilage
1 p.m.
This 2-hour walking tour is led by Joyce Gold, a history teacher at NYU and the New School. Stops include McSorley's, Cooper Union, the Yiddish Rialto theater, and the sites of the Astor Place Opera Riot, and the General Slocum disaster.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Meet at St. Mark's in the Bowery, E. 10th and 2nd Ave.
Subway: 6 to Astor Place

Here's a link to a coupon for 30% off at Banana Republic, Gap, and Old Navy. Plus Housing Works is having a sale on cookbooks!

There are tons of events going on in honor of Five Dutch Days, see what "uncanny" structures there are at Canstruction, and a new Sesame Street exhibit has started at the Brooklyn Public Library.