Cheap Chick Weekend Picks, Nov. 6-8, 2009

Friday Nov. 6, 2009
Vermeer: Art in the Making
6 p.m.
Lecture about Vermeer's style and techniques in conjunction with Vermeer’s Masterpiece "The Milkmaid."
Cheap Chick Info: Free with museum admission (admission is pay-what-you-wish, you can pay as low as $1, or a little less, just tell the cashier you'd like to make a donation and hand over whatever you can afford to pay.
Location Info: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, Meet in the Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall in the Uris Center for Education
Subway: 6 to 86th Street

Film Screening: Border Cafe
7 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Watch an Iranian movie about a woman who runs her late husband's cafe even though she is threatened by the local male population. This event is presented in conjunction with the Global Film Initiative
Cheap Chick Info: $7 members/students/seniors; $11 nonmembers
Location Info: Asia Society Museum, 725 Park Avenue
Subway: 6 to 68th Street

Saturday Nov. 7, 2009
House of Diehl's Style Wars
10 p.m.
Calling all Project Runway fans! You'll be wondering if you are hearing Tim Gunn saying, "Make it work," when you see designers duke it out over vintage materials and present their creations on the runway. A celeb panel judges the competition, but you can snark amongst yourselves about who you think should be auf'ed.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Don Hill's, 511 Greenwich Street
Subway: C,E to Spring St.

Comic Relief: New York's History in Funny Pages and Capes
11 a.m.
From the parks website, "Join us as we see the role NYC has played in the formation of the superhero myths and see the impact those caped crusaders have had on the very world around us."
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
Subway: R,Q to Dekalb, C to Lafayette

Multiverse Playground

6 p.m. to 2 a.m.

3rd Ward and Paper Garden Records wants to challenge people's perceptions on music and art. Are you game? This "hypnotic and seductive" event includes a conceptual art performance, stand-up comedy, and of course, music.

Cheap Chick Info: $15 in advance, $20 at the door

Location Info: 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave. bet Meadow and Stagg

Subway: L to Grand

Downtown Scramble Scavenger Hunt

2 p.m.

Those cell phones will finally pay off for you if they help you win the first prize of tickets to the Rock of Ages musical. Described as "mind bending" this hunt will have you running all over the downtown area all the way up to the Flatiron building. Wear some comfortable shoes and a bottle of water. Sounds like a good way to meet some new people!

Cheap Chick Info: $15-$20

Location Info: Meet at the Cube at Astor Place, Astor Place and Lafayette

Subway: 6 to Astor Place, N,R to 8th Street

Saturday Nov. 7 and Sunday Nov. 8, 2009
King Con Brooklyn
Freaks and geeks will gather in Brooklyn for the borough's own comic and animation convention and possibly seek out "new life," "strange new worlds," and perhaps someone in a Princess Leia in a gold bikini. There will be exhibitors, vendors, panelists, and signings. Some featured guests will be Act-I-Vate's Dean Haspiel, Northlanders' Brian Wood, illustrator Molly Crabapple, Matt Manning, Bob Greenberger, and and many others. Official website is here.
Cheap Chick Info: $7 per day or $10 for the weekend.
Location Info: Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Ave., Park Slope
Subway: R to Union St.

Sunday Nov. 8, 2009
Who Does She Think She Is? screening and panel discussion
2:45 p.m.
Follow female artists from around the country as they juggle their artistic passions and roles of being wives and mothers. This film was created by the Academy-Award winning co-executive producer of Born Into Brothels, Pamela Tanner Boll. After the screening, a live interactive panel featuring Boll and the artists will originate at Symphony Space. The panel will be moderated by Courtney E. Martin, the award-winning author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women.
Cheap Chick Info: $11, $7 for members, $9 for seniors
Location Info: Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street
Subway: 1,2,3 to 96th Street,

BRUCE (Brooklyn Underground Chili Extravanganza)
Did not get a time, assume you should show up before 8 p.m.
There is more than one way to warm yourself up on a warm winter's night...that's right, you know what I'm talking about. And it's not the TK. Or anything else you might be thinking of that involves warm bodies, it's chili. Come sample chili from 10 competitiors. If you come before 8 p.m. you can enter to win a judge's slot.
Cheap Chick Info: Hmm, didn't get a price either, assume it's free...
Location Info: Barcade, 388 Union Ave., Williamsburg
Subway: G to Metropolitan/Lorimer

Madison Avenue Holiday Expo
10 a.m.
Don't you just love how retailers skip right over Thanksgiving and straight to Christmas and Hannakuh? My neighborhood in Queens already has tinsel decorations up, and Starbucks is serving in their special holiday cups...anyway if you want to get a jump-start to holiday shopping before you've even bought your turkey, then check out crafts and other goodies on the Ave.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Madison Ave. bet. 42nd and 57th Street

Subway: Varies, but the 6 to Grand Central should give you a good start!

Remember that the Bryant Park ice skating rink opens this weekend with special festivities, it's free on First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum, and at Housing Works Bookstore save 30% on books, CDs, and DVDs.