Cheap Chick NYC Weekend Picks, Dec. 11-13, 2009

Hopefully you're snuggled with someone under the mistletoe, but if you need a break here are this weekend's picks, and don't forget there are most listings on my NYC Hanukkah, and NYC Christmas Guides! Also watch for a special holiday gift guide from the Cheap Chick to be published by Saturday!

Friday December 11, 2009
Writer's Studio Reading Series
6:30 p.m.
Hear writers from the Pushcart Press share their works.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker
Subway: A,C,E,F,V,B to West 4th St.

Biblioball
8 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Wow, there's finally a place for bookworms to hang out in NYC...hmmm...wait, well here's one more place for book addicts to hang, this time with live music and raffle prizes. All proceeds go to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens.
Cheap Chick Info: Some tkts are $20, but some are listed at $25, so you might have to stretch the Cheap Chick budget a touch...
Location Info: The Bell House, 149 Seventh Street, bet. 2nd and 3rd Aves.
Subway: F,G,R to 9^th St./4^th Ave.

Friday December 11-Sunday December 13, 2009
Zero Film Festival
Friday and Saturday: 6:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
This film festival is composed of films made entirely by self-financed filmmakers.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO, Brooklyn
Subway: A,C to High St., F to York St.

Saturday December 12, 2009
Lois Lowry reading
1 p.m.
I ask, who didn't want to keep a green notebook like Anastasia Krupnik? I know I did. Learn the secrets of the author of the Anastasia books, Number the Stars, and the surreal The Giver.
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: 92nd St. Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue@92nd St.
Subway: 6 to 96th St.

Immigrant New York Walking Tour
11 a.m.
This Lower East Side jaunt explores the sites related to the diverse groups who once called the neighborhood home as well as places related to historic figures like Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Jacob Riis, Abraham Cahan, Pierre Toussaint, and Emma Goldman.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Meet at the southeast corner of Broadway & Chambers Street, at City Hall Park.
Subway: 4,5,6 to Brooklyn Bridge, R,W to City Hall

Remember SantaCon is today! And watch the Central Park Zoo animals open their presents (Sunday and next weekend as well!) and participate in holiday activities at the Bartow-Pell Mansion in the Bronx.

Sunday December 13, 2009 Facts, Myths, and Lore of Evergreen and Mistletoe
11 a.m.
Get into the holiday season with the history and current uses of this seasonal greenery.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
Subway: C to Lafayette, G to Fulton,

Jewish Harlem Walking Tour
11 a.m.
Did you know that Harlem was once home to a large Jewish population? Neither did I! Find out more with stops at Commandment Keepers, Harlem’s active Ethiopian Hebrew Synagogue and the former Temple Israel.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Meet in the plaza in front of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building at 163 W. 125th St.
Subway: A,C,D,2,3 trains to 125th St.

Christmas Window Watching With the Lunch Club
2 p.m.
It's not Christmas in NYC without seeing the windows or the tree at Rockefeller Center. Who knows, maybe you'll have your own miracle on 34th St...
Cheap Chick Info: $8 in advance, $10 at the event, http://www.thelunchclub.com/clubhouse/calendar.php?do=viewlcevent&e=2362
Location Info: TBD, check website or look for email after signing up.
Subway: See above.

You can also catch the free Tuba Christmas Concert on Sunday at Rockefeller Center at 3:30 p.m., which features 500 tubas!