Cheap Chick Weekend Picks, Dec. 4-6, 2009 (Scroll Down for new Christmas Guide!)

Friday December 4, 2009
A Killer Burlesque Christmas
11:30 p.m.
Hopefully the after-life of this show (it's entirely based on the album "A Christmas Gift to You from Phil Spector") will be worth the cover charge.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St.
Subway: R to 8th St./6 to Astor Place

Lighting of the Bryant Park Christmas Tree
7 p.m.
Live skating and musical performances will be part of the ceremony!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Bryant Park-obviously!
Subway: B,D,F,V to 42nd St., 7 to Fifth Ave.

Also the Neue Galerie’s free First Fridays start tonight! And a McSweeney's party at Housing Works!

Friday December 4-Sunday December 6, 2009
Crafts at the Cathedral
Do your holiday shopping Cathedral-style with their crafts fair!
Cheap Chick Info: $6 a day or $7/weekend
Location Info: Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Subway: 1 to 110th Street

Saturday December 5, 2009
Iron Mule Short Film Festival
8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The Y says: "The name [Iron Mule] describes the movies we love to show; tough, burly, uncompromising shorts which can't be stopped." It's apparently also the name a Buster Keaton Film where the name gets its inspiration. Enjoy!
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: 92ndY Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street
Subway: 1,E to Canal St.

See a Tarot Card Reader Psychoanalyzed
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Jungian analyst Ami Ronnberg will analyze a Tarot Card reader in honor of the museum's Red Book Exhibit during one of The Red Book Dialogues programs.
Cheap Chick Info: $20
Location Info: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th St.
Subway: A, C or E to 14th Street

BeFitNYC Winter Sports Showcase
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Learn about winter sports and take advantage of half-price skating, broomball and sled hockey demonstrations, ice skating clinics, and running activities organized by the New York Road Runners.
Cheap Chick Info: Free, except for skating
Location Info: Prospect Park pond
Subway: Q,S to Prospect Park

Saturday and Sunday December 5 and 6, 2009
Native American Craft Fair
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Go Native with your holiday giving and check out the museum as well!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green
Subway: 4,5 to Bowling Green

Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Geek out all day with comics and more than 50 exhibitors!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Our Lady of Consolation Church, 184 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn
Subway: L to Bedford Ave.

You can also shop at the Heart of Brooklyn's Sip and Shop event!

Sunday December 6, 2009
Bust magazine Holiday Craftacular
10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Time to get all those holiday shopping worries off your chest-hee-hee, and finish your holiday shopping!
Cheap Chick Info: $2, plus goody bags for the first 500 attendees!
Location Info: Metropolitan Pavillion, 125 W. 18th Street bet 6th and 7th Aves.
Subway: F,R to 23rd St., L to 6th Ave.

Pinetum Festival
2 p.m.
Inhale the fresh piney scent just in time for the holidays as you tour the Arthur Ross Pinetum with one of the park rangers.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Central Park, Arthur Ross Pinetum, mid-park bet. 84th and 86th St.
Subway: 6,C to 86th St.

Songs of the Season With the Brooklyn Philharmonia
12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
It just wouldn't be Christmas without some carols!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Prospect Park, Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park (Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard)
Subway: Q to Prospect Park

Hanukkah Festival
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Get your dreidel on at this annual event, which includes crafts, a live klezmer jazz performance, and leapfrog. I think the only things are missing are the latkes...
Cheap Chick Info: $20 for adults, $15 for children
Location Info: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., near 92nd St.
Subway: 4,5,6 to 86th St.

Remember it's First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum! If you missed last week's Black Friday sale at Housing Works, don't despair, they are having a 30% off sale this weekend! And Word (one of Brooklyn's independent bookstores is having a holiday open house.