Cheap Chick NYC Editor's Note and Friday Jan. 15, 2010 Picks

Editor's Note: Due to some technical difficulties, I may not be able to post the full weekend picks until Saturday Jan. 16, 2010. In the meantime, here are Friday's picks. Please check back by Saturday (maybe sooner!) for the rest of the weekend. Thanks, live long and cheap!

Friday Jan. 15, 2010
Nerd Nite
Trivia starts at 7 p.m. and the regular Nerd Nite starts at 8 p.m.
Unite with fellow geeks, uh nerds, play trivia, and learn about things like the ins-and-outs of the world’s first open-source nuclear reactor, art and neuroscience, and apparently robot sex-don't ask me about that!
Cheap Chick Info: $10 for just Nerd Nite, and $13 for Nerd Nite plus trivia! Buy tkts here!
Location Info: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO
Subway: A,C to High Street, F to York

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word - Night of Stars
7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
This poetry and spoken-word event features performances by Shanelle Gabriel, Bonafide Rojas, Erik Advocate of Wordz Maldonado, Sabrina Gilbert, Onome, Ainsley Burrows, Akua Doku, David Lawton, Timothy Prolific Jones, Boris Zilberman, Howard Treadwell, Molly Kat, Diana Arnold, Rich Story, Yenny Love, Tantra Zawadi, Charlotte Mishell, Ilya Khodosh, and Justin Woo.
Cheap Chick Info: $8
Location Info: Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker
Subway: A,C,E,F,B,D,V to West 4th Street

Party With the Mystery Writers of America
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Celebrate those authors who keep us guessing with the group's annual party! Mario Acevedo, Donna Andrews, Lori Armstrong, Frankie Y. Bailey, James O. Born, Lee Child, Reed Farrel Coleman, Chris Grabenstein, Daniel Hale, Naomi Hirahara, Harry Hunsicker, Craig Allen Johnson, Deborah LeBlanc, Larry Light, Jess Lourey, Margaret McLean, Paula Munier, Karen Olson, Tony Perona, Cathy Pickens, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Jeff Shelby, Alexandra Sokoloff, Brian Thornton, Steven Torres, and Simon Wood will be in attendance.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers, 44 Greenwich Ave. bet. Sixth and Seventh
Subway: 1,2,3,L to 14th St./7th Ave.

All Weekend: Showgirls Midnight screenings
See Jessie's Spano's um, titular (come on, you know that's not the first time someone's used this word!) role on the big screen at the IFC Center.

Check out First Fridays at the South Street Seaport Museum! Tonight includes a reading by Patricia Salmon, curator of the Staten Island Museum, who will also sign copies of her book, The Staten Island Ferry: A History. For more information, scroll down this page.