Cheap Chick Weekend Picks, Feb. 5-7, 2010

Friday February 5, 2010
RuPaul Signing
See if you can drag yourself to this event where RuPaul will be promoting her latest book WORKIN' IT! RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style!.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Borders, Columbus Circle
Subway: A,C,1,2 TK to Columbus Circle

Lit magazine Launch
From Housing Works, "the literary journal of The New School’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program presents the best contemporary writing by influential poets and authors of today and tomorrow."
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby St.
Subway: B,D,F,V, downtown 6 to Broadway-Lafayette

Interactive Roman Art Seminar
6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Learn more about Roman art from curators and educators from the museum.
Cheap Chick Info: Free with museum admission (remember it's suggested, so a $1 will do!), to register, email observanteye@metmuseum.org, space is limited to 25 people.
Location Info: Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Subway: 4,5,6 to 86th St.

NY Open Center Open House
6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Participate in workshops and nosh on free foods and drinks.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: New York Open Center. 22 E. 30th St. at Madison Ave.
Subway: R, W to 28th St., 6 to 28

Saturday February 6, 2010
Central Park Winter Jam
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Calling all snowbunnies! The park will be transformed into a winter wonderland where you can ski, snowboard, (lessons are available) and snowshoe, plus sample special snacks, and see high-flying trampoline acrobats.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Central Park, bandshell area-enter at 72nd St.
Subway: C to 72nd St.

MOMA Art Book Swap
12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Trade out those coffee table tomes you never look at anymore for another artsy alternative.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Museum of Modern Art,
Subway: E to Fifth Ave./53rd St.

Scavenger Hunt at the Natural History Museum With the Lunch Club
1:30 p.m.
Don't knock down any dinosaur bones, I don't know if all the king's horses and all the king's men could put them back together again...but discover TK about the museum, and make a few new friends too.
Cheap Chick Info: $10 in advance or $15 at the door, plus museum admission (remember it's suggested!) RSVP here.
Location Info: Ameican Museum of Natural History, 79 Street And Central Park West, Meet on the steps of the main entrance of the museum, on the north side
Subway: C to 81st St./The Museum of Natural History

Argentine Tango Party
8 p.m. to 2 a.m., lesson at 8, party starts at 9, and a performance at midnight
Couples and singles are welcome to dance until they're dirty, or something like that, and light refreshments will be served.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: 92nd St. Y, 1395 Lexington Ave.
Subway: 6 to 96th St.

Don't forget that tonight the Brooklyn Museum is free as part of its First Saturday program, celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Asia Society, and view fun films at the Iron Mule Film Festival.

Sunday February 7, 2010
Today is Super Bowl Sunday, be sure to watch the commercials, they're the best part, but if you must watch the game, enjoy! Or check out some alternatives!

Kakande at the Queens Public Library
3 p.m.
Listen as Famoro Dioubate plays the balafon, a wooden-keyed percussion instrument of West Africa and leads an ensemble including vocals, guitars, flues, and cellos, in a performance that the library describes as, "lush vocals, sinewy guitars, flutes, and cellos meet the virtuosic balafon of this master griot from Guinea."
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Queens Public Library, Central Branch, 89-11 Merrick Boulevard
(at 89th Avenue)
Subway: F to 169th Street

Jennifer 8. Lee
2 p.m.
The author discusses her book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Cheap Chick Info: Free with museum admission ($10 suggested donation)!
Location Info: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 5th Avenue@103rd St.
Subway: 6 to 103rd St.

Criminals, Caps, and Capers
11 a.m.
Learn about the history of the NYPD, and crazy crimes of the city's past.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Fort Greene Park, Fort Greene Visitor Center, Fort Greene Park, Enter the park at Myrtle Ave. and Washington Park
Subway: C to Lafayette, G to Fulton

Super Bowl Party
4 p.m. to midnight
Watch the commercials (I mean the game) with drink and food specials galore! Munchies include wings, ribs, flatbreads, burgers, and more. All football fans will be entered to win free VIP tickets to see a Who tribute concert at Carnegie Hall and access to the after-party.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: City Winery, 155 Varick St.
Subway: 1 to Houston, C,E to Spring St.

Looks like Brooklyn Bowl is also having a Super Bowl Bash!