Cheap Chick NYC Weekend Picks, April 9-11, 2010

Friday April 9, 2010
First Fridays: Cubanisimo!
6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Enjoy a free night of film, art, performance, music, and special programs featuring a collaboration with the Havana Film Festival of New York including a short film festival, live bands, and DJs.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St.
Subway: B,D to 167th St.

Roger Ma: Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead
7:30 p.m.
The author discusses his new book and demonstrates proper zombie-fighting techniques.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Park Slope Barnes & Noble, 267 7th Ave.
Subway: F to Seventh Ave.

U.S. Air Guitar Championships
9 p.m.
If someone air claps at an air guitar championship, does it make a sound? If you follow air guitar championships, does that make you an "air head?" Ponder this and other questions as these air musicians jam.
Cheap Chick Info: $10
Location Info: Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue bet. 11th and 12th Sts. in W-burg
Subway: L to Bedford

Don’t forget Nerd Night tonight at Galapagos!

Friday and Saturday April 9 and 10, 2010
Manhattan Vintage Book and Ephemera Fair
Friday: 5-10 p.m., Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Exhibitors will display their wares, which include rare books, maps, postcards, autographs, prints, posters, and other collectibles.
Cheap Chick Info: $12
Location Info: Altman Building, 135 W. 18th St. bet. 6th and 7th Aves.
Subway: 1 to 18th St.

NeverEnding Story
Midnight
Revisit Fantasia and relive every bookworm's secret fantatsy...don't deny it. You know it's true!
Cheap Chick Info: $9.99
Location Info: Landmark Sunshine, 143 E. Houston St.
Subway: F,V to Second Ave.

Saturday April 10, 2010
J-cation with the Japan Society
1 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Travel to Japan without the jet lag! This 12-hour party/staycation features Japanese snacks and drinks, cooking demonstrations, workshops, msuic, film, and even Japanese game shows!
Cheap Chick Info: $5 suggested donation
Location Info: Japan Society, 333 E. 47th Street
Subway: 4,5,6,7,S to Grand Central Terminal

April Bird Walk
9 a.m.
Find out more about our fine feathered friends (I like that alliteration!) in Central Park through this program hosted by the New York Historical Society.
Cheap Chick Info: $10 for members, $20 for non-members, there is only room for 35 guests on the tour, so make reservations in advance! Get tickets and more info here.
Location Info: New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West
Subway: C to 81st St.

Prospect Park Midnight Ride
9 p.m.
Cycle to the park sites with fellow bike enthusiasts!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Prospect Park, near Grand Army Plaza
Subway: 2,3 to Grand Army Plaza

There’s also the Tartan Week parade (http://www.tartanweek.com/), and if you like the Prospect Park Midnight Ride, you’ll also like the Blessing of the Bikes at St. John the Divine Church-hey bikes have feelings too-I bet some even have names! Plus the Greenpoint Food Market and Brooklyn Flea both reopen today!

Saturday and Sunay April 10 and 11, 2010
Old and New Money: Victorian and Central Park West
2 p.m.
From Discovery Walking Tours: "A tour of the two great boulevards of wealth – CPW and 5th Avenue – and how their architecture reflects the social aspects of the Victorian communities that lived there. Stops include the Dakota, the Prasada, and the Payne Whitney and Henry Clay Frick mansions."
Cheap Chick Info: $18
Location Info: Call 212-465-3331 for reservations and location/meeting place.
Subway: See above.

Sunday April 11, 2010
Raspberry Brothers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Screening
See the Brooklyn comedy duo “razz” on the movie!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Avenue
Subway: L/G to Lorimer

Earth Day Celebration
3 p.m.
Environmental fun for the whole family! Learn about recycling, environmental issues, and recycling garbage at home.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, 2900 Campus Road
Subway: 2 to Flatbush Ave.

Bowery Books Poets Book Party
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hear poets Fay Chiang, Cynthia Kramen, and Janet Hamill recite in the Tribes Reading Room.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: A Gathering of Tribes, 285 E. Third St., 2nd Floor, bet. B and C
Subway: F to Second Ave.

Studio Museum Artists-in-Residence Open Studios
1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Meet Studio Museum artists Mequita Ahuja, Lauren Kelley, and Valerie Piraino.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W. 125 Street (bet. Lenox Ave. and Adam Clayton Powell)
Subway: 2,3 to 125th

Bread-Off
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Make sure you have enough "dough" if you "knead" to attend this bread bake-off for charity. Chefs from venues like Blue Hill will battle it out to see whose "rises" to the top! OK, I know, lame bread buns, er puns, but it's late, cut me some slack!
Cheap Chick Info: $20, email heidi@tastebudsnyc.com for a reservation
Location Info: Jimmy's No. 43, 43 E. 7th St.
Subway: 6 to Astor Place

Also this weekend there is a Newspaper Film Festival at the Film Forum, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival, and The Economics of Climate Change Conference at the New School.