Cheap Chick NYC Weekend Event Picks, June 4-6, 2010

Sorry for the abbreviated picks and lack of a Summer Guide (hopefully by next week), I've been moving into the new place!

Friday June 4, 2010
Drop Dead Diva Mobile Spa
9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
I don't think you'll wind up in a model's body, but maybe you'll feel pretty, witty, and gay after a makeover to promote the Lifetime show, (which the Cheap Chick thoroughly enjoys btw!)
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Here is the complete schedule:
9 a.m.-11 a.m. 59th Street and Lexington Ave.1 p.m.-3 p.m. / 6th Ave. and 42nd Street 2 p.m.-2:30 p.m. / Special appearance by Drop Dead Diva cast members5 p.m.-7 p.m. 5th Ave. and 16th Street
Subway: Varies on location.

Curator Talk at the National Academy Museum
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Curator Marshall Price with special guest Sarah Walker, an artist featured in the exhibit the 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, lead a gallery talk and tour.
Cheap Chick Info: Free with museum admission, $10
Location Info: National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Ave bet 89th and 90th
Subway: 4,5,6 to 86th St.

Plus get free donuts today from Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' Donuts (with drink purchase), and the Folk Art Museum has Free Music Friday (http://www.folkartmuseum.org/?p=folk&id=2512!)

Friday June 4, 2010 and Saturday June 5, 2010
Misery Screening (Part of the Obsessed in the 90's series)
10:30 p.m.
A reason for writers everywhere to be scared, hopefully you have two legs or other means of getting yourself to the screening, which includes 90's trivia by Noah Tarnow, of Big Quiz Thing fame on Saturday night.
Cheap Chick Info: $10, buy tkts here: http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?category=92Tri+92YTribeca+Film888&productid=T%2DMM5FJ25
Location Info: 92nd Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St.
Subway: 1,E to Canal Street

The Red Hook Fest (http://www.dancetheatreetcetera.org/rhwaf.html) is also on Friday and Saturday as well!

Saturday June 5, 2010
Housing Works Open Air Book Fair
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Better check all those books for worms, as you dig through mountains of books. Don't forget the clothing, CD's, and DVDs too. Food and drinks are available as well…ahhh the perfect Sat afternoon activity!
Cheap Chick Info: Free to attend, all media is a $1, prices vary on other materials
Location Info: Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby St.
Subway: F,D to Broadway/Lafayette, Downtown 6 to Bleecker

Free Bargemusic concert today (http://www.bargemusic.org/calendar.html), Governors Island opens for the season (http://www.govisland.com/visit_the_island/default.asp), and there are First Saturday festivities at the Brooklyn Museum (http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php)!

Sunday June 6, 2010
Harry and the Potters
3 p.m.
A time-traveling Harry Potter band? Let me just apparate right there, hopefully you-know-who won’t show up!
Cheap Chick Info: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Location Info: Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn
Subway: L,G at Lorimer/Metropolitan, L to Bedford

Ladies' Mile: The Carriage Trade
10 a.m.
Women and shopping in NYC go back a long way, as you’ll discover in this walking tour led by John Kriskiewicz, an architectural historian who will lead the group to former sites of stores like Lord & Taylor, when the Flatiron area catered almost exclusively to females.
Cheap Chick Info: $15, pay at tour
Location Info: Meet at the SE corner of 17th and Broadway
Subway: N,R,W,Q, 4,5,6,L to 14th St./Union Sq.

Today it's Japan Day at Central Park (http://japandaynyc.org/main/)and the Museum of the City of New York today (http://www.mcny.org/), and don’t forget two of NYC’s favorite foods at the Egg Roll and Egg Cream Festival (http://www.eldridgestreet.org/programs_c.htm)!

Also...BAM Soccer Fever (with my personal favorite, a screening of Ladybugs) http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2289, is happening all weekend, and on Saturday and Sunday you can check out the Atlantic Avenue Artwalk, (http://atlanticavenueartwalk.com/home), skaters competing at the Maloof Money Cup at Flushing Meadows Park, (http://www.maloofmoneycup.com/), and the Renegade Craft Fair (http://www.renegadecraft.com/brooklyn)!

Lots of events at the World Science Festival (http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/) too!