Cheap Chick NYC Weekend Event Picks, June 18-20, 2010

Friday June 18, 2010
FELA! Broadway Cast Performance and Signing
5 p.m.
The cast of the Broadway show will give a show in honor of their CD release.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Borders, Columbus Circle
Subway: A,B,C,D,1 to 59th St./Columbus Circle

Battle of the Boroughs
7 p.m.
This musical competition features instrumentalists, singers, DJs, and spoken word artists from throughout the city.
Cheap Chick Info: $15, Buy tkts here: http://beta.wnyc.org/thegreenespace/events/2010/jun/18/ultimate-battle-boroughs/
Location Info: The Greene Space, 44 Charleton St.
Subway: 1 to Houston Street or Canal Street, C,E to Spring Street

Romantic Rooftops
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tricia Martin, president of the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects will give apartment dwellers ideas for creating romantic spaces and the chance to create a portable model of a rooftop garden. A tour of the Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design is included (unfortunately I don’t think Hugh Jackman a la Kate and Leopold is…)
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison@36 St.
Subway: 6 to 33rd St.

Comedy of Errors
7:30 p.m.
The play’s the thing tonight, with the Bard’s shortest play…try not to see double with all the twins running around, but I don’t think Mary-Kate and Ashley are making an appearance.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Inwood Hill Park, The Peninsula
Subway: 1, 9 to 215th St., A to Dyckman St.

Friday June 18 and Saturday June 19, 2010
Central Park Screening
6:30 p.m. (both nights)
The museum is screening the 1989 Frederick Wiseman classic that depicts all facets of the urban space.
Cheap Chick Info: $10, includes free museum admission
Location Info: Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St.
Subway: E,V to Fifth Ave./53rd St.

Plus the The Coney Island fireworks begin tonight! (http://www.coneyisland.com/)

Saturday June 19, 2010
Women’s Brunch Clothing/Stuff Swap
1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Swap in, swap out, and trade up last year's skirt for these year's shorts! Or that book you just finished on the subway this morning…
Cheap Chick Info: $20, includes swap as well as entrée, one drink, tax, and tip.
Location Info: Iguana, 240 W. 54th St.
Subway: N,Q,R,W to 57th St.

Spice World Sing-a-Long
11 p.m.
Hopefully after this viewing, you’ll know what you want (what you really, really, want.)
Cheap Chick Info: $13 (includes one beer)
Location Info: 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St.
Subway: E,1,6 to Canal St.

Saturday Night Ballroom/Summer Ballroom
Dancing 8 p.m. to midnight, 7 p.m. class
Bust a move with the waltz, fox trot, quick step, rumba, and more!
Cheap Chick Info: $13 in advance, $15 at the door
Location Info: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave.
Subway: 6 to 96th St.

Crest Fest 2010
Noon
This opening day party celebrates the opening of the Crest Hardware Art Show and includes art, food, drinks, live music, bikes, workshops, a photo booth, and local vendors.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Crest Hardware, 558 Metropolitan Ave.,
Subway: L to Lorimer/Metropolitan

Adventures NYC
12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Sports nuts and outdoor enthusiasts can participate in outdoor diversions such as rock climbing, a paddle sports center, fitness clinics, a fishing zone, free bike rentals, a bike helmet giveaway, yoga, an outdoor career fair, and more!
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Central Park Bandshell, Mid-Park from 66th to 72nd Streets
Subway: C to 72nd St.

The Coney Island Mermaid Day Parade is today (http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml), there’s Le Bingo at Le Poisson Rouge (http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/artist/1099), Field of Dreams on the Intrepid (http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/Summer-Movie-Series-June-19th.aspx), the first game of the season for the Brooklyn Cyclones (http://www.brooklyncyclones.com), and the LIC Bike Parade wheels into Queens (http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/programs/licbike.php).

Sunday June 20, 2010
Vital Expressions: Conversation With Daphne Brooks
3 p.m.
Daphne Brooks, a Princeton professor of English and African-American studies and author of the forthcoming Subterranean Blues: Black Women and Sound Subcultures-from Minstrelsy to the Millennium, leads this special discussion to wrap up Black Music Month at the museum. Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W. 125TH St. bet. Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell
Subway: 2,3 to 125th St.

Gangster, Writer, Rabbi Walking Tour
2 p.m.
Learn about classic LES historic figures Big Jack Zelig, writer Sholem Aleichem, and Rabbi Jacob Joseph.
Cheap Chick Info: $15, scroll down here to RSVP http://www.eldridgestreet.org/calendar-newyork-events.html
Location Info: Through Museum at Eldridge St., assume you meet there, at 12 Eldridge St.
Subway: F to E. Broadway

Punk music takes over Governors Island today (just the thing to take Dad to: http://www.govisland.com/Visit_the_Island/this_week.asp), there’s the GIANT Lit Mag Fair at Housing Works (where’s the small one, I wonder? http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/the-giant-lit-mag-fair-at-housing-works/), and there’s a Gay Pride rally at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park (http://www.nycpride.org/rally.html).

Plus sample Malaysian cuisine with $20.10 specials throughout the city malaysiakitchennyc.com, and the Bicycle Film Festival (http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/) continues!