NYC Cheap and Free Weekend Event Picks, July 16-18, 2010

Also check out my 2010 NYC Summer Guides here: http://cheapchickinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/07/cheap-chick-summer-guide-2010-part-one.html and here: http://cheapchickinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/07/2010-nyc-summer-guide-part-two-cheap.html

My 2009 NYC Summer Guide is here: http://cheapchickinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/06/cheap-chick-summer-guide-2009.html

Friday July 16, 2010
Don a hard hat for a free tour of the future winery at Brooklyn Winery (http://www.bkwinery.com/) from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind at Snug Harbor Cultural Center (http://www.snug-harbor.org/special.html)

Better check the water at “Kevin Geeks Out About Sharks” 8 p.m. 92Y Tribeca (http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?category=92Tri+92YTribeca+Film888&productid=T-MM5FJ70)

Take in the New York Philharmonic in Brooklyn's Prospect Park tonight! (http://nyphil.org/attend/summer/index.cfm?page=parks&utm_medium=homepage&utm_source=banner2_parks_0715)

It's only once in a blue moon that you can see Apollo 13 for free, see it at Columbia tonight! (http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu/images/posters/20100716poster.pdf)

Saturday July 17, 2010
Browse with fellow bookworms and catch authors such as Terry McMillan and Sonia Sanchez at the Harlem Book Fair (http://www.qbr.com/page18993.asp) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Knock back a few at the Village Pourhouse's Second Annual Village Pourfest (http://downtownnyc.villagepourhouse.com/?p=events)

Say hola! to Spanish culture at el Museo del Barrio from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. during their free Super Sabado day (http://www.elmuseo.org/en/event/target-free-third-saturdays-july)!

Later say "bonjour" to Lady Marmalade at the Moulin Rouge Sing-a-long at 92ndY Tribeca, 10:30 p.m. (http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?category=92Tri+92YTribeca+Film888&productid=T-MM5FJ22)

Shimmy-shimmy cocoa pop! Watch Big at Symphony Space (http://www.symphonyspace.org/genre/film) 5 p.m. (I always knew that Zoltar machine was bad news…)

Travel to India with the Asia Society’s Indian Folk Art Market (http://asiasociety.org/events-calendar/indian-folk-art-market-day-3) 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Free!

Learn about Picasso’s Influence on American Modernism from Jessica Murphy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 7 p.m. by the Tours sign in the Great Hall. Free with museum admission (pay-what-you-wish!)

Big Onion is leading an Irish New York Walking Tour on the LES. Stops may include the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Al Smith’s home, Five Points, the first Catholic Church in the city and sites relating to Tammany Hall, and Thomas Emmet. Meet at St. Paul’s Chapel at 11 a.m. on Broadway bet. Fulton and Vesey Streets. Tour is $15.

Catch a free screening of Brooklyn Transformations in Fort Greene Park sponsored by Rooftop Films and the Brooklyn Arts Council, at 8 p.m. (http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/26-brooklyn-transformations)

Today and tomorrow embrace the planet by attending the Summer Earthfest at Ikea from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday July 18, 2010
Now it’s Brooklyn’s turn to celebrate Bastille Day, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. with music, games, food, wine, and a raffle. Festivities take place around 128 Smith Street. (http://www.examiner.com/x-980-NY-Nightlife-Examiner~y2009m7d12-Celebrate-Bastille-Day-on-Smith-street-in-Brooklyn-from-noon-to-9-pm)

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 opens today at MOMA!

Take the Museum at Eldridge Street’s Sacred Sites Walking Tour at 2 p.m. (http://www.eldridgestreet.org/calendar-newyork-events.html)

Travel back in time to Dutch New York with the South Street Seaport Museum’s walking tour, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Meet at 12 Fulton St. Tour is free with museum admission.

Japantown Street Festival at 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. http://www.nyjapantown.org/cooljapan.php

Pig out on pig at 3rd Ward’s Annual Pig Out, free, but be sure to RSVP to events@3rdward.com, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. (http://www.3rdward.com/events/)

If you need your Top Chef fix before Wednesday, then head to Brooklyn for Food Obstructions, a culinary competition hosted by Karol Lu and Cathy Erway with, well some obstacles, er, obstructions to completing a dish. Event is from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at East River Bar, 97 S. 6th St.
and $10 to sample the goodies

On Saturday and Sunday Discovery Walking Tours is leading the History’s Mystery tour of Governors Island with stops at a Revolutionary War fort, a Confederate prison camp, the site of the Regan-Gorbachev Summit in 1988, and the homes of two Civil War heroes, both presidential candidates. The tours begin at 1:45 p.m. and are $18 ($5 off if you attend their Event Horizons Flatiron-area public art walking tour at noon on the same day). Call 212-465-3331 to RSVP and learn meeting place for both tours.