Cheap Chick NYC, Cheap and Free Weekend Event Picks, August 6-8, 2010

Friday August 6, 2010

Get ready for boozy bingo with the Underground Rebel Bingo Club! Be primed to yell B-I-N-G-O from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. at a secret location revealed when you buy tkts ($15), http://www.meanredproductions.com/current.php

The tale of star-crossed lovers unfolds under the stars in Hudson Warehouse’s free production of “Romeo and Juliet!” 6 p.m. at West 89th and Riverside Drive

Raiders of the Lost Ark screens for free on the Intrepid at 8:30 p.m.

Enjoy traditional West African music with Papa Susso at the Bartow-Pell Mansion’s First Fridays event, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., http://www.bartowpellmansionmuseum.org/events/calendar.php#papa

Sip cocktails at the Cooper-Hewitt garden from 6 to 9 p.m. (Free with museum admission, $15) http://events.cooperhewitt.org/ (cash bar)

What’s in box number two? Find out at Starbox’s free performance installation with more than 20 performers and a special surprise star hiding in a box! Bryant Park’s Fountain Terrace, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Doomed Love and the Devilles at Rooftop Films tonight, $10, http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/36-doomed-love-and-the-devilles

Don’t forget that Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors is still going strong this w/e! http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/lc-ood-2010

New York Classical Theater’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” (is there such a thing as too much ado?) in Central Park (103^rd and Central Park West) begins at 7 p.m. tonight! (Runs through August 29, 2010.)

Visit the Middle East at the Queens Museum of Art’s Passport Fridays! Starts at 6:30 p.m. http://www.queensmuseum.org/tagged/passport-fridays-2010

Do they or don’t they? Prefer blondes that is…Find out during the Film Forum’s run of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes that starts tonight and runs for a week! http://www.filmforum.org/films/gentlemen.html

Saturday August 7, 2010

You too could channel Morticia and Gomez Addams (?) at tonight’s Argentine tango party! $15 gets you a group lesson during the first hour and light refreshments. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the 92^nd Street Y. Buy tkts here: http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-AD5DP01

Isn’t it romantic? Find love on the LES at the Museum at Eldridge Street’s Love and Courtship Walking Tour at 2 p.m. $15, make reservation here: http://www.eldridgestreet.org/calendar-newyork-events.html

Pretend you’re a hot child in the city with Summer Streets 2010, when area streets are temporarily closed on Park Avenue and connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park!

There’s more to Coney Island than hot dogs! Learn the history of the historic amusement park from urban historian Joe Svehlak and even take a swim afterward if you want. Pay $15 at tour, meet at 10 a.m. at the NE corner of Stillwell and Surf

Aw shucks! Learn the art of shucking oysters from chef Nick Korbee, and then dig-in to a brunch including Penn Cove oysters and other treats all for just $18! 11:15 a.m., Smith & Mills, 71 North Moore St.) more info here: http://www.smithandmills.com

Together for Haiti is the theme at this month’s Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturday party. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php

Help decide who Mr. Cyclone will be in a contest hosted by Murray Hill and Miss Cyclone, Angie Pontani, taking place at, where else? The Cyclone! Noon to 3 p.m., free!

Sunday August 8, 2010

Keep on truckin’ at the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market with the Gourmet Food Truck Bazaar! Hell's Kitchen Flea Market, W. 39th St. (at Tenth Ave.) 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Celebrate Peace Prayer Flags in the World at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art (on Staten Island, take the S74 bus to Lighthouse Avenue after leaving the SI Ferry) with a lecture on the history of the prayer flags from artists Joseph L. Vasile and Phagyab Rinpoche and the chance to make your flags. 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., $10 donation.

Free admission to Historic Richmond Town today as part of their Community Day Festivities! http://www.historicrichmondtown.org/component/eventlist/details/319

Saturday and Sunday August 7 and 8, 2010

This isn’t the Triwizard Tournament, so no dragons of the fire-breathing breed will be on-hand, but you can still cheer on the participants of the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Saturday and Sunday this weekend. More info here: http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/keyword+dragon+boat/

I don’t know if you’ll learn to make a dress out of curtains, but there will be soldiers and other re-enactors sharing the way life was lived in the Civil War at Governors Island, http://www.govisland.com/html/visit/this_week.shtml

Housing Works Bookstore is having another 30% off sale Saturday and Sunday as well! http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/monthly-30-off-sale-all-day-august-7th-and-8th/