Cheap Chick NYC, Cheap and Free Weekend Event Picks, August 13-15, 2010

Friday August 13, 2010

The multi-arts Fringe Festival starts today and runs through the 29^th, http://www.fringenyc.org/

If you thought it’s been hot this summer, wait until you see Al Pacino’s Dog Day Afternoon at Freebird Books. The movie begins at sunset, http://freebirdbooks.blogspot.com/

Rooftop Films is screening Last Train Home (a documentary of Chinese migration from the cities to the countryside during the new year) at the Old American Can Factory. Doors open at 8 p.m., tkts are $10, buy here: http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/39-last-train-home

Could Deep Impact really happen? Find out tonight at 7p.m. during this screening and lecture given by Columbia’s Astronomy Program! This free event is being held at Columbia’s Pupin Hall (Subway: 1 to 116^th St.) and includes stargazing on the roof.

Practice your Portuguese for the Queens Museum of Art’s Passport Fridays! Tonight you're traveling to Brazil! 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. http://www.queensmuseum.org

Saturday August 14, 2010

Couples are invited to relive that famous 1945 kiss today in Times Square, with events honoring World War II veterans, makeup for the big smooch by Maybelline, and a “re-enactment of the legendary lip-lock” at noon. There will be free sailor hats or roses for the first 200 participants and prizes will be awarded for the best-themed couples. Admission is free and the event is running from 10 (doors open) to 12 p.m. at the Military Island, at the Broadway and 7th Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets. For more info and to register, click here: http://timessquarenyc.org/about_us/events_vjday.html

Don’t you wish you could dress up as a shower for Halloween? If so, be sure to catch Symphony Space’s screening of (the original) Karate Kid. Did you do any waxing before the movie? Just checking! 5 p.m., http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6415-the-karate-kid-the-original-?source=calendar

Take a walking tour of Harlem “from the beautiful homes of Hamilton Heights to the row houses of Strivers’ Row, from the night clubs and speakeasies of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to the famous Apollo Music Hall, Sugar Hill, and The Schomburg Center. Walk the streets where Langston Hughes, Madame C.J. Walker, A’Leila Walker, Florence Mills, Countee Cullen, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and other luminaries once lived.” Meet at the NE corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. $15

See Paul Simon’s Capeman, a musical based on the life of Salvador Agrón for free at the Delacorte Theater (through August 16^th.) Tkts available via distribution at the theater and online virtual ticketing, more info here: http://shakespeareinthepark.org/?nav=specialEvent

Break out that can of spinach for 92YTribeca’s Popeye screening (surely Robin Williams' pivotal role, no?) during the Nilsson Schmilsson: A Tribute to Harry Nilsson event. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tkts are $12, $18 for screening and musical show. Buy them here: http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?category=92TRI+92YTribeca+Harry+Nilsson888&productid=T-MM5FA38

Get down and dirty with The Waste Land, a documentary detailing artist’s Vic Muniz’s experiences in Rio’s biggest landfill, which is being screened on the rooftop of El Museo del Barrio tonight at 8 p.m. Tkts are $10, and reservations are strongly recommended: http://www.elmuseo.org/en/event/waste-land

Dance the day away with Battery Dance Company’s free dance festival, http://www.batterydanceco.com/

When you attend Wave Hill’s cooking demonstration (A Salute to Plant Families), you’ll definitely want to eat all your vegetables! You’ll learn how certain plant families are related (this week, beans and peas), can enjoy food prepared by chefs from Great Performances, and take a tour of the garden with Horticultural Interpreter Charles Day. Event is free and starts at 2 p.m. http://www.wavehill.org/calendar/event_2380.html

Sweeten your Saturday with a free Crumbs cupcake! The new Brooklyn location is giving away 1,000 today at their new Brooklyn location, http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/21135

If you’re feeling nostalgic for those childhood summers then head to Governors Island to play Capture the Flag this afternoon! http://levysuniqueny.com/events/zombies-vs-commandos-governors-island/

Saturday and Sunday August 14 and 15, 2010

The Brooklyn Inked Tattoo and Arts Convention is being held at the Shangri-La Studio at 100 Sutton Street (I just hope that no one named Rusty Needles is leading a session!), brooklyninked.com, cost is $15 for a day and $25 for a weekend pass.

Sunday August 15, 2010

The Urban Park Rangers are sudsing it up today with a free tour of Brewer’s Row in Brooklyn, once the home of a number of brewing companies. Tour begins at 11 a.m., meet at Bushwick and Montrose Avenues, take the L to Montrose.

You may think it’s easy as pie to pick the winners at Prospect Park’s Pie in the Park competition, but it sounds like a tough decision to me! Tasting ($10) begins at 2 p.m. and the contest will be held across from the tennis house at the south end of Long Meadow.