Cheap Chick NYC, Cheap and Free (Labor Day) Weekend Event Picks, Sept. 3-6, 2010

Friday September 3, 2010

Here’s hoping that y’all have a spare body floating around somewhere if you attend the Rubin Museum’s screening of the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Film runs 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is free with a $7 bar tab. http://www.rmanyc.org/

Attention Science Geeks! Columbia University is hosting “Missing Matter, Where’s Your Other Half?” A look at dark matter by Dr. Frits Paerels, with guided stargazing afterward. Held at Columbia’s Pupin Hall (Broadway at 116^th), runs from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Julia Wertz and Aaron Renier are hosting a free double book-launch party for Julia's Drinking at the Movies and Aaron's The Unsinkable Walker Bean at Desert Island, 540 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, 7 p.m.

Also it’s the last Friday night fireworks at Coney Island, 9 p.m.

Saturday September 4, 2010

Get your art on with the free Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., University Place bet. E. 12^th St. and Washington Place.

Have a down-home country day on Staten Island with the Richmond County Fair (starts today and runs all weekend), http://www.historicrichmondtown.org/

Art and live music converge at the free Monster Island Block Party in Williamsburg, 2 p.m. to midnight, 128 River St. @ Metropolitan Ave.

“Pig out” at the this foodie party, “Snout N’ Stout,” with food from Woody’s Pig Roast with plenty of sauces and sides, music by DJ Cowboy Mark of Kill Devil Hill, and craft beers. Event begins at 6 p.m. and it’s $10-$15 to reserve your food in advance.

Prove once and for all that Bingo is not just for little old church ladies, it’s for New Yorkers on a Saturday night! Drag queen Linda Simpson hosts bingo tonight at Le Poisson Rouge wth special guests DJ Erin Markey and Spokesmodel Sylvia London. Bingo is free and the event runs form 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday September 4 and Sunday September 5, 2010

Have your cake and eat it too, or in this case is “let them eat cake,” more appropriate? Find out at Discovery Walking Tour’s Greenwich Village Labor History and Dessert Tour. “A tour of sites associated with the rise of labor and Greenwich Village, with stops associated with Emma Goldman, John Reed, the IWW, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which sparked the union movement. Along the way, we will celebrate the fruits and advancements of labor, with a dessert sampling, from chocolate covered strawberries and candy, to saviodi cookies.” Tour starts at 2 p.m. each day, and is $23 (includes treats!) Call 212-465-3331 for meeting place and to RSVP.

Sunday September 5, 2010

Sixth Ave. bet 43^rd and 57^th goes Carnival with Brazilian Day! Check out more than 400 street vendors at this fest! 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

I guess these trucks don’t have to worry about being chased by dogs, since they’ll be immobile on Governors Island for the Parked Food Festival, where you’ll have a whole range of gastronomic delights to choose from! 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. http://www.govisland.com/html/visit/directions.shtml

Calling all Jewish singles, Let My People Go is hosting a big Labor Day bash tonight at Covet, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., $20 in advance, $25 at the door w/o RSVP. More info and tkts here: http://nyc.letmypeoplego.com/events

Find out if farm livin’ is the place for you with Eagle Street Rooftop Farm's Open Farm Day event featuring a reading and demo by author/blogger Cathy Erhway. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the reading at 2 p.m. Eagle St. Rooftop Farm, 44 Eagle St. bet. West and Franklin), rooftopfarms.org

Don’t look down if you’re in the balcony at Symphony Space’s screening of Vertigo today! Tkts are $11, buy here: http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6421-vertigo?source=calendar, and the show starts at 8 p.m.

Monday September 6, 2010

The pyramids await, with the Met open for holiday Mondays! Remember it’s pay-what-you-wish, so go as low as you dare! (I once went down to 40-something cents.)

Everyone loves a parade! Today’s it’s the West-Indian Day Parade in Bklyn. Easter Parkway to Grand Army Plaza, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., http://www.wicada.org

Big Onion hosts its classic Labor Day tour, “We Built New York: A Labor History Tour” with stops including the site of “the first Labor Day Parade (1882), the founding site of the ILGWU, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, the Catholic Worker, and sites associated with Emma Goldman, Clara Lemlich, and Samuel Gompers.” Tour is $15, meet at the NE corner of Fifth Ave. and Washington Square North, 6 to Astor Place, R,W to 8th St., the A,B,C,E,F West 4th St., and the 1 to Christopher.

Linda Hill and perennial sidekick Murray Hill are hosting bingo tonight for free at the Bowery Poetry Club, (308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston), 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Swap your clothes away for some new duds at the Frugal Fashionista Clothing Swap! This free event runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., but there are only 25 slots available! RSVP here: http://sandycolette.eventbrite.com/

All Weekend Long!

The Cooper-Hewitt is free (http://cooperhewitt.org/visit/), Housing Works Bookstore is hosting a 30% off sale (http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/monthly-30-off-sale-all-day-september-4th-5th-and-6th/), Scavenge New York City’s film history with the Underground Film Festival (be quick to register, the hunt starts on the 4^th, plus you can always just watch new NYC films at the Festival (http://beneathearth.com/scavenger_hunt.html), embrace all things unicycle at the New York City Unicycle Festival (http://www.nycunifest.com), and Cockabilly Records is hosting the 50's jammin' Coney Island Rockabilly Festival (http://www.cockabillyrecords.com)!