Cheap Chick NYC, Cheap and Free Weekend Event Picks, Oct 22-24, 2010

Friday October 22, 2010

I don’t think you’ll need to pray that you’ll find this program interesting! This 30 Days, 30 Mosques: Tales of a Ramadan Road Trip presenation is based on the blog 30mosques.com, Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street, 7 p.m., free!

For those of you who didn’t read the book in junior high, can you figure out whodunit before all the guests on a mysterious island disappear? Play detective at the 92ndYTribeca’s screening of And Then There Were None, based on the classic Agatha Christie novel, 92ndYTribeca, 200 Hudson St., 7 p.m., $12, get tkts here: http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?productid=T-MM5FT19

A new take on the poetry slam is “Just Working On My Novel,” a new bi-monthly series hosted by a published author (this month is Emily Horner author of A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend), and gives aspiring writers the chance to share their unpublished writing, Word Bookstore, 126 Franklin St., Bklyn, 7:30 p.m., free!

Mix and mingle with professionals at NetParty’s soiree at "spectacularly opulent" space Covet! Enjoy music and happy hour specials while networking, Covet, 137 East 55th St (btwn Lexington and 3rd Aves) 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., cost: $10 in advance; $15 at the door with RSVP; $20 w/o RSVP, RSVP and tkts here: http://nyc.netparty.com/events

Saturday October 23, 2010

Head to Queens for a wine tasting Astoria-style at Off the Vine, “sample new and old world wines for the upcoming holiday season,” 44 - 21 30th Avenue, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., free!

“Explore Prospect Park after dark as we go in search of the wildlife that comes out when the sun goes down” during the Creatures of the Night Hike led by the Urban Park Rangers, Prospect Park Picnic House, 6:30 p.m., free!

Live vicariously through your dog with the 20^th Annual Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade! Gather treats for your favorite canine and get prizes for costumes! Tompkins Square Park, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., for more info click here: http://www.dogster.org/

It’s grrll power all the way at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the females of the “Great White Way” with Notorious & Notable – The Revue: A Broadway Musical Cabaret, a show inspired by their latest exhibit and featuring performances by Karine Plantadit, Dan Bogart, Victoria Mallory, and David Turner and is written and directed by Michael Montel, with Lawrence Yurman as musical director, 3 p.m., $20, reservations required, buy tkts here: http://www.mcny.org/public-programs/all/The-Revue.html

Don’t forget to clean up your local park on It’s My Park Day, http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/its_my_park_day, and sample a smorgasbord of soups on Smith Street (how’s that for alliteration???? today for $5,

http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/2010/10/get-ready-for-smith-street-soup.html!

Saturday and Sunday October 23 and 24, 2010

Can’t wait until next weekend for Halloween? Get your creepiness on with some home-grown NYC Halloween tales with Discovery Walking Tours’ Pre-Halloween Gotham City Ghost Tour at Twilight! “You’ll see the spooky cemetery at St Marks; the hanging elm, a 19th century execution site; the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; the home of Edgar Allan Poe; and the burial ground at Washington Square, just to name a few. And you thought only subways ran beneath the city streets!” 5:30 p.m., $18, call 212-465-3331 for reservations and meeting time.

Sunday October 24, 2010

“Take a tour of one of Brooklyn’s most colorful neighborhoods focusing on the diversity of the area, from the hipster to the Hasidic. Stops include Bedford Avenue, Peter Lugers, the landmark Williamsburg Savings Bank, and the Williamsburg Bridge” during Discovery Walking Tour’s The Williamsburg You Never Knew Tour, 1 p.m., $18, call 212-465-3331 for reservations and meeting time.

Sharpen those knives up to get ready for the Great Pumpkin Carving Contest! Perhaps you’ll get bonus points for incorporating a blanket like the one Linus owns, Carving begins at 7:30 p.m., Judging is at 9:30 p.m., Matchless, 557 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, seems to be free, to reserve your pumpkin RSVP to matchlesspumpkincontest@gmail.com!

Glee fans unite for the Village Gate (an homage to a 50’s nightclub that hosted off-Broadway premieres) Old Fashioned Piano Party where they can belt out tunes just like any Fame student or Chorus Line hopeful! Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St., 9:30 p.m., free!

Don’t have enough mourning in your life? Then attend a re-enactment of Seabury Tredwell’s 1865 funeral at the Merchant’s House Museum, followed by a procession to the New York Marble Cemetery, Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street, $20, reservations required, for more info click here: http://www.merchantshouse.com/calendar

Stock up on all your favorite records and CDs this weekend at the WFMU Record and CD Fair (http://wfmu.org/recfair/, here’s a coupon for $2 off admission, http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/LB/ATP10/wfmu_ad_xtra-fnl.pdf), and watch out for Tinkerbell at Wave Hill’s Enchanted Weekend activities (http://www.wavehill.org/calendar/searchby_17.html, basically the Sat and Sun activities listed here)!