Friday November 12, 2010
Geek out with Nerd Nite! Tonight’s topics include the seedy underbelly of bed bugs, lasers, and a post-election analysis! Rev your brain up with trivia before all the learning begins! Trivia at 7 p.m., lectures begin at 9 p.m., Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO, $14 with trivia, $10 minus the quiz! RSVP here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3266625
Can’t get your fill of Facebook? Think Twitter is Terrific? Then check out SCENEPR!’s I LOVE Social Media Event, hosted by Daron Jenkins of SCENEPR! 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., Village Pourhouse, 366 W. 46th St., $5, open bar 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Enjoy a free gospel choir concert sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council and featuring local talent such as “Wonderboy” Johnson and the Spiritual Voices and the Haitian-American Pelerin Choir. 7:30-9:30 p.m., Concord Baptist Church of Christ (833 Marcy Ave./Gardner Taylor Blvd.), free!
Celebrate the demise of fossil fuels with this sound installation modeled after a memorial mass with artists including Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger and singers Hai-Ting Chinn (mezzo soprano), Martha Cluver (soprano), Mark Uhlemann (bass) and Geoffrey Silver (tenor), who will perform live. 7 p.m., World Financial Garden, 220 Vesey at West St., free!
LOL today and tomorrow with the New York Musical Theater Festival! http://www.nymif.com
Saturday November 13, 2010
Jump, jive, and wail to tunes from the ‘30s, '40s and '50s at the 92nd Street Y’s Saturday Night Swing Dance! 7 p.m. (special guest performance at 10 p.m.), 92nd Street Y, Corner of 92nd St and Lexington Ave, $15-$18, visit http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-AD5DP04 for tkts.
Get clued into the inner workings of mystery novels with the Queens Public Library’s Whodunit Slam! “Crime novelist Jonathan Santlofer (Anatomy of Fear) will moderate a discussion and readings by Jason Starr, Megan Abbott, Stefanie Pintoff, S. L. Linnea and M. J. Rose, who will talk about how they develop their stories. Then Jane K. Cleland, the author of the Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series, will interview Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Midnight Angels and a former writer and producer of Law & Order.” 2:30 p.m., Forest Hills branch of the Queens Public Library, (108-19 71st Avenue; 718-268-7934, free!
If you’re feeling bored this Saturday, you might like to play some board games like Battleship, chess, or Scrabble! 11 a.m., Mid-Manhattan Library (40th and Fifth Ave.), free!
Parlez-vous fire-dancing? Learn to speak the language of Rococo at the Return of Rococo party, which also includes women in corsets, wire walking, and burlesque! 8 p.m., Teneleven, 171 Ave. C bet. 10th and 11th Streets, only $5 in costume, $10 sans costume!
Impress your relatives by knowing exactly which wine to pair with T-day classics like turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie at Bottlerocket Wine and Spirit’s Thanksgiving Workshop. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Bottlerocket Wines and Spirits, 5 West 19th Street. Tkts are $10 and this event often sells out, so visit www.bottlerocketwine.com/thanksgiving to save your spot!
Saturday and Sunday November 13 and 14, 2010
Get your stomach warmed up for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with Discovery Walking Tour’s Pre-Thanksgiving Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill History and Tasting Tour, “tour these Victorian neighborhoods, New York's earliest historic landmark districts. A home to wealthy 19th century merchants and later 20th century writers, neighborhood stops include Plymouth Church, where Lincoln and Walt Whitman worshipped; the Brooklyn Promenade; and the homes of Jennie Jerome, Churchill’s mother; and writer Thomas Wolfe. Along the way, taste the area’s classic and contemporary foods, from egg creams to spinach pie.” 2 p.m., call 212-465-3331 for reservation and meeting place, $25 (includes food.)
See if you can spot the Snitch and watch out for those bludgers at the Quiddich World Cup! More than 50 high school and college teams will compete for the glory of their house, er, school! Games start at 10 a.m. each day, DeWitt Clinton Park, 52nd St. and 11th Ave., free!
Sunday November 14, 2010
Discover everything you didn’t know about St. John the Divine from The Young Unicorns (which if you haven’t read it, I highly recommend doing so!) on a tour of the cathedral aptly titled, “Secrets of St. John the Divine.” Find out why a stripper and the signs of the zodiac are displayed in the stained glass windows, 1 p.m. Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 112th St. and Amsterdam. All programs meet at the Visitor Center inside the Cathedral. For reservations call the Public Education & Visitor Services Department at (212) 932-7347. Free!
Journey below the city streets and see just how close you can get to the center of the earth with the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Tour and traverse a half-mile of the world’s oldest subway tunnel! 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., meet at the SW corner of Atlantic Ave. and Court St., Cobble Hill, call 718-941-3160 for reservation, $15!
Slice out some time to day to attend the Brooklyn Pie Bake-Off where you can sample pies made with homemade piecrust made with local ingredients. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Spacecraft, 355 Bedford Ave. @ South 4th St., free to enter (email: brooklynpiebake@gmail.com), and $10 to sample the goodies!
Did you know that Syrians, Lebanese, Greeks, Turks, Irish, Slovaks, Poles, and Ukrainians all once called downtown Manhattan home? Explore their communities on the Lower West Side with the Municipal Art Society during a walking tour led by Joe Svehlak, urban historian, and Barbara Rizek, author and former resident. 11 a.m., Meet at the corner of Whitehall and Water streets by One New York Plaza, $15!
Bushwick gets the chance to show-off its art scene all day today, with its BETA Spaces Festival where you have the opportunity to visit 50 projects at art spaces around the neighborhood. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., free! For more info click on http://www.artsinbushwick.org.
I’m guessing it won’t be too quiet at the Eldridge Street Synagogue’s screening of silent film shorts featuring Max Davidson. Pianist Ben Model will accompany the films on the piano. 3 p.m., Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge St. bet. Canal and Division Sts., tkts are $15 and can be purchased here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3266625
Vincent Cianni will be discussing his new book Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me, which features interviews and photos of gay and lesbian soldiers and how these military members have been affected by “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell.” powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St. at Water St., 5 p.m., $5.
How far will you go? Hear true stories of women who broke "...society's rules and expectations, defying common sense and safety, in a struggle to define themselves and to grasp what it might mean, some day, to lead an emotionally fulfilling life" in a play by Gordon Farrell. 8 p.m., People Lounge, 163 Allen St. bet Stanton and Rivington, email red.productions.08@gmail.com for reservations, tkts are $10. Play will also be on next Sunday, Nov. 21!
Don’t forget the Margaret Mead Film Festival is ongoing through the 14th, For more info go here: http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/ and one of my favorite fall events, Canstruction began Thursday and runs through the 22nd. Soup isn’t just for eating anymore, see what can be created with mere cans! World Financial Garden, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 22nd, free!
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