Friday November 19, 2010
Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger appear at the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, 7:30 p.m., free!
Find a new Rainbow Connection when attending the 92YTribeca’s Muppet Movie Sing-Along. Visit with your old friends Kermit and Miss Piggy as they travel to Hollywood and meet up with the familiar faces of Mel Brooks, Steve Martin, and Orson Welles! Hosted by Raven Snook, with some Muppet trivia before the film! 11 p.m., 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, $13 (includes a beer). Cheap Chick update from 92Y Tribeca: Currently, all seats are reserved for this event. 
Seating capacity for events varies. For the benefit of our patrons, a limited number of tickets for sold out events may be available one hour before curtain. Call Y-Charge at 212.601.1000 during our Hours of Operation for more information.
Have a pre-holiday taste of the bubbly with a free Ayala champagne tasting, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., 67 Wine, 179 Columbus Ave!
Two new museum exhibits open today, including Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/norman_rockwell/), and Denys Wortman Rediscovered: Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953 at the Museum of the City of New York (http://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/future/Denys-Wortman-Rediscovered.html)!
You can also visit the South Street Seaport Museum (http://www.seany.org/) for free today from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
To get a jump on pre-Thanksgiving holiday shopping the Union Square Holiday Market and the Wired Pop-up Store (in the old Tower Records space) open today as well!
Saturday November 20, 2010
Watch a free screening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniversary Director’s Cut at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 2 p.m., tho free, reservations are required, for more info go here: http://wondertechlab.sony.com/pe-feature_screenings.html
Great Performances Pastry Chef Newton Pryce leads a workshop on how to make the perfect pumpkin pie just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday! 1 p.m., Wave Hill (West 249th Street, the Bronx), $15-$20, space is very limited so RSVP by calling 718-549-3200 x305.
Explore the Upper West Side with Big Onion Walking Tours including stops at “Lincoln Center, the Dakota and Ansonia apartment houses, Dante Square, and sites associated with Rudolph Valentino, Rabbi Stephen Wise, and the Parlor Mob.” 11 a.m., meet at the northeast corner of 59th Street and Central Park West at Columbus Circle, at the US Maine Memorial. $15.
Hear how poets such as Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf responded to the events of World War II at the Poets House program “The Lost Poetry of World War II,” led by Skidmore professor Daniel Swift. 2 p.m., Poets House, 10 River Terrace at Murray St., $10.
Curses may fly between Gryffindor and Slytherin-and a few laughs too no doubt at the Hogwarts Improvisation Society event at Upright Citizens Brigade. Midnight, Upright Citizens Brigade, 307 W. 26th between 8th and 9th, $5.
What could be better than listening to chamber music on a barge? I certainly don't know, so attend this free concert today (remember, you never run on a barge!) 1 p.m., For more info go here: http://www.bargemusic.org/calendar.html.
The cast of 30 Rock will be on-hand at the NBC Experience Store today celebrating the release of their new soundtrack (yes, Tina Fey will be there!), 11 a.m., 30 Rock Center (lol!), free!
Also the Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show starts today, details here: (http://www.nybg.org/hts/), and spice up your weekend with Super Sabado, El Museo del Barrio’s free third Saturday program (http://www.elmuseo.org/en/event/target-free-third-saturdays-november).
Saturday and Sunday November 20 and 21st, 2010
Shop for the book-lover in your life at the Goddard Riverside New York Book Fair! There’s more than just books at this annual sale, there are also DVD’s, CD’s, calendars, and other gift items! On Saturday the sale runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (TK location info) Cost is the price of the items you buy, which are for the most part heavily discounted! Cheap Chick Cheap Tip: There is definitely bargaining to be done (many items are priced on-the-spot by volunteers, def try to haggle a little), and if you go the last hour on Sunday, you can get even bigger bargains as the sale closes out!
Sample foods such as pizza, cannolis, spring rolls, and dumplings during NYC Discovery Walking Tour’s Little Ireland, Chinatown, and Little Italy History and Tasting Tour. This tour includes stops at the Church of the Transfiguration; Five Points, made famous in Gangs of New York; Banco Stablile, Confucius Plaza, the residence of Dr. Sun-Yat-sen. 1:30 p.m., call 212-465-3331 for reservations and meeting place, $25, includes food.
Get some Christmas shopping done and sample herring at the Norwegian Seaman's Church Christmas Fair (http://www.sjomannskirken.no/new-york) Saturday and Sunday!
Sunday November 21, 2010
It may be chilly outside, but today you can enjoy your chili inside at the Brooklyn Chili Takedown, with more than 30 types of this cold-weather dish (including vegetarian!) to sample. 4 p.m., the Bell House, 149 7th Street, Brooklyn, $15. For more info go here: http://chili-takedown.com/
Flock to Fresh Kills to learn about the birds that live there! Naturalists from the Staten Island Museum and members of the Freshkills Park development team will lead the tour, which will take place both on foot and by bus. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The event is free, but space is limited, and registration is required. To RSVP email doug.elliott@parks.nyc.gov or call (212) 788-8277.
Rock out like the Weird Sisters at the NYC Wizard Rock Festival, 1:30 p.m., Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N 6th St., $20 in advance, $25 at the door, get tkts here: http://www.nycwizardrockfestival.com/
“Walk the streets of "The Great White Way," tracing the history of New York's Broadway theater district from Oscar Hammerstein in the 1890s to Walt Disney in the 1990s to its latest configuration. See the great Broadway theaters built between the turn of the century and the onset of the Great Depression,” at the Municipal Art Society’s “Give My Regards to Broadway” walking tour, 2 p.m., meet at the SW corner of 44th St. and Sixth Ave., $15.
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