Cheap Chick NYC Cheap and Free Picks for Friday Dec. 17, 2010!

Hi all, the cheap chick is not feeling well today, and is still dealing with arranging holiday travel, so please enjoy these Friday picks as well as the holiday picks below, and I'll post some events for Saturday and Sunday by tomorrow! Thanks!

Friday, Dec. 17, 2010

A “big” music event today is the free concert performed by Big Apple Circus at the World Financial Center, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., free!

Kevin Spacey will be promoting his new movie “Casino Jack” at the Apple Soho Store, 103 Prince St., 6 p.m., free!

The Morgan is free tonight (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.) and tonight carolers will be spreading Christmas cheer (6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.)! 36th and Madison, free!

Tis the season to spread the message of peace, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be participating by dedicating their peace tree (more details), 11 a.m., 1047 Amsterdam Ave., free!

Unemployed? Office party lame and/or canceled this year? Then head out to Swimming Cities’ Office Christmas Party complete with beer-dispensing water coolers! Groups of five with like business cards get discounted admission. There are also drinking games-watch out for copy machines, someone’s bound to start replicating body parts…9 p.m., Gowanus Ballroom, 55 9^th St., bet. Smith and Second Ave. in Brooklyn, $20, $15 with RSVP to theoceanofblood@gmail.com, before 11 p.m., $10.

Robert Redford’s classic Ordinary People will be screening today at the Rubin Museum as part of its Cabaret Cinema series. 9:30 to 11 p.m., Rubin Museum, 150 W. 17^th St., bet. 6^th and 7^th Aves., free with $7 bar purchase!