If you stayed up all night finishing those taxes, then grab a free cup of java at Brooklyn’s Cubana Social! 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 70 N 6th St, Brooklyn, free!
Help celebrate the second birthday of Word Bookstore’s “I’m Just Working on My Novel” series with treats and free wine! And oh yeah…readings too. Authors Zachary Steele (Flutter), Emily St. John Mandel (The Singer's Gun) and Richard Nash (formerly of Soft Skull Press) who is launching his new imprint Red Lemonade. 7 p.m., Word Bookstore, 126 Franklin St., free (RSVP via Facebook here: http://wordbrooklyn.com/event/celebrate-just-working-my-novels-2nd-birthday
Get a head-start on gifts for author Charles Dickens’ birthday a year early (he hits the big 200 next year), with the panel discussion, "Dickens on Broadway," which will be followed by a post-discussion reception. New York Institute of Technology Auditorium, 1871 Broadway bet. 61st and 62nd Streets, 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., free!
The borough of Brooklyn *hearts* Japan and shows it with its “To Japan With Love” program tonight, which features music and comedy performances from local talent and a silent auction. All proceeds from the event will go disaster relief. 7 p.m., The Bell House, 149 7th St., $15!
Friday and Saturday April 15 and 16, 2011
Girls don’t get jealous if your beau ogles Jessica Rabbit-remember she’s just a cartoon! See for yourself at these late-night screenings of Who Framed Roger Rabbit! Midnight, Landmark Sunshine, 143 Houston St., $10!
Saturday April 16, 2011
Chili and history, a perfect combination for “the only chili cook-off within the five boroughs sanctioned by the International Chili Society, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Historic Richmond town, 441 Clarke Avenue, Staten Island (take the ferry for free to the island then Take the S74 bus from the terminal to Richmond Road and St. Patrick's Place.), $9 gets you admission to the area, and a chili-tasting kit!
Take a 90-minute Wall Street History Walking Tour with the Museum of American Finance in the financial district today, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Meet at the museum, 48 Wall St., $15, buy tkts here: http://www.moaf.org/events/walking/evt_20110416.
Travel back in time to the1920s and savor a Gatsby-esque night of jazz as the Cotton Club is recreated, for one night only, in Soho. Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra will play jazz favorites, and there will also be a "vaudevillian stage show, burlesque, poker, craps, and blackjack, hand-rolled cigars, and many other vintage surprises!" 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., 76 Wooster, $25!
Get acquainted with some of NYC’s spooky friends during the “From Ghostbusters to John Lennon: The Ghosts of the Upper West Side” walking tour! Stops include the “Ghostbusters Building," and sites associated with Mae West, Irving Berlin, Roman Polanski, and John Lennon. 3:30 p.m., meet at 55 Central Park West between 65th and 66th Streets opposite Central Park, $20 by credit card; $25 cash, please RSVP even if you pay cash! Pay by credit card here: http://www.ghostsofny.com/cgi-bin/calendar/long_calendar.cgi
Give back to the city you call home with New York Cares’ Hands on New York Day, where volunteers can help out in the city’s neighborhoods. Busy, not here? Be a “virtual volunteer” and donate money, various locations, for more info go to http://www.handsonnewyorkday.org/, $20!
Nobody puts Johnny in the corner (Depp that is!) Stop all your tears for the Cry-Baby sing-along tonight and join filmmaker John Waters as he takes you through 1950’s Baltimore where good girl Allison falls for rebel Cry-Baby Walker! (I think a musical was actually made of this, and I think I may have even seen it too…10:30 p.m., 92ndY Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., $13, get tkts here: http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DMM5FA04
Get a special sneak preview of the summer line-up of short films from Rooftop Films! Tonight’s free screenings are in Brooklyn, with selections from far and wide, including Germany and Sweden! 8 p.m., 350 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, in the auditorium at M.S. 51, free!
Plus “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs” exhibition opens at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 2, 2011), it’s Record Store Day (http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home), and pick up cookbooks from $1-$20 at the James Beard Foundation's Biannual Cookbook Sale (http://www.jamesbeard.org/) today! I’ve also heard that the Cyclone may open for the season today! (http://www.lunaparknyc.com/events.html?view=event&id=70) first 100 guests ride free!
Saturday and Sunday April 16 and 17, 2011
Explore Central Park in honor of Earth Day with Discovery Walking Tours. Stops include Strawberry Fields, Literary Walk, The Ramble, Bow Bridge, The Lake, The Arsenal, and Bethesda Fountain. Sat at 1:30 p.m., and Sun at 12:30 p.m., call 212-465-3331 for reservations and meeting place, $18! New York shows you the money with Discovery Walking Tours’ Old and New Money: Victorian Fifth Avenue and Central Park West walking tour. Stops include the Dakota, the Prasada, and the Payne Whitney and Henry Clay Frick mansions. Sat at 4 p.m., and Sun at 2:45 p.m., call 212-465-3331 for reservations and meeting place, $18!
Sunday April 17, 2011
Take in a special Earth Day screening of the documentary No Impact Man, in which writer Colin Beavan and his family strive to live a life without waste. 2 p.m., Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 550 Madison Ave at 56th St., free, but call (212) 833-7858 for reservations.
Nosh on some free food truck treats from Ladle of Love, Pera Turkish Tacos, Rickshaw Dumplings and Van Leeuwen Ice Cream at Tavern on the Green’s Food Truck Terrace, which opens today. Along with free food, the Blue Vipers will be playing jazz music! 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Tavern on the Green (in Central Park), inside the Park at 67th Street, free!
Learn about this lesser-known Jewish enclave with Joyce Gould during the Jewish Harlem Walking Tour! 1 p.m., meet at State Office Building Plaza, 163 W. 125th St., at Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (Seventh Ave.), $12!
Plus all weekend long the Broadway Panhandler will be hosting the Wüsthof and All-Clad cookware sale where you can get your knives sharpened on Saturday for $12 (http://broadwaypanhandler.com), you can see a 22-foot–long replica of the Intrepid being built with Legos on the ship itself (http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/), and the Fashion in Film Festival is going on at the Museum of the Moving Image (http://www.movingimage.us/films/2011/04/15/detail/fashion-in-film-festival-birds-of-paradise/)!
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