saturday
various times: fall into an altruistic habit by volunteering to spruce up a park for it’s my park daycolor> or a local public school for new york cares daycolor>.
the third annual cassette store day, the [o=o] version of record store day, puts limited-edition cassettes in music shops. currently, the list of local stores on the website only includes rough trade, but other musiccolor> is participating as well. >>color>
various times (ends saturday): the 35th annual cmj music marathon takes over nyc with tons of indie musicians. various prices (many freecolor>) and locations. >>color>
various times: free art openings:
campbell la pun: ‘excess fumes’ @ krause gallery >>color>
‘secrets of the great pyramid: the pyramid cocktail lounge as cultural laboratory’ @ howl happening >>color>
10am-3pm: feel free to judge a book by its cover at brooklyn central library’s great american book drive, where you can drop off your gently used books and pick up new (to you) ones for just $1 a piece. >>color>
10am-5pm (ends today): the annual inspiration vintage clothing + americana fashion world gathering comes to the brooklyn expo center. $20 10am-5pm, $10 1-5pm. >>color>
10am-5pm: don’t think the news is fit to print? participate in a paper-based hackathon with coral project’s andrew losowsky and take the latest edition of the new york times, find what’s missing from its stories, and creatively enhance its articles. the new school, free (rsvp). >>color>
10am-6pm: check out up to 888 works of art, 8 hours of classic animation, an 8-minute parade featuring a 60-piece marching band, plus the harlem globetrotters- all on 8th street in greenwich village- at the second annual crazy 8 cartoon festival. free. >>color>
11am: is running more of a spectator sport for you? support runners from the sidelines at the annual nyc cupcake run, a 5k race where participants stop at 3 cupcake-cramming checkpoints along the route in an effort raise money for new york cares. astoria park, free to watch. >>color>
11am-3pm: the seventh annual marco polo festival takes over mulberry street to celebrate the chinese and italian american communities in chinatown and little italy, with a parade, performances and food. >>color>
11am-4pm: admire the interiors as well as the exteriors of eight homes and other buildings at the 37th annual self-guided brownstoners of bedford-stuyvesant house tour. $20 adv, $25 day of. >>color>
11am-7pm: a miller high life and stock mfg. co. apparel pop-up in the l.e.s. serves up free beer and free food from the meatball shop + sigmund’s pretzels (5-7pm). 40 ludlow street. >>color>
11:30am, 1pm: soup’s on (the high line)! the fifth annual communal social soup experiment returns to the high line. $10. >>color>
12-6pm: check out the new st. ann’s warehouse performance space in dumbo during their free open house with performances, food trucks and more. free. >>color>
12-6pm (ends today): score some cool original art at printfest, a two-day showcase in which apprentice printmakers from schools including sva, columbia, parsons and pratt will show, sell and trade their work. international print center new york (508 w. 26th st., 9th floor), free admission. >>color>
3-5pm: pretend like you’re racing your childhood neighbor down the sidewalk again- or actually race your real neighbor down the sidewalk- at the eighth annual nyc big wheel race, where any large-wheeled contraption goes, and superhero costumes are fully encouraged. central park (106th st. at 5th ave), free. >>color>
7-10pm: get starry-eyed at the amateur astronomers association’s 20th annual autumn urban starfest, and view mars, star clusters, and other celestial objects from central park’s sheep meadow. free raffle at 9pm. bonus: free gift bags and glow sticks for the first 250 folks. enter at w. 67th st. + cpw. free. >>color>
7-11pm: the the chi chi factory show gathers 12 painters, illustrators, photographers and mixed-media artists for a pop-up art party with live music. industry city, free. >>color>
7pm doors, 7:30pm show: (monthly): don’t feed the musicians!: musical comedian rob paravonian and friends play funny songs and pick apart the best and worst music out there. q.e.d. astoria, $5. >>color>
7:30pm (monthly): vhs presents: comedians and storytellers share the video-recorded attempts they made at being stars during their adolescence. hosted by nisse greenberg and angel yau. videology, free. >>color>
7:40pm (ends today): actor olivia wilde and director reed morano will do q+a following screenings of morano’s debut film meadowland at city cinemas village east. $14 general, $10.75 seniors. >>color>
9pm: carly ann filbin hosts a comical dating show that’s fit for the cynical singleton (or questioning couple), let me break you up: an anti-dating game show, where a series of games will test the strength of real couples’ partnerships. the losing couple ‘has’ to break up! new location: the experiment comedy gallery (williamsburg), $10. >>color>
9pm: (weekly): the show/tell show mixes show + tell with stand up comedy at williamsburg’s over the eight. tonight’s performers include boris khaykin, brandon scott wolf, aaron glaser, alan starzinski and jaron young. hosted by lukas kaiser. optional: bring something to show + talk about for a chance to win $20 cash (the first five to sign up get a free drink ticket). free. >>color>
9:30pm: the lord of the bowie’s trivia battle + book party combines comedy, music and pub trivia to celebrates all things ziggy stardust. at the end of the night, hosts christian finnegan (chappelle’s show, best week ever) and chris o’leary (author of rebel rebel) will crown nyc’s biggest bowie fan. q.e.d. astoria, $10. >>color>
9:30pm: contestants answer fill-in-the-blank questions, hoping to match the answers given by a panel of comedians and local celebs at the match game ‘15 show. hosted by bill stiteler and brad howe. the annoyance, $5. >>color>
10pm-3am (monthly): dj steve reynolds plays 90’s rock, pop, dance, r+b and hip-hop all night at the party like it’s 1999 dance party. this month’s five-year anniversary party includes a special gift for the first 50 people to wish steve a happy anniversary. the bell house, free. >>color>
10pm-4am: bloodsuckers and other creatures of the night take over slake for the annual endless night vampire ball. $20 adv, $25 door. >>color>
11pm (thurs-sat thru 10/31): #serials@theflea: vote for your favorite of five ten-minute episodic plays to see the next installment the following week. the flea theater, $12 admission includes a beer. >>color>
11pm-4am (monthly): the feeling gloomy dance party (‘the party that brings a tear to your eye’) gets a jump on halloween with a lost boys-themed dance party, including songs from 1987, the film projected above the dance floor, drink specials, and hopefully some sexy saxingcolor>. the grand victory (williamsburg), $6. >>color>
midnight-ish movies:
deathgasm @ nitehawk. $11. >>color>
headless eyes (fri) and the night before (sat) @ spectacle. $5. nsfw >>color>
mulholland dr. @ ifc. $14. >>color>
posession @ videology. $5. >>color>
re-animator @ nitehawk. $11. >>color>
red eye @ ifc. $14. >>color>
the big lebowski @ ifc. $14. >>color>
the final girls @ ifc. $14. >>color>
the room @ landmark sunshine. $10. >>color>
wendigo @ ifc. $14. >>color>
sunday
10am-5pm: the japan block fair returns with authentic food, arts/crafts/jewelry, and more. broadway between 93rd + 94th sts. >>color>
11am-5pm: new york magazine‘s sixth annual grub street food festival at the hester street fair will feature 75+ food vendors including daly pie, gumbo kitchen, house of mac, mighty quinn’s barecue, roberta’s, and more, plus a beer garden and an appearance by the soup nazi. free admission, pay-as-you-go. >>color>
11am-5pm (ends today): last chance this season to check out the food truck rally at prospect park’s grand army plaza. expect 10-12 food trucks. pay-as-you-go. >>color>
12-2pm: impaled foods get the spotlight at the food on a stick takedown, where you’ll get to eat and vote for your favorites. royal palms shuffleboard club, $20. >>color>
12-5pm: update your record collection with selections from 30 dealer tables at vinyl revolution’s record show at littlefield. food from the empanada lady and booze from the bar will be available for purchase. $2 admission ($5 for 11am early entry). >>color>
12-6pm: the morbid anatomy museum’s fall flea market at the bell house features vendors selling taxidermy, artful bones, unusual antiques, obscure books, and assorted curiosities. $1 admission ($3 more gets you admission to the museum up the street). >>color>
12:30pm: take a look under the hood at the crafts behind what makes back to the future work at a movie appreciation workshop. videology, $10 with promo code ‘videology’ (reg. $15). >>color>
1-3pm: 200 creatively costumed pups strut their stuff at the carl schurz park conservancy’s annual halloween howl + healthy hound fair. free. >>color>
1-4pm: get into the halloween spirit down to your fingernails at the make-along halloween nail art workshop. nyc resistor, $10. >>color>
1-6pm: bingo becomes a literal crapshoot at bushwick city farm, where chickens are let loose on a life-size bingo board and winning numbers are called according to where the birds, um, relieve themselves. all this is making you hungry, right? there’ll also be cheap food from arrogant swine and duncan’s burgers, plus a raffle, pumpkin carving, hayrides, music, and more to raise money for farm operations. free to attend ($2 suggested donation), $5 to bingo. >>color>
2-6pm: hot lunch! $20 gets you all-you-can eat fire-roasted hatch chile peppers on grilled tortillas, chili colorado, and all-you-can drink beer and spicy cocktails at the heatonist hot sauce tasting room. >>color>
3pm (+ 10/23-11/22): fringenyc excellence award-winning dark operetta fatty fatty no friends is the story of a kid. the skinny kids hated him, no matter what he did. they taunted him until he took revenge without amends. the c.o.w. (21 clinton st.), $10. >>color>
7pm (weekly): videology continues its sunday night trivia series based on a specific tv series or movie, with rounds based on clips, pictures and general knowledge. tonight’s theme: scream.. free. >>color>
7:30pm doors, 8pm show: brooklyn americana folk-blues band pete lanctot and the stray dogs play an album release show at littlefield with invisible familiars, recently named by wilco as an up-and-coming band to watch. $10 adv, $12 dos, $8 for attendees of this afternoon’s vinyl revolution record show. >>color>
8:30pm doors, 9pm show (monthly): the force majeure vaudeville show takes over the cobra club with live music, burlesque, sideshow acts, magic and more. $10. >>color>
all weekend
10am-10pm sat + sun: greenlight bookstore celebrates six years as a thriving independent book seller by offering 20% off purchases all weekend long. >>color>
11am-5pm sat + sun: you won’t have to die to get into the new york city marble cemetery, which is open to the public today. east second st. between first + second aves, free. >>color>
12-6pm sat + sun (weekends thru march): the lowline, the organization planning for the world’s first underground park in the lower east side, opens a 1,100 square-foot mock-up of the planned park. 140 essex street (bet. rivington + stanton sts.), free. >>color>
12-6pm sat + sun: take a self-guided tour of 50 chelsea artists’ work spaces during the annual high line open studios. free. >>color>
12-6pm sat + sun: the annual gowanus open studioscolor> kicks off with beat nightcolor>, where 10 galleries and alternative art spaces will stay open late (fri 6-9pm, free) followed by an after party at gemini + scorpio loft (fri 8pm-1am, $10). this weekend, more than 90 locations filled with the work of 300 artists open their doors (sat-sun 12-6pm, free), with free after parties sat-sun. >>color>
12-7pm sat + sun: 26 new films will be screened at the ninth annual red hook international film + video festival at the brooklyn waterfront artists’ coalition gallery (bwac). $12.50. >>color>
8pm sat + sun (ends sun): triskelion arts presents the seventh annual collaborations in dance festival. the muriel schulman theater (greenpoint), $16. >>color>
various times sat + sun: six reasons to head to industry city this weekend:
1. 50 vintage clothing and accessories dealers at the a current affair vintage pop-up marketplace (sat-sun 10am-6pm, $12). >>color>
2. the brooklyn flea + smorgasburg move to a 50,000 square-foot indoor space here through the winter (sat-sun 10am-6pm, free). >>color>
3. more than 100 artists open their studios (sat 11am-6pm, free). >>color>
4. the chi chi factory show: a pop-up art party with 12 artists and live music (sat 7-11pm, free). >>color>
5. captains of industry free comedy night @ industry city distillery (sat 9pm, free with rsvp) >>color>
6. mister sunday’s last outdoor dance party of the season (sun 3-9pm, $15). >>color>
various times sat + sun: the 13th annual open house new york weekend: 300+ nyc private residences and historic landmarks open their doors for free tours and talks. >>color>
various times sat + sun: feeling thrifty? pick and choose how to restyle your wardrobe this weekend with the help of the a current affair pop-up vintage marketplacecolor> (sat-sun 10am-6pm, industry city, $12), the kinda punky flea marketcolor> (sun 2-9pm, lucky 13 saloon, free), and/or the thrift on! clothing and stuff swapcolor> (sun 8pm-midnight, tender trap, free).
various times sat + sun: beyond bleeps and bloops, the machines in music modular synthesizer event consists of a synthesizer fair with discussions with industry professionals (sat 11am-6pm, bat haus, free), followed by an evening of live performances (sat 9pm, secret project robot, $10), and a ‘wind down’ gathering (sun 1-7pm, el cortez, free). >>color>
various times sat + sun: all you zombiescolor> show your faces: terrorize tourists and locals alike as one of the walking dead during zombieconcolor> (sat 11:30am-late), or as part of a booze-fueled zombie crawlcolor> (sun 4pm-late).
various times (ends sun): the nyc wine + food festival sure ain’t come cheap, but there are five events that are $20 and under. >>color>
various times (ends sun): laugh yourself silly at not one, but two comedy festivals this week. the people’s improv theater (the pit) hosts sketchfestcolor>, chock full of scripted comedy by some of the city’s best teams, while the magnet theater hosts the new york musical improv festivalcolor>, where you can watch talented improvisors face off in a battle to craft musicals on the spot. ticket prices vary.
various times (ends sun) the annual chelsea film festival celebrates emerging directors, and focuses this year on women in media + film. selections range from documentary to indie shorts to feature-length narratives. attend q+a sessions with filmmakers, as well as industry mixers for professionals. various times, most films are $15. >>color>
various times (ends sun) the annual honk nyc! festival brings 25 brass bands hailing from new york, new orleans, chicago and paris to nine venues this week. free-$20. >>color>
thru 10/23: the sonic music festival brings new music written by 80 composers aged 40 + under and performed by 14 ensembles to venues throughout the city. $15-25, plus a free concert 10/16 at brookfield place’s winter garden. >>color>
thru 10/24: the 8th annual imagine science film festival breathes new life into a sometimes mundane subject with 116 short films and 10 features on the festival’s theme: air. various locations, $7-$18 (student discounts available). >>color>
check our website for ongoing events. >>color>
ticket deals
go on a fall foliage cruise up the hudson river with a stop at cold spring 10/24-11/14 for $28+ (plus ticket fees, reg $40+). >>color>
get free tickets to an afternoon distinguished concerts international performance at carnegie hall 11/15 (plus ticket fees, reg. $20+). >>color>
our next event
the skint presents:
Come as You Are/Express Yourself 80s & 90s Halloween Party
Friday, October 30 at Littlefield
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