It’s your last weekend before the autumnal equinox, and apparently a beauty–time to store up some sunlight before your skin gets slack and pallid! Here are our picks for events around town; for on-campus stuff, refer to the handy sidebar to the right.
Friday and Saturday
Manhattan Cask Ale Festival
noon – midnight
Chelsea Brewing Company (Pier 59, Chelsea Piers, 212.336.6440)
Over 45 brewed beer casks, and BBQ. Pay as you go.
New York City Short Film Festival
Showtimes at noon and 8PM on Friday and Saturday
Choose from a smorgasbord of films adapted for your 21st-century attention span. And only 20 blocks south!
Price: $11
Saturday
The New York City Spelling Bee
8Pm. Housing Works Bookstore Café
An adult-friendly spelling bee! You know because of the cash bar.
Lawrence of Arabia at Film Forum
Showtimes: 2:00, 7:00 pm.
209 W Houston St, Below 14th St.
(212)727-8110
Adult: $10.00; Child: $5.00; Senior: $5.00
Earnest Sewn Jeans Sample Sale
Women’s jeans for $75 (reg. $198), denim skirts for $60 (reg. $198), men’s for $75 (reg. $210)
Sept. 20-28, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
831 Washington St., b/t Gansevoort & Little West 12th Sts. (212-242-3414).
Saturday and Sunday
Queens County Fair
11am – 6pm, Queens County Farm Museum
You know you need to re-grow your soul a little bit with some honest-to-god livestock and pie and other farmy things. Besides, when else are you going to go to Queens?
After Nature at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Closing Sunday!
235 Bowery at Prince St.
Get thee downtown for visions of apocalyptic beauty.
Goth Glamour at the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum
Closing Sunday!
Seventh Ave. at 27th St.
See the inescapable high school clique reimagined as…haute couture?
Sunday
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night at MoMA
Opens Sunday, closes January 5, 2009
Starry Night times a million!
Coney Island Circus Sideshow
Sideshows by the Seashore
1208 Surf Ave (at 12th St)
Coney Island, Brooklyn
Tickets: $7.50
Self explanatory…
Democracy in America: Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Ave, 212.616.3930)
In celebration of the election year, Creative Time and the Nation Institute have organized Democracy in America: The National Campaign, a performance and installation art exhibit on current politics and stuff.
8 Comments
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@seriously everyone who’s anyone knows about these events. you’re not special.
@yah Is it bad that I first read that as “black and palin”??
@wow someone is obviously really insecure. sorry that your one source to coolness, knowing the “in” spots, is becoming well-known.
@uhhh what’s wrong with “pallid” skin, hmm? fair skin all the way!
@You guys literally ruin everything. I tell one person about a cool event and you tell everyone when you have no plans about really attending. Guys, are you depressed? What are your motives behind asserting your dominance over other people. Can’t we just enjoy the weekends together? No, we can’t. You must take the plans of others and act as if you’ve known about it all along. It really helps that the event is a niche event, so most people don’t know what it is, and you offer no explanation. I’m glad we can all feel better about the bwog staff thinking they know the “fun” things to do in nyc, when in reality they only leave campus for sure things. I feel odd in that I’m sure I know more hipster spots in NYC than the actual hipsters at columbia. Well, enjoy not knowing what you’re endorsing. Cheers, and seriously loosen up.
@uhh what?
@after nature was fucked up.