12pm: the 52nd annual german-american steuben parade feat. marching bands, carnival groups, and trachten >>
1pm: do you want to join a performance art group who wears mascot heads? yes. yes you do. 440 studios >>
3pm: madison square park's folk, blues + americana studio series. today: woody mann >>
4pm: photograph = people photographing people photographing people. costumes optional. south street seaport, free >>
5-8pm: opening reception for julia mandle’s 'fabrication of blindness' @ cabinet (bk), free >>
5:45-7:45pm: new kandinsky retrospective @ the guggenheim pay what you wish saturday hours >>
8pm: balkans-via-alburuerque band a hawk + a hacksaw get wild @ lpr, $13 adv ($15 dos) >>
9pm: emily easterly performs a single release show at the living room, free >>
sunday
10, 11am (last chance): tai chi + pilates @ socrates sculpture park ends today, free >>
12-4pm: celebrate the start of fall @ the wyckoff farmhouse museum’s annual apple festival (apple fritters + a jug band!) >>
12:30pm; cine-brunch screens jules + jim, lpr, free (2 item min) >>
1pm: visit the final resting spaces of basquiat, the wizard of oz, civil war generals, more @ 'the far side of green-wood' walking tour, $10 >>
1pm: 100 contestants muscle it out @ the 32nd annual white castle queensboro arm wrestling championship, $7 >>
1-5pm (sundays all summer): l.i.c. boathouse free kayaking. near socrates sculpture park >>
1-8pm: pack in the pork @ il buco's outdoor pig roast (apple ricotta fritters!), $20/plate >>
3pm: find out why talented people create terrible shows @ the bell house, $7 >>
3-7pm: ‘dirty dancing’ roller party @ dreamland, $10 tix (dress themed for $8), $5 skate rental >>
5pm-late: punkphoto 5 year anniversary exhibit closing party feat. music, drink specials, print giveaways. littlefield, free >>
5:30pm: cartoonists from the new yorker battle it out in a no-holds-barred cartoon-off... with banjos! union hall, $10 >>
+ all weekend
10am-5pm weekends all summer: kayaking on the hudson, 72nd st @ hudson river, free >>
12-5pm: get up close and personal with live hawks @ prosppect park's audubon center, free >>
thru 12/15: see one of four surviving original copies of the magna carta @ the fraunces tavern museum, $10 >>
the 82nd feast of san gennaro takes over little italy >>
