ends today: the 7th annual big apple film festival wraps up at tribeca cinemas, $20/program >>
12:30-6pm: after 75 years, ruby’s bar + grill is being forced out of coney. join their rally/protest/party today. >>
2pm: the 2nd annual greenpoint beer festival serves up 33 local and international craft + micro-brews. red star (37 greenpoint ave). $20 gets you six samples. >>
5-11pm: this month’s target first saturday at the brooklyn museum features country singer-songwriter laura cantrell, author rick moody, a screening of disney’s alice in wonderland (1951), a dance party, more! free. >>
7:30pm: share ghost stories and don your costume again with ghosthunting new york city's l'aura hladik. free treats! word, free. >>
9pm: canadian trio land of talk bring mellow vocals and heartache to bowery ballroom, $15 >>
9pm: 30 burlesque performers celebrate wasabassco burlesque's 6th anniversary at the bell house, $20 >>
2am: set your clock back one hour before you go to sleep tonight... daylight savings time ends sunday morning. fall back and get an extra hour of sleep... free!
sunday
pick a spot to cheer for the runners of the ing new york city marathon >>
4pm: chess champ garry kasparov launches the fourth volume of his garry kasparov on modern chess series. b+n 86th + lex, free. >>
6:30, 9pm: sneak preview screening of white material with director claire denis (chocolat) and renowned actress isabelle huppert in person. ifc, $16 >>
8pm: bliss blood presents not waving but drowning, evanescent, jamie scandal and sweet soubrette. bruar falls, free >>
+ all weekend
the fierce dancers of cedar lake contemporary ballet return to the joyce, $10+ >>
the fifth annual ny art book fair features over 280 international presses, book sellers, artists and more. ps1, free. >>
catch emerging scandinavian and north american performance artists in action during 'live action new york 10'. grace exhibition space + scandinavia house, $5-10. >>
indie comic book writers, illustrators and animators unite unite for kingcon ii (incl. bored to death's jonathan ames). brooklyn lyceum, $7. >>
save up to 80% off past season's goods at the what goes around comes around sale, 351 w. broadway (bet. broome and grand) >>
what you'll find at the buckler sample sale >>
thru 11/9: a 24' budget rental truck becomes a traveling vaudevillian theater. location varies nightly, $15. >>
thru 11/9: the docnyc festival features 40+ documentaries, including a spotlight on errol morris, performance films of david byrne, bruce springsteen, more. ifc center and nyu venues, $16+. >>
thru 11/10: tribute to choreographer/director stanley donnen continues with the pajama game, seven brides for seven brothers, more. bonus: q+a with donen and kent jones (the rachel maddow show) sat. flsc, $12 ($9 matinees). >>
thru 11/11: film forum celebrates 30 years of martin scorsese’s boxing biopic raging bull with a shiny new 35mm print, $13 >>
thru 11/24: bloody bloody andrew jackson offers $50 select orchestra and mezzanine seats (usually $81.50-$86.50) >>
