saturdaythru 5/23: first ever parson's art + design festival features 200 public events across campus and around the city, culminating in a block party 5/21 >>free comic book day! local comic shops celebrate w. in-store appearances, new titles, and (of course) free comics. some highlights: bergen street comics>, brooklyn comics + more, forbidden planet, jim hanley's universe, midtown comics, manhattan comics. >>8am-8pm: companies showcase and sell gear at the first annual nyc bike expo. plus, appearances from former pro cyclists, free coffee from the brooklyn roasting company, more. roseland, free. >>10am: the gvshp gives a walking tour of the east village with toronto group jane’s walk, free (rsvp) >>10am-1pm: gets yourself learned in fundamental bike riding skills at brooklyn bridge park's pier 1. loaner bikes and helmets available. free (registration req'd). >>10am-5pm: 40+ local artists and crafers from etsy collective the {newnew} their goods at the spring handmade cavalcade. free goodie bags for the first 100 shoppers. slate (54 w. 21st st., bet 5th + 6th ave.), free admission. >>10am-6pm: the hester street fair returns for it's second season with 60+ food and good vendors old and new. free admission. >>10am-6pm: housing works' 7th annual design on a dime benefit has room vignettes designed by 50 interior designers, with all new furniture, housewares, more on sale for 50-70% off retail. metropolitan pavilion, free entry. >>11am-3pm: pogo, hula hoop, double-dutch and more at the 4th annual street games at harlem's thomas jefferson park. plus, sky bounce handball, skateboard and soccer clinics, live music and appearances from former knicks players. free, >>1, 2, 8, 9pm: performance artist liz magic laser performs flight, a sequence of live chase scenes from classic motion pictures (the shining, 28 days later, more). duffy square (b'way bet 46th + 47th st.), free. >>1-6pm (thru 6/12): 200+ artists display 1000+ works of art for the opening of the brooklyn waterfront artists coalition’s spring pier art show >>1pm: enjoy an hour-long chamber music concert on a floating barge at the foot of the brooklyn bridge. free. >>1pm-? (race time 6pm): embrace your southern gentlemen or belle during the 137th annual kentucky derby at the bell house. $6 makers mark mint juleps, square dancing, music from party like it's 1999's steve reynolds, prizes for best dressed (and best hat!) and live band karaoke. free. >>other skint kentucky derby fun can be had at union hall ($5 mint juleps, prizes, corn-hole toss, $3 burgers and dogs), southern hospitality ($6 frozen mint juleps, fried chicken specials), brother jimmy's bbq ($5 mint juleps), johnny utah's ($4 mint juleps, 1/2 priced fried chicken), pete's candy store (pie contest, $12 bluegrass blue-plate special) 1pm: green-wood’s great women walking tour visits the graves of influential women including doctors susan mckinney steward and mary jacobi, abolitionist abigail hopper gibbons, actress laura keene, more. $15. >>2-4pm: make your own old school zine at the nypl’s zine making crafternoon (supplies provided), free >>2:30-4:30pm: director spike lee signs the dvd of his katrina doc., if god is willing and da creek don't rise. powerhouse arena, free. >>3-6pm: opening reception for exhibition, sketchbook for arto, jean-michel basquiat, featuring 25 pages from a never-before-exhibited sketchbook of drawings by basquiat, made for musician arto lindsay in 1981 in an east village apartment. as if gallery, free. >>5pm (+ 5/8 2pm): nyu tisch graduate students screen their original short films (38 of them) shot in various formats from 16mm to HD. skirball center, free. >>6, 8pm: enjoy old-time mystery radio plays in a 1940s-style studio accessed by a secret bookcase entrance! partners + crime mystery booksellers, $7 (rsvp). >>7-10pm: the opening night for graffiti/street artist elik’s 'snake bite' features tunes spun by the 'godfather of hip-hop’ dj kool herc. brooklynite gallery, free. >>7-10pm: exhibition and accompanying publication i am not a good enough feminist opens with a reception at concrete uptopia (58 lispenard street), free >>7-10pm: enjoy free wine, beer, candy and ice-cream (van leeuwen!) while watching a a 7 minute ‘zombie orphan’ film. free, but donations accepted to benefit south african children orphaned by hiv. brooklyn brainery. >>8pm: the first annual 'bayou n brooklyn' music festival brings cajun and zydeco music to the borough with live bands, workshops, food, more. jalopy, $12 adv, $15 dos. >>8pm: san francisco's alyce finwall dance theater premieres new work at joyce soho, $18 >>8pm-2am: 'signal to noise' returns for another late-night art party at the museum of the moving image, with the world series of ‘tubing, ‘oscilloscope 3d’, the so so glos, chiptune sounds, much more. $15 adv, $20 door. >>11:55pm: brooklyn’s
class actress performs + javelin djs at brooklyn bowl, $5
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midnight: dj mike doughty (soul coughing) spins ‘super stupid party jamz’ (think madge, michael jackson, montell jordan, more) at union hall, free. >>sundaymother's day on a budget? get your mom some free tcby or breakfast at ikea. 11am-1pm: kate payne signs copies of the hip girl’s guide to homemaking at the brooklyn flea >>11am-5pm (every second sunday thru october): the gourmet food truck bazaar returns to the hell’s kitchen flea market. trucks include kimchi tacos, rickshaw dumplings, schnitzel + things, more. >>1pm: bring binoculars to green-wood’s 'birds, blooms + beauty' mother’s day walking tour, $15 >>7pm (every sunday): prospect heights bar the way station plays the latest doctor who episode, free. bonus: their bathroom is a tardis! >>9pm: swedish jazz-rappers (for serious) movits! come to bowery ballroom, $14 >>+ all weekendlast chance: container store's spring organization sale >>last chance: 200+ organizations participate in the festival of ideas for the new city with lectures, projects and a street fair. various locations, free. >>thru 5/9: 'absolutely everything is 70% off' at the comme des garçons shopping festival. croatian church (504 w 41st st bet 10th + 11th aves). >>thru 5/13: sprinkles cupcake truck to give out free cupcakes in battery park and lincoln center. check their twitter account for time and location. >>3-5pm (thru 5/15): frappuccinos are half-price during starbucks happy hour >>thru 5/15: nyc wildflower week offers 45+ (mostly free) lectures, botanical walks, tours, more across all five boroughs >>thru 5/24: bam highlights the films of hal ashby (shampoo, harold and maude, let's spend the night together, being there, more), $12 >>thru 6/3: the madison square mark’t is now open: vendor stalls from restaurants and purveyors including momofuku milk bar, calexico, roberta’s, asiadog, eataly, more. >>thru 7/15: arrested and detained dissident chinese artist ai weiwei's public art sculpture circle of 12 bronze animals/zodiac heads (each weighing 800+ pounds) debuts at central park's grand army plaza (59th st + 5th ave). >>thru 7/31: alexander mcqueen: savage beauty exhibition showcases the designer's work from his 19-year career in fashion. metropolitan museum of art, $20. >>
