with halloween falling on a friday, we’re getting two full weekends of spooky fun this year! the aws outage slowed us down a bit, so we’ll have our 10/30-11/2 listings ready in a couple of days. in the meantime, check out our roundup of 50+ halloween parties, shows, cover band concerts, pet parades, and more happening this weekend here.

cultural fests / street fairs / food events / markets / shopping events (free admission, unless noted otherwise): >>

► sat 10am-6pm: madison avenue fall gallery walk: participating galleries on madison avenue and side streets from east 57th st to east 86th st. >>

► sat 11am-5pm: spike’s joint fall pop-up sale: at filmmaker spike lee’s 40 acres and a mule hq (fort greene). bonus: lee be in attendance for signings. >>

► sat 11am-6pm: patches + pins expo: bathhouse studios (east village). $5 adv, $10 door. >>

► sat 1-4pm: the annual offset art book fair: sheila c. johnson design center at parsons (greenwich village). timed ticket required. >>

► sponsored: sat 1-4:30pm, 6-9:30pm; new york city wine fest: chelsea industrial, save 40% with promo code ‘theskint’ >>

► sat + sun (11am-6pm): fad market fall pop-up: st. paul’s roman catholic church (cobble hill). >>

► sun 12-6pm: sunday funday spooky makers market: footlight underground at the windjammer (ridgewood). >>

► sun 1pm: annual brooklyn mac and cheese takedown: royal palms shuffleboard (gowanus), $30. >>

► sun 2-7pm: brooklyn hearts club’s sinister sinner’s market: crystal lake brooklyn (williamsburg). >>

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New York City Wine Fest
Saturday, October 25
Session Times:
Session 1: 1-4:30pm
Session 2: 6-9:30pm

Chelsea Industrial
535 West 28th Street
New York, NY 10001

21+ Only

friday

thru the season: ice skating! lace up and get your skate on at the rink at bryant park’s winter village (the holiday shops are now open, too!) and wollman rink in central park. various prices.

fri thru sun (fri-sat 12-7pm, sun 12-6pm): stay frosty: part tailgate, part trunk show, part festival, and part site-specific exhibition located in an open-air parking lot in west harlem. 20 artists, curators, dealers, and non-profits will transform their own cars into unique exhibition spaces for three days. 458 w 128th street, free admission. >>

fri thru sun: five boro fling – contra dance weekend: brooklyn contra’s annual weekend dance event returns with three days of contra dance, music, and song. st. paul + st. andrew methodist church (uws), $15+. >>

sponsored: fri + sat: flop house comedy club: nyc’s friendliest indie comedy club—with great comics, a cozy atmosphere, and no drink minimums—has some incredible lineups this weekend! save 33% with promo code ‘skint’ for any of these shows at 362 grand street in williamsburg – anthony moore, molly brenner, rachel williams, and brittany carney (friday 8pm + 9:30pm); sam kochman, gastor almonte, olga namer, stephen rogers, and katie hannigan (saturday 8pm + 9:30pm); at 83 1st ave in the east village – marcella denby, olivia stadler, joey rinaldi, demetrius fields (saturday 8:30pm). food, snacks, and drinks will be available for purchase. >>

fri 6pm: housing works fourth annual taylor swift karaoke competition: step up to the mic at housing works (the same place featured in taylor’s ‘all too well (taylor’s version)’ music video) and belt out your fave ts song in front of adoring fans. bonus: the top three singers will score $50-100 housing works gift cards. $10 adv, $15 door. >>

fri 6pm (weather permitting): free outdoor movie: top gun: maverick at the hudson yards public square and gardens >>

fri 7pm: tale storytelling show: harmon leon (this american life, the new yorker) hosts an evening of performances by some of the city’s best storytellers, including john fugelsang, martin dockery, joanne solomon, and rhonda hansome. the red room at kgb bar (east village), half price online with promo code ‘discountskint’ or if you mention the skint at the door (reg. $15), plus a two-drink minimum. >>

fri 7:30pm: ¡vaya! latin music series at lincoln center: dennis hernández y su conjunto amalia: cuban trumpeter dennis hernández and his band conjunto amalia come to lincoln center’s david rubenstein atrium (uws) for an evening of music and dancing. free admission. >>

fri 8pm: open to work: an unemployed comedy show: laugh at linkedin, layoffs, and late-stage-capitalism at amanda melhuish and cat montesi’s open to work comedy show. tonight’s lineup includes ashton womack (the daily show), caitlin reese (nbc), christina casillo (burger diva), justin catchens (vulture), jo wild, and freddy g. friends and lovers (crown heights), $10. >>

fri 8pm: laugh it off comedy show: bring your problems to the laugh it off comedy show, where audience members submit their everyday problems and comedians try their best to ‘fix’ them. boyb. melrose podcasts (east village), $16. >>

fri 8:30pm: bitches brew comedy show: this women-produced and-hosted comedy show conjures up big laughs in the back room of halyards (gowanus). tonight’s performers include kelly bachman, seaton smith, max fine, micah walsh, and liv talley. free admission (a tip jar will be passed around at the end of the show). >>

saturday

sat 11am-2:30pm: free bike helmets: the department of transportation continues its bike helmet distribution program today, offering free, personally-fitted helmets at john jay park (ues) while supplies last. >>

sat 4pm: modern whitney: where comedians interpret art: a panel of comedians give their own unique takes on interpreting a piece of art—before a professional expert swoops in to set the record straight. caveat (les), $14.64 with promo code ‘rockwell’ (reg. $20-23). >>

sat 5pm: relationsh*t: storytelling about all kinds of relationships meets on-stage therapy from actual therapists at lynn bixenspan and morgan pielli’s relationsh*t show. q.e.d. (astoria), $12. >>

sat 5-10pm: my body, my voice: a night of performance and activism benefitting brigid alliance: an evening of music, theatre, and conversation in support of reproductive justice, this benefit features original songs by singer-songwriters and musical theatre artists followed by the nyc premiere performance of ‘pavement kingdom: a clinic escort play’ by courtney bailey, and culminates in a panel discussion on reproductive justice with reps from planned parenthood, the national network of abortion funds, the brigid alliance, and nyc doula project. all proceeds will support the brigid alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to abortion care. laguardia performing arts center (lic), sliding scale admission. >>

sat 7:30pm: what’s the worst that could happen? a comedy show: ouija board edition: will purpura and ilana rubin attempt to raise spirits at this comedy show where audience members are invited to submit questions to a ouija board in-between stand-up sets. works in progress studio (gowanus), $5+. >>

sat 8pm: the chelsea symphony: ‘whirlwind: from mozart to green’: the chelsea symphony continues its 20th anniversary season with a program that includes works by mozart, geraldine green, and louise farrenc. st. paul’s church (chelsea), $30 adv for premium unassigned seating, or $20 suggested donation at the door. >>

sat 8pm: string orchestra of brooklyn (sob): the string orchestra of brooklyn presents a program of three very different works by beethoven, chalres ives, and lena frank that celebrate the sounds of nature and folk music. church of st. luke + st. matthew (clinton hill), $15 general, $10 seniors/students in advance, $20 door. >>

sat 9:30pm: drunk planet earth: mst3k meets animal planet meets drinking game at the drunkplanet earth show. the show revolves around watching animal planet iii, drinking, and the audience trying to stump the hosts with animal trivia. caveat (les), free admission. >>

sunday

sun 2pm: the broadway bach ensemble: autumn concert: the broadway bach ensemble, a community orchestra that presents four free concerts of music from the 16th to the 21st centuries each year, kicks off its 41st season with an afternoon program featuring works by bach, tchaikovsky, and reena esmail at the broadway presbyterian church (morningside heights). >>

sun 8pm (monthly) disasterpiece movie night: i am here…now: from the weird to the wondrous, disasterpiece unearths bad movies for a watch party complete with drinking games, trivia, pizza, and more. tonight: neil breen’s i am here…now (2009). wonderville (bushwick), free admission. >>

monday

mon-weds (6pm): miller theater’s pop-up concert series: the columbia university school of the arts’s musical happy hour returns for a new season of hour-long concerts where the audience is permitted to sit onstage with the performers and enjoy a free drink. this week, piano/percussion quartet yarn/wire celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special three-concert festival. columbia university’s miller theatre (morningside heights), free admission. >>

mon 6pm: amelia earhart plaque unveiling: greenwich village society for historic preservation unveils a plaque honoring pioneer aviator amelia earhart at greenwich house, where she once lived and worked as a social worker. free admission (rsvp required). >>

mon 6pm: navigating the infodemic: public safety, health and the environment with the center for communication: a panel of experts, moderated by on the media‘s micah loewinger, shares how reliable scientific studies and public health information can successfully reach the public and tackle disinformation in health and climate. nypl’s stavros niarchos foundation library (midtown), free admission. >>

mon 7pm: gravid water: at stephen ruddy’s gravid water show, actors perform scenes from classic and contemporary plays—with a twist: their scene partners are improvisers who have no prior knowledge of the script and react to them for the first time on stage. tonight’s guests include scott adsit (30 rock), zach cherry (severence, tami sagher (shrill), sunita deshpande (daredevil), cady huffman (the producers), brian stack (colbert), and more. ucb (east village), $10 adv, $15 day of. >>

mon 7pm (monthly): movie musical mondays: little shop of horrors: a monthly series of iconic musicals hits the big screen at village east by angelika, continuing the season with frank oz’s little shop of horrors (1986), starring rick moranis, ellen greene, and steve martin. $19. >>

mon 7:30pm (monthly thru may): 23rd annual music mondays concert series: the music mondays concert series returns with a new season of classical and contemporary chamber music at advent lutheran church (uws). tonight, nordic folk-chamber trio dreamers’ circus performs music from denmark, sweden, finland, and norway. a casual reception will follow the performance. free admission (note: if online reservations are sold out, there will be a standby line). >>

ongoing

our roundup of 40+ ongoing events: fall foliage maps, oktoberfest events, the amazing maize maze, and more. >>

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– the skint