Weekend fun free activities!
Friday, February 27
Free Music Fridays
Where: American Folk Art Museum
When: 5:30–7:30pm
The museum's Free Music Fridays series showcases folk musicians who draw on American traditions. Hosted by Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Lara Ewen, tonight's performance features the western stylings of Charles Ellsworth, the soulful sounds of Jeanne Marie Boes and alternative folk by Humble Tripe. A compilation CD of past performances is available for purchase, as is wine. All donations go to the museum's programs.
Discosynthesis; Union Hall, Park Slope, 12am. Free.
Head to Union Hall for a monthly disco party in all its corny goodness. We'll be surprised if those addicting beats don't coax you into at least a shimmy.
Saturday, February 28
Pulp Drunk: Mexican Pulp Art
Where: Ricco Maresca Gallery
When: 11am–6pm
The post-WWII boom in American pulp novels—and the lurid cover art that accompanied them—has been endlessly explored in an art-world context (and is delightful nearly every time). At Chelsea art gallery Ricco Maresca, the subject receives a new twist: a collection of pulp-novel art from the same period, only produced in Mexico. Although similarly racy, the cover art from south of the border tended to incorporate more fantastical elements—aliens, robots, dinosaurs, even Zorro. Expect a group show so thrilling, you might be moved to seek out the fiction that inspired it.
Sunday, March 1
St. Pat's for All Parade
Where: Skillman Avenue, from 43rd Street to 56th Street
When: 1pm
Parade starts at Skillman Ave at 43rd St and proceeds along Skillman Ave to 56th St, Sunnyside, Queens. Subway: 7 to 40th St, 46th St, 52nd St. Remartks at 1pm; steps off at 2pm. For those—like Mayor De Blasio—who are unimpressed by the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade's rather cynical decision to allow one (non-Irish) gay group to march for the last couple of years, this more intimate outer-borough promenade offers an inclusive chance to celebrate all things Emerald Isle without all the unsavory homophobia. Expect dancers, bands, puppeteers and much more. This year's marshals are activist Kerry Kennedy and actor Brían F. O'Byrne.
Start your St. Patrick's Day celebrations a few weeks early by throwing on your finest green gear and joining the St. Pat's for All parade, which marches through the streets of Sunnyside and Woodside in Queens. First held in 2000, the parade celebrates the diversity and history of the Irish and Celtic communities of New York. Organizers encourage people of different races, genders, religions and sexual orientations to participate, turning the streets into a place whose catchphrase could easily be céad mile fáilte (Gaelic for "a hundred thousand welcomes").
Monday, March 2
FRANTIC! Mondays
Where: The Stand
When: 10pm
This weekly comedy shindig highlights both emerging comedians and established talent. Hosted by Aaron Berg, a stand-up currently starring on Canadian television series 24 Hour Rental, the evening regularly features well-known funny people like Gilbert Gottfried, Judah Friedlander and Janeane Garofalo. Note: The Stand's cuisine is a cut above, provided by the comfort-food specialists behind Lower East Side restaurant Sons of Essex. Though the show is free, reservations are recommended; call 212-677-2600 or visit thestand.com.
Tuesday, March 3
The Lives of Hamilton Fish
Where: Hamilton Fish Recreation Center
When: 9am–9pm
In 1936, accounts of the deaths of serial killer Hamilton "Albert" Fish and Hamilton Fish II, a lawyer and politician, were printed on the front page of the Peekskill Evening Star. That coincidence led artist Rachel Mason to create a moody, surreal musical film called The Lives of Hamilton Fish, which has earned her coverage in the New York Times and elsewhere. Now an exhibition of Mason's materials—storyboards, props and artworks—goes on display in advance of a screening of the film on March 28. Both take place at—where else?—the Lower East Side's Hamilton Fish Recreation Center.
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