Got nothing to do on Saturdays? Well then you should probably consider hopping on the 7 train and heading to Long Island City, where P.S.1 (22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens- Google Map)  has parties every Saturday from 2-9pm. Admission is $15 and includes access to the museum’s contemporary art collection (it’s a part of the MoMA, after all).

Oh, and if you live in L.I.C., bring proof of residency and your admission is free.

And one more thing…many acclaimed artists perform at the parties (hint, ?uestlove will be playing on the 14th). For a full calendar of events, click here.

What’s a great way to kick off your weekend? Did you say a summer movie? Then you’d be correct.

Tonight at 8:00 pm at Pier 46 (Manhattan- Google Map), Monsters vs Aliens will be showing. Show up, bring some blankets, and enjoy the show. Price, as always, is free.

I’m back TFA-ers and with a new assortment of Free Events this weekend!

Summer is here  and we all need to be saving our pennies for 40′s and margarita’s in this 100 degree heatwave.  This weekend holds a plethora of outdoor, as well as air-conditioned events to keep you occupied until the work week commences.

Friday

Free outdoor movie

Sunset– (The Goonies ) on the flight deck at Intrepid this Friday – Intrepid Museum Foundation (Midtown West)

Leave your baggage at home and bring a picnic blanket out to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for Target Passport Fridays, an outdoor festival of international music, dance and film.

Saturday

Romeo & Juliet  beginning this weekend at the Music Pagoda. Don’t miss this free event!

Sand Sculpting Contest and Unity Day

Sat 11am–5pm Directions http://www.astelladevelopment.org

Get ready to break out your baddest, boldest sandcastle-building skills. Astella Development Corp, a nonprofit devoted to affordable housing and commercial revitalization in Coney Island, hosts its 20th annual sand-sculpting contest today. Past winners have included depictions of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and a bald eagle holding a key.
Understanding Genetic Diversity

Sat 1pm–3pm  American Museum of Natural History Subway: B, C to 81st St–Museum of Natural History; 1 to 79th St  | Directions

In this DNA-focused discussion, anthropologists Monique Scott and Samara Rubinstein talk about humans’ susceptibility to disease, the state of genetic technologies (like ancestry testing) and how our species will continue to evolve.

Sunday

Coney Island Sunset Dance Ride

Sun 5pm Map http://www.times-up.org

Hop on your bike at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, then head to the south shore for an outdoor deejayed party thrown by the Coney Island Dancers, an organization whose parties benefit both boardwalk-bound revelers (emotionally) and children with special needs (financially).

Watch the world premiere of season four of MAD MEN on the big screen in Manhattan’s Times Square on Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets. Arrive by 7:00pm in your swankiest 1960s attire for pre-screening costume and trivia contests.

What’s that sound you hear? Why, it’s the sound of our collective geeky hearts having a eruption of happiness.

Brooklyn Bridge Park will be showing the 1998 cult classic movie The Big Lebowski on Thursday at sunset at Pier 1. If you’re not crazy excited about that, well, watch what happens after the break. [Brooklyn Bridge Park]

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Fun Fact: I don’t like Star Wars. I know I’m the only person on the planet that doesn’t, but it’s cool. I like being alone.

That said, this is still super awesome. [Gothamist]

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Thought I’d post this while everyone’s still talking about it.

I went to Coney Island on July 4th and walked right by Six-Time Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Champion Takeru Kobayashi posing for a couple of photographers on the boardwalk.

Fitting that he was wearing a “Free Kobi” T-shirt (no doubt a reference to the contract squabble with Major League Eating that made him sit out of this year’s hot dog eating contest). I can imagine these shirts becoming viral in protest to his very unnecessary arrest. I certainly want one!

And sure, maybe he shouldn’t have jumped up onto the stage and resisted arrest, but is he really a threat to anyone? What was he going to do, eat somebody? This is no way to treat the man who made the sport of gluttony (a.k.a. competitive eating) famous.

The last four contests have been won by Joey Chestnut, but this year he “only” ate 54 hot dogs, a far cry from last year’s 68. Perhaps this is an opening for Kobayashi to reclaim his title; that is, if he’s ever allowed to compete in the Nathan’s contest again. FREE KOBI!

Macy’s is giving a big middle finger to Brooklyn and Queens again this year by having the Fourth of July fireworks on the Hudson river. So if you were planning on watching the fireworks from one of the many East River parks, you’re screwed.

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