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Featuring bacon, big wheels and Mad Men
This pickle needs no introduction (Photo: blogs.westword.com)
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NYC Great Big Wheel Race
Saturday, October 16
Central Park, 3 p.m.
Get your Danny Torrance on, although hopefully without those twins. Participants are encouraged to bring skateboards, tricycles and Big Wheels (why a childless adult would own one is beyond me) to race down the Great Hill in Central Park, which, if years of experience biking down hills in upstate New York has taught me anything, is probably a lot of fun. It’s like the Flugtag, but on a children’s bicycle. Presented by Fluff’s Stuff.
JED Talks
Saturday, October 16
JCC (334 Amsterdam Ave.), 8 p.m.
TED is a global set of conferences formed to talk out “ideas worth spreading.” JED, on the other hand, is all about the “ideas not worth spreading.” According to founder Jed Concepcion, “We at JED Talks want to change the world. We want a better world where every child has peanut butter socks and cats control weather patterns for optimum crop growth.” To purchase tickets, and see who’s set to speak, click here.
NYC International Pickle Day
Sunday, October 17
Broome Street (between Essex and Ludlow), 11 a.m.
If you can’t make it to the Grub Street Food Festival, how about the 10th Annual Pickle Day? The event, brought to us by the New York Food Museum, will serve, yes, pickles from many different vendors. There will be free samples, art work and even music. Might we suggest Notorious B.I.G.’s “Long Kiss Goodnight?” Actually, let’s make a five song pickle playlist:
1. “Long Kiss Goodnight” by Notorious B.I.G.
2. “Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do” by Bessie Smith
3. “The Weird Al Show Theme” by Weird Al Yankovic
4. “Reading Time with Pickle” by Regina Spektor
5. “Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3″ by Ian Dury & the Blockheads
You’re welcome.
Bacon Takedown
Sunday, October 17
The Bell House, 4 p.m.
From the creators of the Chili Takedown comes the Bacon Takedown. There will be more than 20 different bacon-based recipes from various New York-based cooks, hopefully at least one of which will be called “Bacon on the Beach.” That, or Kevin Bacon’s Bacon, or maybe even Bakon the Vampire Slayer. Actually, never mind about that last one.
Mad Men Finale Party
Sunday, October 17
The Bell House, 8:30 p.m.
A few hours after the Bacon Takedown comes Betty, Bobby…and um, Bert? Does he still count? Those are the only “B” names I could think of, and besides, do they really matter? The season four finale of Mad Men is all about the future of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (and Campbell). Matthew Weiner & Co. can’t possibly end two seasons in a row with a new company, can they? Then again, they did once let poor Joanie play the accordion in the world’s most awkward dinner party, so you never know what’s going to happen. Also, am I the only one who didn’t know the creepy Glen Bishop is played by Weiner’s son, Marten?