Weekanerd: Weekend Edition - Midnight Madness, Free Beverages, and Cosplay Cleverly Disguised as an Art Class

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2007

• Sunshine at Midnight Presents: Serpico
• Midnight, Landmark's Sunshine Cinema, 143 E.Houston, NYC

Fans of 1970s Grit Flicks will want to get in on this midnight movie goodness. Enjoy the classic film perhaps best known for being immortalied on stage by the inimitable Max Fisher Players. Tickets are $10.75.

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2007

• Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School: Life Drawing with Wolverine and Mystique!
  
• 3-6pm, Lucky Cat Lounge, 245 Grand St, Williamsburg

Good. Lord. Gorgeous cabaret performers dressed up as X-Men characters for your sketching pleasure. Even if you think you can't draw, this is your chance for some very enjoyable practice. $10 at the door, or $15 if you want to book your table in advance here.

• The Aviary Graphic Novel Release Party
• 8pm at Rocketship, 208 Smith Street, Brooklyn

Featuring a live set by the Ne'er Do Evers, "free beverages" and of course, writer/artist Jamie Tanner. The comic looks interesting, the main character resembles a cross between Drinky Crow and Mo Willems' bus-driving Pidgeon. Read excerpts here.

SUNDAY, JUNE 31, 2007

• Stan Lee: A Retrospective at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
• Hours: 12-5pm Friday through Monday. 593 Broadway, NYC

This exhibition closes on July 3rd, so now's the time to check it out and brush up on your essential Marvel history and also see what Stan The Man is up to these days. $5 to get in, and well worth it.

Make Your Own Green Lantern Ring

There's an in-depth tutorial at the excellent DIY site Instructables about how to make your very own Green Lantern Power Ring! It's pretty complicated stuff unless you have some experience with jewelry-making, but the end product (either a resin glowing ring or a solid silver version) is really sexy.