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6 Things for You to Do in New York City's Neighborhoods This Weekend

By Daniel Jumpertz | October 9, 2014 8:08pm | Updated on October 10, 2014 5:30pm
 New York Super Week and The New Yorker Festival are on this weekend.
6 Things for You to Do in New York City's Neighborhoods This Weekend
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Friday, October 10
New Yorker Magazine began as a sophisticated humor magazine in 1925, and while wit is hardwired into the magazine’s DNA, it is also regarded as one of the world’s finest publication for literature and journalism. Since launching 15 years ago, The New Yorker Festival has celebrated the magazine with this annual shindig. It offers a program of speakers, performers and panelists extracted from the worlds of the arts, politics and ideas. Jeff Goldblum, "American Hustle" director David O. Russell and Sting will be among this year's guests. There are various venues and prices and not all shows are sold out — head to the ticket website for the latest availability.

Missed out on tickets for Comic Con? The next best thing is New York Super Week — a new pop culture festival of concerts, comedy shows, gaming events, lectures, podcasts, storytelling and food tastings celebrating super heroes, villains, vampires, zombies, and their passionate fans. From 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Friday at Butler Library peruse the comic collection of Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Libraries' comics archives. At Hammerstein Ballroom, spend an evening with the cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” moderated by none other than original Star Trek captain, William Shatner. Tickets from $39 to $175. 7:30 p.m. New York Super Week concludes on Sunday.

Saturday, October 11
Star Wars Reads Day celebrates reading and Star Wars. It was launched in 2012 by Lucasfilm and involves many publishers of Star Wars books. Events are held around the world and include authors, artists and the voracious young readers who can’t get enough of Luke, Yoda and Darth Vader. Check out the events around town featuring Star Wars book authors and come dressed as your favorite Star Wars character! These bookstores will be celebrating: The Scholastic Store, 557 Broadway (Between Prince and Spring streets), Soho. From 2 p.m. Books of Wonder, 18 West 18th St, Midtown. From 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 267 7th Avenue, Park Slope, from 2 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 106 Court Street, Brooklyn and 97 Warren Street Tribeca from 11 a.m.

The weekly New York Times Magazine has been pushing the boundaries of magazine photography for over thirty years. In this exhibition at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, New York Times Magazine director of photography Kathy Ryan reveals their collaborative and creative processes, focusing primarily on the past fifteen years. The exhibition focused on thirteen notable projects that have been presented in the pages of the Magazine. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, Midtown. Free.

Sunday, October 12
Norwegian writing sensation Karl Ove Knausgaard talks with New Yorker Magazine's James Wood about his six-volume autobiography “My Struggle” and the book’s strange success as a part of the New Yorker Festival. In a recent article in the New Yorker Joshua Rothman says that, “The six volumes of “My Struggle” chronicle, in hypnotic detail, episodes from Knausgaard’s life. There is no plot to speak of, unless you consider real life a plot.” From 11 a.m. at SIR Stage37, 508 West 37th Street, Midtown. $35.

Visitors to Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza on Sunday will be confronted by a new Public Art Fund installation, titled Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada) 2014 by Irish artist John Gerrard. His creation is displayed on a huge frameless LED wall and depicts a computer simulation of an actual power plant known as a solar thermal power tower. Daily through December 1 2014, Lincoln Center, Upper West Side. Free.