ART

WALL SCRAWLS
East Harlem artist James De La Vega begins painting a large mural today on the scaffolding surrounding the Museum of the City of New York. The artwork remains on view during the museum’s renovation through the fall. Today, on view daily, outside the Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue between 103rd and 104th streets, 212-534-1672, free.

BOOKS

LAYERED HUMOR
The editors of the Onion discuss their new humor anthology “Fanfare for the Area Man” (Three Rivers). Friday, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 E. 17th St. at Broadway, 212-253-0810, free.

FAMILY

STORMY WEATHER
Vital Children’s Theatre performs an interpretation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” inspired by the prose version of the drama that was written for children in the early 19th century by scholars Charles and Mary Lamb. Saturday, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, Battery Place and West Side Highway, 212-267-9700, free.

UPTOWN GIRLS (AND BOYS)
The Uptown Treasures family festival takes place at cultural centers spanning about 80 blocks in Washington Heights and Inwood. Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., various locations, most events free. See www.uptowntreasures.org for schedule.

FESTIVAL

CHELSEA BARGAINS
The Fall for Chelsea festival features deep discounts and lots of freebies at neighborhood museums, theaters, shops, and restaurants. Highlights include free admission at the Chelsea Art Museum and the New Museum (both at 556 W. 22nd St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues); free walking tours focusing on “street memes” (1, 3, and 5 p.m., Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues), and 40% off the evening show at Dance Theater Workshop (7:30 p.m., 219 W. 19th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues). Af 476 1238 593 1248ter a full day of festivities (many of which are family-friendly), revelers can stop in at Le Singe Vert (160 Seventh Ave., between 19th and 20th streets) or Rocking Horse Cafe (182 Eighth Ave. at 20th Street) for a complimentary cocktail. Saturday, times vary, $5 Fall for Chelsea button includes all discounts and benefits, free button for children under 12. See www.fallforchelsea.com for full schedule an information on purchasing buttons.

MUSIC

PARAMOUNT PIZZAZZ
An all-day conference celebrating the Brooklyn Paramount theater’s role in jazz history culminates in a concert with groups including the Eric Wyatt Quintet and the Sultans of Swing. Concert: Tonight, 7:30-11 p.m., $20 general, $15 seniors, $10 students. Conference: Today, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, Flatbush and DeKalb avenues, Brooklyn, 718-780-4587 for information, 718-488-1406 for tickets, free.

CLASSICAL PAST
Musicians from the Juilliard School of Music perform at the Woodlawn Cemetery in a memorial concert for performers and patrons of New York’s classical music community who lie in the cemetery. Following the performance, a walking tour visits the memorials of the founder of the New York Symphony in 1878, Leopold Damrosch; Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler; philanthropist Augustus Juilliard, and others. Sunday, 2 p.m. concert, 3 p.m. tour, the Woodlawn Cemetery, Woolworth Chapel, Jerome and Bainbridge avenues, Bronx, 718-920-1470, free.

TAKING FLIGHT
A performance by tenor Leonardo Capalbo, accompanied by pianist Jonathan Kelly, inaugurates the “On Wings of Song” series of afternoon recitals. Sunday, 3 p.m., St. Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue at 51st Street, 212-378-0248, $20 general, $15 seniors, free for students.

TALKS

ALL IN GOOD FUN
A symposium focuses on the importance of games in Asian societies past and present. The British Museum’s Irving Finkel talks about “Asian Games in the Western Imagination” and scholar Ulrich Schaedler discusses “Medieval Games Between Gambling and Science.” “Go master” Feng Yun demonstrates the game go with amateur player David Saunders. The curator of the Asia Society’s new exhibit “From Dice to Go: Asian Games through the Ages,” Colin Mackenzie, talks about popular games in China. Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Ave., between 70th and 71st streets, 212-517-2742, $45 general, $30 members, $20 students. See www.asiasociety.org for full schedule.

THEATER

‘TWEEN ANGELS
The play “Dear Maudie” follows four years in the lives of two New York City schoolgirls through their letters and e-mail. Sundays, October 17, 24, and 31, 1 p.m., the Triad, 158 W. 72nd St., between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, 212-352-3101, $10 general, $5 for children ages 16 and under.

TOURS

HARBOR HISTORY
Kathleen Turner narrates a new audio tour of New York Harbor. The Water Taxi tour travels down the East River, around the Battery, and past the Statue of Liberty to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Tour starts to day, runs daily through Friday, November 19, 10:30 a.m., noon, 1:30, 3, and 4:30 p.m., departs from Pier 17 at South Street Seaport, 212-742-1969, $20 general, $15 seniors and children.

GHOSTLY JAUNT
Merchant’s House is draped in black crepe for a series of spooky candlelight tours. The tours culminate in a storytelling session of spine-tingling tales of encounters with the spirits that are claimed to walk the building’s halls. The city’s only fully preserved family home from the 19th century is rumored to house the ghost of Gertrude Tredwell (1840-1933), an eccentric recluse who spent her entire life there, keeping it “as papa wanted.” Fridays, October 15, 22, and 29, 6-9 p.m. tours depart, Merchant’s House Museum, 29 E. 4th St., between Bowery and Lafayette Street, 212-777-1089, $20 general, $13 members, reservations suggested.

DRAWING

SCHMO COOL
The new exhibit “Schmo” features Vancouver artist Jeff Ladouceur’s drawings of worn-around-the-edges characters. His meticulous doodles focus on beings that seem to be in the middle of a perpetual sigh: One character rests against a totem pole, frowning through a bandage wrapped around his head, while another fellow looks perplexed to find his ropy limbs tangled in the branches of a winter tree. Mr. Ladouceur’s ink drawings, including the untitled 2004 works seen at left and above, are created with self-made nibs that he sharpens to a one-hair’s-breadth point. Through Saturday, November 13, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Zieher Smith Inc., 531 W. 25th St., 212-229-1088, free.

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