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EXPLORE: Last call to visit the historic Governors Island this season! Free ferry rides depart hourly right next to the Staten Island Ferry terminal. Sitting 800 yards off the southern tip of Manhattan and about 400 from the Brooklyn waterfront, it isn't often you can get a view of the city and a house like that one to the right all from the same place.

All Weekend // Governors Island // More info here

READING: Warhol star Taylor Mead has gone and put together another book. This one includes new works and old ones that he's unearthed.

Friday // 6:30pm // Bowery Poetry Club [308 Bowery] // $6

MUSIC: We knew this day would come: the last night of the free Seaport Music Festival shows. Luckily, it's such a great lineup and you'll hardly even feel sad about the end of summer being just around the corner. First up are the new blog sweethearts Deerhunter, followed by math-rockers Battles.

Friday // 7pm // South Street Seaport, Pier 17 // Free

THEATER: Controversial Brit dramatist Torben Betts has been favorably compared to illustrator Ralph Steadman, “had he turned his hand to animating one of the late, more explicitly political plays of Harold Pinter.” His incendiary play The Error of Their Ways sends the acclaimed American Living Room Festival out with a bang. Set amidst a bloody revolution, Betts imagines what happens when “a brutal political assassination robs a nation of its charismatic president and thrusts his beautiful, icy widow into the limelight. As the people demand blood and vengeance, she must choose between the prospect of immense power and her depraved love of the assassin.” – John Del Signore

Friday // 8:30pm // HERE Arts Center [145 Sixth Ave] // Tickets cost $15.

MOVIE: Big Top Pee Wee meets Coney Island tonight...finally! The 1988 movie follows Pee Wee Herman on his adventure in joining the circus. Also, there's free popcorn!

Saturday // 8pm // Coney Island Museum [1208 Surf Ave, Brooklyn] // $5

MUSIC: The Secret Life of Sofia, Melty Melty and Movable Hype alum Bad Veins are taking the Union Hall stage tonight. Check out the latter's new song and video for Gold & Warm here.

Saturday // 8pm // Union Hall [702 Union St, Park Slope] // $

THEATER: When friends come back from their frivolous little out-of-town escapades this Tuesday, wouldn’t it be rather satisfying to tell ‘em you spent part of your Labor Day weekend at the Theater watching “a love affair between a devout rodeo clown and a hell-raising rancher”? It’s a sordid affair that culminates in a trip to Graceland, “prophetic sex, and cows that rise from the dead.” Eat it, Hamptons. Riding the Bull was the Village Voice “audience favorite” award at this year’s Fringe Festival, it’s being briefly reprised with a handful of other hits as part of the Fringe Encore Series. Trustworthy theater addict Patrick Lee calls it “supremely intelligent and entertaining.”– John Del Signore

Sunday // 7pm // SoHo Playhouse [15 Vandam St] // Tickets cost $18.

Photo of Governors Island via The Real Janelle's Flickr.