Pencil This In

REMINDER: If CMJ hasn't killed you yet, congratulations, you're almost done. Come join us today and tomorrow at the Gothamist House (aka the Bell House) in Gowanus. Today we're offering up FREE PBR all day, and the usual 2-for-1 drinks for those with more advanced palates. Details here.

MOVIE: Tonight marks the opening of The Universe of Keith Haring, who the NY Times says "had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of just the right energy: a radiant, joyful enthusiasm that he shared with unflagging vitality first on the streets of New York and then on the world stage." The documentary is filled with archival footage as well as friends and admirers, like Yoko Ono, remembering the artist.

Friday // Various times // Cinema Village [22 E 12th St]

MUSIC: Tonight head to the Beggars Group/Matador CMJ Afterparty to catch deejay sets from The Teenagers, Times New Viking, Billy Hayes (of the Jay Reatard band), and more! RSVP here. BrooklynVegan also has a handy guide to CMJ, and some great shows of their own as well.

Friday // 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. // Stanton Public [17 Stanton St] // Free

EVENT: This Saturday Camp Sunshine presents the 2008 Pumpkin Festival in Central Park. "Join NYC’s Parks & Recreation and Camp Sunshine with fall festivities for all ages, including a scarecrow competition at Bethesda Fountain, a bone-chilling haunted house under the Bethesda Terrace Arcade, a pick-your-own-pumpkin patch at Cherry Hill, and a large tower display of lit jack-o’-lanterns at the Bandshell."

Saturday // 3 to 8 p.m. // Central Park [Enter at 72nd St] // Free

TOUR: Can't get enough of our very own Jake Dobkin talking about street art? Then join him Sunday at a Photo Safari in DUMBO. "Bring your camera and some friends and explore some amazing graffiti and possibly a rooftop in DUMBO." The group will be hitting up a bar afterwards. **MOVED TO SUNDAY TO AVOID RAIN**

~~Saturday~~ Sunday // 3:30 p.m. // meet at the York St F stop // Free, RSVP here

FOOD: Popular East Village Australian restaurant The Spotted Cow will be celebrating their fifth anniversary this weekend by spit roasting an entire cow in a trailer outside the place on Avenue C. It's going to be a crazy weekend over there, with free roasted beef and a $20 'all-you-can-drink for two hours' special that starts whenever you show up. (As long as it's after twelve, lushes.) Everyone's going to get so wasted that the owners have arranged for a "Moo Mobile"—decorated with the restaurant’s mascot "Bessie"—to pick up guests and drop them off at any downtown subway station starting from 14th Street/Union Square and the surrounding neighborhoods. The Moo Mobile is udderly free; just call 646-315-1786 to arrange a pick up. – John Del Signore

Saturday & Sunday // The Sunburnt Cow [137 Avenue C, between 8th & 9th Streets]

TASTING: Bottlerocket is hosting a Halloween tasting this Sunday where "Kids and adults of all ages can pop into Bottlerocket for a free tasting of five candy favorites." The 21+ set will also get "a juicy Cabernet Sauvignon paired with Twizzlers or Knob Creek Bourbon with chewy caramels." Yum!

Sunday // 2 to 5 p.m. // Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit [5 W 19th St] // Free

THEATER: The indispensable Incubator series at the Ontological Theater wraps up a stellar fall season with 1000 Wolves, written and directed by Caleb Hammond, who recently starred in the acclaimed Untitled Mars at P.S. 122. His new piece is about a Wolfman who "puts his ear 'to the heart chamber of the world,' and, as suggested by Nietzsche and Artaud, the result is a beautiful, horrible fragmentation of the self." As usual, you never know what to expect at the Incubator, but the work is consistently innovative and we've never been bored by any production they've curated, which is really saying something. – John Del Signore

Sunday // 8 p.m. // Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church [131 East 10th Street] // $17