Your perfect weekend: February 5-7

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Friday, February 5

Tote your sleeping bag to the Metropolitan Pavilion and stake out the first place in the queue for the Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show (125 W 18th St between Sixth and Seventh Aves; 212-463-0071; Fri 5 1–8pm; Sat 6 11am–6pm. $20, advance $15. Advance tickets available through manhattanvintage.com. Mention TONY at the door to receive $5 off admission). The 90 vendors include What Goes Around Comes Around, Amarcord Vintage, Patina and Right to the Moon Alice, and there’s also a special exhibit of your friend and mine, the little black dress. Plan your attack by previewing these 18 styles.

If the LBD is a bit too mainstream for your tastes, pick up some unique pieces for your home at the three-day Outsider Art Fair (7 W 34th St at Fifth Ave; 212-777-5218, sanfordsmith.com; Fri 11am–8pm, Sat 11am–7pm, Sun 11am–6pm; $20; two-day pass $30). Your purchases may also aid the relief effort in Haiti: Many of the exhibitors have connections to the Haitian art community, and a display at the entrance to the fair will feature donated works, the proceeds of which will go to Doctors Without Borders. Also keep an eye out for booths selling work by Haitian artists.

The classically trained but musically fearless Fireworks Ensemble has covered everything from Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to Frank Zappa, and is about to extend its repertoire to the Velvet Underground singer. Tonight at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th St; 212-854-7799, millertheatre.com; 8pm, $15–$25), Fireworks will spin you through a transcription of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. Prepare yourself for a 75-minute wall-of-sound distortion onslaught.

We loved the movie Let the Right One In because it featured two of our favorite things: supernatural creatures and an unrequited romance. The Deagol brothers’ first feature-length indie film, Make-Out with Violence, has these qualities as well; just substitute vampires for a teenage zombie, and replace two kids with twin brothers struggling to bring their friend Wendy back to life. It premiered at SXSW, but you have two chances to catch it at 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St between Canal and Desbrosses Sts, 212-601-1000; 7:30, 10pm; $12). Stay for a Q&A with the directors and ask why they decided to eschew bloodsuckers.

If you spend all of your time diggin’ in crates and equalizing hi-hats, this one’s for you: The Bronx Museum celebrates Black History Month with a memorial to J Dilla, the influential hip-hop producer who passed away in 2006. Monthly Jersey beat battle Meet the Producers comes to the Bronx with Looking for the Perfect Beat: A Tribute to J Dilla (The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St, Bronx; 718-681-6000, bronxmuseum.org; 6–10pm, free), a judged competition by beatmakers. Even if you don’t produce, you can still boogie down to the fruits of their labor and DJ Preservation, who is Mos Def’s DJ. Dilla fans should also check out tomorrow’s tribute Donuts Are Forever 4 at the Bell House, with ?uestlove on the wheels of steel.

We’re worried about our museums. The mighty Gugg hosts another rager tonight. If our cultural institutions aren’t careful, we’re going to have to stage an intervention because of their excessive partying. That said, this is the last Art After Dark: First Fridays at the Guggenheim (1071 Fifth Ave at 89th St; 212-423-3500, guggenheim.org; 9pm–1am, $25) until a new series debuts later this year. So take advantage and get down in the famous rotunda (you’ll look crazy if you do it during normal museum hours). Fun electrofunk act Chromeo is expected; they spoke with TONY music blog The Volume a few months ago.

Indie music in an opera house—sounds like Brooklyn, doesn’t it? In fact, Ra Ra Riot + The Antlers (BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave between Ashland Pl and St. Felix St, Fort Greene, Brooklyn; 718-636-4100, bam.org; 8pm, $20, $25) is one of the many Sounds Like Brooklyn shows this weekend. The string-laden sounds of Ra Ra Riot and the wistful, heartbroken hush of the Antlers are perfectly suited to the venue, so leave your flannel on the hanger and arrive properly dressed.