Mars attacks the Ridge this weekend — and the neighborhood’s nightlife calendar is out of this world!
On Friday, run for your life — to the Narrows Botanical Garden, where you can catch a screening of the original 1953 (and wonderfully Tom Cruise-less) version of “War of the Worlds.” The invasion begins at 7:30 pm. Bring something to sit on.
If you start dancing uncontrollably afterwards, don’t blame alien interference — it is just the voodoo rhythms of Dave Clive’s Nawlins Funk Band working its zombie magic on you. Embrace the shake and shimmy over to Schnitzel Haus (7319 Fifth Ave. between 73rd and 74th streets) to meet your master at 8:30 pm.
Then head down to Greenhouse Cafe (7717 Third Ave. between 77th and 78th streets) where Full Disclosure will take the stage at 10 pm to probe pop and rock hits from the last five decades.
If all this talk of extraterrestrial life has got you yearning for the era of “The X Files” and green alien head “Believe” T-shirts, beam over to No Quarter (8015 Fifth Ave. between 80th and 81st streets) on Saturday, and relive those pre-millennium glory days with ’90s alt-rockers the Social Zoo at 10 pm. Then bust a move over to the Wicked Monk (9510 Third Ave. between 95th and 96th streets) for hip-hop and high-energy rock band Holla Back at 11 pm.
