Isn't "Occupy Our Homes," taking place today, the very heart of all the current messay political movements, where left and right can come together? After all, it kicks that sweet spot composed of libertarian anti-tax legal technicalities and loopholes, a conservative "get off my land" American ethos, and the liberal and leftist anti-corporate, anti-big-bank-bullies vision of freedom. Plus, it's got an actual "real America" vibe—not just for "coastal elites"! (Coastal elites are renters, and no one cares about them when they get evicted due to someone else's foreclosure. Though New Yorkers can take the 3 train to Brownsville at 1 p.m. today! "Bring housewarming gifts and food to share!") From Fayetteville to St. Louis to Southgate, this is perhaps something you could get behind.

Tonight: the photographer Andrew Piccone's "Faces of Occupy Wall Street" show, Frontrunner Gallery, 59 Franklin Street, 6- 8 p.m. That's a fifteen-minute walk from Zuccotti Park, so you can compare and contrast faces!

Do you like stairs and hate domestic violence? Great news! On the evening of October 6th, you have the opportunity in New York City to climb 42 flights of stairs as a fundraiser for inMotion, which provides free legal services for women, particularly women who are in the process of extricating themselves from abusive relationships. There will be rest areas on these stairs! But don't be too alarmed: you can sign up for 14 floors or even zero floors. Why not register now, as a team member or an individual? WHY NOT, I SAID? Do you want women to be in legal battles with abusers and stalkers over children and property without excellent representation? Do you?

The leader of the social skating group Wednesday Night Skate goes by the alter ego Mocha Superman. "Since this is technically an illegal street event," he said, "I try to keep my real name out of it." Last Wednesday evening he arrived in Union Square and ditched his collared shirt in favor of a red WNS tee and added wrist guards and a black bandanna. "It's part of the double life thing," he said. "Call me Clark Kent." READ MORE

Tomorrow is the last day of Summer Streets programming, running down Manhattan at various locations with like, yoga and snacks and stuff. It's a very weird public-private endeavor, but I'm into it! Anything to make the City a little more unexpected. Plus: free bike repair in Soho! And sandcastles.

The first thing you need to know about the Delaware River Tubing Company is that it’s located in the New Jersey borough of Frenchtown. It was so named for the tongue of its early settlers, many of whom followed the flight of a Swiss opponent of the French Revolution to the leafy lands along the lazy, shallow, deeply brown river that‘s a natural divider with Pennsylvania. The French appear to be largely gone, though at least one of the town’s residents is well known for spending some time in the Old World: Elizabeth Gilbert is right here in Frenchtown, where she is writing a novel, and the husband she snatched up at the end of Eat Pray Love operates a Southeast Asian import shop. READ MORE

• Tonight, at Hudson River Park: The Karate Kid is screening. And tonight, at the Prospect Park Bandshell: Los Lobos. So either go to the South Street Seaport, where The Wake is playing, or come back to Prospect Park on Saturday, when Raekwon is playing. READ MORE

• Remember how I told you last week there were going to be fireworks in the East River, nicely visible from Brooklyn? Yeah, my fireworks party didn't go so well either, as there were none. Sorry! But supposedly there are some fireworks Saturday night. (Don't take it from me, ask someone else apparently. Fireworks credibility: ruined!) READ MORE

• New on Netflix Instant: that Aaron Eckhart movie that no one saw that you never wanted to see! READ MORE