Local Events · Town of Babylon, NY · November 13–15, 2026

Bro, The Holidays Just Hit Hyper-Growth: Your Babylon Weekend

59 Events Around the Town of Babylon, NY ~ November 13–15, 2026

In a week when a trillion-dollar chipmaker learned what key man risk means, and that it had no succession plan, Babylon’s weekend is diversified: 59 events, three headliners and no single point of failure. Mary Poppins flies into The Argyle, ChristmasLand exits stealth mode in Deer Park, and on Saturday night lighted boats scale up off Amityville Beach. Add a turkey trot, a grand opening, Santa photos for your dog and a lot of live music. Below: the full roadmap, day by day, with times and places, plus what’s playing at South Bay Cinemas.

The forecast, also known as our burn-rate report: rain all day Friday, around 48°. Saturday dries out, partly sunny and 48°, and Sunday is mostly sunny at 51°. Friday is a leather-jacket day, and unlike some leather jackets this week, yours is not stepping down. Keep Friday indoors and ship the outdoor plans on Saturday and Sunday.

THIS WEEKEND AT A GLANCE
59 events
Friday through Sunday, across the Town of Babylon
27 Friday  ·  26 Saturday  ·  6 Sunday

Disney’s Mary Poppins

Friday 7:30 pm, Saturday 2:30 and 7:30 pm, Sunday 2 pm · runs through January 3, 2027 · The Argyle Theatre

The season’s most practically perfect launch arrives with a carpetbag and zero tech debt. Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Broadway musical opens its holiday run at The Argyle Theatre on Main Street in Babylon Village, Wednesdays through Sundays into the new year. This weekend’s times come from ticket listings, so do your due diligence on the Argyle’s own site before you go. 🔗 See the full listing →

ChristmasLand Experience Opens at Tanger Outlets Deer Park

Opens Friday 4 to 9 pm · Saturday 10 am to 9 pm · Sunday 10 am to 8 pm · ChristmasLand Experience NY

A walk-through holiday ecosystem play on the second floor of Tanger Outlets Deer Park, open through December 27. Entry is timed (last entry an hour before close), Santa and photos are included, and children under 3 get in free. General admission is $35. 🔗 See the full listing →

Amityville PBA Holiday Boat Parade

Saturday, November 14, about 5 pm · free to watch from Amityville Beach · Amityville Beach

Lighted boats parade past Amityville Beach on Saturday evening: hyper-growth, measured in lumens. The Village lists viewing at 5 pm; the ticket listing puts the start around 5:30. A fundraiser for the Amityville PBA Scholarship Fund follows at Unqua Corinthian Yacht Club (advance tickets). 🔗 See the full listing →

🛍️ Small Business Season™: Two Openings This Weekend

Small Business Season runs from now through New Year’s Eve, with Small Business Saturday® on November 28. This weekend two local founders go to market, no venture capital required: Beyond Play Cafe, a soft-play café for kids up to 7 at 127 Merrick Road in Amityville, opens Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm with free face painting, a puppet show and raffles; and The Artist Tree cuts its ribbon in East Farmingdale on Friday at 11 am. No pitch deck, no exit strategy: just neighbors betting on Babylon. Babylon Local is meeting the rest of the Town of Babylon’s Business Class of 2026 all season.

Meet the Town of Babylon’s Business Class of 2026 →
The Small Business Season feature on Babylon Local, and the issue that started the series →. New every Wednesday at the Babylon Local magazine.

Friday, November 13 27 events · 48°, rain all day

Friday, November 13. Rain all day at 48°, so we are leveraging the cloud and pivoting indoors. ChristmasLand Experience exits stealth mode at 4 pm on the second floor of Tanger Outlets Deer Park (Santa and photos are bundled in, no freemium trap), and Disney’s Mary Poppins flies into The Argyle Theatre at 7:30 pm, the most practically perfect launch of the season. Low-hanging fruit for the daytime: the Friends of Babylon Public Library Book Sale (10 am to 4:30 pm) and World Kindness Day at 4:30pm for kids at Copiague Library. After hours the network effect kicks in: Music Bingo for Paws of War at 6:30pm fills the North Babylon Community Youth Services hall, Strange Brew at 6pm runs happy hour at Lily’s, Gene Casey & the Lone Sharks at 8pm take Liam’s Landing, and E3 at 9:30pm ships the late release at The Sea Breeze.

ChristmasLand Experience Opens at Tanger Outlets Deer Park event image
Friday pick: ChristmasLand opens at Tanger Outlets Deer Park

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Saturday, November 14 26 events · 48°, dry and partly sunny

Saturday, November 14. Dry and partly sunny at 48°: the mission-critical day. Lindenhurst opens with the Turkey Trot 5K (kids’ Fun Run 8:30 am, 5K 9 am; there is no parking at the school, so plan your go-to-market motion), then the Lindenhurst Farmers Market at 10am, where the supply chain is fully vertically integrated. In Amityville, Beyond Play Cafe goes from zero to one with a grand opening from 10 am to 3 pm, face painting and a puppet show, and Babylon Village onboards its four-legged users at Santa Paws pet photos at 10am at the Conklin House. At dusk, the Amityville PBA Holiday Boat Parade at 5pm delivers hockey-stick growth, measured in lumens, off Amityville Beach. The evening roadmap: Mary Poppins at 7:30pm at The Argyle, the Chemical & Rescue Co. 1 basket auction at 5pm in Lindenhurst, Paulie B at 6pm at Tres Palms and Chaotica & Friends at 7pm at The Warehouse.

Lindenhurst Turkey Trot 5K & Fun Run event image
Saturday pick: The Lindenhurst Turkey Trot 5K and Fun Run

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Sunday, November 15 6 events · 51°, mostly sunny

Sunday, November 15. Mostly sunny and 51°: blue-sky thinking, literally. Book a slot for Picture Perfect Holiday Photos at the Nathaniel Conklin House, then A/B test your afternoon: Radio Bingo with the Twin County Chorus at 1:15pm in Lindenhurst ($30, advance tickets only, so no late-stage funding), the Mary Poppins matinee at 2pm at The Argyle, or a Brunswick bowling demo at 12pm at Strike 10 Lanes, where you can dogfood the gear for $20. Bowie Station at 4pm plays David Bowie at The Warehouse, and the Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Service at 2pm gathers at the United Methodist Church of Babylon. ChristmasLand is open all weekend.

Disney’s Mary Poppins (Sunday Matinee) event image
Sunday pick: Disney’s Mary Poppins, Sunday matinee at The Argyle Theatre

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South Bay Cinemas, West Babylon NY

🎬 At the Movies: South Bay Cinemas

Rainy Friday is a black swan event for outdoor plans, so pivot to the big screen. At South Bay Cinemas on Sunrise Highway in West Babylon, Ebenezer premieres this weekend, a new take on A Christmas Carol (the original story about a founder with a culture problem) with Johnny Depp. Godzilla Minus Zero (ask about the 3D popcorn bucket giveaway) and the animated The Cat in the Hat are in their second week, and How to Rob a Bank, The Only Living Pickpocket In New York and Wildwood are also on. Doors open 30 minutes before the first showtime. These are Friday’s showtimes; for Saturday and Sunday, check southbaymovies.com.

  • NEW · PREMIERE Ebenezer — PG-13, 1 hr 56 min. Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
    Starring Johnny Depp, Rupert Grint, Daisy Ridley · Friday: 4:00PM, 6:30PM, 8:55PM
  • NEW Godzilla Minus Zero — R, 2 hr 15 min. Science fiction
    Starring Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yamada Yuki · Friday: 5:00PM, 8:00PM
  • NEW The Cat in the Hat — PG, 1 hr 54 min. Animation, Adventure, Comedy
    Starring Bill Hader, Xochitl Gomez, Matt Berry · Friday: 3:30PM, 6:00PM, 8:30PM
  • How to Rob a Bank — R, 2 hr 1 min. Action, Thriller
    Starring Nicholas Hoult, Pete Davidson, Zoë Kravitz · Friday: 3:45PM, 6:15PM, 8:45PM
  • The Only Living Pickpocket In New York — R, 1 hr 29 min. Thriller
    Starring John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito · Friday: 3:30PM, 5:45PM
  • Wildwood — PG-13, 2 hr 11 min. Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Family
    Starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Mahershala Ali · Friday: 8:15PM

🔗 More From Our Publications

This guide is one of four ways we cover the Town of Babylon. Here is what each one is, and why it is worth your next click.

Local Events → Every events guide we publish, in one place: the week-ahead guide on Monday, the weekend guide on Friday, and the monthly guide. Why go: plan your whole week in one scroll, and see what is coming before the weekend crowd does.

Local News → The Saturday news briefing and the town’s local news: town board, schools, public safety, development and the people behind them. Why go: know what is happening in your town before it reaches your feed.

The Babylon Local magazine → Out every Wednesday on babylonlocal.net: features, neighbor and business spotlights, and this month’s Business Class of 2026. Why go: the stories behind the calendar, written about the people who live here.

🍂 Coming Up in November

Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26. First Presbyterian Church of Babylon hosts a free Thanksgiving Sit-Down Dinner from 1 to 3 pm, open to everyone. Then Black Friday, Small Business Saturday® on November 28, and the holiday tree lightings are all in the complete November guide.

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📖 The Tech-Bro Glossary

This week Silicon Valley gave everyone a crash course in leadership changes, so we wrote this weekend’s guide in tech-bro. If you speak fluent startup, congratulations, and please go outside. For everyone else, here is the decoder ring: every buzzword we used above and in this week’s email, in plain English, plus what it meant here in Babylon.

  • A/B test — Trying two versions of something to see which one works better. Radio Bingo at 1:15 or the Mary Poppins matinee at 2? Run the experiment. Report back.
  • Black swan event — A rare surprise nobody saw coming. Friday’s rain is not one. It was a 98% chance in the forecast. We saw it coming.
  • Blue-sky thinking — Brainstorming with no limits. On Sunday the sky is actually blue, so this one counts.
  • Burn rate — How fast a company spends its cash. Two adults and three kids at ChristmasLand will teach you about yours.
  • Diversified / single point of failure — Spreading your bets so one problem can’t sink everything. 59 events this weekend. If one cancels, you still have 58.
  • Dogfooding — When a company uses its own product before selling it. The Brunswick demo at Strike 10 lets you roll the gear before you buy it. $20.
  • Due diligence — Checking the facts before you commit. We did ours. Check The Argyle’s own site for showtimes before you go: you do yours.
  • Ecosystem play — Building a family of linked products so customers never leave. ChristmasLand: Santa, photos, gingerbread houses, and an outlet mall one floor down.
  • Freemium trap — The free version is the bait; the good stuff costs extra. Not at ChristmasLand: Santa and the photos come with the ticket.
  • Go-to-market motion — The plan for getting a product in front of customers. For the Turkey Trot, it means figuring out where to park, because it isn’t at the school.
  • Hockey-stick growth — Flat, flat, flat, then a sudden steep climb. The number of lit-up boats off Amityville Beach at about 5 pm Saturday.
  • Hyper-growth — Growing extremely fast. The holiday season, which went from zero to ChristmasLand in one weekend.
  • Key man risk — The danger that a company falls apart if one person walks out. Somebody in Silicon Valley learned this one the hard way this week. Babylon’s weekend has 59 events and no single point of failure.
  • Late-stage funding — The big money that comes in after a startup has proven itself. Radio Bingo tickets are advance sale only. No buying in at the door.
  • Leveraging the cloud — Using computers and storage over the internet instead of your own. Here it just means it is raining, so go inside.
  • Low-hanging fruit — The easy wins. A library book sale. Walk in, leave with a stack.
  • Mission critical — Absolutely essential. Saturday: the only dry day of the three.
  • Network effect — A product gets better the more people use it. Music Bingo is more fun with a full hall, and Paws of War gets more help.
  • No VC, no pitch deck, no exit strategy — VC is investor money; a pitch deck is the slideshow you use to ask for it; an exit strategy is the plan to cash out. Beyond Play Cafe and The Artist Tree are skipping all three and betting on their neighbors.
  • Onboarding — Getting a new user set up and comfortable. Santa Paws at the Conklin House: your dog becomes a holiday-photo user.
  • Pivot — Changing strategy when the first plan isn’t working. Outdoor plans, meet Friday’s rain. Indoor plans it is.
  • Roadmap — The plan for what comes next, and when. You just read it.
  • Scale up — Grow bigger, fast. One lit-up boat is nice. A parade of them is scaling.
  • Ship (a release) — To launch a product or update. E3 ships the late release at The Sea Breeze at 9:30 Friday.
  • Stealth mode — Building something quietly before announcing it. ChristmasLand goes public on Friday at 4.
  • Succession plan — Who takes over when the boss leaves. Some trillion-dollar companies, it turns out, did not have one. Our plan: if one event cancels, 58 more are waiting.
  • Tech debt — Messes left by quick fixes that someone has to clean up later. Mary Poppins arrives with none. Just a carpetbag.
  • Unicorn — A startup worth a billion dollars or more; rare and much talked about. Our three headline picks this weekend. Rare, and worth the hype.
  • Vertically integrated — One business controls every step, from making it to selling it. The Lindenhurst Farmers Market: from the grower’s hands to your bag.
  • Zero to one — Creating something brand-new, from nothing. Beyond Play Cafe’s opening day on Saturday in Amityville.

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See you around town,
Ryan Williams
I Love Babylon Events | Babylon Local Directory
I Love Babylon, NY