••• Truffles Tribeca is feeling frisky for Valentine’s Day. This week, it held a special ladies-only class: “Would you like to add a little extra sizzle to your step in time for Valentine’s Day? Well please join us [...] as Gabrielle Valliere, Senior Instructor at New York Pole Dancing and 2011 2nd place winner of the United Stated Pole Dance Federation National Championship hosts our annual Exotic Dance class. [...] Don’t forget to bring a little something extra to ‘strip’ off. (High heels are suggested, but optional.)”

••• From the NYPD’s 1st Precinct: “Here is a link to download the Crime Stoppers poster for the residential Burglary Pattern in Soho. Please send it out to all your contacts.”

••• Women’s fitness-clothing store Lolë has begun hosting free events on Thursdays from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The next two are yoga-related; you can sign up through the Facebook page.

••• Thanks to everyone who heard my plea to get to 1,000 “likes” on Facebook! (Actually, thanks to those who acted on it. The rest of you are bums.)

••• A reader sent in this photo of the impressive lines at the new WFC food truck clusterfudge (my love for rhyme is being trumped by the urge not to swear—for now). I do hope they managed to get their lunch before the giant thumb crushed them.

••• Brick Underground interviews an anonymous Tribeca doorman. It’s not exactly juicy.

••• The New York Times reviews Kutsher’s: “The food here’s not bad. And such big portions!”

by Ruby Washington for the New York Times

••• Soho Rep’s “The Ugly One” is reviewed in the New York Times.

••• The New York Times looks at Hudson Square and Trinity Church’s role in creating it. Isn’t this a story they’ve done many times before?

••• Director Abel Ferrara is planning a film based on the Dominique Straus-Kahn situation. It’ll star Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani. —ArtInfo

••• Aarón Sánchez of Centrico has opened a restaurant called Mestizo in Kansas City; it was reviewed by the Kansas City Star.

••• American Icon is opening another outpost on Fifth Avenue above Madison Square Park. —New York Post

••• New York magazine reviews Kutsher’s, and more or less likes it. Judging to what extent the restaurant pays respect to tradition seems to be missing the point….

••• “Lower Manhattan will receive 100 more beds for the homeless thanks to a $2.7 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York to the New York City Rescue Mission. [...] Construction will begin in the next few months and continue into 2013. [...] By doubling the Mission’s facilities, the organization will be able to serve homeless single women for the first time. Out of the 100 additional beds, 12 to 15 will be reserved for homeless women.” —Broadsheet

••• “Last September, the Belgian design duo behind the label A.F. Vandevorst launched a traveling pop-up shop [...] and tonight it begins its first American residency at the Patron of the New [...]. Called ‘TSTSITW,’ or ‘The Smallest Traveling Store in the World,’ the shop showcases the designers’ clothes alongside medical accessories like a hospital bed and a dentist’s lamp.” Through Feb. 23. —Racked

••• “Karl Fischer’s 24 story tower dormitory for Pace University is beginning to rise at 180 Broadway and John Street. A reader’s photos show the first three floors going up at the construction site, all slated for retail in the new building, and it looks like the first two will be part of one store.” —Curbed

••• Soft-opening tonight: Lotus Blue, the Yunnan (that’s a Chinese province) restaurant in the old Nam space on Reade. Get 10% off your entire bill. I peeked in—it looks nice!

••• I just noticed the ad pictured at left. Has it really been there since at least September?

••• 37 Warren—the building at the southwest corner of Church that’s getting four new stories—will be called Warren Lofts, according to the outgoing message at 212-371-5100, the number on the banner recently put on the building (and it’s being repped by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group). The sign also has a URL (37warren.com), but it goes nowhere. Warren Lofts rings a bell….

••• The new Aroma Espresso Bar at Church and Barclay is positively roomy. So the future of the café is… a diner?

••• Goldman Alley update #1: Harry’s Italian [in case you thought he was Irish] appears to be moving forward; it has a sign. (It’s to the north of Wei West.)

••• This may only be of interest to those of us who type “Tribeca” into our iPhones a lot (only to see it autocorrected to TriBeCa, which I’m not a fan of). On Twitter, @Adam807 sent someone else these instructions on a workaround: “go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts and make a shortcut where Tribeca = Tribeca. Will override autocorrect.” (I needed help with the last step. Basically, if you type did “Tribeca” as the phrase, and “tribeca” as the shortcut, whenever you type “tribeca” it’ll autocorrect to “Tribeca” and not “TriBeCa.”) Another yuppie problem solved!

••• Jem Café is closed for renovation till Feb. 14, maybe sooner. It opened in October….

••• Goldman Alley update #2: I popped into the new Battery Place Market offshoot this morning. I do wish there were more places to tie up a dog in Goldman Alley, but whatever. It’s a nice modern deli, if tiny, with an awesome floor.

Repeat after me: Art is anal. Art is anal. Art is anal….

••• This Wednesday, Hugh Jackman will attend the official opening of the Battery Place Market on Goldman Alley (time TBD)—it’s because Laughing Man coffee is being sold there. UPDATE: It looks like this is up in the air, so don’t go picking out an outfit just yet. UPDATE #2: The press release that Battery Place Market put out this morning was evidently a total fabrication; Jackman won’t even be in the country on Wednesday. I remember when a press release used to mean something….

••• Potbelly‘s new sign says it’s “coming soonish” (er, thanks) to Broadway between Reade and Chambers. It also mentions live local music, which is evidently part of its brand.

••• The Proud Egyptian from Twin Café (which just closed) will be cooking breakfast at Portobello, the pizza joint.

••• J. Crew’s Ludlow Shop will open at Hudson and Thomas on Feb. 29. Also: 2012 is a leap year.

FEBRUARY 2–18
One Art Space presents “Big Picture” a solo exhibition by the American artist John Boone.

FEBRUARY 3
Eighties flicks Some Kind of Wonderful and Can’t Buy Me Love screen at 92YTribeca—and Wonderful star Mary Stuart Masterson will be there for a Q&A.

FEBRUARY 8
Adam Gopnik at 92YTribeca: “Gopnik will deliver highlights from his 2011 CBC Massey Lectures (available in book form as Winter), followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Canada’s CBC Massey Lectures celebrated 50 years in 2011 with five lectures from Gopnik on the subject of winter—the season, the space, the cycle. A stunning, beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, the five Winter lectures offer an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination.”

FEBRUARY 9
“The Daily Show” writers are back doing more stand-up comedy at 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 9–MARCH 3
“Re-Make/Re-Model,” a show of work by Charles Lutz, is at Hionas Gallery: “Lutz’s wandering eye is keen to the satirical, the sexual and the absurd, found in objects both mundane and iconic, from Warhol’s appropriated Brillo boxes, re-appropriated by Lutz for a somber result in cold black stainless steel, to Franz Kline’s fluid action brushstrokes, re-made to reveal disparate body parts lustfully intertwined.”

FEBRUARY 11 AND 12
From New Amsterdam Market: “Join us for our second annual Valentine’s Gift Shop & Soda Fountain, held this year in a spectacular warehouse space provided by the South Street Seaport Museum. The shop will feature sweets, pastries, chocolates, and coffee among other specialties, and a Soda Fountain operated by P&H Soda and The Bent Spoon.” Left: a photo of last year’s shop, courtesy New Amsterdam Market.

FEBRUARY 15
Dune screens at 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 22
David Lynch’s Wild at Heart screens at 92YTribeca. This scene is a Steven Meisel photo shoot waiting to happen.

FEBRUARY 24–25
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me screens at 92YTribeca: “In 1992, David Lynch returned to the fictional town he helped create for the initially popular, then near-entirely shunned television series ‘Twin Peaks.’ This is a prequel focusing on the troubled character—Laura Palmer (a spectacular Sheryl Lee)—who is a corpse when the show begins. Freed of boob-tube constraints, and mostly absent the series’ leavening humor, Lynch traces the final week of Laura’s life in horrifying yet empathetic detail. The film was booed after its premiere at Cannes, where Lynch had taken top prize for Wild at Heart two years earlier, and received mostly negative reviews. But Fire Walk With Me‘s standing has gradually increased (the great French filmmaker Jacques Rivette has passionately expressed his admiration) and we hope these screenings—a rare chance to see the movie in 35mm—will further bolster its rep.”

APRIL 20
Graham Parker and the Figgs play City Winery.

••• Also on sale: The Copper Barrel on Murray…? Can’t be 100% sure because I saw it on Twitter.

••• The Battery Place Market in Goldman Alley has opened.

••• I went to the James Nares show at Paul Kasmin today. It was a lot less Tribeca-y than I hoped. I did learn that the pendulum wasn’t hanging from the Staple Street bridge, but from a catwalk, higher-up, that ran across the street. (This may have been in the video or the Trib’s article, but I didn’t get all the way through either.) My favorite moment, actually, came when I peeked through the curtain on the other side of the nook where the video was playing—to get a glimpse of a huge artwork that I doubt was by Nares. If you go, check it out. Below: Much of the show ran along these lines….

••• The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation “approved $14 million for Pier 42 and development of the East River waterfront park, and $1.9 million for planning the East River Greenway, as well as starting the funding process for 15 of the 38 community and cultural grants announced last September. [...] The 15 grantees include the Battery Dance Company for renovation of their rehearsal facility (up to $125,000), City Parks Foundation for parks programming (up to $500,000), Manhattan Youth for after-school programs (up to $500,000), Southbridge Adult and Senior Citizens Activity Center for an on-site social worker (up to $100,000), the Fund for Public Schools for new equipment and materials (up to $4,480,000), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (up to $700,000), the Museum of American Finance (up to $100,000), South Street Seaport Museum (up to $2 million), Public Art Fund for City Hall Park (up to $250,000), and the Tribeca Film Institute’s ‘Drive In’ event in Battery Park City (up to $250,000).” That last one gives pause. —Broadsheet Daily

••• The New York Times has a video of James Nares’s pendulum video. Worth a look just to see a glimpse of old Tribeca.

••• “I can’t find a public record behind the lead celebrity real estate item [Watts/Schreiber] in today’s [...] New York Post on ACRIS, StreetEasy or The Shark, but according to our data-base Jennifer Gould Keil got the price wrong. The Manhattan loft in question is the full 2nd floor at 427 Washington Street (Tribeca Tower). It is clear from the listing (“opportunity to have a true Tribeca raw space as your canvas”; the pix are better, and full screen, on the Corcoran site) that they won’t be moving in for quite a while (and many dollars).” —Manhattan Loft Guy (but isn’t Tribeca Tower the Related rental building on Duane?)

••• “After 18 years in business, Moss, the Soho design mecca, is shutting down its retail space on Greene Street, on Feb. 17. A perfect storm of high overhead and lagging sales led Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell, the store’s owners, to conclude that they were running ‘a free museum.’” —The New York Times

••• “The city closed a block of John Street Thursday after a small portion of the street collapsed.” —DNAinfo

••• “Chadbourne & Parke, a 110-year-old haberdashery law firm, is close to a deal to move to [1WTC], from its headquarters at Rockefeller Center.” —New York Times

She eventually landed on a 1,200-square-foot space at 18 Jay. The relative leap in size—the West Village boutique is just 400 square feet—means she can consolidate operations, installing her atelier alongside the new second boutique. (You may even spot her 87-year-old patternmaker working next to the window.) The boutique has a spare, old New York feel, including dressing room doors salvaged from old Warhol studio (via Olde Good Things). To the right is the atelier, which used to be in the Garment District; all Annelore clothing is made in New York City. “You know in the Marais, you see designers working in their shops? I wanted it to be like that. One of my favorite things is to come out and see how a design fits, to see the customer’s reaction. It makes me a better designer.”

Both boutiques carry accessories and jewelry, which Cho tries to source locally. The necklaces pictured below are each one-of-a-kind, made with vintage components; the silvery canisters hold scented candles. In New York City, Annelore is only sold at the brand’s two boutiques. “Customers like that I don’t sell everywhere. You’re not going to see it on every girl in the city.” Not yet, anyway….

P.S. “The name Annelore comes from a Belgian girl I knew who had an amazing sense of style,” replied Cho when I emailed her later. “Femininity without a sense of preciousness. Whenever I’m styling my collection I think of how Annelore would outfit the pieces.” And it’s pronounced ann-eh-lohr.

Annelore is at 18 Jay (between Hudson and Greenwich), 212-775-0077.

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