NOT A BAD IDEA AT ALL
••• CB1 chair Julie Menin submits Governors Island as the setting for the 9/11 terrorist trials; for more info, see the website she has created on the proposal, trialongovernorsisland.org. (New York Times via Broadsheet Daily)

STEALS AND DEALS
••• Through Jan. 24, get 10 percent off fall/winter clothing at Steven Alan—in stores or online—and 10 percent of the total sale will go to the American Red Cross Haitian Earthquake Relief.

IN MEMORIAM
••• The New York Times on the passing of Albert Capsouto.

REAL ESTATE
••• Two Soho hotel updates from Curbed: The Trump Soho (left) is no longer opening Feb. 1, as had been planned, and seems to have no hard opening date; and the site has photos of the James New York, f.k.a. the Grand Street Hotel, which appears to be carrying—or perhaps even birthing—Morris Lapidus‘s baby. A theory: Are so many hotels opening around Canal (including the upcoming big brown Sheraton) because no one wants to actually live there?
••• Michael Jay Greenberg and Charlotte Marilyn Greenberg bought a two-bedroom, two-bath condo [the 1,260-square-foot #18B] at 200 Chambers St. from Adam Goodman for $1.51 million on Dec. 23. Mr. Greenberg is a lawyer and managing partner of Greenberg & Becker CPAs.” (Blockshopper)
••• “A two-bedroom apartment [at the Fairchild] recently went into contract for $1.75 million, bought by Stephen Siegel, chairman of global brokerage at mega-firm CB Richard Ellis and one of the grand godfathers of real estate dealmaking in New York.” (New York Observer)

COMING UP
••• This Saturday, Jan. 23: Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club is showing Shari Lewis’s Lamb Chop and Steven Spielberg’s E.T. In the next installment, on Feb. 20, will feature Annie.
••• Sunday and Monday, Jan. 24 and 25: Magnetic Cabaret at the Bubble Lounge—”a Fantasia of Femininity, Fantasy and Expressive Force.” In other words, burlesque! For heaven’s sake, the New York Times is going to have to dust off its triannual burlesque-is-back story, given all the strippin’ that’s been happening around here lately: Duane Park, Pinchbottom, and now this….
••• On Jan. 28, Vestry Wines is partnering with Lure Fishbar to host a dinner—and Riesling tasting—in honor of Katerina Prüm of Joh. Jos. Prüm in Germany ($110).
••• February 18 through 28, the Bushwick Shakespeare Repertory will stage Julius Caesar at the Access Theater, setting it in a girls’ boarding school in the 1960s. Et tu, bitch?

MISC.
I have a personal blog where I posted Ian Baguskas‘s photograph, Rincon Artificial Island and Pipeline, Ventura, California, just because I liked it after seeing it at Jen Bekman Gallery. The gallery, presumably having spotted the post because it has a Google Alert on its name (few people regularly read my blog), asked me to pass along this: “We’re releasing a new edition by Ian Baguskas today and thought you and your readers may be interested since it is the exact image you posted in December. Ian’s new print is available in four sizes for $50, $500 and $2,000 and $5,000.” The gallery has some great stuff, particularly when it does group shows.