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STEALS AND DEALS
••• Tribeca Retail Club has been busy on Facebook. First, there was this: “Purchase a ticket to the Tribeca Retail Club today, and enter in the promotional code GGA, you’ll pay $10 for a ticket instead of $15 and we’ll donate the $5 you save to one of the Girly Girl Army’s Blog fave animal rights organization Mercy for Animals.” (No clue if it’s still valid.) And then this: “Subscribe
to the Tribeca Retail Club News Letter and win a $100 gift certificate
to OMG Jeans! Subscribe here! subscribe@tribecaretailclub.com.” Though the way it’s written it sounds like you automatically get the $100 g/c, when I’m hunching that it’s more that you have a chance to win….
••• Speaking of Facebook: Tribeca Performing Arts Center released this discount on its Facebook page: “Special offer for Facebook Fans: $5 off a ticket to see Guy Davis on Friday or Saturday at 8 p.m. Call 212-220-1460 or visit the box office and mention code FACEGUY10 to redeem your discount!”

IN THE NEWS
••• Downtown Express has a lot to say about greater Tribeca: Independence Plaza, the Hudson Square garbage garage, and the Tribeca mom who does tarot readings at Whole Foods’ café.
••• Terror trials still possibly coming here? (Broadsheet Daily)
••• “The Tribeca Film Institute will launch two new programs in New York City and Brooklyn public schools to support multimedia and film education. The Camera-to-Classroom fund will support partnerships between cultural organizations and New York City public school to implement the curriculum outlined in the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts: The Moving Image. The organizations will plan a workshop for students to produce film, television, or animation projects. The Tribeca Teaches: Film in Motion program, already implemented in a middle school in the Bronx, will expand to two schools in Brooklyn. A collection of the films produced in this after-school program will be screened at the 2010 Tribeca Film Fest.” (Variety)

courtesy Corcoran

HOME SWEET HOME
The sumptuous townhouse at 2 N. Moore is in contract. (Curbed)

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
“Starting February 3rd, the state DOT will begin water-main installation at the intersection of West and Chambers Street. To perform the work, crews will reduce Chambers (from Greenwich to West) to two-way alternate traffic overnight and on weekends through mid-February, as managed by NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agents. Weeknight work hours are from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. through February 12th; weekend work hours are from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. through February 14th.” (LMCCC)

COMING UP
••• Monday, Feb 8: The next film in the Tribeca Cinemas Doc Series is Dungeon Masters, about people who are obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons. Director Kevin McAlester will be on hand.