STEALS AND DEALS
From Mar. 1 to May 31, seven New York City museums—including the Museum of Chinese in America—are offering an unlimited two-for-one pass, downloadable here.

IN THE NEWS
••• Architect Peter Townsend is selling his townhouse at 1 White Street; currently also home to Columbine, the address was also the one that John Lennon and Yoko Ono gave for the embassy of their made-up country, Nutopia. It’s yours for $3.25 million (New York Times)
••• NJ.com profiles saxophonist Lew Tabackin in advance of “A Salute to Lew Tabackin,” this Thursday at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
••• Art collector and Tribecan Michael Hort on what he liked about the Armory Show. (Artinfo.com)
••• Meetings about meetings: CB1’s Battery Park City committee discussed whether the Battery Park City Authority board should have more than one Battery Park City resident as a member. (Broadsheet Daily)
••• Nicolas Cage, filming The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and looking a lot like Mickey Rourke before he melted, was photographed eating a pickle in Tribeca Park. (Celebuzz)

FATHER’S DAY IS ON THE HORZON…
New at the Fountain Pen Hospital: The Back Room, an online shop of “new old stock and pre-owned pens,” mostly from 1970 on.

COMING UP
••• As part of the LuckyRice festival, devoted to Asian food, “Iron Chef Morimoto” will be hosting a late-night karaoke and sake party on April 30 at “an undisclosed Tribeca location”—conceivably, if it’s ready, his new restaurant in the old Dennis Foy space on Church? Guests can expect to “sit back and watch Morimoto and his chef friends belt out their favorites.”
••• March 8–13 at City Winery: Women of Wine Week, including Women of World Wine Tour, hosted by Maslow 6‘s Mollie Battenhouse on March 10. Looking farther ahead: Actor Jeff Daniels singing the blues on April 19, May 24, and June 28, and Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney delivering “a night of songs, stories, laughs, and mirth” on July 14.