MARC FORGIONE OPENS ON THURSDAY
Indoor and outdoor dining starts Thursday at Forgione on Reade, and hours are 5 to 9:30 through Saturday. They will reopen again subsequent weeks, Wednesday through Saturday.

TRIBECA’S KITCHEN OPENS ON WEDNESDAY
The newly renovated Tribeca’s Kitchen will open indoors on Wednesday — they have also rebuilt their patio after they were forced to take it down when ConEd discovered a leak underneath it in the street. Brunch will start on Feb. 27. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 5 to 10p for dinner. Saturday brunch will run from 11a to 2:30p and Sunday service will be from 11a to 4p. Dinner is not served on Sundays.

CROWN SHY OPENS INSIDE ON MARCH 1
The yurt village isn’t going anywhere, but Crown Shy will open its dining room at 25 percent on March 1.

CHURCH STREET SCHOOL’S EVENT GOES VIRTUAL
Church Street School’s annual fundraiser “The Event” will be held online on March 10, 7:30 to 8:30p, with performances, special guests, a live and silent auction. The honorees this year is the Simon Family: Ann, Robert, Audrey and Courtney. See more info and register here.

MATTHEW BENEDICT AT ALEXANDER AND BONIN
I know the galleries would much prefer in-person visitors, but the videos that a lot of them have started to make of current shows are great. This one: the trompe l’oeil framing, illustration, and decorative arts conventions in the portraits, seascapes and still lives of the artist Matthew Benedict, painted in gouache on wood or paper. Benedict’s works are included in the permanent collections of the FRAC de Picardie, Amiens; Dallas Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the NASA Art Program, Washington, DC.