Seen & Heard: Gigino is back in business

October 19, 2021 Arts & Culture, Parks, Restaurant/Bar News

GIGINO IS BACK
Gigino is back open after dealing with a broken exhaust system in the kitchen that kept the restaurant closed for a couple weeks. Yay!

CD1 CANDIDATES FORUM ON CHINATOWN ISSUES
The three candidates for our City Council seat — Christopher Marte, Maud Maron and Jacqueline Toboroff — have been invited to a forum to discuss Chinatown issues on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 4p, live on Facebook here. The forum will be hosted by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance.

IF ONLY…
With the new Mattress Firm opening on Chambers, I couldn’t help but run this — and only wish this is what went on there when I went by.

THERE’S A FUNGUS AMONG US
Sorry, couldn’t help myself — but this is actually not funny. One of the substantial street trees on Warren across from Bed Bath & Beyond has a ganoderma applanatum fungi — spotted by Dianne Talan — growing at its base, and this is not a good sign. Those fungus generally grow on dying trees and while this one looks ok from afar, I blame the never-ending sidewalk bridge at the school for killing this one off.

WILDLIFE JUSTICE TALK
Hemingway Gallery will host a lecture on wildlife crime with Olivia Swaak-Goldman of the Wildlife Justice Commission on Oct. 21 from 6 to 8p at the gallery on Leonard. RSVP here.

 

 
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  1. Dennis Aita
    November 17, 2021 • 5:10 pm

    I finally got around to seeing the fungus at the base of the tree mentioned above on Warren Street opposite Bed and Bath. It is Ganoderma sessile and not Ganoderma applanatum. Ganoderma sessile is part of Ganodermas in the Ganoderma lucidum group in our area (the medicinal Reishi, Ling zhi) which include G. curtisii and G. tsugae. They are considered saprophytes (living all or mostly on dead material) and not parasites. These Ganodermas were on a very healthy scarlet oak and are not a problem.

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