WOK IN DUANE IS SERVING
Wok in Duane, the new restaurant from the Zutto folks that opened on Duane Park in July, just got its liquor license. (Thanks to A. for the heads up.)

FIREBIRD ON GOVERNORS ISLAND IN OCTOBER
Governors Island Arts now has tickets on sale for the New York City premiere of FIREBIRD, the genre-defying visual arts performance from Amsterdam-based artist collective Touki Delphine, on Oct. 3 and 4. Featuring an orchestra of light made from more than 500 recycled car taillights, the show is inspired by composer Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 Firebird Suite and is centered around a massive wall of light designed to illuminate the dance of the firebird. Ticketholders will receive shimmering metallic capes as they disembark from the ferry, which will become part of the show.

AMY SEWELL PUBLISHES SECOND NOVEL
Tribecan Amy Sewell just published her second novel, The Hole in the Rabbit, after Pocket8s debuted 2022. Just a snippet of the synopsis: “When a New York City reality show producer, and mother of three, is blacklisted from the entertainment industry and then brutally attacked, a spiraling addiction and a haunting accident from her past resurface old wounds and unravel her life. Grace O’Doyle, the complicated anti-heroine of The Hole in the Rabbit, loses control after a series of personal and professional snafus have her reckoning with life-long recreational drug use. In the midst of imploding in on her home and career, Grace’s cloudy relapse sends her back in time to reconcile with the genesis of her drug abuse.”

10TH ANNI OF SEAGLASS CAROUSEL
The Battery will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the SeaGlass Carousel on Wednesday, August 20, starting at 11a. There will be shaved ice, a bubble show, coloring and raffles.