EVERYONE LOVES A BARGAIN
••• Walking up Hudson, I noticed sales at Baker, Design Within Reach, and Pompanoosuc Mills.
••• When the St. Petersburg State Ballet Theatre comes to Tribeca Performing Arts Center March 19–21, you can show your ticket stub and get 10% off your bill at Acappella and/or enjoy a special $50 prix-fixe dinner at Megu.

NOT A BARGAIN BUT…
••• Pomme Tribeca is selling this cute T-shirt for $34.
••• In honor of the Canadian hockey team’s Olympic win, I think, Tribeca-based ax company Best Made is making a special red-and-white, maple-leaf-anointed ax.

THIS WEEKEND
••• The next installment of the Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club is Saturday: The first show is nature footage, followed by The Muppet Movie. After each screening kids can construct an animal puppet in a paper-bag arts-and-crafts project.
••• Through Apr. 3 at the Access Theater: Glee Club. Matthew Freeman’s play—about “a cutthroat men’s chorus on the verge of meltdown”—is being put on by Blue Coyote Theater Group. Tickets are $25, or $15 for tonight’s and tomorrow’s performances.
••• Happiness Is, “a cinematic road trip exploring the myths and the truths of the ‘pursuit of happiness’ in America,” premieres at Tribeca Cinemas on Saturday ($10).
••• Friday at 7:30 p.m., Kiva Cafe hosts a Monologue and Poetry Party. Rob Hylton will be performing monologues from his CD, In America ($5 cover, two-drink minimum).

COMING UP
••• Recycled Bride—not sure about that name—ran a long post about Alycea Ungaro‘s upcoming wellness retreat in Nicaragua (May 1–7). Plus: Enter to win a Spa Week giveaway of a Real Pilates mat, workout book, and DVD set.

IN THE NEWS
••• The State Senate confirmed William Thompson to lead the BPCA. (Broadsheet Daily)

WHERE THE SIDEWALK BEGINS
The streetscape along Hudson between Beach and Hubert, next to the Holland Tunnel, is taking shape…. It looks like there’ll be some nice spots from which you can watch the construction.