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    Party at Damon’s!

    Damon Dash has opened an underground—literally and figuratively—music club in his office's basement. Playing tonight: Darlings and These Are Powers.

    Newsletter: Dec. 11

    Updates to the Buy-Local Gift Guide • The new bar coming to Grace • Comings and goings • Steals and deals • The weekend's movies

    This Weekend’s Movies

    Invictus is "potent, intelligent filmmaking" (NYT) • "Like the speck of sand that seeds a pearl, it’s the tiny fleck of kitsch at the heart of A Single Man that makes it luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections" (Variety)

    2009 Buy-Local Gift Guide: Hudson

    The shopping never ends: Highly giftable merch from Babylicious, Baker, Design Within Reach, Just Scandinavian, Abhaya, Shoofly, Moomah, Tribeca Issey Miyake, Pompanoosuc Mills, Tribeca MedSpa, and even Thom Browne.

    News Roundup: Winter Garden Trouble?

    Police activity at the Winter Garden Atrium • The Soda Shop fizzles out • Grimshaw & Partners leaving the 'hood • Texting while pushing a stroller • Ferry noise • And more

    CB1 Tribeca Committee: The Unofficial Minutes

    Small trucks allowed to come through the Holland Tunnel as of Jan. 3 • Biddy Early's making efforts to sober up • Details on the swanky new bar coming to the Grace space • Taste of Tribeca • Square Diner

    Giving It a Whirl

    I once watched whirling dervishes at Carnegie Hall, and found them entrancing—so when I saw a flyer about a "whirling workshop," I knew I had to try it. The idea of doing it myself seemed childlike in the best possible way, and very liberating.

    News Roundup: Smile!

    Photo opportunities for kids • Spa deals • Barzinho on W. Broadway • Egg by Susan Lazar sample sale • Inside Truffles • Canal Street crackdown

    2009 Buy-Local Gift Guide: Lispenard, Walker, White, and Church

    The economy is coming back, right? Buy your way into someone's heart with great stuff from Karkula, Kidville, Steven Sclaroff, Donzella, Sole Food, Let There Be Neon, and more.

    Equinox Upgrades

    Patrons of Equinox‘s non-Tribeca gyms may have been wondering when the Tribeca outpost will be getting Kiehl’s products in the locker rooms. (I know I have. I’m not particularly fussy in that way, but the stuff they have now is motel-y.) The Equinox site has said the partnership was “launching this fall,” with Amino Acid […]

    News Roundup: Chili in Here

    The New Yorker stops by Edward's for Skyline chili • A massive CD and record sale • The Bruce High Quality Foundation • More Tribeca® products

    Collect Pond to Live Again

    A tantalizing look at what's to come at Collect Pond Park, currently one of the grimmer public areas in Lower Manhattan. The redesign reclaims a sizable parking lot as parkland. / 2 comments