Roundup: Guy in a Bar
Is a famous ex-husband opening a pub in Tribeca? • Contemporary art at the Museum of Chinese in America • Pen Parentis salon • Skinny Bitch at Barnes & Noble
Roundup: Caviar Sale
"Huge sale" at PB & Caviar • Museum of Chinese in America gears up for the Lunar New Year • Pearl Paint appears to be on the ropes (and the frame store is kaput) • Real estate drama
A Piece of Chanterelle
The New York Times’s Diner’s Journal blog has a nice look at the exhibit of Chanterelle menus that opens today at Kill Devil Hill. I was prepped to go, but Greenpoint on a semi-snowy, 25-degree day? Happily, the menus are also available at chanterellestore.com; unhappily, the photo quality leaves something to be desired. More than […]
For Parents Who Write (and Vice Versa)
Pen Parentis co-founder M.M. De Voe explains why writers with kids need their own community, how the group chooses who does readings at the salon, and what the biggest misconception with Pen Parentis is. / 2 comments
Roundup: Saving Face
Discounts via Facebook • Garbage garage • Independence Plaza • Major real-estate sale • Chambers Street construction update • Dungeons & Dragons obsessives
Brick Behaving Badly?
These posters around southern Tribeca rang an alarm with me, because I've sat through enough CB1 Tribeca committee meetings to pretty much know that Brick, the restaurant at 22 Warren, is heading for trouble. Four DJs? On a Thursday? On a residential street? / 1 comment
Newsletter: Feb. 5
From soup to nuts • Tribeca® quest • Bye-bye green benches • Bike store on Reade • Damon Dash's gallery • Deals • Tribeca ax company • Much more
This Weekend’s Movies
All in all, this week is a fairly disturbing lineup of new releases: death in Denmark, gunplay in France, bleakness in Britain—and that's not even including Dear John. So go see 2009's best while they're still in theaters! What else are you going to do on a cold and maybe snowy weekend?
Roundup: Nuts!
Garbage Garage appeal • Kurt Gutenbrunner's lair • Sales on laser hair removal and lip scrubs • Terror trial protest • Skating, Bollywood-style • Blankets, nuts, and more
Soup’s On!
The New York City Restaurant Week Truck is parked outside Whole Foods, on Greenwich, for two days of selling soup. Today’s options are butternut squash from Tribeca’s own Capsouto Frères and tomato garbanzo from Black Duck (on E. 28th St.). For $6, you get soup, some bread from Tomcat Bakery, and a Coke, Diet Coke, […]
Damon Dash’s New Gallery
Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash seems intent on turning 172 Duane Street into the epicenter of something…. According to The Boombox—and reported elsewhere—he has announced that he “will officially open his art gallery, The Dash Gallery […] on Friday, Feb. 19, in Dash’s DD172 building, in the Tribeca area of Manhattan. The opening will feature the work of contemporary […]
Up Next at the MJH
The Museum of Jewish Heritage has released its March/April schedule of events, including former District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer, and documentaries by Pierre Sauvage










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Apparently Chip City shuttered all 20+ of its retail locations this week. — James Bogardus / Cookies coming to 325 Greenwich
Sorry, but to whom should businesses cater, if not the neighborhood families who live and raise children there? — K / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
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Spas……we need more nail spas. — Francesco / Starbucks at West Broadway and Chambers will close tomorrow
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