Plus: Rem Koolhaas to design New Museum extension; ICP Museum is leaving the Bowery; actors Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie live in Battery Park City; hook-up steals man's watch; Park Row bike path angst. / 3 comments
The new restaurant De Maria; Raymond Pettibon retrospective at the New Museum; a Japanese restaurant specializing in eel; Argentine perfume boutique; Australian streetwear. / 1 comment
"This isn't even remotely Tribeca, but who else am I going to ask? The New Museum has these structures on top it.... Are they infrastructure? Are they art?" —T.
Plus: Torly kid book swap; 13-17 Laight developer; Pier 40 lights back on; P.S. 234 Spring Auction; "All the Buildings in New York" book; New Museum phone calls; Tribeca Film Festival's closing-night choice.
The Carsten Höller show opening tomorrow is totally worth going AboCa for, especially if you like things like big slides, isolation tanks, and upside-down goggles. / 2 comments
Plus: Kool Bloo is open; California Closets is closed; 9/11 art installation; last call for hand-holding; free admission at the New Museum.
Plus: Family-fitness coming to Reade (where else?); Lady Gaga's piano; Chanterelle; John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders; Peck Slip. / 1 comment
This weekend* in Tribeca: Fulton Stall Market; wine-loving Tool frontman; "Heavenly Creatures"; Equally Shared Parenting; writer Lee Smith; Friends of Hudson River Park boat ride; burlesque.... Plus: the full calendar through June 26. (*We're close enough, right?)
This weekend in Tribeca: Hudson River Pageant, "Lost" parties, Steven Alan sale, "Kevin Geeks Out About Aliens," a lost jazz shrine, Making Books Sing for kids, Gumby at Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club, new Swedish liqueur, Cassavetes comedy, kids' concert, burlesque. Plus The full calendar through June 26.
This week in Tribeca: Civil rights legend Andrew Young, "French Women Don't Get Fat," eating tour of Chinatown, Veuve Clicquot dinner, Suzanne Vega and Lloyd Cole, the Proclaimers, the fall of Bear Stearns, much more. Plus: the full calendar through June 26.
Plus: 50% discount at Brick; River to River Festival schedule; Moomah festivities; New Museum waives admission for an afternoon
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