tre dici STEAK: The second floor of Chelsea’s Italian restaurant tre dici has been transformed into an intimate, 50 seat dining room (pictured) designed in the style of a sexy New Orleans speakeasy, circa 1920. Heavy fabrics covering the windows evoke a feeling of timelessness in the candlelit room, which is lined with luxuriant claret leathers and sensual artwork under an antique silver tin ceiling. The food arrives via dumbwaiter from chef Giuseppe Fanelli’s kitchen......

This week on food-TV, we've got: Tonight on No Reservations (10pm on the Travel Channel), Bourdain goes to Buenos Aires and Patagonia, Argentina. On Top Chef, Episode 11 airs Wednesday at 10pm (Bravo). Chef Jimmy Canora is the guest judge. Frank Bruni blogs about the show in the Times, calls Howie “the season’s best villain, the toque you’d love to choke.” And Bourdain is guest judging again this week as well; says that this episode......

HEADS UP: Last year we had Daniel Kitson join our Laughable Hype comedy show, and we've been eagerly awaiting his return to the states since then. Good news...he's back! We strongly urge you to buy tickets right now so you can catch the special performance on Monday at Mo Pitkins. These will go fast Sold out! But this just in...Kitson will also be performing at Union Hall this Sunday at 9pm (first come first served).......

Argentines are passionate about both soccer and steaks--luckily both can be found at Buenos Aires in the East Village. A moderately sized dining room with exposed brick walls, dark wood tables, and a few flat screen tv's is appropriate either for a celebratory dinner with family and friends or an afternoon soccer match with your pals. A selection of both hot and cold appetizers off the meat-heavy menu will satisfy a range of palates--from......

THEATER: Self-proclaimed “super-ultra-nerd” Brooke O’Harra has spawned Panic at P.S. 122. Written by Rafael Spregelburd, her production invokes the mood of low-budget horror movies to tell the tale of a mother and her two children as they attempt to recover the key to their safety deposit box - from the hands of the dead! Panic is part of the Buenos Aires in Translation (BAiT) festival, featuring the U.S. premieres of four playwrights from Argentina’s capital,......

The sun was almost shining yesterday when we headed over to Pier 40 for a behind-the-scenes, work-in-progress glimpse of a new exhibition as it was being installed for its end-of-the-week opening tomorrow. The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation, presented by the Van Alen Institute, celebrates architects, designers and artists working with an eye toward 21st century recreation. Curated by Zoe Ryan and designed by Dan Wood and Amale Andraos of WORKac, the......

Whoa-- apparently the prolific and insanely talented NYC street artist Swoon has three pieces up at the Museum of Modern Art! Wooster Collective alerted us to the "Printmaking Now" show, which runs until September 18th: Oversized cut-out figurative prints by Swoon (American, b. 1977) appear on three walls of the Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries. Printmaking is essential to Swoon's practice: the linoleum cut and woodcut techniques provide the bold lines......

Another really short Weddings and Celebrations this week, so enough with the pleasantries and let's just jump in: Total Number of Weddings: 9 Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 0 Average Age of Brides: 30.3 Average Age of Grooms: 31 Youngest Bride: 26 Oldest Bride: 35 Youngest Groom: 26 Oldest Groom: 35 Average Age Difference: 1.3 years Largest Age Difference: 4 years Number of Older Brides: 2 Number of Older Grooms: 4 Number of Same-Age Couples:......

So we've already told you all about various purveyors of Italian-style, wood-fired-oven pizza coming to New York in recent months, but now you can add another joint to the list, and this time, it's a chain restaurant. That's right, Piola, an Italian pizzeria chain, has locations in Brazil and Argentina (with Chile soon to follow). In the U.S. Piola first hit the shores of Miami and now has decided to take on New York City.......

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Once the beauty and longing of Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai's films get their hooks into you, it's difficult to break free. And really, who would want to? Gothamist knows we're a willing captive to his emotionally distant characters, sumptuous settings and deliberate pacing. For the last week, Anthology Film Archives in the East Village has been screening a series of Wong's work in "6 x Wong Kar Wai," a partial retrospective. If you......

BAM's Rose Cinema will be showing the films of Wong Kar-Wai starting this weekend, in their program, Living in Dreams: Films of Wong Kar-Wai. Wong's work is romantic, and moves between being hilarious to unbelievably sad. The first film, on Friday, is Happy Together, with the late Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung as lovers in Buenos Aires, and on Saturday, Chungking Express will be shown. Chungking Express is one of Gothamist's favorite films, with......

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