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Bar Boulud: Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni recently lost his patience waiting on hold for 15 minutes to make a reservation, which should give you some sense of how feverish the excitement is for Daniel Boulud’s latest foray. The tony uptown wine bar, across the street from Lincoln Center, enjoyed the raging buzz of a sneak-preview opening on New Year’s Eve and now the 100 seat restaurant is open for real. Judging from the photos, the modern yet warm interior does look inviting; a long vaulted ceiling is intended to “invoke a classic wine cellar”, a backlit gravel wall echoes an old world vineyard, and three private “wine themed” dining rooms are available for the swells.

EVENT: The NY Horror Film Festival kicks off with a party at Don Hill's tonight. Terrifying short films and some creepy classics are promised throughout the fest, as bands M-16, Kaos From Order and more set the sonic tone tonight. Free Wychwood Brewery beer from 8 to 9pm. More details here.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian was struck at East 51st St. and Linden Blvd. in Brooklyn, a fatality as a person was struck by a train at West Houston St., and a baby water rescue on Bodine St. on Staten Island.
• In response to an overabundance of animals at city shelters, Broadway stars gathered to promote pet adoption this weekend at Broadway Barks.
• Little Leaguers played tee-ball on the South Lawn of the White House, and all wore number 42 in honor of Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson. It's the 60th anniversary of Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball.
• A seventh floor apartment in the newly renovated Plaza on 5th Ave. and Central Park South was sold in 2006 for more than $51 million.
• The Vatican says that the Pope's NYC visit is being scheduled for sometime in 2008.
• IFC will be airing ten more installments of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" rap opera series. The channel will be also streaming the original twelve episodes with the ten extra chapters.
• WNYC public radio host Soterios Johnson has a very large and devoted contingent of fans.
• The tourist who had his neck broken at Yankee Stadium, when a possibly drunken fan fell on him, was released from the hospital today.

MUSIC: Courtney Love makes her return to the New York stage tonight for a little birthday celebration show at Hiro Ballroom. The rocker turned 43 on Monday of this week, and there's only one way to see if she's acting her age! Last time she got a little crazy at a suprise show at Plaid, and when she turned 40 she took a trip to Bellevue.

The Villager is reporting that the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation last week submitted a report calling for the creation of a South Village Historic District. Comprised of 38 blocks and about 800 buildings, it would be the city’s first tenement-based district.