{"id":8136,"date":"2009-11-06T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:33:50","slug":"againn-restaurant-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/8136\/againn-restaurant-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: Againn Restaurant Opens, Jim Gaffigan in Peekskill, Karaoke Tuesdays, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <strong>Againn<\/strong>, Washington D.C.\u2019s newest gastropub, the drink program includes more than 100 scotches and beers by the bottle, plus 17 brews on tap. [Eater]<\/p>\n<p>NYC Transit chief resigns after two years on the job. [AMNY]<\/p>\n<p>The strip club turned Latin restaurant <strong>Tamboril<\/strong> now has karaoke Tuesdays and a two-for-one happy hour. [<a title=\"Tamboril restaurant news item\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonhillblog.com\/2009\/11\/05\/karaokeattamboril\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ClintonHillBlog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Comedian <strong>Jim Gaffigan<\/strong> tweeted this week about his January 9th performance in Peekskill, NY; tickets are available now. [ParamountCenter]<\/p>\n<p>Red Star bar will offer 20 different craft and micro-brewed beers (in addition to live music, snacks, and a beer workshop) all day and night at the <strong>Greenpoint Beer Festival<\/strong>. [<a title=\"Greenpoint Beer Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=162918329254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>From the folks who brought us <a title=\"Dia: Beacon article\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/05\/18\/modern-art-meets-historic-charm-in-a-town-full-of-surprises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dia: Beacon<\/a>, the <strong>Dia Art Foundation<\/strong> announced this week it will construct a new building for long-term installations, readings, lectures, and performances in West Chelsea. [<a title=\"Dia Art Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diaart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DiaArt.org<\/a>]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Courtesy of Powers and Crewe Photography<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Againn, Washington D.C.\u2019s newest gastropub, the drink program includes more than 100 scotches and beers by the bottle, plus 17 brews on tap. [Eater] NYC Transit chief resigns after two years on the job. [AMNY] The strip club turned Latin restaurant Tamboril now has karaoke Tuesdays and a two-for-one happy hour. [ClintonHillBlog] Comedian Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,325,271,330],"tags":[31,108,15,293,372,142,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-8136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-new-york","8":"category-news","9":"category-washington-dc-destination","10":"tag-bar","11":"tag-beer","12":"tag-brooklyn","13":"tag-budget-friendly","14":"tag-comedy","15":"tag-festival","16":"tag-music"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}