Taking a cue from Bryant Park's mega packed Monday night movie fest, Core (191 Orchard St) is hosting its own movie night on Tuesdays in their  outdoor garden space complete with a starry sky (well, that's up to Mother Nature). On the upcoming lineup are classics like Zoro, Cyrano de Bergernac and fright flick The Man Who Laughs. Why does Core have one up on the park's scene? For one, you don't have to leave work at noon or pay an NYU student  to secure a spot on the lawn, and two, and more important, food. Because no matter how you rationalize it, Ritz crackers and snapple have nothing on hanger steak with shaved gouda and a full bar.

It seems everyone is talking about, and drinking, sangria these days. The Latin punch made with wine, rum and fruit, usually citrus and apples, has taken on various incarnations from way fruitier versions to frozen and even the Italians are having a say. Why not make sangria one of the ways to beat the heat this weekend and see what all the buzz is about. The Martha Stewart inclined can make their own (1 bottle of red wine, a half cup of rum, half cup of sugar and what ever fruit you like should do the trick. Oh and ice. Lots of ice). But we have a feeling most of you will be out and about in search of it. We'll make it easy for you to find:

 The East Village's Brazil-meets-Italy restaurant Samba Le has a half dozen jugs of home made sangria available nightly in flavors like strawberry, melon and even banana.

 Gaucho Steak Co. in Hell's Kitchen makes a frosty sangria slushie that suddenly puts new emphasis on the phrase "brain freeze". 

Dani at 333 Hudson makes an Italian version using Italian brandy, house made limoncello and syrup soaked red grapes.

A lawsuit accusing Daniel Boulud of bias agains nonwhite workers was settled with Boulud agreeing an undisclosed financial settlement, along with a promise to raise busboy wages 8%. This settlement ends 2 years of demonstrations outside his midtown restaurant Daniel. As Boulud's story comes to an end, the continued demonstrations outside two Saigon Grill continues. A walk by the University Place location Tuesday afternoon revealed workers who allege they were locked out of the restaurant after demanding a raise from their $1.60 pay as delivery people still standing in unity outside the restaurant.  A buck sixty an hour seems more like slave wages than salary and it is hard to believe anyone would find that reasonable pay for any type of labor.  The united workers, all Chinese, have organized protests outside Saigon Grill's two locations Monday-Saturday and have set up www.boycottsaigongrill.blogspot.com to post information about their cause.