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Trivariety

Monday

At Trivariety, a new trivia-meets–Tin Pan Alley variety show for extroverts, questions and name-that-tune songs are acted out by a rotating cast of local musicians and actors. Singles can play alone or scout out the smarties and join forces during the halftime break, when the ice is officially broken. At the end of the night, much of the crowd retires upstairs to the bar at Lucky Cheng’s for karaoke. Trivariety usually takes place every other week, but check the Facebook group for details.
Fortune Cookie Lounge, 24 First Ave between 1st and 2nd Sts (212-473-0481, fortunecookiecabaret.com). Next show: Feb 9. 7–9:30pm, $5.

“It’s a great place for meeting people—people who were sitting alone ended up joining teams. I was on the losing team and we still won a bottle of booze! You feel like you’re playing in your living room, except there’s an MC.”
—Erik Lillimagi, seen at Trivariety

Project Film School offers a screening of a foreign or hard-to-find film, along with theory-based postmortem discussion, twice a month at DCTV. “This is something you usually do alone in front of your television,” says 26-year-old founder and codirector Gina Telaroli. “PFS gets lots of cool people who like the same thing together all at once.” On the last Monday of the month, PFSers take a field trip to a movie house and usually hit a bar after the credits roll. At this rate, solo movie nights will be a thing of your past.
DCTV, 87 Lafayette St at White St (212-966-4510; dctvny.org, projectfilmschool.org). 7:30pm, free.

Ice cubes in your cabernet? Chianti from a box? Wine schmucks should head to Astor Center for “The Elements of Wine: Wine Tasting, Wine Pairing, and More.” Here, company owner Andy Fisher teaches the basics of vino to precocious NYU seniors, over-40 sophisticates and everyone in between. You’ll taste seven varieties and leave with new knowledge, a buzz and maybe even a fellow imbiber’s digits.
Astor Center, 399 Lafayette St at 4th St (212-674-7501, astorcenternyc.com). Feb 23 at 6:30pm, $75.

—Kelly McMasters

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