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Think FridaysShake the doldrums and start an intriguing weekend. Satisfy your appetite for knowledge and culture. We’ll supply light refreshments. There isn’t a more delicious way to start the weekend. Jazz And Love: A Live Performance/Lecture Join celebrated jazz guitarist Doug Clarke and vocalist Lyell Gressitt for an evening of lecture and live performance. This talented husband-wife team will explore a century of compositions from the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Richard Rodgers, Arthur Schwartz and others. Topics include a historical look at famous composers as well as some not-so-well-known “song pluggers” of Tin Pan Alley, with a special focus on the style and structure of compositions from 1920s, 30s and 40s. Enhance your understanding of the music as Doug and Lyell demonstrate the unique and distinct qualities of each composer through their best loved songs. Fri, Feb 3, 7-9 pm Fee and Code: $24, XDEST 139 W
Donald Magee, Amuse Bouche, graduate La Technique, French Culinary Institute New York’s lower east side has always been a neighborhood in transition. Its origins as farmland became home to many immigrants: Irish, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians and Germans. Once known as Little Germany, today it has a large Puerto Rican and Dominican community, and is in the process of gentrification. Join cultural and culinary historian Don Magee, for a pictorial armchair “tour” and actual tasting. Take a virtual visit to synagogues and tenements, Essex Market, Sara D. Roosevelt Park, a Matzo factory, Economy Candy and more. Taste a German style beer, an Erdbeer Tortenboden (German Strawberry Torte), and the Dominican favorite dulce de leche y piña (milk and pineapple fudge). Fri, Apr 27, 7-8:30 pm Fee and Code: $29, XDEST 138 W
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