Everyone likes to eat but it's a smaller number who actually like to do the cooking. Continuing on the Tapas topic that I touched on with the Dish Tapas Tuesdays, today's post has to do with a cooking class at Crave Catering at 317 Madison Ave. The class will focus on preparing Tapas dishes as well as Sangria. Sounds like a nice prep class for the weekend bbq's. The class will start run from 6-9pm and costs $50. It's a hands-on instructional class from people who really know what they are doing. If anyone gets a chance to go to this tonight, I'd be really interested to know how it went.

Once you get done eating all that great Tapas, perhaps you'd like to wash it down with some interesting libations over at Dish for this weeks meeting of Drinking Liberally. This is an informal, inclusive progressive social group. Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics. You don't need to be a policy expert and this isn't a book club - just a place where you can come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent frustration and hang out in an environment where it's not taboo to talk politics.

Bars are democratic spaces - and while I usually try to abstain from talking politics or religion while drinking- if everyone is on the same page about the idea of "having fun while sharing ideas" it would probably be a good time. It all starts at 6:30 and just goes until the conversation ends, I suppose.


Writing this blog is usually a pretty fun experience and I genuinely enjoy doing it. But one of the cooler parts of it is when someone offers my readers something free just because they read this blog. Today is one of those days. The Orpheum theatre is hosting a production of the Mel Brook's play The Producers June 8-10th and I have been given the opportunity to give away a pair of free tickets to the show. USA Today had this to say about the show (in case you haven't heard about it yet) :THE PRODUCERS is the funniest, most fearlessly irreverent thing ever seen on stage!". Since this is only one pair of tickets (sorry it's not more, but I think the Orpheum wants to start slowly with this kind of thing), I want to make it a little more interesting than just having the first person that emails me getting the tickets. Email me with the story behind the ghost that supposedly haunts the Orpheum (name, story, etc, etc.) and I will get you set up with your tickets. I'm not 100% sure about the night that they are for but we can get that straightened out as soon as someone gets back to with a response. Have fun! Hopefully some more things like this will come my way soon. Also, even if you don't get the tickets, check out the show anyway. It's one of the most heralded shows that's been on Broadway in years and it's cool that The Orpheum gets to host a production of it. I'll be at the Damien Rice show tonight and will probably hit up EP's or the Drinking Liberally function after that, so if it takes a bit to get back to any of you I apologize in advance.