Our GOOD FRIENDS the Brooklyn Kitchen will be celebrating their first birthday next Wednesday at Union Pool. It’s also a Bodega Challenge. Insanity!
Wednesday, November 7th
7 p.m.
Union Pool Back Room
484 Union Ave
L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan
Sunny, highs in the mid 50s and lows in the low 40s.
Precipitation: 0%
See you there. Wear something fabulous!
Meatloafing on Ice
The Pond at Bryant Park (entrance on the south side of the park near the carousel), 6 p.m.
This Saturday, from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m., the Brooklyn Academy of Music is hosting an event called TAKEOVERBAM. The festivities will include Music, Movies, and Art plus $3 Magic Hat.
Most importantly, one of the theaters will be dedicated to a Lindsay Lohan Mid-Career Retrospective tracing her development from 1998’s The Parent Trap to 2007’s I Know Who Killed Me. Unfortunately, Herbie Fully Loaded and A Prairie Home Companion will not be screened but the inclusion of Mark Waters’ oft overlooked classic Freaky Friday ought to be enough to satisfy even the most rabid of Lohan aficionados.
Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. For more on the event visit www.takeoverbam.org.
The ice is three inches below the required level
The Pond, empty
Thanks. Well anyway, I do enjoy a traditional ketchupy, oniony meatloaf—with mashed potatoes, obviously—once every couple years, but here at Meatloafing we actually prefer our ground beef in burger form. Strangely enough, tonight we dined on cheeseburgers (bloody w/ Gruyère) and onion rings at Dumont Burger in Williamsburg. Sorry, meatloaf. I hope we can still be friends.
For in-depth coverage of all things meatloaf, check out Serious Eats.
I love a good laugh (who doesn’t?) but am deathly afraid of improv. I mean, it’s usually uncomfortable, tense and confusing, which I think is probably the opposite of funny.
But when my good friends Lisa Whiteman and Todd Levin (who is a fantastic comedian and writer himself) invited me to see an improv show at UCB (that’s Upright Citizens Brigade to you and me), I couldn’t pass it up.
The improvers were actor Scott Adsit of 30 Rock and writer Tami Sagher, also of 30 Rock. They were so, so good! I kept asking if they rehearsed or had an outline or something but I was reminded that the point of improv was to, er, improvise. This was the first improv show that didn’t make me want to hide under my seat cringing. I even laughed out loud.
I never watched 30 Rock before but now I am a fan 4 life. I also learned that I will give improv another chance in the near future. But only if it’s done by trained professionals. Not by anyone’s work friends or anything like that.
The 2nd annual Hello Fall dinner party this past Saturday was a rollicking success. Nary a scrotal sac was placed on the counter and the fireworks were safely tucked away beneath the kitchen sink.
It was, by all accounts, an evening of quiet civility and red wine imbibing by candlelight. Even my mom showed up! She had a pleasant time but complained that the party was severely lacking appetizers, namely “hors d’oeuvres and finger foods.”
one of our favorite activities is to play hostess. we enjoy putting on a dress and heels, concocting exotic hors d’oeuvres and making a nice, candlelit dinner for our friends.
usually, these evenings devolve into someone exposing their scrotum on the kitchen table or shooting bottle rockets off my rooftop but it’s nice to get together and pretend we’re refined adults, if only for an hour or two. (more…)