teetotaling

So Kathryn Weatherup (an original partner in East Side Company) just opened a new bar in BKLYN, and I’m grossly salivating over the new opportunity to bounce rent on Gin-Gin Mules.

AT THE SAME TIME, recent fumbles in intoxication have hurdled my attendance on The Lecture Scene, and if you haven’t heard - Medical Notice: *INTERESTING* Lectures may prevent brain-pruning and may increase brain-plasticity.

So let’s talk [FREE/suggested donation and Open to the Public] talks. Top picks:

1. The American Museum of Natural History’s Kaufmann Auditorium (Central Park West between 77th and 81st Streets) Friday night astronomy lecture series through May for the Amateur Astronomers Association (AAA) and YOU, because the universe is expanding, just like your BRAIN.

OUTER SPACE is AmAZinG, FYI (photo: courtesy pencil revolution)

2. The New York Studio School (8 West 8th Street) [generally Tuesday night] lectures by artists, scholars, critics, et. al. because they’re intimate and full of hotties.

Pricasso, FYI (photo: courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald)

For a more complete list of lectures check club free time, or “literary events” on New York Magazine.

Seriously (photo: courtesy Amy Atticks)

Tonight, even if you don’t have an I’m-a-”Student” campus library pass, you can peruse till 9pm in the aisles of Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library, scouting books/VHS/DVDs (three week rental, for FREE) and eyeing H-O-T-T bookworms. Or, haul it over to the branch in your neighborhood, where “interesting” locals take refuge. On many days of the week BPL hosts programs, so check the calendar of events.

If you’re up for something more LIVELY but equally literary (and FREE), Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series boasts another line up of all-star authors at 302 Broome. Yes, Happy Ending is a BAR, or (ehem) a Lounge, but there’s hardly the time between authors to elbow trough-side. Still, if you’re palette’s parched, this could be The Ideal Evening for a Shirley Temple. Personal nostalgia over childhood drink + authors reading = the day you started Your Memoirs (PNOCD + AR = TDYSYM; it’s math).