Best of Lounge 2022

                                                               

Mark " The Senator" Vasto

 Lounger Number One 2022
 "Drinkify Me "Artwork by Dave Stolte

Its been two long years since we handed out the Best of Lounge awards. The global pandemic pulled the rug out from all of us and sadly, we lost many friends, family, & yes, even some of our favorite watering holes. We thought it would be the new Roaring Twenties but the decade got stalled in the starting gates. So 2022, a year when COVID was still taking its toll but, fully boosted, we started venturing out more. New joints began to pop up and a limited sense of normalcy began to take root. 

In the spirit of new beginnings, we went out on the town in many cities across the country with old and new friends. In NYC, the Loungerati revisited some classic dining and drinking stalwarts like Balthazar, Minetta Tavern, Gallagher's Steakhouse, Blue Ribbon, Grand Central Oyster Bar, Bemelmans, Heidelberg Restaurant, El Quijote at Chelsea Hotel, Smith & Wollensky, and of course the venerable Bamonte's. So please raise a freezer cold Martini to Loungerati's 2022 Best of Lounge Awards:

Lounge Scene Awards 

Tansy Tandora
The Elizabeth Taylor of Burlesque

Best Burlesque Act or Performer: TANSY TANDORA

Honorable Mention: GIN MINSKY

Diane L. Naegel Award for Best Lounge or Vintage Event: GREEN FAIRY at the Red Room, East Village 

Honorable Mention:  LOUNGERATI RED SAUCE DINNER at Bamonte's, Williamsburg

Viva La Musica Award for Best Jazz, Lounge, or Swing Band: GEORGE GEE SWING ORCHESTRA at Swing 46, NYC

Honorable Mention: ALAN GRESIK'S SWING ORCHESTRA at Green Mill, Chicago

Most Sought After Ingredient or Bar Tool for the Home Bar: AMARO SAN SIMONE aka "Sansi"

Honorable Mention: FORD'S SLOE GIN

Marlo Gamora
Best Dressed Lounger 2022

Best Dressed Lounger: MARLO GAMORA, Rum Ambassador & Gentleman      

Honorable Mention: DAVID "GOH" TALAGA, Scotch Connoisseur

Cocktail Bars and Lounges

Best New NYC Cocktail Bar or Lounge: MILADY'S, SoHo

Honorable mention: Sunken Harbor, Brooklyn

Fredo @ The Rum House in NYC

Best NYC Cocktail Bar or Lounge: THE RUM HOUSE, Times Sq.

Honorable Mention: EMPLOYEES ONLY, West Village

Best Barfood: MOROCCAN FRIED CHICKEN at Zou Zou, Hudson Yards

Honorable Mention: Deviled Eggs, Clover Club, Brooklyn

Best of the NYC Hotel Bars: BEMELMANS BAR at the Carlyle Hotel, UES

Honorable Mention: Lantern's Keep at the Iroquois Hotel, Midtown

Best NYC Restaurant Bars: MINETTA TAVERN, Greenwich Village

Honorable Mention: THE BAR at KEENS STEAKHOUSE, Midtown

Best Cocktail of 2022: RHYME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER at Sunken Harbor 

Honorable Mention: PINCH HITTER (Japanese Whiskey, Koji, Apricot, Honey, bitters) at Chez Zou

Editors and Staff Picks:

Best Seat in the House: "REGULAR" SEAT at THE RUM HOUSE, Times Sq.

Honorable mention: Any BAR SEAT at Jimmy's Corner

Best Cocktail for the Road: MILLER HIGH LIFE & BUFFALO TRACE SHOT at MILADY'S, SoHo

Honorable mention: GUINNESS & POWERS SHOT at MOLLY WEE PUB, Midtown

Best NYC Tiki Experience: ROCKAWAY TIKI BAR, Rockaway Beach, Queens

Honorable Mention: ZOMBIE HUT, Carroll Gardens 

Best Dive aka "The Gutter Award": JIMMY'S CORNER, Times Sq.

Honorable Mention: MILANO'S BAR, Little Italy

Brian F. Paynter Award for Lounger Number One: MARK "THE SENATOR" VASTO (Awarded Posthumously)

For 2023, we have a laundry list of joints to visit, shows to see, bands to hear, & rugs to cut. These include -  Gus's Chophouse in Brooklyn, Hawksmoor NYC in Gramercy, and Albert's Bar in Midtown, among many more in NYC. We hope to travel to other cities and visit old friends and new joints. The Loungerati keep looking forward to new adventures, the fellowship of true friends, and outstanding hospitality.

Til' the next Manhattans!

- The Loungerati

Enjoy the Lounge Life, baby!

Best of Lounge 2014 - Vote Early and Often!

Welcome to the Best of Lounge 2014 Voting!

Queen Esther & The Hot Five at The Salon

Click here to VOTE!

The categories open for your consideration are: 

Best New Cocktail Bar/Lounge

• Boilermaker (New York)
• Spirited (Brooklyn)
• The Gilroy (New York)
• The Happiest Hour (New York)
• Elephant Bar at The NoMad Hotel (New York)

Best New York Cocktail Bar/Lounge 

• Clover Club (Brooklyn)
• Maison Premiere (Brooklyn)
• Attaboy (New York)
• Employees Only (New York)
• The Dead Rabbit (New York)

Best New York Hotel Bar

• Rum House at The Edison Hotel
• Lantern's Keep at The Iroquois Hotel
• Elephant Bar at The NoMad Hotel
• Lambs Club at The Chatwal Hotel
• King Cole Bar at St. Regis Hotel

Most Sought After Ingredient/Bar tool for the Home Bar

• Green Spot Single Pot Irish Whiskey
• Amaro Montenegro
• Retro style ice tapper from Cocktail Kingdom
• Denim Bar Apron from Ben Davis
• Death and Company Cocktail Book

Best Barfood 

• Chicken Soup at Employees Only
• The Burger at Hudson Malone
• The Krispie Fried Chicken at Fedora
• Tuna Tartare at Crimson and Rye
• Oyster Happy Hour at The Dead Rabbit

Best Burlesque Act, Event or Space 

• The Return of the Slipper Room
• Peacock Party at Duane Park with Francine and Evelyn Vinyl
• NY Burlesque Festival - Angie Pontani
• Wassabassco 10th Anniversary Extravaganza
• Drunken Dragon Festival at Macao Trading Co - Calamity "The Asian Sexation" Chang

Best Dressed Lounger

• Eff Blangiardo, Pontif of Sprezzatura
• Michael Haar, Barber and Radioflyer
• Queen Esther, Chanteuse and Belle of the Ball
• David Lochner, Philly's Finest Haberdasher
• Dandy Wellington, Song and Dance Man

Diane L. Naegel Award for Best Lounge/Retro/Vintage Event

• Club Wit's End 6th Annual Black Cat Masquerade
• Jazz Age Picnic at Governor's Island
• The Salon at Players Club
• Manhattan Cocktail Classic Gala at NY Public Library
• Club Wit's End Monthly Jazz Age Party at Flute

Viva La Music Award: Best Jazz/Swing/Lounge Band

• JC Hopkins Biggish Band at Minton's Harlem
• Queen Esther and The Hot Five
• Michael Arenella andThe Dreamland Orchestra
• Dandy Wellington and His Band
• Terry Waldo, Ragtime piano man at Dead Rabbit and Rum House

David A. Embury Award: Best Cocktail of 2014

• The After Dark (Old Forester bourbon, Cynar, cold brew coffee, egg white, chocolate bitters), The Rest, Salt Lake City
• Old Oscar (Woodford Reserve bourbon, Campari, Amaro Montenegro, Ancho Reyes,  Aztec chocolate bitters), Francis Verrall of The Gilroy, NYC
• Stinger (Green Spot Single Pot Irish whiskey, Fernet Branca Menta, demerara syrup, Dead Rabbit Orinoco Bitters) The Dead Rabbit, NYC 
• Link Ray (Celery, Suze, lime, cane, soda and choice of rum, gin or tequila), The Happiest Hour, NYC
• Man About Town (Old Overholt rye, Cocchi vermouth, Aperol, Campari, flaming orange zest), Crimson and Rye, NYC

Additional categories will be voted by the Loungerati editors and include:

• Best Saloon
• Best Seat in the House
• Best Cocktail for the Road
• Best of the International Bar
• Best Dive aka the Gutter Award
• Don't Bruise The Ice Award for Premier Ice Program
• Brian F. Paynter Award: Lounger Number One

Deadline to cast your votes is November 30th, the winners will be announced on Loungerati's 8th birthday Dec 5th (Repeal Day of course).

Cheers!

Fredo, Eff, & The Senator



The After Dark at The Rest, SLC

Happy New Year Loungers! Best for 2013!

Buon Capo D'Anno from Loungerati!

Happy New Year Loungers! We enter Loungerati's 7th year with optimism and a renewed vigor. I hope your festivities were successful, safe, and classy. 2012 was a fine year for the team and included such noteworthy highlights as:

• The 1st annual Loungerati Beefsteak Dinner at Maloney & Porcelli for the staff and selected stalwarts of their craft.(pictured)
• Loungerati field trip to London for a visit to award winning watering holes The American Bar at Savoy Hotel and the Artesian at Langham Hotel were the standouts.
• Contributing to Umamimart's Happy Hour for the third year, special nod to the Paystyles, Vanessa, and Kayoko for bringing me into the family.
• Another year of Loungerati curated cocktail menus at the following swank affairs: Sweetheart's Soiree at Bogardus Mansion, The Salon's Silver Screen at Rebel, The Liberty Belle Spectacular July 4th Extravaganza at Empire Hotel, and The Salon's 5th Annual New Year's Eve EVE party at the DL.
• Special acknowledgement and gratitude to the following bar industry pros who stood toe-to-toe and supported us at these events: Eryn Reece, Nino Cirabisi, Kenneth McCoy, Michael Neff, Brian Quinn, and bar staffs at the former Lani Kai, Pouring Ribbons, Silver Lining,The Rum House, and Ward III.
• We look forward the opening of the re-located Milk & Honey, the Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog, Golden Cadillac, and Attaboy bars in 2013!

As tradition calls for, I leave you with the inspiring words delivered by the Senator, one of Loungerati's founding members, at the first Lounge Summit at the Algonquin Hotel in November 2007:

"We shall drink to the end, we shall drink in the morning, we shall drink in the night, we shall drink in the gutters and the streets, we shall drink in the hills, ... we shall order after dinner drinks and digestifs, no matter what the cost, we shall never throw up, and even if we do, which I do not for a moment believe, we shall boot and rally and make it to the last call!

And so my fellow Loungers, in closing, let the word go forth that the torch has been passed [from] an older generation. Let every dancer, lounger, and barfly know, whether they wish us well or premium, gin or beer, whiskey or soda, that we shall pay any cover, tip any bartender, meet any manager or maestro, in order to assure the survival and the success of the lounge." 

All the best for the New Year!

The Loungerati staff

Happy New Year! We are going on hiatus.

Fredo at The Salon's New Year's Eve Eve (photo G. Porter)

Happy New Year Loungers! I hope your festivities were successful, safe, and classy. Loungerati will be going on hiatus for the next month or two while I decide on the next phase of this project. We have hit the five year mark and growth is necessary to keep Loungerati fresh and worthwhile for the community. That said, 2011 was a tremendous year for the team and included such noteworthy highlights as:

• The Loungerati section of the CLASS Magazine 2011 award winning Blythswood Hotel cocktail bar menu by Mal Spence
• Fredo's Cinquecento cocktail being selected as one of the 101 Best Cocktails of 2010 and published in Gaz Regan's Annual Manual  for Bartenders: 2011 and Mr. Boston's Guide: 75th Anniversary Edition
• An incredible Repeal Day 5th Anniversary Party at The Rum House sponsored by Angel's Envy Bourbon
• Contributing to Umamimart's Happy Hour for the second year, special nod to the Paystyles, Vanessa, and Kayoko for bringing me into the family.
• A record number of Loungerati curated cocktail menus at the following swank affairs: Bootlegger 21 NY Vodka Launch/Salute to Harlem Glamour, The Salon's 10th Anniversary Party: Salute to Frank Sinatra and Lounge series at the Edison Ballroom, The Liberty Belle Spectacular July Fourth Extravaganza at Empire Hotel, Michael Arenella's Silver Scream Halloween Party and enchanting Winter Ball, and The Salon's Annual New Year's Eve Eve  at the Copacabana.
• Special acknowledgement and gratitude to the following bar industry pros who stood toe-to-toe or supported us at these events: Nino Cirabisi, Kenneth McCoy, Francine Cohen, Payman Bahmani, Jonathan Forester, Miguel Aranda, Hal Wolin, Michael Neff, Damon Dyer, Ivy Mix, and bar staffs at The Rum House and Ward III.

Hopefully, Loungerati can return with a 2.0 version that will expand beyond the current blog format. Only time and commitment can tell. So until we are back, I leave you with the inspiring words delivered by the Senator, one of Loungerati's founding members, at the first Lounge Summit at the Algonquin Hotel in November 2007:

"We shall drink to the end, we shall drink in the morning, we shall drink in the night, we shall drink in the gutters and the streets, we shall drink in the hills, ... we shall order after dinner drinks and digestifs, no matter what the cost, we shall never throw up, and even if we do, which I do not for a moment believe, we shall boot and rally and make it to the last call!

And so my fellow Loungers, in closing, let the word go forth that the torch has been passed [from] an older generation. Let every dancer, lounger, and barfly know, whether they wish us well or premium, gin or beer, whiskey or soda, that we shall pay any cover, tip any bartender, meet any manager or maestro, in order to assure the survival and the success of the lounge." 

Til the next whiskey sours,

Fredo - Editor, Loungerati.com

Destinations: A Homage to Harlem Glamour presented by Bootlegger 21 - April 16th

Michael Arenella and Adam Aleksander have partnered with locally produced award winning Bootlegger 21 Vodka to put together a legendary evening to remember. So put on your finest duds and jump on the Dreamland Orchestra time machine back to yesteryear.

Bootlegger 21 Vodka presents…

AN HOMAGE TO HARLEM GLAMOUR

A one-night celebration of Harlem glamour
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
76 Wooster Street, Soho
9:00pm til Late
$25 (Advance tickets only - available here)
*First 100 guests receive a free drink ticket!*

Produced by Michael Arenella and Adam Aleksander

An Homage to Harlem Glamour is reincarnated for one night in a four-story Soho townhouse. Featuring an All-Star program of hot music and dance, decadent Bootlegger 21 cocktails, gourmet hors d'oeuvres, real casino games, fresh hand-rolled cigars and an after-hours lounge offering further unspeakable delights.

Downstairs - the joint is jumpin’ with live hot jazz, starring Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra in front of a REAL WOOD dance floor. In addition an All-Star program of tap dance, risqué follies and floorshow revue is in store. Document your night of frivolity in our vintage-style photo booth. Gorgeous cigarette girls strolling the club offer candies, gifts, and - cigarettes.

In the upstairs lounge – while our lovely chanteuse and piano-man set the mood, guests are invited to try a hand at poker, craps and blackjack with fabulous prizes, enjoy fresh cigars hand-rolled on premises, and other surprises.
 
Harlem was, at the frenzied height of the Jazz Age, the Mecca of all that swung, shook and shimmered. At once an emblem of status and taboo, sophistication and lust, it was a cocktail of well-heeled “high hatters” in search of a deviant thrill mixed with the exotic, jazz-fueled pulse of Harlem night culture.

Starring acclaimed bandleader
Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra

Featuring
Queen Esther – renowned chanteuse with piano-man Jesse Gelber
Gin Minsky – adorable flapper-tapper
Ginger Brown - Burlesque songbird
Roddy Caravella and the Harlem Glamour Revue

Bootlegger 21 New York Vodka cocktails crafted by Fredo from Loungerati.com and Miguel Aranda of Apotheke.

Fine hand-rolled Dominican/Nicaraguan blend cigars by Maraya.

Gourmet hors d'oeuvres by Sonora Events. 

See you there!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Buon Natale! Joyeux Noël!

For Christmas we will be making an Egg Nog cocktail that Jerry Thomas made famous in How to Mix Drinks (1862):

General Harrison's Egg Nog
1 1/2 tsp of sugar
4 oz of fresh pressed apple cider
1 1/2 oz of Bourbon
1 egg

Tools: Cocktail Shaker,  Hawthorne Strainer, Goblet

For individual portion: Combine ingredients in cocktail shaker, dry shake for 5 seconds to emulsify the egg. Add ice and then shake hard until well chilled. Strain into a goblet and garnish with ground cinnamon.

According to David Wondrich's Imbibe! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, A Salute in Stories And Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Tomas, Pioneer of the American Bar (2007), this cocktail was named after 1840 Presidential candidate Benjamin "Old Tippecanoe" Harrison who ran on a populist "log cabin and hard cider" platform. The Bourbon addition is relatively new, I read about this version in Dale GeGroff's  The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks (2008) and prefer a stiffer egg nog. We recommend Elijah Craig 12 Years Aged Bourbon which seems to go well in any bourbon drink I roll!

This one is a favorite version of the holiday cocktail and can be made virgin with none alcoholic cider.

All the best to your family and friends!

-The Loungerati Staff

Loungerati featured on Cocktail Nation

This week, Loungerati's resident cocktailian is the featured guest on Lounge impresario Koop Kooper's CocktailNation.net.  Fredo discusses the origins of Loungerati, cocktails (natch),  PDT, Tiki, and more with the Sydney, Australia based Kooper. The Fredo interview (albeit via not so good phone connection) happens right after Perry Mason by SpyFi. Please listen to the rest of the Podcast for Koop's tribute to Lena Horne.

Below is the soundtrack to the  Podcast, believe me Martin Denny would be proud!

Tikiyaki Orchesta-Tango Tahiti
SpyFi-Perry Mason
Earle Hagen - The International Set
Tiki Joes Ocean-Waikiki Pursuit
Combustible Edison- Mr. Pushin Came to Shove
Acca Daiquiris-WhiteWedding
Buddy Greco- Something's Gotta Give
Clouseaux- Destination- Oasis
Paul Phillips - Tenderly
Linda Lawson- Where Flamingos Fly
Chaino-Afri Cuban
Billy May- On A Little Street In Singapore
Tony Bennett-Fly Me To The Moon
Lena Horne- I Love To Love

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from your friends at Loungerati!

Tonight's suggested itinerary:

GMT New Year's Eve party at Campbell Apartment
This is a Lounger tradition ten years in the making. A bunch of folks show up to Campbell Apartment in Grand Central Station just before 7pm EST and celebrate the New Year Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)! So put on your best duds and head over now for the early show!

Campbell Apartment
Grand Central Station,
New York, NY


2010 NEW YEAR'S EVE FORMAL BALL
Once your lips are wet with the first champagne of the evening, cab it to Brooklyn for the New Year's Eve Ball at the venerable Montauk Club. Festivities kick off at 9:00PM. Featured performers include Loungerati's 2009 Best of Lounge winners of Best Burlesque act and Best Musical act, the Minsky Sisters and Michael Arenella's Dreamland Orchestra. $75 PER PERSON - OPEN BAR

The Montauk Club
25 8th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
www.montaukclub.com


PLAYERS CLUB NEW YEAR'S EVE
The entire clubhouse will be transformed into the setting of one of the most elegant parties in New York!Food Stations Open All Night!Open Bar All Night Long!

Dance to the music of the JC HOPKINS BIGGISH BAND featuring QUEEN ESTHER special guest JOLIE HOLLAND

PARTY BEGINS AT 9:00 p.m.

MENTION JC AND GET TICKETS FOR $125
MEMBERS: $185 plus tax
NON-MEMBERS: $225 plus tax

BLACK TIE OPTIONAL

For Cocktail Lounge options, please visit The Dizzy Fizz. Selena Ricks highlights the main attractions for New York. One addition, Dutch Kills in Long Island City is throwing a New Year's fete, $65 open bar, Giuseppe Gonzalez and Richie Boccato behind the stick.

Finally, we are retiring the term "behind the stick" for 2010, that was the last time,no really. We promise!

(Image courtesy of Michael Arenella)

Destinations: The Winter Ball Dec 12th

Loungerati's best musical act of 2009, Michael Arenella & His Dreamland Orchestra team up with The George Gee Swing Orchestra to cordially invite you to...

THE WINTER BALL
Saturday Dec. 12th, 2009
Doors 8PM, Music 9PM
$20

Michael Arenella & His Hot Eight and The George Gee Swing Orchestra partner up to present December's hottest holiday dance event.

At Brooklyn's most enchanting little speakeasy, the Green Building, a 19th-century warehouse nestled along the banks of the Gowanus Canal, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

A most festive assortment of winter follies:
- Grace Gotham - burlesque beauty
- The Minsky Sisters - world renowned '20s tap duo and Loungerati Best Burlesque Act of 2009
- Roddy Caravella & His Varsity Syncopators - wobbly-kneed Charleston-dancing troublemakers
- Special musical guest Drew Nugent
Plus -
-On-the-spot vintage portraits by Tsirkus Fotografika

- Cocktails served by expert mixologists from Court & Spark and Loungerati.
- A tasty variety of sweet treats will be available if you're feeling peckish.
- Raffle with fabulous prizes!

The Green Building
450 Union Street
just a short walk from the following major subway lines:
- F/G to Carroll Street
- R to Union Street

Finally, a President Worth Having a Beer With...

This is a watershed moment. That is clearly stating the obvious. But folks who hang in cocktail bars are often guilty of that kind of speak, so give us some latitude.

Today is really special and inspirational. Mr. Barack H. Obama will be sworn-in as the 44th President of the United States of America. Millions of people will pack the Capital in the frigid cold waiting for the moment when he takes the Oath of Office, his hand on Abraham Lincoln’s bible, truly symbolizing how far we have come: from Emancipation to Inauguration.

Today we also say "Adios" to George W. Bush, a President with whom most Americans once said they would happily share a beer. Well, Georgie may have been a good time swigging a beer or two, but by the end of the night he became “that guy”. That guy who hit on your girlfriend, knocked over the coffee table, put you in a headlock, made inappropriate comments about your gay cousin, and naturally, toilet papered your trees! That guy who plowed his BMW across your lawn and crashed into your garbage cans as he drove off into the night. We say "Godspeed - and please get a designated driver."

Today, we have a new President, a President who is as at-home having a beer in the Billygoat Tavern under the El on Michigan Avenue over some “cheezeburgers, cheeseburgers”, as he is sampling the cheese course and a Barolo at Spiaggia, Chicago’s only four-star restaurant. Barack is a guy you can go and watch a baseball game with in the stands; he is not that guy who owns the team watching from a skybox. Barack is a guy you can go listen to jazz with at the Lenox Lounge, or watch the Knicks play the Celtics courtside at Madison Square Garden. He is a transcendental figure who is invited to share a wet one with us anytime, because we know he is level-headed enough to call it a night before we hit Arthur's Tavern for after-hours.

Today, Mr. President, the baton is now in your hand. You have our undivided attention and we are ready to serve. To kick it off, Loungerati men and women in New York will be trading their suits and dresses for jeans and t-shirts this spring, to give our time to the Prospect Park Alliance in Brooklyn. Giving back to the community where one lives is democracy in action. It is only one of many projects to help our country. We hear what you are saying and it is time to move beyond the barstool.

Oh, and Mr. President, one final note: if you are ever in NYC and want to grab a proper drink between U.N. visits, let us know. We are kind of experts at that sort of thing.

Hail to the Chief!

- The Loungerati Executive Board

The Aftermath of The Salon

by Fredo

Twas' the night before Halloween and a group of loungers, artists, musicians, dancers, barflies, mixologists, and burlesque performers gathered at Galapagos Art Space for the The Salon. Some came in costume, getting an early start for what promised to be a mardi gras like weekend in New York City. Others arrived in formal attire, in their best suits, elegant dresses, and their finest duds. What occurred next can only be described in pictures so please enjoy the photo album.

I would like to personally thank my guest mixologists, Giuseppe Gonzalez and Sam Kershaw who helped make the evening an absinthe filled success. Special thanks to the Soluri brothers and JC Hopkins for doing the legwork and Galapagos Art Space for being very accommodating! DJ Swank and the gals of Sugar Shack Burlesque made the night complete!

(Photos courtesy of Will Luong)

The Salon at Galapagos Art Space on Oct 30th.

Featuring the
JC Hopkins Biggish Band
With KARLA MOSLEY, DEWITT FLEMING JR, QUEEN ESTHER & TODD LONDAGIN
including vignettes from the Jazz, Swing, Burlesque Musical "Underneath A Brooklyn Moon"

SUGAR SHACK BURLESQUE with Legs Mallone and RunAround Sue.

DJ Swank - spinning classic & modern lounge, swing, and trippy go-go electronica for your aural pleasure.

VERGE – a group show of visual artists currated by Tiffany Hunold. Artists include: Dylan DeWitt, Loie Hollowell, Yui Kugimiya, Theresa Marchetta, Hayley McCulloch, Dio Mendoza, Leslie Smith & Katayoun Vaziri.

Additional performances by an eclectic array of some of the best musicians & performers from around town.

Specialty cocktail menu by Fredo from Loungerati and Giuseppe Gonzalez.
Guest Mixologist & Bartender: Giuseppe Gonzalez (8-11pm)

7pm art opening. Live Music starts at 8pm

Galapagos Art Space
16 Main St, DUMBO Brooklyn
www.galapagosartspace.com

$15 at door -- $12 in advance.

For more info and advance tickets visit:
http://www.thesalon.biz