PERFORMANCE
MONDAY, JULY 30
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Edouardo Jordan:  JuneBaby Pop-Up
Olmsted
659 Vanderbilt Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Costs what it costs
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/olmsted-pop-dinner-junebaby-edouardo-jordan

This list focuses on performing arts, with the food stuff being just incidental.  But I don't have any live performance recommendations tonight, and this one-night special-event dinner is kind of major.  Edouardo Jordan, whose riffs on African-American Southern cooking at JuneBaby in Seattle (cuz where else would you go for African-American Southern cooking?) have receiveduniversal adulation, is doing a one-night guest-chef stint at Olmsted in Brooklyn.  No reservations taken:  strictly walk-in.  It's going to be an absolute clusterfuck, with limited availability and long waits all night -- but it'll still be easier than taking a plane to the other side of the continent (and it isn't all that easy to get into JuneBaby once you're in Seattle, either).  Totally worth the trouble.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Tooker Alley is perhaps the most underappreciated great cocktail bar in New York (although, to be honest, there's more variation between bartenders there than you'd expect at a first-rate cocktail bar).  Live jazz on Mondays, too.