THEATER / PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 & 14, 2019
7:30 PM

Phliippe Quesne: Night of the Moles
Skirball Center, NYU
566 LaGuardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$20-$30
https://nyuskirball.org/events/philippe-quesne-moles/

I was going to rest on the promotional materials' assertion that "giant mole costumes + a punk rock band = PARTY". But, delightful and provocative as this sounds, something got me to wondering how substantial this stuff is: rack my memory as I might, I can't get myself to recall whether I saw Philippe Quesne's last piece in NYC a couple of years ago. This looks like enough fun, though, to induce me to find out. There's also a free "Parade of the Moles" through the neighborhood at 2 PM on Thursday (SEPTEMBER 12) and a full-price family-friendly version of the show, "Afternoon of the Moles", at 3 PM on Saturday (SEPTEMBER 14).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The big news in this area is Llama San, the brand-new, highly credentialed Llama Inn guys' take on Peru's Nikkei cuisine, a naturally occurring, uncontrived fusion of Japanese and Peruvian foods that resulted from the influx of Japanese immigrants to Peru starting in the 19th Century. Just to give you a hint of the possibilities here, one of the best meals I've had in the past decade or so was at the top Nikkei restaurant in Lima.