MUSIC
MONDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 22, 2019
7:00 PM

Innovator Lab: Lester St. Louis
ChaShaMa
37-18 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens

$15
https://qubitmusic.com/

Cellist Lester St. Louis is another of those composer/improvisers whose music dances around the line between jazz and classical. On Monday, he does music for solo cello and electronics which will probably end up leaning slightly classical. On Saturday, he plays a set with his MODA ensemble, which includes the great improvising trumpeter Joe Moffet — that's on the jazz side.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Venezuelan gem Arepas Cafe is one of those small so-called "ethnic" places where the food is so good — so beautifully and unexpectedly flavored, so evidently well prepared — that you literally can't believe what you're eating.