Downtown Variety

THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / DANCE
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2020 (Weekly)
8:00 PM

La MaMa Live Stream

Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/downtown-variety-9/

Each week (except last, for some reason) La MaMa assembles a bunch of experimentalist dancers, performers, actors, media artists, musicians, and what have you, and sees what happens when they live stream.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Memorial Day is approaching, and I am sorry to have to tell you that you need to get some Orgeat, if you don't already have any, for Summer drinking ahead.  Let's stick our toe into the Orgeat with a not-particularly-Summery cocktail using it — one introduced by the legendary Jerry Thomas in the mid-19th Century — the Japanese Cocktail:  pour 2 oz. Cognac and 1/2 oz. Orgeat, with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.  Shake.  Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.  Garnish with a lemon twist.