I have known this woman for 2/3 of our lifetimes, and by now I can always predict how she will react when olive oil cake is on offer. 
The fact that her little sister responds the same way = THE SCIENCE OF GENETICS / also olive oil cake is good.
Yes we’re pulling tarot cards at the bar / no we have no shame / jury is out re: Are We Shamans. 
My new favorite feature of the West side. From Anne Carson opera to Boots Riley lecture, with a McNally-Jackson outpost across from the bar – you had me at hello. 
Boots Riley with Jelani Cobb
Pee samples or spill-safe Pinot Grigio?
2 of these people just showed up for the 11pm ice cream run
PEN World Voices Festival at Westbeth Artists Housing: audiences receive a map and can wander from apartment to apartment, listening to readings (and checking out how other people live, which is an intensely New York past-time.) I read from The Island Dwellers in Samantha and Stephen Hall’s gorgeous living room, surrounded by Stephen’s paintings.
One of my favorite paintings by Stephen Hall