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Those three descriptors could very well also characterize comedian Edy Modica’s play of the same name, coming to Ridgewood’s The Windjammer this Saturday. What is there to say about cream sauce? It is indulgent and sometimes too filling, but it is also good. Saturday, March 16 at The Windjammer, 8 pm:

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That’s not the only liquid present, however, there will also be free beer from Braven, and of course, comedy by Dylan Adler, Rachel McCartney, Ben Katzner, David Drake, and host Noah Rocklin. However, you might end your night with some-the team behind the show will be giving out drippy dollars (which could be a good band name) to a lucky(?) audience member. Yes, this comedy show to benefit Make the Road NY is named Wet Cash, but it’s probably not the greatest idea to stroll up to the venue (a Bushwick thrift store) and attempt to pay your suggested donation using a bunch of dollars that were once floating in a bucket of water. Amongst pints and whiskeys, two Scottish men and an American woman cross paths and begin a journey that takes them throughout Scotland, America, and the inner workings of the mind, all set to a Scottish-influenced folk-punk score.įRIDAY (image via Wet Cash NYC / Facebook)įriday, March 15 at GG’s Social Trade and Treasure Club, 7:30 pm: $10 suggested donation Of course, that’s purposeful, considering the show is partially set in a London pub. The latest endeavor from theater collective The TEAM-working in collaboration with the National Theater of Scotland and music duo The Bengsons-is staged not in a traditional theater space but the cabaret coziness of Joe’s Pub, inside the Public Theater. Now through March 30 at Joe’s Pub, 7 pm (some dates at 9:30 pm): $35 Bouton will participate in a panel about sports entertainment.THURSDAY (photo: Eoin Carey, via the TEAM / Facebook) Other writers scheduled to appear are Amy Goodman, a WBAI radio host who will talk about her book 'The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them' (Hyperion, $12.95), and the former major league pitcher Jim Bouton, author of the recent 'Foul Ball' (Lyons, $17.95). The artist and writer Faith Ringgold is scheduled to read from her 1992 Caldecott Honor Book for children, 'Tar Beach' (Dragonfly Books, $6.99), and Helen-Chantal Pike, the author of 'Asbury Park's Glory Days' (Rutgers University Press, $29.95), is scheduled to moderate a panel called 'Greetings From New Jersey: Writing In, About the Garden State.' Zweibel, whose participation in a marathon gave him the idea for the book. 'It's about an overweight middle-aged guy who owns a Fort Lee stationery store and is in a little bit of a rut,' until he decides to run a marathon, said Mr. Zweibel wrote a novel, 'The Other Shulman' (Villard, $23.95), that is slightly autobiographical, he said. Coben said.Īlan Zweibel, who lives in Short Hills and who was an original writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' is scheduled to appear on a panel about comedic writing. 'I just kind of like looking at our suburbs as a battleground of the American dream, where people try to do right, and wrong seems to interfere,' Mr.

Harlan Coben, a popular crime writer from Ridgewood, is scheduled to read from his most recent work, 'The Innocent' (Dutton, $26.95).

The festival will include panels and exhibits and a retinue of poets, dancers, crafters, percussionists and the Dwight Morrow High School Jazz Band. Sixty writers are expected to read, offer their opinions or just sign their works at locations throughout the city, including Depot Square, the Englewood Public Library, the Bergen Performing Arts Center, Lincoln Elementary School, the Women's Club of Englewood and the Starbucks at 17 East Palisade Avenue.

The city will be bursting with authors, publishers, performers, books and book lovers as it plays host to the New Jersey Book Festival, from 9 a.m. And there's a good chance that you could find a book or 10 in Englewood Sunday. As the nights grow longer and colder, there's nothing like snuggling up with a good book to at least keep the mind and imagination warm.

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