From their website:

 

"Neisson and La Favorite Rhum Agricole

 

Ed Hamilton, The Minister of Rum,returns to Elixir for one of our favorite sessions. Ed spent years traveling the islands studying rum before becoming an importer and lecturer. His entertaining session will leave you with a new appreciation of the Martinique style of rum, rhum agricole."

 

My first qustion for Ed: How do I become you?

 

Stop by Etiquette tonight, donate $10 to the Golden Cafe fund-raiser, find Pritish near the bar, and tell him Myopenbar sent you. Seriously, Pritish himself emailed us and told us to say "find Pritish, reference open bar & he'll buy you a drink (or two)."

 

This is a first for us. A big first. We imagine a day when everyone wanders the city streets, walks into a swanky bars, gives $10 to a good cause and has someone at the bar buy them a few drinks just for saying the magic word: "open bar." It's happening already folks. Believe.

Turns out those skinny dweebs with the tight pink pants with the matching pink rims and matching pink top-tube pads and matching pink handlebar-grips and matching pink wayfarers and matching pink messenger bags have creative sides that needs releasing. Bike as lifestyle art.

 

 

How do you tell which bike belongs to which PBR slugging attendee? Use Bike Snob NYC's stereotype index:

 

0-1 tattoos, 0-1 beers a month: Road Cyclist
1-3 tattoos, 1-2 beers a day: Offroad Cyclist
3-5 tattoos, non-earlobe piercing, 1-2 beers an hour: Urban Fixed-Gear Cyclist
5-8 tattoos, multiple non-earlobe piercings, 12 beers an hour: Messenger, Polo Player, Marijuana Salesperson
8+ or tattoos above the neck, multiple piercings in the crotchal region, 1-2 bottles of isopropyl a day, bedbugs: Tall Bike Rider, Squatter
Fake tattoos, faux-hawk: Euro-pro, e.g. Damiano Cunego

 

They will all be here.

More kickoff parties for "int'l" fests. This one is for poems in the aptly named "Balmy Alley" followed by a "Lit Crawl." Sounds like a recipe for crabs.

A hefty $75 for dinner & open bar during the "pre-film bash" at Swedish American Hall, then opening night films down the block at the Castro Theater, then back to Cafe du Nord for the afterparty. Lots of walking.

 

$75 for partying with a bunch of hot young Jewish film fans may or may not be worth it to you, but it sure beats waiting around for JDate to solve all your problems.