Heartbeat Opera & Hundred Weight Ice
I’m not even gonna say it. But just in case, for some reason, you’re more prone to staying indoors this weekend (🧱 ahem 🧱), I’ve got two types of recs for you this week. A choose your own adventure of sorts: out on the town or getting drunk on your couch. Both fun!
I had the pleasure of seeing Heartbeat Opera’s Salome this weekend and loved it. The bad news: this show has already ended. The good news: you can make a plan to go see their next show in May! I’ve been a fan of Heartbeat for a while now; I think I saw my first show of theirs ten years ago at some weird Bushwick space. They enliven opera to new audiences, perform in interesting spaces, and perhaps most enticing of all for new fans, their shows aren’t long. So, if you’ve always wanted to check out the opera but have been deterred by lengthy showtimes, you can attend confidently, knowing their average run time is 100 minutes! And while Heartbeat is starting to get some much-deserved attention, small avant-garde opera companies can always use more funding and patrons. These are the exact types of things we are lucky enough to have as New Yorkers and should support.
We’ve reached the section for those of you who want to stay home! So, if you're not going to head out into this great, magnificent city, you might as well have one hell of a cocktail at your apartment. Enter, Hundred Weight Ice. Hundred Weight is the ice distributor for all your favorite cocktail havens (Dutch Kills, Per Se, Leyenda), and they can be a part of your at-home bar too. To be honest, I don’t know how often they’re delivering to normies (me), but I emailed them and asked if they would, and they said as long as I hit the minimum and paid a delivery fee ($105 all in), they would. And now I won’t shut up about this ice! I’m asking all my friends to come over, I’m telling strangers at bars, I’m having cocktails every night I’m in. And while a hundo seems a little crazy to drop on ice, it is a lot of ice. Plus, we’re spending $20-$25 on one cocktail at a bar, so we might as well have the best at home too.
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