I’m just saying that Two Boots has been the de facto Mardi Gras headquarters in Park Slope for years and years. Which isn’t to say that Union Hall and NoNo Kitchen can’t bring something wonderful to the table. In fact, Two Boots gets WAY too crowded. Welcome aboard, NoNo Kitchen and Union Hall. Props to Union Hall for making it a benefit for New Orleans musicians.
TUESDAY FEB 20 IT’S THE BIG MARDI GRAS BASH!
Take a little trip down Bourbon Street right here in Brooklyn!
Authentic special New Orleans menu & cocktails, Mardi Gras beads,
Feast & dance the night away to the Cajun waltzes & swingin’two-steps of
NEW THANG from 4-6pm
THE VOODOOBILLIES at 9pm
Get a free Hurricane if you come with a Mardi Gras mask or costume!
TUESDAY NIGHT AT UNION HALL: Fat Tuesday at Union Hall with a benefit show to aid the musicians of New Orleans featuring Snuggle T and the Huggs, Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, M Shanghai String Band, The Dansettes, Stephane Wrembel, Hungry March Band, The World Famous Pontani Sisters, Dave Hill, DJ Grand Pah and DJ Gannon
Admission $12. Door 6 p.m. Happy Hour 6-7 p.m. At Union Hall, 702 Union Street (off of 5th Avenue), (718) 638-4400.
Food donated by NoNO Kitchen.
Oh, but the dancing at Two Boots. The dancing is just great. And you can’t not dance to zydeco. At least I can’t. I notice other people are able to keep sitting there, but I can’t figure out how. The music just pulls you up and onto the floor. And it just keeps rolling.
The perfect preface to Lent, and to the incredible “lightness of being” which is repentance. “Ashes ashes, we all fall down.”