What's doing around town, our ticket contest, our next event, new movies, Birdland and more 
 
Lots is happening around town. Broadway is hopping again, thank goodness, and you could win theater tickets. We're hosting Cocktails and Conversations with suspense novelists Mary and Carol Higgins Clark. Restaurants are offering deals. Birdland is singing. The Plaza Hotel has free tours and more. Read on.
 
Our Broadway ticket contest ends soon.
Invite your friends to subscribe to The Three Tomatoes and you could win 2 tickets to a top Broadway or off-Broadway Show and your friends could too.  From now through May 7, 2009 (8) tomatoes and (2) new tomato subscribers will each win 2 sets of tickets to one of the following shows:  39 Steps, Irena's Vow, ROOMS a rock romance, and The Marvelous Wonderettes.  It's simple to enter.  Get all the details.  Less than two weeks left.
 
Cocktail Conversations with the Higgins Clark ladies
Meet mother and daughter best-selling mystery writers Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark on May 28th when they join The Three Tomatoes for Cocktails and Conversations. They will talk about their latest books, Just Take My Heart (Mary Higgins Clark) and Cursed (Carol Higgins Clark), their lives, their writing and what it's like to collaborate.   And you'll get a chance to meet lots of other fabulous tomatoes too.
May 28 from  6-9 PM, Etcetera, Etcetera, 352 West 44th Street. Tickets are $21 (includes a glass of wine, beer, or soda.)  Buy tickets below, or visit our web site.  

 

New at the movies: the Informers
If you're looking for a feel good, pick me up movie, this is definitely not it.  This deeply disturbing movie features a great ensemble cast including Billy Bob Thornton, Mickey Rourke, and Kim Bassinger, but not one likeable character.  "There is No Sun", the last line spoken in The Informers, aptly sums up this film which dissects contemporary American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. It's set in Los Angeles of the early 1980's with a multi-strand narrative and a vast array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Read more.

  
Deals from Le Cirque to Chanterelle

and more.  Gael Greene has returned from Italy and writes this week about all the great  NYC restaurant deals.  Read on. 
 

 

Remember the Manhattan Transfer?
One of our favorite groups in the 70s. Laurel Masse, one of the founding members of the Grammy award-winning vocal group, will be performing at Birdland on Monday night, April 27th. The Chicago Tribute has called her one of the best jazz vocalists.

 

Have a great weekend,