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Benefit Update

I'm totally exhausted! Ishle's benefit at the Workshop raised over $4,000 for organizations working on tsunami relief! I expected about $2k, but to double that!? People were very, very generous and i want to thank everyone who showed up, donated, performed and volunteered to help make the event so successful. And if you got turned away at the door, i'm sorry. We usually don't ever turn people away but we had over 220 people jammed into a space for 80, 120 tops.

After a frantic clean up, we headed towards Han Bat on 35th St. Crack introduced me to Han Bat back in 1998; i've since introduced it to about 20 people, who in turn have introduced 60 more, etc. and now it's the official dinner spot after large events at the Workshop. It's a 24/7 Korean restaurant that serves really good kimchee, has good prices for Midtown and big tables for big groups. Half our group ordered bibimbap: assorted vegetables arranged over rice in a hot stone bowl, with meat and/or egg optional and a hot red bean sauce. As you eat it, the rice forms a nice crust from the hot bowl. You can get bibimbap cold too, but gobdol is better. Conversation topics included: bad relationships, Knitting Club, speed dating, tattoos, Catholicism and psychic readers!

posted by beXn @ 2:20 AM