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It is true! This newsletter looks a little different. Si, si. Last year, we teased possibly starting a supplemental paid newsletter filled with fun recipes and ideas and recs and things to put a smile on the face; books and art we were feeling inspired by. The promise of original drone music tracks like ‘Eggplant Parm,’ or, signifigantly less requested, ‘the sharing of the rainbow cookie recipe.’ Does this ring a bell? Anyways, In July, it is coming. That’s so close! A new container. To hold all of it. Even today. Sign up for paige lipari island here. It will quite seriously be this newsletter, but now with all sorts of secret subscriber only content. We are honored by your support and truly can’t wait to spill the beans.

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The Bread Talk event with Natasha Pickowicz and her expert guests GRAISON GILL, PATRICK SHAW-KITCH, LEXIE SMITH, and NORA ALLEN sold out at an alarmingly hopeful rate! We had a hundred people in the shop. Something beau: The bakers are donating most of the proceeds to a good cause (follow along on instagram to find out where.) Okie, as promised, here is a recording of their conversation:

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FREE LIVE MUSIC on Tuesday! It’s sadly the last of our month-long music series with Jess Tsang which has truly been actual magic. Ilusha Tsinadze will be on guitar improvising with Amy Garapic's percussion, followed by sweet as honey singer-songwriter and our fwen Livvy Marcus.

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The good people of Synonym will be at the shop on Sunday! They are a new magazine which tells immigrant stories through food and have invited Vietnamese helmed Van Van who are bringing Focaccia + Spritz. Come drop by, have a chat, a bite/sip, and help us celebrate and support their third issue.

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Reading relaxes every goddamn cell in your body. Si, let us force you. Just a reminder that the current book groups at the shop are Book Book Club, Cookbook Club and Keep Greenpoint Weird ( who else will?) Scroll down for more info!

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For your ground beef, lamb, pork, sausage, and hot dog shopping coordination this is important intel:

We will be closed on Thursday, July 3rd and Wednesday, July 4th. We are back open on Saturday the 5th.

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Come to a poetry reading and a lil more musics this Wednesday! (It’s a Poetry Table recital of sorts before we go on hiatus for the rest of the summer.) Join Ariela Gittlen, our fearless leader, and guests.

Tue Jun 24 → 7p

hello/at last: Ilusha Tsinadze + Amy Garapic (hello!) + Livvy Marcus (at last!

June 24th's set collides the sensitive versatilities of both Ilusha Tsinadze's guitar and Amy Garapic's percussion (hello!), with Livvy Marcus' beautiful tunes closing out the night and this series (at last!). Free

Wed Jun 25 → 7p

OPEN TABLE: Readings & Music   

We're celebrating 2 years of Poetry Table, a community poetry workshop at Archestratus! Please join us for an evening of readings & music, featuring friends of Poetry Table: Kate Ehrenberg, Ash Martin, Paige Lipari, Christhalia Wiloto, Stephanie Valente and Samuel Lang Budin, with host Ariela Gittlen. Poetry Table workshops will break for the summer and resume again in September.

Sun Jun 29 → 7p

SYNONYM: Issue 3

We're celebrating the release of Issue 3 of Synonym magazine! They tell immigrant stories through food. Join us on Sunday for a casual hang with lots of mags to look at and a yummy bite from Van Van (their incredible story here.)

Tue Jul 8 → 7p

Cookbook Club: Sunny Days, Taco Nights by Enrique Olvera

Join us at the shop for a community potluck and party! The Archestratus Cookbook Club has been running for 9 years and counting...

IT IS SIMPLE: Cook your way through Sunny Days, Taco Nights in JUNE and drop by with a dish on JULY 8! All are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's mad civilized! Potlucks with all of you give us a dose of hope for the universe!

Mon Jul 21 → 7p

KEEP GREENPOINT WEIRD:The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan

It is important to Keep Greenpoint Weird! So many normals! Read through The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan in May and June and join us IN PERSON on JULY 21st!

Mon Jul 28 → 7p

AGORA CLUB with Katie Kelley

Agora, from the Greek – an Assembly of the People, used not only for debating, trials, and other public purposes, but also as a marketplace – a shop? A place where people gather to talk about ideas together.

A philosophy reading group, gathered for the sake of puzzling through the specific peculiarities, insights, and pleasures of the text, and for the sake of talking together about what the world is and who we are.

Mon Aug 4 → 7p

BookBook Club: Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson

Every six-ish weeks we read a new memoir, a collection of essays, novel, or anything else we find interesting that somehow, in a big or small way, relates to food. Then we discuss.

Read through Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson in July and join us IN PERSON on August 4th!