FOOD: Those with a taste for expensive ham and the means to pay for it will be tantalized by tonight’s one-night-only 5 course tasting menu at Suba, a Spanish restaurant on the Lower East Side. Chef Seamus Mullen has obtained the prized “Rolls Royce of Ham” – Jamón Ibérico – and will be offering it tonight with Ossabaw Island hogs and Iberian wine. There are just a few seatings still available for tonight's event, which will also feature a winter salad with raw artichokes and pine mushrooms and a gnocchi dish with littleneck clams, among other delicacies. If the $110 price tag seems steep for the tasting menu and wine pairings, just think: The first shipments of ibérico ham that arrived last month after USDA restrictions were lifted cost $90-$99 a pound at Despaña. – John Del Signore

7pm reception, 8pm dinner // Suba [109 Ludlow St] // Call (212) 982-5714 for reservations, which are almost full.

EVENT: Lou Reed, described in the press release as an "iconic rocker and Tai Chi practitioner", will be at the Rubin Museum tonight to discuss his latest meditation compositions of ambient, sub-harmonic soundscapes with the Dutch mind-science scholar Rob Hogendoorn. The solo compositions are titled Hudson River Wind Meditations, and we're guessing they don't sound a thing like The Velvet Underground.

7pm // Rubin Museum of Art [150 W 17th St] // $25

THEATER: Thoroughly Stupid Things (Or The Continuous Importance of Being Earnest) is a new sequel to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, but it takes its title from a line in another Wilde play, Lady Windemere’s Fan: “It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.” (The words of one of Wilde’s character, not the man himself, obviously.) The long-overdue sequel, which opens tonight, sounds like a hoot: “Convinced that their husbands, Jack and Algernon, are cheating on them, Gwendolyn and Cecily go undercover as brother attorneys Ernest and Ernest to find out more about their late evenings at the local men's clubs. When Gwendolyn and Cecily meet saucy cabaret singer Bibi LaFlam, they get more than they bargained for.” – John Del Signore

8pm // manhattantheatresource [177 MacDougal St] // Tickets cost $18

MUSIC: Tonight The Exeter Popes, The Naked Hearts, Scary Mansion and She Keeps Bees take the basement stage at The Delancey. We had to travel out of state to finally catch Brooklyn duo She Keeps Bees, and the sound was delightful enough to leave us wanting more (plus, the name is just fun to say). Give a listen here, and get there early to catch their set.

8:30pm // The Delancey [168 Delancey St] // $5