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......

EXHIBIT: Apparently there's an exhibit of Anna Nicole Smith photographs starting tonight. We can't find much info on it, but What's Up NYC says there's a "reception and exhibit of portraits and candid photographs of, wait for it, Anna Nicole Smith." 6 to 8pm // Gallery of Fine Arts [511 W 25th St] // Free PARTY: It's Prom time at Unisex Salon. Tonight put on your best formalwear and head to the basement of the......

READING: Jonathan Franzen reads at the Bam Cafe tonight, but not after a buffet that include wine from the Pine Ridge Winery and other treats. There will also be a live acoustic performance and a Q&A with Franzen. The hefty price tag includes dinner, wine, tax, and tip. 6:30pm // BAM Cafe [30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn] // $45 THEATER: The first annual FRIGID Festival is breaking ice in the East Village at the Kraine, the......

Of all the actors with bands (Jared Leto, Adrian Grenier, Jason Schwartzman) we had our money on Ed Burns to be in a pretty rockin' one. He recently played The Delancey with his band The Blue Jackets, and you can watch one of their songs from that night right here: Maybe it was just an off night. The band also has a very New York video for "Way Back Home", which can be seen here,......

SantaCON was all day yesterday, and well documented of course. Here are some of the pictures that have come in. More photos at Flickr. The Santas went from The Delancey down by the Williamsburg Bridge, up to the SW Corner of Central Park. Did you run in to them? If you go outside right now, we bet you'll be able to see the best "walk of shame" ever, starring hungover Santas with smeared eyeliner. Photos......

READING: READINGS: Looks like literary talent might just be genetic - 26-year-old Owen King, son of best-selling spookmaster Stephen King, has a collection of a novella and short stories out and is reading tonight at the Astor Place Barnes & Noble. We're All in This Together has been called "compelling" and "imaginative", and having a famous father can't hurt, right? - Krissa Corbett Cavouras 7pm // Barnes & Noble [4 Astor Place] // Free THEATER:......

ART OPENINGS: Ann Craven's latest Deer and Beer, will most likely feature new repetitive paintings (that is, her shtick is to repeat the same painting in multiples) of Deer and ... um ... Beer? 6 to 8pm // Klemens Gasser & Tanya Grunert, Inc. [524 W 19th] // Free David Fox's Images of War, features recent monotypes part of an ongoing cycle of work. "Fox explores themes of war and human rights violations brought to......

MUSIC: If you aren't going to a 06.06.06 party tonight, and if we are in fact all here and the apocolypse hasn't happened...we suggest getting over to the Delancey. Why? Because it's the first Beg Yr Pardon party and there will be free red velvet cupcakes and brownies! There will also be all you can eat BBQ if you're into that sort of thing (for an extra $5). Oh, and music! There is also music.......

Wednesday night we celebrated the release of Eat This Book! by Ryan Nerz on the (still enclosed) rooftop of The Delancey, savored cupcakes from Sugar Sweet Sunshine and watched our first professional eating contest. From left, we saw "Crazy Legs" Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker and Tim "Eater X" Janus eat as many mini cupcakes as possible (without water!) in 2 minutes. At 29 tiny frosted cakes, New York's own (and a crowd favorite) Badlands won,......

Is it too early to post about free alcohol? Of course not. Have you heard of MyOpenBar.com yet? We have, though sadly admit to never taking advantage of it. Tonight, however, the site is having it's official (and long overdue) launch party. Let's backtrack though. On a daily basis the site supplies you, the reader/alcoholic/cheapskate, with a list of where you can drink for FREE. They give you the place, the time, the "deal" and......

THREE DAY WEEKEND! THREE DAY WEEKEND! THREE DAY WEEKEND! THREE DAY WEEKEND! THREE DAY WEEKEND! THREE DAY WEEKEND! MUSIC: Bravo Silva plays tonight at the Delancey, so if you missed them at Movable Hype last month now's your chance to catch them. Their set is just after the hour long open bar, so get there by 9 for free drinks, and by 10:30 for the band. [via the new and improved papermag.com] Details: Tonight //......

Last week, The Delancey played host to the launch of Taste NY, a new TV show about eating in New York. As a co-production of NYC TV and Time Out New York, the connection is obvious from the venue (one of the rooftop bars featured in last week's cover story ahem Drink Up, ahem) to the premiere episode about cheap eats (this week's TONY cover story). The host, Kelly Choi, was on hand to ask......

Last night's Movable Hype was a great time, thanks to everyone who came out and to Nick Catchdubs for deejaying. And a special thanks to all of the bands. Really amazing night! Oh, and David Bowie even showed up(!) He sat upstairs in the balcony with a baseball hat on and clapped for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Stay tuned for the next Hype which will hopefully be taking place in August/September. In the meantime,......

Our friends at Reel to Reel Records, the indie internet-only record label, is having their Winter Party tomorrow night at the The Delancey. The line up features Laneview, Dangaru, The Royal Wylds, Electric Engine, Christopher Sullivan, Hayday, plus special guest The Shalitas. The show starts at 8PM, and Gothamist will be there to enjoy the rock. And it's free. And there's a special for the month of February at Reel to Reel: You can download......

'Tis the season for corporate holiday parties, which could really get in the way of the great music we have in the coming week. Not that there are any tickets available, and not that most people want to pay the black market price, but the Pixies are opening their 2004 Hammerstein eight-show stand on Saturday. Check out all the dates and openers at Oh My Rockness and read the review of last night's DC......

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there are some shows coming up. Lemme collect myself... You want to see a different--but good--live show? Hit the Bowery Ballroom tonight to see The Unicorns (pictured). Ashlee Simpson-like they ain't. And they're Canadian, so maybe you can marry one of them and get that free healthcare after all! A really cool show would have been Beans and Jimmy Edgar (all you IDM fans, you've gotta check out his upcoming EP).......