Camaje to Host New Orleans Benefit

If you're reading this from the Beatrice home page, you may have noticed that I've already found an advertiser to take the first of the site's two adspaces. I'm mentioning here because it's actually a free ad that I'm running for a benefit event this coming Sunday organized by Beatrice guest blogger Emily Gordon:

Poetry, music,New Orleans reportage (first look at the forthcoming Harper's essay by contributing editor Matthew Power), and/or spontaneous collaborations by Oni Buchanan, Jon Woodward, Susan Brennan, Jeffrey Paris, Adam Golaski, Brandon Patton, Steve Roberts, and John Cotter; optional eats by oft-applauded naked chef Abby Hitchcock. Every dime of the pay-what-you-want admission, book and CD sales, and bribes goes straight to the MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund for displaced New Orleans musicians--it buys shelter, food, medicine, new instruments, and other necessities. Location: the celebrated neighborhood bistro Camaje ("cahm-ajh"), at 85 MacDougal St. between Bleecker and Houston (212-673-8184). If you've been reluctantly skipping Katrina-relief benefits because you can't swing the tickets or there's no chocolate soufflé on the menu, this is your chance.