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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Brain food and comfort food can peacefully co-exist.

Eat, Drink and Be Literary Featuring Art Spiegelman
This intimate dinner and reading will be followed by a Q and A with author of the epic graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale—the story of his mother and father's experiences as Polish Jews in a German concentration camp, and a familiar name on the underground comics scene since the '60s.
Thursday, February 5 at 6:30 PM
BAMcafé (30 Lafayette Ave)
Price: $50 Includes dinner, wine, tax and tip
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=758

The Chili Takedown
Show up with a hearty appetite and you won't be disappointed. Food blogger Matt Timms has once again challenged the pros and amateur chefs alike with a comfort-food competition that's hard to lose if you're hungry.
Sunday, February 8 at 5 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Price: $10
http://chili-takedown.com/

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary (Symposium and Exhibition)
The new Museum of Arts and Design has curated this meeting of the minds as part of the current exhibition, which features work by established and emerging artists who create objects and installations comprised of ordinary and everyday manufactured articles.
Through February 15
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary Symposium
Saturday, February 7 from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
http://www.madmuseum.org