So Who Will Help Me Bake This Bread?»

This blog initially promised you foodblogging. And I’ve really fallen off, largely due to my inability to keep up with Top Chef. But here’s something that, if you’re in New York tonight, you really should come to.

Tonight at Roseland is a Share Our Strength fundraiser against childhood hunger. It ain’t cheap. But it benefits such worthy organizations as City Harvest, which I worked for in high school (and which fired my mom, but I’m letting bygones be bygones), the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, and JustFood.

Again: not cheap at all. But in exchange for your contribution to social justice, you’ll be sampling the wares of, oh, among others, Mario Batali’s Casa Mono, Oceana, David Burke, John-Georges Vongerichten, and… and… and… Tom Colicchio’s Craft empire. Like Soulja Boy said: We don’t Superman no mo’, we jus’ Tom Colicchio.*

*Apologies to Kriston Capps.

This Meeting Was By Chance»

My friend Dave Weigel at Reason IM’d me this — Michael K. Williams laces Rap City. Notice that he’s freestyling as Omar.

Like Ishmael With Fishscale, Got It Off That Peter Pan»

Speaking of The Wire, don’t miss my Washington Independent colleague Suemedha Sood’s interview with Felicia “Snoop” Pearson.

[Suemedha:] I know your life has changed a lot since you started on The Wire. Can you talk about some of the biggest changes?

FP: My life changed for the better, you know, for the positive, it changed for the better. And I thank [the] Lord every night and day that I’m in the position that I am in now. I can help kids, you know. They speak to me, they listen. Youth is a powerful thing. Me and Jamie Hector [the actor who portrays Marlo on The Wire] have a [nonprofit organization] called Moving Out, so we’re trying to get that off the ground to work with the kids and everything, and help get them into the [Baltimore] School for the Arts.