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Red Hook Ramblers Play Bootlegger Social March 31

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The Red Hook Ramblers

Wit’s End and the Dorothy Parker Society invite you to celebrate the Social Life of the Jazz Age with the Red Hook Ramblers! Saturday, March 31, 7pm-Midnight
Flute Midtown, 205 West 54th Street, near Broadway

Come in your finest 1920s & 1930s vintage or vintage inspired evening attire and celebrate in style with live hot jazz, vintage cocktails and good times!

This party is the Bootlegger Social, so channel that inner Prohibition-hating American and get your hip flask out…

**Vintage attire required**

Free dance lesson at 8:30 pm from Jeri Lynn Astra & Neal Groothuis. Learn the steps that your great-grandparents knew so well. Live music to follow.

Tickets are $12 each and can be purchased at the door or in advance online via Ticketweb.

Table reservations are available and encouraged; telephone Flute Midtown reservation line at 212.265.5169 to reserve a table.

Photos From February Party

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Thanks to all who came to the party on Feb. 25 to see the Hot Sardines. Have a look out our photo gallery .

3rd Anniversary Party with the Hot Sardines on Feb. 25

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Wit’s End and the Dorothy Parker Society invite you to celebrate the Social Life of the Jazz Age with Hot Jazz from The Hot Sardines!

Saturday, Feb. 25, 7pm-Midnight
Flute Midtown, 205 West 54th Street, near Broadway

Come in your finest 1920s & 1930s vintage or vintage inspired evening attire and celebrate in style with live hot jazz, vintage cocktails and good times!

Toast the 3rd Anniversary of Wit’s End with a Gin Tasting and the Manhattan Debut of Dorothy Parker American Gin, from the New York Distilling Company! The new Brooklyn distillery will be bringing in the “first batch” to Wit’s End! Enjoy your favorite gin cocktails tonight…

**Vintage attire required**

Free dance lesson at 8:30 pm from Jeri Lynn Astra Herbert & Neal Groothuis. Learn the steps that your great-grandparents knew so well. Live music to follow.

Tickets are $12 each and can be purchased at the door or in advance online via TicketWeb.com.

Table reservations are available and encouraged; telephone Flute Midtown reservation line at 212.265.5169 to reserve a table.

2012 Kicks Off With Tribute to Texas Guinan

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Jan. 28, 2012, party at Flute Midtown

We are very happy to announce that the first Wit’s End party of the new year will be Jan. 28, 2012, at Flute Midtown. We are delighted to have the return engagement of Miss Cherry Delight and the Big Tent Jazz Band, who thrilled us last summer.

We will open the doors at 7 p.m. and cocktails will commence immediately at Flute Midtown, 205 W. 54th Street. Come in your finest vintage or vintage-inspired evening attire and celebrate in style! This month we are saluting the legendary nightclub owner Texas Guinan!

Texas was the proprietor of Club Intime, one of the most popular speakeasies of the Prohibition Era, and as luck would have it, Club Intime was located in the same space as Flute Midtown! We will literally be dancing in the same spot as Texas and her notorious boyfriend, the gangster and showman, Larry Fay. Texas was born 128 years ago this month, so let’s celebrate one of the greatest nightlife creatures Manhattan has ever toasted.

We will have the party kick off at 7. Free dance lessons by our good friends Jeri Lynn Astra Herbert and Neal Groothuis will be at 8:30. Come out and learn a few steps before the band goes on.

There will be cocktail specials and good friends, some of us have not been together in a few months. We hope you will all come out and have a great time with us. Tell your friends.

This month the cover is just $10! Advance tickets are on sale now.