CAYA: The Last Cocktail Hour of the Decade!

Dear Lost Souls,

Founders: Greg Dolge, Billy Rhyne,
Chris Strain, and Greg Delaune

Tonight, The Haberdashery will celebrate the final Cocktail Hour of the decade. Conceived and birthed in the halcyon days at the end of the last century, CAYA was conceptualized by its four intrepid founders as an alchemical quest toward the creation of the perfect Martini. Countless libations and iterations later, we continue to carefully hone our craft via our weekly communion, replete with epic triumphs and failures along the way, but always seeking with our humble offerings to honor our original vision, as well as to pay homage to the classically accepted pantheon of handcrafted cocktails. Come help us put to bed another era of Haberdashery mayhem, and salute CAYA's entry into a fourth decade of tireless dedication to your ephemeral satisfaction.

Yes, my Hysterical Historical Haberdites, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to swing by for a quickie en route to your primary soirée de la saison, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to August 17th, 2004: CAYA - Five Years You'll Never Get Back
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA: A Haberdashery Holiday Oasis 🌲 🍸 🎶 🎅

Dear Lost Souls,

Happy holidays to all! ... and here's wishing you a smooth slide into a shiny brand new decade. This evening we offer you an oasis of calm in the midst of all of the season's chaos. We will be holding a modest gathering to hoist a toast to the final days of a dynamic and tumultuous year on so many cultural, political, and environmental levels. Please join us as we give thanks to each of you for being part of our epic Haberdashery community . . . and we prepare to welcome in the Soaring 20's ... with all the potential and uncertainty that they bring!

Yes, my Holiday Haberdites, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to swing by for a quickie en route to your primary holiday soiree, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to December 18th, 2003: CAYA - Santa is a Ho!
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA: 2019 Holiday Party - Black Tie Optional

Dear Lost Souls,

Come join us this evening for the Haberdashery's 2019 Holiday Party! This is a black tie optional event . . . which means that you should liberally use your imagination to interpret whatever the hell THAT means! We will be featuring our signature Alaska Martinis plus our usual mix of snacks and loose nuts (no offense intended).

Yes, my Eclectic Elves, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. We don't really care whether who has been naughty or nice . . . only that we are all merry! So, come help us celebrate the season with some fellowship and good cheer! Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to swing by in your one horse open sleigh for a quickie en route to your primary holiday soiree, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to December 6th, 2001: CAYA - Drink Early and Beat The Rush!
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA: Honoring Those Who Inspire Us

Dear Lost Souls,

This week, on the occasion of St. Nicholas Day and also in the midst of a mad flurry of international wedding celebrations in the Haberdite crewe, we take a moment to honor one of the matriarchs of our Haberdashery community, Kathleen Delaune, who is celebrating her 78th birthday today.  Born December 6th, 1941, Kathleen came into the world with a bang ... and has wasted little time looking back. Our thanks to her for her foundational inspiration for valuing the importance of quality food prepared with loving care, her heartfelt hospitality, and her prioritization of a well maintained home, always welcoming to friends and strangers alike. It is an honor and a pleasure to call her Mom, and to always be striving to live up to her high standards of kindness, generosity, and gentle respect for all.

Yes, my Holiday Hohos, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Please come help us celebrate Katie's birthday, as well as the weddings of Hersey & Francesco, and Megan & Massimo. It is a joyous season indeed! Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to carroll on by for a quickie en route to your primary holiday soiree, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to December 5th, 2002: CAYA - St. Nicholas Day
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com
The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA: No Cocktail Hour at the Haberdashery This Week

Dear Lost Souls,

There will be know Cocktail Hour this evening. While you recover from the Turkey or Tofurkey day, make sure to hoist a glass to Haberdites near and far, as we will do the same.

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

CAYA; No Cocktail Hour at the Haberdashery This Week

Dear Lost Souls,

There will be know Cocktail Hour this evening at West Berkeley's Last Resort. How can we put this delicately??
 . . . We got a better offer.

We will be sure to hoist a glass to Haberdites everywhere, and we invite you to do the same.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

CAYA: Back From the Bayou 🎭 🎷 🎺 🦐 🦀

Dear Lost Souls,

In our never ending quest to minimize the suffering of Haberditeseverywhere, and improve the general state of our planet, the Haberdashery recently dispatched a select delegation to the cradle of CAYA civilization for an intense 10 day research and engagement expedition. Please be assured that our ambassadors were well fed, weathering the journey with minimal hardship. Returning laden with priceless gems of Cajun cultural inspiration, tonight we offer you the opportunity to experience a sampling of these alchemical treasures, freshly gleaned and garnished for your profound enjoyment. 

Yes, my Bayou Brothers and Sisters, Cocktail Hour is on this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to sashay on by for a quickie en route to your evening's primary fête. . . or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to November 8th, 2001: CAYA - Love and Tapas
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

No CAYA this week . . . Friday Nights at OMCA

Dear Lost Souls!

There will be no Cocktail Hour this week . . . but we invite you to hoist a glass and toast your fellow Haberdites, near and far, wherever they may be.

For those of you in the SF Bay Area, we invite you to join us at the Friday Nights at the Oakland Museum of California for a Burning Man Block Party to celebrate the current exhibition "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man".

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

CAYA: Novemberrrrrrrr Burns ❄ 🔥

Dear Lost Souls,

The Haberdashery sends out a shout of deep respect for all of the dedicated women and men on the front lines fighting the scourge of wild fires sweeping across California . . . heroes one and all. We also wish all of the families affected strength in this time of crisis. With the weather shift, the cold offers little refuge for the dislocated and homeless. For those of you in a position to lend a hand, the SF Chronicle offers this guide on how to help.

Yes, my Humble Haberdites , Cocktail Hour is on this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to stop by for a quickie en route to your evening's primary soiree. . . or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to November 1st, 2001: CAYA - Hollowed Eve
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA: BOO HO HO GOBBLE GOBBLE

Dear Lost Souls,

Jazus, Mery n'Jozef! All we need is a leprechaun and bunny rabbit for a full scale holiday pop up orgy! Yes, its that time of year again . . . when we start free-basing a toxic capitalist cocktail of cultural appropriation, imperialist genocide, wanton gluttony, and unbridled consumerism all packaged up for us by the mass media as a 'merry celebration of the holiday season' ! But fear not ye intrepid Haberdites! . . .  in these halcyon daze of Indian summer, there is still a sanctuary from the swirling tempests of the Amurican Dream! So, grab your cutest canary and come hither from thy proverbial coal mines to join us in the eclectic twilight of the Haberdashery's weekly communion of alchemical excellence. Just leave your cultural baggage at the bottom of the stoop and come gift yourself an evening's reprieve from the insanity of the season. Come As You Are.

Yes, my Ghosts and Gobblins, Cocktail Hour is on this Friday evening, yet again . . . like a vu ja de! Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to trick or tweak on by for a quickie en route to your primary holiday orgasmafest . . . or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to October 30th, 2003: BOO! - Come As You Are
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA; No Reservations Required . . . 🧟‍♂️ for the Zombie Apocalypse 🧟‍♀️

Dear Lost Souls,

Administration officials arrive to
testify at impeachments hearings

State and federal administration officials have reassured the populous that they have the 'best people' working on the Zombie Apocalypse . . . with great strides forward already being reported in progressive initiatives like; extended energy grid outages, exploding refineries, perilous geopolitical isolationism, election meddling . . . and some ominous rumblings of earth quake season thrown in for good measure. Rest assured that the constitutional crisis remains precisely on schedule, our national infrastructure remains full of potential, and the healthcare system is on the verge of . . . well, it is on the verge. Did we mention the opioid crisis?

Behold, up ahead on the temporal horizon . . . a beacon of delicious distraction . . . an oasis of mellifluous tranquility . . . a canopy of dappled low expectations . . . under a twinkling constellation of eclectic wishing stars offering the promise of sweet delusion and an ephemeral excursion to the land of cognitive dissidence: The Haberdashery . . . your Last Resort. Come As You Are.

Yes, my Emissaries of Jesterville, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Please feel free to roll up for a quickie en route to your evening's primary dumpster fire . . . or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to October 16th, 2003: CAYA - Octoberfest in California
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

No CAYA this week . . .

Dear Lost Souls,

There will be no Cocktail Hour this week... as your Cabaña Boys are busy either still cleaning up from the dust (almost done!) or getting some new one at Fly Ranch, but we invite you to hoist a glass and toast your fellow Haberdites! 

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

🍁 🍂 Come As You Are: It's Rocktoberfest! 🍂 🍁

Dear Lost Souls!

Fall is upon us and that means that Rocktoberfest is here! After months of careful planning, scheming, and prep, your resident cabana boys and ne're-do-wells are ready to kiss summer's lazy attitude goodbye and dive into the vibrant crisp dynamism of Autumn's bloom. So . . . strap on your axe, grab your squeezebox, fire up your harp, tickle your ivories, copulate your cajon, and get ready to twizzle your bejizzle . . . it's time to make some noise and have some fun! . . . Come leave last season's cares at the foot of the stoop, and join us at The Last Resort under the dappled shade and shadow of low expectations and eclectic starlight . . . it's just another Friday night of alchemical madness at The Haberdashery. Come As You Are!

Yes, my Seasonal Simians, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to shwing by en route to your primary autumnal celebration, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to Octobery 10th, 2002: CAYA - Our Merry Band
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA: Peach? 🍑 . . . or not?

Dear Lost Souls!

It has been a slow week in the news . . . nothing to see here. The planet is not in a death spiral of biblical proportions and our nation is not in the throws of constitutional crisis. Soooo, this week the Haberdashery will just be having some good clean alchemical fun; experimenting with our new 'InPeach' cocktail. The ingredients are secret, the process is fraught with uncertainty, and the project's outcomes could facilitate a sticky disastrous mess . . . with consequences to be borne by future generations of Haberdites. But, heh! . . . 'God hates a coward' . . .  and whatever the result, I'm sure it will be hoot for everyone!

Yes, my Nascent Nihilists, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to wander by aimlessly in a delirious haze en route to wherever the hell you may be headed, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to September 27th, 2001: CAYA - Cocktail Hour Returns
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA: Celebrating Justice, Equity, and Environmental Protection

Dear Lost Souls!

It seems like we just celebrated the Equinox six moths ago . . . and yet here we are again! Yes, summer is fading fast and autumn is in the air . . . along with the growing seeds of political unrest and environmental action. Sooo . . . at the end of another long week in the proverbial coal mines, a vigorous day of marching in the streets for planetary survival, or a lifetime of tireless advocacy for political revolution, we invite you to join your fellow Haberdites for some ephemeral repose at The Last Resort . . . to savor a few moments of tranquility beneath CAYA's dappled canopy of low expectations, and to taste the Haberdashery Brewing Company's latest offering, our poignant "Czechs and Balances" Lager. It is sure to remind you of the legislative countermeasures that our nation's founding fathers baked into our constitution to ward of oligarchy and corruption  . . . or else hopefully (at least) it will help you to temporarily forget how completely fucked we are as a nation and a planetary species on the verge of ecosystemic collapse.

Yes, my Politically Polemic Planet Protectors, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening . . . back at The Haberdashery, and toasting the prospect of positive change that we pray is in the air. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to march on by en route to your cause du jour, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to September 19th, 2003: CAYA - All Things Being Equal
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

No CAYA - Visiting Planet Home

Dear Lost Souls!

There will be no Cocktail Hour this week . . . but we invite you to hoist a glass and toast your fellow Haberdites, near and far, wherever they may be.

For those of you in the SF Bay Area, we invite you to join us at the Planet Homeevent at the Palace of Fine Arts, where we will be seeking to help solve some of the myriad of sticky problems facing our fragile blue spaceship, as we hurtle through the darkness of infinite space towards an uncertain future.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

CAYA - 🎶 🥁🎤 Live from the Ivy Room; Winter William Presents! . . . 🎸🎵👩‍🎤

Dear Lost Souls!

This week, The Haberdashery is pleased to support our friend and fellow Haberdite, Winter Williams as she rounds out her 2019 promotion season with her final event of the year. Tonight's show, at The Ivy Room in Berkeley, will feature Pamela Parker and Thrown Out Bones . . . some epic female-powered talent. Tickets are only $6 if you buy them now, before the show. Come join your fellow Haberdites as we dance our ass off and celebrate Winter's success!

Yes, my Loco Motions, Cocktail Hour is on . . . and off-site this Friday evening. The Ivy Room doors open at 7:30pm. Order you tickets HERE NOW to get the $6.00 price. We'll see you there!

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to September 5th, 2002: CAYA - Off to the Dried Plum Festival

P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:

2124 Fifth Street

Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA - Let The Folly Burn, Ye Children of Chaos 🔥 🔥 🔥

Dear Lost Souls!

The Folly

Tipping our hats to all of our Haberdite Burners enjoying the chaos out on Playa in Black Rock City, tonight at The Haberdashery we will feature a livestream of the midnight torching of The Folly. The Follyholds a special place in our hearts, and we salute the months of tremendous effort, expense, and love that went into its conception and execution. It is always extraordinary to see how the power of the ephemeral can manifest in an art project of this scale . . . one that ultimately exists for less than a week . . . and we thank its creators for their hard work and dedication!

Yes, my Pesky Pyromaniacs, Cocktail Houris on for this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm . . . and we will feature the live stream from Black Rock City through to The Folly burn at midnight. As always, please feel free to stop by for a quickie en route to your evening's primary destiny . . . or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to August 30th, 2001: CAYA - Liberation of the Drone Nation
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA - Summer Spritz! 🍹🍊

Dear Lost Souls!

Nothing says summer like a refreshing Spritz properly garnished with a slice of blood orange! But, as summer races by, and we stare down the barrel of September, one is left to wonder ... 'have I really had a chance to properly enjoy my summer Spritz?! At the Haberdashery we are never afraid to tackle the touch issues . . . address the sticky wicket ... and offer the right solutions. There is indeed still time to have a few more summer Spritz, and our dedicated team of alchemists is standing by to fulfill your fluid desires*. Just come on by and see us at West Berkeley's Last Resort.

Yes, my Parched Pilgrims, Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. As always, please feel free to shwing by for a quickie en route to your evening's primary destination . . . or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

*selected desires may be furnished upon request

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to August 30th, 2001: CAYA - A Week Late and a Dalai Short
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA - Hot as a Pistol and Headed for the Burn 🔥 🔥 🔥

Dear Lost Souls!

It's that time of year again . . . when all the loose nuts and marbles roll gayly into the Nevada desert to populate ephemeral Black Rock City . . . and to engage in every imaginable form of radical self expression and delicious debauchery. Come help us send off Brother Anto as he christens the Dough Dough mobile . . . sailing off into deep playa to careen across the dark empty expanse on his quest to disseminate the gospel of the perfect pizza. 'Praise be his name. Tonight we will be toasting Burners everywhere with best wishes for a safe and successful adventure, as well as celebrating the end of another scorching week on our fragile little blue marble.

Yes, my Populist Pyromaniacs, Cocktail Houris on for this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. As always, please feel free to zip by for a quickie en route to your evening's primary pilgrimage . . . or to linger transcendentally.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to August 23rd, 2001: CAYA - Take the Weather with You
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA; HODOR Is Coming!

Hodor in the West Wing

Dear Lost Souls!

This week The Haberdashery is proud to host a bevy of renowned guests and VIPs, including our newest housemate, GOT superstar Hodor, as well as international guitar phenomena Eugenio Leder, visiting us from Vicenza, Italy, (along with his distinguished family) during his extended US West Coast Tour, for an evening of music and good cheer. Please bring your own special style of celebrity . . . as you always do! . . . and join us as we toast another glorious summer evening and the end of the weekly grind with a custom crafted adult beverage of your desire*. 

Yes, my Salient Superstar, Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. As always, please feel free to trot on by for a quickie en route to your evening's primary destination . . . or to linger indefinitely.

*desires furnished upon request by our resident Alchemists

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to August 3rd, 2001: CAYA - The International Mission; The Haberdashery Abroad Program

P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 9471

CAYA - A Sanctuary from our Digital Detritus

Dear Lost Souls,

As another week in the proverbial coal mines draws to its inevitable conclusion, and the sneaker-bound drones of our post modern digital dystopia emerge bleary eyed from their interminable assembly lines of first world binary detritus, we look ahead with tearful promise at the latent potential of a midsummer weekend . . . brimming with a sumptuous smorgasbord of Playa fundraisers, pastoral excursion, birthday celebrations, and oases of quiet repose. And behold! . . . just there, beyond the crest of aspiration's foothills, lies the prospect of a Friday night cocktail at The Haberdashery; a sanctuary from the chaos of our time . . . gently shaken, lovingly stirred, and subtly seasoned with eclectic starlight; to be sipped beneath the dappled shade and shadow of low expectations at The Last Resort . . . Come As You Are.

Yes, my Denizens of Dystopia, Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please join us as we humbly offer you a handcrafted manifestation of your ephemeral whims*. As always, please feel free to shhwing by for a quickie en route to your evening's primary destiny . . . or to linger indefinitely.

*whims may be provided upon request to our dedicated Alchemists

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to August 2nd, 2001: CAYA - Celebrity Birthday!
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA - With the Best Cabaña Boys Line Up Ever

Dear Lost Souls,

As the summer heats up and we find ourselves traveling near and far, physically or just with our mind, you know you can always find your weekly dose of amusement and entertainment within the comforting walls of the Haberdashery. 

And while your Cabaña Boysx may be coming and going, bustling with their summer projects, sometime unexpected paths bring together the past and the present in an unprecedented line up of your favorite Friday night hosts.

Yes my Disciplined Ne'er-do-wells, Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. Somehow, cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. As always, please feel free to stop by for a quickie en route to your primary Friday night dose of fun, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to July 17th, 2015: CAYA; A Midsummer Night's Overture

P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:

2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

No Cocktail Hour This Week

Dear Lost Souls,

There will be no Cocktail Hour this Friday evening. We already had 3 this month so our advisors have recommended to take a week off. We invite you to raise your indices and your glasses, and entertain yourself in some fun celebration of these summer months.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

CAYA - Featuring DJ Mr. Fabulous (pre-event gathering)

Dear Lost Souls,

This week we will meet at The Haberdashery at our regular time for a pre-event gathering ... and then migrate the party to The Dildo Factory just around the corner (between 9 and 9:30pm). Please join us as we enjoy the show and support our Haberdashery house DJ, Mr. Fabulous. In case your arrive late, you can join us directly at the show.

Yes my Disciples of Dance, Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please come join us for a aperitif at HQ before we Second Line around the block to the main event.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to July 1st, 2004: CAYA; It's Millers' Time
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA - Independence Day Encore!

Dear Lost Souls,

The only thing better than our weekly Cocktail Hour gathering of Haberdites . . . is a second CAYA in the same week! After a rousing Wednesday evening of music and fun, The Haberdashery is back in the game with our regular weekly communion of ne'er-do-wells, capping off our feastly celebrations for the 4th of July!

Yes my Cantankerous Compatriots, Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please join us for an encore toast to the birthday of our great nation ... and to our continuing efforts towards a more perfect Union. Please feel free to parade on by for a quickie en route to your primary revelry, or to linger independently.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to July 4th, 2012: CAYA; Pagans, Patriots, and the Promise of a God Fearing Nation
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA (tonight!) - The Birth of a Nation

Dear Lost Souls,

The Haberdashery is pleased to host a special mid-week CAYA in celebration of the 4th of July! Since tomorrow is our nation's birthday (and a national holiday), we invite you to officially mark the end of your short week by stopping by to join us for a toast!  . . . and maybe some music and other mischief. What could possibly go wrong!!??

Yes ye Progeny of Liberty, Cocktail Hour is on for this Wednesday evening (tonight!). Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please join us as we raise a glass to our founding fathers, our intrepid ancestors, and the great ongoing and fragile experiment in democracy in which we all find ourselves inextricably immersed. As always, please feel free to swagger by for a quickie en route to your primary cry for independence, or to linger indubitably.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to July 5th, 2001: CAYA - Independence Day!
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA - A Celestial Dance to Warm Ye Hearts

Dear Lost Souls,

Round and round . . . we dance the eccentric dance of eternity while we hurtle together through the endless void of the heavens at the speed of life itself. Let us hold on tight to our fellow cosmonauts, nurturing each other, and the fragile blue spaceship to which we precariously cling. Let us celebrate another circuit, bringing us again to the bright sun-shiny promise of the coming season. With all that is dark and ominous in the ephemeral human dramas of the age, still there is always the promise of Spring and the peaceful transition of power to Summer's glorious reign. So let us hoist a cup o' good cheer. Let us embrace our fellow brothers and sisters who are the cheerful gardeners of our mortal souls. And let us give thanks that we too have lived another day to enjoy the glory of the celestial symphony that has given us the miracle of life, resting assured that it will carry forth our legacy when we too are witness to our final dawn, and return to stardust, from whence we came.

Scottish Toast:
   Here’s to a long life, and a merry one;
   a quick death, and an easy one;
   a pretty girl, and an honest one;
   a stiff whiskey, and another one.

Yes my Ephemeral Cosmonauts, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please join us as we toast the Solstice, welcome Summer's reign, and give thanks for all of the generous bounty that we share. As always, please feel free to swing by for a quickie en route to your primary Solstice celebration, or to linger eternally.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to December 8th, 2011: CAYA - Bourbon Season
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA - Checks and Balances in a World of Chaos!

Dear Lost Souls,

What chaos is this that explodes mercilessly from horizon to horizon . . . from mounting tensions in the Middle East, to a resurgence of global fascism, to burger joints embracing meatless alternatives, to Sarah Sanders telling the truth, and Canadians winning NBA Championships . . . while #45 continues his slash-and-burn campaign of misinformation and unforced errors!

But behold, on the temporal horizon . . . a sanctuary of moderation and tranquility beneath a blessed canopy of low expectations. The Haberdashery this evening offers up some hope for some Czechs & Balances to a precarious simulation scenario gone off the rails. Come join us for a special tasting of The Haberdashery Brewing Company's latest on tap creation, a Czech Lager worthy of the times . . . with clean, crisp, and honest good taste for an age of uncertainty and rampant ill will. Let us toast to our better natures; to integrity, character, empathy, and global stewardship that can win out over greed, corruption, and the wanton violence or our modern age. 

Yes my Cantankerous Cosmonauts, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please join us in hoisting a toast to the plethora of Gemini's in our Clan as they celebrate another circumnavigation of Sol. As always, please do not hesitate to swing by for a quickie en route to your primary sanity sanctuary, or to linger indefinitely.

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to June 10th, 2004: CAYA; Up On the Roof! - Birthday and Goodbyes

P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:

2124 Fifth Street

Berkeley, CA 94710

CAYA - Dr John, The Night Tripper, Has Left The Building

Dear Lost Souls,

'Towards the break of day' . . . New Orleans and the world yesterday lost a musical and cultural icon, Dr John, The Night Tripper. A Grammy award-winning musician and NOLA mainstay of creole-style jazz, boogie-woogie, and zydeco, his loss will be morned around the world, but most acutely in the Big Easy, where the Doctor held court. Tonight let us hoist a glass in his honor, sing him a song, and give thanks for the gifts of music and revelry that he showered upon the world. May the Night Tripper now find well-deserved peace and repose beneath a moss-draped cypress along Bayou St. John, and sing forever sweetly in the company of the pantheon of NOLA minstrels who he now joins.

Yes my Creole Crooners, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served at 8:30pm. Please feel free to 2nd Line on by en route to your primary revelry, or to linger eternally.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation!! ... your well-being is our first priority!

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to June 3rd, 2004; CAYA - JACKETS REQUIRED; In the Name of Ray!
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710