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

Jammin' at the Haberdashery!

Thank you Jim Larson for the photos ... and for your always fantastic musical contributions!

CAYA - May Be June Be Betta'

Dear Lost Souls,

Whether you are following the European Parliament elections . . . or just navigating another week on the 45 Short Bus ... coping with the 'new normal' is a bit exhausting! The divisiveness in the world right now can be all consuming ... yet it also needs and deserves the careful attention of thoughtful and caring people everywhere. But, as a good Haberdite, you also deserve to take a break from the insanity, the hate, and the willfull ignorance that drives the body politic . . .

Look! Ahead, on the temporal horizon ... you are invited to Come As You Are. Please join your fellow Haberdites this evening as we take pause and gather perspective beneath the low expectations of dappled eclectic starlight, shaken or stirred . . . and there dare to make a wish for gentler times with the distraction of frivolity as our muse.

Yes, ye Riders of the Storm, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to wonderby en route to your primary temporal 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 May 9th, 2002; CAYA - But Once A Week
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