That's some pour! (Photo: Lizz Kuehl)

Announced today: Tickets to the seminars, hoedowns and demonstrations that make up Lesley Townsend’s bookish booze bacchanal go on sale Monday at 7:33pm. (Are we supposed to know the significance of this hour? Might it have something to do with, hm, the repeal of Prohibition?) The talent is multiple—all the usual suspects that you’d want to see (Philip Ward, Julie Reiner, David Wondrich, etc., etc.) will be participating in the weekend fest. Check out the bill of fare here. Save the dates (October 3 and 4)—because New York really does deserve its own version of Tales of the Cocktail. And commuting to the Astor Center is much easier than flying down to NOLA.

Related: Eff you, NOLA: The Manhattan Cocktail Classic is coming soon

Ah, synergy. On the heels of this afternoon’s announcement that the Astor Center will be debuting an expanded space in time for the NYCWFF, the Feed hears that former AC worker bee Lesley Townsend is organizing a festival of her own.

A preview of the Manhattan Cocktail Classic is planned for October 3 and 4 (the weekend prior to the NYCWFF) and will feature panels and discussions with some of the country’s greatest bar talent. You know the names: Dale DeGroff, Sasha Petraske, Julie Reiner, Dave Wondrich—it’s like a micro Tales of the Cocktail without the po’ boys! (Bummer—everyone loves a po’ boy.)

The best news of all: That dude with the malfunctioning mustache should find it much easier to tame in autumnal New York.