Join the Kentuckiana Girl Scouts Council has they host the 5th Annual Desserts First event. This event featured top local restaurants and offers tasting of delicious cookie related recipes from these participants: DiFabio's • BLU Italian Grille • Jefferson Community & Technical College Culinary Arts • Consumers Choice Coffee • Adrienne & Co. Bakery Cafe' • The Melting Pot • Browning's • Varanese • Pie in a Bottle •

Wednesday, January 27th • Lelia Gentle - Stan’s Fish Sandwich & Dreamcatcher Farm • $55.00 • “Introduction to Sushi” Is the thought of rolling your own sushi overwhelming? When you look at a sushi menu, do you feel isolated and bewildered? This class is designed to introduce you with ingredients used in sushi as well as how to select and make perfect Sushi Rice; and also familiarize you with the different types of sushi. In class you will be able to make and sample: Hosomaki • Futomaki • Inside-Out Roll • Nigeri - Sushi and Gunkan. We will also discuss Temaki-

City Taste Tours - “Baby Its Cold Outside” Tour City Taste Tours is introducing our monthly series of “hump day” progressive dinners, and this month baby… its COLD outside! Hop aboard the warmth and luxury of the City Taste Tours shuttle and let us chase the cold away as we take you to three very cool restaurants with very hot fireplaces. We promise you the tops in upscale restaurants, fabulous food, and enough fun for you to forget how ridiculously cold it is outside. Call to reserve your seat! City Taste Tours 502-589-1628

A brilliant young student, an unorthodox detective, a sensitive young woman forced into prostitution . . . and a brutal murder. In this acclaimed adaptation, three actors play out Dostoevsky’s classic tale as a 90-minute psychological drama—feverishly reliving the events leading up to the grisly crime, uncovering a fascinating mind and motive, and exploring the tenuous path toward redemption.

This musical tribute to Ella Fitzgerald is an amazing performance that takes a trip down memory lane with a legend and her band. It’s a trip you won’t want to miss! Featuring breathtaking songs like “That Old Black Magic” and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” and stories of her extraordinary life and personal resilience, Ella captures the essence of the woman behind the microphone, delivering a sensational live concert that channels her remarkable voice.

You know comedian Tom Green from his anything-goes run as the funniest, most unpredictable personality on MTV, and his unforgettable, deliciously loony roles in uproarious film comedies including "Road Trip" and "Freddy Got Fingered." He's graced the cover of Rolling Stone, commandeered the coveted guest-host chair on "The Late Show with David Letterman," and conquered the World Wide Web with his free-wheeling, wildly popular internet talk show, "Tom Green's House Tonight." Now, Tom brings his unique brand of hilarity to the art of stand-up comedy.

The monstrous course of bigotry and deceit are terrifyingly depicted through the story of a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie-and instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others. Dates: 2010 January 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 & 30 @ 7:30pm January 23 & 30 @ 2:00pm Venue MeX Theatre, The Kentucky Center Ticket Information Kentucky Center: (502) 584-7777 www.kentuckycenter.org

Mardi is almost here Call J Gumbo's Catering Line @797-5644 or denisef@jgumbos.com GREAT rates for the Mardi Gras season

Take a humorous journey inside the magical world of animals, full of “Seussian” style rhymes guaranteed to bring smiles and chuckles. Whether going nose to nose with hippos as they graze upon nature’s massive salad bar, or eye to eye with dancing bears, discover how nature provides humor and wonder everywhere. Watch cheetahs race like Ferraris, bears that run their own fishing school, an opera-singing lion, and a sea of crabs that hold a town hostage!

“We did what we had to do.” The larger story of World War II is made up of millions of individual accounts of sacrifice, adventure and survival. Now you can hear the personal stories of 48 men and women from our area, in their own voices, at a one-of-a-kind exhibit that explores this defining event in our history. This exhibition runs through March 28, 2010 and is free with museum admission. For more, go to www.48stories.com