October 18th-Bridgeport First Fundraiser

AURA PART DEUX-Thursday October 18th-Bridgeport First Fundraiser at
Aura Lounge in Black Rock, B-Po. 5:30-7:30.

Open Bar from 5:30-6:30pm!
Sugg. Donation $40


The following is an excerpt from Lennie Grimaldi's Only in Bridgeport Blog Re: Aura Part Un:
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A Martini Mood

Thursday evening started with a cougar sighting in Black Rock and ended with greetings from blog visitors at Viale’s Restaurant down the street.
When I told my wife Mo I was heading over to crash Keith Cougar Rodgerson’s Bridgeport First fundraiser at Aura Lounge on Fairfield Avenue she wanted to tag along thinking maybe she could catch a glimpse of someone even more elusive then that rascally cougar. Was it possible, she wondered, if masterful wordsmith envoy5 could be sipping a soda in the shadows? Let’s jump in the Jeep and go see.
Driving her forked bread into a cheese fondue Mo elbowed me gently toward a sixty-something-looking gentleman in a darkened corner of the funky martini bar. Well, just don’t stand there I urged, go ask. Alas, it was the cougar’s daddy. Our search for the mysterious man continues.
Still, it was nice to be among bloggers including razor-wit Anna. The cougar told his audience that he was the new guy with big ideas ready to take a bite out of the establishment. Speaking of anti-establishment, our evening ended with a visit to Viale’s where we caught up with Chris Caruso volunteer flack Tom Kelly who’s been something of a one-man riot squad defending the honor of his mayoral candidate seeking court intervention from his primary loss to Bill Finch.
It was Machine Gun Kelly, at Caruso’s Wednesday press conference, who told the local cops to stick their permit demands up their first amendment exhaust.The night was not complete until a visit from recently defeated Board of Education member (and closet blogger) Auden Grogins who ran up a huge number in her Black Rock neighborhood only to have her knees capped electorally in other districts. I was ready to give her the needle. Then she told me her book club was meeting that night to discuss their latest read – Chased: Alone, Black and Undercover – by yours truly. Oh, I said, you found a copy.