Two events this coming week or so that look interesting:
Fifty bucks for all you can eat and drink in two hours? It's $40 if you get on the stick and buy a ticket now to Philadelphia Magazine's third annual Cocktail Competition, which will be Thursday (Sept. 27) from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing. It's a benefit for Greater Philadelphia Cares. Thirteen spirits brands will enter their specialty cocktail, and restaurants will put out food to absorb same. Phone: 1-800-595-4TIX or go to www.phillymag.com/cocktailcompetition.
Bourbon dinner on Monday, Oct. 1 at Taylor's at the Olde Mill in Norristown: Fred Noe, great-grandson of Jim Beam, will host as chef Keith Taylor does a four-course Southern dinner. Bourbon flights, too. (Taylor met Noe while working in New Orleans.) It's $50. Phone: 610-272-2011.