Ask An Expert: Mike Errico on Songwriting, Listening Party: Melissa Aldana, Isaac Mizrahi Returns to the Carlyle, A New Cookbook to Level Up Your Home Chef Game

Need help writing a song? Mike Errico is here to help, with his new book Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter. Errico features tips and tricks along with interviews and advice from people like astrophysicist Janna Levin, renowned painter John Currin, and bestselling author George Saunders. He will also take calls from aspiring songwriters looking for help.

To kick off Women's History Month, we celebrate women in jazz by speaking with Grammy-nominated saxophonist Melissa Aldana, whose Blue Note debut album, 12 Stars, comes out on March 4. Aldana, born in Chile and based in Brooklyn, comes from a family of Chilean saxophonists, including her grandfather, who was popular in the Santiago jazz scene in the 1950s. All this week Aldana is also playing her first headlining gig at the famous Village Vanguard, and she joins us for a Listening Party for the album. 

Performer, fashion designer and all around fabulous — Isaac Mizrahi returns "In Person" to his popular cabaret residency this month at the Carlyle Cafe. He'll be our guest to talk about the new show and what it's like being back in front of a live crowd. 

Ever feel like you're missing a few basic skills in the kitchen, but aren't quite sure how to level up your home-chef game? A new cookbook will help you with just that. Chef Daniel Holzman, co-founder of The Meatball Shop, and food journalist Matt Robard have joined forces for a new cookbook titled FOOD IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts. They join us to discuss.