I went down Tuesday night to hear my friends Leonard Nash and Lynne Barrett read at a furniture store called Open Doors. Banners proclaiming MiMo Historic District hung from lamposts on Biscayne Boulevard.

Inside the store a couple dozen people chatted, armed with toothpicks. Lynne was up first, and said that she always looks at chairs from the perspective of how comfortable they would be to read in, so for her, literature and furniture have always been linked. "And," she added, "they both end in "ture."

I returned last night for a Wolf Pack tour sponsored by the Wolfsonian. The museum always sends me interesting press releases of its activities, and I decided finally to check one out.

The pack gathered at a place called Upper East Side Garden, about three doors down from Open Doors. It was a tranquil space shaded by two towering oak trees.

Peter gave me a tour of the mini-golf course in the back. Each hole, he explained, was designed by a different artist. They incorporated elements both bizarre and mundanely bizarre, like the sign that read "Keep Off the Grass." One was a black-light hole designed, Peter said, by the TM sisters.

Back in the main garden, the 1947 noir film The Lady from Shanghai played on a screen against the south wall. Circular black-and-white cushions dotted the ground. So complementing the mini-golf was a sort of mini drive-in.

The film was eventually replaced by architectural slides, accompanied by a talk by local architect Dean Lewis. After which we walked down to 69th Street for dinner at Uva 69, which describes itself as "part Barcelona bistro, part urban wine bar."

As a group, we too were not so easy to define. Mostly Miamians, but a couple Browardians. There was a woman from the Wolfsonian, as well as a planner, a social worker, a retired physician, a magazine editor and a money manager. We pushed small tables together to make one grand piece of furniture that soon filled with delicious food and buzzed with spirited conversation.

One more enjoyable night on the Upper East Side.