Atsa good pasta: An apprentice pasta-maker hangs fettuccini up to dry at Santropol Roulant's first annual Basta Pasta Cabaret at la Sala Rossa on Sunday night. The fundraiser made close to $6,000 for the volunteer food-delivery service, and featured magicians, midgets, tango dances, Russian opera sensation Tatiana and lots of homemade pasta.

Photo by Jason Felker

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