EVENINGS AT IDEAS: A League of Your Own – Investing in Pro Sports, performance by Son Little. $200

Alex Rodriguez, David Rubenstein, and Gregg Lemkau talk about the boom in sports investing, plus a performance by Son Little. Your Evenings at Ideas ticket includes dinner, drinks, book signings, a culinary conversation, the Aspen Ideas Evening session, and live “Music in the Garden.”

5:15 – 6:45 PM – Dinner & Drinks. With your ticket purchase, enjoy creative global cuisine from Aspen’s innovative food trucks. Sip JUSTIN Wines, Graham + Fisk’s Wine-in-a-Can and Free Spirits non-alcoholic craft cocktails. A cash bar is also available with additional wine options, beer and cocktails.

5:15 – 5:45 PM – Meet the Author and Book Signing. With Jonathan Blitzer, “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis”

6:00 – 6:40 PM – Culinary Conversation and Tasting. Plant-based burgers have a long and checkered history, but Beyond Meat — driven by idealistic founder Ethan Brown, a Henry Crown Fellow — has changed perceptions, menus—and, most important, taste. In this session, Ethan serves up market knowledge, as well as samples of a brand-new, simple-ingredient burger with heart-friendly avocado oil. With Ethan Brown, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Beyond Meat

7:00 – 8:00 PM – A League of Your Own: Investing in Pro Sports
Two legends — a baseball superstar and a Wall Street titan — discuss how they are leveraging their passion for professional sports as a team stakeholder and an owner. With Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod Corp, David Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group, and moderator Gregg Lemkau, BDT and MSD Partners.

8:00 – 9:00 PM – Music in the Garden: Son Little. Aaron Earl Livingston – better known as Son Little – is known to “revolutionize the modern understanding and expectation of R&B sound.” He plays a solo set based on his latest album Like Neptune.