Archive for April, 2009

Monday Night Shades Of Green Preview: Bea Well

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in NYC, Trivia | Comments Off

Tonight's Green Mondays Trivia will be co-hosted by the author Anna Jarzab, whose first novel, All Unquiet Things, is coming out on Delacorte/Random House next January. And in honor of this weekend's ... Read more..

Wednesday Night Trivia Recap: Ninjas Are Long!

Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in Recaps, NYC, Trivia | Comments Off

It was nice to see a healthy group of people come out to Dempsey's on Wednesday. I figured the rounds on Earth Day (in which all the answers rhymed with ... Read more..

Review: Jandek, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, NYU, 4/23/09

Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in Music, Lit/Writ/Crit | Comments Off

Today I absolutely paid the Stupid Tax. I got to the Kimmel Center at NYU three hours before the box office opened, just to get the same-day-only tickets to see Jandek, ... Read more..

Monday Night Recap

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in Recaps, NYC, Trivia | Comments Off

Everyone who braved the monsoon to come out to Shades of Green last night enjoyed a series of questions about Philadelphia, as well as our nightly sponsors, the year 2002 ... Read more..

Monday Night Preview: Less Hall, More Oates

Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in NYC, Trivia | Comments Off

I've always hated Philly sports fans. I've just heard too many stories about their particular brand of moronic holliganism over the years to think of them as anything less than ... Read more..

Wednesday Preview: A Farewell To Alms (and, thank jaysus, tea)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in NYC, Trivia | Comments Off

Much as I love risuqué and outré double-entendres and cunningly lingual transgressions in modern culture, I must admit that I have now officially reached the point where I can no ... Read more..

Review: Commonwealth, by Joey Goebel

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Lit/Writ/Crit | Comments Off

For a novel that sets out to satirize and illustrate the assorted sillinesses of the American class system, from the blow-your-mind wealthy to the blow-your-mind poor, the reach of "Commonwealth" ... Read more..

Preview: Tonight At Shades Of Green

Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in NYC, Trivia | Comments Off

Tonight's guest co-host at Shades of Green is one Rose Martelli of St. Louis, Missouri. She's done the trivia-hosting thing before; I've made sure to find giants upon whose shoulders ... Read more..