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 passing of the most Golden of all the Girls, tonight’s trivia will be brought to you by the year 1996 and the letter … [...]

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 “Earth” – Mary Worth, The Firth Of Forth, Alexandra Wentworth, The Birthday Party) were a little difficult for a Wednesday, but I was proven delightfully [...]

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, our favorite outsider artist still in the game. Wild Man Fischer’s on his meds, and Wesley Willis is dead. Jandek is all we have [...]

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 and the letter L. Co-Host Billy Henehan’s round on “Lost” went over well with the small group, and I do believe we set a new [...]

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 proof that the Europeans have nothing even resembling a monopoly on hooliganism and assholiness. Plus, Bobby Clarke is a dick. That said, though: I luhh-huhhh-huuve the [...]

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 longer watch TV news for all the snide references to: Tea, bags, bags of tea, and teabagging; “These people are nuts!”; going off half-cocked; getting all [...]