Mimsy Storytelling Monday, April 11 at 8 pm.

It’s still a little early, but we’re excited about this (not to mention, we don’t want you to think it’s just an April Fool’s joke). Our April show will be Mimsy’s One Year Anniversary Party! To celebrate, we’ll be sharing our “Origin Stories” about things that have shaped our lives, making us into who we are today, in addition to our backline storytelling. We’ll be joined by the wonderful Samara Doucette and Jonathan Blank of This Is Awkward! Not to mention a whole bunch of snacks for everyone to enjoy.

So please, come and join us on April 11th, 8 PM at Pacific Standard in Brooklyn for an enjoyable evening of stories, snacks, and celebration.

Baseball season is on!

We have the MLB package as usual, and will be showing all the games we can on our two big projection screens, first-come first-served. We'll also be doing another A's fan special: come in to the bar wearing a piece of A's apparel during an A's game, and you get $2 off Sierra Nevada pints (it will usually be the Pale Ale, but we might occasionally switch it up). A's games are a priority for us, but we're open to showing anything, depending on the folks who come by. Let us all thank whatever deity we worship that we can stop watching NBA games.

Chin Music poetry April 7 at 7 pm.

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard
Featuring Suzanne Gardinier, Antony Rowland, & Jeremy Voigt

Thursday, 7 April 2011 @ 7:00 PM

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Suzanne Gardinier, Antony Rowland, & Jeremy Voigt. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

FEATURED POETS

SG is the author of five books, most recently Iridium & Selected Poems. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Manhattan.

Antony Rowland published his first collection of poetry, The Land of Green Ginger, with Salt Press (UK) in 2008. Since then his work has been included in the Bloodaxe anthology Identity Parade: New British And Irish Poets (2010), and he was invited to record for the national Poetry Archive in 2009 (www.poetryarchive.org.) His writing has also appeared in a Carcanet anthology (New Poetries III (2003)), as well as journals such as PN Review, Critical Quarterly and the Cincinnati Review.

Jeremy Voigt's work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Willow Springs, Washington Square, REED Magazine, Talking River Review, Poet Lore, and RHINO. His chapbook Neither Rising nor Falling was published by Finishing Line Press in fall 2009. He has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, and teaches regularly at the Port Townsend Writer's Conference, Whatcom Community College, and Burlington-Edison High School.

Pacific Standard Bracket-Off Standings After Week 2.

Drunk Glynn 195
Jordan 181
Jan Penfield 177
Leonard 170
Jake 169
John R. #1 159
Mintus 159
John R. #2 156
Glynn, Other 156
Sober Feldstein 152
Colombo #2 151
Drunk Ray 149
Malcolm 140
Drunk Jon S. 132
Piper 132
Drunk Feldstein 118
Vadim 115
Colombo #1 113
Tyler 109

The only brackets still with possibilities to add points after this crazy tournament are both Glynn's brackets and Colombo #2. Drunk Glynn has clinched the #1 spot; Glynn, Other will win the #2 spot if UConn wins the tournament, and Colombo #2 would be third. In any other scenario, Jordan will win the #2 spot and Jan Penfield will win third. Thanks to all for playing, and see you next year!

Pub Quiz playoffs are coming!

A heads-up for you quiz folks: quiz will continue as usual every Sunday night at 8 pm through April 17. On April 24, the Season IX playoffs will begin. We’ll include the top 10 teams (the top 2 teams will get a first-round bye). The round of 6 will be May 1, and the final three-team three-for-all will be May 8. We’ll take a week or two off afterwards, to give all of us a well-deserved break. So it's more important than ever to get your team in and earn points in the next few weeks, so you can be one of the lucky 10. Happy answering!

Pacific Standard Bracket-Off Standings After Week 1.

Jake 163
Jordan 163
Drunk Glynn 159
John R. #1 156
John R. #2 156
Leonard 152
Jan Penfield 147
Mintus 144
Malcolm 131
Drunk Jon S. 129
Piper 129
Glynn, Other 126
Sober Feldstein 121
Drunk Feldstein 115
Colombo #2 111
Drunk Ray 107
Vadim 103
Tyler 100
Colombo #1 92

Standard Issues storytelling March 22 at 8 pm.

This month the Standard Issues live show takes on Disasters! Calamities! Horrors great and small!

On hand to relive moments when the s@#t hit the fan will be a collection of brilliant story tellers including, but not limited to*:

Jefferson (The Earth Destroying Asteroid)
Jennifer (Global Warming) Glick
Jeff (Titanic the Sequel) Scherer
Ben (Deli Out Of Lox) Lillie
Allison (Ishtar) Downey
Cyndi (Prom) Freeman
and
*our mystery guest pulled from the hat! So, possibly, you.

All this and your host Brad (Was That Shellfish a Little Off?) Lawrence.