Fans of NBC’s The Office best know Creed Bratton as the disturbingly hilarious, popular character of the same name. What most do not know is, not only has he been acting since the late 60s, he’s a bona fide classic-rock extraordinaire and a founding member of the legendary rock band

Barry Johnson is the lead vocalist and guitarist for Joyce Manor. Joyce Manor’s first self-titled album in 2011 exploded out of nowhere and their second in 2012 landed them on the storied Asian Man Records, home of all of Barry’s first favorite bands. Across these two albums, they discovered what Joyce

While there are plenty of bars in this city that could be called “a giant ball pit,” I’m talking about something completely different here.

On March 19th & 20th The Romper Room will be filled with thousands of plastic balls for people like you and me to frolic in. It’ll be just like Chuck E. Cheese, but with booze and without all the pink eye and the stench of feet…hopefully.

With it being this cold and wet outside I can’t help but think about our homeless neighbors who are sleeping in the streets. City Hall doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it, but luckily some people are being proactive. Read the press release below and get involved:  On January 2,

THE EVICTION SERIES
CHAPTER 13

I woke up to darkness and a headache. I could hear a man and a woman having a heated conversation and the air smelled heavily of incense and Patchouli.

Five, four, three, two, ONE!  These are the final words we hear before we launch into a fresh journey on January one. At that last moment, with all voices shouting that singular “ONE” we experience, for a rare fleeting moment, a true unity, community, singularity, and ONE-NESS. Another Planet Entertainmentand HUSHconcerts are proud

“Come on Stuart. Titties and fried chicken. How can you, of all people, say no?”

They were cajoling me via Twitter. There’s probably some hip slang for that, twijoling maybe, but I don’t know what it is. Regardless, Mik, Ed, Dottie, and Cait were really giving it to me. And of course I caved.

This piece originally appeared, in part, at DalyProse.com Writers are hard to shop for. Our tools are simple but we can be hopelessly picky about them–I don’t know how many wide-ruled legal pads I’ve re-gifted–we already have all the books, and the things we really want you might not be