Last Saturday Jeanne and I stopped by the Tree House to see Sarah Allen’s farewell show. She’s moving to North Carolina, a state I’ve been to many times since Jeanne went to UNC. There aren’t many local musicians I can enjoy for two and a half hours, but Sarah’s set seemed to fly by. I…

Come out tonight to the Tree House open mic. It runs from 8:00PM – 11:00PM. You can sign up in advance here or just come to hang out and drink coffee. Supporting your local coffeehouse is a good cause.

If you haven’t signed up yet for the GameShow, now is your chance. Today is the first day of the new game and the word is _____ PIE. Good luck!

Sarah Allen could be playing her last show in Collingswood this Saturday July 3rd. She’s moving to North Carolina in a few weeks and this may be the last time you hear her before she starts worshipping James Taylor. The only Taylor worth worshipping is Justin, but even He doesn’t have all the answers. Go…

Tree House open mic favorite, the Forest Greens, may be calling it quits… anyone got an official word from the band? Update: I edited this post after rethinking what I wrote. Mainly I just wanted to know about the future of the group.

Last night at the open mic Mike Romano of the Forest Greens semi-rhetorically asked the audience about the history of General Tso. Langauge guru Matt Winn informed us that General Tso was not a real general and the word Tso meant something about the childlike qualities of a master. He said the name was symbolic…

Every week at the open mic I put a weird or relevent picture on the signup sheet. For the past few weeks I have been using covers from a early 1900s science magazine called “Electrical Experimenter” which later became “Science and Invention.” Their technology featured on each cover either seems far fetched or completely ridiculous.…

Come out tonight to the Tree House open mic. It runs from 8:00PM – 11:00PM. You can sign up in advance here or just come to hang out and drink coffee. Supporting your local coffeehouse makes everyone happier, except Starbucks.

The open mic was really busy last week and as I mentioned earlier, Bernard pulled out all the wardrobe stops. 1. Ben Garvey – I played 99%, All My Dreams are in Cartoon, and Lord Only Knows. 2. Keenan – Natasha’s son sang three songs, all called “I Have More Stuff Than You,” which included…

Most people who sign up for the open mic have no problem doing things correctly, but once and a while someone posts a joke entry or (for reasons I can’t comprehend) posts a message saying they can’t come. From now on, you have to identify yourself on the list in some way. Some people like…

I can’t even believe how busy the past week has been. I had a blast and it would take me forever to devote an individual post to each day so let’s plow through all of them… Wed 6/23 – Open mic at the Tree House I’ll still do the whole open mic recap as usual,…

I mentioned JasonZahn.com’s GameShow before. If anyone wants to jump in, this is the perfect time since each new game starts at the begining of the month. Read my earlier post to learn more about it or visit the site itself.

Here’s a werid story about a guy who sells ads to companies and puts those ads on grafiti covered walls by stenciling in some sort of paint remover. He cleans a spray painted wall in certain places to form an image or a logo.The Yorkshire graffiti artist known universally as Moose has what he believes…

The web browser everyone should be using these days is Mozilla Firefox. It has built in tabbed browsing, blocks pop ups, and lets you be reasonably sure you won’t get hit by the latest IE security holes. It’s also super fast and you can customize how it looks with easy to install themes. The other…

I got this email today from another Ben Garvey.what’s up Ben Garvey, this is Ben Garvey, the one from Chicago. I am writing to invite you to my CD release party on Saturday nite in Manhattan, New York. I would love to meet you and see my alter-ego in person. Well, here is the info…

Come out tonight to the Tree House open mic. It runs from 8:00PM – 11:00PM. You can sign up in advance here or just come to hang out and drink coffe. Supporting your local coffeehouse makes everyone happier, except Starbucks.

I got an email from my friend Justin today, formerly of nowayscoob and currently the bass player for Do It For Danny. yo ben. good news…i’m running open mic thursdays at the CRAB. remember the CRAB? that fabulous place that everyone loved playing at? well, now it’s gonna be better. cuz i’m runnin it now.…

First, we’re tossing the whole artist tribute idea. 4 weeks have gone by and despite 29 votes for the Talking Heads we’ve heard a total of 2 Talking Heads songs. I’m not going to waste my time, so forget it. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to last week’s open mic. It…

I mentioned JasonZahn.com’s GameShow to Jeanne yesterday and she was mad that I didn’t show it to her earlier. Jeeze. This is how it works: You sign up and each day (Mon – Fri) you have to complete the word or phrase with the most common answer. It’s sort of like Family Feud, except you’re…

Come out tonight to the Tree House open mic. It runs from 8:00PM – 11:00PM. You can sign up in advance here or just come to hang out and drink coffee. Supporting your local coffeehouse is worth the effort. I’m don’t know if anyone played any Talking Heads covers last week, but I’m about to…