Happy New Year all, we have survived yet another orbit around the sun and yet another year of “unprecedented times” (unprecedented unless you’ve read a book about mid-1930’s Europe…). ANYWAY, here’s to a fresh start, continued persistence, and crossing fingers for a very specific headline. Have a happy and safe New Years, and may your toast always land butter side up.

What better way to start the New Year than with a night about fresh starts and do-overs (in a sense). From the ill-advised to the surprisingly excellent to the utterly trash (Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, I’m looking RIGHT AT YOU), let’s bask in the absurdity that is Hollywood for a frivolous evening of trivia and togetherness. Trivia starts at 6 PM, January 13th at Calapooia Brewing.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and there’s little more satisfying than watching a dictator get served a heaping bowl of Karma. From Shakespeare to Game of Thrones, from Napoleon to Mussolini, let’s celebrate the fall of Kings, fictional and non-fictional alike. No reason to read anything into this, none at all. It’s just fun, fun trivia! Trivia starts 6PM, January 27th, at Calapooia Brewing.

Fun Fact: Sir Patrick Stewart has portrayed ill-fated monarchs in multiple “modern day” adaptations of Shakespearean tragedies. His first was as John Lear in “King of Texas,” a western spin on “King Lear.” He followed that opposite David Tennant as both usurper (Claudius) and usurped (the ghost of Hamlet’s father, the slain king) in one of the best “Hamlet” films ever made. And finally as the cursed king MacBeth in an adaptation that portrayed the Scottish King as a Cold War era Eastern European despot.