Stop by the bocce court at Grant’s Block in front of the movie screen this Wednesday for the start of the bocce season. The Providence Bocce Club has expanded to 16 competing teams and their schedule is already set.  But spectators are welcome and perhaps you will be inspired to get on board for the next year. You never know, someone may pull a hamstring.

Team names tend towards the ballsy — Castration Station, Sandy Balls — and clever bocce-ups like Chewbocce and Mission Imbocceball. The vibe is relaxed but competition fierce.

The season runs through the play-offs and championship in September, with teams meeting Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.

5:30pm, Wednesday, May 1, the Rolling Stones vs. Bocce Ya Self, Westminster at Union Street (directions)

(4.21) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory and very large T-shirts. Categories might include current events, local stuff, 80’s television, angry birds, European history, dinosaurs, potent potables. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show. Or you could play darts.

8pm, Sunday, April 21, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking

(4.7) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory. Categories might include current events, local stuff, death and taxes, know your bones, algebra, Krautrock, etymology, ad icons, the British Isles. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show.

8pm, Sunday, April 7, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking, wheelchair accessible

(3.24) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz on Sunday night. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory and very large T-shirts. Categories might include current events, local stuff, the Roman Empire, Lovecraft vs. Poe, infectious diseases, war movies. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show. The team coming in third always goes home with Wild Colonial pint glasses.

8pm, Sunday, March 24, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking

Be Stiff #7: Join DJ Brian Shawn Oakley and Joshua Livingston Kemp the First for an evening of PSYCHO-derelict-icious music and appealing, disturbing, satisfying visuals!

This week we’ll be spinning: Hem ‘n Haw, Burgle Boy, Avante Softe Rocke, Escalator Music, Acoustic Chair, Flower Power Sucks…

This week is sponsored by FERNET!!

Fernet is either a trendy bitter spirit or a brokerage firm specializing in motorcycle insurance. Probably the former. One reviewer has compared it to ” taking a drag of January air in Bismarck.”

10pm to 1am, every Tuesday, Scürvy Dög, 1718 Westminster Street, Facebook event

(3.10) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory. Categories might include current events, local stuff, Barbarian hordes, marine biology, advertizing, and some Irish thing sure and begorrah. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show.

(Photo taken last year on St. Patrick’s Day. This year St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday but that shouldn’t be a problem cuz we’ll just get a papal dispensation . . . uh oh.)

8pm, Sunday, March 10, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking, wheelchair accessible

(2.24) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory. Categories might include current events, local stuff, the French Revolution, babies, Shakespeare, the solar system, 80’s television. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show.

(Wild Colonial onesie available at website.)

8pm, Sunday, February 24, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking, wheelchair accessible

(1.27) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz on Sunday night. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory and very large T-shirts. Categories might include current events, local stuff, 80’s television, Africa, medicine, famous liars, the Algonquin Round Table. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show. The team coming in third always goes home with Wild Colonial pint glasses.

8pm, Sunday, January 27, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking

(1.13) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory. Categories might include current events, local stuff, football (and not soccer, real football), true crime, state capitals, the Age of Exploration, Shatner. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show.

8pm, Sunday, January 13, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking, wheelchair accessible

(11.4) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz tonight, Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory and very large T-shirts. Categories might include current events, local stuff, Shakespeare, weather, Kirk vs. Picard, world cuisine. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show.

8pm, Sunday, November 4, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking

(10.21) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz tonight, Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory and very large T-shirts. Categories might include current events, local stuff, 50’s television, Pleistocene megafauna, haberdashery, rivers of the world, Bond James Bond. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show. The team coming in third always goes home with Wild Colonial pint glasses. (Hat for sale. Inquire at bar.)

8pm, Sunday, October 21, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking

(9.23) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz tonight. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory. Categories might include current events, local stuff, presidents, the moon, sci-fi, the history of computers, gourds, the Renaissance, television shows. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show. (The game will likely be on.)

8pm, Sunday, September 23, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking, wheelchair accessible

Local guys Joshua Livingston Kemp I and Brian Shawn Oakley start spinning at 10pm. On tap:

Crunk Rock, “Rap people” music, Cheddar, 1890’s, Earth, China, Funko, Cowbop, Notown, RnR (rest & relaxation) music, Cricket chirp (jk!), Boner, Dark brown, Ah so, Twang, Royal Oui, Beast Box, hWammy, Unlimited RPM, & more!!!

Cricket chirp is no joke if you do it right. On tap at the Scürvy Dög . . .  literally: Guinness, Smithwicks, Harpoon Octoberfest, Magic Hat #9, Strongbow Cider, and much more. Dancing optional.

DJ Dance Party, 10pm to close, Tuesday, September 11, Scürvy Dög, 1718 Westminster Street (fb)

(9.1) And you’re invited.

We are having our 5 year birthday party tomorrow from 12-7 in our parking lot . . . a lot of food . . . and some awesome bands . . . The Johnsons . . . The Quahogs . . . Party Pigs and members of BooCity. Come get some.

Noon to 7pm, Saturday, September 1, E&O Tap, 289 Knight Street

(8.26) The famous Wild Colonial Pub Quiz has kind of a special cool prize at stake. Not that I don’t cherish my Fosters Lager wall clock (correct twice a day, every day) but check this out: First prize will be 4 (FOUR) tickets to the Rhythm & Roots Festival at Ninigret Park coming up Labor Day weekend. (I see that Hugh Laurie and the Copper Bottom Band is in the line-up. Interesting choice.)

So head over to the Wild Colonial and test (show off) your trivia knowledge in air-conditioned comfort. Categories might include current events, local stuff, Shakespeare, hurricanes, sci-fi television . . . you never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends with a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up.

And check out the new bike racks.

8pm, Sunday, August 26, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking, wheelchair accessible

(8.12) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz tonight, Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory and very large T-shirts. Categories might include current events, local stuff, 80’s television, NASA, stories of the Old Testament, Irish boxers. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show. The team coming in third always goes home with these Wild Colonial pint glasses (you add the beer).

8pm, Sunday, August 12, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking, air conditioning