Wild Colonial Tavern

Wild Colonial Open Thanksgiving Evening

(11.24) The Wild Colonial Tavern will be open from 8pm to 1am on Thanksgiving for those who just need a break from it all. They have darts, they have pool, they have televisions, and they have 16 beers on draught. It’s even looking a bit festive. And from today’s Wild Colonial IG comes this useful …

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Special Pub Quiz — Wild Colonial

(2.16) The Wild Colonial celebrates twenty-one years of business this Sunday with a “very special” Pub Quiz. We here at The Dose wish to say, Well done Mr. Collins! We’ve seen countless taverns, pubs, and bars sink under the waves over the past twenty-one years — despite our best efforts — but you really know …

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Pub Quiz

(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 …

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Pub Quiz

(4.29) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz tonight, Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory. Categories might include current events, local stuff, sports, Marvel comics, modern art, Russian literature, famous viruses. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music …

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Pub Quiz

(1.8) First Wild Colonial Pub Quiz of 2012. According to the Wild Colonial website there is a quiz on tap for tonight so head in and test your trivia knowledge. Cover yourself with glory and really big T-shirts. Categories might include current events, local stuff, football teams named for birds, organized crime, whaling, silent movies, …

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Drinking Liberally At Wild Colonial Tavern

No guest speaker tonight* just drinking and standing around being smug, I mean, liberal. Go visit with DL host and state rep extraordinaire Chris Blazejewski and tell him which new tax is your favorite. For me it’s the coffins. *Due to a scheduling issue DL national founder Justin Krebs has rescheduled his visit to May. …

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Pub Quiz Sunday

Test your trivia knowledge at the world famous Pub Quiz at the Wild Colonial Tavern. Compete with other wiseguys and smart alecks for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory. Categories include current events, local things, maybe sports, literature, comix, rivers of the world. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question …

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Wild Colonial Pub Quiz — Special Mothers’ Day Edition

There might even be the occasional tie-in to the holiday — Mothers of Invention, Ma Barker, Mother Jones, and such like. The quiz-masters will ask six questions in each of a variety of categories like art history, who’s-running-for-what-office, condiments, classic cars, marsupials. There is always a visual hand-out and the final music category will consist …

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Brigid’s Fire On Sunday — Fundraiser For Haiti

Don’t forget the combined fundraiser (Oxfam aid to Haiti/St. Michaels Church South Providence) this Sunday. The event is called Brigids Fire — the first party of the St. Patrick’s Day Season! Organizers have a day of multi-culti music planned including Seanchai and the Unity Squad, “the world’s only punk/funk Celtic hip-hop band”. Two stages will …

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“All The Cool People Will Be There”

Yeah, I know George Clooney is doing that thing on Friday night, and he’s an okay guy, but these things always feature an endless parade of self-absorbed dummies saying things like “I just had to do something.” And that ‘something’ just happens to involve lots of television cameras. Here’s another option: Maurice (rhymes with ‘loris’) …

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