http://arborweb.com/ Ann Arbor online: news and reference community resource, with the area's best events calendar, Ann Arbor Observer City Guide, comprehensive information on housing, restaurants, government, education, and more, and free classified ads. en-us 2012 Ann Arbor Observer. All Rights Reserved. http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120206.html#event119227 Feb. 9, 8 p.m. -- Feb. 9-11. Local debut of this veteran Midwestern stand-up comic who specializes in hip, sardonic takes on marriage, kids, and family life. A ubiquitous presence on cable TV, he also has a recurring role on Hot in Cleveland. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120206.html#event119228 Feb. 10, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Feb. 9-11. Local debut of this veteran Midwestern stand-up comic who specializes in hip, sardonic takes on marriage, kids, and family life. A ubiquitous presence on cable TV, he also has a recurring role on Hot in Cleveland. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120206.html#event121605 Feb. 11, 4 p.m. -- Performances by 4 local stand-up comics TBA. Emcee is local comic Angela Madden. The program begins with a brief Valentine-themed puppet show. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120206.html#event119229 Feb. 11, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Feb. 9-11. Local debut of this veteran Midwestern stand-up comic who specializes in hip, sardonic takes on marriage, kids, and family life. A ubiquitous presence on cable TV, he also has a recurring role on Hot in Cleveland. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120213.html#event122903 Feb. 14, 8 p.m. -- Every Wed. Performances by up to 12 aspiring area stand-up comics. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120213.html#event119224 Feb. 16, 8 p.m. -- Feb. 16-18. Local debut of this NYC comic, a former school teacher known for her rapid-fire, sharp-witted observational humor directed at the state of American culture. "Achieving what often eludes many less adept comediennes, her set was wickedly sarcastic and edgy without coming across as negative... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120213.html#event119225 Feb. 17, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Feb. 16-18. Local debut of this NYC comic, a former school teacher known for her rapid-fire, sharp-witted observational humor directed at the state of American culture. "Achieving what often eludes many less adept comediennes, her set was wickedly sarcastic and edgy without coming across as negative... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120213.html#event120336 Feb. 18, 10 a.m.-noon -- Renowned storyteller and singer-songwriter Willy Claflin (Sept. 18 & 19 Storytelling Festival listings) shows teens in grades 6-12 an array of new ways to use their voice. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art Family & Kids' Stuff http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120213.html#event119226 Feb. 18, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Feb. 16-18. Local debut of this NYC comic, a former school teacher known for her rapid-fire, sharp-witted observational humor directed at the state of American culture. "Achieving what often eludes many less adept comediennes, her set was wickedly sarcastic and edgy without coming across as negative... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120213.html#event121407 Feb. 18, 8 p.m. -- Feb. 18 & 19. Performances by top-notch storytellers from around the country and the state. Headliners are Willy Claflin, a New Hampshire storyteller whose humorous repertoire includes tales of his family's misadventures in the New Hampshire woods, tall tales and songs, and Mother Moose stories ... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120213.html#event121408 Feb. 19, 1 p.m. -- Feb. 18 & 19. Performances by top-notch storytellers from around the country and the state. Headliners are Willy Claflin, a New Hampshire storyteller whose humorous repertoire includes tales of his family's misadventures in the New Hampshire woods, tall tales and songs, and Mother Moose stories ... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120220.html#event119207 Feb. 21, 7:30-9 p.m. -- Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 jud... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120220.html#event122904 Feb. 21, 8 p.m. -- Every Wed. Performances by up to 12 aspiring area stand-up comics. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120220.html#event119221 Feb. 23, 8 p.m. -- Feb. 23-25. Local debut of this New Jersey-bred stand-up comic and actor who specializes in wry observational humor about assorted features of contemporary life. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120220.html#event119222 Feb. 24, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Feb. 23-25. Local debut of this New Jersey-bred stand-up comic and actor who specializes in wry observational humor about assorted features of contemporary life. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120220.html#event119223 Feb. 25, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Feb. 23-25. Local debut of this New Jersey-bred stand-up comic and actor who specializes in wry observational humor about assorted features of contemporary life. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120227.html#event122905 Feb. 28, 8 p.m. -- Every Wed. Performances by up to 12 aspiring area stand-up comics. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120227.html#event123843 Mar. 1, 8 p.m. -- Mar. 1-3. Young Cincinnati comic, a favorite on satellite radio comedy channels as well as cable TV who specializes in fast-paced observational riffs about popular culture. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120227.html#event123844 Mar. 2, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 1-3. Young Cincinnati comic, a favorite on satellite radio comedy channels as well as cable TV who specializes in fast-paced observational riffs about popular culture. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120227.html#event123845 Mar. 3, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 1-3. Young Cincinnati comic, a favorite on satellite radio comedy channels as well as cable TV who specializes in fast-paced observational riffs about popular culture. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120305.html#event123855 Mar. 8, 8 p.m. -- Mar. 8-10. This hyperanimated Soviet-born, San Francisco-bred comic, a former regular on the Oxygen channel's Girls Behaving Badly, specializes in loopy, absurdist autobiographical fictions that include a lot of social and cultural satire. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120305.html#event123856 Mar. 9, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 8-10. This hyperanimated Soviet-born, San Francisco-bred comic, a former regular on the Oxygen channel's Girls Behaving Badly, specializes in loopy, absurdist autobiographical fictions that include a lot of social and cultural satire. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120305.html#event123857 Mar. 10, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 8-10. This hyperanimated Soviet-born, San Francisco-bred comic, a former regular on the Oxygen channel's Girls Behaving Badly, specializes in loopy, absurdist autobiographical fictions that include a lot of social and cultural satire. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120312.html#event124615 Mar. 14, 7:30 p.m. -- All invited to join Fluxus founder Ben Patterson, U-M art history professor David Doris, and others in avant-garde art activities, from counting and cutting paper to opening umbrellas and drawing straight lines (and following them). Formal attire suggested. In conjunction with Fluxus and the Essenti... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art Gallery & Museum Exhibits & Tours http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120312.html#event123852 Mar. 15, 8 p.m. -- Mar. 15-17. Veteran stand-up known for his friendly manner, deadpan delivery, and wry, sometimes bitingly sarcastic joking directed at various topics, including his friends and family, education, sports and relationships. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120312.html#event123853 Mar. 16, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 15-17. Veteran stand-up known for his friendly manner, deadpan delivery, and wry, sometimes bitingly sarcastic joking directed at various topics, including his friends and family, education, sports and relationships. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120312.html#event123854 Mar. 17, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 15-17. Veteran stand-up known for his friendly manner, deadpan delivery, and wry, sometimes bitingly sarcastic joking directed at various topics, including his friends and family, education, sports and relationships. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120319.html#event119208 Mar. 20, 7:30-9 p.m. -- Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 jud... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120319.html#event123608 Mar. 22, 8 p.m. -- Solo spoken-word performance by the former lead singer of the seminal L.A. punk band Black Flag. Rollins's persona is a very unusual, surprisingly charming blend of psychotic rage and witty intelligence, and his spoken-word rants deploy poetry, oratory, and stand-up comedy to create an acoustic nois... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120319.html#event123846 Mar. 22, 8 p.m. -- Mar. 22-24. Ann Arbor debut if this energetic young Pittsburg-bred comic recently featured in his own Comedy Central special. He's known for his irreverently caustic, quick-witted observational humor, usually aimed at contemporary mores and popular culture. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is ser... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120319.html#event123847 Mar. 23, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 22-24. Ann Arbor debut if this energetic young Pittsburg-bred comic recently featured in his own Comedy Central special. He's known for his irreverently caustic, quick-witted observational humor, usually aimed at contemporary mores and popular culture. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is ser... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120319.html#event123848 Mar. 24, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 22-24. Ann Arbor debut if this energetic young Pittsburg-bred comic recently featured in his own Comedy Central special. He's known for his irreverently caustic, quick-witted observational humor, usually aimed at contemporary mores and popular culture. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is ser... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120326.html#event123849 Mar. 29, 8 p.m. -- Mar. 29-31. This L.A. comic is an affable but fast-paced observational humorist with a fresh point of view who is best known as Tim the bartender on The Drew Carey Show. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120326.html#event125253 Mar. 30, Midnight -- This sublime moonlight event features enormous processions of community, hand-made illuminated sculptures carried by dancing teams of merrymakers as they thread their way downtown to Washington and Ashley Streets in the heart of Ann Arbor. Pageant participants and revelers alike will enjoy delicious... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120326.html#event125252 Mar. 30, Dusk -- This sublime moonlight event features enormous processions of community, hand-made illuminated sculptures carried by dancing teams of merrymakers as they thread their way downtown to Washington and Ashley Streets in the heart of Ann Arbor. Pageant participants and revelers alike will enjoy delicious... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120326.html#event123850 Mar. 30, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 29-31. This L.A. comic is an affable but fast-paced observational humorist with a fresh point of view who is best known as Tim the bartender on The Drew Carey Show. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120326.html#event123851 Mar. 31, 8 & 10:30 p.m. -- Mar. 29-31. This L.A. comic is an affable but fast-paced observational humorist with a fresh point of view who is best known as Tim the bartender on The Drew Carey Show. Preceded by 2 opening acts. Alcohol is served. Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120416.html#event119209 Apr. 17, 7:30-9 p.m. -- Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 jud... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120514.html#event119210 May. 15, 7:30-9 p.m. -- Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 jud... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art http://arborweb.com/calendar/comedy__storytelling____performance_art_120618.html#event119211 Jun. 19, 7:30-9 p.m. -- Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 jud... Comedy, Storytelling, & Performance Art