Showing posts with label wrestling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wrestling. Show all posts

9/24/15

Next two KGO shows will be intense


KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT WRESTLING
The 5th annual show about the world's most entertaining spectacle. 

WHEN: Saturday, September 26th @ 8pm 
(doors at 7:30, with a custom pre-show video)

WHERE: Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers
HOW MUCH: $12

Trailer: KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT WRESTLING (2015) from Kevin Maher on Vimeo.



This year's show includes: 
  • a tribute to Rowdy Roddy Piper 
  • My search for the world's worst wrestling movie
  • tWWEets
  • A retrospective on Dusty Rhodes
  • Trivia games (including one courtesy of The Big Quiz Thing)
  • and much more

With co-host Brian Solomon (author of the new book PRO WRESTLING FAQ
and special guests Mike "the Main Event" Edison
and Sixth Boro Saint Dennis Holden (host of Dennis Has a Podcast)

*Listen to Dennis' podcast with Kevin HERE (hear)


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KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT STEPHEN KING
a Horror video variety show just days before Halloween



WHEN: Thursday October 29th, 9:30pm
WHERE: Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn
HOW MUCH: $15

Click HERE for tickets.

KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT STEPHEN KING from Kevin Maher on Vimeo.

Covering 40 years of film and TV projects, with close readings of the famous and infamous Stephen King adaptations: the good, the bad, the good-bad and the bad-bad.

Special guests include:

  • Jenn Wexler (Producer, Glass Eye Pix)
  • Ritch Duncan (author, The Werewolf’s Guide to Life)
  • Carolyn Symons (writer, Susan Vaginahands: Attorney at Law)
  • Matt Glasson (Editor, Filmmaker)
  • Edwin Samuelson (DVD/Blu-ray Special Features producer)
  • Jon Abrams (Editor-in-Chief, Daily Grindhouse)


9/4/14

Kevin Geeks Out -- As seen in The New York Times


The New York Times ran a swell article about Kevin Geeks Out and The Brooklyn Brain Jam. You can read it HERE.

Want to attend an upcoming KEVIN GEEKS OUT show? 
We have 3 big events in October: 

NERD COMEDY: for nerd, by nerds
with TV's FRANK (from MST3K)
Wednesday October 8th @ 8:00pm

KEVIN GEEKS OUT - COMIC CON SPECTACULAR
at Webster Hall -- click HERE for tickets
Saturday October 11th @ 8:00pm

KEVIN & MATT GEEK OUT ABOUT ZOMBIES
Thursday October 23rd @ 9:30pm

For details on THE BROOKLYN BRAIN JAM, here's a link for the full schedule and another link for tickets.
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Lastly, the Times' tin-foil hat photo (by Matt Glasson) is from KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT ALIENS. You can watch the trailer below, along with trailers for previous KGO shows. 

KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT EVIL


KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT ALIENS

KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT MONKEYS

KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT WRESTLING


Follow me on twitter to find out about any upcoming events.
@KevinGeeksOut

photo by Tom Henning.

3/28/14

Wrestling A to Z



This Saturday night, Kevin Maher will be reading from Leaping Lanny Poffo's poetry collection at KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT WRESTLING. Get tickets HERE

And here's Kevin's poem about Wrestling A to Z. 



A is for ANDRE, he has a posse


B is for BOBBY, brainy and bossy


C is for CM, straight-edge represent!


D’s DIBIASE, wrestling’s 1%

3/15/13

ENCORE SHOWS of KEVIN GEEKS OUT


BAD NEWS: The 92Y Tribeca is closing this summer

GOOD NEWS: They asked me to encore some of my favorite KEVIN GEEKS OUT shows. 


Saturday March 23rd @ 8:00pm BUY TICKETS






Friday April 19th @ 8:00pm BUY TICKETS



Friday May 10th @ 8:00pm BUY TICKETS



Friday June 14th @ 8:00pm BUY TICKETS


These shows WILL sell-out, I advise you to purchase tickets in advance. Also, click on the BUY TICKETS links (above) for details on each show's line-up of guests. 



3/11/12

Kevin Geeks Out About WRASSLIN'



GET TICKETS

A pile-driver of world-class entertainment, it's KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT WRASSLIN'

Friday March 30 @ 8pm
92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, NYC
just $10
click here for tickets

The two-hour variety show features a no-holds-barred battle royal of film clips, dramatic readings, guest talks, true stories, trivia prizes and never-before-told secrets from the squared circle, with footage you won't find on YouTube or Netflix.

With special guests:

Author-musician MIKE EDISON recounts the bloody Loser-Leaves-Town match where he defeated his boss to become editor-in-chief of newsstand staple Wrestling's Main Event, his feud with Hulk Hogan and his brief stint writing wrestling-themed pornography.

Quizmaster NOAH TARNOW remembers that long-departed staple of televised wrestling: the squash match.

Former WWE editor BRIAN SOLOMON presents "What I Learned Working for the WWE", reflecting on his seven years reporting to Vince McMahon.

Pop Culture enthusiast BRANDON ROHWER salutes the bad guys we love to hate, in his Celebration of the Heels.

Artist-Baker SARA REISS serves up wrasslin'-themed cupcakes (where the secret ingredient is a perfectly-snapped Slim Jim)

And host KEVIN MAHER shares the never-before-told stories detailing his two years as Garbagio, the masked-wrestler on a kids' TV show.


all this plus and much, much more. 



note: This event is part of the 92Y Tribeca's series BEAT DOWN: WRESTLING IN THE MOVIES