SUN 12/26: Stories, Cards, Music

Hey, folks. I'm still on West-Coast vacation, this is what happens when I get up late and football starts earlier...

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SUN 12/26

7pm
Story Slam: "Holidaze"
at Milky Way Lounge/Bella Luna, 284 Amory St, Jamaica Plain (The Brewery Complex)
$5

6:30pm: Sign-up
7pm: Stories start

Ah, the holidays... Ain't it a fertile season for great stories? You don't have to tell one from this year, but they are looking for a real story, like when your drug-addict cousin wants to crash with you instead of staying with their parents then steal a bunch of your stuff...

Bring your five minute story on the theme and your could be one of ten lucky tellers drawn at random to tell and be judged.

Joining co-hosts Robin Maxfield and HR Britton will be Rabbi Moshe Waldoks from Brookline's Temple Beth Zion. The rabbi knows a few good stories as co-editor of The Big Book of Jewish Humor.

SUN 12/26

8pm
Texas Hold'em Poker Night
at Johnny D's, 17 Holland St, Somerville (Davis Sq)
FREE / 18+

Hey, it's free chance to play some poker. They play every week, and you might win a prize if you do well enough. You'll have to sign up as a member of the Beantown Poker Tour, but that's free too.

You need to register when you get there to play, but it's free.

SUN 12/26

8pm
The Caress Family Christmas Party
at Tommy Doyle's, 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge (Harvard Sq)
FREE

Feat: Josh/Jordan/Alex Caress, The True New Fire, The Troubadours

A family of singer-songwriter/rocker siblings play a gig with some friends and their various projects while all of them are in town for the holidays.

SUN 12/26

9:30pm
"Twas the Night After Xmas": Part 5
at Middle East - Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
$10 / 18+

Feat: Elemental Zazen, Ovr Cast, Kevin Walker, Nasty Nat, Nezze Ne, Jesse Kilroy, Emoh Betta

Hosted by Sly Young

Why not hear some quality hip-hop to start the last week of the year?