After the St. Patrick’s Day parade, head up to The Local on Saturday, March 7 for a party with Ball 4 a Cure, and have fun for a cause!
Plus rock out to music from Loose Units
Introducing Literary Salon at The Local, Sunday March 1st — the first in our new series of bringing authors and readers together at Parkville Market! 📚 🌟
We’re kicking off the series with Christopher Castellani and Grant Ginder as they dive into their compelling new releases: Last Seen and So Old, So Young. From haunting mysteries to generation-defining friendships, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
Join us for a lively evening of great books, great conversation, and great company! Get tickets now! Link Below.
General admission + book bundle includes your choice of one featured book. Signings with both authors will follow the event.
The authors book bios:
About Last Seen by Christopher Castellani
I am one of those boys they keep finding in the river.
Caleb was driving home for Christmas. Steven was pounding beers at a local bar. Matthew was out looking for his ex-girlfriend. Leo was walking in the woods on a winter night. Then they disappeared.
Days, weeks, years later, their bodies turn up in icy rivers hundreds of miles apart. How did they get there? What, if anything, connects them? Some of their loved ones believe the official answers. Some are convinced the boys are victims of an insidious network called the Smiley Face Killers. Some are trying to forget them altogether. Meanwhile, Caleb, Steven, Matthew, and Leo find one other—and other boys like them—in the murky depths of the afterlife. Each tells his story in his own way, speaking his version of truth, confessing his desires and grievances and even his hopes for a future he still somehow believes belongs to him. Each revelation brings the reader deeper into their intertwined fates, along a journey through the landscapes of identity, intimacy, and the haunting echoes of unresolved grief.
Christopher Castellani is the author of four previous novels (the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love) and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. He is the winner of a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim and Mass Cultural Council fellow, and the 2022-24 writer in residence at Brandeis University. His fourth novel, Leading Men, is currently being adapted into a film for Fox Searchlight Pictures by Oscar-winning producer Peter Spears and director Luca Guadagnino. He lives in Boston and Provincetown.
About So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder
Six Friends. Five Parties. Twenty Years…How did we get So Old, So Young?
From Grant Ginder, the bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes a generation-defining novel that is part love story, part tragic comedy. Five parties over the course of twenty years bring six college friends together, exploring the ways we run from and cling to our friends in love, life, and death.
For Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam, the one constant in life after college together has been change. New jobs. New cities. New spouses. New children. Through it all, one thing they thought would always stay the same is their friendship.
But time has a way of breaking even the strongest bonds, and testing what we thought we knew. From East Village apartment parties and disastrous destination weddings to fortieth birthdays and suburban backyard barbecues, Grant Ginder’s resonant, funny, and deeply moving novel is a story about the growing pains of the Millennial generation, and a celebration of how love can shift, stumble, and grow into something bigger than we ever could have imagined.
Grant Ginder is the author of five novels, including Let’s Not Do That Again and The People We Hate at the Wedding, now a major motion picture starring Allison Janney, Kristen Bell, and Ben Platt. Originally from Southern California, Ginder received his MFA from New York University, where he teaches writing.
Join us on Saturday, February 21st, enjoy the sounds of School of Rock!
Don’t miss the next What’s the T?! Drag Brunch at Parkville Market on Sunday, March15 ! Doors open at 1PM and the show starts at 2PM.
Our fabulous host Xiomarie LaBeija will be joined by special guest Felicity Lay and as always, DJ Edgewood will be here to help turn The Local up!
Tickets are $35 and include the show and all of your mimosas and bloody marys from 1-4PM.
And don’t forget those dollar bills to shower our performers with love!
Don’t miss the next What’s the T?! Drag Brunch at Parkville Market on Sunday, February 15! Doors open at 1PM and the show starts at 2PM.
Our fabulous host Xiomarie LaBeija will be joined by special guest Leishla Thompson and as always, DJ Edgewood will be here to help turn The Local up!
Tickets are $35 and include the show and all of your mimosas and bloody marys from 1-4PM.
And don’t forget those dollar bills to shower our performers with love!
Featured comics include:
Headliner: Chanel Ali• @chanelali
Chanel Ali is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor known for her sharp wit and fearless point of view. She hosted the Food Network digital series Food Debate! and was a cast member on MTV’s Girl Code. In 2019, Chanel was honored as a “New Face” at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Her television credits include Starz’s Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks on truTV, and Netflix’s Dash & Lily. In 2020, she appeared in Comedy Central and Refinery29’s Taking the Stage and Speak Up, further cementing her voice as one of comedy’s most exciting rising stars. Her debut comedy album, Chanel No. 1, debuted at #2 upon release.
Don’t miss the next What’s the T?! Drag Brunch at Parkville Market on Sunday, January 18 for Xiomarie’s Birthday Bash! Doors open at 1PM and the show starts at 2PM.
Our fabulous host Xiomarie LaBeija will be joined by special guests Sparkle A. Diamond and as always, DJ Edgewood will be here to help turn The Local up!
Tickets are $35 and include the show and all of your mimosas and bloody marys from 1-4PM.
And don’t forget those dollar bills to shower our performers with love!
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but Fairfield Street Band is so delightful. And since you’ve no place to go, join us in The Local for an evening of music and merriment.
Featured comics include:
Headliner: Kevin McGloin• @kevinmcgloinn
Kevin McGloin is a NYC–based stand-up comedian who has been featured at the New York Comedy Festival and The VeryBigVeryAsian Comedy Festival and frequently tours the nation’s top comedy clubs with his show, Prohibition Comedy. Kevin being a mixed-race, native New Yorker, with the old soul of a 65-year old trapped in a 27-year olds body, he brings a unique perspective to what he talks about on stage.
Featuring: Matt McCoy • @realmatt_mccoy
Matt McCoy is is a standup comedian, writer, and actor based in New York CIty. He’s currently on tour opening for Akaash Singh, Danny LoPriore & others. Matt was a finalist in the Cleveland Comedy Festival and the Comedy Mob Festival in New York City. Matt has a crowd work special streaming on YouTube called ‘Nobody Asked For This’ and is the host of The New York City Minute.
Host: Ayesheh Mae • @ayeshehmae
Ayesheh Mae is a CT-based comic who is very crass and loves emo music. She currently produces the successful Filthy Comedy which she runs all on her own. She runs shows at breweries all across the state, and has also performed at COMIX at Mohegan Sun, the Grisley Pear, and Broadway Comedy Club in NYC, and recently performed in the Portland Comedy Festival.
Join us on Saturday nights for Rock the Local! We’re always excited to showcase talented artists and bands from the local music scene. From rock to pop to folk, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.