Upcoming Event - Death Eaters

Join us for Death Eaters, our second night of Posy-Filled Pockets!

Fatalities and food may seem like strange bedfellows, but the two intersect in a variety of intriguing fashions..

Rachel will introduce you to the last of the sin eaters, a historically brief but dreadful occupation consisting of ingesting the sins of others.

Jamaica is taking us back to the origins of the Last Meal, from death row to the final libations offered to French prisoners on the chopping block.

Tim is going to tell us something gross about bodies. We love it when he answers the questions we're too squeamish to ask but are dying to hear about. He totally gets us.

Then, less talking, more tasting as Amy and Skye present funeral foods and their origins as you "fake funeral crash" and sample the goods.

Ritual meals for the dead and the living, death by food in large and small doses, death-defying cuisine and things you just really, truly, shouldn't put in your mouth.

Join us as we hear a handful of surprising tales, sample funeral foods of different cultures, and toast to the life of Alan Rickman, the Deathiest Death Eater of all.

Rachel James - Richard Munslow: The Last Sin Eater
Jamaica Karr - Dining with The Damned: History of Last Meals and Serial Killer Cookbooks
Tim Lilyquist - The Corpse's Last Supper: Mechanics of it All

Presentation and Tasting:
Skye Bergen & Amy Sumner - Mourning Mastication

A journey through the kitchens of those left behind, with samples of funeral fare and the stories that go with them.

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Art Amort: Olaf Jens

Olaf Jens is back from the grave to capture some California lady killers.

Dj, art college drop-out, Dutch expat and current Nevada County local artist Olaf Jens spent 20 years in a booze-soaked free-for-all of Djing, touring through Europe drumming for Garage Punk bands, and basically sticking his grubby fingers in every orifice of the counter-culture's creative scene.

After moving his family to the slower pace of Northern California, he decided to pick up the skill long abandoned for the punk rock lifestyle, and his intricate, gruff sketches are gracing the covers of zombie-centric punk albums, retro-creep clothing, and classing up the pages of magazines and newspapers.

Jens' most recent accomplishment is what we're dying to see. He just wrapped up the illustrations for a new true crime book by David Kulczyk, author of Death in California: The Bizarre, Freakish and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State. The book is scheduled for release in 2016, and focuses on California killers of the female persuasion. Jens illustrations are portraits of the featured women, and we're waiting with bated breath.

Until then, some of his cowboy zombie skull stuff will have to do. 

The images of the illustrious Olaf Jens and a regular stream of his most recent artistic undertakings can be enjoyed on his Facebook page, or Instagram.