On a Monday night in February, the six members of The Broom Closet Beer Club gathered in the living room of a student apartment, sipping beers and getting ready to practice. Their schedule had them rehearsing about seven hours a week, their songs listed on a whiteboard.

You may know him as “that bald guy in the blue suit” or “the Hitzeman mailman,” but long before he took our I.D.’s and handed us our packages, Kevin Simon was the drummer for a band that played venues across the country.

On Friday nights, Anthony Reliford, a Dining Services employee who works at Ursa’s, takes notice of Ursa’s Nite Life.