Happy Hour International

Calling All Tribes
Buster Bennett (Nuke Them All) and K-Tron of All You Can Eat continue with their multi-media club night, dishing out the electro-booty, dancehall and fidget house mixes around live sets. It’s a midweek rave-up! What are…

Best Islington Bars
After a few years on its uppers, Upper Street is fighting back. A rash of glamorous, independent new joints are worth a try.

Why would you leave Royal Oak?
A wonderful Victorian pub in Borough, the Royal Oak has a great food and drinks menu, friendly service and a vibrant atmosphere.

Monday Mayhem
If thrash is your sound, head to 10-11′s Monday (scary?) Mayhem bash.

Nightmare New York
Call it Haunted House 2.0 — this is an interactive abode of frights

Artifact: Remains of the Night
Findings from the streets, files, and hard drives of New York.

The facts about corn sweetener
Editor’s note: Nationally recognized nutrition expert Marion Nestle answers readers’ questions in Food Matters, written exclusively for The Chronicle. E-mail your questions to food@sfchronicle.com, with “Marion Nestle” in the subject line. Q: What is the…

New chef, wine director head up Bacar
It’s been a little bit of a rocky road lately for Bacar, the imposing wine-centric restaurant South of Market (448 Brannan, near Third Street). About 18 months ago, the founders – chef Arnold Eric Wong and wine director Debbie Zachareas of Ferry Plaza Wine…

‘World City’ at the Music Center
The program brings the world to your seat.

IT WOULD be the vacation of a lifetime: Quebec, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Hungary, Vietnam and Taiwan in one fell swoop. But anyone interested in sampling the cultural traditions and contemporary arts of those countries without having to shell out the cash for an around-the-world plane ticket might want to visit the Music Center’s “World City.”

The New Year at The Echo
But the wait may be worth it. The indie band rings in its third album in nine years tonight at the Echo.

On the long list of indie bands that deserve wider hearing — Quasi, the Ladybug Transistor, the Clientele — sits the New Year, a mild-mannered group whose songs begin as reflective, melancholy odes and transform themselves into chiming cathedrals of sound.

Colburn School parents decry loss of Suzuki piano program
The school says the training is inadequate, but a letter campaign claims that community kids are shortchanged.

The Suzuki method of music instruction, developed in the 1940s by Japanese violinist Shinichi Suzuki , offers an entry point into learning an instrument for children as young as 2 and calls for parents to attend lessons and be hands-on when it comes to at-home practice.

Tom Novy
Deep, Techy tracks from that crazy German, Tom Novy. Check him out on MySpace

The Bohemia Room at Miami Improv

come and let me imagine you in your underwear ( unless it will make me puke while I read poetry, in which case, please stay home)

I plan on reading @ this event, which should be huge.. come and read or listen or even just pretend to listen while drinking? because the appearance of support is better than nothing at all? facebook email copied below..

IngridB has invited you to the event ?THE BOHEMIA ROOM RETURNS? on B SIDE SOULCIALITES!

Check out ?THE BOHEMIA ROOM RETURNS? on B SIDE SOULCIALITES!

Thanks,

– IngridB

THE BOHEMIA ROOM RETURNS Time: October 15, 2008 at 8pm
Location: MIAMI IMPROV
Organized By: IngridB

Event Description:
YES WE ARE BACK
AND LET ME MAKE IT PLAIN AND SIMPLE FOR YOU

ONCE A MONTH
@ THE MIAMI IMPROV
VENUE SEATS 350 PEOPLE
THAT MEANS WE MUST SHOW UP AND SHOW OUT
SO SOUTH FLORIDA KNOWS THAT POETRY IS APPRECIATED

CONFIRMED FEATURES

RENEA L MOSS
WILL DA REAL ONE
SUNNI PATTERSON

EMAIL YOUR NAME TO THEBOHEMIAROOM at GMAIL dot COM
FOR YOU AND A GUEST TOGET IN FOR $5 EACH BEFORE 9PM

Cam Nguyen Photoshoot
Earlier this week I had a test shoot with a new model named Cam Nguyen. Vietnamese beauty with German engineering seemed like a good combo.

Whisked Away at the Violet Hour
Dana goes incognito to find a drink that’s just right.

Bears, Bus, Beer
Includes round-trip transportation to Soldier Field and drinks en route. Buses leave about one-and-a-half hours before kickoff. Afterward, show your Bears ticket stub for a half-price appetizer. Miss the bus? Watch Bears home and away games on the bar’s 20 flat screens and sip drink specials like $…

Dirty Dancing–The Classic Story on Stage
The Broadway touring production of the classic musical film (both written by Eleanor Bergstein) about a privileged girl who falls in love with a male professional dancer from the wrong side of the tracks.

Drink Before You Eat
Skip the apps and take a sip of these pre-dinner concoctions…your food will taste that much better.

09/19-09/21. Vietnam Festival 2008 in Yoyogi Park.
This year’s Vietnam Festival promises a full-lineup of entertainment, with some two dozen popular recording artists performing on the main event stage….

10/11-10/12. Saijo sake festival in Hiroshima.
This popular sake festival attracts some 200,000 people every year, and offers 900 different kinds of sake for tasting, for an admission charge of Y1600 (snacks and soft drinks cost extra)….

Bar Bourbon Street
One has to admire a bar that aims to offer a 'taste of New Orleans in Tokyo.' But this quirky, cozy bar with its homely, accessible atmosphere really pulls it off. Ideal for those feeling a tad lost in translation, those who want to slow down and chill out after a spell in the frantic Japanese capital…

Photography event in London (28th Sep 08)
Capture Camden Easily the most fun you can squeeze into one day… 10 clues 10 corners of Camden Town All you have to do is shoot them… to win prizes. In short Shoot Experience provide an int…

Cleaner Thames Challenge 2008 (18th Sep 08 to 21st Sep 08)
Volunteers needed to help remove some of the litter affecting London?s waterways. The four day volunteer clean-up is coordinated by London?s leading waterways charity, Thames21. Over 300 volunteers to…

The Dodos
The Dodos go their own way, and it’s not the way of the clich?. Far from extinction, the San Francisco band is a vibrant new force soaring to the top of indie fans’ lists. On the duo’s sophomore album, “Visiter,” singer/multi-instrumentalist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber sound like they’ve…

New York Bars Dash to Dubai
Go East, young clubber.

Dining Out: View is the star aboard the Sherman
Whenever I visit a waterfront restaurant, I invariably land a seat many tables removed from a window, barely able to glimpse the view for which I’m paying a premium. Not so at the Sherman, which is anchored in a Burlingame estuary. The restaurant-on-a-…

Citizen Cupcake

sounds good-but….

DNA LOunge

Great Place for a show

2 reviews - last on 02/12/07 by $thisName

Red Vic

The Red Vic as a great place to go to hear local musicians and to play if you are a musician