Arts and Culture
Le Savy Fav – Noise Pop Finale
from the desk of Monica the Intern With their raucous brand of punch-laden indie rock, Les Savy Fav brought this year’s Noise Pop festival to a sweaty and dramatic finale. Coming on stage wrapped in rags disguised as fake bandages, front man and vocalist Tim Harrington announced:
Noise Pop Review – Thao Nguyen
by Monica the Intern With her power-packed strum and her even bigger voice, Thao Nguyen emerged as one of the truly deserving headliners on Thursday night at the Swedish American Music Hall. “I went shopping for you guys today. Before today, I only had one dress
All Kinds of Free
by Broke-Ass Stuart I feel bad for those of you that read yesterday’s post about the FREE booze, music and Little Star Pizza at the Diesel store, but didn’t get to go. But don’t trip chocolate chip, you can go tonight instead! Here’s my advice though: try to get there as
FREE Booze and Little Star Pizza!!
The fine folks over at My Open Bar recently informed me of this awesome event. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow the Diesel Jeans store in Union Square, SF is throwing a party from 5-9pm where with free booze, music and Little Star Pizza. HOLY FUCK! Are you kidding me? The only
Deer Freely Hunted
A review of last night’s FREE Deerhunter show. By Monica the Intern In a sonic wash of pedal pushing magic and light, Deerhunter opened Noise Pop 2009 with a performance at Mezzanine, thus kicking off this year’s festival with an orchestrated bang. Before the opening lazy
A long-winded, desperate justification for swilling booze at Art Openings
The other day, Stuart provided the etymology for mack and hoodlum. Not one to be outdone, I’d like to turn to Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word (the critics responses excerpted in wikipedia are hilarious and make me look like an asshole!) to explain how I can antisocially walk into a
Bay to Breakers Update
by Broke-Ass Stuart From Edward Sharpless, the guy spearheading the movement to save Bay to Breakers: Unfortunately, I don’t have good news for you. Yesterday, I did not hear from race organizers until after 5 PM, even though we had a 4 PM call scheduled
Don’t miss the FREE shows during Noise Pop
By Broke-Ass Stuart Thanks to both Monica the Intern (from this website) and Maris from Bay Area Bourgeois for hipping me to all the great FREE shows going on during this year’s Noise Pop Festival. If you’ve got tips for great cheap shit hit me up at info@brokeassstuart.com. People all over