At this point I haven’t even thought of an open bar party in years. So this is exciting news! Reporting on this is like going back to the roots of this site. On October 22nd, Public Works is throwing a FREE dance party with an open bar! The party goes

Oakland Museum of CA’s Ziggurat After Party is a party with a twist, featuring a special “Best of Friday Nights @ OMCA” to celebrate that Oakland vibe. With an open bar, late night bites, DJ Nina Sol and DJ Hey Love—plus Soul Mechanix and GIRL6 (a Prince tribute band) hitting

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

Apple’s big, fancy WWDC conference is next week, and you’re not going. But you can go the afterparties, even if you’re not registered for this $1,600-a-pop developer conference June 13-17 in San Francisco. Several startups are busting out other people’s money to throw their various branded afterparties and soirees, so

I’ve somehow made it to the point where philanthropic organizations for rich people like to give me tickets to giveaway to their big, shmancy events. I don’t know how I got here, but I dig it baby. Anyways, do you know about the Spinsters of San Francisco? They are a

The Modern Man and the Artful Gentlemen are putting on a fancy fashion event to celebrate the launch of a new after-hours series. Called the Art of the Suit, this party will be on Friday, March 1st on the top floor of the McRoskey Mattress Co. Besides getting to check out new

It’s like a Battle of the Bands, except not totally lame and terrible. No spiked hair with red tips. No inter-song banter involving erections or silly hats/ironic t-shirts. And most importantly, no puerile attempts at rap-rock. Oh yeah and there’s no music either, so that’s cool. Instead, the art gallery

Start the drum machine, bass – bass – snare, cue the synths, hall reverb vocals (maybe layered), live drums to supplement the machine, drop the beat and main synth, sparse vocals, cue the 808 snare, no vocals at all, build, 808 snare roll, bring it all back. Whatever. It’s a

Recently, I had the honor of being a bridesmaid in my BFF Kate’s wedding to her longtime main squeeze, Jason.  Besides an awkward moment where the Mother-of-the-Bride looked down at me while I was adjusting Kate’s train and said, “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride!” (way to send shivers down