Assuming you aren't going to the SF Weekly Music awards tonight, and that you have "$30, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford", and you feel like drinkin', you should head out to Cafe Royale for a happy hour with SFist's best-loved State Smasher Matt Gonzalez and Gary Ruskin (look out, it's a damned PDF), executive director of Commercial Alert. From 6-8 tonight you can bend elbows with our favorite runner up since Suzette......

It's that "two buck chuck" time ofthe month again -- it comes around so fast, sometimes we forget. Start your night at the California College of the Arts, where there are three shows listed on the calendar, a film show and even a fashion show which our roommate told us about but we can't find a link to. Go check out some hot young artists (we were at the open studios on Sunday, and......

That time of month again, and this time we'll suggest the following shows for a little art therapy: Start your night by dropping by the Lisa Dent gallery from six to eight in Soma for Flo McGarrell's refined post-industrial sculpture. With womb-like spaces that explore curvature and symmetry, and the use of fabrics in a structural composition, she creates light sculpture that appears to have great weight and substance. SFist likes Lisa Dent because they......

Based on Wonkette's early numbers, it looks like it could be party-time in the Bay Area. But things have a way of changing at the last minute, so who knows. Either way, you're going to be an a mood for inebriation and laughter - either as a salve for your psychic wounds or as a confirmation of your smug contentment. Why not drop by the Canvas Gallery and watch the returns along with comedians......