MUSIC: The Gun & Doll Show, Solis, Adrian Bourgeois, Joel Streeter, Dynamic, and the Frail battle it out at Bay Rising's Battle of the Bands Semifinal 1. (The final showdown happens at Great American Music Hall, where the top five bands scratch each other's eyes out for a cool $10,000, a five-day recording package at Yonas Media's new Oakland Recording Studio, a one day of Mixing/Mastering by award winning engineer Charles Stella, manufacturing of 1,000 CDs from Copy Cats Media, and a artist development deal... may the greediest emo bastard win!) Check out some of the city's brightest talent over at du Nord.

7:30 PM // Cafe Du Nord (2170 Market) // $10

CHEAP BOOZE: If you haven't visited MyOpenBar.com before, we implore you. They've always got the skinny on open-bar parties and cheap-cocktail nights for the alcoholically-inclined. Take, for example, tonight's sparkling lineup for ultra-cheap libations. 540 Club (at 540 Clement) has $1 beer all night long. And The Bar on Castro (if you can stomach it) has 80-cent cosmos (if you can stomach them) all night long too. Drink up, kids.