ART: The Ever Gold Gallery presents Beats by the Bay: SF Artists & Galleries of the Fifties, featuring work by the less publicized Beat visual artists, including artist/writer/educator Fred Martin, gallery ephemera from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library artist files, vintage photographs by Jerry Burchard, as well as Beat era posters, photographs, publications, mail art and paintings from noted area galleries, private dealers and collectors. (8 to 10 p.m., The Ever Gold Gallery, 441 O'Farrell Street)

MUSIC: IAMSOUND presents Nosaj Thing, aka Jason Chung, "a 24-year-old LA-based glitch-hop artist and producer whose perfectionism inspires the use of nearly any object capable of making noise to create his eerie, elegant tracks" as part of their intimate Clift Session series in the Clift's swanky Velvet and Redwood Room. (11 p.m., Clift Hotel, 495 Geary Street)

BLOCK PARTY: The microhood fad is going strong as The Bold Italic and Green Apple Books celebrate the Inner Richmond's "ClemenTime" 'hood with a party co-presented by Park Life and Seedstore. Head over there for some "deep discounts on apparel, complimentary ice cream, free beer and wine, delicious Mexican hot chocolate, events highlighting books, music, original artwork, and home decor, and more than a few surprises." (6 to 8 p.m., Clement Street between 3rd and 7th Avenues)