The Pixies were just here in the Bay Area, but if you missed 'em at the Fox Oakland, all is not lost. The grunge-godfathers-with-ever-rotating-lineup just announced plans for a special intimate show at Big Sur's Henry Miller Memorial Library in April, presented by the Bay Area's own (((folkYEAH!))) Presents.
Last night, the folks in charge of San Francisco's nightlife industry gathered at the Castro Theatre for the Nitey Awards -- their unrepentantly profane, leather-daddy-and-drag-queen-filled, heavily intoxicated version of the Oscars.
In an atmosphere thick with glossy dance music and heavy with the smell of buttered popcorn, the awards -- overseen by Entertainment Commissioners Jocelyn Kane, Audrey Joseph, and event producer Negar Siadatnejad, distributed awards in 23 categories for the awards' second annual edition. All of them were judged by "industry professionals" during visits to the nominated places. Hosts Michelle Meow of Swirl Radio and Liam Mayclem of CBS 5 introduced the awards in a ceremony that lasted more than two hours, in no small part due to the popularity of cocktail jokes among presenters. One highlight was hearing S.F. Police Chief Greg Suhr expound on his and his officers' love of Irish bars -- and tell Mayclem (an Brit Irishman who speaks with an English accent) that his feigned actual (our mistake) Irishness was "bullshit." (Everyone cheered.)
