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Party Arty at 111 Minna
The night is young and so is the crowd of fine-arts students, YouTube sensations and
Google engineers trying to score with emerging fashion designers. Street-wise art
gallery by day,
111 Minna
(
www.111minnagallery.com
;
111 Minna St; admission free-$15; Mont-
gomery, Montgomery)
hosts techie happy hours and busts moves after 9pm, when retro
dance parties storm the back room. At monthly Sketch Tuesdays, artists make work
for sale on-site.
Light It Up at Club OMG
Tiny
Club OMG
(
www.clubomgsf.com
; 43 6th St; admission free-$10; 5pm-2am Mon-Fri, 7pm-2am
Sat, variable Sun; Powell)
lights up a grungy SoMa block with a mod turquoise-Lucite
bar mobbed by a bright, young, mixed gay-straight crowd. On the dance floor, look
up: DJs' LED light shows on the planetarium dome pulse to house, techno, dubstep
and '80s and '90s pop. Smokers, expect to be exiled to the sidewalk with the junkies.
Reign Supreme at Monarch
Monarch
(
www.monarchsf.com
;
101 6th St; cover varies; 5:30pm-2am Mon-Fri, from 8pm Sat & Sun;
14)
rules Skid Row with a tiny main-floor bar, downstairs black-box dance hall,
party-ready DJs, and circus-burlesque performers on the trapeze over the bar.
Through tech booms and busts, everyone wins at Monarch with craft cocktails named
'Ruling Class' and 'Kingmaker.' Check the online calendar.
Go Retro at Cat Club
Jump to '90s power pop on Saturdays and shuffle winsomely at Friday and Sunday
goth/New Wave nights at
Cat Club
(
www.catclubsf.com
; 1190 Folsom St; admission $5 after 10pm;
9pm-3am Tue-Sun; Civic Center, Civic Center)
- but plan your week around Thursday
nights' 1984, when the euphoric bi/straight/gay/undefinable crowd belts out A-ha's
Take on Me
, like an outtake from a surreal John Hughes movie.
