HOT NGONI NIGHT: All the way from Mali, ladies and gentlemen, Issa Bagayogo, the international dancefloor sensation! He's touring for his new album Mali Koura, which offers blues, world beat, reggae, funk...a lot of stuff. The mixture of West African music with house music dance tends to knock people over when they hear it. Stylus magazine called his previous album a contender for world music album of the year. more ›

FUNNY OR DIE!: Canadian comedian Jon Lajoie joins forces with the certifiably crazy (and ergo super fun) Murder Dice and Righteous Trash, a.k.a. Colin Johnson, a.k.a. Nectar's booker, in creating a night of guaranteed off-the-wall hilarity and frenzied upper music to launch you into the week on the right foot. Check out FunnyOrDie.com for a taste of Lajoie before you go, and get to Nectar in plenty of time to buy one of those delicious deep(ish)-crust Greek pizzas. more ›

Permit us to bloviate some on the death of David Halberstam today in a car crash, which is utter bullshit considering that the guy reported from fricking Vietnam and he dies in a traffic accident in San Mateo (the car that hit him driven by, in a terrible irony, a Berkeley journalism student) (actually, I'm an idiot, his driver was a Berkeley student, so there's no irony, just terribleness). more ›