Posts Tagged ‘Sketchfest’

Don’t Miss Mophono

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

So as luck would have it, I got tonight off from work. This made me excited for two reasons, Amon Tobin at the Independent and Zach Galifianakis at Cobb’s Comedy Club. So if one was sold out, I’d try to make the other one. Well, life doesn’t always work out in my favor. Both are sold out tonight. So it looks as though it’ll be Frost/Nixon at the local theater, heh. But if you (lucky bastard) are attending the Amon Tobin show, be on the lookout for Bay Area DJ Mophono. He’s a sample master and not in the sense of the guy who gives you free ones at the food court in the mall. His latest EP is jam packed with complex beats and fairly recognizable samples that will have you dancing in wherever it is you dance. If you can’t make tonight’s show, try catching him every Tuesday at Madrone here in San Francisco.

Mophono – The Edge

Zach Galifianakis – Zach Blows A Joke

Amon Tobin – Chronic Tronic

Tags: amon tobin, Mophono, Sketchfest, Zach Galifianakis
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This Week in Bay Area Live Shows: Jan 18 – 24

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

If for some strange reason you aren’t doing anything this weekend (or next weekend), it would behoove you to attend at least one of the Sketchfest shows going on all over San Francisco and Marin County. Not only will there be live shows of “The State”, “Fernwood” and “TV Funhouse”, but a slew of respectable comedians like Rob Corddry and Rob Riggle from “The Daily Show”, Martin Mull, Fred Willard, Jon Hamm, Tim and Eric, Robert Smigel, Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, Dana Carvey, Michael McKean, Janeane Garofalo, Zach Galifianakis and many more. A few friends and I will be going to a handful of these (mainly The Hills: A Staged Reading). Try and make it to one of the events, you can’t go wrong with improv and sketch comedy.

18th – Sunday:

Fountains of Wayne (Acoustic)
Café du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94114

Boyz II Men
Mezzanine
444 Jessie Street @ Mint
San Francisco CA CA 94103

19th – Monday:

Johnathan Human / Goddess Alchemy Project
Temple
540 Howard St
San Francisco CA 94105

20th – Tuesday (Inaugeration Day!):

Silver Summit / Woven Hand
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107

21st – Wednesday:

The Walkmen / Beach House
The Fillmore
1805 Geary Boulevard
San Francisco CA 94115

22nd – Thursday:

Metronomy / The Mae Shi
Popscene
330 Ritch Street
San Francisco CA 94107

23rd – Friday: