Events on Central

A seated flamenco show in the tablao format, meaning performers work close to the audience in a room built for exactly this, not a theater stage at a distance. Hotel...

Seven local bands each pick a different act and commit fully for one night: Dakota Ave as The Used, Alter Apex as Stone Temple Pilots, No Manners as Metric, Dust City Opera as Beck, JIR Project as Gap Band, Weedrat as Title Fight, and Oakvale as Sheryl Crow. The range here is genuinely strange in...

Chris Duarte is a Austin-bred blues-rock guitarist who has been bending strings at the harder end of the Stevie Ray Vaughan tradition for thirty-plus years, and he still plays like he has something to prove. The Cell is a small room, which means you are close enough to watch his picking hand, and that is...

Jordan Jonas leads this one-hour magic and occult experience at one of the corridor's more atmospheric spots, a bed-and-brew that already leans gothic without trying. The Brews & Boos series has been building toward Halloween, so this is closer to a late-October ritual than a casual Friday night out. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket,...

Sunn O))) does not play songs so much as generate pressure fronts, and a room like El Rey, with its low ceiling and decent acoustics, is going to make this physical in ways that will surprise people who only know the records. Gentry Densley, the Utah guitarist behind Iceburn and Eagles of Death Metal's early...

The Lobo Sports Vault, tucked inside the old theater on Central, runs the full NCAA Saturday slate across its screens with a buffet available through the early afternoon. Lobos games get the big screen when the room is theirs, which matters on a game day in Nob Hill. Bring a physical ID if you're staying...

Painted Lady is screening The Craft (1996) as part of its Brews & Boos series, pairing the Halloween classic with bingo cards and the debut pour of a seasonal beer. The B&B format means the crowd skews more cozy-night-out than rowdy bar, which honestly suits a 1996 teen-witch movie better than a dive would. Tickets...

Almost Monday, the San Diego indie-pop trio known for bright guitar hooks and a sound that splits the difference between surf rock and bedroom pop, brings their live show to the Sunshine Theatre. The Sunshine holds around 750 and has a wide open floor, so arriving early puts you closer to a stage that can...

A seated tablao-format flamenco show at Hotel Albuquerque, with live guitar, cante, and baile performed in close quarters where you will feel every stomp through the floor. The Old Town-adjacent Hotel Albuquerque ballroom is a legitimately good room for this, better acoustically than you might expect from a hotel venue. Performers are still being confirmed,...