The Rumpus.net » Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Wed, 22 May 2013 23:15:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Notable San Francsco 5/19-5/25 http://therumpus.net/2013/05/notable-san-francsco-519-525/ http://therumpus.net/2013/05/notable-san-francsco-519-525/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:16 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=114532 Monday 5/20: Cuban poet Nancy Morejón screens two films of her life and work. Free, 7pm, Emerald Tablet.

Tuesday 5/21: Litquake presents Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo discussing her debut, We Need New Names. $5, 7pm, Lone Palm.

Wednesday 5/22: Two Lines Press and Intersection for the Arts bring staged readings from the press’s first two books, Hi, This is Conchita and All My Friends.

]]> Monday 5/20: Cuban poet Nancy Morejón screens two films of her life and work. Free, 7pm, Emerald Tablet.

Tuesday 5/21: Litquake presents Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo discussing her debut, We Need New Names. $5, 7pm, Lone Palm.

Wednesday 5/22: Two Lines Press and Intersection for the Arts bring staged readings from the press’s first two books, Hi, This is Conchita and All My Friends. 7pm, $10.

Thursday 5/23: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg opens with “a pop-up poetry salon, drop-in zine making, a typewriter petting zoo.” $5, 5pm, Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Friday 5/24: Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson is in discussion with Anthony Marra. Free, 7:30, Booksmith.

Saturday 5/25: Poets and translators both, Arturo Mantecón and Andrea D. Lingenfelter will be in discussion on their careers and latest projects. Free, 7pm, Dog Eared Books.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2013/05/notable-san-francsco-519-525/feed/ 0 NOTABLE SAN FRANCISCO: 5/13-5/18 http://therumpus.net/2013/05/114272/ http://therumpus.net/2013/05/114272/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 17:00:22 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=114272 Monday 5/13: Real-life storytelling monthly The Shout is back at the Grand Lake Coffee House. Featuring Rachel Gill, James Monroe Iglehart, Craig Mclughlin, Marc Gwinn, Daniel Herrera Castro, and the first of six willing attendees. Sliding scale $5+, 7:30.

Tuesday 5/14: Green Apple Books and Asymptote co-host a reading by Arturo Mantecon, translator of the Spanish poete maudit and dissident Leopoldo Maria Panero.

]]> Monday 5/13: Real-life storytelling monthly The Shout is back at the Grand Lake Coffee House. Featuring Rachel Gill, James Monroe Iglehart, Craig Mclughlin, Marc Gwinn, Daniel Herrera Castro, and the first of six willing attendees. Sliding scale $5+, 7:30.

Tuesday 5/14: Green Apple Books and Asymptote co-host a reading by Arturo Mantecon, translator of the Spanish poete maudit and dissident Leopoldo Maria Panero. Free, 7pm, Green Apple.

Wednesday 5/15: Indra’s Net Theater performs scenes from Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen, “an ambitious and intelligent re-imagining of what was said between physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr in 1941 Copenhagen.” Free, 7:30 Books Inc. Berkeley.

Thursday 5/16: Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, chronicles the history of “the most influential underground cabal you’ve never heard of” in a graphic collection of essays, photos, illustrations and fiction. Free, 7pm City Lights.

Friday 5/17: Join Comedy StoryBattle with a dozen of San Francisco’s best comedians engaging in a comic battle royale. $10 EXIT Theater.

5th Annual RADAR SPECTACLE: Featuring spectacles by comedian/playwright Marga Gomez, the Brontez Purnell Dance Company, Dia Dear, Mica Sigourney and Jesse Hewitt!

Saturday 5/18: Marion Nestle is at Omnivore Books discussing Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health for the groundbreaking classic’s 10th anniversary publication. Free, 3pm.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2013/05/114272/feed/ 0 Notable San Francisco 5/6-5/11 http://therumpus.net/2013/05/notable-san-francisco-56-511/ http://therumpus.net/2013/05/notable-san-francisco-56-511/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 17:00:22 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=113986 Don’t forget your mamas this Sunday, friends.

Monday 5/6: ODC teams with visual artists, musicians, choreographers, scientists, and interdisciplinary thinkers for The Deep End, a performance examining “psychiatric and/or neurological disorders through artistic and scientific/medical lenses.” Free, 7pm.

Tuesday 5/7: FlipSide brings it with the local history, focusing this month on the storied past and mysterious reopening of the Old Mint over drinks + discussion with historians Nancy Oliver and Richard Kelly.

]]> Don’t forget your mamas this Sunday, friends.

Monday 5/6: ODC teams with visual artists, musicians, choreographers, scientists, and interdisciplinary thinkers for The Deep End, a performance examining “psychiatric and/or neurological disorders through artistic and scientific/medical lenses.” Free, 7pm.

Tuesday 5/7: FlipSide brings it with the local history, focusing this month on the storied past and mysterious reopening of the Old Mint over drinks + discussion with historians Nancy Oliver and Richard Kelly. $10, 5:30.

Wednesday 5/8: Ruth Behar is a cultural anthropologist and writer researching obsessions to ‘leave home in order to find it’, and is reading from her latest book of essays, Traveling Heavy tonight. Free, 7pm, Modern Times.

Thursday 5/9: Fiamma Montezemolo & Josh Kun are at City Lights for the release of Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border, a collection of original and translated pieces comprising an “unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana.” With readings by Heriberto Yepez, Tarek Elhaik, and Donna Conwell. Free, 7pm.

Friday 5/10: The Roxie’s widely celebrated annual festival, I Wake Up Dreaming, opens tonight. Check here for ten days and thirty films’s worth of rare Noir.

Saturday 5/11: The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival celebrates Asian Improv Arts’ 25 years of Asian American artists in the Bay, with performances by musician Francis Wong, dance by Lenora Lee, and spoken word by Genny Lim. Free, 3pm.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2013/05/notable-san-francisco-56-511/feed/ 0 Notable San Francisco: 4/22-4/27 http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-422-427/ http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-422-427/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:00:26 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=113481 Monday 4/22: Granta’s SF launch of the best young British novelists issue is tonight. Free, 7pm. Nato Green brings Mort Sahl, a comic who “revolutionized standup by making comedy topical, literate, and rooted in a point-of-view” to the stage for the Nato Sessions.

]]> Monday 4/22: Granta’s SF launch of the best young British novelists issue is tonight. Free, 7pm. Nato Green brings Mort Sahl, a comic who “revolutionized standup by making comedy topical, literate, and rooted in a point-of-view” to the stage for the Nato Sessions. 7pm, $15. Stage Werx.

Tuesday 4/23: Joyce Carol Oates reads from The Accursed at City Lights. Free, 7pm. Wanna take an hour out of the day to get it all out on paper? Write-Read’s weekly free workshop is here for you.

Wednesday 4/24: Japanese crime noir writer Fuminori Nakamura reads from The Thief at Kinokunia. Free, 6:30pm, bilingual.

Thursday 4/25: Artist Brett Cook and American Book Award winner Jeff Chang on portraiture art of the hip-hop diaspora, a discussion inspired by the works of Kehinde Wiley currently on exhibit. $10, JCCSF.

Friday 4/26:The SF Center for the Book is opening up its new digs with a party celebrating all things book making from 6-9pm. Under the Influence gets writers, musicians, and poets onstage to perform inspired by a personally meaningful work of art. Tonight features works inspired by the Mountain Goats, Sandra Cisneros, and L.M. Montgomery, and is taking open audience submissions all week. Free, 7pm, Emerald Tablet.

Saturday 4/27: SOMArts’ Night Light annual multimedia garden party is one night only, featuring light installations, performance, and media projections by 50 local artists. 8pm, $10.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-422-427/feed/ 0 Notable San Francisco 4/15-4/20 http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-415-420/ http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-415-420/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:00:09 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=113305 Monday 4/15: Quiet Lightning teams up with the Porchlight Reading series to bring you double the talent to curate a new audience-enthusiasm powered journal. 8pm, Verdi Club, $15.

Tuesday 4/16: Asian Improv Arts is at SFSU for Performing Re(al)liances, discussing the role of music in Chinese American, Native American, and Palestinian communities during periods of occupation and relocation.

]]> Monday 4/15: Quiet Lightning teams up with the Porchlight Reading series to bring you double the talent to curate a new audience-enthusiasm powered journal. 8pm, Verdi Club, $15.

Tuesday 4/16: Asian Improv Arts is at SFSU for Performing Re(al)liances, discussing the role of music in Chinese American, Native American, and Palestinian communities during periods of occupation and relocation. Free, 5:30.

Wednesday 4/17: Berkeley Law School archivist and gay historian William Benemann is at Smack Dab open mic. Free, 7:30, 15 spots available for participants.

Thursday 4/18: Jeff Chu discusses his latest, Does Jesus Really Love Me? covering his year of research on gays in Christian communities. Free, 7:30, Books Inc.

Friday 4/19: Dancers Daria Kaufman and Bianca Brzezinski are joined by contact improv performer Peiling Kao and composer Richard Warp for Crosscurrents at the Garage performance space. 8pm, $15.

Saturday 4/20: Check SFAI’s open studios for work in literary, visual, and multimedia arts. All day, Free. Here, too, is this annual gem.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-415-420/feed/ 0 Notable San Francisco 4/8-4/13 http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-48-413/ http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-48-413/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:00:51 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=113051 Monday 4/8: SF native funnyman Nato Green teams up with 3200Stories to present “a series of public conversations and live podcast recordings with famous smart people.” Tonight features graphic novel and comic book writer Gerard Jones. 7pm, $15, Stagewerx.

Tuesday 4/9: CCA’s month of open studios gets literary with the monthly HearSay series turning its spotlight on graduate writing work.

]]> Monday 4/8: SF native funnyman Nato Green teams up with 3200Stories to present “a series of public conversations and live podcast recordings with famous smart people.” Tonight features graphic novel and comic book writer Gerard Jones. 7pm, $15, Stagewerx.

Tuesday 4/9: CCA’s month of open studios gets literary with the monthly HearSay series turning its spotlight on graduate writing work. Free, 7:30pm, CCA Oakland. Also, free cones.

Wednesday 4/10: Shaping San Francisco organizes lectures excavating our city’s lost history, and this month features Chinese Whispers, the storytelling project about contemporary folk memories of Chinese laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad and suffered under the Exclusion Act. Free, 7:30 Eric Quezada Center.

Thursday 4/11: Storking Comedy gives you free laughs followed by a round of ‘intrusive interviews’ of the Bay Area comics who brought you there. Featuring Kaseem Bentley, Ben Kolina, and Pam Benjamin. Free, 7:30.

Friday 4/12: Renowned book artist Donald Glaister is in town teaching at the Center for the Book, and this evening’s lecture is free and open to the public. 6pm, Center for the Book.

Saturday 4/13: YBCA and the SF Arts Commission present the Poetry Projection Project, a film collaborative work with WritersCorps youth poetry initiative. Free, 3pm.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-48-413/feed/ 0 Notable San Francisco: 4/1-4/6 http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-41-46/ http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-41-46/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:00:47 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=112729 Monday 4/1: Word for Word stages a reading of charged, controversial Nathan Englander story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. $10, 7pm, Jewish Cultural Center.

Tuesday 4/2: Garry Winogrand’s 60′s retrospective is free today at MOMA.

]]> Monday 4/1: Word for Word stages a reading of charged, controversial Nathan Englander story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. $10, 7pm, Jewish Cultural Center.

Tuesday 4/2: Garry Winogrand’s 60′s retrospective is free today at MOMA.

Thursday 4/4: The Center for the Art of Translation presents the outspoken, prolific, and acclaimed author Mikhail Shiskin discussing his latest release, Maidenhair, alongside translator Marian Schwartz. $10, 6:30pm, Hotel Rex.

Friday 4/5: 826 Valencia’s Night Writer Society presents Write With Your Nose, an evening workshop of writing inspired by scent with perfumer Yosh Han and travel and food writer Alison Bing. 7:30pm, 826 Valencia.

Saturday 4/6: Good-lookin’ do-gooder Retrofit Republic launches its spring lookbook, Tastemakers. Packed with Bay Area activists and entertainers. $10, 9pm Tank 18.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2013/04/notable-san-francisco-41-46/feed/ 0 Notable San Francisco: 3/25-3/29 http://therumpus.net/2013/03/notable-san-francisco-325-329/ http://therumpus.net/2013/03/notable-san-francisco-325-329/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:43:58 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=112556 Monday 3/25: Poet, musician, and first wave punk pioneer Richard Hell reads from his memoir, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp, at City Lights. Free 7pm.

Tuesday 3/26: Inside Storytime hosts Mesmerisms at the Make Out room, featuring surreal and hypnotic  storytelling from Susan Steinberg, Thaisa Frank, Michael Bernard Loggins and Doug Cordell.

]]> Monday 3/25: Poet, musician, and first wave punk pioneer Richard Hell reads from his memoir, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp, at City Lights. Free 7pm.

Tuesday 3/26: Inside Storytime hosts Mesmerisms at the Make Out room, featuring surreal and hypnotic  storytelling from Susan Steinberg, Thaisa Frank, Michael Bernard Loggins and Doug Cordell. 7pm, $5.

Wednesday 3/27: Writers and artists who contributed to the anthology Get Out of My Crotch! 21 Women Respond to the War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health, celebrate its release tonight. Featuring readings and insight from Bay Area pro-choice advocates. Anthologies on sale will benefit Planned Parenthood. Free, 6:45, Variety Club.

Thursday 3/28: Jen Larsen reads from Stranger Here, a memoir on the persistent pursuit of body acceptance following a major physical transformation. Free, 7:30, Booksmith.

Friday 3/29: Authors and independent book mavens from Deviant Type Press and Topside Press launch a reading to celebrate the work being put out via “small presses by really smart queers.” Free, 7pm, Modern Times Books.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2013/03/notable-san-francisco-325-329/feed/ 0 Notable San Francisco 3/18-3/23 http://therumpus.net/2013/03/notable-san-francisco-318-323/ http://therumpus.net/2013/03/notable-san-francisco-318-323/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:00:34 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=112215 Monday 3/18: The Porchlight reading series brings you Law and Order: Stories From All Sides. Featuring firsthand narratives from a corporate lawyer, a 9th circuit judge, a criminal defense attorney, and a Marin county coroner alongside local authors, comedians, and poets.

]]> Monday 3/18: The Porchlight reading series brings you Law and Order: Stories From All Sides. Featuring firsthand narratives from a corporate lawyer, a 9th circuit judge, a criminal defense attorney, and a Marin county coroner alongside local authors, comedians, and poets. 8pm, $15.

Tuesday 3/19: Two lit-city favorites, Quiet Lightning and Feast of Words, team up for one night. Cozy up to nine Bay Area storytelling aces over a curated meal and cheap drafts. $10, SOMArts.

Wednesday 3/20: Homegrown LGBTQ community spoken word artist Trebor Healy headlines the Smack Dab Open Mic. Free, accepts submissions, 7:30pm.

Thursday 3/21: Get your dada on with Circumtext, a reading where participants perform texts they didn’t write, but rather, curated. Free, 8pm, Red Poppy Art House.

Friday 3/22: Emerald Tablet hosts Under the Influence, a performance series curated by artists inspired by seminal works outside of their own mediums. $5 suggested donation, 7pm.

Saturday 3/23: The CAAMFest panel on Seeking Asian Female will feature commentary by Angry Asian Man Phil Yu, queer cinema scholar Professor Hoang Nguyen, and Hyphen‘s Nicole Wong. You will laugh, you will get pissed off, and you might be surprised by what the film has to say. 7pm, $13.

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Tuesday 3/12: Do you love San Francisco? And wait, do you love literature?

]]> Monday 3/11: Cafe Royale’s free stand-up night, featuring Kelly Anneken, Josef Antolin, Ryan Cronin, Anita Driesberg, and Brendan Lynch, joined by fellow local funny people. Free, 7pm.

Tuesday 3/12: Do you love San Francisco? And wait, do you love literature? How about formerly abandoned, beautiful old buildings repurposed to house a city museum? The SF Historical Society hosts A Literary Love Affair with San Francisco, at the recently reopened Old Mint, and its $10. 7:30pm.

Wednesday 3/13: Christian Kiefer and Panio Gianopoulos are at Booksmith to read from their recent releases, Infinite Tides and A Familiar Beast. Free, 7pm.

Thursday 3/14: San Francisco on-the-cheap mainstay Broke-Ass Stuart joins fellow local legends Woody LaBounty, and Laureano Faed for Hooch, Harlots & History: Vice in San Francisco. Featuring live music and rare archival footage. 7pm, $10, FlipSide.

Friday 3/15: Press Works hosts poet Matthew Zapruder, author Lizzy Acker, and Michael Heald, publisher of Perfect Day Publishing. They’re confessional, and joined by the band Swells. free, 7pm.

Saturday 3/16: It’s that time of year again: the Anarchist Book Fair is happening all weekend. For the politics, or the art, or in support of the old-school and independent media makers of our town, check out this SF annual spring tradition.

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