This week in San Francisco, get your book on every night of the week with Litquake, Dave Cooper at the Cartoon Art Museum, the centennial episode of Literary Death Match, and 10/10/10: Powers of Ten and the art of Ray and Charles Eames — what a spectacular week!

Monday 10/4: Grab your shred sled and head down to the beautiful Park Chalet for an evening of surf lit at Litquake’s Words and Waves reading/happy hour.  If you want to liven up your entire week with literary events, check the Litquake event schedule for a complete list of readings, signing, and shenanigans for bibliophiles leading up to Saturday’s Litcrawl. …more

This week in San Francisco: The Rumpus Book Club meets IRL, Litquake!, art at Benders, Litquake (Ferlinghetti style), and Barely Published Authors (AKA Litquake!).

Monday 9/27: Are you a member of The Rumpus Book Club yet?  Want to “audit” the class before you commit to the reading assignments?  Tonight at the Booksmith, the book club meets for their monthly in-person discussion.  This month: Lan Samantha Chang’s All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. If you like what you see, sign up by the end of the month to receive a copy of Adam Levin’s incredibly handsome (and equally large) The Instructions.  7:30pm @ 1644 Haight Street. …more

This week, The Porchlight Reading Series, highbrow porn at the Indie Erotic Film Festival, Barbie gets a makeover at the Altered Barbie Poetry Reading, and fetishists celebrate at the 27th Annual Folsom Street Fair.

Monday 9/20: San Francisco is nothing if not full of wonderful reading series all over the city nearly every night of the week.  Tonight, the series is The Porchlight, the venue, The Verdi Club, and the readers spectacular (among them, The Rumpus’ own Managing Editor, Isaac Fitzgerald).  See Isaac read with drag legend Vicki Marlane, publicist Nina Sazevich, and bookmaker (and beekeeper!) Pam DeLuco at this month’s reading, Kings and Queens. Tickets $15, 21+, 8pm @ 2424 Mariposa Street. …more

This week, The Monthly Rumpus, The Peanut Butter Plan, Rebecca Solnit at the JCCSF, and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside!

Monday 9/13: It’s the second Monday of the month, which can only mean one thing: The Monthly Rumpus! The September Monthly Rumpus, Where’s Steve? (he’s in New York) features authors Creston Lea, Katie Crouch, Rives, and Daniel Alarcón, music by John Craigie and Shovelman Isaac Frankle, and  a performance by San Francisco legend,  Chicken John!  As always, $10 cheap, 21+, and full of porn-raffle goodness.  7pm @ 3225 22nd Street. …more

This week, a picnic-y Labor Day edition of Quiet Lightning, The Rumpus Book Club In-Person Discussion, the 33rd episode of Literary Death Match, and the 12th annual Power To The Peaceful festival in Golden Gate Park.

Monday 9/6: The Quiet Lightening reading series gets into the Labor Day Spirit with a pre-reading picnic at Dolores Park.  I have it on good authority that QL co-founder, Evan, will be bringing homemade bread (because he told me so!)  There will be much lounging about, eating, music, and general merrymaking, so bring something tasty to share and a blanket to lay out on.  At 7pm the party moves to the Mina Dresden gallery for readings and the latest copy of sPARKLE & bLINK.  Picnic @ 3pm/Reading @ 7-9pm ($3).  The Mina Dresden Gallery is located @ 312 Valencia Street. …more

This week, moving into my new apartment takes much longer than I thought it would, this guy talks about UFOs at Amnesia, The Exploratorium gets spacey new installation art, and SF Zine Fest takes over the San Francisco County Fair building!

Monday 8/30: For the first time since the inception of Notable San Francisco, I’ve dropped the ball. In my defense, moving house on top of being a full time student and having a day job was just more than I could handle today, and I really couldn’t bear to give you less than one hundred and ten percent. Also, The Rumpus pays me in hamburgers and hugs. Not that I don’t love both hamburgers and hugs. So this Monday, cook yourself a nice meal, crack open that semi-fancy bottle of wine someone brought over that one time, and settle in with Ted Wilson’s latest review of the world or Antonia Crane’s recent interview/essay about the one-of-a-kind strip club carnival that is Jumbo’s Clown Room. …more

This week in San Francisco: an Adult Writers’ Seminar at 826 Valencia, a record release at Jellyfish Gallery, sweet animation at A.T.A., and, as always, art and poetry in The Mission — This time around at the Viracocha Variety Show.

Monday 8/23: Not just for writers of the K-12 variety, 826 Valencia will be hosting DIY Publishing and Marketing: An Adult Writers’ Seminar tonight with authors Steve Almond, Stephen Elliott, and Chelsea Martin, and moderator Oscar Villalon. The panel will spare none of the gruesome details in explaining the path of the agent-less, self publishing, renegade writer.  Tickets $50, 7-9pm @ 826 Valencia Street. …more

This week: m.g. martin’s book launch at Space Gallery, explore some linear and visceral expressions of time, Jennifer Jajah Hearts Hamas, and celebrate the birth of another Mission art gallery at Hijinks.

Monday 8/16: Do you hate having to explore the California Academy of Sciences with all the other riffraff waiting in line for planetarium seats and blocking your sweet view of the penguins?  Get yourself a ticket to the platinum tour and step into a working lab to interact with researchers, view of some of the Academy’s treasured gems & minerals, visit the aquarium’s life support room, and score reserved planetarium seats and a dvd to remember your experience with.  11am-5pm @ 55 Music Concourse Drive. …more

This week, The Monthly Rumpus, Nerd Nite, the first episode of Literary Death Match with new producer, m.g. Martin, Ferris Plock’s latest solo show, and a pretty sweet looking lineup at Outside Lands.

Monday 8/9: Hot Nights, the August Monthly Rumpus, is here already.  As usual: it’s $10 cheap, happening at the Makeout Room, hosted by Stephen Elliott, and full of the now-infamous empanadas and porn.  On the program this month: readings by Antonia Crane, Matthew Zapruder, and Steve Almond, comedy by Nato Green, and music by the legendary Chuck Prophet.  21+, 7pm @ 3225 22nd Street. …more

This week, Quiet Lightning! First Tuesday: TechnoCraft @ YBCA, and art, art, art!  In North Beach @ DoublePunch, Western Addition @ Big Umbrella, and in the Haight at the Summer Art Walk.

Monday 8/2: Relatively new, and already so popular that it has outgrown its original venue, this month’s Quiet Lightning reading series moves to the Rickshaw Stop! Stop by to submit, or just to spectate, and pick up a copy of the latest sPARKLE & bLINK Quiet Lighting anthology while you’re there.  18+, $3 at the door, 7pm @ 155 Fell Street. …more

This week, make your Monday, discover a microhood, Tourettes Without Regrets goes XXX, and The Mission has some more artsy block parties.

Monday 7/26: Get yourself to the Fort Mason Center for Make My Monday, a gathering of artists, DJs, and the people who love them.  Have a cocktail, watch the magic happen, and leave with a reasonably priced art piece ($5-50).  Free, 6:30-9:30pm @ Marina Boulevard (@ Buchanan Street). …more

This week: mutant cowboys at the Roxie, The Botany of Desire, a Litquake cocktail party, roller disco, and more film festival goodness!

Monday 7/19: Bounty hunters, vigilante justice, and good old fashioned wild west gun-slinging.  The Dead and the Damned has all that and ravenous mutants, and it’s showing at the Roxie tonight as a part of SF IndieFest’s Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, which features all the underground fantasy, scifi, and horror films you could possibly want.  Tickets $10-11.50, 9pm @ 3117 16th Street. …more

This (sexy) week: Get your Rumpus on at the Makeout Room, makeout with someone in honor of Bastille Day, and help Carol Queen celebrate her birthday in true Exhibitionist stylewith lap dances and a book release at Good Vibrations!

Monday 7/12: To the Makeout Room!  It’s Monthly Rumpus time again! This month: authors Justine Sharrock, Matt Stewart, Eli Horowitz w/ Mac Barnett, Lauren Wheeler, and Matthew L. Moseley, a performance by hooper of the year Richard Porter, music by Ember Schrag, and comedy by the hilarious Janine Brito.  While you’re there, check out the Girl From Empanada’s wares (and bring one by the merch table for yours truly).  $10 cheap, 21+, 7pm @ 3225 22nd Street. …more

This week in San Francisco: Lilith Fair is back with a vengeance, Damn Handsome & The Birthday Suits frontman and excellent author, Joshua Mohr, reads from his latest book at City Lights, and Elissa Bassist hosts her last San Francisco Literary Death Match at the Elbo Room!

Monday 7/5: Slip your favorite Birkenstocks on and party like it’s 1999 at the first Lilith Fair in over a decade! Sarah McLachlan and co. return for an estrogen-powered evening at Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheater.  The show goes on all evening @ Shoreline.

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This week in San Francisco, the history of pisco punch, put on your flapper finery for the Gatsby Ball, how to choose the perfect vibrator (or vibrators?), sexy new art at Femina Potens Gallery, and hear some free jazz at the Free Jazz Festival!

Monday 6/28: Help celebrate the long-awaited launch of Whore! Magazine at the Makeout room.  Stop by from 8 to late for live music, dance, and performances inspired by all things flapper and French.  Free, 21+, 8pm @ 3225 22nd Street. …more

This week in San Francisco: Hey Honey, it’s the Tamale Lady’s birthday!, Flaming tassels at Cafe Du Nord, The Big Lebowski meets William Shakespeare at SF IndieFest, McSweeney’s and the Believer get it on at Amnesia for an All Acoustic Summer Festival of Language and Thinking, and SF Pride takes over the city.

Monday 6/21: Head down to Atlas Cafe for some science!  Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of WIRED, talks about technology as a part of personal health and his new book, The Decision Tree, at Down to a Science.  Free and all ages, 7-9pm @ 3049 20th Street.  (Did all that science make you hungry?  Stop by Zeitgeist for The Tamale Lady’s annual birthday bash!) …more

This week in San Francisco: The June Monthly Rumpus!, short operas, burlesque, underground film, and cardboard tube fighting!

Monday 6/14: It’s that time again: get your ass down to the Makeout Room for June’s Rumpus, Beautiful Beginnings! Co-hosted by SMITH Magazine, this month’s Rumpus features authors Richard Ferguson, Piper Kerman, Raina Bird, Lisa Brown, and the Six-Word Memoirist, comedy by Will Durst, and music by Dave Smallen and Amores Vigilantes!  As always, the fun is $10 cheap, 21+, 7pm @ 3225 22nd Street. …more

This Week: check out an “occurrence” in a motel at Mugwumpin’s Get This Go, The Rumpus hosts an evening of music and film with The Yellow Dress at The Rickshaw Stop, Paul Madonna’s All Over Coffee is all over SFMoMA’s Cafe, The Biggest Literary Death Match ever, and porn intersects cinematic art at the fundraiser screening of Public Sex, Private Minds.

Monday 6/7: See a performance in a motel room that isn’t illegal.  Mugwumpin’s latest “occurrence”, Get This Go, is a story of the limbo experienced by those forced out of their homes by disaster, taking with them only what they can carry.  The performance is part of a series of performances created for non-theatrical spaces, and reservations are required, although the event is free.  Performances at 7/7:30/8/8:30pm @ the Pacific Heights Inn, 1555 Union Street. …more

This week, get your food on at the Old Mint Building, learn how to write the perfect press release, get crafty at Workshop SF for the Divisadero Art Walk and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside, and celebrate all things queer at Radar Superstar and the opening reception of Dan Nicoletta’s More Glitter — Less Bitter.

Monday 5/31: Catch the tail end of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society’s From Earth to 5-Star program at the old Mint Building.  The SFMHS has opened up the old Mint Building to the public for a temporary exhibit of food and drink innovations that focus on sustainability and the future of food in San Francsico.  $10 at the door, 12-5pm @ 88 Fifth Street. …more

This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle with ThinkWalk, and celebrate National Masturbation Month at the San Francisco Center for Sex and Culture’s Masturbate-a-thon 2010!

Monday 5/24: Keep the DIY spirit alive post-Maker Fair at Fort Mason Center’s Make My Monday.  Sip cocktails and enjoy waterfront views while local artist work live to bring you fabulous wares from $5-$50. Admission is free and 21+, 6:30-9:30pm @ The Fort Mason Firehouse. …more

This week, wood block prints, films about farms, have a nerd-gasm at Cory Doctorow’s EFF reading at 111 Minna, see suspense-master Palahniuk at the Swedish American Music Hall, and get queer at RADAR’s fundraiser with Michelle Tea and Heklina.

Monday 5/17: After everything you learned about wood block printing at YBCA’s screening of Typeface last Saturday, you want to see some Northern Dutch wood block prints in the flesh, do you not?  The San Francisco Center for the Book has got you covered with a FREE lecture and showing by Wally Jansen tonight from 6-8pm.  300 De Haro Street. …more

This Week: The May Monthly Rumpus!  Have some Lit&Lunch at 111 Minna, Bawdy Storytelling, an extra Rumpus-y Literary Death Match, and crazy drunken San Franciscans in varying degrees of nudity: it’s Bay to Breakers!

Monday 5/10: It’s time for the Monthly Rumpus again!  This month: Keith Lee Morris, Jillian Lauren, Beth Lisick, and Andrew Sean Greer!  Comedy by Kyle Kinane, music by Michael Mullen, plus a special guest, our very own Ted Wilson!  As always, $10 cheap, 21+, 7pm @ 3225 22nd Street. …more

This week, San Francisco flaunts its artistic side with free museum admission on First Tuesday, the 17th Annual MoMA Warehouse Sale, SoEx’s 2010: Space Odyssey fund raiser, and ReFrame: Making Sense of Waste at ARC.  Full up on traditional cultural enrichment this week?  How about some Karaoke Porn?

Monday 5/3: Tonight VidSF teams up with Creative Commons for their salon on the Power of Open Education at pariSoma. Show up and make a donation to CC to see panel discussions by Brian Bridges (California Learning Resource Network (CLRN)), Murugan Pal (CK-12 Foundation), and Carolina Rossini, (Berkman Fellow, Peer2Peer University), or watch the live stream from the comfort of your own home thanks to VidSF.  7-9pm @ 1436 Howard Street.

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This week, show some skin for Boobquake!, shake your booty at ODC’s free dance classes, and get hotter than Georgia asphalt at the x-rated 20 year anniversary showing of Wild at Heart.

Monday 4/26: Ladies, participate in a global experiment you’ll surely tell your grandchildren about some day: Boobquake! The brainchild of blogger, Jen McCreight, Boobquake aims to disprove an Iranian prayer leader’s recent assertion that immodesty causes earthquakes.  Then, get your decolletage down to The Makeout Room for a mod edition of Cat’s Pajamas, an evening of music and dance hosted by Ginger of Whore Magazine.  21+, $5, 8pm @ 3225 22nd Street. …more

This week, celebrate Earth Day, National Poetry Month, and San Francisco’s spectacular art scene.  Also, feel smarter with Ransom Stephens, and pay homage to the Reubenesque figure at Hot.Fat.Femmes!

Monday 4/19: Get smart!  Head over to Atlas Cafe where Ransom Stephens (The God Patent) will use a bunch of straws and a wicked sense of humor to explain 20th century mathematician, Emmy Noether’s, theorems of physics and other such scientific stuff.  Free, 7pm @ 3049 20th Street. …more

Artists: Grand Hallway

Song: “Blessed Be, Honey Bee”

Related: “Indie Bands Take Back the Internet.”

This week: The Monthly Rumpus rocks the Makeout Room yet again, The Believer presents You’re a Horrible Person, but I Like You, San Francisco’s Cinematheque society has a neat film party at the Victoria Theater, and feel better about not running any marathons recently by collecting pledges for ArtSeed’s Art-a-thon to benefit art education programs.

Monday 4/12: Support The Rumpus by coming out to the Makeout Room for April’s Monthly Rumpus featuring performances by Yo-Yo Master Doctor Popular, The Yellow Dress and Peter Squires, and readings by Mac McClelland, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Randall Mann, Susan Steinberg, and Broke-Ass Stuart.  As always, it’s $10 cheap, and raffle prizes will abound.  21+, 7pm @ 3225 22nd Street. …more

This week, get your literature on at Mission-famous events by Quiet Lightning, Sister Spit, and Literary Death Match, celebrate all things female at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, party for civil rights at the 10th annual César Chávez Day Parade, and rock out with a bowl of shkembe chorba (that’s Bulgarian tripe soup) at The Festival of the Mandolins.

Monday 4/5: Get cozy at an intimate episode of Quiet Lightning at Gestalt.  $2, or whatever you can spare, is all it takes to get in to the reading, book swap, and raffle.  Writers: be sure to submit for future Quiet Lightning events; visual artists: submit your work to be featured on future QL postcards.  21+, 7-9ish pm @ 3159 16th Street. …more

Tomo Nakayama is small, almost hidden completely by the beautiful guitar in his lap and the Jameson on the rocks he holds in front of his face.

Instead of a stage, he is sitting in the corner of a cozy loft, and instead of being backed by the other seven members of his band, Grand Hallway, he is perched on a wicker dining room chair, alone.  The rest of the house is quickly filling with people, shoeless, milling around the kitchen eating homemade gumbo, pouring drinks, and chatting, both with each other and with people in a chat room projected on the back wall.  Everyone, whether in the kitchen or in the comfort of their own home, is waiting for the same concert. …more

This Week, Get ready for next week’s Monthly Rumpus with a Yellow Dress show, check out emerging writers at USF and established ones at Grow the F*ck Up! at the Hemlock, get your nerd on at Wondercon, and celebrate a national holiday with a reading at a gay sex club.

Monday 3/29: Catch Morning Coffee editor, Dan Weiss, with The Yellow Dress, Tempo No Tempo, and World’s Greatest Ghosts tonight at hipster watering hole, The Knockout.  21+, $5 at the door, 8:30pm @ 3223 Mission Street. …more