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The Rumpus Proudly Presents:
On September 13th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. 7pm.
Featuring authors Creston Lea, Katie Crouch, Rives, and Daniel Alarcón.
Music by John Craigie and Shovelman Isaac Frankle.
...moreLess than one week away, on August 9th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. 7pm.
Featuring authors Antonia Crane, Matthew Zapruder, Victor Martinez, and Steve Almond!
National pun champion Joe Sabia!
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Click here to buy advance tickets!July 12th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm in San Francisco.
Featuring authors Justine Sharrock, Matt Stewart, Eli Horowitz w/ Mac Barnett, Lauren Wheeler, and Matthew L. Moseley.
...moreThe Rumpus and SMITH Magazine Proudly Present:
Click here to buy your advance tickets!
June 14th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm.
Featuring authors Richard Ferguson, Piper Kerman, Raina Bird, Lisa Brown, and the Six-Word Memoirists!
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The Rumpus Proudly Presents:
May 10th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm.
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Featuring authors Keith Lee Morris, Jillian Lauren, Beth Lisick, and Andrew Sean Greer!
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April 12th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm.
Featuring authors Mac McClelland, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Randall Mann, Susan Steinberg, and Broke-Ass Stuart!
With a Performance by Yo-Yo Master Doctor Popular.
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The Rumpus, Tin House, and Flavorpill Present:
April 6 at The Highline Ballroom
Featuring Authors: Sam Lipsyte, Colson Whitehead, and Lorelei Lee
With This American Life‘s Starlee Kine and comedians Michael Showalter and Dave Hill
Plus music by Jeffrey Lewis and Alina Simone
Doors at 6pm, show at 7pm
431 W.
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The Rumpus and McSweeney’s Proudly Present:
March 8th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm.
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Featuring authors Jesse Nathan, Jami Attenberg, Mark Morford, and Gerard Jones!
With Performances by Chicken John and comedian Nato Green.
...moreThe Rumpus proudly presents:
The February Monthly RumpusFebruary 8th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm.
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Featuring authors Tony Dushane, Robin Ekiss, Ethan Watters, Kevin Sampsell,
and Daniel Handler!
The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER, a celebration of the first anniversary of The Rumpus, on January 21, 2010.
The night will feature readings by Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, Deb Olin Unferth, Justin Taylor and Stephen Elliott, musical guests Alina Simone, Diane Louvel, and just added, Jeffrey Lewis.
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The Rumpus proudly presents:
January 11 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm.
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Featuring authors Michelle Tea, D. A. Powell, Elissa Bassist, Daniel Nester, and Allison Hoover Bartlett.
...moreDid you manage to miss the December Monthly Rumpus due to a prior engagement, a badly timed break-up, or the simple fact that you, like much of the world, don’t live in the Bay Area?
Or were you lucky enough to be in attendance, but ever since have been salivating at the thought of reliving the glory?
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December 14 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd St., 7pm
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Please join us for a night of literature, music, and comedy featuring:
Andrew Leland from The Believer Magazine
James Nestor, author of Get High Now
Michelle Gagnon, author of The Gatekeeper
Robert Mailer Anderson, author of Boonville
Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli
With comedy by W.
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The Rumpus and Wholphin proudly present:
November 9 at The Makeout Room, 3229 22nd St., 7pm
Please join us for a night of literature, music, and comedy featuring:
Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted
Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year
Chelsea Martin, author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever
and Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock
With comedy by Nato Green
Music by Michael Mullen of The Size Queens
And a short film from Wholphin
$10, cheap!
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October 15, The Rumpus and Noise Pop present
Music and Comedy Night at the Rickshaw!
Eighteen and over.
Please join us for a night of music and comedy, October 15 at the Rickshaw Stop featuring John Wesley Harding.
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Monday, September 14, in San Francisco. The September Monthly Rumpus featuring This American Life’s Starlee Kine and world Air Guitar Champion Dan Crane. Purchase tickets!
Video and complete lineup after the jump.
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WHERE: The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, San FranciscoWHO and WHAT:
Hilarious Music by DJ Real
Short film by Wholphin
Performance by yo-yo genius Doctor Popular
Readings and performances from authors:
Skip Horack, Joshua Mohr, Katie Crouch, and Steve Almond!
...moreAs you no doubt know, we’ve got another Rumpus event coming up this Tuesday, July 7, in San Francisco: Sex, Music, Comedy night with Jill Sobule. We’ve got a bunch of great acts including sex worker/authors Michelle Tea, Kirk Read, Madison Young, and Zak Smith.
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The Rumpus and Kink.com (NSFW)
PRESENT
Sex-Music-Comedy Night
co-sponsored by The Center for Sex and Culture
at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco
...moreJuly 7, in San Francisco, Sex, Music, Comedy night with Jill Sobule. Featuring sex worker/authors Michelle Tea, Kirk Read, Madison Young, and Zak Smith. Burlesque by Mariel a la Mode. Comedy by Kyle Kinane. Music by Sig and special guest musician Jill Sobule.
...moreI’ll be teaching a class on writing from experience in New York, Monday, August 3, from 6 to 9pm. There’s very limited seating so it’s a good idea to sign up in advance.
...moreSign up for our monthly (sometimes twice monthly) San Francisco newsletter, The Monthly Rumpus. This is entirely different from The Daily Rumpus, which is a kind of personal email. This is strictly a notice for cool bay area political and literary events, generally affiliated with The Rumpus, in particular our Monthly Rumpus, which is generally how we fund this whole thing.
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The Rumpus is teaming up with Kink.com for our next event in San Francisco, July 7. It was only a matter of time before only literary magazines teamed up with fetish porn studios to produce events. Or maybe not. Hard to say.
The Rumpus and Kink.com (NSFW)
PRESENT
Sex-Music-Comedy Night
WHERE: The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco
WHO and WHAT:
Readings and performances from sex worker authors:
Zak Smith, Kirk Read, Michelle Tea, and Madison Young (NSFW)
Comedy by Los Angeles based comedian Kyle Kinane (the funniest comedian I have ever seen)
Songstress burlesque by Mariel a la Mode
Music by Sig Hafstrom
And Special Guest Musician JILL SOBULE
Hosted by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/70578
$20, cheap
(Ok, not that cheap, but we had expenses this time)
Same price advance and at the door.
Paul Madonna
&
The Rumpus
Celebrate “Small Potatoes”
Opening art exhibit of large multi-panel cartoons
Ritual Coffee Roasters
June 12, 2009
7-9pm
For the Ritual Roasters exhibit, Madonna has made a series of large-scale multi-panel cartoons, furthering his comics as art approach.
...moreThe Rumpus Presents
In Conjunction with Noise Pop and Wholphin DVD
The First Monthly Rumpus
WHERE: The Makeout Room, 22nd Street at Mission, San Francisco
WHEN: June 8, 7:00pm
WHO and WHAT:
Readings from authors
Peter Orner
Andrew Greer
Damion Searls
Barbara Jane Reyes
Word for Word Performing Arts Company
performing Miss Furr and Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein
A short film from Wholphin
Music by The Yellow Dress
And Special Guest Musician Thao Nguyen
Hosted by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott
$10, cheap.
...moreAmanda Palmer, formerly of the Dresden Dolls, has just been added to The Rumpus-McSweeney’s-SMITHMAG event this Saturday, May 30 at The Highline Ballroom.
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