In San Francisco this week, David Sedaris, a night with Kevin Smith, the SF Jewish BookFest, and a Haunted Laundromat.
Monday 10/26: Learn more about one of the cornerstones of civilization as we know it: water. An official Sundance Selection, Up the Yangtze documents the largest hydroelectric undertaking the world has ever seen. For a mere $5 donation, you can catch this film at 6.30pm at Workspace Limited 2150 Folsom Street.
Tuesday 10/27: Do your laundry, test drive your Halloween costume, and play “pin the eyeball on the shrunken head” at Brainwash’s 3rd annual Haunted Laundromat. Bring your quarters and a costume for free candy and the finest selection of beers any laundromat in San Francisco has to offer.
Wednesday 10/28: What do you get when you combine hairdressers, skinheads, terrorism, and soft core porn? The double feature screening of queer filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s No Skin Off My Ass and Raspberry Reich at The Revival House. $10 gets you a whole lot more than your typical double features (if you know what I mean). 7.30pm, 18+, 1519 Mission @ 11th St.
Thursday 10/29: Support the California College of the Arts’ scholarship program without going to some stuffy benefit dinner. Former art student, sometimes NPR commentator, and master of self-deprecation, David Sedaris will be doing a reading to raise scholarship money at CCA. $35 gets you into the reading, and for $250 you can even have a cocktail with Sedaris himself. 8pm at the Marin Center Veterans Memorial Auditorium (so it’s not technically in San Francisco, but it is David Sedaris, after all). 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael CA 94903
Friday 10/30: Join fanboys and comic book nerds from around the Bay for An Evening With Kevin Smith, which promises unique and uncensored storytelling (aka. lots of dick jokes) and an unreserved audience Q&A (lots of questions about the donkey scene in Clerks II). This chance to be near comic greatness starts at 8pm at the Warfield, and tickets start at $42.50.
Saturday 10/31: Join Bootie’s house band, Smashup Derby, for a special Halloween Boooootie. Trick-or-treat grown up style and vie for your chance to win the costume contest for cash prizes and the right to call yourself best-dressed-goth kid on the block. 21+, $10-$15, DNA Lounge.
Sunday 11/1: Celebrate all things Jewish and literate (even if you’re neither) as you recover from your candy corn and beer induced haze at the SF Jewish BookFest, appropriately hosted by the SF JCC. Entertain yourself for a full ten hours (11am-9pm) with author events, film screenings, and a keynote by infamous doodler, R. Crumb.
