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!)
Tuesday 6/22: Get into the SF Pride spirit at Femina Potens Gallery with Sizzle with Jack Halberstam. The author of Female Masculinity and The Drag King Book will present The Queer Art of Failure. Tickets $10, 8pm @ 2199 Market Street.
Wednesday 6/23: Have Tassles, Will Travel at Cafe Du Nord combines burlesque, flaming titties, and the story of Burlesque Hall of Famer, Satan’s Angel — what’s not to love? Featuring Miss Da Minna, Lady Monster, and MC Kitten on the Keys. 21+, tickets $20-40. 7pm @ 2170 Market Street.
Thursday 6/24: The Dude abideth! See the Primitive Screwheads Theater Company’s “adaptation of an adaptation of a parody of a farce”, Much Ado About Lebrowski, at CellSpace for SF IndieFest. While Russians will be served at 7pm, show at 8pm. 21+, tickets $20, show at 2050 Bryant Street.
Friday 6/25: What do you get when you combine Iron Chef and Bay Area science teachers? The Exploratorium’s Iron Science Teacher competition! While I personally believe baking to be the most enjoyable science of all, head down to the Exploratorium to see what creative classroom experiments local science teachers come up in ten minutes with one secret ingredient. Can’t make it? Watch the live webcast online. All ages, noon @ The Palace of Fine Arts (3601 Lyon Street).
Saturday 6/26: Get to Amnesia in the Mission for McSweeney’s All Acoustic Summer Festival of Language and Thinking presented by the Believer! Catch readings by Elif Batuman (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them), Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Damion Searls (What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going), and Justin Taylor (Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever), and an acoustic performance by Ezra Feinberg of Citay, all hosted by Andrew Leland, managing editor of the Believer. 21+ and free! 6-8pm @ 853 Valencia.
Sunday 6/27: Celebrate all things lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, or anything in between at San Francisco’s infamous Civic Center Pride Celebration. Wrapping up a weekend of Pride events, Sunday’s festivities will rage on from noon-7pm.
