This week in San Francisco, RADAR at The Luggage Store, Noise Pop loves Litquake, and John Wesley Harding performs at the launch of Wesley Stace’s new novel.
Monday 2/21: Support San Francisco State University’s College of Creative Arts at One Act Fringe. See plays by Daniel Roche and Jeremy Forbing Childbirth, Marilyn Kriegel and Bryce Duzan, Randall Jong and Holly McKay, and Joseff Stevenson and Jessica Hurtado. Tickets $5-10, 7pm @ Studio Theatre, 1600 Holloway Avenue.
Tuesday 2/22: Head to the Luggage Store Gallery for the RADAR Series. Hosted by Michelle Tea, this RADAR series feature filmmaker Sharon Barnes, illustrator and author Lisa Brown, author Erin O’Briant, and musician Matt Roher. Live life advice from Stephen Elliott, and Yoko Ono-inspired performance art by Kirk Read. Free, 7pm @ 1007 Market Street.
Wednesday 2/23: Has China surpassed the U.S. in supercomputing? Find out at the Commonwealth Club. Tickets $7-20, 6pm @ 595 Market Street.
Thursday 2/24: Check out Way Behind the Music, the sweet cultural love child of Noise Pop and Litquake. Mark Eitzel, Thao Nguyen, Beth Lisick, Linda Robertson, Michelle Tea, Bucky Sinister, Jesse Michaels, Paul Myers, Tom Heyman, and Anthony Bedard mine the depths of musical autobiography to bring you performance gold with excerpts from the works of Justin Bieber, Jewel, Gene Simmons, and then some. Tickets $10-15, 21+, 7pm @ 3225 22nd Street.
Friday 2/25: Rusty Truck Online takes over Bitchez Brew at Kaleidoscope. See Cassandra Dallett, HK Rainey, Michael Layne Heath, MK Chavez, publisher Scot Young, William Taylor Jr., and music by JamHands. 7:30pm @ 3109 24th Street.
Saturday 2/26: Get your Noise Pop fix at any one of the fantastic shows going on tonight through March 3rd. See No Age, The Appleseed Cast, Peanut Butter Wolf, or Best Coast, and plan the rest of your Noise Pop schedule here.
Sunday 2/27: Help The Rumpus celebrate the release of Wesley Stace’s new novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, at Amnesia. Hosted by Stephen Elliott, the book launch will feature music by John Wesley Harding (Stace’s musical alter ego) and Tiny Television, comedy by Nato Green, and Readings by literary couple Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown. The $15 ticket gets you a copy of the book, 21+, 7pm @ 853 Valencia Street.
