This week in San Francisco, get to Slim’s for old and new honky tonk at Rattle and Rye, the Booksmith presents Literary Clown Foolery and Fort Mason hosts the Renegade Craft Fair.
Tuesday, July 5th – If you survived the Fourth of July without a mega-hangover, you’re doing something wrong, but also that means you can leave the house! Get over to subMission Gallery to check out K records legend Calvin Johnson for an all-ages solo show tonight! He’ll be supported by one-man electro-punk band Joey Casio and local indiepop heros Sourpatch. SubMission Gallery, 8:30pm $7.
Wednesday, July 6th – My favorite local art gallery, Fivepoints Arthouse, wants everyone to be an artist. Express yo’self tonight at their weekly Social Studio Space. Make friends. Make Art. Open to all adult artists excited about their work – some materials will be provided. Fivepoints Arthouse, 6pm, Free.
Thursday, July 7th – Your show to go to this week is presented by cabaret group, the Cat’s Pajamas and Slim’s. Rattle & Rye is a night of old and new honky Tonk with a rattle and spark. Come and celebrate swamps, roadhouses, corn liquor, snake oil salesmen, dust bowl Vaudeville, and all that hard foot stompin’ to the sounds of bad ass banjos and vicious violins! But expect your hay rollin’ to be laced with a heavy dose of Urban cement hiss and soul twanging! The line-up is as follows: Trainwreck Riders, Buxter Hoot’n, Jimmy Sweetwater, Quinn Deveaux, Kelly McFarlin, Fox & Woman, Dottie Lux and Jlal Huyler. Go ahead, gasp in awe and excitement. Now, go buy tickets! Slim’s, 8pm – Tickets.
Friday, July 8th – Get ready to rock your world: July’s Literary Clown Foolery is dedicated to the work of the amazing Neil Strauss! San Francisco’s clowns will bring new perspectives to Strauss’s books, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Emergency, and Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead. The evening will include clowns trying out the Game, live adaptations of Straus’s interviews with rock stars, as well as accordions, juggling, and just plain, old hilarity!
The Booksmith, 8pm, $10.
Saturday, July 9th – On July 9 + 10, 2011, from 11am – 7pm, The Renegade Craft Fair will return to Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion for our 4th Annual San Francisco Fair!! The best makers of handmade goods from the Bay and beyond will assemble for our free-to-attend marketplace celebration of indie-craft culture! We’ll additionally be featuring many hands-on crafting activities and other extra special features! Food, beverages and libations will also be available! Fort Mason, 11am, Info.
Also, this Saturday, Viracocha presents Andrea Stray with full band, Bone Cootes and Greg Dale for a night of great music and good people. Viracocha, 8pm, Info.
Sunday, July 10th – The *NEW* Center for Sex and Culture presents, “Naked Girls EATING” – Each reader has chosen select cuts, reading scrumptious mouth-watering gastronomic tales of food, feasts and fine dining. Special Naked Cast Member: Burlesque Legend, Isis Starr. Catering provided by Wicked Grounds – San Francisco’s First and Only Kink Cafe and Boutique. 1349 Mission, 8pm, $15-20 – Tickets.
