This week in San Francisco…
Monday, August 8: Wake up! Resist the urge to go home and sleep off the day by starting the week off strong, preferably by cracking up, headbanging, or baskin’ in lit’rary brilliance. Don’t miss “We Love You From the Start,” the monthly Rumpus presented with the Bay Citizen at 7PM at the Make-Out Room.
Whether they’re memorable because you mourned Napster or because you swear by long hair and power chords, Metallica holds space in all our memories, and they’re giving out tickets to their 30th birthday concert for six bucks at the Fillmore. Also today- Monthly Rumpus frequent-er Janine Brito headlines at the Punchline Club with an all-female lineup, Girl Talk 2.$15, 8PM.
Tuesday, August 9: Celebrate the 8 year anniversary of City Sessions, a monthly mix of musical acts throughout the Bay Area. This month it’s Bhi Bhiman and Jenny Kerr, folk singer Melissa Lyn, and Oakland’s alt-rock High Diving Horses. 8PM, Free, Club Waziema. Ornithophobia classic The Birds is screening for free in Nob Hill’s Top of the Mark Lounge. There’s a wine tasting beforehand, to lighten the mood. Wine at 7:30PM, movie at 8pm, both free.
Wednesday, August 10: Catch a double feature at the Castro Theater, exploring the never-boring threads of Me vs. The Wilderness in Meeks Cuttoff and Limbo. $10, 7PM. Jazz ensemble Gaucho‘s Tamar Korn has been described as singing with a voice that brings life to the imaginary grandkid of Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Boop. 8PM Free, at Amnesia.
Thursday, August 11: Ever look on the floor of the barber shop and sigh, ‘what a waste of great material!’ ? This week meet a kindred spirit in Chris Sollars, whose Hairy opens at YBCA. Free tickets with gallery admission, 6-8PM. Beforehand, download some local culture via the bodily history of bivalves, who have been recording our trashing of the environment for decades. Gwendolyn Meyer discusses her Oyster Culture, 6PM Free, at the Book Passage. And if you happen to be in the mood for something nonsensical, pencil in Jet Black Hair People, a live music and dadaist film mashup. Yes. 8PM $10, Oddball Film and Video.
Friday, August 12: “Maladjusted adolescence” is a redundancy. Celebrate it, and laugh in retrospect at the perfectly balanced adults you’ve become at Mortified, a “comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids.”$12 8PM DNA Lounge.
Saturday, August 13: : The Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair and Filipino Cultural Festival are going down all day-and a screening of Jaws in Dolores Park at night. 11AM-6PM, Japan Peace Plaza; 11AM-6PM Yerba Buena Gardens; 8PM, Dolores Park. All Events are Free. Also, Free Cupcakes!!
Sunday August 14: Round out the weekend, or work off an Outside Lands hangover, with Secret Sisters, currently on tour with KD Lang and playing Cafe du Nord at 8PM.