This Week in San Francisco…!
Monday 2/13: Judge Agatha Hoff reads at Odd Mondays, hosted by Dog Eared Books in Noe Valley. Free, 7pm.
Tuesday 2/15: Writer and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña celebrates V-day with a free show, Strange Democracy, at Mills College. 7pm. Nathan Englander reads from What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, “a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game.” Free, 7pm Jewish Community Center.
Wednesday 2/15: Matilda Bernstein Sycamore is at at City Lights reading from Why Are Faggots Afraid of Faggots?, a challenge to both “straight homophobia and the hypocrisy of mainstream gay norms that say the only way to stay safe is to act straight.”Free, 7pm.
Thursday 2/16: Local comic book artist and frequent Rumpus contributor Mari Noemi reads from Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume Ages 0-22 at Asian Art Museum’s Sensuality-themed Matcha. $10, 5-9pm. The long-awaited Bay Area arrival of From the Back of the Room, the 2011 documentary chronicling the past 30 years of female involvement in DIY punk, happens this week. $5, 9pm, Lost Weekend Video, Wednesday Oakland screening at Black Hole Cinema.
Friday 2/17: Mark Bradford and Audience as Subject, Part 2 opens at YBCA with entertainment by contemporary Butoh performance artist Deborah Butler and DJ Sake Onederful. $5, 9:30pm.
Saturday 2/18: Bird and Beckett books hosts the launch for Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild (excerpt here). Free, 7pm.
