This week in San Francisco!
Monday 9/10: Comedy night at El Rio features Diane Amos, Malcolm Grissom, Jill Bourque, Bob McIntyre, and Lisa Geduldig. 8pm, $7.
Tuesday 9/11: More funny business: Midwestern comedy group Merry Mack bring its brand of funny created for the “meek, goofy, curious, and perfectly offbeat fans of hilarity.” 7:30pm, $15.
Wednesday 9/12: Viracocha hosts Word Performances, a reading of fiction and poetry “where words are the lead, jazz vocals are featured and dance takes a brief cameo.” Featuring performers Joseph Lease, Cybele Zufolo, Todd Siegel, Chris Cole, Evan Karp, Nana K. Twamasi, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Nate Waggoner, CJ Reiss, and Lani Wolf7:30pm, $10 suggested donation.
Thursday 9/13: T. Geronimo Johnson is at Booksmith discussing Hold it ‘Till it Hurts, “a modern day odyssey through war, adventure, disaster and love and explores how people who do not define themselves by race make sense of a world that does. ” Free, 7:30pm.
Friday 9/14: Bay area based freelance writer, published poet, and radical love activist Wendy O-Matik leads a workshop focused on feminist critique of love and relationships outside the dominant paradigm of monogamy. 7:30pm $5-$10 sliding scale, at Rock Paper Scissors
Saturday 9/15: Last day to catch I-Hotel: We Won’t Move!, a photographic exhibition chronicling the historic tenants-rights I-hotel protest in Manilatown. Free, all day, Manilatown Heritage Organization.
