This week in San Francisco!
Monday 10/29: Matthew Inman of the Oatmeal reads tonight from his latest, How to Tell if Your Cat is Trying to Kill You, at Books Inc (Marina). Free, 7pm.
Tuesday 10/30: City Lights celebrates its latest release in the Spotlight Poetry Series, Catherine Wagner’s Nervous Device. Described as taking “inspiration from William Blake’s “bounding line” to explore the poem as a body at the intersection between poet and audience.” Free, 7pm.
Wednesday 10/31: Happy Halloween-watch Giants Parade, give blood before you go out for the night, and get home safe.
Thursday 11/1: The Stranger and the Beliver face off for an extreme indie storytelling show, When We Were Young and Dumb. Featuring Brian McMullen, Laura Howard, and Daniel Levin Becker and The Stranger’s Lindy West, Christopher Frizzelle, and Bethany Jean Clement. 6pm, the Make Out Room.
Friday 11/2: Día de los Muertos celebrations in Berkeley and SF. 111 Minna hosts a free evening to open a new photography exhibition chronicling veneration of the dead in cultures worldwide.
Saturday 11/3: The final Open Studios event of the season takes place at galleries and artist studios in Hunter’s Point. Check here for listings.