Emmy Komada

This Week in San Francisco –welcome to July, y’all. Monday 7/2: Quiet Lightning, San Francisco’s mix-tape-reading that publishes as a monthly journal, is on at Galería de la Raza. Featuring 11 new readers, $3 Lagunitas, and musical performance. $5 suggested…

This Week in San Francisco: Monday 6/25: Books Inc. Opera Plaza hosts Daily Show contributors Lizz Winstead, author of Lizz Free or Die, and Kevin Bleyer, author of Me the People: One Man’s Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of…

This Week in San Francisco: it’s pride week! Monday 6/18: The LitSlam is a “live performance-curated poetry publication where the audience serves as the Editors,” and the loudest cheers determine whose work graces the journal. Tonight’s monthly reading features Albuquerque-based…

This Week in San Francisco! Monday 6/11: Behavioral economist Dan Ariely returns to Booksmith for more fascinating revelations about counter intuitive human behavior, this time with The Honest Truth About Dishonesty. Free 7:30, Booksmith. Tuesday 6/12: The Center for the…

This Week in San Francisco! Monday 6/4: TONIGHT: The Rumpus Celebrates Written Correspondence. 6:30pm at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street. Join us! Tuesday 6/5: The SF Open Mic Poetry series features Rose Mark and Larry Beresford at the Bay Area…

This Week in San Francisco: After the BBQ’s and the bridge fireworks… Tuesday 5/29: Tosca Cafe hosts the Litquake Epicenter series featuring Carolyn Burke discussing her biography of Edith Piaf. Free, 7pm. Wednesday 5/30: Ryan George Kittleman reads from The…

This week in San Francisco! Monday 5/21: Lit Slam hosts Karrie Waarala, a “”a multifaceted, sword-swallowingly sharp writer not to be missed.” $5, 8pm Viracocha. Tuesday 5/22: Two time Man Booker Prize winner Peter Carey reads from his recently released…

This Week in San Francisco: Monday 5/14: Brick and Mortar holds a free ‘somewhat’ acoustic concert series featuring Luke Sweeny’s Wet Dreams, Dry Magic, Nick Campbell, and the Human Condition. 8pm. Tuesday 5/15: Pity the Beautiful, Dana Gioia’s recently released…

This week in San Francisco Monday 5/7: Submission-based reading series Quiet Lightning is at Alley Cat Books tonight, featuring a dozen Bay Area writers, readers, poets and performers. $3 draft beer sponsored by Lagunitas. 7:30pm $5 suggested Donation. Tuesday 5/8:…

This week in San Francisco: Monday 4/30: Martin Scorsese’s biopic George Harrison: Living in the Material World screens (for cheap) at the Roxie Theater. 7:30pm $10. Tuesday 5/1: Ironic Comic featuring Nato Green and Kyle Kinane at the Punchline Club,…

This Week in San Francisco! Monday 4/23: Poet and activist Alice Rogof reads at Dog Eared Books. Free, 7pm. Tuesday 4/24: Comedian Eric Barry is at LOL for LLS, a fundraiser for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Donation based, 8-10pm, Milk…

This Week in San Francisco.. Monday 4/16: San Francisco writers Jeanne Powell & Nancy Keane join Bird and Beckett’s Poets! series. Free, 7pm.The Lit Slam, “a live performance-curated poetry publication where the audience serves as the Editors,” features Gypsy Yo!…