Notable San Francisco

Monday 3/4: Poet and translator Mary Winegarden discusses her new volume The Translator’s Sister, and her decades working with Russian literature at SF State. Free, 7pm. Tuesday 3/5: The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition was founded after a car bomb went off…

Monday 2/25: Galeria de la Raza’s full moon spoken word monthly LUNADA opens its spring season with John Santos, Israel Matos, & Deuce Eclipse, and open mic host Sandra Garcia Rivera. $5 7:30pm, Tuesday 2/26: InsideStoryTime rolls out OFFWORLDERS featuring the otherworldly…

Monday, 2/11: Story Farm presents six award winning authors and their stories for a night of creative nonfiction. With Tamim Ansary, Mac McClelland, Nancy Mullane, Peter Orner, Mary Roach and Lavinia Spalding. $15, 7pm Intersection for the Arts. Tuesday, 2/12:…

This week in SF Monday 2/4: SMITH Magazine holds Reboot featuring six storytellers’ Six-Word Memoirs. With comedian Aurora Simcovich, musician Aaron Glass, Wise Sons Deli owner Leo Beckerman , writer Josh Healy, singer Rebecca Bortman, poet Dyanna Loeb, and Aviva Frank. 7pm,…

This week in San Francisco, rejoice, for many staples of the literary city have returned for their first shows of 2013 Monday 1/28: Lit Slam,the monthly, live performance-based poetry anthology showcasing the best art at “the intersection of page and stage,”…

This week in San Francisco! Monday 1/21: Happy Martin Luther King Day. 2013 is the 50th anniversary of I Have A Dream. Tuesday 1/22: Pushcart Prize winner Susan Steinberg reads from her short story collections Hydroplane and The End of…

This week in San Francisco! Monday 1/14: The Shout, Oakland’s monthly live storytelling event, is back for 2013. This month features five locals telling ten minute true life stories, with time for audience members to join in. $5-$20 suggested donation.…

This week in San Francisco! Monday 1/7: If 2013 has thus far been short on burlesque, things can change with Hubba Hubba, at Uptown, 9pm. Tuesday 1/8: Take part in public reviews of proposed art installations in the Presidio. Wednesday…

This week in San Francisco!#$#$@! Monday 12/17: For folks who didn’t do, but are considering doing, things that everyone else did this year, The Dark Knight Rises is showing tonight. One of the year’s biggest movies, and it’s free. The…

This Week in San Francisco! Monday 12/3: Quiet Lightning is at the Lab for its final audience curated reading performances of the year. Read more on readers and performers here. $5 suggested donation, 7:30pm. Tuesday 12/4: Black Hole Cinema features…

This week in SF! Monday 11/26: Novelist and “media inventor” Robin Sloan discusses Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, a “tale of code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, global conspiracy, young love, and typography — mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall North Beach bookstore.” Free,…

This Week in San Francisco! What does the turkey have to be thankful for? http://www.friendssfpl.org/?$1_Book_Sale: Lit Slam hosts its first ever book launch for Tandem, a collection of the best of two years of audience-curated readings. Featuring readings and music…