Welcome home! Because you actually are home. You are not at Burning Man. But don't trip, because the hometown will be raging this week, and the BluegrassRave Backroom has channeled it's depression into this unbelievably fucking handy What Where When Guide For If You're NOT at Burning Man. It's just like the What Where When Guide they give you at the gate at Burning Man, but it's for people who didn't go to Burning Man. You may be shocked to find that bars are open, stores are operating regular hours, and even a couple cultural or community events are scheduled the week of August 30 through September 6 -- even though it is during Burning Man! So forget that you're not out sunburnt, filthy, malnourished, and lost for hours at a time... come tear it up at any or all of the Week of Burning Man events listed below.
Know some other ones? , I'll totally post anything!
Monday, Aug. 30 - Tuesday, Aug. 31 - Wednesday, Sept. 1 Thursday, Sept. 2 - Friday, Sept. 3 - Saturday, Sept. 4 Sunday, Sept. 5 - Monday,Sept. 6
Two dollars for all well drinks, one dollar for a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon. They like to call it "PBR". I like to call it "undrinkable". And then I like to have about ten of those well drinks and forget there was any talk of beer in the first place.
El Rio
3158 Mission St. (@ Cesar Chavez)
The Hubba Hubba Revue pulls off another weekly burlesque showstopper in Oakland, the soil where them other rappers be getting their lingo from. Hailed by Oakland Magazine as "ground zero for bombshells from the East Bay and beyond," which totally sounds a place you would want to be. Jellyfish Kiss, Blackhoodygrrl, Amelia Mae Paradise, Naughty Nightshade, Joie De Vivre, and Josie Starre grace the stage and then strip, with proceedings hosted by your lovable louses Kingfish & Eddie and Zip the What-Is-It at the Uptown Night Club.
The Uptown, Oakland
1928 Telegraph Ave. (@ 19th St.)
The world's most notorious graffiti outlaw documents his lowbrow art and multiple scrapes with the authorities, in footage which unfortunately does not include his recent nailing of San Francisco and Alcatraz.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
8:30 p.m.
People are really big into penguins these days, right? See real live African penguins gobble down their vittles while you pose inside questions to an on-duty marine biologist.
California Academy of Sciences
Steinhart Aquarium
55 Music Concourse Dr. (@ MLK, Jr. Drive)
Amnesia's Free Monday Night Bluegrass weekly event has that bar in an 11-way tie for first place on the Yelp ratings for "Best Monday Night Bar in the Mission". Jeanie & Chuck's Country Roundup bring their homegrown mix of old-time fiddle and banjo tunes, prison anthems, and old-fashion devil music to the Amnesia stage in a free show for Bay Area bluegrass fanciers.
Amnesia
853 Valencia St. (@ 19th St.)
Resident DJ Cuervo celebrates two relatively arrest-free years of spinning the weekly Monday Mash at the Endup. David Harness, DJ Taj, Kevin Kind, and Brian Salazar also man the decks for what is without question your craziest gay house clubbing option on a Monday night.
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
The Blonde Bombshells Film Festival at The Castro offers 2-for-1 double features throughout Burning Man week! Tonight, it's Marilyn Monroe & Don Murray in Bus Stop, followed by Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin & Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
Yep, admission at the SFMOMA is free this one day of the month! Named by Broke Ass Stuart as one of the Best Ways to Score Some High-Class Ass If You're Unemployed, but not using those exact words. Current works feature Paul Klee, a landscape exhibition curated in 1975, and a modern updating of that same exhibition.
SFMOMA
151 Third St. (@ Howard)
The unholy trinity of Slayer, Megadeth, and Testament bring the black arts of satanic speed metal to the Cow Palace on the American Carnage Tour. The carnage will be to your neck vertebrae!
Cow Palace
2600 Geneva St.
Daly City
The world's most notorious graffiti outlaw documents his lowbrow art and multiple scrapes with the authorities, in footage which unfortunately does not include his recent nailing of San Francisco and Alcatraz.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
8:30 p.m.
People are really big into penguins these days, right? See real live African penguins gobble down their vittles while you pose inside questions to an on-duty marine biologist.
California Academy of Sciences
Steinhart Aquarium
55 Music Concourse Dr. (@ MLK, Jr. Drive)
The Blonde Bombshells Film Festival at The Castro offers 2-for-1 double features throughout Burning Man week! Tonight, it's James Cagney & Jean Harlow in The Public Enemy, followed by Jayne Mansfield & Don Duryea in The Big Heat.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
At the Cat Club's Tuesday night weekly they play both kinds of music -- Supremes and Temptations. MysterC and Mr. Washington spin The Spinners and perform The Miracles, with drink specials and no cover.
Cat Club
1190 Folsom St. (@ 8th St.)
San Francisco's most infamous weekly Wednesday happy hour QOOL still rages in it's 15th year, with Spesh, Hyper D, Jondi, Mark Musselman, Gil, and Silencefiction handling tonight's spin. Eqspecially qool qats will arrive before 6pm, while there's still no cover.
111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna St. (@ 2nd St.)
The one and only Juanita MORE! is celebrating her birthday this week, so this is a Booty Call Wednesday you're not advised to miss. Oh and she will be looking radiant. Dabecy spins the evening away at QBar, with 2-for-1 admissions from 9 'til 11.
QBar
456 Castro (@ 17th St.)
George and Shatter round up the usual gang of sex offenders for their bigger-than-Jesus weekly Bondage-A-Go-Go..
The Trocadero
520 4th St. (@ Bryant)
KJ Eileen's Punk Rock'n'Schlock Karaoke is a travelling Smithsonian of karaoke content covering all genres from 1980 onward. She takes over Maggie McGarry's every Wednesday, and not a soul makes it out sober or with their dignity intact.
Maggie McGarry's
1353 Grant Ave. (@ Green St.)
The Blonde Bombshells Film Festival at The Castro offers 2-for-1 double features throughout Burning Man week! Tonight, it's Rock Hudson & Lauren Bacall in Written on the Wind, followed by Lana Turner, John Forsythe & Ricardo Montalban in Madame X.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
The world's most notorious graffiti outlaw documents his lowbrow art and multiple scrapes with the authorities, in footage which unfortunately does not include his recent nailing of San Francisco and Alcatraz.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
8:30 p.m.
If Don Asmussen doesn't win the Pulitzer Prize for his cartoon on the Wikileaks controversy, then I'm never buying dynamite again. A new Bad Reporter appears every Wednesday and Friday in the print version of the San Francisco Chronicle and on SFGate.com. Asmussen's 2005 Embedded at Burning Man cartoons still deserve recognition as the finest Burning Man satires ever.
SFGate.com
and Back Page of SF Chronicle Datebook Section
People are really big into penguins these days, right? See real live African penguins gobble down their vittles while you pose inside questions to an on-duty marine biologist.
California Academy of Sciences
Steinhart Aquarium
55 Music Concourse Dr. (@ MLK, Jr. Drive)
The Hills are alive! Today's actual date is 9-02-10! Accordingly, the gods demand a Brenda/Brandon/Tori/Tiffani-Amber theme party with costumes and terrible 1990s hairdos. SisterFantasy presents Beverly Hills 9-02-10, a stroke of considerable genius and a benefit for SaveSarah.org at the Triple Crown.
Triple Crown
1760 Market St. (@ Octavia St.)
Club 1984 has been here doing the 80's since the 80's weren't even the 80's yet. DJ's Dangerous Dan, Melting Girl, Jules, and Damon get radical gnarly with their legendary weekly rager at the Cat Club.
Cat Club
1190 Folsom (@ 8th St)
The reigning king and queen of snotty German and French electropop, Stereo Total return to Slim's in support of their new masterpiece "Baby Ouh!" You can verify they are still rockingly adorable with the preview tracks on MySpace.
Slim's
333 11th St. (@ Folsom St.)
The SFMOMA lets its hair down on a Thursday night for a screening of Electroma, the surreal robot buddy-movie by French rave-faves Daft Punk. WARNING: This film contains no actual music by Daft Punk!
SFMOMA
151 Third St. (@ Howard)
The Future Sound of Egypt takes over Ruby Skye as Eastern trance heroes Aly & Fila play pied pipers to the hottest Egyptian ass in the Bay Area. Alain Octavo brings the glam in a set beforehand.
Ruby Skye
420 Mason St. (@ Third)
Philly Fringe Festival favorites Writing Man Productions invade The Darkroom to present Sigh Fi, a collection of out-of-this-world short plays involving everyday life in space with aliens. And hey - the SF Fringe Festival begins Sept 8!
The Darkroom
2263 Mission St. (@ 19th St.)
Free outdoor movies being projected onto giant walls around the Bernal neighborhood. You have got to love that idea. Tonight's films include "Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story", a documentary about San Francisco's favorite Japanes cowboy.
Various Walls on Cortland St.
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
The world's most notorious graffiti outlaw documents his lowbrow art and multiple scrapes with the authorities, in footage which unfortunately does not include his recent nailing of San Francisco and Alcatraz.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
8:30 p.m.
The Blonde Bombshells Film Festival at The Castro offers 2-for-1 double features throughout Burning Man week! Tonight, it's Jayne Mansfield & Tony Randall in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, followed by Jack Lemmon & Betty Grable in Three for the Show.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
People are really big into penguins these days, right? See real live African penguins gobble down their vittles while you pose inside questions to an on-duty marine biologist.
California Academy of Sciences
Steinhart Aquarium
55 Music Concourse Dr. (@ MLK, Jr. Drive)
Better than the old show 120 Minutes... about four times better! The degrading sting of being in your cubicle today can be eased considerably with a set of headphones and an internet connection to BagelRadio. Motherfucking DJ Ted will be broadcasting live all day, a labor he lovingly performs every Friday.
BagelRadio.com
9am-5pm PDT
Dottie Lux relentlessly hosts San Francisco's only weekly burlesque revue every single Friday happy hour -- even if it's fucking Christmas. With cheap cover, happy hour specials, and Taqueria Cancun right across the street, you can get drunk, fed, and see acres of tits and ass all for less than $20. Trust me, I do this every week.This week, Dottie welcomes the exquisitely fuckable likes of Alotta Boutte, Francine Dead, Kitty von Quimm, Ruby Vixen, and Sister Kate.
El Rio
3158 Mission (@ Valencia)
Oakland's First Fridays Art Walk will shame any San Franciscan into thinking they live in the crappier of the two cities. And the must-see t&a of the Art Walk is at First Friday Follies, a free monthly burlesque extravaganza at the Stork Club. This month Juicy D. Light & Cupcake welcome Lady Monster, Viva Ennui, Miss Bella Trixx, Ophelia Couer de Noir, Kitty von Quimm, and the rowdiest crowd of scantily-clad sluts this side of the Washoe County women's jail.
Stork Club, Oakland
2330 Telegraph Ave. (@ 24th St.)
Oddball Film presents an evening of rare and mindblowingly tasteless 1970s gems pulled from their extensive archives. Includes the Saturday morning cartoon "Yuck Mouth Goes to the Dentist", a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Donnie & Marie", 70s trailers, and a couple of actual good short films from the era. Limited seating so .
Oddball Film
275 Capp St. (@ 18th St.)
Fag Fridays may be finished, but DJ Hawthorne is throwing down some next generation kind of shit until the sun comes up tomorrow. And it is fucking free before midnight!
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Free outdoor movies being projected onto giant walls around the Bernal neighborhood. You have got to love that idea. Tonight's films include "Where The Money At?", a rap video by 7-year-old Lil Yani addressing the AIG bailout.
Various Walls on Cortland St.
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
A hot, dark, and fucked-up time for all, as the industrial/goth grinders behind Strangelove team up to bring you A Tribute to the Sisters of Mercy! Promises to be way better than A Tribute to the Jesus & Mary Chain, who lasted only four minutes before smashing their equipment and walking offstage. Free before 10.
Cat Club
1190 Folsom St. (@ 8th St.)
Philly Fringe Festival favorites Writing Man Productions invade The Darkroom to present Sigh Fi, a collection of out-of-this-world short plays involving everyday life in space with aliens. And hey - the SF Fringe Festival begins Sept 8!
The Darkroom
2263 Mission St. (@ 19th St.)
If Don Asmussen doesn't win the Pulitzer Prize for his cartoon on the Wikileaks controversy, then I'm never buying dynamite again. A new Bad Reporter appears every Wednesday and Friday in the print version of the San Francisco Chronicle and on SFGate.com. Asmussen's 2005 Embedded at Burning Man cartoons still deserve recognition as the finest Burning Man satires ever.
SFGate.com
and Back Page of SF Chronicle Datebook Section
The Blonde Bombshells Film Festival at The Castro offers 2-for-1 double features throughout Burning Man week! Tonight, it's Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, followed by Carole Lombard & William Powell in My Man Godfrey.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
People are really big into penguins these days, right? See real live African penguins gobble down their vittles while you pose inside questions to an on-duty marine biologist.
California Academy of Sciences
Steinhart Aquarium
55 Music Concourse Dr. (@ MLK, Jr. Drive)
A lot of people make fun of Burning Man, but no one makes funnier fun of Burning Man than the geniuses behind this stunt. Please read every word of their web page, because it's so brilliant. A 36-inch balsa wood exact replica of The Man will be burned at sundown as the climax of a "bring your own art" art festival where every piece of art will be tiny. It will be somewhere at the beach, follow their Twitter feed for the exact location.
Ocean Beach
Somewhere (follow their Twitter feed for location)
Sundown
A Berkeley-based beekeeper holds a workshop by bringing thousands of live bees into an Oakland parking lot. Nothing could possibly go wrong here! Part of the North Oakland Farmer's Market Food 'n' Justice series.
Arlington Medical Center Parking Lot, Oakland
5715 Market St. (@ Adeline St.)
12 p.m.
These guys are back in Dolores Park, rousing rabble and raising a middle one to the establishment with their free brilliant and fabulous satirical medicine shows. This year it's Posibilidad, a musical metaphor for the contemporary plight of American factory workers. Get there early to have the first crack at the guy selling pot brownies and mushroom chocolates.
Dolores Park
Latin American Club Region
2 p.m.
Chill out on parade grounds in The Presidio watching Shakespeare for free. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival returns with a mod, 1960s go-go version of Shakespeare's comic caper The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Presidio Parade Ground, Main Post
The Presidio, SF
34 Graham St. (@ Lincoln Blvd.)
All the greatest Do-It-Yourself heroes converge on the on the SF County Fair Building for the ninth annual convention of small press, zines, and comics. It's like Comic-Con for people who are more creative and attractive and in better shape. And as always it is free!
SF County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park
1199 9th Ave. @ Lincoln Way
It's "Burlesque 'n 'Brass" Mardi Gras madness as the Hot Pink Feathers team up with the swinging and sousaphonic Blue Bone Express! With those girls around, it'll be more like Blue Balls Express.
Cafe Van Kleef, Oakland
1621 Telegraph Ave. (@ 16th St.)
Why, it's East Bay megastar E-40, whom I quoted in a previous day's event write-up! Ol' E will be appearing at Summer Jam 2010 with Drake and Jazmine Sullivan, who does that "Bust Your Windows" song that so many of you enjoyed when they did it on Glee.
Oracle Arena, Oakland
7000 Coliseum Way
www.myspace.com/sexpresleys
The Elvis-inspired "transgender Sex Pistols" will spit, rattle, and roll on the El Rio backstage, with Atomic Lucy and a solo set from Scott Young of Red Meat.
El Rio
3158 Mission (@ Valencia)
www.newwavecity.com
Heavy petting tonight at the DNA Lounge for San Francisco oldest weekly club that still has "new" in it's name. This week it's a Pet Shop Boys Tribute. The Pet Shop Boys had one hit about 50 years ago, but this thing's still going to have a line around the block to get in. DJ Prince Charming joins residents Skip and Shindog with two floors of 80's dancing that stay tubular 'til 3 a.m.
DNA Lounge
375 11th St. (@ Harrison)
www.theendup.com
The several-days-long party binge at The Endup continues unabated with kontrol, featuring the avant house stylings of DJ's Sammy D, Craig Kuna, and Nikola Baytala (if you're the kind of person who can actually tell when one DJ stops and the next one starts). Special live, in-person sets this week from Roman Flugel and Motor City Drum Ensemble.
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Shit gets trippier than a Pink Floyd laser light show when The Roxie treats us to a late-night screening of Mogwai:Burning, the new concert film from the Scottish experimental noise maestros Mogwai. If the trailer is any indication, your brains will be blown out in a very good way.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
11 p.m.
The Ferocious Few have already been to Burning Man this year and came back. That'll show those people! Your favorite mini-amp street punks take it indoors for a Saturday night rager at Bottom of the Hill. They still do street shows, follow their Twitter for deets.
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th St. (@ Missouri St.)
Okay so take a wild guess what kind of music they'll be playing here.
Madrone Art Bar
500 Divisadero St. (@ Van Ness Ave.)
San Francisco's brittiest, brattiest, brit pop weekly popscene joins forces with the normally-first-Friday kids from Club Loaded! Plus a live set from San Jose's The Limousines.
Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell St. (@ Van Ness Ave.)
Oddball Film presents America's greatest film comedian in one of his all-time finest (and most dangerous!) works. If you don't go, at least watch the tornado scene, with a score by Orbital. This really is a historically important and good film. Limited seating so .
Oddball Film
275 Capp St. (@ 18th St.)
The Darkroom
2263 Mission St. (@ 19th St.)
Sure, Back to School is a spent idea for a club night. But it's the beginning of September, so somebody had to do it! And Donald Glaude, Frenchy LeFreak and Tall Sasha are all outstanding DJs. Four $200 True Religion gift certificates are on the line for naughtiest schoolgirl and best geek/jock/preppie outfits!
Ruby Skye
420 Mason St. (@ Third)
Free outdoor movies being projected onto giant walls around the Bernal neighborhood. You have got to love that idea. Tonight's films include an extended sneak preview of "The Black Rock", Kevin Epps' ("Straight Outta Hunter's Point") new documentary about Alcatraz' most notorious black inmates.
Various Walls on Cortland St.
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
People are really big into penguins these days, right? See real live African penguins gobble down their vittles while you pose inside questions to an on-duty marine biologist.
California Academy of Sciences
Steinhart Aquarium
55 Music Concourse Dr. (@ MLK, Jr. Drive)
The Blonde Bombshells Film Festival at The Castro offers 2-for-1 double features throughout Burning Man week! Tonight, it's Jean Harlow with John & Lionel Barrymore in Dinner at Eight, followed by Spencer Tracy & Myrna Loy in Libeled Lady.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
Find out firsthand that it totally sucked this year! Or else share a little communion with your distant partying kindred in Black Rock. BurningMan.com is hosting a webcast of the burn.
Twelve O'Clock and The Man
Black Rock City
You don't work tomorrow! You have to go to The EndUp! Scheduled to spin the daylight in are DJ's Nikola Baytala, Taj, Nikita, and Brian Salazar who by the way is celebrating his birthday! None of which he is going to remember!
All Morning, Afternoon, and Evening
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Actual sunset may look slightly different from the Cafe Cocomo patio. But if you've got a Black Rock jones on, then freaks, raving, and crazy sculpture outfits can pretty much be guaranteed at Stompy. Scheduled to spin the daylight away are DJ Sascha Funke from Berlin and local living legend David Harness.
Cafe Cocomo
650 Indiana St. (@ Mariposa)
While those saps who went to Burning Man are hung over as ass and suffering through the dreaded packup duties, you are down at Thrift Town totally cleaning up! It's a one-day only 30% off everything sale at Thrift Town. Leave no trace, indeed!
Thrift Town
2101 Mission St. (@ 17th St.)
Today Only
The film that invented the phrase "This time, it's personal"! The Darkroom's weekly Bad Movie Night completely bites this week, presenting Jaws: The Revenge to kick off Shark Month.
The Darkroom
2263 Mission St. (@ 19th St.)
It's your definitive tranny anti-Burning Man party, as Suppositori Spelling's "Best Drag Show"-award-winning Cocktail Gate welcomes Vivvyanne Forevermore, Kalisto, and Avocado Jones. They are actively protesting Burning Man's "no glitter, no boas" policies. Plus $2 Tecates, people!
Truck
1900 Folsom St. (@ 15th St.)
www.dubmissionsf.com
Dub Mission will be outta fuckin' control for it's 1-year anniversary bender. DJ Sep is joined at The Elbo by international reggae dignitaries Dr. Israel and Patch Dub.
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St. (@ 18th)
The El Rio back patio hosts an afternoon of hot, heavy grinding with salsa dancing and free BBQ. Can't salsa dance? Rosa & David are giving free lessons. No excuses, people.
El Rio
3158 Mission (@ Valencia)
All the greatest Do-It-Yourself heroes converge on the on the SF County Fair Building for the ninth annual convention of small press, zines, and comics. It's like Comic-Con for people who are more creative and attractive and in better shape. And as always it is free!
SF County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park
1199 9th Ave. @ Lincoln Way
The Blonde Bombshells Film Festival at The Castro offers 2-for-1 double features throughout Burning Man week! Tonight, it's Marilyn Monroe & Clark Gable in The Misfits, followed by Jean Harlow in Frank Capra's Platinum Blonde.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
These guys are back in Dolores Park, rousing rabble and raising a middle one to the establishment with their free brilliant and fabulous satirical medicine shows. This year it's Posibilidad, a musical metaphor for the contemporary plight of American factory workers. Get there early to have the first crack at the guy selling pot brownies and mushroom chocolates.
Dolores Park
Latin American Club Region
2 p.m.
Chill out on parade grounds in The Presidio watching Shakespeare for free. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival returns with a mod, 1960s go-go version of Shakespeare's comic caper The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Presidio Parade Ground, Main Post
The Presidio, SF
34 Graham St. (@ Lincoln Blvd.)
www.theendup.com
I was not kidding around earlier when I said "All Morning, Afternoon, and Evening" at The Endup. At this point it becomes Sunday Sessions, and before you know it this becomes Monday Sessions.
All Morning, Afternoon, and Evening
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Free outdoor movies being projected onto giant walls around the Bernal neighborhood. You have got to love that idea. Tonight's films include "The Professor", a documentary about a former President of Liberia living downtrodden in the slums of New York.
Various Walls on Cortland St.
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
People are really big into penguins these days, right? See real live African penguins gobble down their vittles while you pose inside questions to an on-duty marine biologist.
California Academy of Sciences
Steinhart Aquarium
55 Music Concourse Dr. (@ MLK, Jr. Drive)
While those saps who went to Burning Man are crusty and stuck in traffic all day, you are down at Thrift Town totally cleaning up! It's a one-day only 50% off all clothing sale at Thrift Town. Leave no trace, indeed!
Thrift Town
2101 Mission St. (@ 17th St.)
Today Only
Saddle up to El Rio's 8th annual Cowgirl-palooza for good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin'. It's like Madcat for redneck gals with guitars. With 77 El Deora, Wicked Mercies, The Bootcuts, The Evangenitals, Los Train Wreck, and lots more that mommas don't wanna let their babies grow up to be. With free BBQ and rampant weed-smoking!
El Rio
3158 Mission (@ Valencia)
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Tommy doesn't know he's not at Burning Man! Spend your holiday Monday at Tommy's Holiday Camp rocking with The Who and Ken Russell. Ex-girlfriends of mine can tell you that I still carry a pretty unhealthy preoccupation with the scene with Ann-Margaret and the baked beans.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
The Hubba Hubba Revue pulls off another weekly burlesque showstopper in Oakland, the soil where them other rappers be getting their lingo from. Hailed by Oakland Magazine as "ground zero for bombshells from the East Bay and beyond," which totally sounds a place you would want to be. Miss Scarlet, Sparkly Devil, Monifa, Red Velvet, Viva Ennui, Ophelia Couer de Noir, and Ladybug & Crow grace the stage and then strip, with proceedings hosted by your lovable louses Kingfish & Eddie and musical guestsThe Reinhardt-Ons at the Uptown Night Club.
The Uptown, Oakland
1928 Telegraph Ave. (@ 19th St.)
Amnesia's Free Monday Night Bluegrass honors Bill Monroe's 99th birthday with an all-Bill Monroe theme night. Numerous Bay Area bluegrass all-stars will play old-time fiddle and banjo tunes, prison anthems, and old-fashion devil music to the Amnesia stage in a free show for Bay Area bluegrass fanciers.
Amnesia
853 Valencia St. (@ 19th St.)
Chill out on parade grounds in The Presidio watching Shakespeare for free. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival returns with a mod, 1960s go-go version of Shakespeare's comic caper The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Presidio Parade Ground, Main Post
The Presidio, SF
34 Graham St. (@ Lincoln Blvd.)
These guys are back in Dolores Park, rousing rabble and raising a middle one to the establishment with their free brilliant and fabulous satirical medicine shows. This year it's Posibilidad, a musical metaphor for the contemporary plight of American factory workers. Get there early to have the first crack at the guy selling pot brownies and mushroom chocolates.
Dolores Park
Latin American Club Region
2 p.m.