Welcome home! Because you actually are at 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. We were shocked to find that bars are open, stores are operating regular hours, and even one or two local cultural or community events are scheduled the week of Aug 31 - Sep 7-- even though it's during Burning Man! So forget that you're not out reveling with no indoor plumbing in the company of aging nudists, and come tear it up with the BluegrassRavers at any or all of the Burning Man week events listed below.
Know of some other ones? Email fabulousbaby@lycos.com
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 "terrible". And then I like to have about fifteen of those two-dollar well drinks and forget that there was ever any discussion about beer in the first place.
El Rio
3158 Mission St. (@ Cesar Chavez)
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)
Frustrated by meeting people with her same name and being bored by them, filmmaker Grace Lee spanned the globe in search of the world's most exciting Grace Lees. The Grace Lee Project tells their stories. Playing at The Roxie, as part of the Women Make Movies Film Festival.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
7:00 p.m.
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". Jimbo Trout & The Fishpeople bring their homegrown mix of old-time fiddle and banjo tunes, train-hopping songs, 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 one relatively arrest-free year 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 house music clubbing option tonight.
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
The Hubba Hubba Revue pulls another episode of it's weekly burlesque showstopper in Oakland, where those other rappers get they lingo from. Hailed by Oakland Magazine as "ground zero for bombshells from the East Bay and beyond." That sounds like a good place to be. Kingfish and Eddie grace the stage and then strip at the Uptown Night Club.
The Uptown, Oakland
1928 Telegraph Ave. (@ 19th St.)
It's the first Tuesday of Burning Man in the post-Trannyshack era. So what's a not-at-Burning-Man tranny chaser to do? Still go to The Stud. Precious Moments hosts Bulb, a Nightclub for the Performing Arts. Don't be fooled by the fancy title, there's still crazy explicit shit constantly happening onstage. 2-for-1 well drinks 'til midnight!
The Stud
399 Ninth St. (@ Harrison)
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 Get Some Ass If You're Unemployed. But not using those words!
Current works feature Georgia
O'Keefe, Ansel Adams, Richard
Avedon, and that
goddamned Bjork photo you're seeing all over town.
SFMOMA
151 Third St. (@ Howard)
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)
Hey, this won the 2008 Tony for Best Play! In the Chronicle review, the Little Man was lighting off bottle rockets toward the ceiling of the theater. Meanwhile, goddamned Wicked continues it's endless, unkillable run down at the Orpheum.
Curran Theater
445 Geary St. (@ Taylor)
The SFMOMA comes through with another free (hello!) weekday event, featuring short works by Luis Bunuel, Georges Franju, and Alain Resnais. These are all old, black & white documentaries covering rough subject matter.
12 Noon
SFMOMA
151 Third St. (@ Mission)
Hilarity does sometimes ensue in Four Wives - One Man, a cute but squirm-inducing documentary about an Iranian guy, his four wives, his live-in mom, and the Machiavellian dynamics of their household. Playing at The Roxie, as part of the Women Make Movies Film Festival.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
8:30 p.m.
Finally, a club night among all these depressing documentaries! Lollipop is the Cat Club's Tuesday weekly rager where everyone is trying out to be a go go dancer. DJ Meikee Magnetic bites and sucks you with house, electro house, and mash ups. Also with Energy 92.7's Eddy Santana, nonchalant, and Corinne.
Cat Club
1190 Folsom St. (@ 8th St.)
San Francisco's most infamous weekly Wednesday happy hour QOOL still rages in it's 14th 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.)
If Don Asmussen doesn't win the Pulitzer Prize for his cartoon on the health reform protests, 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
Well, knock me up and call me Bristol! Down home all-American musical
fixin's are being served up at El Rio, by three buckshot-shootin' Californee
bands. The Bye
Bye Blackbirds join Rhubarb
Whiskey and the Billy
Boys -- five guys all named Billy -- to get you whiskeyed, bourboned,
and boogied up enough to make it through the rest of the week. Perfecting
your pig call beforehand is highly recommended.
El Rio
3158 Mission St. (@ Cesar Chavez)
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)
Catch the ballbreaking heavy metal antics of Scottish rockers AC/DC, touring in support of their new platinum hit album Black Ice. All songs are still written by Angus and Malcolm!
HP Pavilion, San Jose
525 West Santa Clara Blvd.
Home of the Over 40 Gay Men's Beauty Contest! Club Club You're Dead rocks out on the first Wednesday of every month for people who really want to dance and drink and get high. This month's blackout proceedings will feature Death Sentence: Panda! and Shakes Gown, with DJ Alexxxis providing the spins.
The Stud
399 Ninth St. (@ Harrison)
Hey, this won the 2008 Tony for Best Play! In the Chronicle review, the Little Man was lighting off bottle rockets toward the ceiling of the theater. Meanwhile, goddamned Wicked continues it's endless, unkillable run down at the Orpheum.
Curran Theater
445 Geary St. (@ Taylor)
A pretty gay old time at the Cliff House Bistro, they're celebrating
their 100-year anniversary with a $19.09 deal on a booming three-course
prix fixe meal. That place is
good again, you know! Menu changes weekly, $19.09 deal all Wednesdays
this September.
Cliff House Bistro
1090 Point Lobos (@ Sutro Heights Park)
Yes, that little Nepalese girl there is holding a rifle. The Sari Soldiers profiles six different women who took violent retaliatory action against a repressive Nepalese regime. Playing at The Roxie, as part of the Women Make Movies Film Festival.
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)
As you may have heard the Bay Bridge will be closed going both directions for the entirety of Labor Day Weekend, so they may ignite oil derricks, set off giant propane explosions, and basically just light off the biggest fireworks they can haul take up there for the general viewing pleasure of everyone who's wandering around high.
The Bay Bridge
San Francisco/Oakland
Both Directions
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)
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory takes their act out of that crazy spot they have in the Mission and does their punky queer performance erotica at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which may have had no idea what it was in for here. Show is for some reason at 2pm on a Thursday.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St. (@ Third)
The Charles Gatewood himself will be on hand for an exhibition of his photographs of rock music royalty, plus to sign copies of his new book A Complete Unknown. It's a collection of Gatewood's rare early Bob Dylan photos, but there's probably not any fetish pictures in there.
Robert Tat Gallery
49 Geary St. (@ Kearny)
Rogue Wave rocked the fuck out of the San Francisco International Film Festival this year, with a screening of their documentary about touring while one guy in the band has a failing kidney followed by a live set. They'll be bring the house down doing the same at SFMOMA tonight at 7pm.
SFMOMA
151 Third St. (@ Howard)
Kathy Acker is the Karen Finley of sex workers, and author of a book entitled Blood and Guts in High School. It is about the adventures of a ten-year-old girl in the sex trade. You should totally check out her stuff. This is her life story. Playing at The Roxie, as part of the Women Make Movies Film Festival.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
8:30 p.m.
Hey, this won the 2008 Tony for Best Play! In the Chronicle review, the Little Man was lighting off bottle rockets toward the ceiling of the theater. Meanwhile, goddamned Wicked continues it's endless, unkillable run down at the Orpheum.
Curran Theater
445 Geary St. (@ Taylor)
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, plus see acres of sensational tits and ass all for less than $20. Trust me, I do this every week.This week, Dottie welcomes the exquisitely fuckable likes of Delilah, Bunnie Pistol, Ophelia Cour De Noir, and the psychedelic-exploitation flick cinema wizardry of Val Killmore.
El Rio
3158 Mission (@ Valencia)
Okay, burlesque fans, maybe you're in Oakland tonight and completely broke. You can't go to Red Hots Burlesque. But this First Friday Follies option is looking better than Padma Lakshmi's ass in yoga pants. It's free admission at the Stork Club, as dykey hearthrob Margaret France hosts a line-up of the sexiest trim in the biz, including Bunnie Pistol, Marie La Faux, Sparkly Devil, Mugg Muggles & Cupcake, Bitterwaitress, Trixie LeTourneau, and the Dishrag Dollies. With music from the Gomorran Social Aid & Pleasure Club, you won't find a rowdier crowd of scantily-clad honeys unless you're locked up in the Washoe County women's jail.
Stork Club, Oakland
2330 Telegraph Ave. (@ 24th St.)
Sigh... it's the first Friday of Labor Day weekend of the post-Fag Fridays era. But don't trip, DJ Eddie Elias has the whole Endup situation covered until the sun comes up tomorrow. And it is fucking free before midnight!
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Jesus can suck it, because we got Kathy Griffin is in our fair city for a one-nighter at the otherwise-classy Davies Sympony Hall! Chick has no idea how much she needs me in a no-holds-barred groupie boy capacity for her time here.
Davies Symphony Hall
210 Van Ness (@ Grove)
Do you kinda, sorta remember a show that used to be on basic cable where bands would play acoustic sets rather than their standard amplified repertoire? This is kinda, sorta like that... but with contemporary San Francisco bands instead of Nirvana. The Dark Room hosts Kinda, Sorta (but not really) Unplugged every Friday in September, this week with kinda, sorta acoustic sets from Vagabondage, Mr. Odom and the Odom Poles, Seth Augustus, and (a hopefully banjo-wielding) Jim Fourniadis.
The Dark Room
2263 Mission St. (@ 18th St.)
If Don Asmussen doesn't win the Pulitzer Prize for his cartoon on the health reform protests, 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
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! This promises to be way better than A Tribute to the Jesus & Mary Chain, which only lasted six minutes and then they smashed their equipment and walked offstage. Free before 10.
Cat Club
1190 Folsom St. (@ 8th St.)
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory takes their act out of that crazy spot they have in the Mission and does their punky queer performance erotica at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which may have had no idea what it was in for here. Show is for some reason at 2pm on a Friday.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St. (@ Third)
Cakeland is an art installation crazier than anything you'll see out an alkali salt flat in Nevada, a walk-through exhibition where everything around you is made of cake. Really fancy cake. But you have to be careful because some of the cakes have teeth and will attack you. Actual non-aggressive cake will be served at this opening reception!
Cakeland Gallery, Oakland
5600 Shattuck (@ 56th St.)
This thing was so sold out at this year's SF International Film Festival that you had to know somebody to get in. But this gritty documentary about life in a Tenderloin residential hotel now rocks it's regular theatrical run, all this week at The Roxie.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
The above three 80's trash cinema masterpiece play together, consecutively,
for just ten dollars. Do you have enough weed? It's another installment
of the Castro's MiDNiTES
FOR MANiACS. Their web site claims the show will be "preceded
by a barrell-full of boobie-filled trailers".
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
Begins 7:30 p.m.
Hey, this won the 2008 Tony for Best Play! In the Chronicle review, the Little Man was lighting off bottle rockets toward the ceiling of the theater. Meanwhile, goddamned Wicked continues it's endless, unkillable run down at the Orpheum.
Curran Theater
445 Geary St. (@ Taylor)
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)
As you may have heard the Bay Bridge will be closed going both directions for the entirety of Labor Day Weekend, so they may ignite oil derricks, set off giant propane explosions, and basically just light off the biggest fireworks they can haul take up there for the general viewing pleasure of everyone who's wandering around high.
The Bay Bridge
San Francisco/Oakland
Both Directions
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
Plus it's on Labor Day Weekend! A burlesque homage to Dolly Parton and her formidable, umm, work ethic as queer femme burlesque icon Kentucky Fried Woman turns Oakland nightclub Velvet into her own personal Dollywood. Also performing for y'all tonight are Seattle's Pidgeon von Tramp, plus Simone de la Getto, Momma’s Boyz, Lady Monster, Sir Loin Strip & Friends, Lil Miss Hot Mess The Lovesax Sisters & The Miller Sisters, and Storm Miguel Florez
Velvet Nightclub, Oakland
3400 MacArthur Blvd. (@ 35th Ave.)
These guys are back in Dolores Park, rousing rabble and raising a middle one to the establishment with their free brillaint and fabulous satirical medicine shows. This year it's Too Big to Fail, a well-timed metaphor for all that shit that went down with the banks. 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.
The steampunk community has itself a fantastic monthly hap in Skeleton Key, first Saturday of every month at the Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland. Just $6 in steampunk costume finery, just $10 if wearing whatever old everyday pedestrian crap. This month you got Rhubarb Whiskey, Duckmandu, Honey Body Moon Bee and Calamity Lulu.
Sunshine
Biscuit Factory, Oakland
851 81st Ave. (@ Amelia)
Things are going to get hairy at the DNA Lounge, for San Francisco oldest weekly club that still has "new" in it's name.This week it's Wig Night, with B-52's tickets on the line for whoever has the best wig! No fair attending if you're in Beach Blanket Babylon. DJ Prince Charming joins residents Skip, Shindog, and DJ Low-Life to get wiggidawiggidawack with two floors of 80's dancing that goes solid 'til 3 a.m.
DNA
Lounge
375 11th St. (@ Harrison)
The several-days-long party binge at The Endup continues unabated with kontrol, with a Pespectiv Records showcase. Ripperton, Kenneth Scott, and Agnes (who is here for Switzerland!) will be spinning, plus resident DJ's Alland Byallo, Craig Kuna, and Nikola Baytala if you're the kind of person who can actually tell when one DJ stops and another one starts.
The
EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Will someone feed those goddamn birds, already? Julie Andrews and her
ottoman-tripping chimneybeef get the Castro Theater "Sing-Along"
treatment in the gayest thing to ever have an audience of mostly children.
San Francisco musical theater stars Laurie
Bushman and David
Hawkins host, with two shows every day all weekend.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Chill out on parade grounds in The Presidio watching Shakespeare for free. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival returns with a slapstick, vaudeville-inspired version of The Comedy of Errors.
Presidio Parade Ground, Main Post
The Presidio, SF
34 Graham St. (@ Lincoln Blvd.)
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory takes their act out of that crazy spot they have in the Mission and does their punky queer performance erotica at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which may have had no idea what it was in for here. Show is for some reason at 12 noon a Sunday.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St. (@ Third)
This thing was so sold out at this year's SF International Film Festival that you had to know somebody to get in. But this gritty documentary about life in a Tenderloin residential hotel now rocks it's regular theatrical run, all this week at The Roxie.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Hey, this won the 2008 Tony for Best Play! In the Chronicle review, the Little Man was lighting off bottle rockets toward the ceiling of the theater. Meanwhile, goddamned Wicked continues it's endless, unkillable run down at the Orpheum.
Curran Theater
445 Geary St. (@ Taylor)
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)
As you may have heard the Bay Bridge will be closed going both directions for the entirety of Labor Day Weekend, so they may ignite oil derricks, set off giant propane explosions, and basically just light off the biggest fireworks they can haul take up there for the general viewing pleasure of everyone who's wandering around high.
The Bay Bridge
San Francisco/Oakland
Both Directions
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
will be 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 Chris Lum, Nikola Baytala, Leonard, Michael May, CJ Larsen, Dino Velvet, 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
Dub Mission will be outta fuckin' control for it's 13-year anniversary bender. DJ Sep is joined at The Elbo by international reggae dignitaries Twilight Circus Dub Sound System and Yossi Fine.
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St. (@ 18th)
The El Rio back patio hosts an afternoon of hot, heavy grinding with salsa dancing and free BBQ. And before you can finish licking your fingers, it's the muy caliente sounds of Candela at 3pm.
El Rio
3158 Mission (@ Valencia)
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory takes their act out of that crazy spot they have in the Mission and does their punky queer performance erotica at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which may have had no idea what it was in for here. Show is for some reason at 12 noon a Sunday.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St. (@ Third)
This thing was so sold out at this year's SF International Film Festival that you had to know somebody to get in. But this gritty documentary about life in a Tenderloin residential hotel now rocks it's regular theatrical run, all this week at The Roxie.
The Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St. (@ Valencia)
7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
These guys are back in Dolores Park, rousing rabble and raising a middle one to the establishment with their free brillaint and fabulous satirical medicine shows. This year it's Too Big to Fail, a well-timed metaphor for all that shit that went down with the banks. 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.
Will someone feed those goddamn birds, already? Julie Andrews and her
ottoman-tripping chimneybeef get the Castro Theater "Sing-Along"
treatment in the gayest thing to ever have an audience of mostly children.
San Francisco musical theater stars Laurie
Bushman and David
Hawkins host, with two shows every day all weekend.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Chill out on parade grounds in The Presidio watching Shakespeare for free. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival returns with a slapstick, vaudeville-inspired version of The Comedy of Errors.
Presidio Parade Ground, Main Post
The Presidio, SF
34 Graham St. (@ Lincoln Blvd.)
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 after several hours of this it sort of becomes Monday Sessions.
All
Morning, Afternoon, and Evening
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Hey, this won the 2008 Tony for Best Play! In the Chronicle review, the Little Man was lighting off bottle rockets toward the ceiling of the theater. Meanwhile, goddamned Wicked continues it's endless, unkillable run down at the Orpheum.
Curran Theater
445 Geary St. (@ Taylor)
As you may have heard the Bay Bridge will be closed going both directions for the entirety of Labor Day Weekend, so they may ignite oil derricks, set off giant propane explosions, and basically just light off the biggest fireworks they can haul take up there for the general viewing pleasure of everyone who's wandering around high.
The Bay Bridge
San Francisco/Oakland
Both Directions
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 7th annual Cowgirl-pallooza for good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin'. It's like Madcat for redneck gals with guitars. With 77 El Deora, Wicked Mercies, Bootcuts, and The Mighty Slim Pickens, plus 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)
Civic Center Plaza
Larkin @ McAlister
The Hubba Hubba Revue pulls another episode of it's weekly burlesque showstopper in Oakland, where those other rappers get they lingo from. Hailed by Oakland Magazine as "ground zero for bombshells from the East Bay and beyond." That sounds like a good place to be. Bunny Pistol, Delilah, The Twilight Vixens, Angelique X. Stacy, Lola Vauntz, Madam Chartreuse, Sparkly Devil, Gretl von BoomBoom, and Zip the What-Is-It? grace the stage and then strip at the Uptown Night Club.
The Uptown, Oakland
1928 Telegraph Ave. (@ 19th St.)
Resident DJ Cuervo
The EndUp
401 Sixth St. (@ Harrison)
Chill out on parade grounds in The Presidio watching Shakespeare for free. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival returns with a slapstick, vaudeville-inspired version of The Comedy of Errors.
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 brillaint and fabulous satirical medicine shows. This year it's Too Big to Fail, a well-timed metaphor for all that shit that went down with the banks. 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.
Will someone feed those goddamn birds, already? Julie Andrews and her
ottoman-tripping chimneybeef get the Castro Theater "Sing-Along"
treatment in the gayest thing to ever have an audience of mostly children.
San Francisco musical theater stars Laurie
Bushman and David
Hawkins host, with two shows every day all weekend.
The Castro Theater
429 Castro St. (@ Market)
2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
As you may have heard the Bay Bridge will be closed going both directions for the entirety of Labor Day Weekend, so they may ignite oil derricks, set off giant propane explosions, and basically just light off the biggest fireworks they can haul take up there for the general viewing pleasure of everyone who's wandering around high.
The Bay Bridge
San Francisco/Oakland
Both Directions