Events

thursday, november 14

11/14/2019

SWEET CHARIOT + NOELLE & THE DESERTERS ~ $10 ~ 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Happy Hour show with
Noelle & the Deserters and
Sweet Chariot at Make-Out Room.
EARLY SHOW! ONLY TWO BANDS!
Thursday, November 14th 7PM - 10PM \m/

* ALCATRAZ SOUL CLUB *
Soul, Funk & R&B at 45 rpm ~
a rotating cast of Bay Area soul & funk DJs *
Special Edition * NO COVER *
Dancing Satisfaction Guaranteed! *
10:00pm

MAWKISH TWADDLE ~
DJ Still or Sparkling (aka Bob N. of KXSF) ~
Sunshine pop, bubblegum, power pop, indie rock, psych pop, post-punk, C86, uneasy listening,
twee pop, glam, northern soul, honky tonk, disco, shoegaze, fuzz, & occasional dissonance ~
FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

Last Chance SCORPIO Dance ~
80s DANCE PARTY! ~
Celebrating all things SCORPIO.
Scorpion drink special, wild interpretive dances, and more!

BURN DOWN the DiSCO! presents:
Last Chance SCORPIO Dance ~
80s DANCE PARTY!
~
Reserve a birthday party booth ~
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/burn-down-the-disco-presents-last-chance-scorpio-dance-80s-dance-party-tickets-80210133669

groove, wave, goth, synth-pop, hip-hop ~
DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/ U ~

FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am
makeoutroom.com/events

tuesday. november 12

11/12/2019

HAPPY ENDINGS — Because we could all use a happy ending:
5 writers perform new work on a shared theme in a battle
for the adulation of an appointed committee.
PWYC, Suggested $10 ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Gratitude is the moment. But we're kind of bad at it, right? Like, whenever someone says, "we should go around and say one thing we are thankful for." I always say, "this meal?" But *being* thanked feels so boss. So we're asking our writers to meditate on people who helped them in big ways. And by the end of the night we'll all feel like pumpkin pie on the inside.
See you there, Sunbeams ♥

This month's writers:
Keith Donnell
Hadas Goshen
Miah Jeffra
Amanda Rosenberg
Noah Sanders

HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they've prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience, and that panel will pick a winner! $10/Pay what you can

We're thinking about scale, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place, a person, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With, likely, the most joyous of conclusions.

SLOW JAMS ~
Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~
DJ Paul Costuros w/ dX the funky grandpa ~
FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

monday, november 11

11/11/2019

Tokyo Beatniks ~
Happy Hour w/ DJ Marty Hard ~
All Japanese Rock & Roll, Beat, Pop, Shibuya-Kei & Group Sounds.
"Tokyo Beatniks" is 1960s Japan in the heart of the Mission! ~
FREE ~ 7:00pm - 10:00pm

FRIED ONIONS
dX The Funky Granpaw
& guest Brother Hiram

Juke Box Jazz -
Vintage Rhythm & Blooze -
Swinging Vegas Grind -
Loud Surf Instros -
Mixed Up Tittyshakers -

All on scratchy 7 inch slabs of hot wax! ~
Free ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

sunday, november 10

11/10/2019

Closed for Private Event on Sunday, November 10

saturday, november 9

11/9/2019

About the readers/performers:

Mike Isaac is the author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. He is is a technology reporter at the New York Times whose Uber coverage won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about Uber, Facebook, and other Silicon Valley giants for the Times, and appears often on CNBC and MSNBC. Previously, he was a senior editor reporting on social media companies for Re/Code and AllThingsD, and covered the decline and fall of once great technology giants like Hewlett-Packard and BlackBerry as a staff writer for WIRED. He began his career as a music journalist, writing for Paste Magazine and Performer.

Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the novel Autonomous, nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, they are a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo-award winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. They were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Their most recent novel is The Future of Another Timeline.

As publisher-editor of the 1977-79 zine SEARCH & DESTROY, V. Vale helped bring international attention to a Punk scene as prophetic as more publicized ones elsewhere. The publication was launched with $100 each from Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and published at City Lights Bookstore, where Vale worked at the time. For Vale, Punk provided a launching pad for a host of cultural-anthropological explorations, including Industrial music, the writings of J.G. Ballard and William S. Burroughs, feminism, pranksterism, studies of The Body, plus “Incredibly Strange” filmmaking and music, which he has chronicled with the RE/SEARCH series of publications that he founded as **sole proprietor** in 1980 (he has the original DBA certificate hanging on his wall).

Malkia Devich Cyril is a creative writer and essayist, and the co-founder and co-director of MediaJustice — a national hub boldly advancing racial justice, rights and dignity in a digital age; co-founder of the MediaJustice Network, and has presented on a host of cultural issues including tech and racial justice, media policy and representation, and grief in social movements.

Nathaniel Popkin is the author of three novels, including just-released The Year of the Return, and three books of non-fiction. Along with Stephanie Feldman he is the co-editor of the anthology Who Will Speak for America? and co-organizer of Writers Resist and the new emerging Writers Unite. His essays on the ecological crisis and urban anthropology and works of literary criticism have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Tablet, Public Books, LitHub, Rain Taxi, and the Kenyon Review. He writes documentary films, takes photographs, and participated this year in a new eco-artist residency in Southern Chile, The Valley of the Possible.

Aubrey Hirsch is the author of Why We Never Talk About Sugar, a short story collection, and This Will Be His Legacy, a flash fiction chapbook. Her stories, essays and comics have appeared widely in American Short Fiction, The Nib, The Rumpus, Vox, The New York Times and elsewhere. She currently lives in Berkeley, where she is at work on a graphic memoir.

About Writers With Drinks:

Writers With Drinks has won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format. Hosted by author Charlie Jane Anders.

November's Writers With Drinks features tech journalism, feminist time travel, underground culture, the great American bicentennial novel, and stories of pure heartache. We're going to explore our past, future and everything in between!

-When: Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019 from
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM

-Who: Mike Isaac, Annalee Newitz, V. Vale, Malkia Devich Cyril, Nathaniel Popkin and Aubrey Hirsch

-How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the Women's Cancer Resource Center

El SUPERRITMO! ~
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop,
Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~
$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

friday. november 8

11/8/2019

COOL AS FUCK!
Second Friday Happy Hour
w/ DJs Kevin, Liam, & Raul ~
guitar-based indie pop gems that sparkle & shine,
loudly rip & gently roar ~
FREE! 6:00pm - 10:00pm

CLUB COLLISION ~
'80s Boogie - Disco Funk - New Wave -
Italo Disco - Laser Music ~
DJ Primo (Club Lonely, Slow Jams) & friends -
$5 before 11, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

thursday, november 7

11/7/2019

DJ KC ~ Rock n Roll Happy Hours! ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

DJ Shrimp Ripper ~ Rock, Punk, New Wave, '80s ~ FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

wednesday, november 6

11/6/2019

DJ LACY LUST! Heavy metal, glam, crotch rock! ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

CHUB-E-FREEZ
w/ DJ BIG NATE & DJ SWIFTUMS ~
old school hip-hop, all vinyl! ~
FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

tuesday, november 5

11/5/2019

BURNING CURTAINS + BLADES OF JOY + END TIME ~ $10 ~ 6:30pm - 9:30pm

BURNING CURTAINS
https://www.facebook.com/bURNINGcURTAINS/

Blades of Joy
meltersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

END TIME
Two years in the making, this 12″ EP represents some prime lazy-a** apathy coupled with the kind of wry, bitter nihilism that could be only be fueled by the landmines of f***ery that is the current Bay Area. The band would have you believe they are pulling influences from such sources as NZ greats The Gordons, Australia’s The Moles, and Boston’s Mission of Burma, but probably, through their own inability, more likely sound like none of the above, pleasing only themselves in the process. But solipsism goes great with the current political climate, at least according to post-punk’s yelp page, so maybe these are tomorrow’s stars, after all.

SLOW JAMS ~
Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~
DJ Primo & friends ~
FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

monday, november 4

11/4/2019

The MONDAY MAKE-OUT ~
Cutting edge Bay Area jazz & improvisation
Lorin Benedict/Kasey Knudsen (jazz/improv),
Jon Raskin/Kevin Corcoran Duo (free improv) &
Improvisers Assembly (free improv)! ~
FREE! ~ 7:30pm - 11:00pm

Monday, 11/4, 8pm (8:30pm start)
No Cover/Donations Accepted

Set #1: Lorin Benedict/Kasey Knudsen (jazz/improvisation)
http://lorinbenedict.com
Lorin Benedict-voice
Kasey Knudsen-sax

Set #2: Jon Raskin/Kevin Corcoran Duo
(free improvisation)
http://www.jonraskin.com
Jon Raskin-reeds
Kevin Corcorn-drums

Set #3: Improvisers Assembly
(free improvisation)
Beth Schenck-saxophone
Michael Dessen-trombone
Tim Perkis-electronics
Lisa Mezzacappa-bass
Kjell Nordeson-drums

sunday, november 3

11/3/2019

CLUTCH the PEARLS ~ Drag Show w/ hosts Mira and Churro Nomi ~ $10 ~ 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Have you seen Frida? Not the movie, the DJ.
The special day is finally here!
Our baby is all grown up,
and its time to celebrate,
Quinceñera style!

Our resident music queen, DJ Frida, is having a Doble Quince at Clutch The Pearls.
Frida has personally chosen all the songs for the performers, and it is gonna be one fun party.
So come out to Make-Out Room this Sunday and celebrate the birthday of this community gem that is Frida.

Your hosts:
Mira (Kevin Lopez)
Churro Nomi (Eric Garcia)

PERFORMERS:
Les B Frank (Sydney Franz)
Vanity (Louie Ochoa)
Sir Acha (Kat Renee Cole)
Nitrix Oxide
Ana Leash (Amanda Vigil)
Ezra Everything (Jocelyn Rose)
Shane Thomas
Deuce Lee (Melissa Lewis)
Kochina Rude (Cary Escovedo)
Buka Kay

Doors open @7:30
Show @8pm
Door cover $10

saturday, novemeber 2

11/2/2019

DIA de los MUERTOS Dance Party
with DJ Paul Costuros (Int'l Freakout a go-go) + DJ Abrilita (Oakland) + DJ Guillermo (Sweaterfunk) ~cumbia, salsa, merengue, and other Latin-American favorites ~
FREE ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

Join DJs Abrilita, Guillermo and Paul Costuros who will be spinning the best Latin music
for you to dance to.
All on vinyl!
Cumbia, Salsa, Boogaloo,
Latin Rock n Roll, Vallenato and more!

El SUPERRITMO! ~

DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton,
Salsa Buena y mas! ~

$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

Friday. november 1

11/1/2019

"ABOUT LAST NIGHT:
A One Night Stand Story Telling Series" ~
real people sharing real stories
about horrifying one night stands,
awkward hookups, & regrettable romps ~
$15 adv. / $20 door ~
7:00pm doors / 8:00pm showtime! ~
7:00pm - 9:30pm

BOOM! Shak-a Lak-a ~

The Friday Night Dance Party ~
that consistently GOES OFF!

DJ 2shy-shy, DJ melt w/U ~
funk, soul, hip-hop, synth-pop, int'l ~

$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am

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