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sunday, september 10

9/10/2017

BuMP CITY SOUL w/ DJ CYNDI G! Soul, RnB from '68 to '74! Heavy on the Tower of Power and inner city grooves! ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm

DIMENSION w/ DJs Justin & Kurt ~ Technicolor Sounds: Soft Vinyl Soul ~ FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 4:30am

September's Writers With Drinks is packed with clockwork dynasties, hella queer poetry, beautiful wartime stories, heartbreakingly funny gay memoirs, and much more!

When: Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
Who: Daniel H. Wilson, Juba Kalamka, Meredith May, Natasha Dennerstein and Alvin Orloff!
How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture

Variety is more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It's more than occasionally cosplaying as Yeoman Ayn Rand instead of Slave Leeloo. It's also a Literary Imperative! Which is why Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature, stand-up comedy with science fiction, and poetry with essays. Plus mystery, romance, memoir, rants and "other."

About the readers/performers:

Natasha Dennerstein is the author of two poetry collections, Triptych Caliform and Anatomize. Dennerstein has had poetry published in Fourth Floor, Landfall, Snorkel, JAAM, Takahe, Bloom, Transfer and Red Light Lit, Foglifter, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Sparkle+Blink. She's currently on the editorial team of Nomadic Press in Oakland.

Bisexual artist/activist Juba Kalamka is the author of a forthcoming poetry collection, Son of Byford, and also plans to release a new solo album, Jig School Confidential. He been recognized for his more recent work with queer POC performance troupes Sins Invalid and Mangos with Chili, as a member of “homohop” group Rainbow Flava, as co-founder/producer of Deep Dickollective (D/DC) and creator of the micro-label @Sugartruck Recordings. He has written and for Kitchen Sink, Anything That Moves and Carnal Nation, and served six years as a music columnist, book reviewer and feature writer for Colorlines Magazine. He received a 2005 Creating Change Conference award from the National LGBTQ Task Force for his activist work in queer music community. He was one of 30 activists selected to attend the White House Bisexual Community Briefing on Public Policy in September 2015.

Daniel H. Wilson's latest book is The Clockwork Dynasty. A Cherokee citizen, Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as seven other books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and Amped. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Meredith May is an award-winning journalist and the author of I, Who Did Not Die, which tells the true story of a 13-year-old Iranian child soldier who secretly nursed an enemy fighter back to life during the brutal Iran-Iraq War. May teaches podcasting at Mills College in Oakland, and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She spent 16 years as a feature writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. Her 2004 newspaper series about a war-wounded Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for photography; and her 2006 sex trafficking investigation earned first place feature writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, and was turned into a graphic novel by Stanford University. Her writing is included in the book, Best Newspaper Writing 2005, published by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Alvin Orloff began his literary career in 1977, penning lyrics for The Blowdryers, a slightly forgotten San Francisco Punk band. Since then he’s written three whimsical queer novels: I Married an Earthling, Gutter Boys, and Why Aren’t You Smiling? Despite royalties totaling literally hundreds of dollars, he continues to humbly work his day job: managing Dog Eared Books Castro, a quaint neighborhood bookstore. His current project is a memoir about nutty, slutty queer club kids, punks, and hustlers during the height of the AIDS crisis. He is frequently bored and psychically perturbed, so if you invite him to do something the answer will likely be “yes.”

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.

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, september 8

9/8/2017

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

COOL AS FUCK! Happy Hour
Indie, Shoegaze, Brit, Psych, Rock n' Roll

See ya there!
Kevin, Raul, and Liam

Second Fridays 6-10pm
Arrive before 10pm to get in to LAST NITE - A 2000s Dance Party with no cover.

LAST NITE | 2000s Indie Dance Party w/ DJs Jamie Jams & Rocky ~ $10 door, $5 adv. ~
Tickets: http://www.lastnite00s.com ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

DJs Jamie Jams and Rocky bring you all the hits from a time when punks suddenly remembered how to dance. It's like we ate Pitchfork, stole your iPod and then rode off on your track bike.
$10, $5 adv.
http://ticketf.ly/2kvqkBa
Be our friend!
http://www.facebook.com/lastnite00s

"Well, folks, the snake has officially reached its tail. The crew behind the '90s-themed Debaser party has gotten together to create "Last Nite," a brand new event that, much like its parent, is dedicated to reviving a specific moment in time. In this case, it's all about that brief period in the early-'00s when garage rock, dance punk, and electroclash all emerged and combined to form the soundtrack to the-then nascent hipster lifestyle. Resident DJs Jamie Jams and EmDee will be on hand to take you back to the days when "deck" was almost an adjective." - Derek Opperman, SF Weekly

"Oh gawd it's here: let the retro-00s (retr00s?) commence! Jamie Jams and Emdee, the fiendish minds behind seminal '90s revival party Debaser, kick it into the Interpol-Shins-Strokes-White Stripes era and take you slightly back to "a time when punks suddenly remembered how to dance" — you could still hear guitars on the radio." - Marke B., SF Bay Guardian

For more info:
http://www.lastnite00s.com/

thursday, september 7

9/7/2017

DJ FOODCOURT Presents: Cam Avery (Tame Impala), David and Joanna ~ $10 adv (Brown Paper Tickets), $12 at door! 7:00pm - 10:00pm

DJ FOODCOURT Presents: Cam Avery of Tame Impala in a very special solo show. David and Joanna open. Doors at 7pm. Support at 9. This show is partially seated.

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3044025

DJ FOODCOURT & his pals ~ rock/pop/soul/crap ~ FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

wednesday, september 6

9/6/2017

DJ BALLS2DeWALL - glam, power pop, punk ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

CHUB-E-FREEZ! ~ DJs SWIFTUMZ + FRESH FITZ ~ Old School Hip-Hop, all vinyl, period attire highly encouraged! ~ Free! 9:30pm - 2:00am

Digging deep once again this month and playing a wide variety of great Hip Hop tracks from the '80s and '90s. All Vinyl!

tuesday, september 5

9/5/2017

ARCHIVE FEVER - Indie Pop, C86, Punk, New Wave, Powerpop, Rock n Roll w/ DJ Andy & Guests ~ FREE ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

Slow Jams ~ Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~ DJ Primo & friends ~ FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

monday, september 4

9/4/2017

The MONDAY MAKE-OUT ~ The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz & improvised music ~ duoB + Aaron Novik's Berlin Suite + EGW Trio ~ FREE! ~ 7:30pm - 11:00pm

The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

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

Set #1: duoB (dazzling bass/drum duets)
Lisa Mezzcappa-bass
Jason Levis-drums
http://www.lisamezzacappa.com/duo_home.html

Set #2: EGW Trio (free jazz/improvisation)
Karl Evangelista-guitar
Jordan Glenn-drums
Francis Wong-saxophone
http://www.franciswong.net/

Set #3: Aaron Novik's Berlin Suite (modern jazz/contemporary composition)
Aaron Novik-reeds
Kyle Bruckman-oboe
Crystal Pascucci-cello
Lisa Mezzacappa-bass
Jordan Glenn-drums
http://www.aaronnovik.com/

sunday, September 3

9/3/2017

saturday, September 2

9/2/2017

The Morning Line + Ray Vaughn ~ $8 ~ 7:30pm - 9:30pm

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. september 1

9/1/2017

"ABOUT LAST NIGHT: A One Night Stand Story Telling Series" ~ $10 ~ 7pm doors / 8pm showtime! ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

BOOM! Shak-a-lak-a ~ funk, soul, disco, wave, synth-pop, hip-hop, groove, international ~
DJ 2shy-shy & DJ melt w/U ~ $5 before 11pm, $10 after ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

thursday, august 31

8/31/2017

SUEDE - All-Star DJs spinning 70's power pop/mod revival/punk! FREE! 6:00pm - 10:00pm

SOUL TIME! '60s & '70s soul & funk! FREE!
Accepting donations for Portland shooting victim's surgery. 10:00pm - 2:00am

wednesday, august 30

8/30/2017

BIG WEDNESDAY hosted by Jeremy Wheat ~ A Comedy show with some Variety! ~ $8 ~ 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Very funny show I am a hero this is the Mission! Joey Avery, Iris Benson, Walker Glenn, Allison Mick, Kevin O'Shea and special guests, I am Jeremy Wheat!

Int'l FREAKOUT a-GO-GO! ~ 60s 70s Soul-Funk-Disco-Pop-Psych from around the world! International tunes that take you there! ~ DJs Special Lord B., Ben Bracken + Bobby Ganush! ~ Come hear what's blowing our minds ~ FREE! ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am

International Freakout A Gogo every last Wednesday

Global Psych-Cumbia-Afrobeat-Group Sounds-Molam-Funky

Featuring Special Guest DJ Clay Grooves (Sounds of Paradise)

With Resident Locos:

Special Lord B // Ben Bracken // Bobby Ganush

10pm-2am // FREE // 21 and Over

tuesday, august 29

8/29/2017

DJ PAISLEY Happy Hours! - rock n roll, '60s psych, surf, '70s funk and punk, new wave, disco! ~ FREE! ~ 7:00pm - 9:30pm

SLOW JAMS ~ Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~ DJ Primo & friends ~ FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am

monday, august 28

8/28/2017

BUMP CITY SOUL w/ DJ CYNDI G! Soul, RnB from '68 to '74!
Heavy on the Tower of Power and inner city grooves! ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm

AmpLIFIED SOUL! Heavy Soul and The Right-On Get-Down Sound ~ curated by DJ Tone Arm ~ FREE ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am
Monday Night at The Make-Out Room.
Heavy Soul and Right On Get Down Sounds.
You know the score. Sixties Soul/Funk/Boogaloo.
Come on down: 3225 22nd Street between Mission and Valencia.
9:30pm until 2:00am. Alright.
Thanks!

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