Queer Events in SF This Week

Did you see the SF Chron article on the trans performance scene?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/29/DDGOJ3UUIK1.DTL

New this week, details at http://www.io.com/~larrybob/sanfran.html
Improv comedy class;
Poetry at the Cosmo;
Robert Gluck and Leslie Scalapino reading;
New Year's Eve Benefit Party for Direct Action to Stop The War.
January Perverts Put Out

This week:
Wednesday Dec 31, 6 pm to midnight: Free show with bands:
Floating Corpses, Panty Raid, Killer Dreamer(san
pedro), Modern Machines(milwakee), Little Army(milwakee), the
Bad Idea's (milwakee), New Earth Creeps, and Mutilated
Mannequins. In Oakland, 2846 Chapman
st.(from S.F., take 880 south, 23rd. st. exit, leftr at
east 7th, loops around into chapman,right
hand of street)

Wednesday December 31, 7 pm and 9 pm:
Marga Gomez and Doug Holsclaw New Year's Eve Extravaganza.
$25. At the Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St at
Mission. For tickets call 415-861-5079 or buy online.
http://www.therhino.org

Wednesday Dec 31, 8 pm and 10:30 pm:
Comedy on the Square New Years Eve show. At The
Shelton Theatre - 533 Sutter St @ Powell St, San
Francisco
http://www.comedyonthesquare.com/show4.html

Wednesday Dec 31, 8 pm-2am: Resistance Lounge II:
New Year's Eve Benefit Party for Direct Action
to Stop The War. $20 - 50 sliding scale, no one
turned away for lack of funds. Admission
includes spoken word, live music, veggie hors
d'oevres, DJ and guerilla performance
art. Words to inspire, music to make you perspire.
Conscious spoken word will set the stage for
Aphrodesia's live Afro-Cuban funk grooves. At El
Rio, 3158 Mission Street, 2 blocks south
of Cesar Chavez.

Wednesday night, December 31st: Doors: 8:30 PM, Show: 10PM
(Reservation only early entry at 8 PM): In
Bed With Fairy Butch For Women, Transfolks &
Their Pals: A New Year's Eve Extravaganza!
Club Galia, 2565 Mission St. at 22nd St.,
http://www.fairybutch.com

Wendesday, Dec 31, starting maybe 10 pm or so:
Bands, including the Floating Corpses, and
Sprak, at 2931 Alabama at 24th. [near Bryant.]

Wednesday Dec 31, 9:30 pm until late: Ggreg
Taylor's "A Royal New Year's Eve". $30 in advance
(tix at Cafe Flore and BPM Records),
$40 door. At 44 Tehama @ 1st. Details at
http://www.ggreg.com/

Thursday, Jan 1: Moxie: New girl night at the Stud.
Time/Cost: $3 before 11 pm. Desc: Studies show
that lesbian angst can be easily remedied by
dancing and smooching. So come on down and we'll
discuss the issues in a more productive
manner. Through good music, a game of twister,
pool, drink specials, and genuine sweetness.
At The Stud, 9th and Harrison.

Friday Jan 2, 7:30-9:30 pm: Live Music, this and every Friday night.
Tonight: Big Foot In Paris.
All Ages, Free. At Dolores Park Cafe', 501 Dolores @ 18th St.,
San Francisco.
More info Call 415-621-2936
http://www.doloresparkcafe.org

Saturday Jan 3, 1-3 pm: Thrive: coffee with
plenty of open, strong, wonderful HIV+ people to hang out
with. $1 donation cups of coffee and occasional
homebaked goodies with all proceeds going to the
Center. 1st and 3rd Saturdays at the LGBT Center,
1800 Market.

Saturday January 3, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm:
In Bed With Fairy Butch For Women, Transfolks & Their Pals.
Club Galia, 2565 Mission St. at 22nd St.
http://www.fairybutch.com

Saturday Jan 3, 8:30 pm: Shoot Out the Lights
(new band with Adrienne from Radio Vago) with
The Hard Place, Bart Davenport. $7. At Bottom of the Hill,
17th St. and Texas.

Sunday Jan 4, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm:
Radical Faerie coffee at a new location -- Cafe Sienna at
2041 Market Street, between Church and Dolores
(across from Safeway, up from Eros). It is near
the Church Street Muni stops.

Sunday Jan 4, 1 pm:
[double check that it's happening, though]
Planning meeting for Ladyfest. Join us at Femina Potens to help us
plan the 2004 Ladyfest. Femina Potens is a couple of
blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station.
Please bring a pen & some paper. At Femina Potens
(465 So. Van Ness @16th St., San
Francisco). http://www.feminapotens.com/
http://www.ladyfestbayarea.org

Sunday Jan 4, 2 pm: Invisible Ink Radio -- A Radio Zine --
on KALW 91.7 FM.

Sunday January 4th at 7pm: Veronica Klaus---All of Me.
Hear this award-winning vocalist along with her trio
featuring Tammy Hall on piano, Dan Fabricant on
bass, and drummer Randy Odell. Featured
guests include Mr. David, Michael Soldier and
surprise guests. Veronica is planning an
extraordinary selection of material for this show ranging
from bawdy blues, sultry jazz and standards to
stirring soul, powerful ballads and comic gems.
Cover: $20 plus 2 drink min. For Reservations
or info call 415-885-2800. The Plush Room in
the York Hotel , 940 Sutter @ Hyde in San
Francisco

Sunday January 4th, door 7 pm, music at 8 pm:
The Quails, Willpower, & Robosapien.
A Benefit for The Big Ballyhoo's upcoming exhibit "Inside
of Inside," an interdisciplinary exhibition featuring 70
women artists which opens Friday January 9th at
The Lab. $7. an El Rio is located at 3158 Mission
St. The phone number at El Rio is 415-282-3325.
Sorry, this is not an all ages show.

Sunday Jan 4, 7:30 pm signup, show 8 pm:
K'vetsh queer spoken word event. Features: Sara Seinberg and
Marilyn Wann. Plus open mic. Hosted by Lynn
Breedlove and Tara Jepsen. sign-ups 7:30,
show at 8:00. $1-$3 donation. At Sadie's Flying
Elephant bar, 491 Potrero (on the corner of
Mariposa) the first Sunday of every month.

Monday, Jan 5, 7 pm: United Genders of the Universe: All
ages genderqueer group: At the LGBT Center in
San Francisco, Room Q33, 3rd Floor, 1800 Market St.
http://www.unitedgenders.org

Monday, January 5th at 7:30: Robert Gluck reads
from his book "Denny Smith" and Leslie Scalapino
reads from her new book, Dahlia's Iris.
At Moe's, 2476 Telegraph, Berkeley.

Monday January 5 (and every 1st Monday), 7:30-9:30 pm:
Tell it Like it Is...Open Mic for Queer Folks.
This month's feature: Colored Ink. Share your
words through singing, poetry, comedy,
acting, short stories and other creative ways...to Tell
It Like It Is. Sign up with Juicy to present at
650-906-7851 or juicy_me [at] yahoo.com . $3-5 sliding scale. At
Change Makers (the former location of Mama Bears) at 6536
Telegraph Avenue in Oakland.
http://www.changemakersforwomen.com/

Monday Jan 5, 7 pm: The Last Word Poetry Series. First
Monday of each month. Open reading from
7-7:30, with features following. Hosted by Tim
Donnelly. At Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck
Ave, Berekeley.

Tuesday January 6: The Hyena Comedy Institute Sketch Comedy
class is a six session workshop that covers
the basics of sketch comedy from conception to
performance. Expect a lot of laughs as we learn by
doing, covering such subjects as finding your
comedy voice and point of view, writing alone
and with others, editing, characters, structure,
basic stage craft, using improv in sketch
writing, and putting together your own sketch group.
Get those great crazy sketch ideas out of your
head and onto the stage! This class culminates in
a show written and performed by the students.
Instructor Nick Leonard is a stand up comic,
improvisor, actor, writer and Bon Vivant who
performs both solo and with improv and sketch
comedy groups such as Bay Area Theatresports,
Macaroni Art Theatre, Too Many Larrys and
several others. He produces and appears in the
biweekly "Qcomedy Showcase" at SF's LGBT
Community Center. He is fat. He is imprisoned by cats.
http://www.hyenacomedy.org

Tuesday Jan 6, 8:30 pm: New series: Gender Enders! --
featuring transgendered, intersexed, and
genderqueer music and spoken word acts! This time
features: Shawna Virago, Charlie Anders. Plus a
performance open mic, so bring your music,
spoken word, stand-up comedy, performance
art, dance, whatever. The event will be on the
first Tuesday of each month. 21+.
http://www.genderenders.com
At Cherry Bar, 917 Folsom St., SF.

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ok that's it for this week.