SEBASTOPOL
Beer & Boobs Hey, Cletus! Get yer beat-up truck ready for a wild ride! I know ya’ll been waitin’ for the White Trash Summer Bash, so dress in yer nice ol’ cutoffs and tuxedo T-shirt—there ain’t gonna be no hog tyin’ going on, dagnabbit, but there are other buck-wild contests, like biggest hair, best mullet, an’ you know I’m’a enter the men-only wet T-shirt contest! Ya’ll comprende how crazy them ladies will go for our sexy farmer tans! Then’s the rootin’-tootin’ good times with some perrty ladies, like the iCandy Burlesque Dancers, and dancin’ wit’ DJs Will Magid and Malarkey. Ya’ll better not miss it on Friday, June 14, at Hopmonk Tavern. 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. $10–$15. 8pm. 707.829.7300.
S A N TA R O S A
Can Men Be Funny? Ever heard that song “Where the Boys Are?” Well, I’ll tell you where they aren’t—and that’s in comedy. I mean, can men even be funny? Let’s be serious here. Males traditionally make a living in masculine, serious jobs, like business and sports. There’s nothing funny about the stock market or getting a concussion during football, so it’s no surprise that men simply aren’t the funnier of the sexes. It’s just not the environment they’ve been nurtured for. Though it’s sad that men can’t give laughter to others, hopefully someday they will. In the meantime, at least there’s the ladies: the All-Female Comedy Night hosted by Helen Pachynski is on Wednesday, June 19, at Gaia’s Garden. 1899 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. $4. 9pm. 707.544.2491.
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Hooligans Unite! This weekend, various street-marching brass bands join together for the 102nd Annual Hooligan Street Faire to produce some epic music on drums and horns. With a lineup of the Black Sheep Brass Band, Orchestra Euphonos, the Hubbub Club, the Dixie Giants, Soup Sandwich and Church Marching Band, the fair is a fundraiser for the Arlene Francis Center as well as a final send-off for Church Marching Band before they attend HONK! Fest West in Seattle. Dance barefoot in the street (who cares!), ‘cause Lagunitas IPA will be on tap. The fun starts on Friday, June 14, at Arlene Francis Center. 99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa. $8–$12. 6pm. 707.528.3009.
CORTE MADERA
Apple a Day My total idiot of an editor soaked his iPhone in the ocean last week. He did the whole shebang with the bag of rice, then rinsed it, dabbed it with alcohol, threw it in rice again—and it worked! This allowed him to be thankful for all the hard work that Apple puts into—whoops! Scratch that. I meant to say the hard work that poor workers in China put into iPhones. Anyway, the company actually does important things, too, according to Adam Lashinsky, author of Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired—and Secretive— Company Really Works, which explains the systems and strategies used by Steve Jobs that allowed Apple to accumulate a cult following. Lashinsky reads on Wednesday, June 12, at Book Passage. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. Free. 6pm. 415.927.0960.
—Anna Hecht
OMFG I <3 U, L.C. Lauren Conrad returns to Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma on June 18. See Readings, p32.
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CULTURE
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