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Dirty squeeze. tumes, and posters over the years — much of which was featured in last year’s book Too Much Horror Business. The Bay Area native will be hosting a special double feature of the classic Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff films White Zombie (1932) and The Black Cat (1934), while also showing off some original screen-used props from the flicks and other items from his collection. It all goes down at tonight’s spooky showcase that benefits the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation, the nonprofit that runs and maintains the city’s historic Balboa and Vogue theaters. (Sean McCourt)
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“Although not all humans can eroticize all things, humans as a species can eroticize anything.”
7pm, $35–$125 for VIP Balboa Theater
Oh? Well, why don’t you take half a minute (that’s all it takes) to reread that sentence from Rachel Kramer Bussel’s prologue to The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Stories (Cleis Press). We humans can eroticize anything. Feeling better? You should. And whether you’re an erotica regular, a dedicated lover, a dirty squeeze, or an orgasm virgin, you should go test out this theory Wednesday night by listening to contributors of Bussel’s pansexual anthology read their stories aloud. (Kaylen Baker) 6:30pm, free Good Vibrations 1620 Polk, SF (415) 345-0400 www.goodvibes.com
Mazzy Star
Santa Monica’s Mazzy Star has been teasing its fans with promises of a fourth album since 2000 — and even then the album was long overdue. Nearly two decades after its last album, Among My Swan, Mazzy Star has really, truly, finally dropped its long-fabled follow-up, Seasons of Your Day. Mazzy Star was seminally
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about its new album is that while other bands have taken Mazzy Star’s sound and retrofitted it, the band itself has not changed a bit. Seasons of Your Day seamlessly picks up where the band left off in 1996. Hope Sandoval’s haunting voice is still as achingly gorgeous as ever, and you don’t want to miss your chance to hear it in person tonight. (Haley Zaremba) With the Entrance Band, Mariee Sioux 8pm, $35 Warfield
as well as writer-director-actor Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s A Castle in Italy, a semi-autobiographical tale co-starring her former paramour Louis Garrel. (Cheryl Eddy)
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Thursday 11/7 French Cinema Now
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Bastards, the hot-off-the-festivalcircuit latest from Claire Denis (2009’s White Material, 2008’s 35 Shots of Rum, 1999’s Beau Travail),
The San Francisco Film Society’s journey ’round the world of cinema continues with this week’s “French Cinema Now,” hot on the heels of programs showing work from Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Taiwan (with Italian and Bay Area spotlights to come). The biggest draws here are probably closing-night selection opinion
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in the Castro with your copy of Guide for the Modern Bear, or pick one up when you get there, and get it signed by authors Travis Smith, the “mid-century modernist guru” himself, and Chris Bale, an “urban living and interior design ace.” Not a bear? Perhaps you’re an otter. Or maybe a wolf. Not sure? This is the perfect opportunity to find out! Arrive fiercely in your favorite flannel, consult this guide on bear life, work, and play, and speak with the experts themselves, who are sure to impart as much wisdom and wit as they have bound in their book. (Kirstie Haruta) 7:30pm, free (book is $19.99) 2275 Market, SF (415) 864-6777
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“Kirk Hammett Double Feature”
Kick off SF Bear Pride 2013 with the authors of the essential bear manual. Head over to Books Inc. food + Drink
9pm, $28 Chapel 777 Valencia, SF (415) 551-5157 www.thechapelsf.com
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When Wanda Jackson first went on tour in 1955, she shared the bill with a young man who quickly became a major musical influence and (for Jackson, at least) a romantic partner. This guitar-slinging fella, named Elvis Presley, helped her transition from country music to a newer, faster, more raucous genre later described as rockabilly. Jackson pioneered the genre, earning her the title of the Queen of Rockabilly and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an “Early Influence.” Now well into her 70s, the Queen still reigns supreme. While Jackson can’t hit all of the high notes anymore, she’s still full of enough piss and vinegar to put performers more than half her age to shame. (Zaremba)
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has long been known as a horror film aficionado, amassing an extensive movie memorabilia collection of original props, cos-
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“An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” On Jan. 21 of this year, while passing far above the very spot you’re standing on now, Col. Chris Hadfield tweeted, “San Francisco Bay Area. The sun glint really shows the water and cloud flow patterns.” Hadfield’s
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