SFist Tonight

MUSIC: Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel make up Two Gallants. They perform for free over in the East Bay. Do check them out. But be warned: their fans are rabid ones. (Note: Yes, this is over in Berkeley. Egads, we know. But at least we're not sending your someplace far off, like Yoshi's near the waterfront, or somewhere infamously bad, like 21 Grand.)

7 p.m. // Amoeba (2455 Telegraph) // free

FILM: Watch Richard Dreyfuss sculpt ordinary mashed potatoes into a work of art when Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) lights up the screen (and your heart!) in the Haight.

7 p.m. // Red Vic (1727 Haight Street) // $8.50

READING: Jennifer Blowdryer reads from one of her most beloved and recently re-issued works -- The Laziest Secretary, which is about a "hilariously shameless temp named Latoya who's too poor to even dream about anything beyond scamming her next drink," it seems -- and DJ, writer, and all-around fun cat Brontez reads selections from his hit 'zine Fag School. Damn queers.

8 p.m. // Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia) // free