READING: Journalist, surfer and author Michael Scott Moore will be at Green Apple Books tonight reading from his latest book, Sweetness and Blood, in which Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations —Gaza, West Africa, North England, Berlin, Bali, Japan, Cuba, and Morocco—to give the reader a folk history of surfing, resulting in a "the story of hippies, soldiers, nutcases, and colonialism; a checkered history of the spread of Western culture in the years after World War II." (7 p.m., Green Apple Books, 506 Clement Street)

THEATER: Thrillpeddlers present Vice Palace: The Last Cockettes Musical, composer Scrumbly Koldewyn’s revival of the 1972 musical revue extravaganza, which is loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s hallucinatory short story, The Masque of the Red Death, and the even more hallucinatory 1964 Roger Corman film of that name starring Vincent Price. The show runs through July 31. (7 p.m., Hypnodrome, 575 10th Street)

BENEFIT: Head over to 111 Minna for some drinks, dancing, and live music, as well as an auction and raffle to benefit Imagery's Summer Season production -- Sketch: New Works, which will feature four premieres by "innovative voices committed to breaking the preconceptions of ballet and expressing the vitality of this art form." (5:30 p.m., 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street)