As we do each week, SFist has "carefully curated" a list of the goings-on about town, so mark your cultural calendars for movies, comedy, and a little bit of swaggering (if that's your kind of thing.)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

LECTURE: "Harvard professor Lisa Randall (Warped Passages, Knocking on Heaven’s Door) is among our most influential theoretical physicists. Her new book, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, explores the consequences of the comet responsible for the dinosaurs’ extinction, speculates about other possible missing elements and illustrates the importance of preserving the elements on Earth that are vital to our existence." Woah. JCCSF, 3200 California Street, JCCSF, 7 p.m., $27

READING: At the Aesthetic Union, a letterpress print shop and gallery specializing in custom work and original editions, come see Curiouser and Curiouser: "From TMI to tales of the strange, the world will never change. Join us for an evening of the fantastic and bizarre. Local writers present poetry and prose to enchant, bemuse, delight, and amuse. Curated by Steven Gray and Allyson Darling." Looks like we're not the only curators out there. The Aesthetic Union, 555 Alabama Street, Free

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

DOCUMENTARY: The story of Junun is this one. "Earlier this year Radiohead guitarist/film composer Jonny Greenwood journeyed to India to collaborate on a new musical project with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and a diverse coalition of Indian musicians. Making his first documentary, filmmaker and longtime Greenwood collaborator Paul Thomas Anderson documents the process with minimal means (including a drone borrowed from one of the movie’s producers). The result is both an intimate portrait of artists at work, and an electrifying and uplifting document of a profoundly spiritual musical event. Preceded by “Divers,” Joanna Newsom’s music video also directed by Anderson. Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., $11

TRANS CINEMA: "Periwinkle Cinema will host its second annual Trans Day of Remembrance screening to help honor our past and celebrate our future as we strive for a day when Trans/GenderQueer/Non-Binary/Gender Non Conforming/Intersex/TwoSpirit can live as we are and with out fear." ATA, 992 Valencia Street, 8 p.m., $7 - $10

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19

ART OPENING: "A Place of Her Own features more than 30 artworks and large-scale installations that excavate the vibrant dreams and hopes of women... the group visual arts exhibition amplifies the voices of 20 women artists with diverse cultural perspectives ranging in age from 24 to 89 years old. Each piece in the exhibition is a courageous visual answer to the question, 'If you had a place of your own, what would it be?' From large-scale installations to miniatures, written word, painting, found object assemblage and sculpture, exhibiting artists consider their own cultural and gender identities, process trauma and celebrate their personal power to overcome and to heal. Intended to inspire, excite and ignite, the work innovatively combines mixed media and visual storytelling, insisting upon new ways to re-imagine our individual place in the world." SOMARTS Cultural Center: 934 Brannan Street, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Free

COMEDY: "The Mission Position is a popular independent comedy showcase, hosted by five of San Francisco’s most accomplished comedians - Matt Lieb, Kate Willett, Jessica Sele, Torio Van Grol & Adrian McNair. Every Thursday, audiences fill Lost Weekend Video’s famous CineCave comedy den, for a show that provides club-level talent without irritating drink minimums or filler comics. The Mission Position welcomes a new lineup of special guests every week that include the Bay Area’s brightest comics alongside nationally touring headliners from NBC, TBS, E! and Comedy Central." Joey Avery, Audrey Crescenti, and Julie Ash are guests. Cinecave at Lost Weekend Video, 1034 Valencia Street, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., $10

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20

DANCING: Swagger Like Us is "Your Queer Hip Hop Dance Party," and it's taking over Oasis. (This is, as you may remember, one of our 13 coolest dance parties in town.) The swaggering! It's happening! Oasis, 298 11th Street, 10 p.m, $10

DANCING: "Since breaking onto the scene in 2012, Eli & Fur have been perfecting a sound built around infectious, electronic melodies and seductive vocal lines that have been hypnotizing dance floors from London to Los Angeles. Their production techniques are as on point as ever; drawing from anything House, with an obsession for old school Chicago and touches of Detroit Techno mixed with influences of RnB, Garage and Drum and Bass." Audio SF, 316 11th Street, 9:30 p.m. $10

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21

BOOK FAIR: Never too soon for some holiday shopping, I suppose. "San Francisco Center for the Book's annual Holiday Book Arts & Crafts Fair is refreshingly unique among holiday fair events around the Bay Area this season. The fair features a rich assortment of functional and decorative crafts that are perfect for gift giving, and a spectcular variety of letterpress books, hand-bound journals, unique artists books, zines, calendars, holiday cards, gift tags and wrapping paper, as well as paper arts, original prints, ornaments, jewelry, textiles and other delightful crafty surprise." San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island Street, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Free entry

DOCUMENTARY: Do you like New Yorker cartoons? You're not alone! Enjoy a "highly entertaining behind-the-scenes documentary look at the world of The New Yorker’s cartoons and cartoonists vividly brings to life a beloved part of the magazine. Bob Mankoff, the magazine’s sagacious cartoon editor is our guide, and Bay Area filmmaker Leah Wolchok wisely waited for years to secure his participation." The film is called Very Semi-Serious, and this is the beginning of its run. The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., $10

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22

JAZZ: "Now in her second year as an SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director, bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding remains the most alluring ambassador in jazz, a spellbinding talent who has brought her sleek and soulful sound to a vast international audience... Spalding concludes her first week of the season with the West Coast debut of an all-star trio featuring Beninese guitar star Lionel Loueke and one of the jazz world’s most influential drummers, Jeff “Tain” Watts." SFJAZZ, 201 Franklin Street, 7:30 p.m., $45

THANKSGIVING FARMERS' MARKET: Need a turkey-carving demo? How does smoked turkey from Joe Fink of The Whole Beast sound? "Join CUESA, the organization behind the acclaimed Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, at The Yard at Mission Rock." Plenty of food to stock up on and with which to set your holiday table. The Yard, 3rd Street and Terry Francois Boulevard, 10:00 a.m, to 2:00 p.m., Free entry