-- Evil Dead 2 (1987): Sam Raimi's exquisite sequel to the equally-exquisite Evil Dead, minus any tree-rape. Screens at 7:15p.m., 9:15 at The Red Vic, 1727 Haight (at Cole). -- Opium's Literary Death Match: The last Opium's Literary Death Match got ugly, in a good way. (Read about it here.) Judges Anika Streitfeld (Random House), Jesse McKinley (New York Times), and Eric Spitnagel (Fast Forwards) have literary series Writers With Drinks (Carol Queen), Porchlight......

So maybe the folks back East were all over Fake Writer JT Leroy first, but San Francisco-based author and journalist Jack Boulware has a piece in Salon on Leroy creator Laura Albert (aka Laura Victoria) that looks at the person behind the persona while also painting a pretty vivid picture of what it was like to live in San Francisco in the 1990s. It feels like truly local coverage -- and SFist means that as......

While the rest of us will most likely weeping into our Jell-O shots at the Mint while wailing "Fighter" into the Karaoke machine this weekend in preparation for another Valentine's Day spent lining the catbox with our exes' silk boxers, there's no reason you shouldn't be having more fun than we are. For instance, this Friday you could meet legendary "Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander at the Center for Sex and Culture, where she'll be......

[Ed. Note: This, friends, would have been the 2,000th post on SFist, except our co-editor beat us to it. So it's the 2,001st! Thanks to the staff and readers for all the great writing, tips and comments over the past ten months!] Lots going on tonight, as you'd know if you read our music editor's column yesterday (SFist Jake is playing at Jupiter at 8pm!). Not into those bands? How about taking in Offenbach's......

Okay, it's a little bit of a stretch to call Susie Bright a 'Bay' blogger, unless you're talking about Half Moon Bay, since she lives in Santa Cruz. But she spent many a year as what could only be described as a San Francisco literary impresario and raconteur, so we're calling it close enough for government work. Regardless, there aren't a lot of other blogs that feature musings on the nature of the Brad......