A variety show and a chance to help out Killing My Lobster? But of course! The Romane Event, the monthly music/film/comedy/spoken word event at the Make Out Room the last Wednesday of every month and hosted by Paco Romane, is a benefit for local comedy group Killing My Lobster, and will feature their sketches and movies tonight. Looks like fabulous fabulist Harmon Leon'll be there too! $7-15 sliding scale, 8 p.m., at the Make Out......

As part of the National Queer Arts Festival, graphic artist and memoirist Alison Bechdel is speaking at Michelle Tea's Radar Reading Series at the SF Public Library tonight! We've been huge fans of Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For for, like 10 years now (we're latecomers -- she's been drawing the strip since 1987), and her first graphic novel, Fun Home, about her relationship with her closeted gay father totally blew our mind with......

Thank you, gentlemen, your time is up! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Debate. It was pretty crowded in the Koret Auditorium for the League of Women Voters District 6 candidates' forum -- even though we were one short of the full eight (Davy Jones was a no-show). The seven candidates were crammed all together at two tables, and due to the tyranny of alphabetical order, Rob Black and Chris Daly were forced to......

RESOLVED: That you want to become more informed about the issues in the local SF elections. So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting what we've got, and asking everyone else to post other dates in the comments if you've got any. See you guys at the debates -- we'll......

Outbound -- next train, N Wednesday, now approaching. Tonight: The San Francisco Public Library has invited Caldecott-winning book illustrator Tomie DePaola for the 10th annual Effie Lee Morris Lecture. Effie Lee Morris was the coordinator of children's literature at the SFPL from 1963-77 and was a pioneer in spearheading the development of children's library resources. The lecture is free and starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium of the Main Library. Thursday: Come see......

Leave work early today for the Northern California Book Awards! It's all happening at the Main Library (100 Larkin Street), starting with a 5 p.m. book signing and reception with many of the nominated authors in the Latino/Hispanic Room. The awards ceremony starts at 6 in the Koret Auditorium. Admission for the event is free. SFist Rita just finished Money: A Memoir, by local author Liz Perle, about her (and by extension, all women's)......

If we didn't think calling in sick Thursday and Friday would attract unwanted attention, we'd totally do it so we could take in all the screenings at the Tribute to Leacock and Pennebaker festival running March 2−5 the Castro and the de Young Museum’s Koret Auditorium. Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but never on the big screen. And the best part of all this -- all shows before 7:30 are......