--It's Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's 100th anniversary this year! They're celebrating around the world, and San Francisco's contribution is a staged reading of Stein's last book (Brewsie and Willie) and Toklas's first (The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook). $12, 7 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center, 3200 California (x Presidio). --As part of this month's Queer Arts Festival, the LGBT Community Center presents "Are You There God? It's Me, Ben McCoy" (brilliant title), a......

Geek out! At Ask a Scientist SF, a monthly lecture slash happy hour with a guest speaker on some sciencey topic. This month's meet-up touches on everything you ever wanted to know about terra incognita, Antarctica, with Kurt Cuffey, a UC Berkeley professor of geography. Get there by 7pm to snag a beer and a seat. Axis Cafe, 1208 Eighth St., SF. If Le Tigre and The Shangri-Las had a British love child, it......

--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? --When is a dognapping a terrorist act? (Hint: animal rights activists may be involved). --Apple TV isn't doing so well --Tapioca Ed turns in his residency paperwork to the SF City Attorney a day early. --Keep affairs on your own side of the bridge! People are starting to subpoena Fastrak records in divorce cases. --It's queer senior prom at the LGBT Community......

The Three Dollar Bill Cafe is such an excellent name for the restaurant inside the SF LGBT Community Center. If you've got the time and inclination, stop by the cafe and check out queer open mic night tonight. Tonight's performance is hosted by poet Cindy Emch and writer Sherilyn Connelly, and features local Native American writer/activist Jennifer Fox Bennett, bringing her Ojibway and Odawa Band sensibilities to the stage. Tonight's performance is a benefit for feminist zine Bitch Magazine -- and if enough liquor's passed around, the open mic may very well get passed to their editorial board as well. Watch out, Jane Pratt! 8 p.m., at the SF LGBT Community Center (Market and Octavia), 8:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. signup. $1-5 sliding scale fee, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Obligatory disclosure: this correspondent is on the Bitch magazine board of directors....

So much going on this weekend! Besides serious documentaries and awesome schlocky horror, there are also great bands and fun for the chosen people. Dang! In addition, The Dharma of Dollars, an autobiographical show about the search for enlightenment as one opens a yoga studio, is in its last weekend on stage at the Marsh. The Guardian finally got around to reviewing it this week -- but you heard it here first! The National......