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FILM: CineKink: San Francisco, a touring version of NYC's "kinky film festival," has been at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend. Tonight's films include The Auteur at 7 p.m., a mélange of romantic comedy and raunchy satire that tells the story of renowned porn director Arturo Domingo, the creative genius behind classics like Five Easy Nieces and Requiem for a Wet Dream, and the Best of Cinekink / 2009 Shorts Sampler at 9 p.m., a special sampling of some of the hot shorts deemed by a jury to be the very best of CineKink.

ART: Women's Art Movement (W.A.M.) explores the scary and sweet sides of pop-surrealism in their latest group show, Dollhouse Monsters invade Polk Gulch. The participating artists of W.A.M. will be disguised in pre-Halloween costumes for the festivities, and encourage attendees to dress in costume as well. Everyone who stops by the gallery will be entered in a costume contest to win an iPod. The exhibition runs through November 7.

BENEFIT: Bay Area poets and musicians will join together for The Monica Storss Benefit and Silent Auction to help Storss, who is uninsured, pay for the expensive new chemotherapy she needs to fight her terrible autoimmune disease.

THEATER: ACT has joined forces with England's Kneehigh Theatre in this limited engagement, U.S. premiere of Brief Encounter, which is "ingeniously crafted with whimsical humor, dreamy romance, and stunning multimedia effects." The play is centered around a suburban housewife who falls madly in love with a married doctor in a 1938 railway station.

The 18th Annual Fringe Festival, which features a completely unjuried format and gives the artists total creative freedom, starts tonight. Navigating the Fringe Festival's "free form" website is a bit overwhelming, much like trying to choose which performances to watch. One feature that we really like is the Audience Review section, in which users can add their 2-cents on an ongoing basis.

PARTY: For those who'd love the chance to redo their prom experience, the Mishap Prom is your chance. Musical acts include The Missing Teens, Spandex Tiger, R&B Free Jazz Gospel Supreme 80, and The Torn ACLs. Spiked punch guaranteed!

DRAG: It's the 14th Annual SF Drag King Contest, the biggest and longest running drag king contest in the world. This year's event is beach-themed, and proceeds will benefit P.A.W.S. (Pets Are Wonderful Support). Advance tickets available at Retro Fit Vintage (910 Valencia Street), Madame S (385 8th Street), and online at the DNA Lounge.

COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk.

ART: Nine emerging artists sought out inspiring mentors to explore the collaborative experience for Ever Gold Gallery's Double Trouble exhibition. Mentor-student pairs include John Casey + Althea James, Jihaari Terry + Kale Cooley, Tara Foley + Nina Potepan, Troy Lovegates + Griffin Snyder, Monica Canilao + Constance Castillo, Barry McGee + Nathaniel Galipeau, Tahiti Pehrson + Emma Hazen, Mona Caron + Elina Ansary, and Ray Potes + Bryan Marciano.

PERFORMANCE: Joe Goode Performance Group presents Traveling Light, an installation combining dance, language, irony and reflection, which will take the audience on a journey through the vaults and chambers of the oldest stone building in San Francisco. Production and lighting design by Jack Carpenter, and music and sonic landscape by Jay Cloidt.

MUSIC: Tonight's Kafana Balkan party, which is a benefit for Hleb i Sir Cirkus (Bread and Cheese) who provide free circus shows and workshops for refugee children in Kosovo, will feature high-energy Balkan brass band Brass Menažeri (pronounced menagerie), who combine Serbian, Macedonian, Greek & Rajasthani Roma jams, and DJ Zeljko.

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GALA: Legendary Academy Award winner Patty Duke will be honored live and in-person in Sparkle, Patty, Sparkle! The event includes an interview with the zany Bruce Vilanch about Duke's stellar career, a screening of Valley of the Dolls, accompanied by a live performance by Connie Champagne as Neely O'Hara and Matthew Martin as Helen Lawson, as well as a clip reel of classic Patty Duke performances. The event will benefit New Leaf Services, NAMI Walk/S.F. Bay Area, and Mental Health Association of S.F.

MUSIC: The Afrofunk Music Festival presents Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, who combines traditional instruments with a modern sound. Luke Top and DJ Jeremiah open.

SIDESHOW: Wrestling circus performers compete with wrestlers performing circus stunts in the When Legends Collide Tour: The Jim Rose Circus vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts, with special guests Sinn Bohdi, Bebe the Circus Queen, and The Ferocious Few.

ART: Tonight is the start of The Crucible's 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival, an open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast, which benefits The Crucible’s arts education programs for youth and adults. The fest is at a new venue this year, which is three times larger, and will give attendees much more "bang" for their buck. The festival runs through Saturday, and there will be a free shuttle running between the West Oakland Bart station and the Fire Arts Arena.

PERFORMANCE: The Lab has been celebrating their 25th anniversary this month. Tonight, composers Miya Masaoka, founder of the San Francisco Gagaku Society, and Tomas Philips will perform. Phillips' performance will consist of an extended version of his 2007 release, Drink_Deep. "Utilizing a series of low frequencies, isolated microsounds and minimal tones, the piece attempts to generate an immersive sound environment that allows space for the listener to be an active participant in the music, thus inviting a particular quality of engagement beyond the confines of conventional listening."

ART: GLBT Historical Society, LGBT Community Center, and Scott Richards Contemporary Art will unveil MILK, the photo mosaic of Harvey Milk, created by Robert Silvers. The event immediately follows the Rainbow Flag raising ceremony at Market and Castro and features Stoli cocktails, Hess wines, and an appetizer buffet.

FILM: As part of the Frameline Festival, My Buddy Claudia documents the vibrant life of Brazilian trans girl, Claudia Wonder, the first "travesti" to star in '70s mainstream soft-core porn and to pose in a straight men's magazine. In the '80s, Claudia became a spokesperson for male, female, and trans sex workers, and she currently fronts a '80s glam-rock/electroclash band.

PERFORMANCE: Help save the Rhino Theatre at The 2009 Rhino Benefit Spectacular. Performers include Leanne Borghesi, Laurie Bushman, Mike Finn, Scott Gessford, David Goodwin, Jordan LaMoore, Kim Larsen, Matthew Martin, Sara Moore, Tom Orr, Dan Sandjoet, and SF Boylesque. The ticket price includes drinks, treats, and the big party before, afterwards and during. Plus there’s a raffle!

PERFORMANCE: This weekend at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kunst-Stoff will perform its 11th San Francisco Home Season from inside a 50 x 50 square “boxing ring” set-up with the audience seated around all four sides of the perimeter, which allows for four very different views of the action and accelerates the impact of the dancing on the viewer. Performances will feature multi-disciplinary collaborations featuring dance, theater, live music, and visual design. "Delving in across the spectrum from grief and hilarity, these works promise to offer considerable emotional scope."

FILM: This week's $7 Tuesday flick at the Red Vic is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Come see Sean Penn at his best as the infamous Jeff Spicoli, and who can forget the titillating Judge Reinhold/Phoebe Cates dream sequence?

PERFORMANCE: The Thrillpeddlers present the revival of the legendary Cockettes' 1970s crown jewel production, Pearls Over Shanghai, a comic mock-operetta about white slavery and miscegenation set in the colorful world of 1937 Shanghai, China. The event marks the Cockette's 40th anniversary. Tonight and tomorrow night's performances are preview nights, and the show opens on June 12.

ART: It's another titillating night of the SF Sex Worker Fest. Army of Lovers presents Formerly Known As, a two day festival of performance, art and video by male sex workers. Flavorpill tells us to "expect insight into transgender issues in the sex-work community, stories of disastrous porn shoots, and nude body art."

FILM: Check out the original Inglorious Bastards by Italian director Enzo Castellari, which inspired the partial premise of Tarantino's upcoming version. Incidentally, Tarantino is a very bad speller. The original remains perhaps the biggest and toughest war movie in European cult film history. Action legends Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson and Bo Svenson star as the leaders of a gang of condemned criminals who escape from an Allied prison camp, only to find themselves 'volunteering' for a suicide mission deep inside Nazi occupied France.

ART: Sarah Applebaum's Soft Core exhibit features her technicolor costumes, paintings, installations and fabric work, which were aptly described by SF Weekly as "visual LSD." Check out Fecal Face's recent visit to Applebaum's studio.

PERFORMANCE: StageWright presents Beatboxing Beasts & Cafeteria Feasts, in which fifth graders from Starr King Elementary School have written six original plays inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum. The plays will be performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The TimeOuts and DJ Brotha Sub.

LIT: Canteen magazine, which was edited and launched in San Francisco, is celebrating their fourth issue and the new semester of canTeen, their creative writing tutoring and publishing program in Harlem. Canteen asks accomplished writers to reveal their creative process, and they pair that insight with the best new work in fiction, poetry, art, and photography—all designed to look more like a fine art book than a dusty journal.

-- "The Crib": Shitty City Nights' only decent club night, the one where you're not called a "faggot" if you happen to be walking outside of it (i.e., on Friday and Saturday nights). Why? Because tonight's for the homos. Hip hop, Top 40, and club hits abound at this popular 18-and-over twink night. Tonight's theme: Messy Britney. Do your best sloppy Britney Spears tribute on stage, and win a bag of crystal meth, or some sort of prize or other. Starts at 10 p.m. at City Nights, 715 Harrison (at Third Street).

Photo of Dan Carbone and friend, by Mike Kuchar