This week's installment of SFist Memoirs comes from Jim Doeppers, the uncle of this contributor. In 1973, Jim drove his hippie van from the Midwest to San Francisco at the tender age of 23 and instantly immersed himself in the counter culture of the time, where he remained for the next twenty years. From growing his own crops in Humboldt County and being Jerry Garcia's friend and drug connection to working the houseboat docks in Sausalito, and then ultimately ending up in rehab, Jim has experienced the party lifestyle inside and out. Let's start from the very beginning, shall we? more ›

See Paris through rose-colored glasses, learn about why Hitler jokes were prevalent even in Nazi Germany, and hear some skilled storytellers tell randomly themed tales without any scripts or notes. more ›

Geishas abound at 941 Geary, Muni fans tell their stories at the Elbo Room, and jazz icons take over the silver screen at JCCSF. more ›

TRIBUTE: Youth Speaks presents its 15th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, a showcase of work by young writers throughout the Bay Area paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a real activist and real man, not a martyr or legend. (7 p.m., Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue) more ›

ART: Punk art surrealist Winston Smith presents his one-night only Annual Stu­dio Show, featuring new and clas­sic orig­i­nals for sale. Check out his gallery. There's some pretty rad stuff in there. (7 to 11 p.m., Grant's Tomb Gallery, 50A Bannam Street) more ›

STORYTELLING: Have a story to tell about holiday excess? Then head over to the monthly Porchlight Open Door, to tell your 5-minute anecdote for a chance to win $50. "Sex, drugs, food, love, pain, -- even OCD handwashers entirely welcome!" (7 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk Street) more ›

STORYTELLING: The talented folks at Muni Diaries, who are seriously funny people in person, are hosting their first Muni Diaries Live Reunion and Open Mic, featuring Muni Diaries Live alumni telling the stories that they didn't tell the first time around. Additionally, special guest Anna Conda will be at the event reading the winning review from Muni Diaries' Muni Google Places contest. (6:30 to 9 p.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street) more ›

FILM: The newly restored dystopic 1973 science-fiction epic, World on a Wire, which is a "cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia" is a previously "unseen three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth from one of cinema’s 'kinkiest geniuses'". (7 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

FILM: The Red Devil Lounge has a weekly cure for the Monday blues with their ongoing free movie screenings. This week's film is the classic family flick, The Goonies, starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin and Corey Feldman. (7 p.m., Red Devil Lounge, 1695 Polk Street) more ›

ART: The Tournesol Exhibition in association with Headlands Center for the Arts presents this year's Tournesol Awardee Jack Leamy's Bigfoot/Littlefoot, an intriguing collection of paintings that often feature his wife and son, portraying mythology that's "both idiosyncratic and universal in scope" and enact "both the personal poetic, and at times universal archetypes." (6 p.m., The Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street) more ›

ART: Brian Gross Fine Art presents Appellation Series, an ongoing series of landscape photographs by California artist, Lewis deSoto, in which he seamlessly merges together 50 to 200 photographs per image into panoramic landscapes, documenting the structures of wine-growing regions in California. (6 p.m., Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Street, One Post Street) more ›

STORYTELLING: Celebrate three years of the fabulous Muni Diaries at Muni Diaries Live 5 tonight. Bring a Muni tale with you and hit the stage with H.P. Mendoza, screen writer and composer of Colma: the Musical, Joyce Lee, two-time Oakland Spoken Word Grand Slam Champion, and Kirk Read, writer and mastermind curator of Smack Dab and K’vets, along with MissionMission‘s Ariel Dovas and Muni Diaries Live: Breaking it Down audience favorite Jesse James. more ›

MUSIC: Musician Dina Emerson, who "combines voice, text, electronics, physical theater and specifically chosen physical objects/materials to create works that defy categorization," will perform a new collection of work that was inspired by bees - cooperation, pollination, fertility, and such concepts, using wineglasses, voice, and video projection. more ›

STORYTELLING: Porchlight Presents: Brushes with Fame, features Bay Area luminaries and "nobodies," including Edinburgh Castle barman Alan Black, Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware, burlesque performer Lady Monster, theater producer Bruce Pachtman, actress Patricia Rosestar, and musician Kevin Thomson divulging all the brilliant details surrounding their brushes with fame as extras, actors, and gawkers, complete with incriminating footage. Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. more ›

FILM: Have a couple of microbrews, or club sodas, and enjoy the endlessly-hyped Inception. If you're like us and haven't seen the movie yet, a bar might not be the best place to watch it for the first time -- take a lot at that plot. more ›

FILM: Head to Drafthouse Cinema to watch the classic 1982 version of Tron, in which a hacker is "literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program." more ›

FILM: Learn all about body dysmorphic disorder in the gay community through a comedic lens at Between Sizes: An Evening with Skinnyfat, featuring a one-night only encore screening of the film Skinnyfat, along with a "sexy" companion film, a Q & A with the filmmakers, and a discussion amongst local luminaries. more ›

STORYTELLING: Creativity Explored studio artists, staff members, and volunteers take the mic at this month's Porchlight storytelling event Don’t Call Me Retard. Each guest will tell a ten-minute true story, which will be interspersed with short animated video works by Creativity Explored artists. more ›

STORYTELLING: Tonight's the Halloween installment of Muni Diaries Live!, featuring story tellers Derek Powazek (Fray Magazine), comedian Bucky Sinister, and Isaac Fitzgerald (The Rumpus), along with author Andrew Lam (Perfume Dreams and East Eats West). Tara the Sea Shanty Songstress will also perform. more ›

ART: Montage artist Winston Smith, who has created some of punk rock’s most lasting and iconic symbols, will be exhibiting select retrospective works spanning thirty years at Deep Dimension in his first major SF show in a decade. The show runs through October 14th. more ›

ART I: Muni Diaries presents Outbound, featuring a group mixed media exhibition portraying SF's beloved public transit in the form of paintings, graffiti, and more. There will also be a storytelling tent set up outside, so bring a story to tell! more ›

MUSIC: Tonight kicks off the 10th Annual Electronic Music Festival, which runs through Saturday and showcases "a wide array of electronic music pioneers, modern innovators, and emerging artists, ranging in diverse styles and methods from contemporary classical, glitch, music concrete, sound art, free improvisation and experimental pop." Tonight's line-up includes Miya Masaoka (New York), Lukas Ligeti (New York), and Amy X Neuburg (Oakland). more ›

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." more ›