MUSIC: After being nominated for two Grammy and giving a legendary performance in Hair, Oakland-born, neo-soul icon Ledisi returns to the Bay Area. Cross your fingers that she sings "White Boys / Black Boys." Ledisi performs at Yoshi's in Oakland until Sunday.)

8 pm & 10 pm // Yoshi's (510 Embarcadero West, Oakland) // $26

OPERA: For those of you who find the castration of little children funny -- and, really, who doesn't? -- check out Mexican theater company Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes' Monsters and Prodigies, which mixes together gossip, clowning, comedy, food fights, and penis slicing.

8 p.m. // Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission) // $30

ART/DRAG/FILM: Come join Fauxnique and friends at "Parlor Game" featuring "charades, musical chairs and the Proust Questionnaire [An aside: Ashely & MK Olsen's Proust Questionnaire answers in Influence are nothing short of genius.] ... a few of San Francisco's most talented and chicest performers join performer/choreographer Monique Jenkinson (aka Fauxnique) for an amusing peep at the kind of world—at once elegant, rarefied, sensual, and light—rendered by Yves Saint Laurent." The night is followed by a screening of Belle du Jour, costumed by YSL.

7 p.m. // De Young (Golden Gate Park, 50 Tea Garden Dr)