MUSIC: Get your Hammond B-3 fix with Stax legend and current Anti- artist Booker T. Jones. Fellow Anti- artist, the sassy and soulful Bettye Lavette, opens.
7:30 p.m. // The Independent (628 Divisadero St) // $25
LIT: SFAppeal editor and former SFist editor Eve Batey will be one of the judges at Literary Death Match tonight, along with Andrew Leland (managing editor of The Believer) and a mystery judge. The readers include Peter Orner, Ellen Sussman, April Sinclair, and Jesse Nathan. Hosted by Alana Conner and Sky Hornig.
6:30 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia St.) // $5
ART: Check out some decked out skate decks at Skate This Art, a benefit auction and fundraiser for Roaddawgz.org, a drop-in center for homeless youth in the Tenderloin. Over 50 artists, including Jeremy Fish, Matt Gonzalez, Terry Marashlian, Jason Norelli, Randall Sexton, and Zabrina Tipton, will be donating custom-painted skateboard decks to be auctioned off. Exhibition runs through May 31.
6 to 9 p.m. // Market Street Gallery (1554 Market St) // free