MUSIC: The legendary Echo & the Bunnymen will bring on the dancing hipsters, performing classics and new songs from their latest album, The Fountain.

8 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd) // $27.50

SCIENCE: At The Fabric of Reality, Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., a professor of particle physics turned writer and speaker, will talk about Noether’s Theorem, which ties the laws of nature - from Newton’s laws to thermodynamics to charge conservation - directly to the geometry of space and time, and why most people, including science lovers, have never heard of it.

7 to 9 p.m. // Atlas Cafe (3049 20th St) // free

LITERARY: City Arts' presents author and Bay Area native Anne Lamott, who writes and speaks about subjects that "begin with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus," "with honesty, compassion and a pureness of voice."

8 p.m. // Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness Ave) // $20