COCKTAILS: Artisan cocktail-enthusiasts should head over to the 2nd Annual Fillmore Cocktail Crawl for some neighborhood-inspired cocktails at several local Fillmore jazz district hotspots.

6:30 to 9 p.m. // Yoshi's San Francisco (1330 Fillmore St) // $5-10 donation, benefitting the African American Art & Culture Complex

BENEFIT: SF Weekly hosts their Sixth Annual Holiday Benefit and Coat Drive, which is a Vintage Speakeasy theme this year. A portion of the proceeds from the evening, along with all of the coats gathered, will go to One Warm Coat.

7 to 10 p.m. // California Academy of Sciences (55 Music Concourse Dr, Golden Gate Park) // $20

DISCUSSION: At Deep Politics in the Age of Bush and Obama, Russ Baker and Peter Dale Scott, two of America's most thoughtful investigators of American history and politics, discuss why the transfer of power from a conservative Republican to a liberal-moderate Democrat has resulted in very little substantive change.

7 p.m. // City Lights Bookstore (261 Columbus Ave) // free