MUSIC: It's your lucky day -- tickets are still available to see Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who's promoting his fourth solo album, Demolished Thoughts, which was produced by Beck Hansen. Also on the bill, which is presented by folk Yeah, is Kurt Vile and the Violators, along with addtional guests. (8 p.m., The New Parish, 579 18th Street, Oakland)

POETRY: Green Apple Books presents a Night of Poetry featuring Troy Jollimore, who's considered a "new and exciting voice in American poetry," reading from his latest collection, At Lake Scugog, and Anthony Carelli reading from his debut book of poems, Carnations, which was published this spring as part of the Princeton University Press series of contemporary poets. [Via FunCheapSF] (7 p.m., Green Apple Books, 506 Clement Street)

LECTURE: There are still a few tickets available at the door for theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West's “Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster,” presented by the Long Now Foundation. West will talk about his revolutionary findings, which explain why "cities can innovate faster than the problems indefinitely, while corporations cannot." (7:30 to 9 p.m., Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, Marina Blvd and Buchanan)