TALK: Ben Fong-Torres will be interviewing composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Taj Mahal, one of the most prominent and influential figures in contemporary blues and roots music, with accompaniment by live musical interludes. (8 p.m., Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street)

LITERARY: Friends of the Public Library presents its popular Imbibe event, which is nautical-themed this time around, featuring Infinite City author, Rebecca Solnit. You must be a Friends member to attend. Sign up for a membership online or at the door. (7 to 10 p.m., Potrero Branch Library, 1616 20th St. at Arkansas)

THEATER: The Pianofight gals present emerging playwright Daniel Heath's Forking II: A Merry Forking, which chronicles "the final hours of the Christmas shopping frenzy through the eyes of a pot-dealing Santa and his cookie-stand partner in crime, a mall security guard on his last legs, a bride-to-be deserted by her would-be fiancé, and a bored mortician who’s got nothing to do until people get back to the business of dying once Christmas is over." (8 p.m., Stage Werx, 446 Valencia Street)