MUSIC: It's a night of classic '80s new wave at Mezzanine, featuring Tom Tom Club, which was formed by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (of Talking Heads fame) and The Fixx, whose most memorable hit was “One Thing Leads To Another”. (8 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street)

FILM: "Essayistic" documentary, The Forgotten Space, follows container cargo aboard ships, barges, trains, and trucks, introducing the viewer to workers, engineers, planners, politicians, and those marginalized by the global transport system, such as displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia and Europe, and factory workers in China. (7:30 p.m., San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street)

LITERARY: Shalom Auslander, one of America’s funniest and most controversial young Jewish authors, will speak to McSweeney's Eli Horowitz about his latest book, Hope: A Tragedy, "the darkly hilarious story of a neurotic, obsessive, yet relentlessly optimistic Jewish compost salesman searching for a fresh start, but finding it hard to leave the past behind." (7 p.m., Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street)