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January 12th, 2010

January 21st: ONE YEAR LATER in New York

The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER, a celebration of the first anniversary of The Rumpus, on January 21, 2010.

The night will feature readings by Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, Deb Olin Unferth, Justin Taylor and Stephen Elliott, musical guests Alina Simone, Diane Louvel, and just added, Jeffrey Lewis. With special guest DJ Khaela Maricich of The Blow and video art installation by Monofonus. …more

December 28th, 2009

The January Monthly Rumpus

The Rumpus proudly presents:

Welcome Back

January 11 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm.
Get Advance Tickets! Click Here!

Featuring authors Michelle Tea, D. A. Powell, Elissa Bassist, Daniel Nester, and Allison Hoover Bartlett.

Music by MC Lars.

Plus a special performance by the infamous Chicken John and Dr. Hal.

Food provided by The Girl From Empanada.
Also chances to win great prizes in our monthly porn raffle.

$10, cheap! You can’t afford not to go.

Hosted by Rumpus editor and author of The Adderall Diaries Stephen Elliott.

Order your tickets here:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/93226

NOTE: No one under 21 years old will be admitted.

December 15th, 2009

Look at How Much Fun We’re Having

Did you manage to miss the December Monthly Rumpus due to a prior engagement, a badly timed break-up, or the simple fact that you, like much of the world, don’t live in the Bay Area?

Or were you lucky enough to be in attendance, but ever since have been salivating at the thought of reliving the glory?

Either way, my friends, today is your lucky day. Thanks to the magic of photography you can feel like you’re at the December Monthly Rumpus right now!

Sometimes The Monthly Rumpus gets so special it sparkles.

Sometimes the Monthly Rumpus gets so special it sparkles.


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December 10th, 2009

The December Monthly Rumpus

December 14 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd St., 7pm

Get Advance Tickets! Click here!

Please join us for a night of literature, music, and comedy featuring:

Andrew Leland from The Believer Magazine
James Nestor, author of Get High Now
Michelle Gagnon, author of The Gatekeeper
Robert Mailer Anderson, author of Boonville
Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli

With comedy by W. Kamau Bell
Music by Michael Mullen of The Size Queens
and a special performance by Dan Wolf from Felonious

$10, cheap! You can’t afford not to go
Also prizes, giveaways, the chance to kiss someone you’ve never met

Hosted by Rumpus editor and author of The Adderall Diaries Stephen Elliott

NOTE: No one under 21 years old will be admitted.

November 17th, 2009

A Night At The Highline

highline_v1Tonight, The Rumpus and Tin House present:

More Than You Expected, A Night at The Highline …more

October 16th, 2009

The November Monthly Rumpus

The Rumpus and Wholphin proudly present:

Hate To Be Alone

November 9 at The Makeout Room, 3229 22nd St., 7pm

Please join us for a night of literature, music, and comedy featuring:

Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted
Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year
Chelsea Martin, author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever
and Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock

With comedy by Nato Green

Music by Michael Mullen of The Size Queens

And a short film from Wholphin

$10, cheap! You can’t afford not to go!

Also prizes, giveaways, the chance to kiss someone you’ve never met.

Hosted by Rumpus editor and author of The Adderall Diaries Stephen Elliott

Get tickets here.

September 15th, 2009

Music and Comedy Night Featuring John Wesley Harding

October 15, The Rumpus and Noise Pop present
Music and Comedy Night at the Rickshaw!

Eighteen and over.

Get Tickets Here

Please join us for a night of music and comedy, October 15 at the Rickshaw Stop featuring John Wesley Harding.

Where: The Rickshaw Stop. 155 Fell, San Francisco
When: October 15, doors 7pm. Happy hour 7-8. Show 8pm.

What: Music by John Wesley Harding, Terra Naomi, and San Francisco favorite Jason Finazzo.
Comedy by Mary Van Note, Nato Green, and Kyle Kinane.

Hosted by local author and Rumpus editor, Stephen Elliott

$10, Cheap! You can’t afford not to go!

Get tickets in advance here:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/76413

September 14th, 2009

The Monthly Rumpus

231658317lMonday, September 14, in San Francisco. The September Monthly Rumpus featuring This American Life’s Starlee Kine and world Air Guitar Champion Dan Crane. Purchase tickets!

Video and complete lineup after the jump. …more

August 12th, 2009

Look at How Much Fun We’re Having

Pictures from August 10’s Monthly Rumpus:

July 10th, 2009

The August Monthly Rumpus

WHERE: The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco

WHEN: Monday, August 10, 7:00pm

WHO and WHAT:

Hilarious Music by DJ Real

Short film by Wholphin

Performance by yo-yo genius Doctor Popular

Readings and performances from authors:

Skip Horack, Joshua Mohr, Katie Crouch, and Steve Almond!

Hosted by Rumpus Managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald
Purchase Tickets:
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$10… Cheap!

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July 3rd, 2009

Look at How Much Fun We’re Having!

As you no doubt know, we’ve got another Rumpus event coming up this Tuesday, July 7, in San Francisco: Sex, Music, Comedy night with Jill Sobule. We’ve got a bunch of great acts including sex worker/authors Michelle Tea, Kirk Read, Madison Young, and Zak Smith. Burlesque by Mariel a la Mode. Comedy by Kyle Kinane. Music by Sig and (of course) special guest musician Jill Sobule. The event is Co-sponsored by Kink.com and The Center for Sex and Culture. Tickets here.

Still not sold? Well checkout these photos from our last event (not posted till now for dramatic timing… not because I lost my camera for a little while… I swear). Don’t try and pretend you don’t want to be a part of this:

A good reason to buy tickets ahead of time online.

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Unfortunately, you can't buy drinks ahead of time online (but they are colder this way).

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The Yellow Dress (they are Mission famous).

The Yellow Dress (they are Mission famous).

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The venue is the Makeout Room (makeouts are encouraged, though not guaranteed).

The venue is the Makeout Room (makeouts are encouraged, though not guaranteed).

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Derek Fagerstrom, Lauren Smith, Thao Nguyen, and Mike Chino (in no particular order).

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This guy will most certainly be there on Tuesday.

This guy will most certainly be there on Tuesday.

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We dont know if these ladies will be in attendance or not, but we certainly hope so.

We don't know if these ladies will be in attendance or not, but we certainly hope so.

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This dude was looking for a haircut next door, but they were closed. Instead he rocked with us and met the love of his life!

This dude was looking for a haircut next door, but they were closed. Instead he rocked with us and met the love of his life!

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See?! (You thought I was lying).

See?! (You thought I was lying. I was not. The dude was practically already in the broken heart stage by the end of the show. Look at his face.)

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Look at how much fun were having!

Look at how much fun we're having!

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So much fun!

So much fun!

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These folks helped organize the last event... I think I may have completed this gentlemans eyes more than was appropriate.

These folks helped organize the last event. (Also, I think I may have complimented this gentleman's eyes more than was appropriate. Sorry if I made things weird Mr. Blue-Eyed Man.)

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Pretty sure this young woman said she had recently dropped out of art school to go fish the Bering Sea. But things were kind of hazy for me at that point, so Im not sure.

Pretty sure this young woman said she had recently dropped out of art school to go fish the Bering Sea. But things were kind of hazy for me at that point, so I'm not sure.

Takeaway message? We really hope to see you on Tuesday, July 7th, at the Makeout Room.

July 2nd, 2009

July 7, Sex, Music, Comedy Night with Jill Sobule

Jill SobuleThe Rumpus and Kink.com (NSFW)

PRESENT

Sex-Music-Comedy Night

co-sponsored by The Center for Sex and Culture

at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco …more

June 25th, 2009

New York: San Francisco

July 7, in San Francisco, Sex, Music, Comedy night with Jill Sobule. Featuring sex worker/authors Michelle Tea, Kirk Read, Madison Young, and Zak Smith. Burlesque by Mariel a la Mode. Comedy by Kyle Kinane. Music by Sig and special guest musician Jill Sobule. Co-sponsored by Kink.com and The Center for Sex and Culture. Tickets here.

August 3, in New York, Writing From Experience, a three hour seminar taught by Stephen Elliott. Limited enrollment. Register here.

June 24th, 2009

New York, August 3, Class: Writing From Experience

I’ll be teaching a class on writing from experience in New York, Monday, August 3, from 6 to 9pm. There’s very limited seating so it’s a good idea to sign up in advance.

June 21st, 2009

San Francisco Newsletter

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June 17th, 2009

The Rumpus + Kink.com + The Center For Sex and Culture

imageThe Rumpus is teaming up with Kink.com for our next event in San Francisco, July 7. It was only a matter of time before only literary magazines teamed up with fetish porn studios to produce events. Or maybe not. Hard to say.

The Center For Sex and Culture is also co-sponsoring the event. Get tickets early.

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June 16th, 2009

July 7, in San Francisco, Sex-Music-Comedy Night w/ Jill Sobule

Tuesday, July 7, 7:00pma70627648d

The Rumpus and Kink.com (NSFW)

PRESENT

Sex-Music-Comedy Night

WHERE: The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco

WHO and WHAT:
Readings and performances from sex worker authors:
Zak Smith, Kirk Read, Michelle Tea, and Madison Young (NSFW)

Comedy by Los Angeles based comedian Kyle Kinane (the funniest comedian I have ever seen)

Songstress burlesque by Mariel a la Mode

Music by Sig Hafstrom
Jill Sobule
And Special Guest Musician JILL SOBULE

Hosted by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott

Purchase Tickets:


https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/70578

$20, cheap

(Ok, not that cheap, but we had expenses this time)
Same price advance and at the door.
Advance ticket holders let in first, it’s just easier that way.
If you can’t afford the ticket price email isaac@therumpus.net, a limited number of discount tickets are available in advance.

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Catered reception, July 7, 5pm at The Latin American featuring the artists and special guests from Kink.com, including web mistress Princess Donna. $55 event and reception

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June 10th, 2009

Paul Madonna’s “Small Potatoes” Exhibit, June 12 in San Francisco

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Paul Madonna
&
The Rumpus
Celebrate “Small Potatoes

Opening art exhibit of large multi-panel cartoons

Ritual Coffee Roasters
June 12, 2009
7-9pm

For the Ritual Roasters exhibit, Madonna has made a series of large-scale multi-panel cartoons, furthering his comics as art approach. A perfect venue for Madonna’s Small Potatoes series, The Rumpus is an online magazine focused on cultural comment, daily publishing content on books, art, music, media, film, politics, and sex by professional artists and authors from around the world.

Exhibition:    Small Potatoes
Opening:    Friday, June 12, 7-9pm
Location:    Ritual Roasters, 1026 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Cost:    Free
More info:    www.paulmadonna.com or www.ritualroasters.com or www.therumpus.net

Paul Madonna also writes and draws the weekly strip, All Over Coffee in the San Francisco Chronicle. His first book, All Over Coffee, was published in 2007 by City Lights Books, and the first edition of his new drawing book series, Album, will be published this November by Electric Works. Paul’s drawings and prints are shown in galleries and museums, and this summer a five-year anniversary show of All Over Coffee is on display at the Jewett Gallery in the San Francisco Main Public Library. And in 1993 Paul was the first ever Art Intern at Mad Magazine, for which he proudly received no money.

June 7th, 2009

The First Monthly Rumpus, June 8 in San Francisco

The Rumpus Presents

3508149873_ee5a692e3fIn Conjunction with Noise Pop and Wholphin DVD

The First Monthly Rumpus

WHERE: The Makeout Room, 22nd Street at Mission, San Francisco
WHEN: June 8, 7:00pm

WHO and WHAT:
Readings from authors

Peter Orner
Andrew Greer
Damion Searls
Barbara Jane Reyes

Word for Word Performing Arts Company
performing Miss Furr and Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein

A short film from Wholphin

Music by The Yellow Dress

And Special Guest Musician Thao Nguyen

Hosted by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott

Purchase Tickets

$10, cheap. $25 includes Rumpus t-shirt

May 24th, 2009

Amanda Fucking Palmer

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Amanda Palmer, formerly of the Dresden Dolls, has just been added to The Rumpus-McSweeney’s-SMITHMAG event this Saturday, May 30 at The Highline Ballroom. …more

May 23rd, 2009

You’re Not Alone, and you don’t want to miss this New York

Tickets here.

And if you’re in San Francisco…

May 21st, 2009

If You Live in New York or San Francisco, We’re Rumpusing Your Town

eugeneprotest10Hurry up and get your tickets for You Are Not Alone, …more

May 5th, 2009

The New What’s Next

May 9, Los Angeles: The Rumpus is co-sponsoring an event with Splinter Generation at Stories Bookstore in Echo Park. More information here.rumpus-notalonepostcard

May 30, New York: The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, and SMITHMAG present You Are Not Alone. Featuring Eugen Mirman, Todd Barry, Matthew Caws, Amy Tan, Anthony Swofford, Amanda Palmer, and more. At The Highline Ballroom. Get tickets early!

June 8, San Francisco: The Monthly Rumpus. Featuring authors Andrew Sean Greer, Peter Orner, a short film from Wholphin, music by The Yellow Dress, and comedy by Will Durst. 7pm at The Makeout Room.

June 12, San Francisco: Opening party for Paul Madonna’s Small Potatoes, 7-9pm at Ritual Roasters.

April 24th, 2009

The Forthcoming Coming Soon

Welcome to the new column about Rumpus Events. Here we’ll post news, dates, as well as recaps and related materials, about all Rumpus Events. As a web magazine without a model, this is currently our model.

If you live in San Francisco and want to receive a monthly email (sometimes twice monthly) about events in San Francisco, you should sign up for Steve’s List by sending an email to steves_list-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. We’re starting a monthly Rumpus in San Francisco and this list will keep you up to date.

Or you could join The Daily Rumpus, which is three to four emails every week, sometimes about nothing. Some people like getting four emails a week, but it’s not for everybody.

OK, events!

New York, May 30: The next Rumpus event is in New York, May 30, at the Highline Ballroom. Featuring comedians Todd Barry and Eugene Mirman, authors Amy Tan, Anthony Swofford, Jessica Anthony, James Hannaham, and music by Matthew Caws of Nada Surf. There will also be two special guests that we’re not allowed to name yet. Best to get tickets early.

San Francisco, June 8: The first Monthly Rumpus. Performers to be announced when we find them. 7pm at The Makeout Room.

San Francisco, July 7: The second Monthly Rumpus, sex and politics night. Featuring Zak Smith, Kirk Read, Lorelei Lee, Will Durst, and Mariel a la Mode. 7pm at The Makeout Room.

About Rumpus Events

Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including the true-crime memoir The Adderall Diaries, and the editor of The Rumpus. Sometimes he twitters.

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