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Local bicycle dancer and Burning Man veteran Hollis Hawthorne fell off a motorcycle while traveling in India. She hit her head and went into a coma.

More coverage:
* Hollis' friends' blog = http://friendsofhollis.blogspot.com/
* Hollis' family's blog = http://helpholligethome.blogspot.com/
* Chicken John has her story covered over at Laughing Squid.

Hollis needed to get home to the Bay Area to get specific medical treatment at the Stanford Medical Center. The price tag for the med-evac flight was about $150,000. That's where you come in -- with a karaoke mic!

As if we didn't already love our local heartfelt-mixtape-in-the-form-of-a-nonprofit-record-shop Aquarius Records enough, they just went a step further. Snipped from their mailing list:

Wednesday, February 11th, at 9:00 pm, a special after hours aQuarius Arcade Party! Tron, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Joust, Rastan and one more surprise game, all set on free play, come challenge the masters!! WOOOHAHAHAA. No really, just come and play games and hang out and have a blast. But, if you do kick ass on the game of your choice... the night's high score holder on each game, will be handsomely rewarded, with a gift certificate or a cd or a record or something cool.

Plus someone will be manning the register, and we'll be jamming tunes, so definitely browse and shop and purchase, and help support aQuarius. Feel free to bring your own snacks and libations, but we'll supply beverages and munchables as well of course. Should be fun, and hopefully this will just be the first of many such get togethers. See you then.

Shrug off your post-Halloween blood-sugar hangover. Find your galoshes. Then dust off your umbrella-ella-ella-ella-ey-ey-ey and get out there in the rain to go see some excellent dance tonight!

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Andanza Spanish Arts and ODC Theater present an invigorating, original work, showcasing the eclectic and rich music and dance traditions of Spain/Mexico. Zarzuela, Classical, Folkloric and Flamenco forms will be exquisitely performed in Aire y Gracia through dance, voice and live music, by a cast of 15 world-class artists.

ECLIPSE: As we mentioned before, the Exploratorium is having a solar eclipse viewing slumber party. And for those of you non-agoraphobes who won't be watching it on Second Life, head over to Cow Hollow for a slumber party/eclipse viewing party. Be sure to pack your sleeping bag or blanket for an old-fashion camp out on the museum floor. The museum cafe will be open from 9 p.m.-midnight, but bringing a picnic lunch - especially for those of your ingesting spiked brownies - is strongly encouraged. (Conversely, you can watch the sun-blocking action at home here or here, streamed live from China.)

MUSIC: The "heart-melting" Watson Twins (minus Jenny Lewis) headline a night a pretty ditties over on Potrero Hill. Tim Fite and Okay on Monday open for the two

MUSIC: Holy crud, folks! Yaz (or, as known to all you backwards Brits out there, "Yazoo") is playing in the East Bay tonight. And if there ever was a reason to head over to Oakland, the sounds coming from this British synthpop duo would be it. Alison Moyet and Depeche Mode's Vince Clark reunite tonight. Read more about it here.

FILM: Cult classic B-movie Little Shop of Horrors, a tale about bloodthirsty foliage, received the Broadway treatment in the '80s with a zany showtune-laced remake. A few years the musical got the Hollywood treatment. Broadway kept the gloomy ending in tact; Hollywood cut it out. But who cares. The 1986 version of LSH, screening tonight in the Castro, stands on its own with fun performances by Steve Martin, as a sadistic dentist, and Eileen Green, playing a domestic violence victim with a heart of gold. (Part of the 70MM Film Festival.)

MUSIC: If you dig jazz, hear why guitarist Terrence Brewer nabbed the 2007 SF Weekly Music Award for best jazz/blues artist. He throws down his groovy, guitar-y beats over in the Mission.

MUSIC: Homosexuals who play musical instruments -- i.e., Pansy Division, Winsome Griffles, and gay Christian cow-punk crooner Glen Meadmore -- kickoff Gay Pride with a most rockin' night on SOMA. (Note: leave the ice at home, boys.)

FILM: The San Francisco International Queer Film Festival continues with a Spanish bisexual (MFF) love romp XXY (dir. Lucia Puenzo) and the Israeli, coming-of-age story Japan Japan (dir. Lior Shamriz). The latter film, we're told, is heavy on the nudity, so... there you have it.

THEATER: Homosexuals liven up old episodes of when they reenact '80s geriatric hilarity on stage with "The Golden Girls: The Gay Episodes." Local drag luminaries Heklina, Cookie Dough, and Pollo Del Mar, and Matthew Martin take on the roles of Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia.

MUSIC I: Indie rock runs rampant like a skinny-jean sporting hipster with its head cut off when Society of Rockets, Carta, and Odessa Chen perrform.

THEATER: Gays from other states are always so charmingly angry and amusing once they land in the California Republic. Take, for example, noted San Francisco homosexual, Kirk Read. His latest theatrical show, starting tonight and running through Saturday, creates "an evening of stories about sex work, hallucinations, and the apocalypse." Having grown up in some far off place called "Virginia" as part of an evangelical youth group, he mow has firm roots in SF, colorfully preaching to locals. Tonight, hear trippy tales abut "450 pound sex work client, people with dietary restrictions, the Brady Bunch, and touring through rural Alabama with genius strippers."

COMEDY: Danny Dechi hosts a night of stand-up hilarity, featuring Blinky the Rock God (the world's premier pencil musician) and the Danny Dechi Orchestra.

FILM: Those crazy bitches at Femina Potens Gallery are at it again. This time they plan on teaching you prudes out there how to make your very own blue movie at Hot Queer Film & Porn. Shine Louise Houston of Pink and White Productions, Dana Dearmond director for Vivid Alt, Julie Simone director for Abigail Productions and Julie Simone Productions, Trouble Royale for Trannywood Productions, Madison Young director for Madison Bound Productions, and Morty Diamond director of Trannyfags and Trans Entities will be on-hand for a Q&A and vegan cookie binge. Hot Queer Film & Porn is also an open mic-like night where the public is invited to show their very own "hot erotic films" and sordid amature porn. Sort of like XTube, only IRL. Nice.

THEATER: The fantastic and fantastically insightful Robert Avila at SFBG suggests checking out rock opera , written by "longtime Bay Area rock-guitarist" Carrie Baum and in collaboration with Seffanos X & Jamie Ben-Azay Blue Buddha & Susan Appe. The show is, ahem, "a rock-n-roll musical adventure story, a father and his daughter travel through experiences of time, mortality, death and love while navigating extreme and unexpected turns along the way." Fun for everyone, yes? And we, in turn, suggest doing what Avila tells you to do.

FILM: Starting tonight, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, entering its 10th year, will be in full swing. Kicking of the week-long film fest is Ngozi Onwurah is about "a black teacher who has to steer his careening life back on track after he is fired." Clinical depression and racism in England follows. This film screens at 7 p.m. at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post. (Open bar party at Rasselas to follow!)

FILM: , featuring new footage from of the night he died (see above), eyewitnesses interviews, Kennedy accents, crackpot theories, and much, much more. Exciting stuff, folks.

MUSIC: The Godfather of Goth, Peter Murphy, brings his very special brand of glam, gloom, rock, and overzealous use of eyeliner to SF. And he's playing all of his old stuff to boot! Ali Eskandarian opens the show.

THEATER: "Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place" -- a jail cell drama, written by Megan Terry -- features the delightful tale of three men (played by dames!) who rape, kill, plot, and dream. Hot. (But don't worry if you can't make it tonight, the theatrical shanking happens tomorrow night as well.)

MUSIC: Indie-comedy team, Flight of the Conchords, performs in SF's swankiest digs. This New Zeland duo uses "a combination of witty observation, characterization, and acoustic folk guitars to work the audience" into fits of hilarity and, well, indie-ness. They've also won a Grammy Award. but don't hold that against them. They're highly entertaining. Read more about the two here.

CLUB: Tonight at dorkbot-sf, catch "people doing strange things with electricity." While we can't tell you what exactly goes on here, it sure sounds exciting. Tonight's lineup includes DV Rogers ("parkfield interventional eq field work"-- i.e., earthquakes), Jeff Wishnie ("harsh computing"), Jeremy Bornstein ("soapmaking with genetic algorithms"), and David Calkins ("robogames"). This could very well be the most exciting thing, ever. Food and drinks will be served as well. (Read more about it here.)

MUSIC: Head over to SOMA this evening to check out "Balkan Music Night" to hear Eastern European and Greek beats care of Black Olive Babes (a Balkan band featuring Juliana Graffagna) and The Helladelics.

MUSIC: Can't wait until Sunday? Well, check out this pre-Carnaval party, called Carnaval Fever, featuring Aphrodesia, Bayonics, Boco do Rio, and DJ Sep pumping out choice Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Latin, Afrobeat, funk and reggae beats for your all of your butt-shaking needs.

MUSIC: SFBG describes "March Fourth Marching Band" as "a raucous, irreverent ... take on the half-time shows you hated in high school." They are also referred to as Portland's version of Extra Action Marching Band, which means that they must be dirtier. Kid Beyond and Loyd Family Players also perform.

FILM: Last year's winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes, the harrowing Romanian 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile), screens in the Upper Haight. The tight-paced film tells the story of a college girl on the search for a late-term abortion. The Maltese Falcon, though, this is not.

FILM: Nick Broomfield--famous for such jarring documentaries as Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Kurt & Courtney , and the insanely wonderful Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam--offers up a rare dramatic film this time around. His latest effort, Battle for Haditha, is about one of the many massacres committed on innocent civilians by U.S. troops (the same troops we're inexplicably asked to support regardless of our views on the war) over in Iraq. This fictional account of a true story follows the "investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb" from three different points of view.

7 p.m. // Castro Theatre (Castro & Market) // $6-$9

READING: You know the people who read aloud at the 16th and Mission BART station? Not the the ones espousing the virtues of baby Jesus, but the poets, loners, and college kids who read their writing out loud? Well, it's the station's fifth anniversary of hosting bon mots, and what with the weather being too darn hot, you all should head over to the 16th & Mission Five-Year Anniversary party. There wil be readings, of course; music; and copies of the "unexpectedly great" 16th & Mission Review.

THEATER: Remember how , was the single most boring and excruciating piece of English language literature you were ever forced to read in high school? How it should be banned? Because it's will crush your soul? Well, the Shotgun Players and Banana Bag and Bodice ensemble have finally--finally!--made it interesting. They turned the bloody, dreaded hunk of text into a rock opera: Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage. It features a score by Dave Malloy and book by Jason Craig; runs through June 15.