San Francisco Weekly March 28, 2012 : Page 12sfweekly.com The Secret History of Love runs March 29-April 1 at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St. (at Mission), S.F. Admission is $15-$25; call 273-4633 or visit www.seandorseydance.com. TARA JEPSEN | EAT | | FILM STAGE | | GAME ON | | SUCKA CITY | NEWS | MATT | LETTERS | CONTENTS | | SMITH LETTERS | CONTENTS | MUSIC MUSIC EAT | ART | | FILM STAGE | NIGHT+DAY NIGHT+DAY | FREE SUCKA FREE CITY SAT /3.31 [BOOK FAIR] Everybody into the Tent with three award-winning science fiction writers — Kim Stanley Robinson, Rudy Rucker, and Terry Bisson — coming together for “Occupy the Future! SF Writers on Radical Visions of Tomorrow.” The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair runs March 31-April 1 at the County Fair Building, 1199 Ninth Ave. (at Lincoln), S.F. Admission is free; visit bayareaanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com. MICHAEL LEAVERTON SUN /4.01 [APRIL FOOLS] We’re with Stupid The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is 17 years old, and we’ve been covering it just as long, so forgive us if we dwell on this year’s promotional material: the poster art. We like the poster art every year, of course — anarchism cut with books is a dream theme for artists. But we especially like this year’s drawing of a warm, inviting Occupy tent (occupied by readers) surrounded by dark, menacing riot cops. Who among us, [CLIMB] Finish Line in the Sky The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair SF WEEKLY if we weren’t already in a tent, wanted to be in a tent, at least for a night and some community soup, and maybe a book? (Aside from everybody who calls in to Hannity and Limbaugh, obviously.) This year, anarchism — the meaning of it, the implications of it, often just the food and clothing and bathing habits of it — edged further into the national spotlight, with many reporters sweeping back the flap for better look. At this year’s fair, one lecture looks as inviting as that tent, Benefit sporting events are often good ways to raise money, awareness, and heart rates at the same time. But today’s Fight for Air Climb offers participants more than just a cardio workout and a T-shirt. It ends with a dynamite view of the city not available to the public since 2010 — if you can make it, that is. The climb is what we’d call “extreme vertical” — a trip up the 1,197 stairs and 52 floors of 555 California St., which most of us will always call the Bank of America building. It’s one of the city’s three tallest buildings, and the top floor was long home to the Carnelian Room restaurant. The event is put on by the American Lung Association, which says lung disease is the country’s third-leading cause of death — more common than breast, colorectal, prostate, and pancreatic cancer combined. It affects men and women in equal numbers. Like other Hugh D’Andrade benefits, participants get sponsors to raise money based on their performance. We’re not sure whether the donations are calculated per step, but after a while you might want to just stop counting and repeat “Almost there. Almost there. Almost there ...” The Fight For Air Climb starts at 8 a.m. at the Old Bank of America building, 555 California St. (at Kearny), S.F. Registration is free; call (510) 638-5864 or visit www.fightforairclimb.org. CHRIS TORRES Just because Sunday is April Fools’ Day doesn’t mean you get to skip church. If you’re a member of the First Church of the Last Laugh (and you are), it’s the holiest day of the year, so get out there. Church elders tell us that the St. Stupid’s Day Parade starts at “the pointy building downtown” (which some call the Transamerica Pyramid) and moves into North Beach. Some of what we saw at last year’s parade — we initially thought we’d stumbled onto a demonstration — were signs that read: “I hate crowds,” “I may be rabid,” and “giants suck, dwarves rule.” A man in a 49ers cape tried to play the trombone by inserting the slide into the bell. Frank Chu was there. It has all the trappings of a dem-onstration, but the likes of Occupy, we fear, couldn’t keep us laughing. Last year, laughter echoed between the skyscrapers until the end. So bring all your stupidest props and most nonsensical ideology, but don’t expect to get anything done except feel your spirits lifted in the holiest light of hilarity. The church recom-mends performing a “leap of faith,” which is easy: Close your eyes, “jump up into the air and have faith that when you come down the Earth will still be there.” (It will, we promise.) The St. Stupid’s Day Parade starts at noon at the Transamerica Pyramid, 600 Montgomery (at Washington), S.F. Admission is free; call (510) 841-1898 or visit www.saintstupid.com. collecting histories of the macabre. Since his collaboration with H.P. Mendoza, director of Colma: The Musical , some of Cagigal’s more mesmerizing escapades have been caught on film. One is the “Little Doll, Dear,” which was set in the haunted Queen Anne Hotel (once Miss Mary Lake’s Finishing School for Girls) and involves an antique doll with human hair, a phantom touch, and a mysterious smudge that appears on victims’ palms. A documen-tary performance film is also in the offing, which assures Cagigal’s latest show, The Col-lection , will be darker and more thrilling than any. The 13-night run is shrouded in mystery — Cagigal only promises plenty of bystander involvement. You’ve been warned. The Collection runs April 1-13 at Exit Theater, 156 Eddy (at Mason), S.F. Ad-mission is $20-$25; call 673-3847 or visit www.theexit.org. SILKE TUDOR MON /4.02 [LECTURE] In the search for life on other planets, we used to get all excited about the “life” part, scanning the heavens for radio signals. In the past few months, though, scientists have flipped the script on us: Now planets are where the action is, thanks to NASA’s Kepler mission, which has given us thousands of planet-candidates drawn from a fist-sized area of sky. The thinking is, find one that looks and acts like Earth and, well, there you CHRIS TORRES go. And it happened. They found a planet that looks and acts like Earth. Last Decem-[MAGIC] ber, the team announced the discovery of Twilight Zone by the Bay Kepler 22b, which is 600 light years away, During his six years of residency at Exit The-2.4 times the size of Earth, and orbiting in ater, magician Christian Cagigal has become the “habitable zone” of a sun-like star, which a subtle (by which we mean crafty, means liquid water could exist ingenious, and sly) local treasure. on its surface. 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