June 25 – Sunday

7p Channing Club. See July 23. (RSE 4 Su)

28 – Wednesday

6p This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Book Discussion. Join us for a discussion of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth, two chapters a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 16, Going Dark and Chapter 17, Cyber Gauchos. This is a Zoom event. The login details are listed on Meetup. Hosted by Pia Smith. PC (RSE W)

30 – Friday

7p Palo Alto Dining at INDO Restaurant and Lounge, a Southeast Asian restaurant at 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 94306 (south of Page Mill Rd., on the east side). The entrance is actually on Lambert Ave. (with a parking lot). Their website is at www.indorestaurant.com. Check out their tasty menu. As always, good food and good conversation. Entrees are mostly $10 to $30. To reserve, contact Susan at Susan.Heimlich/a/t/gmail.com or at cell (650) 714-4972 by Wednesday, June 28. Be sure to get a confirmation. For last minute changes call (650) 714-4972. Vaccinated diners only please, and please bring cash. PC, NMPCW

July 1 – Saturday

6p Start the Month Right. It’s barbecue time! At Elna and Adrian Tymes’ home in Mountain View. Come celebrate the 43rd year and longest running monthly social event in all of American Mensa (at Elna’s home every month since 1981)! Potluck dinner, unstructured socializing, games, and talk. Bring bread, salad, or dessert to share, and YOB; hamburgers and hot dogs available or bring your own meat to grill. $1 donation requested. No reservations needed. Info (650) 969-6650. Guests of Mensans must be accompanied by the member. Masks optional. PC, SO, WBC, WCD, C/D (RSE 1 Sat)

6p In-Person Teton Tea. In addition to the Zoom Teton Tea Party we are having an in-person Teton Tea on the first Saturday of each month, from 6p to 9p. We are meeting at the home of Annie Hallatt, phone (510) 548-8252. She writes: “I will have a bonfire in the brick fireplace and chairs to sit around and sing. We can also go inside of Annie’s Hall if the weather gets wet or windy. We will have Teton Tea (wine, tea, raspberries, lemons, and sugar, served hot) and would love you to bring treats to share. I also have a wood stove to keep the space warm if we need it. I will put a sign out to let you know you have arrived at the house. I have a piano if someone wants to play it. I look forward to sharing our songs. Bring songs and music to share.” Please be fully vaxxed and boosted and bring a mask for when we’re not eating or singing. Hosted by Kevin Langdon. PC (RSE 1 Sa)

2 – Sunday

4p Albany Hill Hike. Join us for a one-hour scenic and historic hike up and around Albany Hill. The trail is steep in spots, but the views are expansive. Special bonus: We have scheduled the Sather Tower Solar Beacon to shine directly upon us as we arrive at the top of the hill. Meet under Pacific East Mall Jumbotron just behind the bus stop on the east side of Pierce St. between Central Ave. in El Cerrito and Washington Ave. in Albany. Free parking is available in the mall lot, which is seven tenths of a mile from the El Cerrito Plaza BART station. Please contact Roberta Maguire to make sure she is in town at robertamaguire/a/t/hotmail.com or (510) 292-6370. PC, ACW, NMPCW, NS, WCI, NXM (RSE 1 Su)

3 – Monday

6p Online Board Games. Come explore some board games that can be played on the Web. If you’re new, please create a (free) account at boardgamearena.com and follow the setup instructions. We’ll meet online with Zoom to establish voice contact, and then we’ll decide on a game to try out. RSVP on the Meetup calendar if possible, otherwise contact Karl Heuer at puzzles/a/t/sfmensa.org or (650) 648-3594. PC, NMPCW, ACW

4 – Tuesday

5p Tuesday Tipplers will meet at San Rafael Joe’s, 931 4th St., San Rafael 94901, at 5p for drinks in the bar and then move on to dinner in the dining room after an hour. Park on the street or in the city garage behind the restaurant. If you have questions e-mail Ed Sabrack at edsabrack/a/t/comcast.net or call (415) 472-3725. PC (RSE 1 Tu)

Intelligencer Deadline. Deadline for calendar events, advertising, members’ free ads, and all other content. See above for information on submitting events. PC (RSE Tu after 1 Sa)

5 – Wednesday

5:30p Trivia Night. Did you decide not to go to the Annual Gathering this year, but you’re still in the mood to play a trivia game? Then come join us for Trivia Night at the Patriot House pub and restaurant, 2 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco 94111, (415) 986-0797, www.patriothousepub.com. The Patriot House is on the 3rd (top, “Promenade”) floor of 2EC at Sacramento St. between Front St. and Davis St. Take the inside escalator to the 2nd floor, then turn right twice and follow the sign to the stairs to the 3rd floor. The restaurant is near the top of those stairs. The contest is free, starts at 6p, and lasts about 2 hours. Please arrive at about 5:30p, so that we don’t lose the table that I’ve reserved. If you’re a member of our SFRM Meetup group, RSVP on Meetup if you’re planning on coming, so that I can be sure to reserve a large enough table. Just go to www.meetup.com/SFMensa to RSVP. If you’re not a member of our SFRM Meetup group, RSVP by e-mailing me at bwkbwk/a/t/pacbell.net. Guests are allowed, so be sure to include the number of guests that you’re bringing when you RSVP. If you RSVP “Yes” then find that you can’t attend after all, you must change your RSVP to “No” as far in advance as possible. You’ll recognize our group by the Mensa logo that I will have on top of our table. If in doubt, ask the wait staff for “The Mensa Group”. Hosted by Barry Krasner. PC

6p This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Book Discussion. Join us for a discussion of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth, two chapters a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 18, Perfect Storm and Chapter 19, The Grid. This is a Zoom event. The login details are listed on Meetup. Hosted by Pia Smith. PC (RSE W)

7 – Friday

5:30p Apt To In Aptos Mensa Bar Group will meet at Sevy’s Bar + Kitchen at Seacliff Inn, 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos 95003, www.seacliffinn.com/sevys-bar-and-kitchen-aptos.htm on this first Friday of the month, running until about 7:30p. Come join Central Coast Mensans: Forget last month’s feces and anticipate this month’s blindsides. T(R)oast past friends, find new ones, and introduce current ones, all while contemplating how it all defaults to QM scaled. RSVP by e-mail to host Stew Gibson at LooseId/a/t/ix.netcom.com with subject “Sevy” so that we have a head count. We will be tipping 20% on the bill, with separate checks. This is our first Apt2nAptos event, and with minimal attendance it can be ongoing. PC, NMPCW

10 – Monday

4p San Francisco Pub Get-Together. Stop by after work or, if you don’t work downtown, just come anyway. All Mensans and their guests are welcome, provided that they are at least 21, at Patriot House in 2 Embarcadero Center (Sacramento St. between Front St. and Davis St.), SF 94111. Take the inside escalator to the 2nd floor, turn right twice, and then follow the sign to the stairs to the 3rd floor. The restaurant’s entrance is near the top of those stairs on the 3rd floor. Look for the Mensa logo on our table or ask one of the waitresses to find us. Starting at 4p, but arrive when you can and leave when you’re ready. We will be there for several hours. They have a Happy Hour from 4p until 6p, with the kitchen closing at 9p and the bar closing at 10p. RSVP preferred on Mensa’s Meetup site at www.meetup.com/SFMensa, less preferred by e-mail to Barry Krasner at bwkbwk/a/t/pacbell.net. If you find that you can’t come after RSVPing “Yes”, please change your RSVP to “No” before the event takes place. PC, NC, NS, NMPCW (RSE 2 M)

11 – Tuesday

6:45p Puzzled Pint. Who likes PUZZLES? The kind where part of the game is to figure out what you need to be doing in the first place? Want to do it as part of a team, so you can bounce ideas off each other, and let someone else do the parts that you find uninteresting? This is a monthly event held in the Bay Area (and simultaneously elsewhere in the world), at a convenient pub where we might order food and drink before or during the game. RSVP to Karl Heuer at puzzles/a/t/sfmensa.org or (650) 648-3594 (voice or text) to reserve your spot and learn the address; it’s almost always either Sunnyvale or Mountain View, near Central Expressway. PC, NMPCW, NS, NXM (RSE 2 Tu)

12 – Wednesday

6p This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Book Discussion. Join us for a discussion of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth, two chapters a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 20, The Russians Are Coming and Chapter 21, The Shadow Brokers. This is a Zoom event. The login details are listed on Meetup. Hosted by Pia Smith. PC (RSE W)

13 – Thursday

11:45a South Bay Lunch. Meet at Scrambl’z, 5055 Almaden Expressway, San Jose 95118 (near Hwys. 85 & 87), (408) 269-2900. Voted one of the best breakfast restaurants around. Extensive menu online at www.scramblzalmaden.com. Sandra Anderson, (408) 997-3187. Vaccinated only, please. PC, NMPCW, WCE (RSE 2,4 Th)

12n Thursday Munchers. Back from the pandemic and rising up from the old Ethnic Dinner, a lunch group in Marin dedicated to trying different restaurants. This month we will visit The Spinnaker, 100 Spinnaker Dr., Sausalito 94965, (415) 332-1500. RSVP by Monday, July 10, to Elizabeth Calaway at (415) 456-9220 or elizterrycalaway/a/t/aol.com. PC (RSE Th after 2 Tu)

15 – Saturday

4p Big Ideas Reading Group: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker. (NOTE ONE-TIME CHANGE OF WEEK because of the Annual Gathering.) On Zoom. In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. For August 13 on Zoom: Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars. We have a list of books read at www.bigideasreadinggroup.com/BIRG2.html. For questions and invitations to our Zoom meetings please contact Chris Boyd at snoboyd/a/t/sbcglobal.net. PC, NMPCW, NXM (RSE 2 Sa)

7p Teton Tea. Teton Tea Parties are folk-singing parties going back to the 1950s. We welcome both traditional folk singing and singer/songwriters. Our 3rd Saturday meetings are currently on Zoom. Join the Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/6912937135?pwd=WvlpMEs1SCs0c1FoZk5seUhoREVaZz09. Meeting ID: 691 293 7135. Password: berkeley. Hosted by Kevin Langdon, kevinlangdon86/a/t/yahoo.com. PC (RSE 3 Sa)

18 – Tuesday

6:30p Santa Cruz Dining. Join us for great conversation and an informal dinner at Sugo Italian Pasta Bar at 1116 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 95062 (Midtown). Find the menu here: www.sugoitalianpastabar.com/menù. Please bring cash. Vaccinated people only. Hosted by Pia Smith. PC

19 – Wednesday

5:30p Re-BORG. Berkeley-Oakland Restaurant Group is reborn and revived in honor of the incomparable Cathy Roha, who initiated this event and hosted it for many years. Assimilate delicious food and interesting conversation at a good restaurant somewhere in the central East Bay. Bring cash, your vaccination card, and a mask. Limited seating. E-mail or call ahead for location up to a week ahead. RSVP by 3p on Tuesday, July 18. Roberta Maguire, robertamaguire/a/t/hotmail.com, (510) 292-6370. PC, NS, NMPCW, ACW (RSE 3 W)

6p This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Book Discussion. Join us for a discussion of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth, two chapters a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 22, The Attacks and Chapter 23, The Backyard. This is a Zoom event. The login details are listed on Meetup. Hosted by Pia Smith. PC (RSE W)

22 – Saturday

6p Online Board Games. See July 3.

23 – Sunday

2:30p Speaker Series: The Life of a Service Dog with Mary Caprice. Caprice will introduce you to Canine Companions for Independence, an organization that trains and provides service animals from birth to the training of their permanent human. Actually they are involved in the dog’s life before birth. They have a breeding program to mate their most successful service animals. Despite all the work and training given to the dogs, only a small percentage actually graduate to become service dogs. It takes an exceptional dog to graduate as a service dog, and not every dog is suitable. All dogs must be highly proficient in the trained skills and tasks. In addition, Canine Companions dogs receive rigorous medical and temperamental screening to ensure that every dog that graduates will be healthy, happy, and appropriate in their role. Caprice is currently the Director Philanthropy for Canine Companions and has raised service dog pups. This is a Zoom event, hosted by Judy Unger, junger2040/a/t/gmail.com. RSVP on SFRM Meetup to get the link. PC

7p Channing Club is a wide-ranging discussion group which has been meeting, in one form or another, for over half a century. There are no assigned topics; we discuss whatever is on participants’ minds. Our meetings are currently on Zoom. Join the Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/6912937135?pwd=WvlpMEs1SCs0c1FoZk5seUhoREVaZz09. Meeting ID: 691 293 7135. Password: berkeley. Hosted by Kevin Langdon, kevinlangdon86/a/t/yahoo.com. PC (RSE 4 Su)

25 – Tuesday

5:45p Dinner, Drinks, and Wonderfest. On the last Tuesday of most months, Wonderfest has a science-based event at the HopMonk Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato 94945. We meet for drinks and dinner at 5:45p. At 6:45p we move to the session room for the talk. To confirm that there is a talk this month, and to find out the topic, see wonderfest.org/category/event/ or check SFRM’s Meetup. More information on HopMonk’s menu, etc. is here: www.hopmonk.com/novato. RSVP on the SFRM Meetup (preferred) or e-mail Valerie Taylor (northbay/a/t/sfmensa.org). PC, NMPCW, WCE, NS, NC, NXM (RSE last Tu)

26 – Wednesday

6p This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Book Discussion. Join us for a discussion of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth, two chapters a week. This week we’re reading Epilogue and Aftermath. This is a Zoom event. The login details are listed on Meetup. Hosted by Pia Smith. PC (RSE W)

27 – Thursday

11:45a South Bay Lunch. See July 13. (RSE 2,4 Th)

28 – Friday

6:30p Virtual Happy Hour. Mix up your favorite beverage. Bring out some happy-hour munchies and join us for a virtual relaxing time. RSVP on Meetup for the Zoom Link. Hosted by Judy Unger, junger2040/a/t/gmail.com. PC (RSE 4 F)

7p Palo Alto Dining. Our group is enjoying Spanish and Latin American cuisine this month at Joya Restaurant and Lounge, 339 University Ave., Palo Alto 94301. Their menu includes many tapas favorites including ceviche, Dungeness crab cakes, stuffed jalapeno peppers, charred Spanish octopus, veggie tacos, and more. Entrees include grilled eggplant rolls stuffed with plantain, Oaxacan chicken mole, and paellas for two. See the whole menu online at www.joya.com/menu/. Good food and good conversation. To say you’ll be there, contact Susan by Wednesday, July 26, and be sure to hear confirmation. At the restaurant, ask for Susan and please bring cash. Contact info: Susan.Heimlich/a/t/gmail.com or call/text cell phone (650) 714-4972. For last minute changes, call/text cell. Vaccinated people only please. PC, NMPCW

29 – Saturday

2p Book Discussion: For a New Liberty – The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray Rothbard. Rothbard is an Austrian school economist and founder of anarcho-capitalism. In this book, he proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for using state power against people. The book is widely available from platforms such as public libraries, Amazon, and the Mises Institute website (free): mises.org/library/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto. We will meet in person at Bazaar Café, 5927 California St., San Francisco 94121 (in the Richmond District). For questions and directions please contact Georgia Qiao, georgiaqiao/a/t/yahoo.com. PC, NMPCW

August 1 – Tuesday

5p Tuesday Tipplers. See July 4. (RSE 1 Tu)

5– Saturday

6p Start The Month Right. See July 1. (RSE 1 Sa)

6p In-Person Teton Tea. See July 1. (RSE 1 Sa)