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A full menu of music will be served this weekend at Exile Books and Music, 14925 Magnolia Blvd., Sherman Oaks, with Clear performing its bare-bones acoustic material tonight and Third Door Down combining improv with tight vocal harmonies Saturday. Show time is 8 and cover is $5 both nights. The store also has Elena the Tarot Lady plying her trade noon-4 p.m. Saturdays. The Sunday Open Mike is for performers with original material only. Songwriters may perform two songs and spoken-word artists get eight minutes. Sign-ups are at 6 p.m. (818) 986-6409.

Eagles Newsstand Cafe, 5231 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, will host the Valley Contemporary Poets reading series featuring poets David St. John and Cecilia Woloch on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. (818) 760-4212.

Brian Hodge, author of “Wild Horses,” and David J. Schow, author of “Seeing Red,” will sign their books at 2 p.m. Saturday at Dark Delicacies, 3725 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank. (818) 556-6660.

Borders Books & Music, 9301 Tampa Ave., Northridge, will have a Teachers Appreciation Day this Saturday. From 9 a.m.-midnight, teachers with current identification will receive a 25% discount on all purchases. From 1-5 p.m., representatives from the Los Angeles Times will explain the “Times in Education” classroom program. Poet Clyde A. Wray will read selections from his books “Cause Everybody Ain’t a Hero” and “Sonnets for Lovers and Strangers” at 7 p.m. Sunday. The music lineup at Borders has Jim Stubblefield performing at 8 tonight and harpist Hollienea performing at 8 p.m. Saturday. (818) 886-5443.

The Philosophical and Spiritual Discourse group at Barnes and Noble, 8800 Tampa Ave., Northridge, will meet tonight at 7:30 with a special guest, Cal State Northridge professor of religion Amir Hussain. Also, author Luiz Gonzalez will discuss his book, “Spirits of the Revolution,” at 7 p.m. Saturday. (818) 773-0821.