All events on Saturday January 19

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Music: Electronic
Plaid
Saturday Jan 19 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
Giveaway
Plaid are practically Warp Records' house band, they've been crafting cerebral, glitchy electro for so long. The British twosome has amassed an impressive collection of... View details »
Plaid
Music: Jazz/Blues
Lavay Smith
Saturday Jan 19 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
A mainstay of the jazz scene both in San Francisco and nationwide, Lavay Smith can frequently be found lending her purring, powerful voice to elegant... View details »
Lavay Smith
Film: Shorts
Disposable Film Festival
Saturday Jan 19 (8–11pm) @ Artists' Television Access
The Disposable Film Festival responds to the fast and easy media that dominate our social lives; camera-phone party snaps clog Facebook profiles and viral videos... View details »
Disposable Film Festival
More Flavor: Sports
Harlem Globetrotters
Saturday Jan 19 (7:30pm) @ Oracle Arena
The last member of the original Harlem Globetrotters died last July, but the exhibition basketball team has played on long since the first rambunctious sportsmen... View details »
Harlem Globetrotters
More Flavor: Shopping
Sweet!
Saturday Jan 19 (noon–3pm) @ CELLspace
Giveaway
Hot on the heels of those freshly minted New Year's resolutions, 2008's first clothing swap simultaneously gives you a jump on spring cleaning and helps... View details »
Sweet!

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Art
Douglas Gordon
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
Art
Dracula
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum More times »
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his drawings maintaining a darkly... View details »
Dracula
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Saturday Jan 19 @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Saturday Jan 19 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Art
Lucy McKenzie
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
Lucy McKenzie
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Saturday Jan 19 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just such a pied-à-terre —... View details »
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Art
Big Ideas, Small Works
Saturday Jan 19 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
Free
Big-ticket American art sometimes seems to come in one size only: extra-large. Such scaling can be subversive, but all too often it seems like yet... View details »
 Big Ideas, Small Works
Art
Apocalypse Now
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Politically engaged duo Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have become a major presence on SF's art scene this fall with their co-curated exhibition at CCA... View details »
Apocalypse Now
Film
Let's Get Lost
Saturday Jan 19 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
The Castro screens a new 35mm restoration of Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber's rapturous 1988 portrait of trumpet crooner Chet Baker. Once the epitome... View details »
 Let's Get Lost
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Saturday Jan 19 @ Various locations More times »
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
Persepolis
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
Saturday Jan 19 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive Hollywood. Bobby Gould can't decide between producing... View details »
Speed-the-Plow
Art
Jovi Schnell
Saturday Jan 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Jovi Schnell
Art
In the Fullness of Time
Saturday Jan 19 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store More times »
Free
Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades as a respected venue... View details »
In the Fullness of Time
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
Jeff Wall
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Saturday Jan 19 @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping the radical discourses that... View details »
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Art
Gee Vaucher
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
Having designed much of the album art for '80s anarcho-peace punks Crass, Gee Vaucher continues to turn her straight razor on the visual culture of... View details »
Gee Vaucher
Art
Boomerang
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–6pm) @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery More times »
Free
True to its title, Mario Lemos and Laurie O'Brien's intimate exhibit Boomerang traces a parabolic path connecting a wide swath of Bay Area artists, rebounding... View details »
Boomerang
Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Art
Andrew Moore
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–5pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery More times »
Free
Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling walls and hollow interiors... View details »
Andrew Moore
Film: Documentary
Lynch
Saturday Jan 19 @ Red Vic More times »
American filmmaker David Lynch has become increasingly inscrutable as he actively promotes transcendental meditation and releases ever more enigmatic works — namely 2006's Inland Empire.... View details »
 Lynch
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Saturday Jan 19 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces hint at the easily... View details »
Katsushige Nakahashi
Art
Finders Keepers
Saturday Jan 19 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late, great Cornell, the participants... View details »
Finders Keepers
Art: Architecture/Design
Is It a Fiber Show?
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery More times »
Free
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was put on trial —... View details »
Is It a Fiber Show?
More Flavor: Fashion
Hot Couture
Saturday Jan 19 (7pm) @ The Crucible More times »
Giveaway
Pairing the spectacles of fire and fashion, edgy industrial-art space the Crucible brings new meaning to the word "hot" for its ninth birthday party. Aerialists... View details »
Hot Couture
Art
Conduits of Labor
Saturday Jan 19 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean hausfrau in the digital... View details »
Conduits of Labor
Art
Caroline Hwang
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
Caroline Hwang
Art
An Equal Playing Field
Saturday Jan 19 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement to reconcile with his... View details »
An Equal Playing Field
Art
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Saturday Jan 19 (noon–6pm) @ New Langton Arts More times »
Free
Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, this show demonstrates that... View details »
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Art
Jordan Kantor
Saturday Jan 19 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of three stacked skulls serves... View details »
Jordan Kantor