All events on Wednesday February 13

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Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Weimar New York
Wednesday Feb 13 (8pm) @ Phyllis Wattis Theater More times »
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With Weimar New York, producer Earl Dax (and a circus' worth of colorful characters) channels the avant-garde spirit of 1920s Germany, evoking its fertile, subversive... View details »
Weimar New York
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Enrique Chagoya
Wednesday Feb 13 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
Enrique Chagoya
Music: Rock/Pop
Was (Not Was)
Wednesday Feb 13 (7:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Giveaway
David Weiss and Don Fagenson (aka David and Don Was) emerged in the '80s on New York's downtown Ze label, alongside such disco acts as... View details »
Was (Not Was)
Music: DJ
DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist
Wednesday Feb 13 (9pm) @ The Grand Ballroom
Giveaway
Although DJ Shadow's salad days as a producer appear to be behind him, his live collaborations with turntablist Cut Chemist remain vibrant and inspired. The... View details »
DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist
Music: Electronic
Birds & Batteries
Wednesday Feb 13 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
Birds & Batteries bandleader Mike Sempert moved to San Francisco a couple of years ago with a batch of home recordings (2005's Nature vs.... View details »
Birds & Batteries

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Feb 13 (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
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday Feb 13 (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)
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Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Wednesday Feb 13 (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
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Wednesday Feb 13 @ 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
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Wednesday Feb 13 @ SFMOMA More times »
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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
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Tim Lee
Wednesday Feb 13 (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
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Paul McCarthy
Wednesday Feb 13 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's bizarre, shrewd provocations encompass... View details »
Paul McCarthy
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Jens Haaning
Wednesday Feb 13 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
Free
Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His daring conceptual works toy... View details »
Jens Haaning
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Andrew Moore
Wednesday Feb 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Wednesday Feb 13 (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
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Finders Keepers
Wednesday Feb 13 (10am–3pm) @ 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
Film
African Film Festival
Wednesday Feb 13 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night belongs to Abderrahmane Sissako's... View details »
African Film Festival
Art: Architecture/Design
Is It a Fiber Show?
Wednesday Feb 13 (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?
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Chuck Arnett
Wednesday Feb 13 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
Chuck Arnett
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Caroline Hwang
Wednesday Feb 13 (11:30am–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
Music: Rock/Pop
Siouxsie
Wednesday Feb 13 (8pm) @ The Fillmore More times »
Siouxsie had a pretty good run as the first lady of the Brit punk and post-punk scene, but she's since left her Banshees (and many... View details »
Siouxsie
More Flavor: Festival
SF Indiefest
Wednesday Feb 13 @ Various locations More times »
Unlike festivals that screen "independent" films featuring well-known directors and celebrity actors, Indiefest sticks to cinema from fresh international talent. This year, the festival celebrates... View details »
SF Indiefest
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4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Wednesday Feb 13 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
In late-80's Romania, close friends Otilia and Gabita are faced with the urgent problem of Gabita's unwanted pregnancy. Their solution is to seek an illegal... View details »
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Wednesday Feb 13 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
With all the media attention surrounding the upcoming presidential election, the war in Iraq, and Britney Spears' latest breakdown, it's easy to forget there is... View details »
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Art
Blackout
Wednesday Feb 13 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division More times »
Anyone who's gone camping or spelunking knows that our senses become heightened in pitch-black darkness. In Root Division's Blackout exhibition, more than a dozen resident... View details »
Blackout
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Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Wednesday Feb 13 (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
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Deadpan Exchange III
Wednesday Feb 13 (1–6pm) @ The Lab More times »
Free
While comedians are lucky to keep their jokes alive over the course of an evening, the visual artists in Deadpan Exchange have somehow breathed non-stop... View details »
Deadpan Exchange III
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Emory Douglas
Wednesday Feb 13 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory Douglas' incendiary graphic-design work... View details »
Emory Douglas
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Jordan Kantor
Wednesday Feb 13 (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
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Structured Thoughts
Wednesday Feb 13 (10am–6pm) @ Hang Annex More times »
Free
Hang's latest show features pieces from four Bay Area artists whose painting, sculpture, and multimedia works encourage a tactile, visceral exploration of the natural world.... View details »
Structured Thoughts
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Bad Moon Rising
Wednesday Feb 13 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising continues the sentiment that... View details »
Bad Moon Rising
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Jordan Eagles
Wednesday Feb 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood, which at first resemble... View details »
Jordan Eagles
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Drama and Desire
Wednesday Feb 13 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum More times »
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
Drama and                    Desire
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Leonora Carrington
Wednesday Feb 13 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and... View details »
Leonora Carrington
Film
Taxi to the Dark Side
Wednesday Feb 13 @ Landmark Opera Plaza More times »
It's not as if Taxi to the Dark Side tells us anything new about the growing use of torture in US foreign policy; in fact,... View details »
Taxi to the Dark Side