Events on Saturday, February 2

Around the World in 80 Beers

Food/Wine

Around the World in 80 Beers

Saturday 2/ 2 @ O'Neill's Irish Pub

Those who lack Phileas Fogg's incentive to travel, but share his adventurous tastes — particularly in the area of fine malt... 

Sila and the Afrofunk Experience: A Benefit for the Victims of Violence in Kenya

Music: Global

Sila and the Afrofunk Experience

Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Independent

The harsh realities of Kenya's devastated social climate are tempered by the work of Carolina for Kibera, an empowered nonprofit run... 

David Rieff: <em>Swimming in a Sea of Death</em>

Books: Reading

David Rieff

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Cody's on Fourth Street

The writer David Rieff comes from some pretty heavy intellectual stock. He is the sole child of Philip Rieff, an American... 

Nada Surf w/ Port O'Brien

Music

Nada Surf

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Swedish American Hall

Rising to popularity with 1996's buzzing post-punk dirge "Popular," Brooklyn's Nada Surf have spent the past decade hopping labels and redefining... 

Ongoing Events

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Art

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Berkeley Art Museum

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'... 

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

With all the media attention surrounding the upcoming presidential election, the war in Iraq, and Britney Spears' latest breakdown, it's easy... 

Jens Haaning

Art

Jens Haaning

Saturday 2/ 2 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries

Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His... 

<em>Bad Moon Rising</em>

Art

Bad Moon Rising

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Silverman Gallery

Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising... 

Creativity Explored presents <em>Finders Keepers</em>

Art

Finders Keepers

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Creativity Explored

Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Various locations

Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political... 

<em>Conduits of Labor</em>

Art

Conduits of Labor

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Queen's Nail Annex

In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean... 

African Film Festival

Film

African Film Festival

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night... 

Lucy McKenzie: <I>New Work</I>

Art

Lucy McKenzie

Saturday 2/ 2 @ SFMOMA

Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At... 

<em>Is It a Fiber Show?</em>

Art

Is It a Fiber Show?

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Bucheon Gallery

In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was... 

<i>Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles</i>

Art

Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles

Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Legion of Honor Museum

Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just... 

Ribbons: <em>Enter the Center</em>

Art

Enter the Center

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery

For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the... 

The Films of Emile de Antonio

Film: Documentary

The Films of Emile de Antonio

Saturday 2/ 2 @ SFMOMA

Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping... 

<em>Small Things End, Great Things Endure</em>

Art

Small Things End, Great Things Endure

Saturday 2/ 2 @ New Langton Arts

Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution,... 

<em>4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days</em>

Film

4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema

In late-80's Romania, close friends Otilia and Gabita are faced with the urgent problem of Gabita's unwanted pregnancy. Their solution is... 

An-My L&ecirc;: <em>Small Wars</em>

Art

An-My Lê

Saturday 2/ 2 @ SFMOMA

An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... 

Jordan Kantor

Art

Jordan Kantor

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Ratio 3

Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of... 

<em>Lydia's Funeral Video</em>

Theatre

Lydia's Funeral Video

Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Dark Room

Visions of the not-so-distant future usually connote alien invasions, zombie attacks, or at least some presidential administration shake-ups, but local actress,... 

Olafur Eliasson

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Saturday 2/ 2 @ SFMOMA

From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential... 

Katsushige Nakahashi: <em>The Depth of Memory</em>

Art: Photography

Katsushige Nakahashi

Saturday 2/ 2 @ SF Camerawork

While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces... 

<em> Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait </em>

Film: Documentary

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Novellus Theater

High-definition television has made watching sports a uniquely eye-popping experience, though the onscreen graphics and exquisite close-ups sometimes obscure a sense... 

Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>

Art

Douglas Gordon

Saturday 2/ 2 @ SFMOMA

The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves... 

Andrew Moore

Art

Andrew Moore

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Rena Bransten Gallery

Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Saturday 2/ 2 @ de Young Museum

Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as... 

<em> Lautrec in Leather: Chuck Arnett and the Birth of the San Francisco Scene</em>

Art

Chuck Arnett

Saturday 2/ 2 @ GLBT Historical Society

June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo... 

David Mamet: <i>Speed-the-Plow</i>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Saturday 2/ 2 @ American Conservatory Theater

In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive Hollywood. Bobby Gould... 

<em>An Equal Playing Field</em>: New Work by Peter Stegall

Art

An Equal Playing Field

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Triple Base

Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement... 

San Francisco Bluegrass &amp; Old-Time Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Various locations

Despite being so far west of the Mississippi, San Francisco can seem like a bluegrass lover's paradise. The annual Hardly Strictly... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Saturday 2/ 2 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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... 

Caroline Hwang: <em>Salvage</em>

Art

Caroline Hwang

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Giant Robot

Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,... 

<em>Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe</em>

Film: Documentary

Black White + Gray

Saturday 2/ 2 @ Roxie Theater

Sam approaches Robert seeking "somebody to spoil." Robert responds, "you found him." So goes the momentous meeting between iconoclastic curator/collector Sam... 

<i>In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating 20 Years</i>

Art

In the Fullness of Time

Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Luggage Store

Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades... 

Noir City Film Festival

Film

Noir City Film Festival

Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Castro Theatre

Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As...