All events on Sunday February 24

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Music: Rock/Pop
Swallows
Sunday Feb 24 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Giveaway
Sleater-Kinney may be on an indefinite hiatus, but they still cast a long shadow. Witness the cute duo Swallows, who bang out power-chord pop punk... View details »
Swallows
Film
Brokeback Mountain
Sunday Feb 24 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Heath Ledger's death marks the loss of a prodigious talent. His American acting career began with lighthearted fare, but Ledger quickly branched out to challenging,... View details »
Brokeback Mountain

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Sunday Feb 24 (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
Sunday Feb 24 (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
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Sunday Feb 24 (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)
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Sunday Feb 24 @ 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
Sunday Feb 24 @ 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
An-My Lê
Sunday Feb 24 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Art
Gilbert & George
Sunday Feb 24 @ de Young Museum More times »
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
Gilbert & George
Art: Photography
Friedlander
Sunday Feb 24 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
Friedlander
Film
African Film Festival
Sunday Feb 24 @ 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
Enrique Chagoya
Sunday Feb 24 (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
Art
Conduits of Labor
Sunday Feb 24 (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
Film
Terence Davies
Sunday Feb 24 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
British filmmaker Terence Davies' much-lauded films are known for their stylistic nostalgia and themes of emotional endurance. Inspired by his experiences growing up in working-class... View details »
Terence Davies
Film
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Sunday Feb 24 @ 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
More Flavor: Festival
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Sunday Feb 24 @ 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
Emory Douglas
Sunday Feb 24 (noon–7pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Compañía Nacional de Danza
Sunday Feb 24 (2pm) @ Novellus Theater More times »
Spain's Compañía Nacional de Danza ballet troupe has garnered praise and courted controversy ever since creative director Nacho Duato started moving the decades-old company into... View details »
Compañía Nacional de Danza
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Sunday Feb 24 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture — as an integral element... View details »
The Fabric of Cultures
More Flavor: Convention
WonderCon
Sunday Feb 24 @ Moscone Center More times »
With the Alternative Press Expo's recent move to November, SF's comic nerds and sci-fi dorks now have only one outlet for their obsessions this spring.... View details »
WonderCon
Art
You ROYGBIV Me
Sunday Feb 24 @ Tartine Bakery More times »
Free
Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down 18th Street, but recently, under curator Brianna Toth,... View details »
You ROYGBIV Me
Art
Wicked of the West
Sunday Feb 24 @ a.Muse Gallery More times »
Free
Based on The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West reexamines one of pop culture's... View details »
Wicked of the West
Film
Dillinger Is Dead
Sunday Feb 24 (6:15pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Despite his key role in the early development of Italian art cinema, filmmaker Marco Ferreri isn't nearly as well known as contemporaries like Michelangelo Antonioni... View details »
Dillinger Is Dead
Art
Drama and Desire
Sunday Feb 24 (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
Art
Leonora Carrington
Sunday Feb 24 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Endgame
Sunday Feb 24 @ Traveling Jewish Theater More times »
When Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame in 1957, audiences were more accustomed to stark, conceptual writing and avant-garde theatrics than today. The utterly bizarre one-act play... View details »
Endgame