All events on Thursday February 28

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Music: Rock/Pop
Kelley Stoltz
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ The Independent
Giveaway
Kelley Stoltz, San Francisco's resident dean of 60's music, returns to Noise Pop toting Circular Sounds, another generous helping of latter-day sunshine rock. His... View details »
Kelley Stoltz
More Flavor: Discussion
Paul Hawken and Kevin Danaher
Thursday Feb 28 (7:30pm) @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley
As the environmental movement has matured, youthful vitriol has given way to more thoughtful, focused approaches to stewarding life on Earth. Still passionate, activist Paul... View details »
Paul Hawken and Kevin Danaher
More Flavor: Benefit
Benefit for John Benson's Bus
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access
John Benson's bio-fueled, tricked-out bus — usually parked by his Oakland house — is one of the Bay Area's best-kept secrets. The bus contains an... View details »
Benefit for John Benson's Bus
Music: Rock/Pop
stellastarr*
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
Second-generation new romantics stellastarr* have foregone the rouge and shoulder pads and headed straight for the synth-glossed hooks of OG bands like the Psychedelic Furs... View details »
stellastarr*
Music: Rock/Pop
Blitzen Trapper
Thursday Feb 28 (7:30pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Portland's Blitzen Trapper take the stage at Bottom of the Hill tonight with countrified indie rock. The sextet's third release, last year's Wild Mountain Nation,... View details »
Blitzen Trapper
Music: Global
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Supplanting the narrow, pejorative connotations of "world music" with a universal message of hope, Ladysmith Black Mambazo's rotating cast of singers has stunned audiences of... View details »
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Reading
Simone Corday
Thursday Feb 28 (7–8pm) @ Good Vibrations Gallery
Free
From the high-society madams of the early 20th century to the unionized strippers of the Lusty Lady, San Francisco has long been home to smart,... View details »
Simone Corday
More Flavor: Exhibition
Pacific Orchid Exhibition
Thursday Feb 28 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion More times »
The orchid, which comes from the largest family of flowering plants and blooms several times a year, holds a particular allure for amateur and professional... View details »
Pacific Orchid Exhibition
Performing Arts: Comedy
Human Giant
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Mezzanine
Giveaway
Human Giant isn't all dude-humor and inappropriate behavior. OK, so it pretty much is — but Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer are three... View details »
Human Giant

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–7pm) @ 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
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Tim Lee
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–7pm) @ 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
Paul McCarthy
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–7pm) @ 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
Art
An-My Lê
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Art
Zhan Wang
Thursday Feb 28 (10:30–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed as a minature example... View details »
Zhan Wang
Art
Jens Haaning
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Chuck Arnett
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Film
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Art
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Thursday Feb 28 (noon–4pm) @ Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University More times »
Free
Parsing the multivalent impacts of the prison system on American society, Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America unites disparate artistic practices into a coherent,... View details »
Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Art
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Deadpan Exchange III
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
James Gobel
Thursday Feb 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and the often ruggedly masculine... View details »
James Gobel
Art
Emory Douglas
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Jordan Kantor
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Structured Thoughts
Thursday Feb 28 (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
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ 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
Art
Jordan Eagles
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
You ROYGBIV Me
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Art
Matt Furie
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
Free
Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way of Troma Entertainment's schlocky... View details »
Matt Furie
Art
Drama and Desire
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–9pm) @ 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
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Landscape, Nature, and Space
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery More times »
Free
Bucheon Gallery's new group exhibition might have been smothered under any number of names referencing each artist's respective take on the landscape. Fortunately, the curators... View details »
Landscape, Nature, and Space
Performing Arts: Theatre
Endgame
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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