All events on Saturday March 01

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Music: Electronic
MSTRKRFT
Saturday Mar 1 (9pm) @ Mighty
When Noise Pop's curators added an electronic component to this year's festival, they clearly did their homework. They began by pairing up with stellar local... View details »
MSTRKRFT
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] The Gutter Twins
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ Bimbo's
Sold Out!
Self-described as the "Satanic Everly Brothers," the Gutter Twins are Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli, both longstanding alt-rock heroes — Lanegan for fronting the Screaming... View details »
[SOLD OUT] The Gutter Twins
Art: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
Annie Leibovitz
Music: Rock/Pop
These Are Powers
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
These Are Powers refurbish the kind of avant-noise first perpetuated by early-'80s no wave and then domesticated by art-rock posturing; their credibility comes from things... View details »
These Are Powers
More Flavor: Conference
BIL Conference
Saturday Mar 1 @ El Estero Park Complex More times »
Free
Moneyed tech gurus, visionary artists, and scientific celebrities all get together in Monterey for the TED2008 conference, a weekend of interdisciplinary workshops and panel discussions... View details »
BIL Conference
Film
The Films of Pedro Costa
Saturday Mar 1 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Few filmmakers have elicited as strong and divided a response from critics and cinephiles as Portuguese director Pedro Costa. He isn't so much an aesthete... View details »
The Films of Pedro Costa
Music: Rock/Pop
Spectrum
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30pm) @ The Compound
After recording a series of thrillingly trippy albums, drone-rock legends Spacemen 3 went their separate ways. Jason Pierce and co. got Spiritualized, while Sonic Boom... View details »
Spectrum
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] British Sea Power
Saturday Mar 1 (9–11pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Sold Out!
Bombastic UK quartet British Sea Power play the Echo tonight in support of their brand-new album, Do You Like Rock Music? The record finds the... View details »
[SOLD OUT] British Sea Power

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Saturday Mar 1 @ 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
Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Paul McCarthy
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Art
An-My Lê
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 @ 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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Art
Zhan Wang
Saturday Mar 1 (10:30–5pm) @ 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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Enrique Chagoya
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Art: Photography
Pictures of Me
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
Elliott Smith's threadbare songs, personal melancholy, and early death cast a long shadow over his photographic record. In drizzly Portland portraits and long-faced close-ups, the... View details »
Pictures of Me
Film
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Saturday Mar 1 @ 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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Jordan Kantor
Saturday Mar 1 (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
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Art
Jordan Eagles
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–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
Saturday Mar 1 @ 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
Saturday Mar 1 @ 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
A Boy and His Dog
Saturday Mar 1 (11:55pm) @ Landmark Clay Theatre More times »
L.Q. Jones' low-budget cult classic A Boy and His Dog takes Harlan Ellison's short story about a post-apocalyptic America and retells it in the spirit... View details »
A Boy and His Dog
Art
Matt Furie
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Pacific Orchid Exhibition
Saturday Mar 1 @ 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
Art
Landscape, Nature, and Space
Saturday Mar 1 (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
Saturday Mar 1 @ 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