Events on Saturday, March 1

[SOLD OUT] Noise Pop XVI: The Gutter Twins w/ Monotonix

Music

[SOLD OUT] The Gutter Twins

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Bimbo's

Self-described as the "Satanic Everly Brothers," the Gutter Twins are Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli, both longstanding alt-rock heroes — Lanegan... 

Spectrum feat. Sonic Boom w/ Careen Ajar

Music

Spectrum

Saturday 3/ 1 @ The Compound

After recording a series of thrillingly trippy albums, drone-rock legends Spacemen 3 went their separate ways. Jason Pierce and co. got... 

[SOLD OUT] British Sea Power w/ 20 Minute Loop, Colour Music, and Off Campus

Music

[SOLD OUT] British Sea Power

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Bottom of the Hill

Bombastic UK quartet British Sea Power play the Echo tonight in support of their brand-new album, Do You Like Rock Music?... 

These Are Powers w/ Lemonade and Mi Ami

Music

These Are Powers

Saturday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

Noise Pop XVI: Electropop feat. MSTRKRFT

Music: Electronic

MSTRKRFT

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Mighty

When Noise Pop's curators added an electronic component to this year's festival, they clearly did their homework. They began by pairing... 

Ongoing Events

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Saturday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Endgame</em>

Theatre

Endgame

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Traveling Jewish Theater

When Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame in 1957, audiences were more accustomed to stark, conceptual writing and avant-garde theatrics than today. The... 

Enrique Chagoya: <em> Borderlandia </em>

Art

Enrique Chagoya

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Berkeley Art Museum

The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to... 

Matt Furie: <em>Nature Freak</em>

Art

Matt Furie

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Jack Fischer Gallery

Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way... 

Zhan Wang

Art

Zhan Wang

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Haines Gallery

Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Saturday 3/ 1 @ 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>Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America</em>

Art

Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University

Parsing the multivalent impacts of the prison system on American society, Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America unites disparate artistic... 

BIL Conference

Conferences

BIL Conference

Saturday 3/ 1 @ El Estero Park Complex

Moneyed tech gurus, visionary artists, and scientific celebrities all get together in Monterey for the TED2008 conference, a weekend of interdisciplinary... 

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

Art

An-My Lê

Saturday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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>Landscape, Nature, and Space</em>

Art

Landscape, Nature, and Space

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Bucheon Gallery

Bucheon Gallery's new group exhibition might have been smothered under any number of names referencing each artist's respective take on the... 

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

Art

Chuck Arnett

Saturday 3/ 1 @ GLBT Historical Society

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

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

Film

4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Saturday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Art

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Saturday 3/ 1 @ 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'... 

56th Annual Pacific Orchid Exhibition

Special Event

Pacific Orchid Exhibition

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion

The orchid, which comes from the largest family of flowering plants and blooms several times a year, holds a particular allure... 

Jens Haaning

Art

Jens Haaning

Saturday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

Jordan Eagles

Art

Jordan Eagles

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood,... 

<em>A Boy and His Dog</em> (1975)

Film

A Boy and His Dog

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Landmark Clay Theatre

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... 

Annie Leibovitz: <em>A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005</em>

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Saturday 3/ 1 @ The Legion of Honor Museum

Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's... 

Noise Pop XVI: <em>Pictures of Me: Rare Photographs of Elliott Smith by Autumn de Wilde</em>

Art: Photography

Pictures of Me

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Queen's Nail Annex

Elliott Smith's threadbare songs, personal melancholy, and early death cast a long shadow over his photographic record. In drizzly Portland portraits... 

<em>Wicked of the West </em>

Art

Wicked of the West

Saturday 3/ 1 @ a.Muse Gallery

Based on The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West reexamines... 

Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 1</em>

Art

Paul McCarthy

Saturday 3/ 1 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's... 

James Gobel: <em>Bear Hunting</em>

Art

James Gobel

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Marx & Zavattero

Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and... 

Leonora Carrington: <em>The Talismanic Lens</em>

Art

Leonora Carrington

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Frey Norris Gallery

Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air,... 

<em>Deadpan Exchange III </em>

Art

Deadpan Exchange III

Saturday 3/ 1 @ The Lab

While comedians are lucky to keep their jokes alive over the course of an evening, the visual artists in Deadpan Exchange... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 3/ 1 @ de Young Museum

Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work... 

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

Art

Small Things End, Great Things Endure

Saturday 3/ 1 @ 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,... 

Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa

Film

The Films of Pedro Costa

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

Few filmmakers have elicited as strong and divided a response from critics and cinephiles as Portuguese director Pedro Costa. He isn't... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Saturday 3/ 1 @ SFMOMA

Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape.... 

<em>The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization</em>

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art

This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture —... 

<em>Drama and                    Desire</em>: <em>Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690&ndash;1850</em>

Art

Drama and Desire

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Asian Art Museum

On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of... 

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

Art: Photography

Katsushige Nakahashi

Saturday 3/ 1 @ SF Camerawork

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

Jeronimo Roldan and Amanda Curreri: <em>You ROYGBIV Me</em>

Art

You ROYGBIV Me

Saturday 3/ 1 @ Tartine Bakery

Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down 18th Street, but recently,...