All events on Tuesday March 18

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Music: Rock/Pop
Boredoms
Tuesday Mar 18 (7pm) @ The Fillmore
Giveaway
After the 77-member percussive spiral galaxy that assembled beneath the Brooklyn Bridge last summer, it might seem like a comedown to witness Boredoms, those Japanese... View details »
Boredoms
Film
The Time We Killed
Tuesday Mar 18 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Jennifer Reeves' brave 2004 feature journeys deep into the consciousness of an agoraphobic poet who's locked herself inside her New York apartment during the buildup... View details »
The Time We Killed
Music: Rock/Pop
Directions in Sound
Tuesday Mar 18 (9pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
Hong Kong twins Ming & Ping showcase their synthtastic electronica with Beijing Opera-style theatrics, resulting in a multimedia extravaganza equipped with dancers, elaborate costumes, props,... View details »
Directions in Sound
Reading
Scott Heim
Tuesday Mar 18 (7:30pm) @ Books Inc. in the Castro
Free
Scott Heim, author of the luminous and disturbing Mysterious Skin, is still running with lost boys in his latest novel, We Disappear. In the wake... View details »
Scott Heim
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Tuesday Mar 18 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
Free
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
Art & Artifice

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Film: Animation
Persepolis
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Tuesday Mar 18 (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: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Chuck Arnett
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
James Gobel
Tuesday Mar 18 (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: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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
More Flavor: Festival
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Tuesday Mar 18 @ Various locations More times »
"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of its kind. The 26th... View details »
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Art
Matt Furie
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Film
The Films of Pedro Costa
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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
Art
Drama and Desire
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Tuesday Mar 18 (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
Art
Victor Cartagena
Tuesday Mar 18 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
Victor Cartagena
Art
Chris Johanson
Tuesday Mar 18 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in the Whitney Biennial and... View details »
Chris Johanson
Art
Jeremy Blake
Tuesday Mar 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery More times »
Free
Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake rose to fame nearly... View details »
Jeremy Blake
Performing Arts: Dance
ODC
Tuesday Mar 18 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
San Francisco's Oberlin Dance Collective has long enjoyed the admiration of international modern dancers and critics alike, impressing with its performers' agility and physical artistry.... View details »
ODC
Art
Barbara Takenaga
Tuesday Mar 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Mesmerizing fields of color and pattern gently radiate outward from Barbara Takenaga's new series of paintings. While the artist has limited her abstract vocabulary to... View details »
Barbara Takenaga
Art
Deric Carner
Tuesday Mar 18 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments. Double Heading is full... View details »
Deric Carner
Art
At the Movies
Tuesday Mar 18 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
It's not often that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is spoken of in the same breath as Akira Kurosawa's Rashômon, but for the... View details »
At the Movies
Film: Documentary
The Unforeseen
Tuesday Mar 18 @ Lumiere Theatre More times »
For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this kind of material speaks... View details »
The Unforeseen