Events on Sunday, March 2

Dan Kennedy: <em>Rock On</em>

Books: Reading

Dan Kennedy

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Diesel, A Bookstore

As the music industry contends with youthful downloaders, shuttered retailers, and lagging concert sales, it has become a sinking ship —... 

[SOLD OUT] Noise Pop XVI: She & Him w/ Whispertown 2000, Adam Stephens, and Emily Jane White

Music

She & Him

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Great American Music Hall

Expect winsome pop melodies and a whole lot of flashbulbs when folk whiz M. Ward and indie cover-girl Zooey Deschanel close... 

[SOLD OUT] Noise Pop XVI: Tilly and the Wall

Music

Tilly and the Wall

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Rickshaw Stop

Omaha's Tilly and the Wall could be Noise Pop's poster band: an adventurously attired quintet with indie cred and considerable pop-song... 

Close at Hand

Film

Close at Hand

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The short films in this program, curated by Chris Kennedy and Vanessa O'Neil, bring to mind the tagline "look closer" —... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Endgame</em>

Theatre

Endgame

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Various locations

Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political... 

BIL Conference

Conferences

BIL Conference

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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... 

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Art

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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'... 

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

Art

Leonora Carrington

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

Film

4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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... 

56th Annual Pacific Orchid Exhibition

Special Event

Pacific Orchid Exhibition

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Sunday 3/ 2 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Wicked of the West </em>

Art

Wicked of the West

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Pictures of Me

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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>The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization</em>

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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 —... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 3/ 2 @ de Young Museum

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

Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa

Film

The Films of Pedro Costa

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

An-My Lê

Sunday 3/ 2 @ SFMOMA

An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... 

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

Art

Drama and Desire

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Asian Art Museum

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

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

Art

You ROYGBIV Me

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Tartine Bakery

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