All events on Sunday March 23

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Music: Rock/Pop
Phosphorescent
Sunday Mar 23 (8pm) @ The Independent
Giveaway
Tonight, Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck headlines a triple-bill of immersive folk. After first attracting notice in Georgia for his parading indie rock, Houck moved to Brooklyn... View details »
Phosphorescent
More Flavor: City Gem
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Sunday Mar 23 (10:30am–4pm) @ Mission Dolores Park
Free
What do you do when you turn 29? Well, when you're the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — San Francisco's favorite wimple-wearing, charitable drag queens —... View details »
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Music: DJ
Mineshaft: Dancer from the Dance
Sunday Mar 23 (9pm–3am) @ 103 Harriet St
In his 1978 novel Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran wrote of the post-Stonewall gay scene: "No one was allowed to be serious, except about... View details »
Mineshaft: Dancer from the Dance

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Film: Animation
Persepolis
Sunday Mar 23 @ 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
An-My Lê
Sunday Mar 23 (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
Sunday Mar 23 @ 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
Sunday Mar 23 (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
Enrique Chagoya
Sunday Mar 23 (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: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Sunday Mar 23 (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
Film
Last Year at Marienbad
Sunday Mar 23 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' New-Wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. The film follows a nameless... View details »
Last Year at Marienbad
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Sunday Mar 23 (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
You ROYGBIV Me
Sunday Mar 23 @ 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
Sunday Mar 23 @ 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
In Collaboration
Sunday Mar 23 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
In Collaboration
Film
The Films of Pedro Costa
Sunday Mar 23 @ 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
Sunday Mar 23 (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
Sunday Mar 23 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
June in a Box
Sunday Mar 23 (8pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
Award-winning theatre ensemble Campo Santo has been bringing innovative productions to the Bay Area for more than a decade now. The company's new play, June... View details »
June in a Box
Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Sunday Mar 23 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The... View details »
Protest in Paris 1968
Performing Arts: Dance
ODC
Sunday Mar 23 @ 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
Tariq Alvi
Sunday Mar 23 (noon–5pm) @ 2nd Floor Projects More times »
Free
British artist Tariq Alvi reappropriates and subverts found materials gathered from mass media; he constructs highly charged and complex collages with images ranging from pornography... View details »
Tariq Alvi
Art: Photography
Whimsy
Sunday Mar 23 (10am–8pm) @ RayKo Photo Center More times »
Free
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous. The photos share a... View details »
Whimsy
Art
At the Movies
Sunday Mar 23 (noon–7pm) @ 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
Art
Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
Sunday Mar 23 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
Four Walls founder Julie Deamer organized Ukrainian Citizens and Strangers, an impressive collaboration between nine American and Ukrainian artists. Filled with narratives haunted by memories... View details »
Ukranian Citizens and Strangers