All events on Friday March 28

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Film: Documentary
Planet B-Boy
Friday Mar 28 @ Lumiere Theatre
...  any self-respecting B-boy will tell you, breaking has never fully gotten the respect and recognition it deserves. Planet B-Boy takes you inside... View details »
Planet B-Boy
Film
Touch of Evil
Friday Mar 28 (9:10pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Giveaway
Orson Welles' harrowing crime drama set on the Mexican border comes in a few shades darker than the Coen brothers' much-lauded No Country for Old... View details »
Touch of Evil
Reading
Edward Docx
Friday Mar 28 (7pm) @ Booksmith
Free
London author Edward Docx has snatched the title of "brilliant young writer" from Zadie Smith, and now all eyes are on him. Docx's work draws... View details »
Edward Docx
Music: Rock/Pop
Carla Bozulich's Evangelista
Friday Mar 28 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Better bring a set of earplugs — tonight's bill features some spectacularly eardrum-numbing noise rock from both established and new bands. LA noise and performance-art... View details »
Carla Bozulich's Evangelista
Music: Rock/Pop
Ray Davies
Friday Mar 28 (8pm) @ The Warfield
Giveaway
Let's set the record straight: the Kinks invented indie rock. It might seem like a ridiculous claim, since the band recorded for a major label... View details »
Ray Davies
Film
Vertigo
Friday Mar 28 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Like Scottie and his phantasmic Madeleine, San Francisco just can't give up the ghost of Vertigo. And why should we? Has our city ever been... View details »
Vertigo
Art
Paul Sietsema
Friday Mar 28 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
Paul Sietsema

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Art
Tim Lee
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 @ 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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Enrique Chagoya
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
You ROYGBIV Me
Friday Mar 28 @ 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
In Collaboration
Friday Mar 28 (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
Art
Matt Furie
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 @ 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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Victor Cartagena
Friday Mar 28 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Amor Cubano
Friday Mar 28 (8pm) @ La Peña Cultural Center More times »
Giveaway
Maceo Cabrera Estévez's multimedia performance Amor Cubano is a sexy, tongue-in-cheek exploration of modern culture's quest for a miracle cure. Plumbing her heritage as a... View details »
Amor Cubano
Art
Chris Johanson
Friday Mar 28 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
June in a Box
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Art
Jeremy Blake
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 @ 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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (11am–5pm) @ 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: Photography
Whimsy
Friday Mar 28 (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
Propogations
Friday Mar 28 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
Paul Hayes' folded-paper-and-wire sculpture Cultivated Momentum hangs from Johansson Projects' ceiling like a recycled-kelp forest, its black squiggles calling fish to mind. Hayes' organic, abstract... View details »
Propogations
Performing Arts: Theatre
Flaming Sin
Friday Mar 28 (8pm) @ Hypnodrome More times »
Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have never been as deliciously... View details »
Flaming Sin
Art
At the Movies
Friday Mar 28 (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
Art
Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
Friday Mar 28 (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
Art
Feral
Friday Mar 28 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store More times »
Free
In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps, and paper collage. Canilao's... View details »
Feral
Art
Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough
Friday Mar 28 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
Taking its title from a Black Sabbath tune, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's solo show Symptom of the Universe taps Ozzy's evil vibes in a series of... View details »
Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough
Art
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
Friday Mar 28 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Free
Jancar Jones Gallery consecrates its new space with a group exhibition showcasing works from Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen. Though the three men... View details »
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Friday Mar 28 (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