Events on Saturday, March 8

Mount Eerie w/ AF Jamison

Music

Mount Eerie

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Enola Maxwell High School Auditorium

Phil Elverum (formerly "Elvrum") is the gentle giant of the Pacific Northwest's DIY music scene. His deepest impact came from the... 

Tormenta Tropical presents DJ /rupture w/ Zizek Urban Beats Club

Music: DJ

DJ /rupture

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Mezzanine

Eclecticism is that ineffable quality that many DJs fancy possessing, but it's actually quite difficult to pull off. Enter DJ /rupture.... 

Thor w/ ArnoCorps, Stone Vengeance, Gun & Doll Show, and DJ Matt Holdaway

Music

Thor

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Slim's

Canadian bodybuilder Jon Mikl Thor (aka Thor) has spent the past three decades attempting to glorify his namesake deity through glistening... 

Music

Atlas Sound

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Bottom of the Hill

Rail-thin Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox has leaked dozens of Atlas Sound demos and experiments on his blog, but last month's release... 

[UPDATE] Crystal Castles w/ HEALTH

Music

Crystal Castles

Saturday 3/ 8 @ The Independent

In the age of MySpace, having a handful of limited-edition 7-inches to your name doesn't mean you're off the radar: Toronto... 

Ongoing Events

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Leonora Carrington

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,... 

Campo Santo presents <em>June in a Box</em>

Theatre

June in a Box

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Intersection for the Arts

Award-winning theatre ensemble Campo Santo has been bringing innovative productions to the Bay Area for more than a decade now. The... 

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

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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>Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America</em>

Art

Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>Wicked of the West </em>

Art

Wicked of the West

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

An-My Lê

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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>The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization</em>

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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 —... 

Chris Johanson

Art

Chris Johanson

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in... 

<em>El Topo </em>(1971)

Film

El Topo

Saturday 3/ 8 @ SFMOMA

John Lennon was so impressed with Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky's psychedelic western El Topo that he convinced a friend to... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Various locations

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

Victor Cartagena: <em>The Invisible Nation</em>

Art

Victor Cartagena

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Galería de la Raza

Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration,... 

<em>Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman </em>

Film: Documentary

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

As Sex and the City prepares for its big-screen debut and Hollywood remakes George Cukor's 1939 claw-fest The Women, it's nice... 

Jens Haaning

Art

Jens Haaning

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Matt Furie

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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>Drama and                    Desire</em>: <em>Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690&ndash;1850</em>

Art

Drama and Desire

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Tartine Bakery

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

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

Art

Paul McCarthy

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Marx & Zavattero

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

<em>Landscape, Nature, and Space</em>

Art

Landscape, Nature, and Space

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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... 

A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich

Film

A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich

Saturday 3/ 8 @ The Castro Theatre

Local film programmer Jesse Hawthorne Ficks has already given cult-movie fans plenty to cheer about with his MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS triple... 

Other Minds Music Festival

Music: Classical

Other Minds

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

Now in its 13th year, San Francisco's Other Minds New Music Festival can't be called under the radar anymore, even if... 

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

Art

Small Things End, Great Things Endure

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ SFMOMA

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

Jordan Eagles

Art

Jordan Eagles

Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,... 

Barbara Takenaga: <em>Paintings</em>

Art

Barbara Takenaga

Saturday 3/ 8 @ Gregory Lind Gallery

Mesmerizing fields of color and pattern gently radiate outward from Barbara Takenaga's new series of paintings. While the artist has limited... 

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

Art

Chuck Arnett

Saturday 3/ 8 @ GLBT Historical Society

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

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 3/ 8 @ de Young Museum

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