All events on Wednesday April 02

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Music: Rock/Pop
American Music Club
Wednesday Apr 2 (8pm) @ The Independent
Giveaway
Of rock 'n roll's many princes of darkness, American Music Club singer Mark Eitzel has the market cornered on barroom laments. Family, love, and politics... View details »
American Music Club
More Flavor: Discussion
Jonathan Rosen
Wednesday Apr 2 (8pm) @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
There is no argument here — we humans consistently encroach on the natural world and its inhabitants. Unfortunately for birdwatchers like Jonathan Rosen, the many... View details »
Jonathan Rosen
Music: Electronic
Digitalism
Wednesday Apr 2 (10pm) @ Mezzanine
Giveaway
Teutonic duo Digitalism are unapologetically staging a takeover of the electro world, redefining the dance party with their own brand of crunchy, supercharged, Daft Punk-inspired... View details »
Digitalism
Film
A Grin Without a Cat 
Wednesday Apr 2 (7pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Tonight, the PFA presents a rare screening of Chris Marker's three-hour assemblage essay, A Grin Without a Cat. Marker is best known for his photomontage... View details »
A Grin Without a Cat 
More Flavor: Discussion
Lewis Lapham
Wednesday Apr 2 (7pm) @ City Lights
Free
San Francisco native Lewis Lapham served as an editor at Harper's magazine for 30 years before giving up his post in 2006. His taste for... View details »
Lewis Lapham
Film
Harriet Craig and Back Street
Wednesday Apr 2 @ The Castro Theatre
Mommie Dearest's immortal line, "it's not you, it's the dirt," retroactively receives poetic justice in Vincent Sherman's not-on-DVD melodrama, Harriet Craig, in which real-life psychotic... View details »
Harriet Craig and Back Street
Music: Rock/Pop
The Cairo Gang
Wednesday Apr 2 (9pm) @ The Make-Out Room
Emmett Kelley's name may be unfamiliar to most, but you've probably heard his understated guitar playing if you're a Beth Orton or Will Oldham fan.... View details »
The Cairo Gang

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Art
Tim Lee
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Gilbert & George
Wednesday Apr 2 @ 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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Film
The Films of Pedro Costa
Wednesday Apr 2 @ 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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Victor Cartagena
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Art: Photography
Whimsy
Wednesday Apr 2 (10am–10pm) @ 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
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Wednesday Apr 2 (11am–5:30pm) @ Hosfelt Gallery More times »
Free
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox in the Mirror, her... View details »
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Art
At the Movies
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Feral
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
More Flavor: Festival
Pranks Film Festival
Wednesday Apr 2 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
RE/Search's 1987 publication Pranks was a postmodern update to André Breton's Anthology of Black Humor (1940), itself a compendium of mischievous deeds, gags, and jokes,... View details »
Pranks Film Festival
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Wednesday Apr 2 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
The Way That We Rhyme
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Wednesday Apr 2 (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
Film
The Cool School
Wednesday Apr 2 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
These days, referring to the LA art scene as a contradiction in terms is an unfounded cliché. Back in the early 1950s, though, Los Angeles... View details »
The Cool School