Events on Wednesday, February 10

Benefit concert for Haiti feat. T.I.T.S., Eats Tapes, Houndsound, and DJs C.L.A.W.S., Kit Clayton, and Sutekh

Special Event: Benefit

Benefit concert for Haiti

Wednesday 2/10 @ Elbo Room

Relief efforts are going strong in Haiti, but that doesn't mean that your contributions aren't still needed. Tonight, rock out for... 

Marga's Laugh Party

Comedy

Marga's Laugh Party

Wednesday 2/10 @ Cafe du Nord

Besides racking up awards from the local weeklies, livewires Marga Gomez and DJ Chelsea Starr have been serving giggles and grooves,... 

Christine Carter / Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents

Special Event

Christine Carter / Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents

Wednesday 2/10 @ The Booksmith

Garry Wills / Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

Special Event

Garry Wills / Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

Wednesday 2/10 @ Berkeley Arts and Letters

A benefit for Haiti Disaster Relief

Music: Electronic

A benefit for Haiti Disaster Relief

Wednesday 2/10 @ Elbo Room

 A benefit for Haiti Disaster Relief feat. HOUNDSOUND, EATS TAPES, T.I.T.S. - DJs C.L.A.W.S., KIT CLAYTON and... 

Ongoing Events

SF Beer Week

Food/Wine

SF Beer Week

Wednesday 2/10 @ Various locations

For ten glorious days, your cup will runneth over as the city salutes one of humankind's oldest libations. The SF Brewer's... 

Chris Ballantyne: <em>Some Songs from the Shore</em>

Art

Chris Ballantyne

Wednesday 2/10 @ Hosfelt Gallery

Brooklyn-based painter (and San Francisco Art Institute grad) Chris Ballantyne creates strange intersections of the natural and the man-made. But his... 

<em>Luxury Items</em>

Theatre

Luxury Items

Wednesday 2/10 @ CounterPULSE

SF's drag community had its collective breath knocked out of it in 2003 when Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkinson) was the first... 

Ahmet &Ouml;ğ&uuml;t: <em>Exploded City</em>

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Wednesday 2/10 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Large-scale models recreating the structural causalities of recent acts of terrorism form the clumpy, futuristic metropolis of Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City.... 

Katherine Westerhout: <em>Rust Belt</em>

Art: Photography

Katherine Westerhout

Wednesday 2/10 @ Electric Works

As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Wednesday 2/10 @ Fort Mason Center

Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with... 

<em>Route 1: R for Replicant</em>

Art

Route 1: R for Replicant

Wednesday 2/10 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

From George Washington's cherry tree chop to the sale of Manhattan for a pocketful of beads, American history is full of... 

<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Wednesday 2/10 @ de Young Museum

"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of... 

Kirk Crippens: <em>Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession</em>

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Wednesday 2/10 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery

Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity... 

<em>Santos y Otros Creatures</em>

Art

Santos y Otros Creatures

Wednesday 2/10 @ Creativity Explored

Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of... 

SF Independent Film Festival

Festival: Film

SF Indiefest

Wednesday 2/10 @ Roxie Theater

Rolling into its twelfth year, SF's Independent Film Festival continues to bring the best, finest, and weirdest indie films to the... 

<em>Doubt: A Parable</em>

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Wednesday 2/10 @ New Conservatory Theatre

Doubt drags so much award hardware behind it, each new staging seems gilded-by-association. Now, the LGBT-friendly New Conservatory Theater is generating... 

Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino

Art

Andy Ristaino

Wednesday 2/10 @ Cartoon Art Museum

Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for... 

<em>Cartier and America</em>

Art

Cartier and America

Wednesday 2/10 @ The Legion of Honor Museum

Adorning royal personalities from the Duchess of Windsor to Daisy Fellowes and a cabal of Hollywood beauties, Cartier was the standard bearer... 

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Art

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Wednesday 2/10 @ SOMArts

 SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanComing Home

Theatre

Coming Home

Wednesday 2/10 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

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