Music: Global

Huun Huur Tu

Thursday 2/11 @ Cowell Theater

Deeply spiritual, aesthetically stunning, and utterly unfamiliar, the Huun Huur Tu throat singers hail from Tuva, a region near the Siberia/Mongolia... 

Music: Global

Chico Mann! at Afrolicious

Thursday 2/11 @ Elbo Room

 Afrolicious, Wax Poetics, and Fania records present
Joe Cuba CD release Party with CHICO MANN (NYC/Antibalas)... 

Books: Reading

Sara Houghteling brings Pictures at an Exhibition to The Booksmith

Thursday 2/11 @ The Booksmith

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Music: Hip-Hop

Andre Nickatina + The Jacka + Smoov-E + Tebo + Raider Dave

Thursday 2/11 @ Slim's

Born and raised in the Fillmore District of San Francisco, Andre Nickatina has been a Hip-Hop/Rap luminary since the... 

Special Event

Lisa Sutcliffe on Jim Goldberg's The Orchard

Thursday 2/11 @ SFMOMA

One on One, Curator Talks ... 

Film

THE EUROPEANS: CREATING A CONTEXT

Thursday 2/11 @ SFMOMA

Film Series ... 

Special Event

Cantor Roslyn Barak: Shakin' the Blues Away

Thursday 2/11 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

The Genius of Irving Berlin   Following last year's triumph honoring Leonard Bernstein, Barak returns with a new multimedia lecture and... 

Food/Wine

SF Beer Week

Thursday 2/11 @ 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... 

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Thursday 2/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,... 

Art

Chris Ballantyne

Thursday 2/11 @ 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... 

Theatre

Luxury Items

Thursday 2/11 @ CounterPULSE

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

Art

Nowhere / Anywhere

Thursday 2/11 @ Blankspace

Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that... 

Theatre

The Real Americans

Thursday 2/11 @ The Marsh

Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much... 

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Thursday 2/11 @ 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.... 

Art

Lucy Pullen

Thursday 2/11 @ Ping Pong Gallery

Canadian artist Lucy Pullen, whose oeuvre includes a punny edible intervention riffing on one of Bruce Nauman's greatest hits (Eat Your... 

Art: Photography

Katherine Westerhout

Thursday 2/11 @ Electric Works

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

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Thursday 2/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by... 

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Thursday 2/11 @ 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... 

Theatre

I Heart Hamas

Thursday 2/11 @ Off-Market Theater

Actor and writer Jennifer Jajeh is many things: single, a Christian, and a first generation Palestinian American. She's also incredibly funny.... 

Art

Route 1: R for Replicant

Thursday 2/11 @ 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... 

Art

Kamau Patton

Thursday 2/11 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Before the Internet, another kind of magic — wireless telegraphy, aka radio — made teleportation possible, astoundingly collapsing distance to bring... 

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Thursday 2/11 @ 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... 

Art

David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis

Thursday 2/11 @ Johansson Projects

In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high... 

Art

Luc Tuymans

Thursday 2/11 @ SFMOMA

Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with... 

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Thursday 2/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

The exhibition is the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellia's, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005. The... 

Art

Santos y Otros Creatures

Thursday 2/11 @ Creativity Explored

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

Festival: Film

SF Indiefest

Thursday 2/11 @ Roxie Theater

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

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Thursday 2/11 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery

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

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Thursday 2/11 @ 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... 

Art

Andy Ristaino

Thursday 2/11 @ Cartoon Art Museum

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

Art

Cartier and America

Thursday 2/11 @ 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... 

Art

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Thursday 2/11 @ SOMArts

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