Events on Friday, February 12
Friday 2/12 @ San Francisco City Hall
The naysayers and right-wing nut jobs keep insisting that legalizing same-sex marriage will open the floodgates for all sorts of evil:...
Friday 2/12 @ The Make-Out Room
Mortified travels the nation, inviting grownups to share their most shame-inducing adolescent intimacies with live audiences, and tonight, it returns to...
The Album Leaf w/ Magik*Magik String Quartet and Sea Wolf
Friday 2/12 @ Great American Music Hall
Creating a sparkling, pastel type of bedroom music, The Album Leaf — the recording name of Jimmy LaValle (of concurrent Tristeza...
Friday 2/12 @ Rickshaw Stop
The SF Bike Coalition's annual dating game continues to pose quintessentially San Francisco questions: can a fixie-rider find true love with...
Friday 2/12 @ Swedish American Hall
Van Dyke Parks can pretty much do as he pleases. The composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist has worked with everyone from U2...
Friday 2/12 @ The Fillmore
Like a rollicking, sex-addled circus, Lucha VaVoom is the love child of a Mexican-wrestling fan and a burlesque dancer — and...
Merl Saunders Valentine's & Birthday Bash + special tribute to Norton Buffalo
Friday 2/12 @ Slim's
Please join us for a special evening as friends and family join together in this annual tradition to celebrate the life...
Ongoing Events
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Friday 2/12 @ Various locations
SFMOMA isn't the only cultural institution in town celebrating a milestone this year. In honor of its 40th anniversary the city-run...
Friday 2/12 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Friday 2/12 @ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 2/12 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Friday 2/12 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Don't Feel: The Death of Dahmer
Friday 2/12 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Who is a serial killer beyond his crimes? Perhaps he is someone who feels no compassion. He might start as a...
Friday 2/12 @ 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....
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Friday 2/12 @ Roxie Theater
Rolling into its twelfth year, SF's Independent Film Festival continues to bring the best, finest, and weirdest indie films to the...
Friday 2/12 @ The Marsh
Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much...
Friday 2/12 @ San Francisco Ferry Building
The Grand Nave of the Ferry Building Marketplace is transformed into a candle-lit smorgasbord for Slow Food San Francisco's V Day-themed...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Friday 2/12 @ 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....
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ Blankspace
Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that...
Friday 2/12 @ CounterPULSE
SF's drag community had its collective breath knocked out of it in 2003 when Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkinson) was the first...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada
Friday 2/12 @ The Lab
"Alternorthern," curated by Kevin Betram and Jason Gowans, features the work of Sonny Assu, Valerie Boxer, Vincent Chevalier, Brendan Fernandes, Jenny...
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Friday 2/12 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
Friday 2/12 @ Elbo Room
DJs VINNIE ESPARZA (Hella Tight) and B. CAUSE (4oneFunk)- The guys that brought you Free Funk Friday are back with TREAT...
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 2/12 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking
Friday 2/12 @ SOMArts
SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanArt
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 2/12 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
