Events on Wednesday, February 17

Ash Wednesday with Annie La Ganga and Bill Cotter

Books: Reading

Annie La Ganga and Bill Cotter

Wednesday 2/17 @ City Lights

Let's just get this out of the way: Dave Eggers will be serving grilled cheese sandwiches at this reading. No, seriously,... 

Sing-along to Funny Girl

Film

Sing-along to Funny Girl

Wednesday 2/17 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

KRON-TV and KCBS film critic Jan Wahl returns to the Museum to host its second fantabulous sing-along, this time to the... 

Chris Cleave: Little Bee

Special Event

Chris Cleave: Little Bee

Wednesday 2/17 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

British journalist and novelist Chris Cleave (Incendiary, Little Bee) writes about the plight of refugees, the cult of selfishness,... 

Epica + Threat Signal + Blackguard

Music

Epica + Threat Signal + Blackguard

Wednesday 2/17 @ Slim's

You don’t believe in fairytales at all? You think there is no more romance today? Yes, there is! Both... 

King's Singers

Music: Classical

King's Singers

Wednesday 2/17 @ San Francisco Performances

Vivacious and versatile, the King’s Singers possess an “impeccably manicured vocal blend, enchanting the ear from first to last note.” (Gramophone)... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 &ndash; Present</em>

Art

Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present

Wednesday 2/17 @ 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... 

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

Art

Chris Ballantyne

Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ CounterPULSE

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

<em>Doubt: A Parable</em>

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Wednesday 2/17 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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... 

RoboGames presents Barbot 2010

Special Event

Barbot 2010

Wednesday 2/17 @ DNA Lounge

Cocktail culture is all about heritage this and small batch that, but some day in the future libations will be served... 

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

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Wednesday 2/17 @ 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>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Wednesday 2/17 @ Asian Art Museum

By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and... 

SF Independent Film Festival

Festival: Film

SF Indiefest

Wednesday 2/17 @ Roxie Theater

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

Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino

Art

Andy Ristaino

Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ SOMArts

 SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanAlternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Art

Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Wednesday 2/17 @ The Lab

"Alternorthern," curated by Kevin Betram and Jason Gowans, features the work of Sonny Assu, Valerie Boxer, Vincent Chevalier, Brendan Fernandes, Jenny... 

Coming Home

Theatre

Coming Home

Wednesday 2/17 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

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