Events on Thursday, February 18

Yvonne Prinz: <em>The Vinyl Princess</em>

Special Event

Yvonne Prinz: The Vinyl Princess

Thursday 2/18 @ The Booksmith

Yvonne Prinz knows a thing or two about music. In addition to being a successful young adult fiction author, Prinz also... 

Noise Pop 18 Pre-Party feat. Brookhaven w/ The Frail and DJs Sleazemore and Disco Shawn

Party

Noise Pop 18 Pre-Party

Thursday 2/18 @ California Academy of Sciences

Noise Pop 18 has teamed up with the California Academy of Science's popular Thursday night Nightlife party to kick off this... 

Target Video presents San Francisco Punks and Beyond

Film: Documentary

San Francisco Punks and Beyond

Thursday 2/18 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The Sex Pistols may have imploded after their notorious final show at SF's now-defunct Winterland Ballroom, but the city's own punk... 

The Rex Foundation Presents:  The Make Believe Ball - One From the Vault - Celebrating the legendary Grateful Dead performance at GAMH

Music

The Rex Foundation Presents: The Make Believe Ball - One From the Vault - Celebrating the legendary Grateful Dead performance at GAMH

Thursday 2/18 @ Great American Music Hall

Festivities include silent auction with memorabilia from the 1975 show! The show will be played in its entirety!

MATCHA: Eye of the Tiger

Art

MATCHA: Eye of the Tiger

Thursday 2/18 @ Asian Art Museum

MATCHA: Eye of the Tiger
Thursday, February 18
5:00-9:00 pm
$10 Admission (includes entry to Shanghai) Click here... 

Special Event

Apsara DiQuinzio on Matthew Barney's Transexualis

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

One on One, Curator Talks   Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a... 

Joel Kotkin / The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050

Special Event

Joel Kotkin / The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050

Thursday 2/18 @ Berkeley Arts and Letters

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Some American Experiments

Film

Some American Experiments

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

Film Series spanOngoing Events

David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis: <em>Article X</em>

Art

David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis

Thursday 2/18 @ Johansson Projects

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

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

Art

Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

Luc Tuymans

Art

Luc Tuymans

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

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

<em>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

<em>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Thursday 2/18 @ Asian Art Museum

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

<em>Luxury Items</em>

Theatre

Luxury Items

Thursday 2/18 @ CounterPULSE

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

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

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Thursday 2/18 @ 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>Doubt: A Parable</em>

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Thursday 2/18 @ 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

Thursday 2/18 @ Cartoon Art Museum

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

Kamau Patton: <em>Icons of Attention</em>

Art

Kamau Patton

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

<em>Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain</em>

Art

Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain

Thursday 2/18 @ Creativity Explored

Hold that tiger! Creativity Explored's new exhibit, inspired by the Chinese Lunar New Year's regal symbol, has plenty of tigers burning... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Thursday 2/18 @ 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>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Thursday 2/18 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

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

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

Art

Chris Ballantyne

Thursday 2/18 @ 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>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

Steuart Pittman: <em>Nowhere / Anywhere</em>

Art

Nowhere / Anywhere

Thursday 2/18 @ Blankspace

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

Dan Hoyle's <em>The Real Americans</em>

Theatre

The Real Americans

Thursday 2/18 @ The Marsh

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

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

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Thursday 2/18 @ 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

Thursday 2/18 @ Electric Works

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

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

SF Independent Film Festival

Festival: Film

SF Indiefest

Thursday 2/18 @ Roxie Theater

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

RoboGames presents Barbot 2010

Special Event

Barbot 2010

Thursday 2/18 @ DNA Lounge

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

<em>Don't Feel: The Death of Dahmer</em>

Theatre

Don't Feel: The Death of Dahmer

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

Route 1: R for Replicant

Thursday 2/18 @ 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>Cartier and America</em>

Art

Cartier and America

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

The View from Here

Art

The View from Here

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has... 

Akram Khan Company

Dance

Akram Khan Company

Thursday 2/18 @ San Francisco Performances

San Francisco Performances and YBCA join together to present celebrated Bangladeshi-British choreographer Akram Khan, who brings Bahok to San Francisco. Named... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

Afrolicious

Music: Global

Afrolicious

Thursday 2/18 @ Elbo Room

Afrolicious with DJs/hosts brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, along with resident drummers J. Elrod and B. Lee bring you the best in Latin and... 

The Anniversary Show

Art

The Anniversary Show

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's... 

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Art

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Thursday 2/18 @ SOMArts

 SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanLong Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

Art

Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit... 

Coming Home

Theatre

Coming Home

Thursday 2/18 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD
 DIRECTED BY... 

Dispatches from the Archives

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced... 

People's Torah

Art

People's Torah

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

Focus on Artists

Art

Focus on Artists

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to... 

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Art

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Thursday 2/18 @ 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... 

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Thursday 2/18 @ SFMOMA

How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the... 

Ewan Gibbs: <em>San Francisco</em>

Art

Ewan Gibbs: San Francisco

Thursday 2/18 @ 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

Art

Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Thursday 2/18 @ The Lab

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