Events on Saturday, February 20

Tour De Taco

Special Event

Tour De Taco

Saturday 2/20 @ Fruitvale BART

Cyrus Farivar, mastermind behind the California Taco Trucks blog, is teaming up with Oaklandish and the East Bay Bicycle Coalition to... 

Vitalic

Music: Electronic

Vitalic

Saturday 2/20 @ Mezzanine

Pascal Arbez, the French-born Italian better known as Vitalic, has a national and musical pedigree seemingly predestined for electro greatness. OK... 

Midnight Mass presents <em>Teen Witch</em> (1989)

Film

Teen Witch

Saturday 2/20 @ Landmark Bridge Theater

Who needs the strum und drang of Hogwarts when there is Dorian Lively's cult classic Teen Witch? Robyn Lively plays the... 

Mangos with Chili presents <em>Whipped: QTPOC Recipes for Love, Sex, and Disaster</em>

Theatre

Whipped

Saturday 2/20 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory

A Mangos with Chili performance constitutes a special sort of magic act: one in which feelings, moods, and even beings are... 

Apparent Motion: Program II

Film

Apparent Motion: Program II

Saturday 2/20 @ San Francisco Cinematheque

Screening at the Victoria Theatre (map)
presented in association with the Illuminated Corridor Apparent Motion celebrates the art of... 

Apparent Motion: Program I

Film

Apparent Motion: Program I

Saturday 2/20 @ San Francisco Cinematheque

Screening at the Victoria Theatre (map)
presented in association with the Illuminated Corridor  and Overlap.org Apparent Motion celebrates the... 

John Butler Trio

Music

John Butler Trio

Saturday 2/20 @ Great American Music Hall

In June this year, John Butler proudly announced the new line up of the ever evolving John Butler Trio. Prominent Melbourne... 

SF Bluegrass & Old Time Festival presents The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band + Eric & Suzy Thompson

Music

SF Bluegrass & Old Time Festival presents The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band + Eric & Suzy Thompson

Saturday 2/20 @ Slim's

The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band consists of dyed-in-the-wool traditional players with over 100 years of combined live gigging experience.... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Saturday 2/20 @ 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>Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 &ndash; Present</em>

Art

Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Doubt: A Parable</em>

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Lending Library</em>

Art

Lending Library

Saturday 2/20 @ Royal NoneSuch Gallery

While not actually available for check out, the miscellany on display in Lending Library — on loan from the likes of... 

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

Art: Photography

Katherine Westerhout

Saturday 2/20 @ Electric Works

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

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

Art

David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis

Saturday 2/20 @ Johansson Projects

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

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

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Bike Porn 3: Cycle Bound

Film: Shorts

Bike Porn 3

Saturday 2/20 @ Roxie Theater

Bike smut: porn's final frontier or the next logical step for cycle hounds? Either way, the shorts in the third-annual Bike... 

<em>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done</em>

Film

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Saturday 2/20 @ The Castro Theatre

More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is... 

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

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Saturday 2/20 @ 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.... 

Shanghai San Francisco

Special Event

Shanghai SF

Saturday 2/20 @ Coit Tower

Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... 

Rives Granade: <em>Love Force</em>

Art

Rives Granade

Saturday 2/20 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts

While well-documented in photography, the eerie picturesque of slick corporate environments has been addressed much less in painting. Cue Rives Granade,... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Thrillpeddlers presents <em>Pearls Over Shanghai</em>

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Route 1: R for Replicant

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kamau Patton

Saturday 2/20 @ 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>Cartier and America</em>

Art

Cartier and America

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Don't Feel: The Death of Dahmer

Saturday 2/20 @ 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>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Saturday 2/20 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

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

Luc Tuymans

Art

Luc Tuymans

Saturday 2/20 @ SFMOMA

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

<em>Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain</em>

Art

Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Chris Ballantyne

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Nowhere / Anywhere

Saturday 2/20 @ Blankspace

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

<em>Luxury Items</em>

Theatre

Luxury Items

Saturday 2/20 @ CounterPULSE

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

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

Theatre

The Real Americans

Saturday 2/20 @ The Marsh

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

Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino

Art

Andy Ristaino

Saturday 2/20 @ 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>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Saturday 2/20 @ Asian Art Museum

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

The View from Here

Art

The View from Here

Saturday 2/20 @ SFMOMA

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

SERJ TANKIAN - ELECT THE DEAD SYMPHONY

Film: Documentary

SERJ TANKIAN - ELECT THE DEAD SYMPHONY

Saturday 2/20 @ Roxie Theater

Rated: NR    Runtime: 62 mins.
On March 16th, 2009, Serj Tankian, a Grammy Award winner and one of rock’s most... 

People's Torah

Art

People's Torah

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

The Anniversary Show

Art

The Anniversary Show

Saturday 2/20 @ 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

Art

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Saturday 2/20 @ 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

Art

Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

Saturday 2/20 @ SFMOMA

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

LEONARD COHEN LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970

Film: Documentary

LEONARD COHEN LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970

Saturday 2/20 @ Roxie Theater

Rated: NR    Runtime: 64 mins.
Fri, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 25.

Director Murray Lerner IN PERSON!... 

Dispatches from the Archives

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Saturday 2/20 @ SFMOMA

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

Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Art

Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Saturday 2/20 @ The Lab

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

BIKE PORN 3: CYCLE BOUND

Festival: Film

BIKE PORN 3: CYCLE BOUND

Saturday 2/20 @ Roxie Theater

Rated: X    Runtime: 85 mins.
Bike Porn 3: Cycle Bound is a collection of short erotic films from various artists.... 

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Saturday 2/20 @ SFMOMA

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

Focus on Artists

Art

Focus on Artists

Saturday 2/20 @ SFMOMA

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

Akram Khan Company

Dance

Akram Khan Company

Saturday 2/20 @ 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

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ewan Gibbs: San Francisco

Saturday 2/20 @ SFMOMA

This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan... 

Coming Home

Theatre

Coming Home

Saturday 2/20 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

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Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Art

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Saturday 2/20 @ SOMArts

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

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