Events on Wednesday, February 24

Noise Pop 18 presents The Ghost of A Saber Toothed Tiger w/ If By Yes, Consortium Musicum and DJ Eucademix
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Music: Rock/Pop
Ghost of A Saber Toothed Tiger
@ The Independent
Sean Lennon's latest project, the mysteriously named Ghost of A Saber Toothed Tiger, finds him and girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl donning...  View details »
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The Long Now Foundation presents Alan Weisman: <em>World Without Us, World With Us</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
More Flavor: Discussion
Alan Weisman
@ Herbst Theater
In nonfiction eco-thriller The World Without Us, veteran environmental journalist Alan Weisman explores what would happen if humankind was suddenly wiped...  View details »
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NOISEPOP: P-Star Rising
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Film: Festival
NOISEPOP: P-Star Rising
@ Roxie Theater
Rated: NR    Runtime: 83 mins.
A Film by Gabriel Noble

At age 9, Priscilla, an adorable yet... 
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Panel discussion - Geography of Transterritories: Michael Arcega, Ursula Biemann, Claire Fontaine, Carlos Motta, and Société Réaliste, Visiting Artists and Scholars lecture series
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Panel discussion - Geography of Transterritories: Michael Arcega, Ursula Biemann, Claire Fontaine, Carlos Motta, and Société Réaliste, Visiting Artists and Scholars lecture series
@ San Francisco Art Institute
This panel discussion brings together in conversation the artists participating in Geography of Transterritories, the exhibition on view in SFAI’s Walter...  View details »
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Geography of Transterritories opening reception, Walter and McBean Galleries
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Geography of Transterritories opening reception, Walter and McBean Galleries
@ San Francisco Art Institute
Geography of Transterritories opens in the Walter and McBean Galleries with an opening reception from 5:30-7:30pm.  This exhibition includes works by...  View details »
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NOISEPOP: Austin, TX: Live Music Capital of the World? (Sneak Preview)
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Film: Festival
NOISEPOP: Austin, TX: Live Music Capital of the World? (Sneak Preview)
@ Roxie Theater
Rated: NR    Runtime: 90 mins.
Directed By Nathan Christ

Internationally known as 'The Live Music Capital... 
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Ongoing Events

Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Andy Ristaino
@ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...  View details »
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Katherine Westerhout: <em>Rust Belt</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art: Photography
Katherine Westerhout
@ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Coco Before Chanel</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Film
Coco Before Chanel
@ Landmark Clay Theatre
Audrey Tautou (aka Amélie) stars as Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in this visually stunning French film about the...  View details »
Ongoing
Outdoor Exploratorium
Month_02 Thursday Day_25
More Flavor: Exhibition
Outdoor Exploratorium
@ 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...  View details »
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Free
Rives Granade: <em>Love Force</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Rives Granade
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Route 1: R for Replicant</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Route 1: R for Replicant
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Broken Embraces</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Film
Broken Embraces
@ Landmark Clay Theatre
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...  View details »
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<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
More Flavor: Exhibition
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
@ 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...  View details »
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Kirk Crippens: <em>Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art: Photography
Kirk Crippens
@ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity...  View details »
Ongoing
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Mark Baugh-Sasaki: <em>Adaptations</em>
Month_02 Thursday Day_25
Art
Mark Baugh-Sasaki
@ Hayes Valley Park
The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing  (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
@ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf, the extraordinary exhibition in its first North American showing, is based on the collective artwork...  View details »
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<em>Doubt: A Parable</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Performing Arts: Theatre
Doubt: A Parable
@ 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...  View details »
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Ahmet &Ouml;ğ&uuml;t: <em>Exploded City</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Ahmet Öğüt
@ 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....  View details »
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<em>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Film
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
@ 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...  View details »
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<em>Cartier and America</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art: Architecture/Design
Cartier and America
@ 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...  View details »
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Mary Iverson: <em>Frontier</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Mary Iverson
@ Park Life
In Mary Iverson's landscapes, primary-colored shipping containers are nestled within Hudson River school–influenced landscapes. It's a meeting of two worlds: the pastoral...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>The White Ribbon</em>
Month_02 Thursday Day_25
Film
The White Ribbon
@ Landmark Embarcadero
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...  View details »
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<em>Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 &ndash; Present</em>
Month_02 Thursday Day_25
Art
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
@ 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...  View details »
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Chris Ballantyne: <em>Some Songs from the Shore</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Chris Ballantyne
@ 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...  View details »
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Richard Thompson
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Music
Richard Thompson
@ Great American Music Hall
RICHARD THOMPSON : Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of 2003's Top 20 Guitarists of all-time and the recent recipient...  View details »
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Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking
@ SOMArts
 SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanView details »
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Jews on Vinyl
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Jews on Vinyl
@ Contemporary Jewish Museum
A unique exhibition, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that...  View details »
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As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Month_02 Thursday Day_25
Art
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
@ Contemporary Jewish Museum
As It Is Written: Project 304,805, is an exhibition centered around a soferet (a professionally trained female scribe) who while on...  View details »
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Coming Home
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Performing Arts: Theatre
Coming Home
@ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD
 DIRECTED BY...  View details »
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LEONARD COHEN LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Film: Documentary
LEONARD COHEN LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970
@ Roxie Theater
Rated: NR    Runtime: 64 mins.
Fri, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 25.

Director Murray Lerner IN PERSON!... 
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Month_02 Thursday Day_25
Art
Dispatches from the Archives
@ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation...  View details »
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Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada
@ The Lab
"Alternorthern," curated by Kevin Betram and Jason Gowans, features the work of Sonny Assu, Valerie Boxer, Vincent Chevalier, Brendan Fernandes, Jenny...  View details »
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People's Torah
Month_02 Wednesday Day_24
Art
People's Torah
@ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Give us your hands! Help write a Torah by participating in the People's Torah an interactive, multi-media art installation that is...  View details »
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