Events on Saturday, February 6

Lil Miss Hot Mess's Bat Mitzvah x2

Party

Lil Miss Hot Mess's Bat Mitzvah x2

Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Blue Macaw

Listen up, goys and gals. Local queen Lil Miss Hot Mess — who is equal parts Fran Drescher and Emma Goldman... 

Screenagers: 12th High School Film and Video Festival

Festival: Film

Screenagers

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

Proving that film and video for teens means far more than uploading silly clips to Youtube or swooning over the latest... 

Magical Properties Tour feat. Daedelus w/ Jogger and Nosaj Thing

Music

Daedelus

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Mighty

Daedelus, the alter-ego of Alfred Darlington, brings his Magical Properties tour, and his new label roster, to SF. With characteristically cheeky,... 

Music

Another Planet Presents DAWES, Cory Chisel, Wandering Sons, and Jason Boesel

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Rickshaw Stop

DAWES
"Out in Los Angeles, where weed grows wild and hair
... 

Music

13th annual One Night Stand

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Slim's

The 13th annual One Night Stand features members of your favorite bands (past and present) performing their favorite cover... 

New Monsoon

Music

New Monsoon

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Great American Music Hall

New Monsoon represents the best of the San Francisco jam scene. Formed during the El Nino rains of Northern California in... 

Lasse Marhuag w/ John Wiese and Gerritt

Music: Experimental

Lasse Marhuag w/ John Wiese and Gerritt

Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Lab

23five presents an evening of experimental music with Norwegian noise musician Lasse Marhuag. Marhuag has collaborated with several artists in the... 

Ongoing Events

SF Beer Week

Food/Wine

SF Beer Week

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Doubt: A Parable</em>

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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... 

Shanghai San Francisco

Special Event

Shanghai SF

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Coit Tower

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

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

Art

Route 1: R for Replicant

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Nowhere / Anywhere

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ CounterPULSE

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

Ari Marcopoulos: <em>Within Arm's Reach</em>

Art: Photography

Ari Marcopoulos

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Berkeley Art Museum

In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence... 

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

Art

Kamau Patton

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Chris Ballantyne

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery

Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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>Lending Library</em>

Art

Lending Library

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Royal NoneSuch Gallery

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

Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino

Art

Andy Ristaino

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Cartoon Art Museum

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

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

Art

David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

The Real Americans

Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Marsh

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

Luc Tuymans

Art

Luc Tuymans

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art: Photography

Katherine Westerhout

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Electric Works

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

SF Independent Film Festival

Festival: Film

SF Indiefest

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Roxie Theater

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

<em>Santos y Otros Creatures</em>

Art

Santos y Otros Creatures

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Creativity Explored

Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of... 

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

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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.... 

Henry Lewis and Mike Davis

Art

Henry Lewis and Mike Davis

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery

Mike Davis creates nightmarish landscapes, both delicate and monstrous, that would make Bosch proud. The self-taught painter and tattoo artist's latest... 

<em>Cartier and America</em>

Art

Cartier and America

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

The View from Here

Art

The View from Here

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

The Anniversary Show

Art

The Anniversary Show

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

Coming Home

Theatre

Coming Home

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD
 DIRECTED BY... 

Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

Art

Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

Dispatches from the Archives

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Art

Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SOMArts

 SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanAs It Is Written: Project 304,805

Art

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

$5 Admission through February 9

Special Event

$5 Admission through February 9

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Admission to the Museum is just $5 through February 9, before the opening of Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf on... 

Theodore Bikel stars in Sholom Aleichem

Theatre

Theodore Bikel stars in Sholom Aleichem

Saturday 2/ 6 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

Laughter Through Tears A Life of Stories with Music and Song
  The great Theodore Bikel brings Sholom Aleichem and... 

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

Art

Ewan Gibbs: San Francisco

Saturday 2/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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