Events on Wednesday, March 17
Laura Skandera Trombley: Mark Twain's Other Woman
Wednesday 3/17 @ Mechanic's Institute Library
Laura Skandera Trombley's Mark Twain obsession began when a stamp collector approached the USC English department asking if some letters he...
Conversation with Archbishop Desmond Tutu & The Rev. Mpho Tutu
Wednesday 3/17 @ City Arts & Lectures
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu has spent his life fighting for the basic human and civil rights of all. Tutu...
Zoo Station: The Complete U2 Experience + Stung: a tribute to The Police
Wednesday 3/17 @ Slim's
The lights go down, it's dark, and the soaring sound of a rock band bound for greatness collides with...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 3/17 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Wednesday 3/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/17 @ 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....
Wednesday 3/17 @ 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...
SF International Asian American Film Festival
Wednesday 3/17 @ Various locations
"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of...
Wednesday 3/17 @ New Conservatory Theatre
The Sugar Witch mashes-up myth, Southern Gothic, and same-sex romance. Annabelle, the protagonist witch's magic power is storytelling. With it, she...
Wednesday 3/17 @ 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,...
Wednesday 3/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Mission: Comics & Art
Aaron Zonka's art comically depicts the difference between a "hip ster" (a sunglass donned man who is rapidly stirring a cup-of-joe)...
Wednesday 3/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
When the MSM is as focused on the health care gridlock as Tiger Woods' infidelities, it's easy to forget there is...
Wednesday 3/17 @ Great American Music Hall
Gomez got their first break in 1998 when Michael Eavis, founder of Glastonbury Festival, asked them to plug a last minute...
Wednesday 3/17 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Wednesday 3/17 @ 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...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Wednesday 3/17 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
