Events on Wednesday, March 3

Allen Toussaint
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Music: Jazz/Blues
Allen Toussaint
@ Great American Music Hall
Allen Toussaint is one of America's greatest musical treasures. Singer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and producer — the New Orleans native has...  View details »
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Crowdsourcing
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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Crowdsourcing
@ Commonwealth Club
Can you trust the crowd to give high-quality information? Will the crowdsourcing movement allow a whole new way to work...  View details »
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Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Music: Rock/Pop
Phantogram (Baruk), City Light, The Frail
@ Rickshaw Stop
PHANTOGRAM New York duo with a new disc just out on Barsuk Records. "Phantogram is one part Josh Carter (guitar) and...  View details »
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HEY! A Dean Snider Birthday Celebration [Part I]
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Film
HEY! A Dean Snider Birthday Celebration [Part I]
@ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at Dolby Screening Room (map) presented in association with New Nothing Cinema curated & presented by Douglas Katelus  A long...  View details »
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Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin
@ City Arts & Lectures
Jeffrey Toobin is a familiar face for the politically well-informed. Toobin is an Emmy Award-winning analyst for CNN and long time...  View details »
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HEY! A Dean Snider Birthday Celebration [Part II]
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Film
HEY! A Dean Snider Birthday Celebration [Part II]
@ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at New Nothing Cinema (map) presented in association with New Nothing Cinema curated & presented by Douglas Katelus A long...  View details »
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NPR’s Susan Stamberg
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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NPR’s Susan Stamberg
@ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
THE PRITZKER FAMILY LECTURE

One of the most popular broadcasters on public radio, Stamberg is known for her... 
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<em>Coco Before Chanel</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
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<em>Cartier and America</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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<em>Broken Embraces</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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Rives Granade: <em>Love Force</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
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Mark Baugh-Sasaki: <em>Adaptations</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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 »
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Human Rights and Film
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
Film: Festival
Human Rights and Film
@ 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...  View details »
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<em>Route 1: R for Replicant</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
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<em>Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
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Kirk Crippens: <em>Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
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<em>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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>The White Ribbon</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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Ahmet &Ouml;ğ&uuml;t: <em>Exploded City</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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The Disposable Film Festival
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
Film: Festival
The Disposable Film Festival
@ Various locations
With its unique focus on films made with "disposable" devices (cell phones, point-and-shoot cameras, webcams, single-use recorders), the Disposable Film Festival...  View details »
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<em>The Red Shoes</em> (1948)
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Film
The Red Shoes
@ The Castro Theatre
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...  View details »
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<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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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Mary Iverson: <em>Frontier</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
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Chris Ballantyne: <em>Some Songs from the Shore</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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Outdoor Exploratorium
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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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<em>Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 &ndash; Present</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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Jews on Vinyl
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
@ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...  View details »
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Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Film
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
@ Roxie Theater
David Lynch Presents
A film by Werner Herzog

"Werner Herzog's second fiction feature of 2009 works... 
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Ambient Biology
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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Ambient Biology
@ Exploratorium
Living organisms take center stage in a new installation at the Exploratorium’s Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio. Surrounding visitors with sights...  View details »
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People's Torah
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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