Events on Saturday, March 6

Academy of Queens

Performing Arts

Academy of Queens

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Kimo's

Cookie Dough and Heklina peddle shameless Oscarbait in this drag night devoted to giving this year's Academy Award nominees new ones.... 

The 2nd Annual San Francisco Snuggie Pub Crawl

Special Event

The Snuggie Pub Crawl

Saturday 3/ 6 @ McTeague's Saloon

Blankets can slip and slide, and when you want your beer cozy, your hands are trapped inside. The frustration is over,... 

Music

Hillstomp, Luke Franks(the Federalists), Black Crown Stringband

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Rickshaw Stop

HILLSTOMP
Portland Oregon junkbox blues duo HILLSTOMP is infamous for digging through the dumps and forgotten backwoods of
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Le cinema, l’apesanteur (Cinemas, Heaviness): Cinéma Abattoir

Film

Le cinema, l’apesanteur (Cinemas, Heaviness): Cinéma Abattoir

Saturday 3/ 6 @ San Francisco Cinematheque

Screening at Artists' Television Access (map) presented in association with Other Cinema curated & presented by Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt of Cinéma Abattoir... 

100 Performances for the Hole - Take Two

Art

100 Performances for the Hole - Take Two

Saturday 3/ 6 @ SOMArts

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Heatseekers feat. Richie Panic, Sleazemore, Tenderlions, Hottub DJs, Bad Neighbors

Music: Electronic

Heatseekers feat. Richie Panic, Sleazemore, Tenderlions, Hottub DJs, Bad Neighbors

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Mezzanine

If you're looking for
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Mike Doughty (acoustic duo) + Christina Courtin

Music

Mike Doughty (acoustic duo) + Christina Courtin

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Slim's

When Mike Doughty released his second official solo album, 2008’s "Golden Delicious", the reaction from fans was intense. “Some... 

Ongoing Events

The Disposable Film Festival

Festival: Film

The Disposable Film Festival

Saturday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Saturday 3/ 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>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

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

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Saturday 3/ 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... 

<em>Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain</em>

Art

Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain

Saturday 3/ 6 @ 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 3/ 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... 

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

Art

Nowhere / Anywhere

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Blankspace

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

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Saturday 3/ 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... 

The Sugar Witch at New Conservatory Theater

Theatre

The Sugar Witch

Saturday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ahmet Öğüt

Saturday 3/ 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.... 

Shanghai San Francisco

Special Event

Shanghai SF

Saturday 3/ 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>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Asian Art Museum

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

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

Art: Photography

Kirk Crippens

Saturday 3/ 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... 

Human Rights and Film

Festival: Film

Human Rights and Film

Saturday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

The Real Americans

Saturday 3/ 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... 

<em>Lending Library</em>

Art

Lending Library

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Royal NoneSuch Gallery

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

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

Art

Route 1: R for Replicant

Saturday 3/ 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... 

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

Art

David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis

Saturday 3/ 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 3/ 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... 

Brian Posehn w/ Remy

Comedy

Brian Posehn

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Cobb's Comedy Club

With the "geek" and "cool" circles on our cultural Venn diagram overlapping as never before, few performers work the intersection like... 

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

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Saturday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Luc Tuymans

Art

Luc Tuymans

Saturday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

<em>The Art of Emily the Strange</em>

Art

The Art of Emily the Strange

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Gallery Extraña

Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans.... 

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

Art

Rives Granade

Saturday 3/ 6 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present

Saturday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Other Minds 15

Festival: Music

Other Minds 15

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

Those categories of music not neatly shelved and delineated into familiar genre-based categories find a much-needed champion in the Other Minds... 

Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino

Art

Andy Ristaino

Saturday 3/ 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... 

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

Art

Kamau Patton

Saturday 3/ 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... 

<em>Cartier and America</em>

Art

Cartier and America

Saturday 3/ 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 3/ 6 @ 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 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Saturday 3/ 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... 

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

Art

Ewan Gibbs: San Francisco

Saturday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West

Theatre

Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West

Saturday 3/ 6 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,... 

The View from Here

Art

The View from Here

Saturday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

Dispatches from the Archives

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Saturday 3/ 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 3/ 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... 

The Anniversary Show

Art

The Anniversary Show

Saturday 3/ 6 @ 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 3/ 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... 

Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

Art

Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

Saturday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

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

Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection

Art

Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection

Saturday 3/ 6 @ SFMOMA

Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by... 

Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Art

Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada

Saturday 3/ 6 @ The Lab

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