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Arthouse Movie Listings February 22-28, 2012

"Are We There Yet? 5,000 Years of Answering Questions with Questions": Art Review

Art Review: Various: "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women"

Pad Try: Are iPad-formatted music releases a new frontier or a distraction?

Club preview: Mux Mool

You Should Be ...

"Everything Will Probably Work out OK"

"Everything Will Probably Work out OK": Anthony Discenza

Animal Collective

South Pacific

Hot Meal: Liba Falafel Truck

The falafel sandwich: A handheld mezze platter.​Today marked the San Francisco debut for Liba, Gail Lillian's taco truck turned falafel wagon, splashed with tendril-y design elements and an electric honeydew-green color scheme. Its location: a strip-like lot skirting an old loading dock at 155 ... More >>

Mayor's Choice to Replace Wealthy Supporters on Arts Commission -- His Own Employee

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Getting Sent Up to the Big House

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Gui Boratto gives techno a tender '80s crush

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Bringing in the Trash

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Peanut Butter Wolf Spins at 111 Minna on Thursday

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Celebrate the Joy of Sake in October

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Behold the Glowing Ethereal Transbay Transit Temple

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Picture Disks

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Justice to Throw Massive SF Dance Party with Diplo in March

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Pretend You Don't Work in a Cubicle-Cage

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Is It Hot Out Here?

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Devendra Banhart at the MOMA

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Hug a Tree

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Independent film with local music = go see it

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

A Scrooge Is Born

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Best Pasta

Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission' ... More >>

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Boom Bip

Blue Eyed in the Red Room

Kaada & Patton

Romances

Artbeat

Romances

Dokken

Hell to Pay

Pony Up: Sonic Youth

Sonic Nurse

Best Underfoot Art

"Substrada" by Brian Goggin

Best Design Firm

fuseproject

Best Beads/Jewelry Making

General Bead

Fight Club

David Rees gets his karate on

Best Boutique Hotel

The Archbishop's Mansion

Reigning Cats and Dogs

At Petchitecture, a charity event where architects and design firms build and auction animal habitats, the animals, of course, dress up.

Smaller

Tensions mount in an ad agency as two men wait to see who's getting the ax, in this skillful play by Malachy Walsh

Best Use of Trash

The Sanitary Fill Co.

Best Place to Eat Fruit and Cheese on a Sunny Afternoon

Cafe Bastille

Natural Beauty

SFMOMA makes art out the Bay Area's streets, parking lots, freeways and hills

Reel World

A Thousand Pieces of Gold; Fedora; A Day at the Races

Best Bookstore for the Frustrated Architect in You

Builders Booksource

Best Knobs and Pulls

Bauerware

Best Place for a Garden Party

Trocadero Clubhouse

Beat the Schlock

Artists who mock suburban banality may have new seated duck to shoot -- North Beach

Dog Bites

Artists who mock suburban banality may have new seated duck to shoot -- North Beach