27th Annual Pi Day

Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Exploratorium To honor the never-ending number 3.14159 (and Einstein’s birthday), the museum will serve up π-themed activities, rituals,... Read More

Science & Environment

2015: Critical Year for Planet Earth

Thursday, March 12, 6 p.m. Commonwealth Club (555 Post St.) Seasoned journalists from Cameroon, Brazil, and the U.S. discuss climate change, impacts of global climate change and th... Read More

Film & Lectures

Opportunities and Uncertainties in the Middle East

Monday, March 16, 6:30 p.m. Marines Memorial Theatre (609 Sutter St.) How will the dramatic fall of oil prices affect geopolitics? What is the reach that ISIS will achieve? Will Sa... Read More

Film & Lectures

CAAMFest 2015

March 12–22 Various Bay Area locations From a premiere of video contest finalists to films about Chinese-only streetball games or worker justice among cashiers and much more, CAA... Read More

Film & Lectures

The Street of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972

Thursday, March 12, 6 p.m. Commonwealth Club (555 Post St.) History professor Christopher Agee explores how influential S.F. was in changing the way its police department used its ... Read More

Nightlife

Debauche plus Hollow Point Stumblers and DK K-os

Saturday, March 21, 9:30 p.m. Boom Boom Room (1601 Fillmore St.) We’re always intrigued by a band with a subtitle of “Russian Mafia Band,” so take a look and a li... Read More

Nightlife

Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine

Friday, March 13, 9 p.m. Bimbo’s 365 Club (1025 Columbus Ave.) Called “America’s loudest lounge singer,” Richard Cheese performs his swinging Vegas versions... Read More

Performances

Dance Anywhere

Friday, March 27, noon YBCA, S.F. Main Library, Yerba Buena Gardens, Jessie Square; Anywhere Join this simultaneous worldwide public art performance in which people from around the... Read More

Performances

10th Annual Bay Area Flamenco Festival

Sunday, March 22, 7 p.m. Palace of Fine Arts Theater The festival brings together three internationally respected flamenco dance artists from three different generations, three dif... Read More

Performances

S.F. Ballet: Don Quixote

Tue.–Sun. March 20–28 War Memorial Opera House With some of the most virtuosic dancing in the classical repertory and a dazzling array of costumes by the late Tony Award-winner... Read More

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Pilobolus

Friday, March 20, 8 p.m. Marin Center (10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael) This modern dance company has performed over 100 choreographic works in more than 64 countries around the w... Read More

Performances

Joffrey Ballet

Sat.–Sun., March 14–15 Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Celebrated for its talented choreographers as well as talented dancers, the program features Stanton Welch’s Son of Ch... Read More

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ODC: Dance Downtown

Thu.–Sun., March 12–22 YBCA Theater (700 Howard St.) Performances include Boulders and Bones, inspired by the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy; the world premiere of KT Nelson&#... Read More

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Ramsey Lewis & John Pizzarelli

Saturday, March 21, 5 & 8 p.m. The Venetian Room (Fairmont S.F.) Multi-Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Lewis and Grammy nominee soloist Pizzarelli perform a tribute to Nat Ki... Read More

Performances

Concerts at the Presidio: Big Band Extravaganza

Wed.–Thu., March 18–19 Golden Gate Club (135 Fisher Loop, Presidio) This concert features a nightclub chanteuse, big-band crooner and Andrew Sisters “present” perfo... Read More

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