Daily, March 13–23 Various Bay Area locations Starting with How to Fight in Six Inch Heels on its opening night and continuing through South Korean crime thrillers, Asian America... Read More
Saturday, March 7 & 29 Brava Theater & The New Parkway The festival will showcase the best short films directed by women to commemorate Women’s History Month. Ticket inf... Read More
Monday, March 3, 7 p.m. Books Inc. (2251 Chestnut St.) The novelist, poet, and essayist discusses her new memoir, This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses. Free, www.booksinc.... Read More
Sundays thru March 16, 4 p.m. Museo ItaloAmericano, Bldg. C, Fort Mason Center Enjoy this retrospective celebrating key films from the work of Federico Fellini. Films are in Italia... Read More
Feb. 6–20 Various S.F. locations This festival brings little-known films together with past favorites, such as Big Lebowski. $12 single film (multi-film packages available), 41... Read More
Wednesday, Feb. 12, 6 p.m. The Commonwealth Club (595 Market St.) His title is the “H.L. Mencken Research Fellow” at the libertarian Cato Institute, but you don’t care; he’... Read More
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. JCCSF (3200 California St.) Gabriel Sherman, author of The Loudest Voice in the Room: The Inside Story of How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Pol... Read More
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 6–8 p.m. Latino-Hispanic Mtg. Rm., S.F. Main Library More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the... Read More
Daily, Jan. 15–21 Castro Theatre (429 Castro St.) & Goethe Institut (530 Bush St.) About 10,000 people are expected to attend this festival featuring films from Germany, Aus... Read More
Friday, Jan. 31, 11:45 a.m. Julia Morgan Ballroom (465 California St.) Are the federal budget battles over? Is the economy at last picking up steam? Two economic experts — both f... Read More
Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m. JCCSF (3200 California St.) Some of the finest jazz performers are highlighted in film clips, ranging from Count Basie and Buddy Rich to Thelonious Monk a... Read More
Friday, Jan. 10, 7 p.m. New People Cinema (1746 Post St.) Anime audiences around the world were fascinated (and frequently mystified) by Neon Genesis Evangelion. Now, in the third ... Read More
Wednesday, Nov 20, 6 p.m. Fairmont Hotel (950 Mason St.) The former secretary of labor argues that we’re all hurt by the expanding gap between the richest and the poorest in ... Read More
Friday, Nov 15, 7 p.m. Nourse Theatre The Crosby, Stills & Nash singer-songwriter talks music, his life, and his environmental causes. $15–70, www.commonwealthclub.org ... Read More
Saturday, Nov 9, 10 a.m. Pa’ina Lounge (1865 Post St.) A new event in the trendy TEDx series features Lateefah Simon, Katherine Woo, Tulio Cardozo, Goh Nakamura, and others e... Read More