• Wishful Drinking by Nirmala Nataraj
• Gilbert & George by Annie Wyman
• Park Life Print Show by Jesse Nathan
• Sonny's Blues by Jesse Nathan

• ODC Theater
• Asian Art Museum
• SFMOMA

Wed Mar 12

What it is: Opium's Literary Death Match challenges the notion that a reading series has to be a mind-numbing affair hosted in a drafty room with no booze breaks. Readers do their thing for ten minutes or less, and three guest-star judges affectionately discuss their favorites in terms of literary merit, performance and everything in between.

Thu Mar 13 - Sun Mar 16

Silent auaction on Saturday March 15. Calling all art lovers and bargain hunters - join us for our biggest fundraising event of the year! Incredible local, national, and international artwork will be available via silent auction...

Fri Mar 15

Featuring art altars, boxes & altar-related images with an altered twist...

Fri Mar 14 - Sat Mar 15

"Margaret Cho was born December 5, 1968 and raised in San Francisco. "It was different than any other place on Earth," she says. "I grew up and went to grammar school on Haight Street during the '70s. There were old hippies, ex-druggies, burnouts from the '60s, drag queens, and Chinese people. To say it was a melting pot - that's the least of it. It was a really confusing, enlightening, wonderful time."

Fri Mar 14

Artists from across the U.S. respond to a series of criticalities in the war on terror with photography, video, sculpture, drawing, and performance...

Sorya! A Candid Dispute Tony Rock with Joe Derosa, Ali Wong Laugh Orgy with Sal Calanni in North Beach ODC/ Dance Downtown Program 1 Kinetic Resonance A Storm of Roses: Women Against War Los Boleros Bending Sinister McCoy Tyner Trio with Savion Glover An Evening with Hope Mohr Dance Margaret Cho's Beautiful Tour Queer Open Mic The Pandora Experiment The 12th Annual Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam 2008 The Coexist ? Comedy Tour Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème

Tales From the Birding Life Intersections: Marin Camille Hood and Lisa Solomon Art Opening with Monica Lundy Evan B. Harris: Garden at Eichstatt Night School The Blackwall Files Studio Three Related Exhibitions Altarations Amidst the Ruins Vapor Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present

Literary Death Match, Episode 7 Dr. Devra Davis Paul Pines Washington Post correspondent Robin Wright Michael Connery discusses Youth to Power The Book of Psalms: A Reading and Talk by Robert Alter Four Breaths Moazzam Sheikh EJ Dionne: Souled Out Daniel Cassidy The Dream of the Poem Queer Open Mic David Smay The 12th Annual Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam 2008