Bright Eyes
at Berkeley Community Theatre (8 pm) Music
Over the past two years the young musician has found himself hurled from his indie rock enclave onto the world’s stage. While reaching new heights of commercial success, he was hailed by fans as the finest songwriter of his generation. But he remained, and remains, an artist unwilling to leave his hometown label for any major label’s promises. MORE

Latin Spirit
at SFMOMA Artists Gallery (11:30 am - 5:30 pm) Galleries
This groups displays the work of emerging and established Northern California artists. MORE

Soul'd Out Tuesdays at Cellar (9 pm - 2 am) Clubs

Nobody From Ipanema at Elbo Room (9 pm) Music

Interpol at The Warfield (8 pm) Music

Bill Hayes at Booksmith (7 pm) Literary Arts

Forever Tango at Post Street Theare (8 pm) Performance Arts

Mos Def
Blackalicious
at Berkeley Community Theatre (7 pm) Music
One of hip-hop's fastest rising stars, Mos Def's intelligent nice-guy flows have earned him the respect of fans and fellow artists alike. His rhyme style is laid-back but lyrical, and you'll never find him indulging in the playa/mafioso/millionaire fantasies epitomized by current industry trends. MORE

Change the Subject
by John Lynch & Four Corners Films
at Victoria Theatre (7:30 pm and 9 pm) Film
Starring the world's top surfers: Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow, the Irons Bros., Chris Malloy, Chris Ward & more. Soundtrack Featuring: Pinback, Built to Spill, RJD2, Placebo, The Dining Rooms & more. Live music before each showing by Casey Turner playing acoustic rock with hints of punk. MORE

Scion Sessions: San Francisco
Free Party starring DJ Premier, Haul & Mason, DJ Zeph, DJ P & Oakland Faders
at Mighty (9 pm - 2 am) Clubs
That's right kids... FREE! Scion is kicking off their new monthly Free Party called Scion Sessions featuring today's hottest DJ's and Hip-Hop's legendary beatsmiths... This month, they're pulling no punches with this knockout line-up! MORE

Mos Def Concert Afterparty at Club Six (9 pm - 2 am) Clubs

PROJECT 45: DJ Gomez spinning Reggae, Old School and House Beats at 1751 Social Club (9 pm) Clubs

NorCalDJMPA Open House featuring free seminars from Dimitris Mykonos and Goldenchyld at NorCal DJ & Music Production Academy (6 pm - 8 pm) Education/Clubs

TWANG FEVER! Deke Dickerson / The Famous at 12 Galaxies (9:30 pm) Music

Fractal, Alientar, and Mushroom w/ Henry Kaiser at Last Day Saloon (9 pm - 12:30 am) Music

Dublin Carol at Aurora Theatre Company (8 pm) Performance Arts

Vital Signs at San Jose Museum of Art (11 am - 5 pm) Museums

Butterfly Blue (Live in Concert)
at iL MASSIMO Lounge (7 pm & 8:30 pm) Music
Butterfly Blue's repertoire covers jazz, gospel, folk, Soul, and R&B. She will perform from her new Poetic Soul album “Surrender and Breathe”. Come and join us for an intimate evening with San Francisco's most soulful voice. MORE

Murder Me Lovely
at 111 Minna Street Gallery (8 pm) Performance Arts
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Brian Russel Davis, live performance artist & abstract impressionist, creates a masterpiece on canvas as DJ Lady Tribe, DJ Wisdom, Tera Melos, Marianna Sousa, Zach Michels, Matt Pinson and many others play, rap and mix. MORE

Project: Joe Amrhein
at Brian Gross Fine Art (10:30 am - 5:30 pm) Galleries
In his first show at Brian Gross Fine Art, Joe Amrhein will install Arch, a piece recently exhibited in Open House: Working in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The canopy of overlapping, hand-painted Mylar signs with colorful phrases taken from art criticism incorporate text and font icons appropriated from art related periodicals into an abstract, yet poetic visual language. MORE

Under The Influence at Club Six (10 pm - 2 am) Clubs

Tech Support at Il Pirata (10 pm - 2 am) Clubs

What The F@#k? at The Oakland Metro (8:30 pm - 11 pm) Clubs

Hot Hot Heat at 330 Ritch Street (9 pm) Music

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill at Embarcadero Cinema (12:30, 2:40, 4:45, 7, 9:15 pm) Film

Funniest Females in SF Comedy Show Hosted By Susan Alexander at 50 Mason Lounge _ SF Comedy Club (8 pm - 10 pm) Performance Arts

"Us" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (8 pm) Performance Arts

Mary Robertson at George Krevsky Fine Art (11 am - 5 pm) Galleries

SF Noir Presents the 4th Annual
San Francisco Black History Month Celebration
at Sony Metreon (6 pm) Festivals/Fairs
This 4th Annual multi-disciplinary event celebrates Black contributions to popular culture in Film, Theater, Literature, Art, Dance and Music. SFNoir is a multi-disciplinary organization celebrating Black contributions to popular culture in Film, Theater, Literature, Art, Dance and Music. MORE

Secret Machines
Moving Units and Autolux
at The Independent (9 pm) Music
Revealing a sharp songwriting instinct and unfolding a distinct indie rock influence, the Secret Machines unveil singular scenarios and refined tunes within the alternative pop/rock scene. Drummer Benjamin Curtis, Josh Garza, and Brandon Curtis (vocals, bass) formed the Secret Machines in the midst of summer of 2000, in Dallas, TX. MORE

Tearin' Up The Slopes
Presidents Day Weekend
at Northshore Alpine Chalet (All Day & Night) Sports Clubs
3 nights lodging over the holiday weekend, tons of great food, Tahoe Brew Co. kegs flowin all weekend, Bus pick-up to Alpine Meadows in front of the house, Group lift ticket discounts, and much more! MORE

blasthaus presents
Thievery Corporation
at The Grand at the Regency Center (9 pm - 2 am) Music
Thievery Corporation hearken back to the suave musical era of the 1950s and '60s, when swizzle sticks and long cigarette holders were in vogue, and relaxing meant having a strong cocktail in very plush surroundings. MORE

Stones Throw All-Stars
at Mighty (9 pm - 2 am) Clubs
From LA to the Bay, the Stones Throw All-Stars' Peanut Butter Wolf & Egon celebrate their labelmate Oh No's latest album "The Disrupt" at Mighty. Starring the stones throw all-stars Peanut Butter Wolf & Egon, live performance by Oh No, fresco's freshest Yoshito & Hakobo, massive selector crew D-Reek & Proof, and true skool's own Ren The Vinyl Archeologist. MORE

Sam Kininger (of Soulive)
at Elbo Room (10 pm) Music
WIN a pair of tickets to see Sam Kininger!
Sunset Promotions presents an evening of funk, acid jazz and scorching disco with Sam Kininger (of Soulive) with guests JB & the rebellion & DJ Jeremy Sole's Musaics. MORE

San Fiasco
an underground hip-hop/dancehall melee
at 26 Mix (10 pm - 2 am) Clubs
This is the long awaited return of the party that set the standard for dancehall and hip-hop shindigs in the bay Area! With an all-star line-up of DJs including Shortkut (Triple Threat), J-Boogie (Om Records/KUSF Beatsauce), De' (Lion Paw Sound), Fuze (Digital Underground), Polo Mo'xquuz (13th Tribe/KPOO) playing all your favorites classic hip-hop*club bangers*reggae-dancehall. MORE

Activ at The Shadow Lounge (9 pm - 3 am) Clubs

Dirty w/ Future Funk Squad at 330 Ritch Street (9 pm- 3 am) Clubs

Beneath the Veil 2 at The Oakland Metro (8 pm) Clubs

Little Sci-Fi at Terra (8 pm - 4 am) Clubs

Super Diamond at The Fillmore (9 pm) Music

Ani DiFranco at The Warfield (8 pm) Music

Dramedy and Comma at Blue Bear Performance Hall (8 pm and 10 pm) Performance Arts

After Artemis at Stephen Wirtz Gallery (10:30 am - 5:30 pm) Galleries

Day of Remembrance 2005
Carrying the Light for Justice!
at AMC Kabuki 8 (2 pm) Festivals/Fairs
From LA to the Bay, the Stones Throw All-Stars' Peanut Butter Wolf & Egon celebrate their labelmate Oh No's latest album "The Disrupt" at Mighty. Starring the stones throw all-stars Peanut Butter Wolf & Egon, live performance by Oh No, fresco's freshest Yoshito & Hakobo, massive selector crew D-Reek & Proof, and true skool's own Ren The Vinyl Archeologist. MORE

"Presidents Dead Party"
at Club Six (9 pm - 2 am) Clubs
Tim Sweeney (DFA) - DJ Cat of Fannypack (Tommy Boy Records) - DJ Kid 606 (Tigerbeat6) - live Gravy Train!!! (Kill Rock Stars) - DJ DJ Olive (The Agriculture) - live David Last (The Agriculture) - live + visuals Monday is a Nat'l holiday.. so come out Sunday to dance yr pants off! Peace. MORE

Yaelisa y Caminos Flamencos
Café Flamenco
at ODC Theater (7 pm) Performance Arts
Yaelisa y Caminos Flamencos continue their wildly popular dance series the third Sunday of every month. Come watch "the Bay Area's most adventurous flamenco dancer" in an informal café atmosphere. MORE

5th Annual Float at Harry Denton's Starlight Room (9 pm) Clubs

7TH DAY by spundae and opel at Paradise Lounge (10 pm - 4 am) Clubs

Zendada at Space 550 (10 pm - 6 am) Clubs

Clare Burson at Hotel Utah (9 pm) Music

Presidents Day Weekend Rock Show! at Mountain Charley's (9 pm) Music

How Cinema Creates the Past at Cinematheque (7:30 pm) Film

Vision Series 2005 at Cowell Theater (8 pm) Performance Arts

The Kingdom of Siam at Asian Art Museum (10 am - 5 pm) Museums

Jeremy Blake
Winchester
at SFMOMA (10 am - 6 pm) Museums
Heiress Sarah Winchester and her Winchester Mystery House — the bizarre gothic mansion she built to defend herself from the ghosts of those killed by the rifles that made her family famous — are the inspiration for Jeremy Blake's suite of digital animations, the Winchester trilogy. MORE

Tulipmania
presented by ATA Airlines
at Pier 39 (All Day) Festivals/Fairs
Pier 39 presents its popular Tulipmania showcasing 39,000 tulips throughout both levels of Pier 39. This year’s display will feature a variety of whimsical topiaries interspersed among the flower beds. MORE

Dirty Rip at Anú (9 pm - 2 am) Clubs

Club Neon at Hush Hush Lounge (10 pm - 2 am) Clubs

Paul Westerberg at Great American Music Hall (8 pm) Music

Sugarcult at The Fillmore (7 pm) Music

Overture at 667 Shotwell (By appointment only) Galleries

Left Coast Writers at the Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant at Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm) Literary Arts