The Hothouse
at Magic Theatre (8 pm) Performance Arts
A husband, a wife and a doctor take a crash course in the workings of the human heart. Touching and controversial, Morbidity and Mortality is a portrait of one woman's profound loss. MORE

La Moda
Latin Night - Grand opening
at Duplex (9 pm) Clubs
Come and enjoy the best atmosphere of the city, where you can dance to the best beats from Reggaeton-Hip-Hop, Latin Hip-Hop-Dance Hall, and Salsa. MORE

Novelty and Nostalgia: American Drawings from the Rockefeller Collection
at de Young Museum (9:30 am - 5 pm) Museums
In 1978, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd gave the Fine Arts Museums more than one hundred works of American art. MORE

4TH Annual DJ Dreamteam 2006 (Part 1)
at Club Six (9 pm - Afterhours) Clubs
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DJ Dreamteam has gotten so big, they've been forced to shift time itself! Descending on San Francisco with twice as much action as before. MORE

Cal Performances presents
Julio Bocca's Ballet Argentino & Octango
"Boccatango"
at Zellerbach Hall (8 pm) Performance Arts
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Argentinean superstar Julio Bocca and his Ballet Argentino join forces with guest vocalists and the musicians of Octango for a red-hot performance of "Boccatango". MORE

International Women's Day
at War Memorial Building (Call for times) Festivals/Fairs
International Women’s Day is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. MORE

Natural History
Photographs by Elliot Anderson
at Gallery 16 (Sixteen) (9 am - 5 pm) Galleries
Elliot Anderson's "Natural History" exhibition at Gallery 16 involves a series of photographs of background paintings in the dioramas at New York's American Museum of Natural History. MORE

5th Annual
Tiburon International Film Festival
at Tiburon (7 pm - 11 pm) Film
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The Tiburon International Film Festival seeks to provide a greater understanding of the world and its many cultures through the artistic medium of film, and through the top quality films from around the world. MORE

San Francisco Irish Film Festival
at Roxie Cinema (7 pm & 9 pm) Film
Presenting three nights of the very best in contemporary Irish cinema including features and award winning shorts. The San Francisco Irish Film Festival will screen this year's very best Irish cinema. MORE

Scout Niblett, Talkdemonic
at Cafe du Nord (9 pm) Music
Talkdemonic is Kevin O'Connor playing drums, synths, pianos, programming beats, bass, accordion, banjo, guitar, rhodes, wurlitzer and everything else... and Lisa Molinaro on viola and synths. MORE

Purvis
A world premiere play by Denis Johnson
at Intersection for the Arts (8 pm) Performance Arts
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Denis Johnson’s new play, Purvis, marks the first event of Resident Theatre Company Campo Santo's 10th Anniversary Year. MORE

Robert De Niro, Sr.
Works from the Studio
at Hackett-Freedman Gallery (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm) Galleries
Grounded in European antecedents, specifically French, but unmistakably American in style, the paintings of Robert De Niro, Sr., represent one of the foremost achievements in painterly representation. MORE

Human Rights Watch International 2006
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room (7 pm & 8:45 pm) Film
In collaboration with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, YBCA presents a selection of powerful documentaries. MORE

21 Grand presents a night of iconoclastic lo-fi fun
Dada Swing + Experimental Dental School + The Huts
at 21 Grand (9 pm) Music
Dada Swing is a Rome-based trio with a wacky, action-packed live show featuring three vox, two guitars, drumkit, sampler, casio, glockenspiel, diamonica, percussion, and various toys. MORE

ODC/Dance Downtown 35th Anniversary Season
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (8 pm) Performance Arts
ODC/Dance, San Francisco’s prominent contemporary dance company, returns to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for their 35th Anniversary spring season, "ODC/Dance Downtown." MORE

San Francisco Stage & Film Presents
Absolute Time Film Festival
at Artists' for Television Access (ATA) (8 pm) Film
The Absolute Time Film Festival will screen 3 days in March of 2006 in San Francisco. The festival will then travel for as many as three other screenings around the Western United States. MORE

These are the good old days
Future... Mission
at The Dark Room Theatre (8 pm) Performance Arts
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Future... Mission is a set of provocative, bleak, bizarre, surreal short plays examining the complexity of our not-too-distant futures. MORE

Goblin Cock
with Sleeping People and Okay
at Mezzanine (9 pm) Music
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Mezzanine gets heavy on March 10th with metal-outfit, Goblin Cock. San Diego's Sleeping People are set to headline with Absolutely Kosher's, Okay, the eccentric pop outfit of Marty Anderson. MORE

"MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS"
at Castro Theatre (7:30 pm) Film
Emphasizing overlooked, dismissed, and forgotten films from the 1970’s & 1980’s, host Jesse Ficks presents his monthly "MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS" series at the Castro Theatre! MORE

Scion, SF-Vibe, SF Station & Supperclub present
DJ Grandmaster Flash
On The Turntables
at Supperclub (10 pm - 3 am) Clubs
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Scion, supperclub and SF-Vibe have teamed up to bring you an unforgettable night of music provided by DJ Grand Master Flash at the intimate Supperclub. MORE

Sunset Promotions presents the 10 Year Anniversary for
Stymie & the Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra
plus DJ Rickey Vincent (KPFA)
at Elbo Room (10 pm) Music
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Hard to believe that its been 10 years since the retro funk unit known as Stymie & the Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra first graced a Bay Area stage. MORE

10 Annual
City Lights Ball
Pro/AM & Amateur Ballroom And Latin Dance Competition
at The Grand at the Regency Center (8 am - 4 pm) Performance Arts
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Ballroom and Latin Dance Competition. Don't miss SF Station CTO Adrian Dorsman competing with the Vima Dance Studio on Saturday! MORE

Mixture: Dance and Hip hop
at Cellar, The (10 pm - 2 am) Clubs
In November '05 the folks of CLUBS411 introduced Mixture, the newest party featured every 2nd Saturday of every month at the Cellar. Parties since then have been PACKED with beautiful people. MORE

Controller.Controller
Scissors For Lefty, You Say Party, We Say Die
at Rickshaw Stop (9 pm - 2 am) Music
As Controller.Controller prepare to release their first full-length album, we are asked to consider the "X-amounts." MORE

Soap Gallery - The Portrait Show
The portrait work of 8 emerging artists
at Soap Gallery (12 noon - 4 pm) Galleries
The Soap Gallery will be showcasing some of San Francisco's best artists. The medium of each artist is unique - from ink and thread, to tin collage to photographic collage. MORE

Maria del Mar Bonet & Mônica Salmaso
An ensemble-based theatrical spectacle
at Zellerbach Hall (8 pm) Music
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For more than 30 years, the warmth and passionate elegance of Maria del Mar Bonet’s voice has seduced audiences around the world. MORE

Neil Berg's
100 Years of Broadway Starring Rita Moreno
at Palace of Fine Arts (8 pm) Performance Arts
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A Benefit for the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. MORE

St. Patrick's Day Parade
Be Irish For One Day
at Civic Center Plaza (11:30 am) Parades/Marches
The luck of the Irish will be extended, for one day, to all who attend the oldest and largest Saint Patrick's Day parade in the country. MORE

Ed Wood Film Festival
at Castro Theatre (2, 4, 6, 8 pm) Film
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Come to the Castro for the biggest movie event of the year - the World Color Premiere of director Ed Wood's utterly preposterous 1959 masterpiece of poorly executed film-making - Plan 9 From Outer Space. MORE

Afternoon of a Faun (Pas de Deux), Dybbuk, Glass Pieces
at SF Ballet (War Memorial Opera House) (2 pm) Performance Arts
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Robbins transforms faun and nymph metaphorically into innocent young dancers in a studio, torn between the lure of the other, and their own images reflecting back at them from an imaginary mirror. MORE

John Bankston: Locating Desire
at de Young Museum (9:30 am - 5 pm) Museums
John Bankson is the second artist whose work is featured in the inaugural year of the new de Young’s Connections Gallery program. MORE

Rap Dreams
A New Film by Kevin Epps
at Roxie Cinema (7 pm, 9 pm) Film
Rap Dreams, the latest documentary film from award winning director Kevin Epps tracks the bigtime dreams of three upcoming Bay Area rappers, and contrasts their bling bling hopes with the harsh realities and pitfalls experienced as they progress in their careers. MORE

One night only!
Earplay 21: Reflections
featuring guest artist Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano
at Herbst Theatre (7 pm) Performance Arts
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Earplay, new chamber music, continues its 21st annual season with "Earplay 21: Reflections," featuring five West Coast premieres. This program features living American composers who have drawn their inspirations from other artistic forms. MORE