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youth ensembles at the family matinee will be a special highenergy treat. (Felciano) Fri/11–Sat/12, 8 p.m.; Sun/13, 4 p.m., $10–$20 Laney College 900 Fallon, Oakl. Feb. 17–19, 8pm; Feb. 20, 7 p.m. ODC Theater 3153 17th St., SF Feb. 25–26, 8 p.m.; Feb. 27, 7 p.m. Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th St., SF 1-888-819-9106 www.bcfhereandnow.com Performance
You’re Gonna Cry Where better than 24th Street to watch a solo show about the real lives of Mission District residents at the height of gentrification? Touching on everyone from the techies and bohemians to the Latino locals and immigrants, HBO Def Poet and Youth Speaks cofounder Paul S. Flores performs his theatrical work about the human cost of gentrification in the neighborhood. In addition to masterful storytelling, get ready for a gangster puppet show and digital murals, illuminating the changes brought by the dotcom boom and bust, real estate bubble, immigration, and forced evictions. The Mission is loaded with characters and Flores’s dynamic fusion of urban culture
and spoken word brings them all to life. (Julie Potter) Fri/11–Sat/12, 8 p.m., $15 Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th St., SF (415) 273-4633 www.dancemission.com Event
California International Antiquarian Book Fair Ever wonder what ephemera left by our generation will be pored over in a millennium or two? Parking slips, band posters, books like Lady Isabella’s Scandalous Marriage and 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks, 2011? Whatever the items, they’ll surely be found at the 1000th annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair. The festival, now only in its 44th year, tempts bibliophiles with a menagerie of historical snippets and antique selections. The perusables include musical prints and manuscripts, rare codices, antique children’s literature, fine bindings, maps, trade books, miscellaneous historical scraps, and — vocabulary word — “incunabula,” which are books, pamphlets, or broadsheets printed (not handwritten) in Europe before 1501. A trove of timeworn tomes? Simply splendid! (Appelbaum) Fri/11, 3–8 p.m.; Sat/12, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Sun/13. 11 a.m.–5 p.m.,
$10–$15 Concourse Exhibition Center 635 Eighth St., SF (415) 551-5190 www.labookfair.com
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12 Dance
Company C Contemporary Ballet With a sampling of contemporary ballet from choreographers active across North America and Europe, Company C’s mixed-bill winter program includes a premiere set to the music of Elvis Costello by Artistic Director Charles Anderson in collaboration with Benjamin Bowman (both formerly of the New York City Ballet), and another by Maurice Causey, a former principal of William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt. Also appearing from the diverse repertory of this vibrant company is Tovernon, a solo work by David Anderson, the father of Charles Anderson, and Daniel Ezralow’s Pulse, during which dancers take running starts to slide across stage wearing socks. (Potter) Sat/12, 8 p.m.; Sun/13, 2 p.m., $18–$40 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission, SF (415) 978-2787 www.companycballet.org
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“Woo At The Zoo” Want to make things a bit more “wild” this year for Valentine’s Day? Then head on over to the San Francisco Zoo for “Woo At The Zoo,” the annual event that’s become a favorite activity for amorous humans looking to learn a bit more about our animal pals’ own mating habits and sexual behaviors. Make plans soon with your sweetheart for this special multimedia event that also includes a romantic brunch or dinner, along with drinks. Admit it — you’re already humming the words to the Bloodhound Gang’s “Discovery Channel” song, aren’t you? “You and me baby we ain’t nothing but mammals, so let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel!” (Sean McCourt) Sat/12-Sun/13, 6 p.m.; Also Sun/13, 11 a.m., $65–$75 San Francisco Zoo One Zoo Road, SF (415) 753-7080, ext. 7236 www.sfzoo.org
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 13 MUSIC
yeah, that could go either way — hot cherry deliciousness or the evil feeling that makes your girlfriend chug sour pints of cranberry juice. And pulling off (literally) the shreddiness of Riffchild caliber is probably not gonna happen in this lifetime. In any case, join the real trio for a special one-off hometown show before they head out to tour New Zealand and beyond. An honorable way to ring in the annual holiday of love and lust, no? (Kat Renz) 8 p.m., $18 Slim’s 333 11th St., SF (415) 255-0333 www.slims-sf.com 2 The Guardian listings deadline is two weeks prior to our Wednesday publication date. To submit an item for consideration, please include the title of the event, a brief description of the event, date and time, venue name, street address (listing cross streets only isn’t sufficient), city, telephone number readers can call for more information, telephone number for media, and admission costs. Send information to Listings, the Guardian Building, 135 Mississippi St., SF, CA 94107; fax to (415) 487-2506; or e‑mail (paste press release into e‑mail body — no text attachments, please) to listings@sfbg.com. Digital photos may be submitted in jpeg format; the image must be at least 240 dpi and four inches by six inches in size. We regret we cannot accept listings over the phone.
(1) Eonnagata (see Wed/9); (2) Ensiferum (see Thurs/10); (3) “Lusty Trusty Ball SF” (see Thurs/10); (4) Ross Dance Company’s Tecsia Ross Evans at “Black Choreographers Festival: Here and Now” (see Fri/11); (5) image from a 1944 Alberto Vargas calendar at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair (see Fri/11); (6) Digital mural from Paul S. Flores’ You’re Gonna Cry by Rio Yañez (see Fri/11); (7) Chantelle Pianetta of Company C Contemporary Ballet (see Sat/12); (8) High on Fire (see Sun/13) Eonnagata photo by Erick Labbe; “Lusty Trusty” photo by Johnny Crash; California International Antiquarian Book Fair image courtesy John Windle; You’re Gonna Cry photo by Ramsey El-Qare; Company C Contemporary Ballet photo by David DeSilva
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