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Wednesday, March 17

Win Tix: Remembering Playland at the Beach | Balboa Theatre
Wednesday, March 17 – 9:15 pm | Cost: FREE* | Balboa Theatre
Win Tix: Remembering Playland at the Beach | Balboa Theatre

The Balboa Theatre hosts the World Premiere of Tom Wyrsch’s newest film, “Remembering Playland at the Beach” – a full length documentary which tells the story of San Francisco’s famous 10-acre Ocean Beach amusement park which was torn down in 1972 to make way for a condominium development.
Gone now for nearly four decades, it remains one of the city’s lost treasures. Go back in …

Friday, March 19

Blockbuster’s Twilight “New Moon” Release Party | Albany
Friday, March 19 – 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE | Blockbuster - Albany
Blockbuster’s Twilight “New Moon” Release Party | Albany

The Bay Area’s most howlin’ Twilight “New Moon” Release party will be at the Blockbuster at 501 San Pablo Avenue in Albany. The party starts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 19 and goes ‘til midnight when the DVD goes on sale with lots of trivia, prizes and look-a-like contests.

MOVIN’ 97 radio will be there from 8pm til 10pm with a Twilight Trivia game – …

New Moon DVD Midnight Release Party | Union Square
Friday, March 19 – 10:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Borders Books - Union Square
New Moon DVD Midnight Release Party | Union Square

Borders in Union Square hosts an exclusive Midnight Release Party for the New Moon DVD which will be released tonight at midnight.
This event will be like a Harry Potter party, but for vampires – Party begins at 10pm with games, raffles, costume contests, prizes and more leading you up to the midnight countdown when the New Moon DVD goes on sale at 12:01am.
Event also features …

Borders “New Moon” Midnight Release Party | Sunnyvale
Friday, March 19 – 10:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Borders Sunnyvale
Borders “New Moon” Midnight Release Party | Sunnyvale

Borders in Sunnyvale hosts an exclusive Midnight Release Party for the Twilight New Moon DVD which will be released tonight (Friday Night) at midnight.
This event will be like a Harry Potter party, but for vampires – Party begins at 10pm with games, raffles, costume contests, prizes and more leading you up to the midnight countdown when the New Moon DVD goes on sale at 12:01am.

Friday, March 26

Paramount Movie Classics: “Captain Blood” (1935) | Oakland
Friday, March 26 – 7:00 pm | Cost: $5 | Paramount Theatre
Paramount Movie Classics: “Captain Blood” (1935) | Oakland

Experience the great films of Hollywood’s Golden Era in one of America’s finest Art Deco movie palace.
With over 3,000 seats and a meticulously-restored interior, the Paramount offers a true “Movie Palace” experience straight out of the 1930s – with period newsreels, cartoons, previews, live music from the Mighty Wurlitzer organ and the audience participation spinning wheel game of “Dec-O-Win.”
March 26th  Screening: “Captain Blood” …

Thursday, April 8

“Streets of San Francisco” Experimental Films from 1957-2007 | SFMOMA
Thursday, April 8 – 7:00 pm | Cost: $5 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“Streets of San Francisco” Experimental Films from 1957-2007 | SFMOMA

Throughout the 75th anniversary exhibitions at the SFMOMA, artists take up San Francisco’s cityscapes as subject and muse. This program of experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to the present offers evocative records of individual experiences of street life
These psychogeographic tours look at North Beach’s Broadway strip and the window reflections of a Beat poet protagonist. We examine the Mission’s storefronts for evidence …

Dolores Park Movie Night: 2010 Kick Off | SF
Thursday, April 8 – 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Dolores Park
Dolores Park Movie Night: 2010 Kick Off | SF

The locally-run Dolores Park Movie Night (not to be confused with the much larger city-wide “Film Night in the Park” event) opens its 2010 season with free movies on the second Thursday of each month in Dolores Park. There’s no causes, no speeches. Just bring a friend, bring a dog, buy a couple of tamales and enjoy a neighborhood evening.

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010 …

Monday, April 12

Crafty Crafty: Community Art Making Night | SOMA
Monday, April 12 – 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE | CounterPulse
Crafty Crafty: Community Art Making Night | SOMA

Come make stuff at Countrerpluse’s “Crafty Crafty” Night. Bring whatever project you may be working on or meaning to start/learn and hopefully someone can help you out at our monthly craft night.
Tonight will be a night to hang out and make whatever you want to. There will be ample lighting, short movies/ music videos projected on walls, outlets for sewing machines and hot glue guns, …