Events for January 19, 2012
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Thursday, January 19
| 5:00 pm | Photography: Brazil In the Sixties | SoMa | FREE |
| 5:30 pm | ’20s Speakeasy Wine Launch Party | Sonoma | FREE* *RSVP Required: email events@simiwinery.com or call 707-473-3213
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EventBrite Job Hunting Ski Lodge Happy Hour | SoMa
The fine folks of EventBrite are dressing up their offices in a ski lodge theme, throwing open their doors and inviting you in for happy hour.
Oh, and they’re hiring, so wear you best sweater and don’t forget your business cards. Meet the team, check out ...
| 6:00 pm | Thank You for Smoking: Art Exhibit | Gestalt Bar | FREE |
Win Tix: Year of the Dragon NightLife | California Academy of Sciences
Get a jump start on celebrating Chinese New Year with a night of lion dancers, martial arts demonstrations, and good fortune at the California Academy of Science’s weekly “Nightlife” event.
Welcome the Year of the Dragon alongside Academy herpetologists, who will discuss dragons around the world ...
The Future is Robots | North Beach
Top scientists from Switzerland and the US discuss developments in robotics at this event actually titled,”Cognitive Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.”
Find out if robots can self-reflect, self-improve, and adapt to new circumstances, and if robots of the future could one day possess the same cognitive characteristics ...
Fright Club: Resident Evil Demo Night w/ DJs | Mezzanine
This coming Thursday Capcom’s hauling builds of their two newest Resident Evil titles – Revelations and Operation Raccoon City – and setting them up inside the Mezzanine for four hours of bloody good fun. They’ll have hands-on kiosks, live performances and more
They also encourage cosplayers ...
Crying at Sports Movies | Inner Richmond
Bring your hankies to the double header film night of Brian’s Song and The Champ (1931 version). Keep in mind, this quirky art gallery is small, sparse, and pretty cold in the winter months (though there are two cats that like to snuggle and Javaholics ...
Neuromancer Author Reads His Non-Fiction | Booksmith
William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, from his ground-breaking first novel, Neuromancer, which was published in 1984 and was credited with having described the internet and cyberspace before any such things existed, to his more recent contemporary bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and ...
Win Tix: The Crucible’s Fire Opera: Machine
Based on a short story by science fiction author Derek J. Goodman, Machine is a Fire Opera… you read that right… an opera with friggin’ fire arts put on by The Crucible set in a fiery industrial universe .
The performance features two opera singers, a rock ...
Win Tix: Popscene: Katy B and The Good Natured
The venerable weekly dance club Popscene bring you dubstep songstress Katy B and synth-noir pop group The Good Natured live at the Rickshaw Stop.
Katy B‘s record is somehow urban, and pop, and soul and slightly alien. A lurching, slashing, nasty rhythm, somewhere between dubstep and grime. The ...
| 10:00 pm | Latin Dance Party and $3 Coronas | Noble | FREE |
Every Thursday
“Level Up Thursdays”: Free Video DJ Dance Party | SF
Every Thursday night, Raven Bar & Lounge hosts a free dance party with DJ Mark Andrus who will play your favorite throwback jams.
Drink Specials All Night
$10 Mixed Cocktails
$6 Beer
$6 Seltzer
Video DJ Mark Andrus
Level Up Thursday:
Every Thursday at 9 pm
Raven Bar & Lounge, 1151 Folsom St., SF
FREE
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