Events

We know you've been meaning to spend a night with a wine maker and a granola maker. In this unlikely pairing, Chef Linh Phu of Bi-Rite Market will be creating a series of bites made of the ingredients 18 Rabbits carefully sources (almonds, herbs, fruit, grains, and more) to be paired with Mas de Daumas Gassac wines. As you taste and sip, the owners from Mas de Daumas Gassac and 18 Rabbits will share stories about their family, their companies, and how they are changing the food movement. The menu, while still undetermined, will include scrumptious dishes like herb-crusted lamb and chocolate torte. $40 member price/ $50 general admission

With Rudolph Herzog, author of Dead Funny Is it okay to laugh at Hitler? What about the Holocaust? While Charlie Chaplin and Mel Brooks famously satirized the image of the “ridiculous Führer”, Hitler jokes are by no means a post-war invention. In Dead Funny filmmaker and author Rudolph Herzog (son of Werner) shows that Germans, both oppressed and oppressors, used comedy to deal with the reality of living – and dying – under The Third Reich. Herzog pushes back against the argument that people were unaware of Hitler’s demonic maneuvering. The truth is more troubling: Germans knew much about the actions of their government, joked about it occasionally and failed to act. ticket info: http://bit.ly/dead_funny

Gene Youngblood is an internationally known theorist of media arts, politics, and the history of alternative cinemas. His Expanded Cinema (1970), the first book to consider video as an art form, was seminal in establishing media arts as a recognized artistic and scholarly discipline. He will be giving a two-part lecture, Secession from the Broadcast, presented by SFAI and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Program 1: Apocalypse and Utopia Wednesday, February 1, 7:30 pm San Francisco Art Institute There exists in America today an alternative media environment that surpasses the wildest utopian dreams of twentieth-century media activism. It presents the possibility of the communication revolution that is essential if we are to create on the same scale as we can destroy. It enables the ultimate act of civil disobedience: leaving the culture without leaving the country. It holds the possibility of radical resocialization on an international scale and is a mortal threat to social control as we know it. This lecture is about what is at stake in the epic struggle for control of the Internet, and what we must do to release its revolutionary potential. Program 2: The Challenge To Create On the Same Scale As We Can Destroy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque [members: $6 / non-members: $10] This lecture explores in greater detail some key questions raised in program 1. What is the revolutionary potential of the Internet? How can we use it to cultivate radical will at scale? Why is social control in crisis, and what is state power going to do about it? What does it mean to leave the culture without leaving the country? What does it mean that culture is a technology of the self? What is counterculture, and how can it support a daily practice of conscious counter-socialization? What does it mean to create on the same scale as we can destroy, and what is the role of the arts in meeting that challenge?

Local musicians of The Drift, Sean Swift Trio, and Satya Sena, are playing at Elbo Room on February 1st. Join them for some great tunes, cheap booze, and Elbo Room's infamous photobooth in the heart of the Mission. The cover's only six bucks, and you can take advantage of Elbo Room's notable happy hour if you get there early (it's 5 to 9 p.m., FYI).