SF Events This Weekend: Pearl Earring, China Town Parade, Blanket Babylon

This weekend there are so many events to choose from.      Here on JoskeBlog we will highlight a few
San Francisco Happenings 

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Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon

Saturday, Feb 23 6:30p  

Club Fugazi San Francisco, CA 

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The always-changing Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon is the world’s longest running musical revue. Packed with hilarious spoofs of pop culture & political characters, outrageously gigantic hats and one show-stopping number after another, the show continues to dazzle audiences at Club Fugazi in San Francisco’s North Beach district. 



 

Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis

Saturday, Feb 23 9:30a to 5:15p More dates & times (89)

Golden Gate Park: de Young Museum San Francisco, CA

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Experience a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when Vermeer’s mysterious Girl with a Pearl Earring travels from Holland to the de Young Museum in San Francisco. See this masterpiece and more than 30 others by artists of the Dutch Golden Age— including Rembrandt, Hals, and Steen—from the collection of the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis. Included is a bonus companion exhibition, Rembrandt’s Century, featuring more than 200 rarely seen prints and drawings by Rembrandt and his predecessors and  contemporaries.

More details at deyoungmuseum.org

Chinese New Year Parade

Saturday, Feb 23 5:00p

San Francisco Chinatown

Named one of the world's top ten parades, Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is the largest celebration of its kind outside of Asia. Over 100 units will participate in the parade, many of the floats and specialty units will feature the theme of this year's Chinese zodiac sign. Nowhere in the world will you see a lunar new year parade with more gorgeous floats, elaborate costumes, ferocious lions, and exploding firecrackers.

Chinatown Community Street Fair

 Saturday, Feb 23 10:00a to 4:30p San Francisco Chinatown

 

Become immersed in the sights and sounds of Chinatown. The Chinatown Community Street Fair takes place the weekend of the Chinese New Year Parade and is an opportunity for attendees to experience Chinese cutural arts such as latern and kite making, calligraphy, fine arts demonstrations, folk dance, and puppet shows.

http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/events/communityfair.html