CALENDAR

TOP 5 St. Patrick's Day Spots

1 Finnegan's Marin Downtown Novato's family-owned Irish bar is the place to be to celebrate this festive holiday. Enjoy a diverse menu of hearty dishes and beers on tap. finnegansmarin.com

2 The Mayflower Pub Whether you like a Guinness Irish stout or a local IPA, you can find them here. Experience a piece of Europe and feel the luck of the Irish in this San Rafael pub. facebook.com/themayflowerpubsr

3 HopMonk Tavern This spacious Novato tavern offers a diverse selection of beers and live entertainment — perfect for those who want to celebrate with friends. hopmonk.com

ARTS & LECTURES

THROUGH MARCH 5 Assembly

Required Assembly Required features eight artists who transform quotidian artifacts into beguiling assemblages and collages. The works feature items ranging from safety pins and guitar strings to textiles and playing cards. Armed with various materials, each artist transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Check it out at Garvey|Simon in San Anselmo. garveysimon.com

4 Flanahan's Pub If you are in San Francisco to celebrate Saint Patty's, don't forget to make a stop at this Irish dive bar. Located in the Outer Sunset, you can catch a few waves, then celebrate like a true Irish. flanahans.com

5 Buena Vista Cafe Opened in 1916, this cafe serves its s ignature Irish coffee alongside American staples. thebuenavista.com

THROUGH MARCH 12 Sunny A. Smith:

The Compass Rose Smith creates a radiant genealogical wheel and artworks to navigate the complex legacies of inheritance and lineage — and invites viewers to consider how material things play a role in driving narratives of history, nationalism, family and the self. The exhibition at Fort Mason features new sculpture, video, and sound works alongside major pieces never before shown on the West Coast, spanning two decades. fortmason.org

MARCH 16 Jennifer Egan The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several novels, including Manhattan Beach, The Invisible Circus, A Visit From the Goon Squad , and The Candy House , somewhat of a “sibling novel” to Goon Squad , will be coming to the Sydney Goldstein Theater. Also a journalist, her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and many more. cityarts.net

THROUGH MARCH 19 Six The Musical

From Tudor queens to pop icons, the six wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a euphoric celebration of 21st-century girl power. Six has won 23 awards in the 2021/2022 Broadway season, including the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. broadwaysf.com

MARCH 22–26 Fiddler on the Roof

Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher |and the team behind South Pacific, The King and I and 2017 Tony-winning Best Play Oslo, bring a fresh and authentic vision to this beloved theatrical masterpiece from Tony winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. broadwaysf.com

THROUGH MARCH 25 Mike Henderson: Chicken Fingers, 1976–1980 Chicken Fingers is a solo exhibition by Mike Henderson, a Bay Area painter, filmmaker and blues musician. It focuses on the abstract canvases that redefined the artist's practice as he departed from the figurative paintings of his early career. Each mixed media, Afrofuturist work conjures ethereal, otherworldly spaces filled with promise, mystery and hope. hainesgallery.com

Music

MARCH 2–5 Jake Shimabukuro Widely recognized as "the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele," Jake Shimabukuro has created an international fanbase as a sensational performer. Over the past two decades, he's become a one-man army advancing the ukulele cause, turning the four-string axe into a supremely pliable musical vehicle, capable of generating everything from power chord rock to sensuously swinging jazz. sfjazz.org

MARCH 5 Regina Spektor Born in the Soviet Union, Regina Spektor began studying classical piano when she was six. Her family emigrated in 1989, landing in New York City, where she continued her classical training. She began writing pop songs in her late teens and made her recorded debut in 2001 with the self-released 11:11, a collection of songs heavily influenced by jazz and blues. Spektor's commercial breakthrough came in 2006 on her fourth LP, Begin to Hope. thewarfield theatre.com

MARCH 11 Stephen Sanchez Stephen Sanchez is an American singersongwriter from northern California. Sanchez released his debut extended play, What Was, Not Now in October 2021. Sanchez gained prominence through a series of TikTok posts highlighting his singing and writing abilities. His most well-known song is "Until I Found You," which, he says, was written about his girlfriend and also features her vocals. gamh.com

MARCH 16–19 Amadou & Mariam The Bamako-born husband and wife met while students at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind, and found a shared interest in music and performing. Since that momentous meeting, the couple has risen through the African and European music scenes to become one of the hottest world music acts today, sharing the stage with artists including Coldplay, U2, Alicia Keys and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. See them at SFJAZZ. sfjazz.org

MARCH 22 Vanessa Collier As a master musician and multi-instrumentalist, Vanessa Collier weaves funk, soul, rock, and blues into every performance. With soulful vocals, searing saxophone, and witty songwriting, Collier is blazing a trail, racking up an arsenal of honors. Collier has won three Blues Music Awards — two for Horn Player of the Year in 2019 and 2020 and one in 2022 for Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year. sweetwatermusichall.com

MARCH 26 Matt The Electrician Despite the name, Matt the Electrician is no longer an electrician, focusing instead on a music career that has spanned two decades, a dozen records, and literally thousands of shows. It's folk music for a modern age, rooted in lyrics that focus on the realities and challenges of the 21st century instead of the old school thrill of hopping trains. hopmonk.com

Comedy

MARCH 2–5 Dave Attell Attell is a standup comedian, actor and writer, best known as the host of Comedy Central's Insomniac with Dave Attell , which gave him a cult following. He can next be seen in the Hulu series Life & Beth alongside Amy Schumer, Michael Rapaport and Michael Cera. He can also be seen on Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross, currently streaming on Netflix along with his one hour special, Road Work . cobbscomedy.com

MARCH 9 Michael Yo A two-time Emmy nominee, Michael Yo is a comedian/actor/host keeping busy on all of Hollywood's platforms. In stand up, Michael came up under the wings of Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy and now headlines all over the country. Michael was previously seen covering celebrity news on The Insider, Extra, E! News, as well as guest co-hosting CBS' The Talk . Michael continues to appear as a hot topic guest on The Wendy Williams Show. cobbscomedy.com

MARCH 15 David Nihill He has lived and worked in12 countries and visited over 70. His shows draw on his wide travels, cultural observations, attempts at language study, (occasional) international drinking session(s) and being a mildly confused immigrant. Dave is the winner of the prestigious annual San Francisco Comedy Competition, (previous finalists include Robin Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and Dana Carvey) and runner up in The Moth's largest U.S. Grand Slam storytelling competition. He recorded his debut special for Dry Bar Comedy in 2019 and has been featured on TED.com, The Irish Independent, Inc, NPR, and the Huffington Post among others. davidnihill.com

MARCH 16–18 T.J. Miller T.J. Miller has been working to make people laugh for over fifteen years, and is driven by the mission statement that life is fundamentally tragic and the best thing he can do is provide an ephemeral escapism from that tragedy by doing comedy. cobbscomedy.com

Film

MARCH 6–MARCH 12 SF Urban Film Fest The festival gathers audiences and uses the power of storytelling to spark discussion and civic engagement around urban issues. It asks what it means to live together in the city and makes urban planning more equitable and inclusive. sfurbanfilmfest.com

MARCH 22–26 Sonoma International Film Festival The Sonoma International Film Festival accomplishes an amazing feat — bringing high-caliber, international talent to an intimate locale. Over 90 documentaries, films and shorts are screened every year at various venues that are easily walkable. sonomafilmfest.org

MARCH 23–26 Berlin & Beyond This year marks the 27th anniversary for this popular SF event. See productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland that showcase amazing talent from this part of the world. berlinbeyond.com

Museums

THROUGH MARCH 5 Walt Disney's The Jungle Book: Making a Masterpiece

The exhibition explores the creative complexities behind the making of The Jungle Book (1967), including the unique personalities of each character and their voice actor counterparts, the rich artwork and use of cutting-edge animation techniques. waltdisney.org

THROUGH MARCH 9 Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? With this incomplete participatory exhibition, artists Alex Strada and Tali Keren ask visitors to critically engage with the U.S. Constitution. The exhibit is activated through a series of public workshops Strada and Keren will develop in collaboration with YBCA. ybca.org

OPENING MARCH 23 Annie Albagli

The Contemporary Jewish Museum is presenting a video-based installation by Bay Area-based artist Annie Albagli, which was developed during a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts with support from Asylum Arts. The work investigates movement between places, people, and generations, while also exploring the threshold of the self and our interdependence with nature.

THROUGH APRIL 2 Michelle Erickson: Wild Porcelain The Legion of Honor introduces Michelle Erickson's work, which combines colonial era ceramic techniques and contemporary themes, into the center of the Bowles Porcelain Gallery. Specifically for Bay Area audiences, she has produced pieces that incorporate San Francisco landmarks and address local social and environmental issues. famsf.org

OPENING MARCH 25 SUPER-SILLY-US

The next exhibition in MarinMOCA's ongoing annual Bay Area Legends series explores the life-long, intergenerational dialogue between mother and daughter

OPENING MARCH 31 Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art From largerthan-life temple sculpture to paintings crafted for intimate viewing to immersive video works by contemporary artists, artworks from across South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas have for millennia illuminated vital connections between movement, life, and the spirit. This exhibition will, for the first time in an American museum, invite audiences to experience the critical interplay between visual arts and dance in the Indian cultural sphere, from ancient rituals to the glamour of Bollywood. asianart.org

BY CHRISTINA MUELLER