Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays

Hey good lookin' -- what you got cookin? Tonight: Check out some new African cinema at the Yerba Buena Center. Tonight's screenings (at 7:30) kick off their monthlong "African Metropolis" festival, featuring movies that highlight the African urban experience. The movies featured, two works by Senegalese director Dijbril Diop Mambety, are set in Dakar -- one about a little girl trying to become a newspaper seller and one about a man trying to redeem his lottery ticket.

Thursday: The Balboa presents the Devil Music Ensemble playing the accompaniment to two silent movies, Big Stakes (a Western, at 7) and the dreaded Nosferatu (at 8:45).

And Friday: Come celebrate five years of fat dance with Big Moves! Big Moves is dedicated to promoting size diversity in dance, and will premiere two pieces commissioned for its contemporary dance group, Mass Movement. Doors at 7:30, $20 in advance, at CounterPULSE (1310 Mission). Maybe Mission dancer Allan Frias will be there!