SFist Tonight Likes to Look at Old Pictures

At CounterPULSE (1310 Mission at 9th), Replaying Lost Landscapes: Film fragments of San Francisco. Local archivist, Rick Prelinger, culls from silent and early sound films, exuberant early-1960s city views, diverse home movies and industrial films, and includes rarely-seen views of San Francisco. (8pm)

At Mills College in Oakland, the art reception for The Macarthur Boulevard Portrait Project. Three fine art photographers, Heike Liss, Johnna Arnold, and Bob Hsiang, were set loose with digital cameras to photograph businesses and business owners along the strip of Macarthur Boulevard reaching from Mills College, through the Laurel and Dimond Districts of East Oakland. The results are breathtaking and vibrant, instilled with both a historical and preservationist’s purpose, but through an artistic lens. (Mills Hall, 2nd Floor, 5-7pm)