SFist Tonight

*FILM: Academy Award winner Emil Jannings (The Blue Angel, The Last Command) stars as Mephisto in F.W. Murnau's (Nosferatu) Faust (1926). this film was considered a special effects breakthrough in its time. Check out Murnau's last silent German film before he moved to glorious Hollywood.

7 p.m. // Goethe-Institut (530 Bush) // $5 (donation)

MUSIC: Chanteuse Tift Merritt and songstress/fiddler Sara Watkins perform at the GAMH tonight. Both the the alt weeklies seem to like these two--can music build a bridge?--so...we recommend them as well. Head voer to the Tenderloin ("Nob Hill" to the border obsessed) to hear them tonight. (All-ages)

9 p.m. // Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell) // $16

ART OPENING: Untitled (Just For You)--an exhibit featuring Joe Cornett, Robert Jackson Harrington, Bridget Lanigan, Seth Lower, David Wolf, Jen Selden, Ruth Hodgins, Tom Borden
and Zak Starer--is a "multimedia look at the notion of artistic communication," and how much information is actually translated to the viewer. A semiotician's dream night, really. Check out Laughing Squid for more info.

7 p.m. // Swell Gallery (2565 Third) // free

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