ART: We're riveted by the delightfully creepy work of Los Angeles-based artist Casey Weldon, who makes his debut in San Francisco with his solo exhibition, New World Hoarder. Weldon's paintings take you on a "surreal adventure ripe with four-eyed animals, majestic woods people, and chalk full of acerbic pop culture jabs." Also at Spoke, the work of Peter Adamyan will be showcased in a special mini show entitled “Back Room Cinema,” which takes its influence from B and exploitation movie posters. (6 to 10 p.m., Spoke Art Gallery, 816 Sutter Street)

MUSIC: Get ready to shake those hips to NPR's 2011 "artist you should know," JD McPherson, whose new album, Signs and Signifiers, "a rockin’, bluesy, forward-thinking album that subtly breaks the conventions of most vintage rock projects," was recorded through a collection of vintage microphones into an old 1960′s Berlant 1/4 inch tape machine. Beloved local crooner, Toshio Hirano, will open the show. (8 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell Street)

FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off its New Filipino Cinema series with Niño, which explores an aristocratic class rarely depicted in Filipino films through the story of a young boy who has been dressed up as the Santo Niño, the image of the child Christ. (7:30 p.m., Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street)