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Complimentary cocktails from 7-8pm, with the film starting at 7:30pm. $8 at the door, 444 Jessie St.

Pick your poison -- it's either flyering for Gavin Newsom or going to the Progressive Convention this afternoon. If politics isn't your game, here's some other options for today and tonight:

Almost 20 years after the death of graffiti artist turned art star, Jean Michel Basquiat, we have a new documentary about graffiti in the art world, Next: A Primer on Urban Painting screens at Mezzanine (444 Jessie St. near 5th) courtesy of SF360 Film+Club. Directed by Pablo Aravena, the film combines cinema vérité of artists in action and interviews with painters, journalists, collectors, sociologists, DJ's, art critics and others. There will be a live demonstration featuring renowned urban painter ONESTO and others after the film. Free Peroni beer (while supplies last). (7pm)

about his search for gasoline, a living, and hope in today's Iraq and the musical group The Loins (featuring writer Beth Lisick and her husband Eli Crews of Beaulah & Spezza Rotto) does a surprise performance of an car-based piece of literature, plus more! (7pm)

One of the countless trends in the non-profit arts world that we run across during the course of our day job is new initiatives by august institutions to ply their wares to younger audiences, kinda like Pepsi's "Choice of a New Generation" Campaign years back. SF360 is an effort of said type by the San Francisco Film Society. Tonight the Society presents the latest SF360 Film+Club a once-a-month evening of film and clubbing, featuring selected highlights from the truly unique Wholphin DVD collection of rare and unseen short films, assembled by the McSweeney’s junta, at Mezzanine (444 Jessie St at Mint). Films feature John C Reilly, Miranda July, Dennis Hopper and squids. Free Peroni beer. (7:30 pm)

Forget PTA bake sales, a coterie of SF's movers and shakers are hosting "Hot for Teachers," a party to benefit projects in Bay Area schools, at Club Mezzanine (444 Jessie St. near 5th and Mission). Enticements include: gourmet mac & cheese, a Van Halen tribute band, and a chance to win live auction "Hot for Learning" packages like ... "How to be Mayor." As Gavvy-N is on the honorary host committee, we're thinking we know who the instructor of that one will be.