Today @ Milk Bar
Don we now our... black lipstick and lace. In honor of the darker side of subculture, World Goth Day returns for planet Earth's fourth annual celebration of sparse synthesizers, platform shoes with too many buckles, and leather bodices. Crawl out of your dungeon or cubicle or wherever it is you spend your days, and rejoice! Goth may be a byword for the '80s in square suburbia, but a dedicated few have kept the (totally evil-looking) torch lit all these years. Join your fellow local goths at Milk Bar and get down to some of the city's finest darkwave and deathrock DJs before this festival ends, as all festivals must....
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Today @ Milk Bar
Don we now our... black lipstick and lace. In honor of the darker side of subculture, World Goth Day returns for planet Earth's fourth annual celebration of sparse synthesizers, platform shoes with too many buckles, and leather bodices. Crawl out of your dungeon or cubicle or wherever it is you spend your days, and rejoice! Goth may be a byword for the '80s in square suburbia, but a dedicated few have kept the (totally evil-looking) torch lit all these years. Join your fellow local goths at Milk Bar and get down to some of the city's finest darkwave and deathrock DJs before this festival ends, as all festivals must....
Bay Area Classic Yo-Yo Contest
Today @ Spreckels Temple of Music
Set against the majestic backdrop of the Spreckels Temple of Music in Golden Gate Park, the Bay Area Classic is a display of the kind of strings-attached commitment to a craft that only a yo-yo'er can claim. The West Coast's most talented yo-yo masters descend on the park today to demonstrate their skills, hang with their peers, and compete for the coveted title of Bay Area Classic Champion. (The victor will then go on to try to win it all at the Triple Crown in July.) Come out to watch or to try your hand at it yourself — free lessons are available. Ready, set, yo-yo!
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
Today @ de Young Museum
Long before Gaga, there was Gaultier. Since his debut in 1976, Jean Paul has been trotting out S&M-inspired lace masks and ball gowns made of wild grass and, you know, just generally putting the "mad" in "Madonna/Whore Complex." His gloriously irreverent, semi-terrifying, viscerally-architectural costumes have clad the likes of Helen Mirren, Marilyn Manson, and, of course, the Material Girl. And now Gaultier's gritty-glam gender-blending couture is paying a visit to a city that can really (no, really) appreciate it. Between now and August, the De Young Museum is home to The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk. The exhibit, which kicks off with an extravagant fête on Friday, March 23, displays over 130 haute couture and prêt-a-porter designs in truly dramatic fashion — think animated mannequins and elaborate scenic tableaux. Whether you're a couture junkie or merely a fan of all things outrageous, this spectacle is not to be missed....
Today @ SFMOMA
If one man's trash is another man's treasure, then it's never been more true than in the case of LA-based artist Mark Bradford. Influenced by his earliest practices of creating art from the materials available at his mother's hair salon, Bradford now uses salvaged materials from the streets — corrugated cardboard, newsprint, wheatpasted posters, flyers, and all of the detritus of modern urban life — and transforms his materials into artistic gold. His large-scale canvases thus reflect the color palettes and urban aesthetics of his South Central neighborhood; and while many of his pieces look like aerial views of cities from further away, upon closer inspection, they reveal themselves to contain layer upon layer of intricate detail, shape, meaning, and social message — as in the case of the massive 102-by-144-inch "A Truly Rich Man Is One Whose Children Run into His Arms Even When His Hands Are Empty" (2008), created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Bradford exhibits at SFMOMA and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts through June 17....
