All events on Saturday April 19

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Music: Hip-Hop
Kanye West
Saturday Apr 19 (7pm) @ HP Pavilion
Just because he performs with a marching band and likes to go on crazy rants at awards shows, Kanye West is no mere attention hound.... View details »
Kanye West
Music: Electronic
A-Trak
Saturday Apr 19 (9pm) @ 103 Harriet St
Giveaway
It's an MP3 blogger's paradise tonight at 103 Harriet, as Kanye's DJ of choice tears up the turntables with his signature blend of crunk, punk,... View details »
A-Trak
Film
The Sad, the Funny, and the Dark Side of Parenting
Saturday Apr 19 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
From Norman Bates' mom to Britney Spears, modern culture is full of bad parenting. Archivist and cinephile Dennis Nyback presents three unusual vintage films and... View details »
The Sad, the Funny, and the Dark Side of Parenting
Reading
Beer, Blood & Cornmeal
Saturday Apr 19 (7:30pm) @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
Free
Bob Calhoun spent seven years of his life making San Francisco a little more bizarre with Incredibly Strange Wrestling — performance art taken to the... View details »
Beer, Blood & Cornmeal
Art
Greg Lamarche
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery More times »
Free
Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a graffiti artist in Boston... View details »
Greg Lamarche

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Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Art
An-My Lê
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Art
Gilbert & George
Saturday Apr 19 @ de Young Museum More times »
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
Gilbert & George
Art: Photography
Friedlander
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
Friedlander
Art
Enrique Chagoya
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
Enrique Chagoya
Art
Chuck Arnett
Saturday Apr 19 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
Chuck Arnett
Art: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Saturday Apr 19 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
Annie Leibovitz
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture — as an integral element... View details »
The Fabric of Cultures
Art
In Collaboration
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
In Collaboration
Art
Drama and Desire
Saturday Apr 19 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum More times »
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
Drama and                    Desire
Art
Victor Cartagena
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
Victor Cartagena
Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The... View details »
Protest in Paris 1968
Art
Jeremy Blake
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery More times »
Free
Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake rose to fame nearly... View details »
Jeremy Blake
Art
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Saturday Apr 19 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
Free
One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works constructed from repurposed materials.... View details »
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Art: Photography
Whimsy
Saturday Apr 19 (10am–8pm) @ RayKo Photo Center More times »
Free
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous. The photos share a... View details »
Whimsy
Art
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5:30pm) @ Hosfelt Gallery More times »
Free
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox in the Mirror, her... View details »
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Art
Propogations
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
Paul Hayes' folded-paper-and-wire sculpture Cultivated Momentum hangs from Johansson Projects' ceiling like a recycled-kelp forest, its black squiggles calling fish to mind. Hayes' organic, abstract... View details »
Propogations
Performing Arts: Theatre
Flaming Sin
Saturday Apr 19 (8pm) @ Hypnodrome More times »
Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have never been as deliciously... View details »
Flaming Sin
Art
Feral
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store More times »
Free
In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps, and paper collage. Canilao's... View details »
Feral
Art
The Question Is Known
Saturday Apr 19 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts More times »
Free
Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the work of mixed-media painter... View details »
The Question Is Known
Art
Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
Taking its title from a Black Sabbath tune, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's solo show Symptom of the Universe taps Ozzy's evil vibes in a series of... View details »
Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough
More Flavor: City Gem
Life-Size Mousetrap
Saturday Apr 19 (2pm–midnight) @ The Haunted Barn More times »
Mark Perez's super-sized version of the classic children's board game has to be seen — and seen in action — to be believed. The interactive... View details »
Life-Size Mousetrap
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
The Way That We Rhyme
Art
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Free
Jancar Jones Gallery consecrates its new space with a group exhibition showcasing works from Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen. Though the three men... View details »
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
Free
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
Art & Artifice
Performing Arts: Dance
Stravinsky's Firebird
Saturday Apr 19 (7:30pm) @ The Crucible More times »
Giveaway
Departing from the classical mode of ballet, the artists, dancers, and musicians at the Crucible pay modern homage to Igor Stravinsky's musical tale of a... View details »
Stravinsky's Firebird
Art
Science Fair
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–7pm) @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective More times »
Free
Rock Paper Scissors' Science Fair hosts much stranger exhibits than those found in elementary schools' baking-soda-and-vinegar volcano competitions. Guest curator Andrew Thompson has compiled creative... View details »
Science Fair
Performing Arts: Comedy
Point Break LIVE!
Saturday Apr 19 @ Xenodrome More times »
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown theater and it's, like,... View details »
Point Break LIVE!
Art: Photography
Robert Adler
Saturday Apr 19 (2–8pm) @ Hyde Street Gallery More times »
Free
Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses on the grit behind... View details »
Robert Adler
Art
Self-Storage
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–4pm) @ Self Storage More times »
Free
Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic scrapbook that documents the... View details »
Self-Storage
Art
Neu Wave Feminism
Saturday Apr 19 (noon–6pm) @ Femina Potens Gallery More times »
Free
Radical, queer-friendly gallery Femina Potens presents Neu Wave Feminism, a bold collection of subversive works that spotlights feminism's shifting borders. The stripped-down look at female... View details »
Neu Wave Feminism
Art
Paul Sietsema
Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
Paul Sietsema