All events on Tuesday April 22

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Old Haunts
Tuesday Apr 22 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
The Pacific Northwest's history of great garage rock stretches at least as far back as 1963, to the Kingsmen's famous take on "Louie, Louie." Olympia's... View details »
The Old Haunts
Film
Kiss Me Deadly and The Killing
Tuesday Apr 22 @ The Castro Theatre
Both Kiss Me Deadly and The Killing came after the apex of film noir. Gone are the melodramatic flourishes and moral codes of... View details »
Kiss Me Deadly and The Killing
Film: Documentary
638 Ways to Kill Castro
Tuesday Apr 22 (7pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Dollan Cannell's fascinating documentary 638 Ways to Kill Castro is a perfect illustration of Karl Marx's famous quote, "History repeats itself first as tragedy, second... View details »
638 Ways to Kill Castro
More Flavor: Party
Gray Area Beacon Launch Party
Tuesday Apr 22 (6–11pm) @ Gray Area Gallery
Originally housed in a loft space wedged next to DNA Lounge, the Gray Area Gallery has shifted to new SOMA quarters and refocused its attentions... View details »
Gray Area Beacon Launch Party

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Art
Tim Lee
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–7pm) @ 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
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Tuesday Apr 22 @ 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
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Chuck Arnett
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–6pm) @ 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
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Deric Carner
Tuesday Apr 22 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments. Double Heading is full... View details »
Deric Carner
Music: Jazz/Blues
Mingus Big Band
Tuesday Apr 22 (8 & 10pm) @ Yoshi's San Francisco More times »
Charles Mingus' towering compositions combine fierce bop with gospel laments, refined melodies with the noise of the street. It's a sprawling oeuvre, and the Mingus... View details »
Mingus Big Band
Art
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
The Question Is Known
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
The Way That We Rhyme
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Art
Science Fair
Tuesday Apr 22 (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!
Tuesday Apr 22 @ 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: Architecture/Design
COLORS Past and Present
Tuesday Apr 22 (9am–5pm) @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura More times »
Free
In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a bold, controversial publication that... View details »
COLORS Past and Present
Art: Photography
After the Revolution
Tuesday Apr 22 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has become the privileged site... View details »
After the Revolution
Art
Paul Sietsema
Tuesday Apr 22 (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
Art
Greg Lamarche
Tuesday Apr 22 (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