Events on Sunday, May 4

Ninth Annual How Weird Street Faire

Festival: Fair

How Weird Street Faire

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Howard St at 2nd St

This year, the ninth-annual How Weird Street Faire changes locations and introduces an extensive nighttime component, but retains its very San... 

[SOLD OUT] Tim and Eric: <em>Awesome Tour</em>

Comedy

Tim and Eric

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Rickshaw Stop

Adult Swim is known for being on the cutting edge of television humor, but Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!... 

Art in the Alley

Art: Happening

Art in the Alley

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Kerouac Alley

Showgoers should hope for a sunny day, since a pleasant stroll is the best way to enjoy Art Alley. The tiny... 

Little Wings w/ the Skygreen Leopards and Hotel Alexis

Music

Little Wings

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Hemlock Tavern

Little Wings progenitor Kyle Field is a bard of the beach — his lazily strummed chords and drifting verses are evocative... 

Workshop/Class

Uncharted Waters

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Headlands Center for the Arts

Though the cost of renting gallery space can be prohibitive, San Francisco's art scene is relatively free-form in its dispersed distribution... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics</em>

Art

The Way That We Rhyme

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to... 

<em>Graduation</em>

Film

Graduation

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Landmark Opera Plaza

Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank... 

Enrique Chagoya: <em> Borderlandia </em>

Art

Enrique Chagoya

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Berkeley Art Museum

The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to... 

Paul Sietsema: <em>New Work</em>

Art

Paul Sietsema

Sunday 5/ 4 @ SFMOMA

Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles... 

<em>Joy Division</em>

Film: Documentary

Joy Division

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Roxie Theater

When Grant Gee's documentary portrait of the iconic Manchester post-punk band Joy Division played at Yerba Buena last January, legions of... 

<em>Jellyfish</em>

Film

Jellyfish

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre

Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their... 

<em>Uncharted: Imaginary Landscapes </em>

Art

Uncharted

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery

Like intrepid cartographers, the nine artists featured in this exhibit navigate land and space from many angles. Their interpretations range in... 

Maker Faire

Festival: Fair

Maker Faire

Sunday 5/ 4 @ San Mateo Fairgrounds

Engineering savvy and childlike whimsy overlap at the increasingly popular Maker Faire, as scores of techies, crafters, artists, and visionaries erect... 

<em>2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing</em>

Special Event

2nd Skin

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Exploratorium

With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing.... 

Bay Area National Dance Week

Dance

Bay Area National Dance Week

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Various locations

Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the... 

Robert Adler: <em>Burlesque</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Adler

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Hyde Street Gallery

Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses... 

<em>The Dhamma Brothers</em>

Film: Documentary

The Dhamma Brothers

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Red Vic

It's difficult to imagine a Buddhist meditation retreat in a maximum-security prison, but at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama,... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Sunday 5/ 4 @ SFMOMA

Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape.... 

Inkie Whang: <em>American Debut</em>

Art

Inkie Whang

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Frey Norris Gallery

Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the... 

Annie Leibovitz: <em>A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005</em>

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Sunday 5/ 4 @ The Legion of Honor Museum

Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's... 

<em>The Rape of the Sabine Women</em>

Art

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Sunday 5/ 4 @ SFMOMA

Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical... 

Curatorial Industries presents <em>Self-Storage</em>

Art

Self-Storage

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Self Storage

Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic... 

<em>In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection</em>

Art

In Collaboration

Sunday 5/ 4 @ SFMOMA

San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media... 

<em>Drama and                    Desire</em>: <em>Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690&ndash;1850</em>

Art

Drama and Desire

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Asian Art Museum

On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 5/ 4 @ de Young Museum

Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work... 

<em>The Little Prince</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

The Little Prince

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Zellerbach Hall

A worldwide symbol of youthful optimism, The Little Prince — set to music for the San Francisco Opear by British composer... 

Lacey Jane Roberts: <em>The Master's Tools (Decay Goes Both Ways)</em>

Art

Lacey Jane Roberts

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Little Tree Gallery

Little Tree Gallery has now been fortified, thanks to Bay Area artist Lacey Jane Roberts' handwoven barbed-wire fence. Even though every... 

An-My L&ecirc;: <em>Small Wars</em>

Art

An-My Lê

Sunday 5/ 4 @ SFMOMA

An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... 

<em>Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg</em>

Art: Photography

Protest in Paris 1968

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Berkeley Art Museum

Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for... 

Veronica Graham: <em>Bonus Map</em>

Art

Veronica Graham

Sunday 5/ 4 @ CELLspace

Composed of more than 2000 hand-printed cloth swatches, Veronica Graham's sprawling installation Bonus Map takes over CELLspace's wall like cartographic kudzu.... 

San Francisco International Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

San Francisco International Film Festival

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Various locations

While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...