All events on Wednesday June 11

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Performing Arts: Comedy
Neil Hamburger
Wednesday June 11 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
When Neil Hamburger bills himself as "America's $1 Funnyman," he's inviting audiences to stay away, knowing that they'll come back for more. Gregg Turkington's self-consciously... View details »
Neil Hamburger
Music: Rock/Pop
Billy Bragg
Wednesday June 11 (9pm) @ The Fillmore
Billy Bragg is hardly the only bloke to think of bringing punk and politics to the pub, but his incisive lyrics and unaffected, deadpan drawl... View details »
Billy Bragg
Film
Chicago 10
Wednesday June 11 (2, 7:15 & 9:25pm) @ Red Vic More times»
Giveaway
Abbie Hoffman stated the obvious when he titled his autobiography Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture. The volatile, vocal (and later diagnosed bipolar) prankster... View details »
Chicago 10
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Under 100
Saturday June 14 (7–10pm) @ Root Division More times»
Free
From the tony white walls of 49 Geary to the warehouse studios in Hunter's Point, SF lays claim to nearly every kind of art out... View details »
Under 100

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Art
Tim Lee
Wednesday June 11 (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
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SF Black Film Festival
Wednesday June 11 @ Various locations More times»
Giveaway
The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's festival stretches over ten... View details »
SF Black Film Festival
Art
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Wednesday June 11 (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
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Wednesday June 11 @ SFMOMA More times»
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical myth, art history, and... View details »
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Wednesday June 11 (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
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2nd Skin
Wednesday June 11 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times»
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
2nd Skin
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Art & Artifice
Wednesday June 11 (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: Photography
After the Revolution
Wednesday June 11 (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
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Wednesday June 11 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design More times»
Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the 1950s with the verve... View details »
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Art
Quarter Century
Wednesday June 11 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times»
Free
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
Quarter Century
Art: Photography
The Reggae Scrapbook
Wednesday June 11 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling More times»
Free
The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and archives, award-winning photographer Peter... View details »
The Reggae Scrapbook
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Wednesday June 11 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley More times»
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Art: Photography
Ryan McGinley
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times»
Free
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like jubilant animals, as untrammeled... View details »
Ryan McGinley
Art
Karla Wozniak
Wednesday June 11 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times»
Free
Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly every roadside in America.... View details »
Karla Wozniak
Art
American Symbols
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times»
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
American Symbols
Art
Sarah Wagner
Wednesday June 11 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times»
Free
Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement floors and plaster walls,... View details »
Sarah Wagner
Art
Adam5100
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison More times»
Free
The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his painting and printmaking at... View details »
Adam5100
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Wednesday June 11 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley More times»
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
Trevor Paglen
Art
ArtSpan: 30 Under 30
Wednesday June 11 (11am–11pm) @ Varnish Fine Art More times»
Free
Bay Area Now 5 doesn't hit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts until July, but ArtSpan has the jump on the freshest native talent... View details »
ArtSpan: 30 Under 30
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Birth of the Cool
Wednesday June 11 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California in Oakland More times»
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
Birth of the Cool
Art
William T. Wiley
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times»
Free
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting a 1964 game called... View details »
William T. Wiley
Art
Christian Marclay
Wednesday June 11 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery More times»
Free
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in used record shops. He's... View details »
Christian Marclay
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Another Hole in the Head
Wednesday June 11 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times»
Now in its fifth year, the SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head Festival features two weeks of sci-fi and horror films from around the... View details »
Another Hole in the Head
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Dykes on Bikes®
Wednesday June 11 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times»
Free
Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade. The GLBT Historical... View details »
Art
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Wednesday June 11 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times»
Free
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets quintessentially American scenes. Brown... View details »
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Art
Leigh Wells
Wednesday June 11 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times»
Free
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
Leigh Wells
Art
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Wednesday June 11 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times»
Free
Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened, skewed architecture, Candy Garden... View details »
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Art
365
Wednesday June 11 @ 111 Minna Gallery More times»
... m>365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual experience is only heightened... View details »
365
Art
Hopeless and Otherwise
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ Southern Exposure More times»
Free
With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of unrest in US history... View details »
Hopeless and Otherwise
Art
Alicia McCarthy
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times»
Free
Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this motley collection of her... View details »
Alicia McCarthy
Performing Arts: Theatre
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Wednesday June 11 @ American Conservatory Theater More times»
Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael Hayden and René Augesen's... View details »
'Tis Pity She's a Whore