All events on Monday June 16

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Music: Rock/Pop
Islands
Monday June 16 (8pm) @ Bimbo's
Giveaway
Montreal's Islands had already collaborated with Beck, Wolf Parade, and Arcade Fire when they released their debut LP, Return to the Sea, back in 2006.... View details »
Islands
More Flavor: Tribute
Bloomsday Celebration
Monday June 16 (6:30pm) @ Mechanic's Institute Library
James Joyce's Ulysses famously pulls hundreds of pages' worth of details and countervailing narrations out of a single day in Dublin. That day, for... View details »
Bloomsday Celebration
More Flavor: Tribute
Biafra Five-O
Monday June 16 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall More times »
Mr. Jello Biafra is one of the Bay Area's most distinguished public gentlemen, and his 50th birthday deserves recognition of the most esteemed caliber. But... View details »
Biafra Five-O
More Flavor: Lecture
Sam Gosling
Monday June 16 (6:30pm) @ Commonwealth Club
Giveaway
When pressed, most people would probably agree that the music on their iPods or the clothes hanging in their closets communicate something about their personalities,... View details »
Sam Gosling
Music: Rock/Pop
Jonathan Richman
Monday June 16 (8pm) @ The Make-Out Room More times »
Between willfully simple, '50s-inspired numbers like "I'm a Little Dinosaur" and his work with the Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman has the mark of a true... View details »
Jonathan Richman

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Art
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Monday June 16 @ 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: Photography
After the Revolution
Monday June 16 (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
Frida Kahlo
Monday June 16 (10am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
Frida Kahlo
Art
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Monday June 16 @ 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
Monday June 16 (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
Paul Sietsema
Monday June 16 (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
American Symbols
Monday June 16 (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
William T. Wiley
Monday June 16 (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
More Flavor: Festival
Another Hole in the Head
Monday June 16 @ 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
Art
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Monday June 16 (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
Monday June 16 (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
365
Monday June 16 @ 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
Monday June 16 (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
Film: Documentary
Up the Yangtze
Monday June 16 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
Up the Yangtze
Performing Arts: Theatre
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Monday June 16 @ Hypnodrome More times »
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Film
Times and Winds
Monday June 16 (11:15am, 1:40pm, 4:15pm, 7:15pm & 10pm) @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
While local cinephiles were still circling calendar dates in anticipation of this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, the sponsoring SF Film Society announced a... View details »
Performing Arts: Theatre
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Monday June 16 @ 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