All events on Thursday June 19

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Dodos
Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ The Independent
Giveaway
Local songwriter Meric Long first hooked up with rapid-fire drummer Logan Kroeber in 2006 for the excellent self-released CD Beware of the Maniacs,... View details »
The Dodos
Performing Arts: Theatre
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ Novellus Theater More times »
If Marc Bamuthi Joseph seems to garner an absurd number of accolades (National Poetry Slam Champ, San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE winner, too many grants... View details »
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
More Flavor: Festival
Fresh Meat Festival
Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ Project Artaud Theater More times »
The Fresh Meat Festival pushes the boundaries of how gender roles are interpreted, and by whom. The only transgender performing-arts festival in the country, Fresh... View details »
Fresh Meat Festival
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Frameline32
Thursday June 19 @ Various locations More times »
This year, the world's largest and oldest LGBT film festival is in transition. Outgoing Artistic Director Michael Lumpkin receives the 2008 Frameline Award, and he... View details »
Frameline32
Film
Wholphin 6
Thursday June 19 (7:30pm) @ Mezzanine
Wholphin, the quarterly DVD magazine published by McSweeney's, brings together enigmatic shorts that are by turns provocative, comical, and bizarre — and all exquisite in... View details »
Wholphin 6
More Flavor: Party
Hotel Utah 100th Anniversary Party
Thursday June 19 (9pm) @ Hotel Utah Saloon
Giveaway
When the Hotel Utah opened two years after the 1906 earthquake, San Francisco was a different place. For starters, the part of town that is... View details »
Hotel Utah 100th Anniversary Party
Art
We Remember the Sun
Thursday June 19 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
Free
Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
 We Remember the Sun

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Art
Tim Lee
Thursday June 19 (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
Dale Chihuly
Thursday June 19 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
Dale Chihuly
Art
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Thursday June 19 @ 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
Thursday June 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
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 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
Art: Photography
After the Revolution
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (10am–9:45pm) @ 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
Thursday June 19 @ 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: Photography
The Reggae Scrapbook
Thursday June 19 (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
Film
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Thursday June 19 (6:30pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural interest in Alfred Döblin's... View details »
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Art
Paul Sietsema
Thursday June 19 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Portals
Thursday June 19 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife, Jen Stark carves stacks... View details »
Portals
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Thursday June 19 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum 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
Film: Documentary
Louder, Faster: Punk in Performance
Thursday June 19 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Not much new can be said about punk. The gnarled, trans-Atlantic family tree running from Iggy Pop to Johnny Rotten, and from the Germs to... View details »
Louder, Faster: Punk in Performance
Art: Photography
Ryan McGinley
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (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
Suzanne Husky
Thursday June 19 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and environmental angst, aren't always... View details »
Suzanne Husky
Art
Sarah Wagner
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum 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
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California 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
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 @ 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®
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 (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
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Under 100
Thursday June 19 (noon–4pm) @ 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
Film
Bitter Pills
Thursday June 19 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard slap in the face.... View details »
Bitter Pills
Art
Improbable\Unlikely
Thursday June 19 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery More times »
Free
David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely Library, shelves of books... View details »
Improbable\Unlikely
Art
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 @ 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
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Superstition Obstacle Course
Thursday June 19 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
Superstition Obstacle Course
Art
Hopeless and Otherwise
Thursday June 19 (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
Sean Talley
Thursday June 19 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Free
Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes commingle on a flat,... View details »
Sean Talley
Film: Documentary
Up the Yangtze
Thursday June 19 @ 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
Kentucky Jones and the Carpet of Doom
Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ Brava Theater Center More times »
When a powerful artifact falls into the hands of terrorists who want to use it to destroy the world, only Kentucky Jones and his roving... View details »
Kentucky Jones and the Carpet of Doom
Art
Soft Underbelly Recognition
Thursday June 19 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery More times »
Free
In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition — a group exhibition that... View details »
Soft Underbelly Recognition
Art
Alicia McCarthy
Thursday June 19 (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
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Thursday June 19 @ 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
Music: Rock/Pop
Jonathan Richman
Thursday June 19 (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
Art: Photography
New American Fables
Thursday July 3 (5:30–7:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
Free
Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic narratives rarely end with... View details »
New American Fables
Art
A Complicated Dominion
Thursday June 19 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
A Complicated Dominion
Film
Times and Winds
Thursday June 19 (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
Thursday June 19 @ 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
Art: Photography
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Thursday June 19 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean Drapeau's two controversial tenures.... View details »
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place