All events on Monday June 23

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Music: Rock/Pop
Tartufi
Monday June 23 (8:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Free
For one of its periodic "Locals Only" nights, Cafe du Nord spotlights two San Francisco bands that worship at the altar of '90s guitar rock.... View details »
Tartufi
Music: Rock/Pop
Liz Phair
Monday June 23 (9pm) @ The Fillmore
Liz Phair was not the only woman channeling desire and anger through a guitar in the early '90s, but she was perhaps the most convincing.... View details »
Liz Phair
More Flavor: Lecture
George Lakoff
Monday June 23 (6pm) @ World Affairs Center
Progressives frequently lament that Americans don't always vote in their own best interests, so that, for example, short-term solutions like tax cuts can appear more... View details »
George Lakoff

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Art
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Monday June 23 @ 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 23 (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 23 (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 23 @ 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
American Symbols
Monday June 23 (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
Film
The Earrings of Madame de...
Monday June 23 (7:15 & 9:30pm) @ Red Vic More times »
Giveaway
There are other movies (Citizen Kane, The Seventh Seal) that routinely top critics' all-time lists, but rarely does a movie so thoroughly enchant cineastes —... View details »
The Earrings of Madame de...
Art
William T. Wiley
Monday June 23 (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
Frameline32
Monday June 23 @ 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
Art
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Monday June 23 (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 23 (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 23 @ 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 23 (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
Woman on the Beach
Monday June 23 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
Giveaway
Director Hong Sang-soo has a thing for love triangles. In many of his films, the lines are drawn among two longtime male buddies and a... View details »
Woman on the Beach
Performing Arts: Theatre
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Monday June 23 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Monday June 23 @ 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
Film
Mother of Tears
Monday June 23 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's long-awaited Mother of Tears completes the "Three Mothers" trilogy he started three decades ago with Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980).... View details »
Mother of Tears