All events on Saturday June 28

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Music: Rock/Pop
Camper Van Beethoven
Saturday June 28 (9pm) @ The Fillmore
Of all the conceptual pranks Camper Van Beethoven has pulled off over their 25 years, nothing tops the band's inexplicable fling with Virgin Records. It's... View details »
Camper Van Beethoven
Music: Rock/Pop
Gary Panter
Saturday June 28 (2pm) @ Amoeba Music
Free
Gary Panter's hyper-colored visuals influenced a generation of wide-eyed imaginations. As the set designer for Pee-wee's Playhouse, Panter conjured domestic hallucinations and childlike reveries that... View details »
Gary Panter
Music: Rock/Pop
[CANCELLED] The Mother Hips
Saturday June 28 (9pm) @ Starry Plough
Canceled!
The Mother Hips don't reinvent the wheel with their snappy roots music, but they've been strong local favorites since working their way up from the... View details »
[CANCELLED] The Mother Hips
More Flavor: Festival
Old School Funk Fest
Saturday June 28 (2pm) @ Sleep Train Pavilion
Before Madonna got hip to hip-hop, and before Gwen Stefani rode Eve's coattails, there was Teena Marie. Get behind the groove this weekend with the... View details »
Old School Funk Fest
More Flavor: Parade
SF Pride Celebration
Saturday June 28 (noon–6pm) @ Civic Center More times »
Free
There's plenty to be proud of this year — most of all, the recent landmark legal victory that has California's LGBT couples lining up across... View details »
SF Pride Celebration

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Art
Tim Lee
Saturday June 28 (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
Art
Dale Chihuly
Saturday June 28 (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 Way That We Rhyme
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 (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
Frida Kahlo
Saturday June 28 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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
Saturday June 28 @ 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
Saturday June 28 (noon–7pm) @ 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
Saturday June 28 (2pm) @ 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
Portals
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 (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
Art
Karla Wozniak
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Saturday June 28 (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: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 (1–5pm) @ 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
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Saturday June 28 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Ethnic Dance Festival
Saturday June 28 (2 & 8pm) @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre More times »
The 30th edition of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival continues to spotlight Bay Area dancers carrying on the traditions of over 35 dance forms.... View details »
Ethnic Dance Festival
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Dykes on Bikes®
Saturday June 28 (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 »
More Flavor: Festival
Frameline32
Saturday June 28 @ 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
The Warriors
Saturday June 28 (7:15 & 9:20pm) @ Red Vic More times »
This 1979 classic of urban cool and cartoon violence stars a street gang with true class. The posse takes on a rough 'n tumble (and... View details »
The Warriors
Art
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Saturday June 28 (10:30am–5pm) @ 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
Saturday June 28 (11am–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: Photography
Tammy Rae Carland
Saturday June 28 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann Cvetkovich's lauded book. Between... View details »
Tammy Rae Carland
Art
INsects INsectos
Saturday June 28 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
INsects INsectos
Art
Improbable\Unlikely
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 @ 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
Saturday June 28 (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
Film: Documentary
Encounters at the End of the World
Saturday June 28 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
Giveaway
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly) sidesteps the hot topic... View details »
Encounters at the End of the World
Art
Sean Talley
Saturday June 28 (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
Art
Women Impressionists
Saturday June 28 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
Women Impressionists
Art
Soft Underbelly Recognition
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 (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
Saturday June 28 @ 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
Art: Festival
MOVE>SOUND
Saturday June 28 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
MOVE>SOUND
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
Saturday June 28 (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
Art
The Beast in Me
Saturday June 28 (11am–5pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man,"... View details »
The Beast in Me
Performing Arts: Theatre
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Saturday June 28 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
80/08
Saturday June 28 (8pm) @ School of the Arts Theatre More times »
Tatsumi Hijikata, the Japanese choreographer considered to be the founder of butoh, would have been 80 this year (Hijikata passed away in 1986). Emerging in... View details »
80/08
Film
Brick Lane
Saturday June 28 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
Brick Lane
Film
Savage Grace
Saturday June 28 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
Savage Grace
Art
Kiki
Saturday June 28 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
Kiki
Art: Photography
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Saturday June 28 (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
Art
We Remember the Sun
Saturday June 28 (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