Events on Sunday, June 29
Sunday 6/29 @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
For those eternally seeking the next best thing, Cyndi Lauper and the B-52s probably don't rank very high on the music...
Sunday 6/29 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Writer, director, and indie saint John Cassavetes raised the curtain on backstage melodrama with his 1978 film Opening Night. Gena...
Sunday 6/29 @ The Fillmore
Rolling into town like a rollicking, sex-addled circus, Lucha VaVoom is the love child of a Mexican-wrestling fan and a burlesque...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 6/29 @ Red Vic
This 1979 classic of urban cool and cartoon violence stars a street gang with true class. The posse takes on a...
Sunday 6/29 @ Landmark Embarcadero
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Sunday 6/29 @ Oakland Museum of California
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That...
Sunday 6/29 @ Civic Center
There's plenty to be proud of this year — most of all, the recent landmark legal victory that has California's LGBT...
Sunday 6/29 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often...
Sunday 6/29 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Sunday 6/29 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to...
Sunday 6/29 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Sunday 6/29 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Sunday 6/29 @ Various locations
This year, the world's largest and oldest LGBT film festival is in transition. Outgoing Artistic Director Michael Lumpkin receives the 2008...
Sunday 6/29 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
The 30th edition of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival continues to spotlight Bay Area dancers carrying on the traditions of...
Sunday 6/29 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen...
Sunday 6/29 @ Triple Base
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and...
Sunday 6/29 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of...
Sunday 6/29 @ de Young Museum
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish,...
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Sunday 6/29 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
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Sunday 6/29 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
To say that Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films may make you fall asleep is to pay them a high compliment. Somnambulant...
Sunday 6/29 @ 2nd Floor Projects
Curator Margaret Tedesco warms the walls of her Mission-district gallery with abstract color compositions in Unlikely Arrivals, an exhibition featuring a...
Sunday 6/29 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Sunday 6/29 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the...
Sunday 6/29 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
A week after the last showing of R.W. Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz, the PFA screens this lesser-known European epic, originally produced for...
Sunday 6/29 @ American Conservatory Theater
Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael...
Sunday 6/29 @ Babylon Falling
The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and...
Sunday 6/29 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations....
Sunday 6/29 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Encounters at the End of the World
Sunday 6/29 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
