Events on Monday, June 30

Chris Hedges: <em>Collateral Damage</em>

Special Event

Chris Hedges

Monday 6/30 @ World Affairs Center

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges brings his reporting acumen to bear on the oft-unspoken costs of the Iraq War in his... 

Bob Calhoun: <em>Beer, Blood & Cornmeal: Seven Years of Strange Wrestling</em>

Books: Reading

Bob Calhoun

Monday 6/30 @ Cody's Books

Bob Calhoun spent seven years of his life making San Francisco a little more bizarre with Incredibly Strange Wrestling — performance... 

Blind Boys of Alabama

Music

Blind Boys of Alabama

Monday 6/30 @ Yoshi's Oakland

The Blind Boys of Alabama may be hitting Yoshi's on a Monday evening, but it's a sure bet that they're bringing... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Savage Grace</em>

Film

Savage Grace

Monday 6/30 @ Landmark Embarcadero

Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... 

Creativity Explored presents <em>INsects INsectos</em>

Art

INsects INsectos

Monday 6/30 @ Creativity Explored

From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new... 

MOVE>SOUND: Soundwave>Series 3

Festival: Performing Arts

MOVE>SOUND

Monday 6/30 @ Various locations

Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco.... 

<em>American Symbols: From Lady Liberty to the Stars and Stripes</em>

Art

American Symbols

Monday 6/30 @ 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.... 

Leigh Wells

Art

Leigh Wells

Monday 6/30 @ Gallery 16

Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little... 

<em>Brick Lane</em>

Film

Brick Lane

Monday 6/30 @ 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... 

William T. Wiley: <em>Punball: Only One Earth</em>

Art

William T. Wiley

Monday 6/30 @ Electric Works

Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting... 

Thrillpeddlers present Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival

Theatre

Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival

Monday 6/30 @ Hypnodrome

Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay... 

<em>Hopeless and Otherwise</em>

Art

Hopeless and Otherwise

Monday 6/30 @ Southern Exposure

With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of... 

<em>'Tis Pity She's a Whore</em>

Theatre

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Monday 6/30 @ 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... 

<em>Frida Kahlo</em>

Art

Frida Kahlo

Monday 6/30 @ SFMOMA

The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led... 

<em>Encounters at the End of the World</em>

Film: Documentary

Encounters at the End of the World

Monday 6/30 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre

In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...