Events on Tuesday, July 1
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Books Inc.
Michelle Richmond strikes the perfect balance of rural past and urban present in her fiction. As a native of Alabama (and...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ The Independent
Call her the next British blue-eyed soul export if you want, but Alice Russell doesn't need a trademark look, tabloid troubles,...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Hemlock Tavern
Heavy Winged is the perfect name for this young band's maximalist, phantasmal thunder. They assume the shape of a traditional psychedelic...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Landmark Embarcadero
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Silverman Gallery
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Ping Pong Gallery
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Southern Exposure
With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ 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....
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Electric Works
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ 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
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ SF Camerawork
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...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ GLBT Historical Society
Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray,...
Encounters at the End of the World
Tuesday 7/ 1 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
