Events on Saturday, July 12
Saturday 7/12 @ Bridge Theatre
Jane Fonda stars in then-husband Roger Vadim's adaptation of a '60s underground French comic book. Between purity-endangering adventures (all on her...
The Mortified Guide to Love, Sex & Death
Saturday 7/12 @ JCC East Bay
Ah, the '90s: the time of tapered pants, Mr. Bungle, and the parade of literary shame known as Mortified. These ongoing...
Saturday 7/12 @ Great American Music Hall
There's intelligent dance music, and then there's intelligent dance music. Since 1998's quasi-objects LP, which exclusively relied on found sounds, Matmos...
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Showcase
Saturday 7/12 @ Bottom of the Hill
The Girls Rock Camp Alliance, founded in Portland and now spanning the globe from Austin to Sweden, has a new local...
Saturday 7/12 @ Artists' Television Access
Early movie audiences in Japan expected silent films to be accompanied by both music and live narration performed by a...
Saturday 7/12 @ Various locations
This plan-it-yourself tour of some of San Francisco's mechanical treasures is sure to appeal to steampunks, Popular Mechanics readers, Burning Man...
Saturday 7/12 @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
While many would cite a love of the game, the thrill of competition, or health benefits as reasons to play sports,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/12 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Mose Allison has lived in New York since 1956, but his smoky piano blues still bear the imprint of the Mississippi...
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Saturday 7/12 @ Jack Fischer Gallery
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and...
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Saturday 7/12 @ Landmark Embarcadero
The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style....
Saturday 7/12 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Saturday 7/12 @ 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...
Saturday 7/12 @ The Shooting Gallery
A collection of who's who in the alt-comic and street-art scenes adorns the walls tonight in a portrait series by photographers...
Saturday 7/12 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Saturday 7/12 @ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...
Saturday 7/12 @ Iceberger Gallery
Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than...
Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
Saturday 7/12 @ SFMOMA
Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy — Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1949), and The Testament of Orpheus...
Saturday 7/12 @ 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....
Saturday 7/12 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With...
Saturday 7/12 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Saturday 7/12 @ 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...
Saturday 7/12 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Saturday 7/12 @ Silverman Gallery
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann...
Saturday 7/12 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Saturday 7/12 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are...
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
Saturday 7/12 @ Roxie Theater
It's tempting to curse San Francisco's notoriously frigid summers. But in the evenings, when you're huddled against a pungent BBQ blaze...
Saturday 7/12 @ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...
Saturday 7/12 @ 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...
Saturday 7/12 @ Triple Base
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within....
Saturday 7/12 @ 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...
Saturday 7/12 @ 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...
Saturday 7/12 @ Frey Norris Gallery
With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns....
Saturday 7/12 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Saturday 7/12 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Whether you're crazy for leather, proudly polyamorous, or you just like to watch, CineKink's popular, perverse film series educates while it...
Saturday 7/12 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Saturday 7/12 @ Little Tree Gallery
In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition —...
Saturday 7/12 @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls...
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Saturday 7/12 @ Jancar Jones Gallery
After having spent the last few generations ridding themselves of modernism's pungent aftertaste, the art world's contemporary painters are finally up...
Saturday 7/12 @ 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,...
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Saturday 7/12 @ Marx & Zavattero
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually...
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Saturday 7/12 @ The Castro Theatre
After opening with Harold Lloyd's classic comedy The Kid Brother (1927), the 13th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival packs 11...
Saturday 7/12 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
Sue Daly was just looking for a way to sell her adorable, nature-inspired jewelry when she decided to organize a fair...
Saturday 7/12 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Saturday 7/12 @ 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...
Saturday 7/12 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Saturday 7/12 @ Root Division
Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors...
Saturday 7/12 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Saturday 7/12 @ 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...
Saturday 7/12 @ 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,...
Saturday 7/12 @ Ping Pong Gallery
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain...
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Saturday 7/12 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
