Events on Wednesday, July 2
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Hypnodrome
Proving that terror is truly cinema's lingua franca, Dead Channels continues its White Hot 'N' Warped Wednesdays screening series with Pakistani...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
Though Gilberto Gil now splits his time between music and a day job as Brazil's Minister of Culture, he wasn't always...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
The mandolin's been popping up in the Bay Area a lot lately — first with the International Festival of the Mandolins,...
Ongoing Events
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Landmark Embarcadero
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Silverman Gallery
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Electric Works
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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,...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Southern Exposure
With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Encounters at the End of the World
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
