Events on Sunday, July 20
Sunday 7/20 @ 111 Minna Gallery
One stop on a party tour organized by GOOD magazine, this neighborhood get-down gives you the chance to have fun and...
Sunday 7/20 @ Diesel, A Bookstore
Though still best known for his short-story collections (Emperor of the Air, The Palace Thief), Ethan Canin is also an accomplished...
Sunday 7/20 @ Mission Dolores Park
The San Francisco Symphony offers a perfect picnic opportunity with this afternoon's free outdoor concert. Members of the orchestra demonstrate their...
Sunday 7/20 @ Perbacco
The magazines Gastronomica and Meatpaper throw a scrumptious party to extol the joys of cooking without guilt. Hosted at Perbacco, which...
Sunday 7/20 @ Sigmund Stern Grove
Alonzo King's company infuses modern dance and ballet with other traditions and techniques. This spirit of cross-pollination invigorates the company's contributions...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 7/20 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Sunday 7/20 @ Landmark Embarcadero
The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer...
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Sunday 7/20 @ Park Life
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a...
Sunday 7/20 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Sunday 7/20 @ Roxie Theater
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of...
Sunday 7/20 @ Various locations
While the Mission Creek Festival rocks San Francisco, Heeb magazine gives East Bay folks a good reason to stay put with...
Sunday 7/20 @ Triple Base
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within....
Sunday 7/20 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Sunday 7/20 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Sunday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena film programmer Joel Shepard snags another unusual US premiere. This one is a documentary tone poem set in a...
Sunday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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....
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Sunday 7/20 @ 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....
Sunday 7/20 @ SFMOMA
It's notable enough when art-addled architects redirect their creative attention to the natural world — think Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house,...
Sunday 7/20 @ 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,...
Sunday 7/20 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Sunday 7/20 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the...
Sunday 7/20 @ Various locations
Although NIMBYs had the North Beach Jazz Fest marked for extinction, the summer institution has persevered, adding four new evening shows...
Sunday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Sunday 7/20 @ 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,...
Sunday 7/20 @ American Conservatory Theater
Roger Rees has a decidedly multifaceted career. Stateside, he's best known for slapstick roles like the snooty-yet-sexy Robin Colcord on Cheers,...
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Sunday 7/20 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
Sunday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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...
Sunday 7/20 @ 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....
Sunday 7/20 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival
Sunday 7/20 @ Various locations
Noise Pop gets more buzz and Outside Lands nabs the big names, but the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival still...
Sunday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ Various locations
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael...
