All events on Friday July 25
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- Dizzee Rascal
- Friday July 25 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
- Fresh off the Def Jux release of his tech-rap album Maths + English, UK grime mastermind Dizzee Rascal brings his introspective rhymes and tricky electro... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- The Black Ghosts
- Friday July 25 (10pm) @ Mighty
- Giveaway
- The Black Ghosts are vocalist Simon Lord and ex-Wiseguys DJ Theo Keating. Lord isn't a familiar name, but, unless you've been trapped in a panic... View details »
- Film
- Harold and Maude
- Friday July 25 (7:15 & 9:15pm) @ Red Vic More times »
- "If you want to be free, be free...," but if you want to see one of the 1970s' quirkiest classics, see Hal Ashby's Harold and... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Brainwash Movie Festival
- Friday July 25 (9pm) @ Mandela Village Arts Center More times »
- The Brainwash Festival assembles an eclectic program of shorts, with screenings that range from humorous stop-motion films to quirky mini-documentaries. One highlight is the door... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Does It Offend You, Yeah?
- Friday July 25 (9pm) @ 330 Ritch
- After scoring gigs opening for Bloc Party and raunchy Tampa girl-rappers Yo Majesty, it's finally time for Does It Offend You, Yeah? to run the... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
- Friday July 25 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
- Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), but to many... View details »
- Film
- My Winnipeg
- Friday July 25 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Friday July 25 (12:20, 2:50, 3:45, 6:45, 8:40 & 9:40pm) @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
- For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
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- Art
- Tim Lee
- Friday July 25 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
- Free
- Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
- Art
- Dale Chihuly
- Friday July 25 (9:30am–8:45pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
- Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
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- 2nd Skin
- Friday July 25 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
- With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
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- Art & Artifice
- Friday July 25 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
- Free
- Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
- Art
- Frida Kahlo
- Friday July 25 (10am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- Friday July 25 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
- After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
- Art
- American Symbols
- Friday July 25 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
- Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
- Art
- Half-Life of a Dream
- Friday July 25 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- Friday July 25 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
- Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lorca Summer Festival
- Friday July 25 (8pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
- Giveaway
- Prolific artist, poet, and dramatist Federico García Lorca was both gifted and deeply tortured; he was only able to express his inner turmoil through his... View details »
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- Birth of the Cool
- Friday July 25 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
- Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
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- Victory Gardens 2008+
- Friday July 25 @ City Hall More times »
- During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green activist Amy Franceschini joins... View details »
- Art
- Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
- Friday July 25 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
- Free
- When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually became a generation's time... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Tammy Rae Carland
- Friday July 25 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
- Free
- It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann Cvetkovich's lauded book. Between... View details »
- Art
- INsects INsectos
- Friday July 25 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
- Free
- From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
- Art
- Timothy Cummings
- Friday July 25 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery More times »
- Free
- Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and soaking up the Spanish... View details »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Friday July 25 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
- ... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
- Art
- Women Impressionists
- Friday July 25 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
- Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Art of Lee Miller
- Friday July 25 (10am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- Friday July 25 @ Hypnodrome More times »
- Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
- Art: Festival
- MOVE>SOUND
- Friday July 25 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
- Art: Photography
- New American Fables
- Friday July 25 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
- Free
- Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic narratives rarely end with... View details »
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- Ground Scores
- Friday July 25 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
- Art
- A Complicated Dominion
- Friday July 25 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
- Free
- When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
- Art
- Bay Area Now 5
- Friday July 25 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
- Giveaway
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
- Art
- Insider/Outsider
- Friday July 25 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division More times »
- Free
- Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- North Beach Jazz Fest
- Friday July 25 @ Various locations More times »
- Although NIMBYs had the North Beach Jazz Fest marked for extinction, the summer institution has persevered, adding four new evening shows and new venues to... View details »
- Art
- Open for Business
- Friday July 25 (5–8pm) @ Triple Base More times »
- Free
- Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
- Art
- Radialvedic
- Friday July 25 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
- Free
- With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the three artists here work... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Windows on Nature
- Friday July 25 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
- Free
- With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Friday July 25 @ Various locations More times »
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
- Art
- Hum
- Friday July 25 (2–5pm) @ Project Artaud Theater More times »
- Free
- The drone moves across a remarkable spread of human activity, from religious chanting and doom metal to the whir of white noise. For Hum,... View details »
- Art
- Jennifer Merrill
- Friday July 25 @ Iceberger Gallery More times »
- Free
- Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting... View details »
- Art
- Kiki
- Friday July 25 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
- Free
- As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
- Friday July 25 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
- 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 Drapeau's two controversial tenures.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- What You Will
- Friday July 25 (8pm) @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
- Roger Rees has a decidedly multifaceted career. Stateside, he's best known for slapstick roles like the snooty-yet-sexy Robin Colcord on Cheers, or the tongue-in-cheek Sheriff... View details »
- Art
- Ted Pushinsky
- Friday July 25 (10am–10pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter More times »
- Free
- Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls to boxing rings to... View details »
- Art
- Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
- Friday July 25 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
- Free
- While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are paired, Maria Antelman's coupling... View details »
- Art
- Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
- Friday July 25 (noon–9pm) @ Park Life More times »
- Free
- Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a deeper unease. Inspired by... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
- Friday July 25 (8am–8pm) @ City Hall More times »
- Free
- As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working in a range of... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Jewish Film Festival
- Friday July 25 @ Various locations More times »
- With movies set in locations around the world, this year's SF Jewish Film Festival could easily double as an international film fest. The 28th edition... View details »
- Art
- Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
- Friday July 25 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
- Free
- After having spent the last few generations ridding themselves of modernism's pungent aftertaste, the art world's contemporary painters are finally up to the task of... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Friday July 25 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
- Art
- Room for Thought
- Friday July 25 (10am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
- Art
- Mariah Johnson
- Friday July 25 (1–6pm) @ The Lab More times »
- Free
- Mariah Johnson's installations re-envision household order as natural phenomena, draping and wrapping bed linens over chairs, walls, and floors in ways that twist the familiar... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Bicycle Film Festival
- Friday July 25 @ Various locations More times »
- Now cycling through 17 cities worldwide, the Bicycle Film Festival screens some of the year's finest two-wheeler films — music videos, documentary shorts, and brief... View details »
- Art
- Fanee
- Friday July 25 (noon–7pm) @ The Shooting Gallery More times »
- Free
- Fanee's Holla at the Bay is a provocative portrayal of female objectification and sexuality that leaves little to the imagination. Two-dozen postcard-sized marker drawings depict... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Chris & Don: A Love Story
- Friday July 25 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
- The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer Christopher Isherwood (his Berlin... View details »
- Art
- Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
- Friday July 25 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
- Free
- Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and embroiders the headline images,... View details »
- Art
- We Remember the Sun
- Friday July 25 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
- Free
- Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
