Events on Friday, July 4
Friday 7/ 4 @ The Castro Theatre
The Castro celebrates Independence Day with a double-header of mad scientists and hackers. The Fouth of July bill features genre-founding sci-fi...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Elbo Room
This Mission District monthly keeps upping the ante with a stellar selection of guests. Following on the heels of last month's...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Rickshaw Stop
Loaded makes good on its motto ("Love Music. Fuck Genres.") by booking dance-music artists from every end of the spectrum. Brooklyn-based...
Ongoing Events
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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....
Friday 7/ 4 @ Ping Pong Gallery
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain...
Friday 7/ 4 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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,...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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....
Friday 7/ 4 @ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
In the vein of "holiday confidential" films like Bad Santa (2003) and Elf (2003), Matthiew Klinck's offbeat buddy comedy Hank and...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Silverman Gallery
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Friday 7/ 4 @ Mission Dolores Park
The OBIE and Tony award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe's latest foray into razor-sharp farce, Red State was penned by SFMT head...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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,...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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 —...
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Friday 7/ 4 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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....
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Friday 7/ 4 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
