All events on Saturday July 05
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- Fillmore Jazz Festival
- Saturday July 5 (10am–6pm) @ Fillmore St btwn Jackson & Eddy Sts More times »
- Free
- The Fillmore district got a boost with the opening of Yoshi's, but not without a cost: like much of San Francisco, the Fillmore is now... View details »
- Film
- Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
- Saturday July 5 @ SFMOMA More times »
- Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy — Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1949), and The Testament of Orpheus (1959) — spans... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Los Rakas
- Saturday July 5 (10pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
- Giveaway
- After six months and a few location swaps, the monthly Tormenta party series has finally established itself as a booty-shaking hotspot, featuring emerging cumbia, electro,... View details »
- Film
- Some Like It Hot
- Saturday July 5 (6:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
- Giveaway
- You may have rented Billy Wilder's timeless cross-dressing caper a million times, but if you haven't enjoyed it on the big screen, here's your chance... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Gits
- Saturday July 5 (9:30pm) @ Uptown Nightclub
- In the early '90s, Seattle outfit the Gits were rising stars in the Northwest punk scene — thanks in no small part to the ferocious... View details »
- Art
- Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
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- Art
- Tim Lee
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Saturday July 5 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ 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
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Saturday July 5 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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
- The Reggae Scrapbook
- Saturday July 5 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
- Free
- The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and archives, award-winning photographer Peter... View details »
- Art
- Portals
- Saturday July 5 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
- Free
- This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife, Jen Stark carves stacks... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Saturday July 5 (11am–5pm) @ 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: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
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- Birth of the Cool
- Saturday July 5 (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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- Dykes on Bikes®
- Saturday July 5 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
- Free
- Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade. The GLBT Historical... View details »
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- Victory Gardens 2008+
- Saturday July 5 @ 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
- Leigh Wells
- Saturday July 5 (11am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times »
- Free
- Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Tammy Rae Carland
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Saturday July 5 (1–6pm) @ 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 »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Saturday July 5 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Soft Underbelly Recognition
- Saturday July 5 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery More times »
- Free
- In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition — a group exhibition that... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- Saturday July 5 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- San Francisco Mime Troupe
- Saturday July 5 (2pm) @ Mission Dolores Park More times »
- Free
- The OBIE and Tony award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe's latest foray into razor-sharp farce, Red State was penned by SFMT head writer Michael Gene Sullivan.... View details »
- Art: Festival
- MOVE>SOUND
- Saturday July 5 @ 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
- Saturday July 5 (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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- A Complicated Dominion
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
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- The Beast in Me
- Saturday July 5 (11am–5pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
- Free
- While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man,"... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- Saturday July 5 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
- Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael Hayden and René Augesen's... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Windows on Nature
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Hank and Mike
- Saturday July 5 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
- Giveaway
- In the vein of "holiday confidential" films like Bad Santa (2003) and Elf (2003), Matthiew Klinck's offbeat buddy comedy Hank and Mike offers a sweet,... View details »
- Art
- Kiki
- Saturday July 5 (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
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Saturday July 5 @ 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
- We Remember the Sun
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
