All events on Tuesday July 08
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- Retribution Gospel Choir
- Tuesday July 8 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
- As the first wave of slowcore groups hits pay dirt with reunions and deluxe reissues, it's worth noting that Low are one of the few... View details »
- Film
- Playtime
- Tuesday July 8 (6 & 8:30pm) @ The Castro Theatre More times »
- Jacques Tati's jewel of a film gently skewers the mid-20th-century urban rat race. Tati's everyman, the loveable Monsieur Hulot, peregrinates through a Paris of sleek... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Tilly and the Wall
- Tuesday July 8 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
- Despite two albums of joyous indie pop, Omaha's Tilly and the Wall will likely always be known as "that band with a tap dancer instead... View details »
- Reading
- Alan Black
- Tuesday July 8 (7pm) @ Vesuvio Cafe
- Free
- Kick the Balls is Alan Black's first book, though San Francisco literati might already recognize him from his bartending post at Edinburgh Castle. (The... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
- Poets Picking Poets
- Tuesday July 8 (7pm) @ Rockit Room
- Free
- With Poets Picking Poets, local literary powerhouse McSweeney's tries its hand at releasing a poetry anthology, with fascinatingly novel results. In the "poet chain," poets... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
- Big Business
- Tuesday July 8 (9pm) @ 12 Galaxies
- Little more needs to be said about bass-and-drums trio Big Business beyond the fact that they're the official rhythm section for ancient stoner champions the... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Heroes & Villains
- Saturday July 12 (7–11pm) @ The Shooting Gallery More times »
- Free
- A collection of who's who in the alt-comic and street-art scenes adorns the walls tonight in a portrait series by photographers Tatiana Wills and Roman... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Tim Lee
- Tuesday July 8 (11am–7pm) @ 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
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 2nd Skin
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Art & Artifice
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- The Reggae Scrapbook
- Tuesday July 8 (noon–9pm) @ 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
- American Symbols
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Dykes on Bikes®
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Victory Gardens 2008+
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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
- Tuesday July 8 (9am–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
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- Art
- The Beast in Me
- Tuesday July 8 (6–9pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Windows on Nature
- Tuesday July 8 (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
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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: Photography
- Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- Art
- Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
- Tuesday July 8 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
