Events on Sunday, August 17
3rd Annual Lake Merritt Radio Regatta
Sunday 8/17 @ Lake Merritt Boating Center
Leave the iPod at home and hit up your local thrift store for a handheld transistor for this afternoon of pleasure...
Sunday 8/17 @ Cafe du Nord
Tonight's bill is so diverse that it might as well be called a variety show. One thing all three groups do...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 8/17 @ John Hinkel Park
With its infamous opening salvo ("Merdre!"), Alfred Jarry's vulgar, nonsensical satire of 19th-century despotism, Ubu Roi scandalized Parisian theatergoers upon its...
Sunday 8/17 @ Lumiere Theatre
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005), but this extraordinary documentary...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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 8/17 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Sunday 8/17 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Ron Stoner rode a wave of acclaim over mid-'60s SoCal beach culture, legendary for the vivid eye he brought to surf...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ New Conservatory Theatre
Tom Orr lives up to his billing as a star of comedy, cabaret, and porn by parodying show tunes in various...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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 8/17 @ 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 8/17 @ 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 8/17 @ New Langton Arts
Since 1998, the Thunderbird Theatre Company has produced original comedic plays with a literary and cinematic twist; its last two seasons...
Sunday 8/17 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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 8/17 @ 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 8/17 @ Fort Mason Center
As American artists find new avenues for their creativity — recycled materials and urban stories woven through tapestries, for instance —...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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 8/17 @ 21 Grand
Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of...
Sunday 8/17 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Sunday 8/17 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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 8/17 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Sunday 8/17 @ Red Vic
Last October 4th marked the beginning of "Sputnik Year," the 50th anniversary of the Soviet satellite's launch. The timing seems right...
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Sunday 8/17 @ Park Life
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a...
Sunday 8/17 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Sunday 8/17 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
