All events on Saturday August 02

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Music: Rock/Pop
Tara Jane O'Neil
Saturday Aug 2 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Giveaway
Even by indie-rock standards, Tara Jane O'Neil (formerly of Rodan and the Sonora Pine) has kept a low profile. She has spent years quietly putting... View details »
Tara Jane O'Neil
Music: Punk/Metal
Yaphet Kotto
Saturday Aug 2 (7:30pm) @ 924 Gilman
Screamo hasn't been the same since Santa Cruz's Yaphet Kotto broke up in 2005 (although stoner metal got a little better, as members went on... View details »
Yaphet Kotto
Music: Punk/Metal
Boris
Saturday Aug 2 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
Boris rattle the brain harder than any flag-waving, metal-zone-stomping, B.C. Rich-tapping good ol' boys ever could. The Japanese doom lords are just heavy in a... View details »
Boris
More Flavor: Party
Soul Slam 2
Saturday Aug 2 (9pm–4am) @ Mezzanine
The Soul Slam party has been turning dance floors into sweaty booty-traps since 1999, and now it's time to party like it's that fateful year... View details »
Soul Slam 2
Film
Shoot the Piano Player
Saturday Aug 2 (6:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
François Truffaut followed The 400 Blows (1959) with this affectionate homage to the American detective film. The source material is David Goodis' novel... View details »
Shoot the Piano Player
Performing Arts: Theatre
Ubu for President
Saturday Aug 2 (4pm) @ John Hinkel Park More times »
Free
With its infamous opening salvo ("Merdre!"), Alfred Jarry's vulgar, nonsensical satire of 19th-century despotism, Ubu Roi scandalized Parisian theatergoers upon its premiere. Ubu has frequently... View details »
Ubu for President

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Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Tim Lee
Art
Dale Chihuly
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Dale Chihuly
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
2nd Skin
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Saturday Aug 2 (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 & Artifice
Art
Frida Kahlo
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Frida Kahlo
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Art
American Symbols
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
American Symbols
Art
Half-Life of a Dream
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Half-Life of a Dream
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Trevor Paglen
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lorca Summer Festival
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Lorca Summer Festival
More Flavor: Exhibition
Birth of the Cool
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Birth of the Cool
More Flavor: Festival
Victory Gardens 2008+
Saturday Aug 2 @ 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 »
Victory Gardens 2008+
Art
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Art
INsects INsectos
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
INsects INsectos
Art
Timothy Cummings
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–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 »
Timothy Cummings
More Flavor: Exhibition
Superstition Obstacle Course
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Superstition Obstacle Course
Art
Women Impressionists
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Women Impressionists
Art: Photography
The Art of Lee Miller
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
The Art of Lee Miller
Art: Festival
MOVE>SOUND
Saturday Aug 2 @ 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 »
MOVE>SOUND
Art: Photography
New American Fables
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
New American Fables
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Saturday Aug 2 @ 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 »
Ground Scores
Art
A Complicated Dominion
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
A Complicated Dominion
Film
The Exiles
Saturday Aug 2 (2:30, 4:15, 6, 8 & 9:45pm) @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Milestone Films recently scored a surprise hit with a restoration of Charles Burnett's 1977 film Killer of Sheep. The company hopes lightning strikes twice... View details »
The Exiles
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Bay Area Now 5
Music: Global
Kronos Quartet
Saturday Aug 2 (8pm) @ Novellus Theater More times »
Kronos Quartet may be best known for their incendiary version of "Purple Haze" and high-profile collaborations with everyone from Steve Reich to Nine Inch Nails,... View details »
Kronos Quartet
Art
Open for Business
Saturday Aug 2 (noon–5pm) @ 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 »
Open for Business
Art
Radialvedic
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Radialvedic
Art: Photography
Windows on Nature
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Windows on Nature
Film
The Wackness
Saturday Aug 2 @ 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 »
The Wackness
Music: Rock/Pop
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Saturday Aug 2 (10pm) @ Bottom of the Hill More times »
Sold Out!
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Art
Hum
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Hum
Film
Angel of Fire
Saturday Aug 2 @ SFMOMA More times »
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit — forms a composite... View details »
Angel of Fire
Art
Kiki
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Kiki
Art: Photography
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Performing Arts: Theatre
What You Will
Saturday Aug 2 (3 & 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 »
What You Will
Art
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Art
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Film: Festival
Jewish Film Festival
Saturday Aug 2 @ 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 »
Jewish Film Festival
Art
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Art
Room for Thought
Saturday Aug 2 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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 »
Room for Thought
Art
Mariah Johnson
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Mariah Johnson
Film: Documentary
1000 Journals
Saturday Aug 2 (2:30, 4:45, 7 & 8:50pm) @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
About eight years ago, a San Francisco artist named Someguy labeled 1,000 blank notebooks with instructions: add a drawing, story, confession, or anything else to... View details »
1000 Journals
Art
Fanee
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Fanee
Film
Before I Forget
Saturday Aug 2 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
Growing old has long been a stereotypical bugaboo for gay men. Thankfully, there are filmmakers like Jacques Nolot, whose semi-autobiographical Before I Forget is an... View details »
Before I Forget
Art
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
Brideshead Revisited
Art
We Remember the Sun
Saturday Aug 2 (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 »
 We Remember the Sun