All events on Friday August 22
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- Outside Lands Festival
- Friday Aug 22 @ Golden Gate Park More times »
- The good folks at Another Planet Entertainment seem to have found the perfect formula for a music festival: a full weekend of beautiful vistas mixed... View details »
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- Graphic Content T-Shirt Show
- Friday Aug 22 (8pm–2am) @ Space Gallery More times »
- Free
- In its fourth year, this group show of wearable art continues to be a popular outlet for local creative types, receiving submissions from hundreds of... View details »
- Film
- It Came from Outer Space
- Friday Aug 22 (7:15 & 9:15pm) @ Red Vic More times »
- In 1953, not much was niftier than a 3-D movie about an alien invasion. That's still pretty much the case, so be sure to check... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War
- Friday Aug 22 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access
- In the halcyon days of 2003, the streets seethed with enough peacemongering fervor that it seemed we could forestall bloodshed in Iraq. One of San... View details »
- Music: DJ
- A-Trak
- Friday Aug 22 (11pm) @ 330 Ritch
- After winning the DMC DJ Championships at age 15, A-Trak embarked on a meteoric rise that continues to this day. The Montreal native has manned... View details »
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- Art
- Tim Lee
- Friday Aug 22 (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
- Friday Aug 22 (9:30am–8:45pm) @ 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
- Friday Aug 22 (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
- Friday Aug 22 (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
- Friday Aug 22 (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
- Half-Life of a Dream
- Friday Aug 22 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- Friday Aug 22 (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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- Victory Gardens 2008+
- Friday Aug 22 @ 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
- Timothy Cummings
- Friday Aug 22 (10:30am–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 »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Friday Aug 22 (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
- Friday Aug 22 (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
- Friday Aug 22 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- New American Fables
- Friday Aug 22 (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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- Ground Scores
- Friday Aug 22 @ 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 »
- Art
- Bay Area Now 5
- Friday Aug 22 (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 »
- Art
- Radialvedic
- Friday Aug 22 (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 »
- Art
- Banned and Recovered
- Friday Aug 22 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book More times »
- Free
- In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of schools, libraries, and the... View details »
- Film
- Angel of Fire
- Friday Aug 22 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
- Friday Aug 22 (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: Photography
- Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
- Friday Aug 22 (8am–8pm) @ City Hall More times »
- Free
- As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working in a range of... View details »
- Art
- Room for Thought
- Friday Aug 22 (10am–5:45pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Tasty
- Friday Aug 22 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
- Free
- The artists featured in this exhibit pay tribute to the food we eat with a delicious array of colors and textures, as well as a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Pride and Succubus
- Friday Aug 22 (8pm) @ New Langton Arts More times »
- Giveaway
- Since 1998, the Thunderbird Theatre Company has produced original comedic plays with a literary and cinematic twist; its last two seasons featured Release the Kraken,... View details »
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- Cool Globes
- Friday Aug 22 @ Crissy Field More times »
- Free
- Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history have all happened since... View details »
- Art
- The Montage Art of Winston Smith
- Friday Aug 22 (10am–6pm) @ Glama-Rama Salon More times »
- Free
- Winston Smith's dense, darkly playful collages are Boschian panoramas of our consumer society. Smith wasn't the first punk to pick up a razor blade and... View details »
- Art
- Clare Haggarty and Andrew Tosiello
- Friday Aug 22 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery More times »
- Free
- Anyone who caught CCA's last MFA show knows that Andrew Tosiello's work — in particular, his texts that recast the artist-buyer relationship as one steeped... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Emo! The Musical
- Friday Aug 22 (8pm) @ The Boxcar Playhouse More times »
- Revenge of the Nerds meets High School Musical in this musical satire of sad-sack teens with angular hair cuts. The underdogs in Joey Price's silly... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Ron Stoner Show
- Friday Aug 22 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop More times »
- Free
- Ron Stoner rode a wave of acclaim over mid-'60s SoCal beach culture, legendary for the vivid eye he brought to surf photography. Curls and pipelines,... View details »
- Art
- Kill Pixie and Cleon Peterson
- Friday Aug 22 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery More times »
- Free
- Cleon Peterson's multipanel works depict violent urban scenes in black acrylic and hot pink enamel, bringing the seedy underworld of the inner city to the... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Man on Wire
- Friday Aug 22 (12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 & 9:35pm) @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
- In 1968, a French teen named Philippe Petit sat in a dentist's office reading a magazine that featured the plans for what would become NYC's... View details »
- Music: Soul/R&B
- The Shirelles
- Friday Aug 22 (8pm) @ The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko More times »
- ... e oldies circuit has always been a gamble. You had the ringers in the Drifters (without any original members) legally touring under that... View details »
- Art
- Kwatro-Kantos
- Friday Aug 22 (4–6pm) @ 21 Grand More times »
- Free
- Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of drinks — but this... View details »
- Art
- We Remember the Sun
- Friday Aug 22 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- I Feel a Thong Coming On
- Friday Aug 22 (8pm) @ New Conservatory Theatre More times »
- Tom Orr lives up to his billing as a star of comedy, cabaret, and porn by parodying show tunes in various states of dress and... View details »
