Events on Sunday, August 31
Sunday 8/31 @ Red Vic
When Arthur Lee died of leukemia in 2006, he left behind an ambiguous legacy. Depending on the obituary you read, he...
Sunday 8/31 @ Cafe du Nord
The West Coast has no shortage of pastorally inclined folk chanteuses, but Laura Gibson floats above the best of 'em. With...
Sunday 8/31 @ The Make-Out Room
Paula Frazer has lived in San Francisco for more than 20 years, but she still carries some of her native Georgia...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 8/31 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Sunday 8/31 @ Aurora Theatre
It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Sunday 8/31 @ 21 Grand
Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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,...
9 @ Night: Cinema of the Forgotten
Sunday 8/31 @ Roxie Theater
Rob Nilsson has always been a fiercely independent filmmaker, but his 9 @ Night series takes his maverick spirit to another...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Triple Base
A musician, comic-book author, and freak-folk portraitist, Christine Shields evokes a fiercely personal vision of girlhood with pastel-colored, phantasmal paintings of...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Various locations
Slow Food — a vital cultural movement that challenges people's relationship with the food they eat — gears up for the...
Sunday 8/31 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Sunday 8/31 @ Adobe Bookshop
In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is...
Sunday 8/31 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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...
