Events on Tuesday, September 2
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Craig Baldwin's conspiracy films exist in the blurry boundaries between collage, mashup, and crackpot lecture. The San Francisco State alumnus and...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Great American Music Hall
When Nada Surf wrote the jokey 1990s teen anthem "Popular," they never could have imagined the roller-coaster ride that would ensue....
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Bottom of the Hill
While a drum-and-keyboard combo may seem small on paper, food-fighting duo Matt & Kim's giddy alt-punk is bigger than it has...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Rickshaw Stop
After a few albums of post-punk manqué, Brooklyn trio Oxford Collapse shattered expectations with 2006's Remember the Night Parties. Sounding more...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ White Walls Gallery
Cleon Peterson's multipanel works depict violent urban scenes in black acrylic and hot pink enamel, bringing the seedy underworld of the...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Red Vic
Jean-Luc Godard's spirited feature Pierrot le Fou is considered by some to be his greatest achievement. Fleeing a dull bourgeois party,...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Various locations
Home to classic painted ladies, tree-lined hills, and recent prefab houses, San Francisco's landscape is distinct and ever-evolving. During the Architecture...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
9 @ Night: Cinema of the Forgotten
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Roxie Theater
Rob Nilsson has always been a fiercely independent filmmaker, but his 9 @ Night series takes his maverick spirit to another...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
In his biopic of
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Glama-Rama Salon
Winston Smith's dense, darkly playful collages are Boschian panoramas of our consumer society. Smith wasn't the first punk to pick up...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
