Events on Saturday, September 20
Saturday 9/20 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
The San Francisco Center for the Book throws its annual daylong street festival which transforms Potrero Hill into a supersize printmaking...
Saturday 9/20 @ Kellys Mission Rock
Billed as "a love story about dreams gone wrong," Zig Zag recalls the heyday of Hollywood. Told in rhythm, rhyme, and...
Saturday 9/20 @ The Make-Out Room
This installment of the Progressive Reading Series runs the gamut of literary genres, from twisted children's tales to heady historical fiction....
Saturday 9/20 @ Mezzanine
Despite two albums of joyous indie pop, Omaha's Tilly and the Wall will likely always be known as "that band with...
Saturday 9/20 @ Zellerbach Hall
Since his first "Back in Black" segments appeared on the Daily Show nearly a decade ago, Lewis Black has perfected his...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ American Conservatory Theater
Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge,...
Saturday 9/20 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Saturday 9/20 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf...
Saturday 9/20 @ Needles & Pens
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an...
Saturday 9/20 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Indonesian director Garin Nugroho's sumptuous retelling of "The Abduction of Sita" — an episode from Hindu epic The Ramayana — employs...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Saturday 9/20 @ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...
Treasure Island Music Festival
Saturday 9/20 @ Treasure Island
For the second year in a row, the Treasure Island Music Festival promises two days and nights of well-curated music to...
Saturday 9/20 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Saturday 9/20 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Chinese artist Shen Shaomin uses mismatched groups of human and animal bones (some real, some cast in plaster) to form skeletal...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Saturday 9/20 @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a...
Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival
Saturday 9/20 @ Various locations
This week, the eclectic MPTF celebrates oddball musical instruments and the musicians who build and play them. Recent participants include innovative...
Saturday 9/20 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Saturday 9/20 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Saturday 9/20 @ Aurora Theatre
It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the...
Saturday 9/20 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Saturday 9/20 @ SF Camerawork
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Saturday 9/20 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York...
Saturday 9/20 @ The Warfield
After 14 albums, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are still evolving and making great music. Each of their records is...
Saturday 9/20 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and...
Saturday 9/20 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 9/20 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...
Saturday 9/20 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ White Walls Gallery
Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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,...
Saturday 9/20 @ David Cunningham Projects
The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition...
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
Saturday 9/20 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
Filmmaker and grind-house institution Ted V. Mikels has said, "Anywhere somebody will fund my movies, I'll go." Mikels' mercenary attitude towards...
