Events on Wednesday, September 3
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Rickshaw Stop
Gravelly-voiced singer Will Johnson must love the name game. The Texan once released a home recording as Centro-matic entitled South San...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Hemlock Tavern
Olympia's Desolation Wilderness once titled an EP In Love with Anything. The title's an appropriate description of how you might feel...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Aurora Theatre
It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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,...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Project Artaud Theater
As described in David W. Bernstein's recent book, The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, San Francisco...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Roxie Theater
Rob Nilsson has always been a fiercely independent filmmaker, but his 9 @ Night series takes his maverick spirit to another...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
In his biopic of
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Thick House
Local showman Colman Domingo revives his 2005 hit, A Boy and His Soul, for Thick House's 20th-anniversary season. Domingo's tour of...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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...
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
