Events on Sunday, September 7
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Cafe du Nord
The Smithsonian Folkways collection is full of children's music; Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly both released whole albums of lullabies and goofy...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
Sarah Silverman goes where others fear to tread, performing take-no-prisoners standup routines that regularly make audiences split their sides (or struggle...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Bottom of the Hill
Bodies of Water's crazy patchwork of musical touchstones shouldn't really work, but the Los Angeles group's sky-scraping enthusiasm is the glue...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations
Just when you thought the summer — and consequently, the Bay Area's overstuffed calendar of music festivals — was winding down,...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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,...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 21 Grand
Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Chinese artist Shen Shaomin uses mismatched groups of human and animal bones (some real, some cast in plaster) to form skeletal...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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...
