All events on Sunday September 07

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Performing Arts: Comedy
Sarah Silverman
Sunday Sep 7 (7:30pm) @ 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 to hold down their... View details »
Sarah Silverman
Music: Rock/Pop
Bodies of Water
Sunday Sep 7 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Giveaway
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 that holds the gospel,... View details »
Bodies of Water
Music: Folk/Country
Elizabeth Mitchell
Sunday Sep 7 (2:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Giveaway
The Smithsonian Folkways collection is full of children's music; Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly both released whole albums of lullabies and goofy sing-alongs; and They Might... View details »
Elizabeth Mitchell

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Art
Dale Chihuly
Sunday Sep 7 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
Dale Chihuly
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Sunday Sep 7 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
2nd Skin
Art
Frida Kahlo
Sunday Sep 7 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
Frida Kahlo
Art
Half-Life of a Dream
Sunday Sep 7 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
Half-Life of a Dream
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Sunday Sep 7 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
Trevor Paglen
More Flavor: Festival
Victory Gardens 2008+
Sunday Sep 7 @ City Hall More times »
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green activist Amy Franceschini joins... View details »
Victory Gardens 2008+
Art
Women Impressionists
Sunday Sep 7 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
Women Impressionists
Art: Photography
The Art of Lee Miller
Sunday Sep 7 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless... View details »
The Art of Lee Miller
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Sunday Sep 7 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
Ground Scores
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Sunday Sep 7 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
Bay Area Now 5
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Best Man
Sunday Sep 7 (2 & 7pm) @ Aurora Theatre More times »
It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the impending election inches closer.... View details »
The Best Man
Art
Shen Shaomin
Sunday Sep 7 (11am–5pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
Chinese artist Shen Shaomin uses mismatched groups of human and animal bones (some real, some cast in plaster) to form skeletal creatures that wouldn't look... View details »
Shen Shaomin
Art
Room for Thought
Sunday Sep 7 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
Room for Thought
More Flavor: Exhibition
Cool Globes
Sunday Sep 7 @ Crissy Field More times »
Free
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history have all happened since... View details »
Cool Globes
Performing Arts: Theatre
Ubu for President
Sunday Sep 7 (4pm) @ John Hinkel Park More times »
Free
With its infamous opening salvo ("Merdre!"), Alfred Jarry's vulgar, nonsensical satire of 19th-century despotism, Ubu Roi scandalized Parisian theatergoers upon its premiere. Ubu has frequently... View details »
Ubu for President
More Flavor: Festival
Hornucopia
Sunday Sep 7 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Just when you thought the summer — and consequently, the Bay Area's overstuffed calendar of music festivals — was winding down, along comes a blast... View details »
Hornucopia
Art
Kwatro-Kantos
Sunday Sep 7 (4–6pm) @ 21 Grand More times »
Free
Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of drinks — but this... View details »
Kwatro-Kantos
Art
Christine Shields
Sunday Sep 7 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
A musician, comic-book author, and freak-folk portraitist, Christine Shields evokes a fiercely personal vision of girlhood with pastel-colored, phantasmal paintings of sad-eyed girls before totemic... View details »
Christine Shields
Art
New Heaven
Sunday Sep 7 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop More times »
Free
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf Shop, then, is a... View details »
New Heaven
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
I Feel a Thong Coming On
Sunday Sep 7 (2pm) @ New Conservatory Theatre More times »
Tom Orr lives up to his billing as a star of comedy, cabaret, and porn by parodying show tunes in various states of dress and... View details »
I Feel a Thong Coming On
Performing Arts: Theatre
Colman Domingo
Sunday Sep 7 (8pm) @ Thick House More times »
Local showman Colman Domingo revives his 2005 hit, A Boy and His Soul, for Thick House's 20th-anniversary season. Domingo's tour of his Philadelphia childhood offers... View details »
Colman Domingo
Music: Festival
SF Electronic Music Festival
Sunday Sep 7 (7pm) @ Project Artaud Theater More times »
As described in David W. Bernstein's recent book, The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, San Francisco nurtured an experimental-music scene... View details »
SF Electronic Music Festival
Art
Rachel Kaye
Sunday Sep 7 (11am–10pm) @ Adobe Bookshop More times »
Free
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 as old as the... View details »
Rachel Kaye
More Flavor: Festival
Architecture and the City
Sunday Sep 7 @ Various locations More times »
Home to classic painted ladies, tree-lined hills, and recent prefab houses, San Francisco's landscape is distinct and ever-evolving. During the Architecture and the City Festival,... View details »
Architecture and the City
Art
It's Alright
Sunday Sep 7 (noon–7pm) @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery More times »
Free
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a whimsical effect that relies... View details »
It's Alright