Events on Thursday, October 1
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Phyllis Wattis Theater
You don't have to be a balletomane to appreciate Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Technicolor wonder The Red Shoes, but you...
GAFFTA Grand Opening Celebration
Thursday 10/ 1 @ GAFFTA
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts — which is set to become an exiciting new locus for digital culture in the...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Independent
When King of the Sad Sacks David Bazan hung up his beloved Pedro the Lion moniker, armies of sensitive indie rockers...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Slim's
Norwegian duo Datarock cite Devo as one of their main influences, as if it weren't obvious. (They wear matching sci-fi jumpsuits...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
Part police procedural, part postmodern ghost story, Doug Dorst's darkly funny debut novel Alive in Necropolis has been rightfully hailed as...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 10/ 1 @ David Brower Center
Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Fort Mason Center
Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Shotwell 50 Studios
One of the 20th century's most recognizable, beloved, and debated icons (and her genital-less beau) gets made over by more than...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Gallery Paule Anglim
Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Off-Market Theater
Actor and writer Jennifer Jajeh is many things: single, a Christian, and a first generation Palestinian American. She's also incredibly funny....
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 10/ 1 @ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Hayes Valley Park
The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 499 Castro St
One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ American Conservatory Theater
Teaming up with ACT, England's Kneehigh Theatre smashes the fourth wall and then reconstructs it as a video screen in their...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Local punks-turned-multi-platinum-Grammy-winners Green Day are returning to their Berkeley stomping grounds, but not how you'd expect. Collaborating with Spring Awakening director...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth's art plays off of science's tendency to make the world endlessly sub-divisible. What Michael Pollan...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Altman Siegel Gallery
A few swabs of glorious color, a firm line or three, and voila, a magnificent bird or a wide-eyed deer appear...
Dario Argento's Three Mothers Trilogy
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
YBCA presents a complete run of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's theatrically nightmarish Three Mother's Trilogy. Technicolor fever dream Suspria (1977),...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ San Francisco Public Library
The Sex Pistols may have imploded after their notorious final show at SF's now-defunct Winterland Ballroom, but the city's own punk...
Textiles Program Annual Student Exhibition
Thursday 10/ 1 @ California College of the Arts
North/South Galleries, Oakland campus
5241 College Avenue
Oakland CA 94618 Reception: Wed., Sept. 30, 5:30–7:30 p.m. Graduate and undergraduate...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ California College of the Arts
Reception: Tues., Sept. 22, 6:30–8:30 p.m. An eclectic group of 32 international artists, including Damián Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska,...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ California College of the Arts
Irwin Student Center, Oakland campus
5212 Broadway
Reception: Wednesday, September 30 from 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Work from Richard Elliott’s spring...
