Events on Saturday, October 17
Saturday 10/17 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Because of their inherent amateurism, home movies have an ineffable quality that transcends the banality of the events they record as...
Saturday 10/17 @ Fox Theater
What started out as a series of pick-up gigs between friends has blossomed into a full-on 2 1/2 hour musical event...
Saturday 10/17 @ SFMOMA
When poet F.T. Marinetti published The Futurist Cookbook in Milan in 1932, he roundly rejected Italian culinary tradition (read pasta) for...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
"Underground films with a sexy touch," is how director Koji Wakamatsu once described — albeit with much understatement — his late...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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....
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ Castle in the Air
You can thank the Victorians for the continuing source of horror and fascination that is the photography of Anne Geddes. OK,...
Treasure Island Music Festival
Saturday 10/17 @ Treasure Island
Three years into the game, the Treasure Island Music Festival has defined itself as the hipper, younger sibling of Outside Lands,...
Saturday 10/17 @ The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko
She's baaaack. In case you missed the revival of her1989 hit show Without You I'm Nothing back in January, legendarily outspoken...
Saturday 10/17 @ Various locations
For four weekends every year, San Franciscans get to experience art in its wild, untamed state — not as finished work...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Saturday 10/17 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ Various locations
Part police procedural, part postmodern ghost story, Doug Dorst's darkly funny debut novel Alive in Necropolis has been rightfully hailed as...
Saturday 10/17 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ Stage Werx
Everybody needs someone to love — even man-made monsters who wreak havoc upon a cold, unforgiving world. In Bride of Frankenstein...
Saturday 10/17 @ San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
For the underground comic collector, DIY craft aficionado, art lover, or simply curious spectator, APE is a small slice of heaven....
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Saturday 10/17 @ Roxie Theater
The eighth annual DocFest features over 50 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky...
Saturday 10/17 @ Various locations
Litquake has always been about cramming an absurd amount of talent into a small window of time, but the city's biggest...
Saturday 10/17 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Saturday 10/17 @ Intersection for the Arts
An unlikely, curious, and beautiful patchwork of vignettes ruminating on the future make up the dance-theatre hybrid The Future Project :...
Saturday 10/17 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
SF DocFest: THE WILD AND WONDERFUL WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA
Saturday 10/17 @ Roxie Theater
Julien Nitzberg 2009: 84 min. | US
Bringing the WTF...
SF DocFest: WAITING FOR HOCKNEY
Saturday 10/17 @ Roxie Theater
Julie Checkoway 2009: 78 min. | US
Back in the '90s, illustrator...
Saturday 10/17 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
SF DocFest: THE EARTH IS YOUNG
Saturday 10/17 @ Roxie Theater
Michael Gitlin 2009: 58 min. | US
The Earth Is Young...
Saturday 10/17 @ Roxie Theater
Robert McFalls 2009: 52 min. | US
Homegrown is the inspiring...
DocFest Presents: DRUMS INSIDE YOUR CHEST
Saturday 10/17 @ Roxie Theater
Stephen Latty 2008: 63 min. | US
CO-PRESENTED BY THE LITQUAKE
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Saturday 10/17 @ 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,...
SF DocFest: DUST AND ILLUSIONS (The Story of Burning Man)
Saturday 10/17 @ Roxie Theater
Olivier Bonin 2009: 90 min. | US
Here in the Bay...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Saturday 10/17 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ ODC
The ODC Dance Commons is transformed into an old school juke joint every Saturday Night! This Lindy Hop and Blues Dance...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Saturday 10/17 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 10/17 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
