Events on Sunday, October 18
Sunday 10/18 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Patrick Cowley was the synthesizer mastermind behind many of the Hi-NRG hits on San Francisco's Megatone Records (most notably Sylvester's anthem...
Sunday 10/18 @ Great American Music Hall
Go out to a club these days and chances are you've heard Elly Jackson, aka La Roux. The blog-buzzed Brit's canny...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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....
Sunday 10/18 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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,...
Sunday 10/18 @ Roxie Theater
The eighth annual DocFest features over 50 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky...
Sunday 10/18 @ Various locations
Part police procedural, part postmodern ghost story, Doug Dorst's darkly funny debut novel Alive in Necropolis has been rightfully hailed as...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
Sunday 10/18 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ Various locations
For four weekends every year, San Franciscans get to experience art in its wild, untamed state — not as finished work...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Treasure Island Music Festival
Sunday 10/18 @ Treasure Island
Three years into the game, the Treasure Island Music Festival has defined itself as the hipper, younger sibling of Outside Lands,...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 :...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Sunday 10/18 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Sunday 10/18 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
