Events on Thursday, October 22
Thursday 10/22 @ Fox Theater
Taking a cue from recent '80s nostalgia trends, Echo & the Bunnymen return once more in hopes of a career revival....
Thursday 10/22 @ Slim's
If the metal resurgence hasn't already jumped the shark, it's getting uncomfortably mainstream, and dyed-in-the-wool headbangers are retreating into increasingly esoteric...
SF DocFest: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?
Thursday 10/22 @ Roxie Theater
Joe Winston, Laura Cohen 2009: 90 min. | US
Documentarian Joe Winston...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/22 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Thursday 10/22 @ Various locations
Although a frequent Hollywood favorite for location shooting, San Francisco has long been a center for fiercely independent filmmakers and their...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Thursday 10/22 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ Roxie Theater
The eighth annual DocFest features over 50 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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,...
ATA Film and Video Festival 2009
Thursday 10/22 @ Artists' Television Access
Come and support Artists’ Television Access, a bastion of Bay Area independent arts, during their annual Film & Video festival. Kicking...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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...
Thursday 10/22 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
Thursday 10/22 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Thursday 10/22 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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....
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Thursday 10/22 @ 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 :...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Thursday 10/22 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
SF DocFest: DUST AND ILLUSIONS (The Story of Burning Man)
Thursday 10/22 @ Roxie Theater
Olivier Bonin 2009: 90 min. | US
Here in the Bay...
DocFest Presents: The Entrepreneur
Thursday 10/22 @ Roxie Theater
Jonathan Bricklin 2009 | Feature | 94 min.
OPENING NGHT...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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 10/22 @ 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,...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 10/22 @ 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...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Thursday 10/22 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Thursday 10/22 @ 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...
Thursday 10/22 @ Roxie Theater
Robert McFalls 2009: 52 min. | US
Homegrown is the inspiring...
