Events on Friday, October 23
After Day Comes Night & After That, Day Comes Again: A Tribute to Chick Strand
Friday 10/23 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
The experimental film community lost one of its greats this past July when filmmaker, professor, and Canyon Cinema co-founder Chick Strand...
Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter
Friday 10/23 @ Bimbo's
Buddies since their days with the The State and, later, Stella, Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter are taking their much-praised,...
Friday 10/23 @ Elbo Room
It's been a while since Kid606, the Bay Area's enfant terrible of techno, has brought Trouble to the Mission. Trouble being...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/23 @ Various locations
Although a frequent Hollywood favorite for location shooting, San Francisco has long been a center for fiercely independent filmmakers and their...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Friday 10/23 @ 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 :...
Friday 10/23 @ 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,...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ Roxie Theater
The eighth annual DocFest features over 50 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky...
Friday 10/23 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
A love triangle between three teenagers that culminates in a coming-of-age tale might sound about as compelling as watching Matthew McConaughey,...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ The Phoenix Theater
Spine-tingling chills abound in The Woman in Black, an old-school ghost story told in classic Victorian style. The tale centers around...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Friday 10/23 @ The Make-Out Room
A support group of sorts for those whose cringe-worthy pubescences were meticulously recorded in journals and notes, Mortified lives up to...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ Various locations
Part police procedural, part postmodern ghost story, Doug Dorst's darkly funny debut novel Alive in Necropolis has been rightfully hailed as...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
ATA Film and Video Festival 2009
Friday 10/23 @ Artists' Television Access
Come and support Artists’ Television Access, a bastion of Bay Area independent arts, during their annual Film & Video festival. Kicking...
Friday 10/23 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Friday 10/23 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Friday 10/23 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ Roxie Theater
Amy Grill ,2009, 90 min. | US
For Speaking in...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Friday 10/23 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Friday 10/23 @ Asian Art Museum
In the 19th-century Siam and Burma—two neighboring kingdoms in Southeast Asia—were renowned for their golden-roofed temples, lush gardens, and handsomely adorned...
Friday 10/23 @ 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...
Friday 10/23 @ Roxie Theater
Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri 2009: 80 min. | US
October Country...
Friday 10/23 @ Roxie Theater
Geralyn Rae Pezanoski 2009: 83 min. | US
Winner of...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Friday 10/23 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Friday 10/23 @ 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,...
