Events on Saturday, October 24
Saturday 10/24 @ Cafe du Nord
Rykarda Parasol's smoky, deep voice belies her petite frame and shares a brooding tone with songstresses like Marianne Faithfull, Nico, and...
Saturday 10/24 @ Various locations
What better way to gear up for Halloween and pay tribute to the late King of Pop then by one-upping the...
SF DocFest: APOLOGY OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN
Saturday 10/24 @ Roxie Theater
Stelios Kouglou, 2008, 90 min. | Greece
John Perkins is a self-confessed...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/24 @ Various locations
Although a frequent Hollywood favorite for location shooting, San Francisco has long been a center for fiercely independent filmmakers and their...
Saturday 10/24 @ Great Star Theater
To quote the chorus of an old Samhain song, Brain-Dead Alive is simply, "all murder, all guts, all fun." In the...
Saturday 10/24 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Saturday 10/24 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ Roxie Theater
The eighth annual DocFest features over 50 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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...
Saturday 10/24 @ Various locations
For four weekends every year, San Franciscans get to experience art in its wild, untamed state — not as finished work...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 PHILOSOPHER KINGS
Saturday 10/24 @ Roxie Theater
Patrick Shen 2009 70 min. | US
Some people perform jobs...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
SF DocFest: MARINA OF THE ZABBALEEN
Saturday 10/24 @ Roxie Theater
70 min. | Egypt
Set in the Muqqattam village in Cairo, where...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Saturday 10/24 @ ODC
The ODC Dance Commons is transformed into an old school juke joint every Saturday Night! This Lindy Hop and Blues Dance...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Saturday 10/24 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Saturday 10/24 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
SF DocFest: PROCEED AND BE BOLD
Saturday 10/24 @ Roxie Theater
Laura Zinger 2008
98 min. | Italy, US
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Saturday 10/24 @ Roxie Theater
Peter Esmonde 2009
77 min. | US
Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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,...
