Events on Thursday, October 8
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Slim's
As difficult to endure as they were to escape, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks were the ultimate in sensory deprivation —...
Films of Robert Beavers - Program I
Thursday 10/ 8 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure: Films of Robert Beavers - Program I Robert Beavers in person...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Local punks-turned-multi-platinum-Grammy-winners Green Day are returning to their Berkeley stomping grounds, but not how you'd expect. Collaborating with Spring Awakening director...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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....
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Gallery Paule Anglim
Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ American Conservatory Theater
Teaming up with ACT, England's Kneehigh Theatre smashes the fourth wall and then reconstructs it as a video screen in their...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Stage Werx
Everybody needs someone to love — even man-made monsters who wreak havoc upon a cold, unforgiving world. In Bride of Frankenstein...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
Over ten years in the making, We Live in Public documents the life of Internet visionary and "Warhol of the Web"...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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,...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
