Events on Wednesday, April 22

Unwhigged and Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Music: Folk/Country
Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer
@ Paramount Theatre
The greatest band that never was is on the road again. Director Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap was...  View details »
Peanut Butter Wolf w/ James Pants
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Music: DJ
Peanut Butter Wolf
@ Great American Music Hall
Hip-hop is for nerds — or so seems to be the sentiment of Stones Throw Records. You won't see the label's...  View details »
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Pop-Up Magazine
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Pop-Up Magazine
@ Brava Theater Center
You can't pack in much more talent than the organizers of Pop-Up Magazine have for this night of live, short-format pieces,...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

Tracy Morgan
Month_04 Thursday Day_23
Performing Arts: Comedy
Tracy Morgan
@ Cobb's Comedy Club
Longtime standup comedian Tracy Morgan brings his stream-of-consciousness jokes to Cobb's for a slew of shows over three nights. After seven...  View details »
Ongoing
Matt Keegan: <em>Postcards and Calendars</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Matt Keegan
@ Altman Siegel Gallery
Matt Keegan's work — on display for the first time in San Francisco — features video, photographic, and sculptural elements, exploring...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sean McFarland: <em>Pictures of Earth</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art: Photography
Sean McFarland
@ SF Camerawork
In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Watcher in the Woods</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
The Watcher in the Woods
@ Gallery 1988
If you've ever seen Disney's one-off horror film The Watcher in the Woods (1980), you can imagine the creepiness of a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
More Flavor: Exhibition
Passionate Struggle
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Yan Pei-Ming: <em>YES!</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Yan Pei-Ming
@ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
The large-scale oil paintings and watercolors in Yan Pei-Ming's first West Coast show bear the scars of an ongoing struggle with...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Outdoor Exploratorium
Month_04 Thursday Day_23
More Flavor: Exhibition
Outdoor Exploratorium
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Galaxy
@ Berkeley Art Museum
With the financial crisis affecting all spheres of the market, including the art world, it's not surprising that museums are looking...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Story</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Story
@ SF Playhouse
In the West Coast premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson's play, the ever-present issue of integrity in journalism is brought to the...  View details »
Ongoing
Migdalia Valdes: <em>Every Day in Black and White</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art: Photography
Migdalia Valdes
@ Intersection for the Arts
Ten years ago, Migdalia Valdes decided she would snap a roll of film a day for the rest of her life....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jonathan Runcio: <em>Capital Zero</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Jonathan Runcio
@ Ratio 3
Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Desir&eacute;e Holman: <em>Reborn</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Desirée Holman
@ Silverman Gallery
Desirée Holman knows a thing or two about the power of make-believe. The recent SECA Award recipient often utilizes handmade costumes,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
52nd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival
Month_04 Thursday Day_23
Film: Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
@ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Warhol Live</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Warhol Live
@ de Young Museum
"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," Andy Warhol once quipped. Warhol Live focuses on the artist's...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Heroes and Villains</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Heroes and Villains
@ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
The aptly titled Heroes and Villains is an eclectic exhibition bringing together a spectrum of works that focus on everyone's favorite...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Draw</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Draw
@ The Shooting Gallery
Draw offers up over 300 sketched specimens from the urban jungle — skateboard designs, music-related art, tattoos, graffiti — with everything...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 2 </em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Paul McCarthy
@ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Paul McCarthy's career can be described as a movement from liquids to solids. The artist's early performance-based work — which found...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cathleen Naundorf: <em>Rare Elegance</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art: Photography
Cathleen Naundorf
@ Robert Tat Gallery
One of the world's foremost fashion photographers, Cathleen Naundorf often looks to the medium's golden age for inspiration. Typically shooting in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jews on Vinyl
Month_04 Wednesday Day_22
Art
Jews on Vinyl
@ Contemporary Jewish Museum
A unique exhibition, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that...  View details »
Ongoing
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