Events on Wednesday, April 22

Pop-Up Magazine

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Pop-Up Magazine

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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,... 

Unwhigged and Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer

Music

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer

Wednesday 4/22 @ Paramount Theatre

The greatest band that never was is on the road again. Director Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap was... 

Peanut Butter Wolf w/ James Pants

Music: DJ

Peanut Butter Wolf

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

Migdalia Valdes: <em>Every Day in Black and White</em>

Art: Photography

Migdalia Valdes

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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.... 

Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 2 </em>

Art

Paul McCarthy

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

<em>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>

Art

Galaxy

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

<em>Draw</em>

Art

Draw

Wednesday 4/22 @ The Shooting Gallery

Draw offers up over 300 sketched specimens from the urban jungle — skateboard designs, music-related art, tattoos, graffiti — with everything... 

Yan Pei-Ming: <em>YES!</em>

Art

Yan Pei-Ming

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

<em>Warhol Live</em>

Art

Warhol Live

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

<em>Heroes and Villains</em>

Art

Heroes and Villains

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

Desir&eacute;e Holman: <em>Reborn</em>

Art

Desirée Holman

Wednesday 4/22 @ Silverman Gallery

Desirée Holman knows a thing or two about the power of make-believe. The recent SECA Award recipient often utilizes handmade costumes,... 

<em>The Watcher in the Woods</em>

Art

The Watcher in the Woods

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

Jonathan Runcio: <em>Capital Zero</em>

Art

Jonathan Runcio

Wednesday 4/22 @ Ratio 3

Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3... 

Matt Keegan: <em>Postcards and Calendars</em>

Art

Matt Keegan

Wednesday 4/22 @ Altman Siegel Gallery

Matt Keegan's work — on display for the first time in San Francisco — features video, photographic, and sculptural elements, exploring... 

<em>The Story</em>

Theatre

The Story

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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... 

Sean McFarland: <em>Pictures of Earth</em>

Art: Photography

Sean McFarland

Wednesday 4/22 @ SF Camerawork

In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the... 

Cathleen Naundorf: <em>Rare Elegance</em>

Art: Photography

Cathleen Naundorf

Wednesday 4/22 @ 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...