Events on Saturday, May 30
Saturday 5/30 @ Panhandle Statue
As if the appellation "freedom fries" wasn't bad enough, the Bush administration's anti-Gallic philistinism reached new lows when it levied a...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/30 @ Red Vic
Even though burlesque has hit the mainstream, thanks to high-profile proponents such as Dita von Teese, it still has the power...
Saturday 5/30 @ New Langton Arts
Entering Pae White's exhibit is a bit like walking into a different time, in another place and culture altogether. This is,...
Saturday 5/30 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Saturday 5/30 @ Silverman Gallery
Desirée Holman knows a thing or two about the power of make-believe. The recent SECA Award recipient often utilizes handmade costumes,...
Saturday 5/30 @ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens
Leaving the crumbling, blood-splattered Hollywood bungalow of its last production, Pure Shock Value, for the open road, sketch-comedy troupe Killing My...
Saturday 5/30 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 5/30 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
In an exhibit that the New York Times labeled "must be seen to be believed," dancer and visual artist Nick Cave...
Saturday 5/30 @ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...
Saturday 5/30 @ Intersection for the Arts
Acting group Campo Santo cook up an extremely playful take on Junot Diaz's Pulitzer-prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...
Saturday 5/30 @ American Conservatory Theater
Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter José Rivera spent a decade ruminating, fidgeting, and fixating on his new play between other projects, but couldn't...
Saturday 5/30 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Frequently hailed as the Jean Luc Godard of Japan, Nagisa Oshima has a reputation as one of his country's foremost radical...
Saturday 5/30 @ David Cunningham Projects
If you were to unpack all the dense layers of association, reference, and personal connection in this show, you still might...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Saturday 5/30 @ Glama-Rama Salon
Sean Owens' hair-raising tribute to the Southern-fried chick flicks of the '80s — such as Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart,...
Saturday 5/30 @ San Mateo Fairgrounds
Science fair meets art studio at the country's largest festival devoted entirely to DIY culture: the fourth annual Maker Faire. This...
Saturday 5/30 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Saturday 5/30 @ Triple Base
All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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...
Saturday 5/30 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Saturday 5/30 @ Brava Theater Center
Imagine Cirque du Soleil merging with a b-boy championship, and you'll have something close to City Circus, a company that brings...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Clad in their trademark brazier-like wimples and Kabuki-meets-Mardis Gras makeup, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have always carried out their good...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Saturday 5/30 @ Ashby Stage
The devil has come to roost at the Shotgun Players' Ashby Stage, and the pairing is indeed delicious. Faust Part One...
Saturday 5/30 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Kenneth Josephson's black-and-white photographs of "pictures within pictures" laid the groundwork for conceptual photography, bringing into question our notions of illusion...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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...
