Events on Thursday, June 11
Thursday 6/11 @ Rickshaw Stop
Over the last few years, Canada has been a breeding ground for innovation, from the post-rock rambling of Godspeed You! Black...
Thursday 6/11 @ Eagle Tavern
Between Governor Schwarzenegger threatening to cut AIDS funding and the ongoing Prop 8 debacle, LGBT folk and their allies have had...
Thursday 6/11 @ Jack London Square
Oakland's Waterfront Flicks kicks off a summer of free outdoor movies by the bay with 1975's iconic Jaws. The aquatic fun...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/11 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Since being certified a masterpiece by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Cahiers du cinema in 1969, Marco Ferreri's controversial humdinger...
Thursday 6/11 @ Various locations
Tackling what our president refers to as the "unlikely story that is America," 17 companies hailing from points near and far...
Thursday 6/11 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
In the late '90s, graffiti art collective the Barnstormers invaded the rural town of Cameron, North Carolina, and covered farmhouses and...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
Thursday 6/11 @ Roxie Theater
The cinemania of Another Hole in the Head — San Francisco's annual on-screen orgy of fantasy, gore, perversity, and deviance —...
Thursday 6/11 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Trading in glitz and gloss for elegant understatement, American pottery master Warren MacKenzie has spent half a century crafting simple, eminently...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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...
Thursday 6/11 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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...
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Thursday 6/11 @ Triple Base
All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is...
Thursday 6/11 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Trannyshack emeriti Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 6/11 @ 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...
Thursday 6/11 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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...
Thursday 6/11 @ Ashby Stage
The devil has come to roost at the Shotgun Players' Ashby Stage, and the pairing is indeed delicious. Faust Part One...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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,...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
