Events on Thursday, June 25

<em>Animal Masquerade</em>: A Benefit for The Crow and the Wolf

Special Event: Benefit

Animal Masquerade

Thursday 6/25 @ 111 Minna Gallery

111 Minna presents a party with a purpose at this masquerade benefit for The Crow and the Wolf. Local band Vows... 

A.A. Bondy w/ Lesser Lights

Music

A.A. Bondy

Thursday 6/25 @ Cafe du Nord

The former frontman for Alabama grunge-rockers Verbena, Mr. Bondy seems to have left his grit in the South for serenity in... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

<em>Objectified</em>

Film: Documentary

Objectified

Thursday 6/25 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Objectified is speckled with scenes you've seen before — such as rows of people inside the translucent walls of an Apple... 

Greg Gossel: <em>Happy Endings</em>

Art

Greg Gossel

Thursday 6/25 @ The Shooting Gallery

Appearances are deceiving in Greg Gossel's art. Although they're far from photorealistic, Gossel's works share as much of an affinity with... 

Looking In: Robert Frank's <em>The Americans</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Frank's The Americans

Thursday 6/25 @ SFMOMA

In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,... 

Sarah Applebaum: <em>Soft Core</em>

Art

Soft Core

Thursday 6/25 @ Receiver Gallery

Crammed with towering geometric constructions, rich pearled textures, evocative costumes, and fluorescent color juxtapositions bordering on the bellicose, Sarah Applebaum's sprawling... 

Shotgun Players: <em>Faust Part One</em>

Theatre

Faust Part One

Thursday 6/25 @ Ashby Stage

The devil has come to roost at the Shotgun Players' Ashby Stage, and the pairing is indeed delicious. Faust Part One... 

Fury Factory

Festival: Performing Arts

Fury Factory

Thursday 6/25 @ Various locations

Tackling what our president refers to as the "unlikely story that is America," 17 companies hailing from points near and far... 

Nick Cave: <em>Meet Me at the Center of the Earth</em>

Art

Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

Rebecca Martinez: <em>Beauty Challenged</em>

Art: Photography

Rebecca Martinez

Thursday 6/25 @ Robert Tat Gallery

Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of... 

Conservatory of Flowers presents <em>Edible Expeditions</em>

Special Event

Edible Expeditions

Thursday 6/25 @ Conservatory of Flowers

Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to... 

<em>Herb and Dorothy</em>

Film: Documentary

Herb and Dorothy

Thursday 6/25 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre

You would need a heart of stone to not be charmed by Herb and Dorothy Vogel; Megumi Sasaki's sweet, low-key documentary... 

Pae White: <em>In Between the Outside-In</em>

Art: Photography

Pae White

Thursday 6/25 @ 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,... 

Ranjani Shettar

Art

Ranjani Shettar

Thursday 6/25 @ SFMOMA

Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of... 

Kenneth Josephson

Art: Photography

Kenneth Josephson

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

In the Realm of Oshima

Festival: Performing Arts

In the Realm of Oshima

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

Kenji Hirata and Che Jen: <em>Reverberations</em>

Art

Kenji Hirata and Che Jen

Thursday 6/25 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery

In the late '90s, graffiti art collective the Barnstormers invaded the rural town of Cameron, North Carolina, and covered farmhouses and... 

Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk

Art

Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk

Thursday 6/25 @ Triple Base

All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is... 

Warren MacKenzie: <em>Legacy of an American Potter</em>

Art

Warren MacKenzie

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

<em>Then and Now: Photographs by Sebasti&atilde;o Salgado</em>

Art: Photography

Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

<em>The Golden Girls: The Gay Episodes</em>

Performing Arts

The Golden Girls

Thursday 6/25 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory

Trannyshack emeriti Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as Miami's hottest foursome of a certain... 

Frameline33

Festival: Performing Arts

Frameline33

Thursday 6/25 @ Various locations

Revolution is in the air and on the screen at Frameline33. Closing night of the world's largest and oldest LGBT film... 

<em>Under a Full Moon: 30 Years of Perpetual Indulgence</em>

Special Event

Under a Full Moon

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

J. MAYER H.: <em>Patterns of Speculation</em>

Art

J. MAYER H.

Thursday 6/25 @ SFMOMA

J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than... 

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

Art

Galaxy

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Thursday 6/25 @ 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... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Thursday 6/25 @ 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...