Events on Tuesday, June 9

Joe Meno: <em>The Great Perhaps</em>

Books: Reading

Joe Meno

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ City Lights

It didn't take long for Joe Meno to rise from burgeoning new talent to celebrated Chicago literary name. The prolific Meno... 

Neko Case

Music

Neko Case

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ The Warfield

After ten years of being inexplicably overlooked by mainstream America, New Pornographer Neko Case is on the brink of taming the... 

Ongoing Events

Fury Factory

Festival: Performing Arts

Fury Factory

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ Various locations

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

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Robert Frank's The Americans

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ SFMOMA

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

Another Hole in the Head

Festival: Performing Arts

Another Hole in the Head

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ Roxie Theater

The cinemania of Another Hole in the Head — San Francisco's annual on-screen orgy of fantasy, gore, perversity, and deviance —... 

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

Art

Kenji Hirata and Che Jen

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery

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

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

Art

J. MAYER H.

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art

Soft Core

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ Receiver Gallery

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

In the Realm of Oshima

Festival: Performing Arts

In the Realm of Oshima

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Cathleen Naundorf

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Edible Expeditions

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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... 

Kenneth Josephson

Art: Photography

Kenneth Josephson

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Pae White

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art: Photography

Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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...