Events on Wednesday, July 15

Paul Krassner: <em>Who's to Say What's Obscene?</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Reading
Paul Krassner
@ City Lights
Like the old judge's dictum about pornography, we know obscenity when we see it. But what we see is often blinkered...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass: 12th and Final Season
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Film: Festival
Midnight Mass
@ Landmark Bridge Theater
It could be a tabloid headline: "Cult-movie host morphs into seven-figure film director." Instead, it's the end to this 12th season...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
More Flavor: Exhibition
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
@ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...  View details »
Ongoing
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Pae White: <em>In Between the Outside-In</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art: Photography
Pae White
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art
Galaxy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Outdoor Exploratorium
Month_07 Thursday Day_16
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Outdoor Exploratorium
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Hunted and Gathered: Photographs</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art: Photography
Hunted and Gathered
@ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
13th Annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
Month_07 Thursday Day_16
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Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
@ Various locations
The little local arts-and-music-festival-that-could just keeps getting bigger and better. Now celebrating its 13th year, Mission Creek has expanded its scope,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Then and Now: Photographs by Sebasti&atilde;o Salgado</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art: Photography
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
@ The 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Holy Girls and Headless Women: The Films of Lucrecia Martel</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Film
Films of Lucrecia Martel
@ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Lucrecia Martel dabbled in documentaries, shorts, and children's films before ascending to become one of the reigning heavyweights of New Argentine...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>This Town</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art
This Town
@ Eclectix Gallery
New York City has its skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty. Los Angeles has its vericose freeway interchanges, the Hollywood sign,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
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Passionate Struggle
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Safe Word</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art
Safe Word
@ Ratio 3
Ratio3 Gallery's new exhibition Safe Word helps puts to rest that age-old question: What will the neighbors think? In this case,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
San Francisco Bicycle Film Festival
Month_07 Thursday Day_16
Film: Festival
San Francisco Bicycle Film Festival
@ Various locations
As we mentioned last week, San Francisco just got a little more bike-friendly, with the approved addition of 30-plus miles of...  View details »
Ongoing
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Conservatory of Flowers presents <em>Edible Expeditions</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
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Edible Expeditions
@ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...  View details »
Ongoing
The Crucible's Ninth Annual Fire Arts Festival
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Performing Arts: Festival
Ninth Annual Fire Arts Festival
@ The Crucible Fire Arts Arena, Wake Street at West Grand Avenue, Oakland CA 94607
The Crucible's ninth-annual Fire Arts Festival is the largest event of its kind on the West Coast. Be astonished by colossal...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>10x10x10: An Invitational Exhibition </em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art: Photography
10x10x10
@ San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco is often described by its square mileage (7x7), but the city's Art Comission Gallery and PhotoAlliance have expanded those...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>OCEAN + BEACH </em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art
OCEAN + BEACH
@ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...  View details »
Ongoing
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Rebecca Martinez: <em>Beauty Challenged</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art: Photography
Rebecca Martinez
@ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>The Cresting Wave: San Francisco Underground Comix Experience</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art
The Cresting Wave
@ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...  View details »
Ongoing
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In the Realm of Oshima
Month_07 Thursday Day_16
Film: Festival
In the Realm of Oshima
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
John Baldessari: <em>A Print Retrospective</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art
John Baldessari
@ The Legion of Honor Museum
John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art...  View details »
Ongoing
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Jews on Vinyl
Month_07 Wednesday Day_15
Art
Jews on Vinyl
@ Contemporary Jewish Museum
A unique exhibition, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that...  View details »
Ongoing
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