Events on Saturday, July 18
Saturday 7/18 @ Davies Symphony Hall
Some may consider them kiddy stuff, but video games gross more money in America than Hollywood movies. So it makes sense...
Ongoing Events
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Saturday 7/18 @ 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 7/18 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in...
Saturday 7/18 @ 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 7/18 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Saturday 7/18 @ 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...
Saturday 7/18 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
San Francisco Bicycle Film Festival
Saturday 7/18 @ 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...
Saturday 7/18 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Saturday 7/18 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
As the Renegade Craft Fair boasts on its handmade-feeling website, it's one of the country's biggest and best-known craft events. (Born...
Saturday 7/18 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 7/18 @ 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...
Saturday 7/18 @ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...
Saturday 7/18 @ 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 7/18 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Saturday 7/18 @ Million Fishes
James Joyce's description of the piano as a "coffin of music" might come to mind when entering one of Tyson Ayer's...
Saturday 7/18 @ 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 7/18 @ 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...
Saturday 7/18 @ 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...
Saturday 7/18 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Saturday 7/18 @ 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,...
Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
Saturday 7/18 @ 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,...
Saturday 7/18 @ 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 7/18 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Ninth Annual Fire Arts Festival
Saturday 7/18 @ 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...
Saturday 7/18 @ 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 7/18 @ 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...
