Events on Saturday, July 25
Saturday 7/25 @ Pretty Penny Clothing
The East Bay's Parlour Gallery — a neighborhood favorite for intimate, elegant art shows — hosts the Craft Bazaar, a must-shop...
Saturday 7/25 @ Zellerbach Hall
For over five decades, acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki has captured the imaginations of international audiences, redefining the art of animation in...
San Francisco Independent Bookstore Walking Tour
Saturday 7/25 @ Get Lost Travel Books
As eReaders become increasingly popular and ever more consumers opt to shop online, your local independent bookseller is probably feeling the...
Saturday 7/25 @ Rickshaw Stop
It's gonna be a night to (attempt to) remember whenever Zeljko Petkovic's itinerant Romany dance party sets down for another installment....
Saturday 7/25 @ Indiana and Cesar Chavez Streets
As thousands of super-hero fans flock to San Diego for Comic-Con, San Francisco is throwing a celebration to honor heroic local...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/25 @ Various locations
Whether you're a lover of lyric or a connoisseur of concrete poetry, the International Poetry Festival is an excellent opportunity to...
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Saturday 7/25 @ Various locations
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is always an eye-opening reminder of the diversity and variety of experience that falls under...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
The wry humor and the languid pace of Lake Tahoe make Jarmusch comparisons unavoidable, but director Fernando Eimbcke seems just as...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...
Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Saturday 7/25 @ Hayes Valley Park
The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the...
Saturday 7/25 @ Fox Theater
Whether you're an adherent of the Abiding Church of the Dude, a collector of priceless pee-stained rugs, a harness-surfing conceptual artist...
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Saturday 7/25 @ Triple Base
All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is...
Saturday 7/25 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Saturday 7/25 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Saturday 7/25 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Saturday 7/25 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 7/25 @ Squaw Valley USA
You're at one of the summer's biggest outdoor concerts. You've just sweated buckets dancing to one of Girl Talk's manic sets....
Saturday 7/25 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Saturday 7/25 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
