Events on Wednesday, July 29
Wednesday 7/29 @ Bottom of the Hill
Two years have passed since Magnolia Electric Co.'s last substantial release. For a prolific songwriter like Jason Molina, who began to...
Ongoing Events
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Wednesday 7/29 @ Various locations
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is always an eye-opening reminder of the diversity and variety of experience that falls under...
Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/29 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/29 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
The wry humor and the languid pace of Lake Tahoe make Jarmusch comparisons unavoidable, but director Fernando Eimbcke seems just as...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/29 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/29 @ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...
Wednesday 7/29 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Wednesday 7/29 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
