Events on Saturday, August 1

This is Your Brain on Fire: Flaming Lotus Girls Summer 2009 Party

Party

This is Your Brain on Fire

Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Box Shop

Still feeling the heat from the Crucible's Fire Arts Festival and need some more fire in your life? Local pyro artisans... 

Lost Animation

Film: Animation

Lost Animation

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Oddball Film + Video

Typically, no one save Academy members sees the animated shorts that get their (truncated) fifteen minutes during the Oscars. Such has... 

Stellastarr* w/ Wild Light

Music

Stellastarr*

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Slim's

It's been a minute since NYC's Stellastarr* have been around, with their last album, Harmonies for the Haunted, dropping in 2005.... 

Ongoing Events

Joe Goode Performance Group: <em>Traveling Light</em>

Dance

Traveling Light

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Old Mint Building

Joe Goode Performance Group says: Joe Goode Performance Group's witty and provocative theatrical installation takes the audience on a journey through... 

29th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Festival: Film

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Various locations

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is always an eye-opening reminder of the diversity and variety of experience that falls under... 

Shanghai San Francisco

Special Event

Shanghai SF

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Coit Tower

Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... 

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

Art: Photography

Robert Frank's The Americans

Saturday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

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

<em>The Cresting Wave: San Francisco Underground Comix Experience</em>

Art

The Cresting Wave

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Electric Works

Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to... 

Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass: 12th and Final Season

Festival: Film

Midnight Mass

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Edible Expeditions

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Conservatory of Flowers

Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to... 

Shotgun Players present <em>The Farm</em>

Theatre

The Farm

Saturday 8/ 1 @ John Hinkel Park

Locals Shotgun Players have taken on Goethe and Brecht. Now, the ever-inventive company has turned to George Orwell's dystopian classic Animal... 

Rebecca Martinez: <em>Beauty Challenged</em>

Art: Photography

Rebecca Martinez

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Robert Tat Gallery

Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of... 

<em>Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004</em>

Art: Photography

Richard Avedon

Saturday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of... 

S.H.*.T Show V

Comedy

S.H.*.T Show V

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Off-Market Theater

The ever-trusty Urban Dictionary describes a sh*t-show as a term, "used when 'shenanigans' just won't do." S.H.*.T Show V (as in... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

Art

Tyson Ayers

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>This Town</em>

Art

This Town

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Eclectix Gallery

New York City has its skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty. Los Angeles has its vericose freeway interchanges, the Hollywood sign,... 

John Baldessari: <em>A Print Retrospective</em>

Art

John Baldessari

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

Mark Baugh-Sasaki: <em>Adaptations</em>

Art

Mark Baugh-Sasaki

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Wallworks</em>

Art

Wallworks

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Ten years ago, renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki designed YBCA's unique exhibition space. Now, with Wallworks, the beauty and utility of... 

Warren MacKenzie: <em>Legacy of an American Potter</em>

Art

Warren MacKenzie

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Safe Word</em>

Art

Safe Word

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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,... 

Thrillpeddlers presents <em>Pearls Over Shanghai</em>

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>PastForward: The Lab's 25th Anniversary Exhibition</em>

Art

PastForward

Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Lab

The Mission has seen many white cubes come and go, but the Lab has staying power. Chalk it up to the... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>

Art

Galaxy

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Hunted and Gathered: Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Hunted and Gathered

Saturday 8/ 1 @ Modernism

Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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...