Events on Sunday, August 16

Method Man w/ Redman and Ghostface Killah

Music: Hip-Hop

Method Man

Sunday 8/16 @ Mezzanine

When it comes to the Wu-Tang Clan, two out of eight (RIP, ODB) ain't bad. Method Man and fellow Shaoliner Ghostface... 

Ongoing Events

Masters of Russian Animation

Film: Animation

Masters of Russian Animation

Sunday 8/16 @ Community Music Center (544 Capp Street, San Francisco, Ca 94110)

The release of Russian Masters of Animation, a three-volume DVD compendium, was a boon for '60s and '70s Soviet–era cinema geeks... 

<em>August: Osage County</em>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 8/16 @ Curran Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

<em>Wallworks</em>

Art

Wallworks

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Robert Frank's The Americans

Sunday 8/16 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art

John Baldessari

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

Secrets Beyond the Door: Treasures from the UCLA Festival of Preservation

Film

Secrets Beyond the Door

Sunday 8/16 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Forget BlueRay discs and plasma TVs. For true cinephiles, nothing lets a movie really sing like a pristine celluloid print. In... 

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

Art

Mark Baugh-Sasaki

Sunday 8/16 @ 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>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>

Art

Galaxy

Sunday 8/16 @ 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>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

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

Festival: Film

Midnight Mass

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

Stepology: 2009 Bay Area Tap Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Stepology

Sunday 8/16 @ Various locations

This year's Bay Area Tap Festival will have dance aficionados clicking their heels in delight. In addition to a variety of... 

<em>This Town</em>

Art

This Town

Sunday 8/16 @ Eclectix Gallery

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

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

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

American Craft Council Show

Special Event

American Craft Council Show

Sunday 8/16 @ Fort Mason Center

For 34 years the American Craft Council has brought together the best and brightest in contemporary crafts for their annual nationally... 

Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at the Sports Film

Film

Beyond ESPN

Sunday 8/16 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Sports, like romance, have become somewhat of an over-determined cinematic subject. Beyond ESPN, a series of sports-themed films and docs curated... 

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

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

Vaughn Bell and Josh Keyes: <em>Natural Selection</em>

Art

Natural Selection

Sunday 8/16 @ Swarm Gallery

Steeped in the lush landscapes of their native Northwest, Seattle-based Vaughn Bell and Portland-based Josh Keyes cultivate a vision of the... 

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

Art

Warren MacKenzie

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Edible Expeditions

Sunday 8/16 @ Conservatory of Flowers

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

Homo A Go Go

Festival

Homo A Go Go

Sunday 8/16 @ SomArts Cultural Center

Attention all LGBT radicals, riot grrrls, part-time punks, and comrades-in-arms: your Pride Fest has finally arrived. Homo A Go Go, the... 

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

Theatre

The Farm

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Sunday 8/16 @ 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>Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004</em>

Art: Photography

Richard Avedon

Sunday 8/16 @ SFMOMA

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

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Sunday 8/16 @ 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... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Sunday 8/16 @ 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...