Events on Thursday, August 27
The Adderall Diaries Release Party
Thursday 8/27 @ Amnesia
Billed as a "true crime memoir," The Adderall Diaries recounts The Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott's strange personal connections to the much-publicized...
Thursday 8/27 @ Union Square
Hitting listeners full-force with their double-gauged beats, wailing strings, and sickly stuttering horns, Bay Area originals Shotgun Wedding Quintet are a...
Thursday 8/27 @ The Independent
The bawdily named Holy Fuck are know for their rapturous live performances, tweezing dark Kraut disco from two giant flight-case jumbles...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/27 @ Cobb's Comedy Club
Impressionist and sound-effects comedian Pablo Francisco has been making the rounds on the US comedy circuit, hitting up every mic from...
Thursday 8/27 @ Curran Theatre
Set in present-day
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Take This Hammer and Losing Just the Same
Thursday 8/27 @ Phyllis Wattis Theater
The elephant in the room in Medicine for Melancholy, Barry Jenkins' San Francisco-set romance between two young African American urbanites, was...
Thursday 8/27 @ The Lab
The Mission has seen many white cubes come and go, but the Lab has staying power. Chalk it up to the...
Thursday 8/27 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Thursday 8/27 @ Center for Sex and Culture
They're baaaack. Writers, performers, and all around goofballs Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen have put together another one of their fast...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ Johansson Projects
Jennie Ottinger's art presents a floating world populated with refugees from Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon canvases. Their skeletal frames...
Thursday 8/27 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
