Events on Friday, August 7
Friday 8/ 7 @ Oakland Museum of California
The East Bay Express's annual guide to all that is great in the 510 isn't just about showering local businesses and...
Rock 'Til You Drop Quadruple Feature
Friday 8/ 7 @ The Castro Theatre
The kids just wanna rock 'n roll all night in Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' latest midnight movie extravaganza of unknown and underappreciated...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Friday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Friday 8/ 7 @ The Lab
The Mission has seen many white cubes come and go, but the Lab has staying power. Chalk it up to the...
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Friday 8/ 7 @ Various locations
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is always an eye-opening reminder of the diversity and variety of experience that falls under...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Union Square
Foodies, prepare yourselves: the Chefs. Food. Wine. festival is three delicious days of culinary paradise. Thursday night kicks things off with...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Johansson Projects
Jennie Ottinger's art presents a floating world populated with refugees from Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon canvases. Their skeletal frames...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Various locations
Complete the following sentence. In just seven days: a) God created the world; b) I can make you a man; c)...
Friday 8/ 7 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
