Events on Wednesday, September 16
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
Wednesday 9/16 @ Brava Theater Center
From the synth wizards of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the '60s to the laptop-wielding young Turks of the...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Wednesday 9/16 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Wednesday 9/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
The year is 1978 and Raúl — unnervingly oblivious to the Pinochet-backed terror around him, Santiago’s filth, and his needy girlfriend...
Wednesday 9/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/16 @ 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 9/16 @ American Conservatory Theater
Teaming up with ACT, England's Kneehigh Theatre smashes the fourth wall and then reconstructs it as a video screen in their...
IXFF Indie Erotic Film Festival
Wednesday 9/16 @ Various locations
This year's Indie Erotic Film Festival, thrown by the sex-positive folks at Good Vibrations, is bigger, better, and more licentious than...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Shotwell 50 Studios
One of the 20th century's most recognizable, beloved, and debated icons (and her genital-less beau) gets made over by more than...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Various locations
Attending the SF Fringe Festival is a bit of a crapshoot by design: coveted performance slots are awarded by chance via...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Giant Robot
Fellow Americans Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, and Aiyana Udesen have drawn our country's future, pulling equally from assorted pieces of tattoo...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Gallery Paule Anglim
Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner...
Wednesday 9/16 @ San Francisco Public Library
The Sex Pistols may have imploded after their notorious final show at SF's now-defunct Winterland Ballroom, but the city's own punk...
Wednesday 9/16 @ Slim's
After being "Banned in DC," groundbreaking Rasta-punks Bad Brains moved to the Big Apple, and it's been their home-away-from-home ever since....
Wednesday 9/16 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Local punks-turned-multi-platinum-Grammy-winners Green Day are returning to their Berkeley stomping grounds, but not how you'd expect. Collaborating with Spring Awakening director...
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth
Wednesday 9/16 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth's art plays off of science's tendency to make the world endlessly sub-divisible. What Michael Pollan...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Wednesday 9/16 @ 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 9/16 @ 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...
Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box
Wednesday 9/16 @ California College of the Arts
This event takes place at the Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway, Oakland CA Ana...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Wednesday 9/16 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
