Events on Friday, January 15
Friday 1/15 @ Mighty
When he's not running fidget-house label Rekids or releasing hazy lounge-disco as Quiet Village, Matt Edwards operates as Radio Slave —...
9th Annual Sleepless Nights: Gram Parsons Tribute Concert
Friday 1/15 @ Great American Music Hall
It's been almost 35 years since Gram Parsons left his beautiful corpse in Joshua Tree, but the singer's following continues to...
ODC Asia Tour Send-Off Performance
Friday 1/15 @ ODC
ODC/Dance is one of only three dance companies selected to represent the United States in 2010 in an innovative program...
Luce + Pollux + Ryan Auffenberg (of Halstead)
Friday 1/15 @ Slim's
Luce began in 2000 as a one-man band when Tom Luce began writing songs in his bedroom in the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/15 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
YBCA mounts a colorful tribute to the continued influence of the Tropicália movement in Brazilian art. When Lives Become Form explores...
Friday 1/15 @ Various locations
Something funny is happening in our city, and it has nothing to do with the Mayor's hair. Sketchfest returns with 16...
Friday 1/15 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Canadian artist Lucy Pullen, whose oeuvre includes a punny edible intervention riffing on one of Bruce Nauman's greatest hits (Eat Your...
Friday 1/15 @ Ashby Stage
Shotgun Players take a bow this season with Bertolt Brecht's beloved The Threepenny Opera. Written in 1928 but still as relevant...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Claire Jackel: Gravity Always Wins
Friday 1/15 @ The Lab
In Claire Jackel's new exhibit at the Lab, an inverted, white-paper cityscape hangs close to the ceiling like a stray parade...
Friday 1/15 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild...
Friday 1/15 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Adorning royal personalities from the Duchess of Windsor to Daisy Fellowes and a cabal of Hollywood beauties, Cartier was the standard bearer...
Friday 1/15 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Mike Davis creates nightmarish landscapes, both delicate and monstrous, that would make Bosch proud. The self-taught painter and tattoo artist's latest...
Friday 1/15 @ Lumiere Theatre
Romanian cinema's breakout moment began almost five years ago, but if Corneliu Porumboiu's new film, Police, Adjective, is any indication, that...
Friday 1/15 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...
The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories
Friday 1/15 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Janice Garrett's dedication to spontaneity and staged playfulness meets life-partner Charles Moulton's adrenaline-heightened formalism in the choreographers' collaboration, The Illustrated Book...
Friday 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 1/15 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
Friday 1/15 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Friday 1/15 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Friday 1/15 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN
Friday 1/15 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Friday 1/15 @ Great American Music Hall
Neurosis needs no introduction. The Bay Area's legendary masters of behemoth, psychedelic, operatic guitar girth have influenced a wide array of...
Christine Webster: Transitions
Friday 1/15 @ The Lab
In “Transitions,” Christine Webster explores how far teenage engagement in social media online communities might be taken to offer new realms...
Friday 1/15 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Tyrone Davies: Single Channel Video Work
Friday 1/15 @ The Lab
In these single-channel video works, Tyrone Davies takes a spare and unloving look at that most ubiquitous and, some might say,...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
