Events on Saturday, January 23
Saturday 1/23 @ San Francisco Public Library
By the time Ramparts magazine shuttered its operation in 1975, a short 13 years after its inception as a Catholic quarterly,...
Saturday 1/23 @ Rickshaw Stop
For many years, the Phenomenauts were celebrated for how they played their shows as much as for the music itself. The...
The 10th Annual Edwardian Ball
Saturday 1/23 @ The Regency Ballroom
Now in its tenth year, the Edwardian Ball continues to be a cavalcade of exuberant cirque, burlesque, dance, and music, tailored...
Saturday 1/23 @ The Fillmore
There is nothing icy about the Cold War Kids.The Fullerton, California natives make the kind of music guaranteed to rid you...
BEETIKI (Album release party) & BAYONICS
Saturday 1/23 @ Elbo Room
BAYONICS, BEETIKI, DJ STRATEGY BEETIKI'S "I...
Dizzy Balloon + Forrest Day + Ghost and the City + A B & the Sea
Saturday 1/23 @ Slim's
Dizzy Balloon is five young men who love writing songs. Their sound is unique in a world gone hardcore...
Amidst: Concert Series w/ Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsch, Flo Kaufmann, and Ursula Scherrer
Saturday 1/23 @ The Lab
The Lab presents "Amidst" in conjunction with swissnex San Francisco. Hirsch, Kaufmann, and Scherrer collaboratively manipulate the space. Unintended narratives unfold...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ The Castro Theatre
Violating two out of the ten commandments is the MO of this year's Noir City Film Festival, with over 20 films...
Saturday 1/23 @ New Conservatory Theatre
Doubt drags so much award hardware behind it, each new staging seems gilded-by-association. Now, the LGBT-friendly New Conservatory Theater is generating...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Claire Jackel: Gravity Always Wins
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
From George Washington's cherry tree chop to the sale of Manhattan for a pocketful of beads, American history is full of...
Saturday 1/23 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 1/23 @ Various locations
Something funny is happening in our city, and it has nothing to do with the Mayor's hair. Sketchfest returns with 16...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Saturday 1/23 @ SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio
Christina Mazza and Erik Otto are the latest to join the ranks of resident artists at the SF Dump's jewels-from-junk program,...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ The Marsh
Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much...
Saturday 1/23 @ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Saturday 1/23 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN
$5 Admission through February 9
Saturday 1/23 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Admission to the Museum is just $5 through February 9, before the opening of Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf on...
CONART CONFIDENTIAL: THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART BUBBLE
Saturday 1/23 @ Roxie Theater
"Remember when the global economy was booming? The price of everything was doubling. Oil hit...
Saturday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Saturday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Saturday 1/23 @ Roxie Theater
"Documentary master Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film in a career that has spanned more than that...
Amidst: Multichannel Video and Sound Installation
Saturday 1/23 @ The Lab
The Lab presents "Amidst" in conjunction with swissnex San Francisco. Swiss artists Ursula Scherrer and Flo Kaufmann continue their thematic series...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Saturday 1/23 @ Roxie Theater
"In the bunker of Quentin Tarantino's hypnotically fired-up imagination, World War II features Brad Pitt...
Saturday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Saturday 1/23 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD DIRECTED BY...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Saturday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Saturday 1/23 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Tyrone Davies: Single Channel Video Work
Saturday 1/23 @ The Lab
In these single-channel video works, Tyrone Davies takes a spare and unloving look at that most ubiquitous and, some might say,...
