Events on Saturday, January 30
Saturday 1/30 @ Omnivore Books on Food
Whether a high-class concoction served in Waterford crystal, or an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink raid on the liquor cabinet, punches are the ultimate party...
Saturday 1/30 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Director/actor Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday has been an art-house favorite for more than 50 years, regularly topping critics' all-time-best polls....
Saturday 1/30 @ Mezzanine
With all the discussion surrounding the best way to financially contribute to relief efforts in Haiti, tonight's Haiti-Aid benefit is a...
Nile + Immolation + Krisiun + Dreaming Dead
Saturday 1/30 @ Slim's
Masters of extreme technical death metal Nile are partnering up with long-time friends Immolation and Krisiun as well as...
Saturday 1/30 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Fresh from sold-out appearances at the Blue Note, the Hollywood Bowl and the Kennedy Center, the Russian-Israeli-Canadian vocalist channels Peggy Lee...
Saturday 1/30 @ Elbo Room
4ONEFUNKTION feat. EXILE (plug Research), SAKE ONE, performance from F.A.M.E. (Teeko, Max Kane, Malaguti) plus...
Ongoing Events
David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
Saturday 1/30 @ Johansson Projects
In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high...
Saturday 1/30 @ Bottom of the Hill
Indiefest is on a tear: Jeff Ross' 12-year-old showcase of innovative and esoteric independent films has already grown to include satellite...
Claire Jackel: Gravity Always Wins
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Oddball Film + Video
Following on their excellent program of unseen animated shorts back in August, the sleuthing cinephiles at Oddball Film + Video have...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Electric Works
As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Brooklyn-based painter (and San Francisco Art Institute grad) Chris Ballantyne creates strange intersections of the natural and the man-made. But his...
Saturday 1/30 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Large-scale models recreating the structural causalities of recent acts of terrorism form the clumpy, futuristic metropolis of Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City....
Saturday 1/30 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Before the Internet, another kind of magic — wireless telegraphy, aka radio — made teleportation possible, astoundingly collapsing distance to bring...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ The Marsh
Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much...
TRIMPIN: the sound of invention
Saturday 1/30 @ Red Vic
Kinetic sculptor and sonic visionary Trimpin — creator of a 60 foot-tall self-tuning guitar tower and an earthquake-driven marimba — joins...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
$5 Admission through February 9
Saturday 1/30 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Admission to the Museum is just $5 through February 9, before the opening of Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf on...
Saturday 1/30 @ Roxie Theater
Miranda Bliss and her sister Lucy Dexter run ‘Fishes and Loaves Christian Catering’ in rural...
Saturday 1/30 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Saturday 1/30 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 1/30 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Saturday 1/30 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD DIRECTED BY...
Amidst: Multichannel Video and Sound Installation
Saturday 1/30 @ The Lab
The Lab presents "Amidst" in conjunction with swissnex San Francisco. Swiss artists Ursula Scherrer and Flo Kaufmann continue their thematic series...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Saturday 1/30 @ Roxie Theater
"The award-winning debut feature film by writer/ director David Oliveras is a tale of two...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Saturday 1/30 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ The Lab
In these single-channel video works, Tyrone Davies takes a spare and unloving look at that most ubiquitous and, some might say,...
Saturday 1/30 @ Roxie Theater
In this ripped-from-the-headlines drama, gay party regular and aging boy toy Andrew Cunanan is forced...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
