Events on Friday, January 8
Friday 1/ 8 @ The Independent
Get ready for the best possible kind of culture shock as LA's Dengue Fever bring psychedelic Cambodian pop to San Francisco....
Friday 1/ 8 @ Red Poppy Art House
Before WWII, Americans troubled by the economy and life's daily hardships often turned to the jug bands, with their songs of...
Tierra Negra & Muriel Anderson
Friday 1/ 8 @ Great American Music Hall
Tierra Negra:
Their home base is Germany, but their music is distinctly Spanish; they call it Nuevo Flamenco. In...
Grant Lee Buffalo (Original Lineup!)
Friday 1/ 8 @ Great American Music Hall
Famed in the 90s for albums Fuzzy, Mighty Joe Moon, Copperopolis and Jubilee, Grant Lee Buffalo was one of the leading...
Bound By the Road w/ DevilDriver + Suffocation + Goatwhore + Thy Will Be Done
Friday 1/ 8 @ Slim's
DevilDriver has always been a band on a three-pronged mission: Work hard, rock harder, and kick as many asses...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Adobe Bookshop
In an ironic twist, SF expat Toban Nichols only started showing here after he moved to LA, despite recognition in just...
Friday 1/ 8 @ SF Playhouse
A Rubik's cube of shifting love allegiances and convoluted gender bending, David Greenspan's She Stoops to Comedy is a breezy, mischievous...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Red Vic
What makes the 12 short films that comprise The Good Old Naughty Days so interesting — and at the same time...
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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 1/ 8 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Claire Jackel: Gravity Always Wins
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...
Friday 1/ 8 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Christine Webster: Transitions
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
"Oscar, Emmy and BAFTA award-winning director and producer Jon Blair takes us into the favelas...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Friday 1/ 8 @ Asian Art Museum
In the 19th-century Siam and Burma—two neighboring kingdoms in Southeast Asia—were renowned for their golden-roofed temples, lush gardens, and handsomely adorned...
Tyrone Davies: Single Channel Video Work
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Elbo Room
DJs VINNIE ESPARZA (Hella Tight) and B. CAUSE (4oneFunk)- The guys that brought you Free Funk Friday are back with TREAT...
Friday 1/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
MINE
Hailed as “absorbing,” “a must see,” “Oscar material” and “the best...
Friday 1/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN
