Events on Friday, March 26
Friday 3/26 @ Mezzanine
Lo-fi fanatics freak-out! Neon Indian (a.k.a. Alan Palomo) drives his tour bus from the studios of Jimmy Fallon to...
Friday 3/26 @ Gallery 16
San Francisco native Tommy Guerrero started out as a skater. He shredded through his youth with the famous Bones Brigade crew,...
Friday 3/26 @ Fox Theater
Twelve years after Moon Safari, Air floats onward where other analog-gizmo fetishists have stalled. It's down to Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas...
Trannyshack David Bowie Tribute Night
Friday 3/26 @ DNA Lounge
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on this week as the glam babes of Trannyshack pay tribute to the...
Friday 3/26 @ Mission High School Auditorium
Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things. Give your ears a treat and your...
Friday 3/26 @ California College of the Arts
Reception: 4–5 p.m. for all participating employers, students, alumni, and faculty CCA's Career Expo is open to undergraduate and graduate students,...
Friday 3/26 @ SFMOMA
Smith’s Arts & Skills Service considers SFMOMA’s original location in the War Memorial Veterans Building...
A McSweeny's Evening with Jessica Anthony and Chris Adrian
Friday 3/26 @ The Booksmith
Jessica Anthony’s The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to...
The Low Anthem / Timbre Timber / The Barr Brothers (of The Slip)
Friday 3/26 @ Great American Music Hall
Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
June 9, 2009 The Low Anthem's Nonesuch debut offers an elegant and original take on Americana,...
4oneFunktion: DJs Apollo & Shortkut
Friday 3/26 @ Elbo Room
4ONEFUNKTION feat APOLLO & SHORTKUT (Invisbl Skratch Piklz) on 4 Turntables! plus...
The Fall of Troy (farewell tour!) + Envy On The Coast + Twin Atlantic
Friday 3/26 @ Slim's
For the past seven years The Fall of Troy has been ignoring fleeting musical and fashion trends as its members...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Creativity Explored
Hold that tiger! Creativity Explored's new exhibit, inspired by the Chinese Lunar New Year's regal symbol, has plenty of tigers burning...
Friday 3/26 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Friday 3/26 @ Various locations
SFMOMA isn't the only cultural institution in town celebrating a milestone this year. In honor of its 40th anniversary the city-run...
Friday 3/26 @ 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....
Friday 3/26 @ New Conservatory Theatre
The Sugar Witch mashes-up myth, Southern Gothic, and same-sex romance. Annabelle, the protagonist witch's magic power is storytelling. With it, she...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 18 Reasons
Scratch 'n' sniff usually gets relegated to Lisa Frank novelties, but To Curry Favor, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik's latest exhibit at the...
Friday 3/26 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 3/26 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
The exhibition is the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellia's, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005. The...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Mission: Comics & Art
Aaron Zonka's art comically depicts the difference between a "hip ster" (a sunglass donned man who is rapidly stirring a cup-of-joe)...
Friday 3/26 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
When the MSM is as focused on the health care gridlock as Tiger Woods' infidelities, it's easy to forget there is...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 3/26 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 3/26 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Friday 3/26 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Friday 3/26 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Friday 3/26 @ ODC
Reserve the edge of your seat. 3 Different Programs. 2 World-class Choreographers. 1 Extraordinary Company. World premieres by...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Moments (Bringing Back the Now) #3: Formations/Fal-Core
Friday 3/26 @ SOMArts
Join SOMArts this Friday for the third performance in the series Moments (Bringing Back the Now). Formations...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Friday 3/26 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Friday 3/26 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
