Events on Friday, April 2
Comic Strip: A Burlesque Spectacular!
Friday 4/ 2 @ DNA Lounge
It's WonderCon weekend and the Fishnet Follies are redefining the meaning of "comic strip" with their burlesque Superhero show. See Mynx...
Two Together One: Stanton Kaye & Jim McBride
Friday 4/ 2 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (map) Jim McBride and Stanton Kaye in-person presented in association with Tosca Cafe...
Honor Society / Just Kait / Ashlyne Huff
Friday 4/ 2 @ Great American Music Hall
Honor Society has quickly become one of the most talked about bands of 2009. Since the spring, Honor Society has been...
Scraping For Change + Solid State Logic + Cloverleaf Drive + Fever Charm
Friday 4/ 2 @ Slim's
Scraping For Change (SFC) is a Bay Area based band that is redefining modern day rock. Expanding on the...
David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Booksmith
Reality TV dominates broadband. YouTube and Facebook dominate the web. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, his landmark new book, David Shields...
MANICATO, PALENKE SOULTRIBE (L.A.), FUNKY C & JOY
Friday 4/ 2 @ Elbo Room
Founded in SF's Mission district in 2004 by Israel Matos,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Friday 4/ 2 @ CounterPULSE
José Navarette doesn't just want his audience to groove, he wants them to move too — to take action against the...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Moscone Center
Set phasers to stun. WonderCon is beaming down to Moscone Center for three nerd-tastic days of sci-fi, fantasy, and comic mania....
Friday 4/ 2 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Friday 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Friday 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Friday 4/ 2 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
