Events on Friday, June 11

Midnites for Maniacs: "She-roes" Triple Feature w/ Diablo Cody

Film: Double Feature

Midnites for Maniacs

Friday 6/11 @ The Castro Theatre

Brooke Busey goes by many names. Her stripper title was Bonbon, and when she started up her blog, the Pussy Ranch,... 

TokyoScope Talk Vol.4: Hot Tears of Shame

Special Event

Hot Tears of Shame

Friday 6/11 @ VIZ Cinema

From the '60s to the '80s, the Japanese movie industry churned out a genre of soft-core porn known as Pink Film.... 

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Fashion/Style

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Friday 6/11 @ The Lab

What's better than a clothing auction featuring local fashion designers' one-of-a-kind pieces? How about if the clothing auction is combined with... 

Tortoise

Music

Tortoise

Friday 6/11 @ Great American Music Hall

Tortoise mix prog, jazz, dub and rock into deconstructed, minimalist jams that you can lose yourself in without being bored. The... 

Sasha Polokow-Suransky / The Unspoken Alliance:  Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa

Special Event

Sasha Polokow-Suransky / The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa

Friday 6/11 @ The Booksmith

Woods w/ Kurt Vile, the Art Museums, and the Mantles

Music

Woods w/ Kurt Vile, the Art Museums, and the Mantles

Friday 6/11 @ Slim's

Slim's says: The distance between '07's At Rear House and '10's At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic, but... 

Ongoing Events

Peter S. Beagle's <em>Giant Bones</em>

Theatre

Peter S. Beagle's Giant Bones

Friday 6/11 @ EXIT Theatre

Peter S. Beagle had a literary agent at 17 and wrote his first novel at 19. He now holds an iconic... 

5th Annual DjangoFest

Festival: Music

5th Annual DjangoFest

Friday 6/11 @ 142 Throckmorton Theatre

Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt was born in a gypsy caravan on a road in Belgium. His mother gave him the nickname Django ("I... 

1:AM Gallery presents <em>Graphic Attack!</em>

Art

Graphic Attack!

Friday 6/11 @ 1:AM Gallery

The folks behind New York collective TrustoCorp have tossed aside the spray paint and developed their own technique for creating street... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Friday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Friday 6/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,... 

<em>This Is The Book I Have Written for You</em>: A Text Themed Art Show

Art

This is the Book I have Written for You

Friday 6/11 @ Park Life

Tucker Nichols is the artist behind anonymouspostcard.org. The site allows users to submit anonymous complaints which Nichols turns into works of... 

AIDS/LifeCycle 9

Special Event: Fundraisers

AIDS/LifeCycle

Friday 6/11 @ Cow Palace

420 gallons of coffee, 2.2 tons of oatmeal, 5,400 Pop Tarts, and 1,055 Porta-Potties. That is just a fraction of the... 

<em>Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf</em>

Art

Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf

Friday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Friday 6/11 @ Asian Art Museum

By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and... 

<em>The Golden Girls</em>

Comedy

The Golden Girls

Friday 6/11 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory

Trannyshack's campy tribute to Golden Girls is back. This time with new installments of their wildly popular, live-action, drag reenactments of... 

<em>Micmacs</em>

Film

Micmacs

Friday 6/11 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema

Director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is breaking up with Hollywood. He dismissed his first American film, Alien Resurrection (1997), as suitable only for... 

<em>More Glitter &mdash; Less Bitter</em>: Photos by Daniel Nicoletta

Art: Photography

More Glitter — Less Bitter: Photos by Daniel Nicoletta

Friday 6/11 @ Electric Works

In 1973 Harvey Milk opened a camera shop in the Castro, after a roll of film that he left at another... 

Thrillpeddlers presents <em>Pearls Over Shanghai</em>

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Friday 6/11 @ 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... 

John Waters:<em> Rush</em>

Art

John Waters: Rush

Friday 6/11 @ Rena Bransten Gallery

Poppers are the drug of choice for outré filmmaker John Waters. He confesses to once taking a huff of amyl nitrate... 

People's Torah

Art

People's Torah

Friday 6/11 @ 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... 

Dispatches from the Archives

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Friday 6/11 @ SFMOMA

How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced... 

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Art

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Friday 6/11 @ 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... 

The Anniversary Show

Art

The Anniversary Show

Friday 6/11 @ SFMOMA

On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's... 

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Friday 6/11 @ SFMOMA

How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the... 

Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection

Art

Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection

Friday 6/11 @ SFMOMA

Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by... 

The View from Here

Art

The View from Here

Friday 6/11 @ SFMOMA

Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has... 

Film

Film Screening: LIGHT IN THE WEST: PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER 1860-1880

Friday 6/11 @ SFMOMA

span<em>Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life</em>

Art

Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life

Friday 6/11 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique.... 

Ewan Gibbs: <em>San Francisco</em>

Art

Ewan Gibbs: San Francisco

Friday 6/11 @ SFMOMA

This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...