Events on Friday, June 18
Friday 6/18 @ Avedano's Holly Park Market
Avedano's Holly Park Market says: At the rate we're going, scientists say we may overfish our ocean's bounty within the next...
Friday 6/18 @ DNA Lounge
In the 1940s, Angel Walker was a Catholic schoolgirl who lived in the Marina and dreamed of being a nun. By...
Friday 6/18 @ Paramount Theatre
Nothing on Erykah Badu's New Amerykah sequel, Return of the Ankh, seizes your attention like, say, someone stripping and being gunned...
Friday 6/18 @ The Independent
The Independent says: He's like a shark. Albeit a stone cold funked-up, sonically obsessed, romantically soulful killer shark. And he isn't...
MANICATO Album Release Show with Bang Data
Friday 6/18 @ Elbo Room
MANICATO Founded in SF's Mission district...
Friday 6/18 @ Slim's
The London-based new wave group Wang Chung was originally called Huang Chung. The band consisted of vocalist/guitarist Jack Hues, bassist Nick...
Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express
Friday 6/18 @ Great American Music Hall
Chuck Prophet got more than he bargained for. He and his band ventured to Mexico City to record the follow-up to...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/18 @ EXIT Theatre
Peter S. Beagle had a literary agent at 17 and wrote his first novel at 19. He now holds an iconic...
Friday 6/18 @ Various locations
On February 9 1977, Daniel Nicoletta and David Waggoner, two photographers who worked in Harvey Milk's Castro Camera store, organized the...
This is the Book I have Written for You
Friday 6/18 @ Park Life
Tucker Nichols is the artist behind anonymouspostcard.org. The site allows users to submit anonymous complaints which Nichols turns into works of...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Rena Bransten Gallery
Poppers are the drug of choice for outré filmmaker John Waters. He confesses to once taking a huff of amyl nitrate...
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
Friday 6/18 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
You gotta love movies where people smoke during love-making and cut their corsets off with scissors. Henry & June meets Immortal...
More Glitter — Less Bitter: Photos by Daniel Nicoletta
Friday 6/18 @ Electric Works
In 1973 Harvey Milk opened a camera shop in the Castro, after a roll of film that he left at another...
Friday 6/18 @ Robert C. Levy Tunnel
British artist Paul Curtis (aka Moose) prefers to keep it clean. He's the originator of a process known as reverse graffiti,...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama
Friday 6/18 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Black Panther Angela Davis and her trademark afro spent two months on the FBI's most wanted list in 1970, after the...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 1:AM Gallery
The folks behind New York collective TrustoCorp have tossed aside the spray paint and developed their own technique for creating street...
Friday 6/18 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Film Screening: LIGHT IN THE WEST: PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER 1860-1880
Friday 6/18 @ SFMOMA
spanArt
Friday 6/18 @ 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
Friday 6/18 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Friday 6/18 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Friday 6/18 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Friday 6/18 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
