Events on Friday, July 2
Friday 7/ 2 @ Great American Music Hall
Set for a June 29 release on the band's recently created label, Terrible Thrills, Steel Train is an infectious album, produced by...
Cage w/ Hate Your Guts and DJ Chauncey
Friday 7/ 2 @ Slim's
Depart From Me is the latest full-length album from underground/indie-rap legend Cage, a.k.a. Chris Palko. The follow-up to Hell's Winter, his...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/ 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 7/ 2 @ Cobb's Comedy Club
One of Charlie Murphy's first jobs was acting as bodyguard for his younger brother, comedian Eddie. He ended up following his...
Friday 7/ 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...
More Glitter — Less Bitter: Photos by Daniel Nicoletta
Friday 7/ 2 @ Electric Works
In 1973 Harvey Milk opened a camera shop in the Castro, after a roll of film that he left at another...
Friday 7/ 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...
Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas
Friday 7/ 2 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
The Pansy Craze was a period in the '20s and '30s when gay performers ("pansies") and gay clubs started to gain...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Rena Bransten Gallery
Poppers are the drug of choice for outré filmmaker John Waters. He confesses to once taking a huff of amyl nitrate...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Roxie Theater
SOMA-based artist Frank Kozik is a big Hello Kitty fan. In 1996 he traveled to Tokyo and had dinner with friend...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Woody's Cafe
In 1943, Kasper Koojoolian established Kasper's Hot Dogs in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood. His grandson Harry Yaglijian, the third-generation owner of the...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Landmark Bridge Theater
Prince Rogers Nelson has gone from musician, to filmmaker, to sex symbol, to unpronounceable symbol, and back — all the while...
This is the Book I have Written for You
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 7/ 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 7/ 2 @ Roxie Theater
"I remember when I was a child there was a small group of elderly people who would hang out in the...
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
Friday 7/ 2 @ SFMOMA
This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Friday 7/ 2 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Friday 7/ 2 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Friday 7/ 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...
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
Friday 7/ 2 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 7/ 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 7/ 2 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
