Events on Saturday, July 31

Bicycle Music Festival

Festival

Bicycle Music Festival

Saturday 7/31 @ Golden Gate Park

The Bicycle Music Festival is a 100 percent pedal-powered music festival that kicks off at Speedway Meadows and then bike-parades through... 

40th Anniversary of Black Tot Day

Food/Wine

40th Anniversary of Black Tot Day

Saturday 7/31 @ Smuggler's Cove

In 1655, the British Royal Navy began doling out rum to its men, and the spirit has permeated sailors' stories ever... 

<em>Wild at Heart</em> (1990) Uncut

Film

Wild at Heart

Saturday 7/31 @ Bridge Theatre

Bridge Theatre says: Novelist Barry Gifford's saga of lovers on the run gets filtered through the singular eye of screenwriter/director... 

Malo + Lava + Blanca

Music

Malo + Lava + Blanca

Saturday 7/31 @ Great American Music Hall

The story of this enduring Latin rock band begins with lead singer Arcelio Garcia. As a teenager, Arcelio joined a friend's... 

Tony O'Neill: <em>Sick City</em>

Books: Reading

Tony O'Neill: Sick City

Saturday 7/31 @ The Booksmith

Swingin' Utters w/ Cute Lepers and Stagger and Fall

Music

Swingin' Utters w/ Cute Lepers and Stagger and Fall

Saturday 7/31 @ Slim's

Originally formed in the late '80s, the Swingin' Utters brought their own brand of aggressive music to the growing Bay Area... 

Ongoing Events

Wanderlust w/ DJ Moby

Festival: Music

Wanderlust

Saturday 7/31 @ Squaw Valley USA

Wanderlust is where yoga retreat meets indie-rock festival. It was founded in 2009 by music exec Jeff Krasno and his yoga... 

Dave Eggers: <em>It Is Right to Draw Their Fur </em>and David Byrne:<em> Arboretum </em>

Art

Dave Eggers: It Is Right to Draw Their Fur and David Byrne: Arboretum

Saturday 7/31 @ Electric Works

SF author Dave Eggers and Talking Heads musician David Byrne are buddies. They go on bike rides together in the Marin... 

Free Gold Watch presents Grady Gordon: <em>Memento Vivere</em>

Art

Grady Gordon: Memento Vivere

Saturday 7/31 @ Free Gold Watch

Grady Gordon says: Grady Gordon is originally from Santa Fe, NM. He has a BFA in Illustration from California College of... 

Tracy Morgan

Comedy

Tracy Morgan

Saturday 7/31 @ Cobb's Comedy Club

Tracy Morgan is well-endowed. He claims that a previous partner likened their love-making sessions to getting stuffed with Stove Top stuffing,... 

<em>Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities</em>

Special Event

Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities

Saturday 7/31 @ Fort Mason Center

Wunderkammern, German for wonder rooms, were totally hot during the Renaissance. These collections of bizarre objects and early scientific specimens were... 

Renegade Craft Fair

Art: Happening

Renegade Craft Fair

Saturday 7/31 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion

The aisles of the Renegade Craft Fair are like the best of Etsy.com coming to life. Chicagoans Sue Daly and Kathleen... 

Shanghai San Francisco

Special Event

Shanghai SF

Saturday 7/31 @ Coit Tower

Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Saturday 7/31 @ 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>Winnebago Man</em>

Film: Documentary

Winnebago Man

Saturday 7/31 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre

Jack Rebney has been dubbed "the world's angriest RV salesman." In the summer of '88, a group of disgruntled crew members... 

Joe Goode Performance Group presents <em>Traveling Light</em>

Dance

Traveling Light

Saturday 7/31 @ Old Mint Building

Traveling Light, Joe Goode Performance Group's latest production, is aptly titled. The local company doesn't need to bring much with them... 

<em>Beatles to Bowie</em>

Art: Photography

Beatles to Bowie

Saturday 7/31 @ San Francisco Art Exchange

The Beatles to Bowie photography showcase is about rock stars and also the people behind the camera. The show includes rare... 

<em>Pixar: 25 Years of Animation</em>

Film: Animation

Pixar: 25 Years of Animation

Saturday 7/31 @ Oakland Museum of California

Pixar Chief Scientist Loren Carpenter is obsessed with zoetropes — the spinning "wheels of life" that were one of the first... 

Oakland Lost and Found Photo Show

Art: Photography

Oakland Lost and Found

Saturday 7/31 @ 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... 

<em>Cremaster Cycle</em>

Film

Cremaster Cycle

Saturday 7/31 @ Roxie Theater

Conceptual artist Matthew Barney first learned the word "cremaster" at his sister's wedding. He was talking to his family physician, Dr.... 

30th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Festival: Film

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Saturday 7/31 @ Various locations

In its 30th year, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival showcases complex perspectives on Jewish identity. One angle: Jews are badass.... 

<em>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Saturday 7/31 @ Asian Art Museum

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

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

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Saturday 7/31 @ 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... 

<em>Misspelled</em>: An Alphabet by Victor Reyes

Art

Misspelled

Saturday 7/31 @ Robert Berman Gallery/E6

Over the past two years, a series of electric-colored letters have sprouted up around the Mission. With their swirls and flourishes,... 

TechnoCraft:<em> </em>Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of Individuality

Art

TechnoCraft

Saturday 7/31 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

SF-based industrial designer Yves Béhar has designed a waterproof rechargeable vibrator, dog accessories, the XO laptop, and an enormous Swarovski chandelier... 

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection

Art

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher... 

Art

SFMOMA Live Art presents Rebecca Solnit

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

Solnit's forthcoming book Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas... 

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

Art

Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life

Saturday 7/31 @ 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

Art

Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

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

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

Art: Photography

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition spanPeople's Torah

Art

People's Torah

Saturday 7/31 @ 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)

Art

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

Saturday 7/31 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) is the first museum survey of Maira Kalman’s narrative
... 

A Spirited Life in the Secular World: Brother David Steindl-Rast and Sam Keen / Lecture & Workshop

Workshop/Class

A Spirited Life in the Secular World: Brother David Steindl-Rast and Sam Keen / Lecture & Workshop

Saturday 7/31 @ Berkeley Arts and Letters

New Work: Mika Rottenberg

Film

New Work: Mika Rottenberg

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

Mika Rottenberg’s immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women (not... 

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Art

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Saturday 7/31 @ 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

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

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

ODC/Dance Summer Sampler

Dance

ODC/Dance Summer Sampler

Saturday 7/31 @ ODC

Join ODC for its fourth annual Summer Sampler
A Delicious Sampling of Wine, Hors d'Oeuvres and Dance
... 

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

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

Dispatches from the Archives

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

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

Picturing Modernity

Art: Photography

Picturing Modernity

Saturday 7/31 @ SFMOMA

Organized in conjunction with New Topographics: Photographs of a...