Events on Friday, July 9
Friday 7/ 9 @ Landmark Embarcadero
If it weren't for a little lady named Lisbeth Salander, and her creator Stieg Larsson, Americans might forever think of Sweden...
2010 Burning Man Temple Benefit
Friday 7/ 9 @ 103 Harriet St
In 2000, San Franciscan artist David Best went dumpster diving behind the BC Bones model dinosaur factory in Petaluma. He discovered...
Blue Plate Special - Show Jazz Dance Class
Friday 7/ 9 @ ODC
$6 Global Classes Each Week
Take a trip around the world right here at home with ODC and...
Skinlab + Attitude Adjustment + A Thousand Kingdoms + Un-I.D.
Friday 7/ 9 @ Slim's
The Bay Area bruisers Skinlab return after a three year hiatus, and this time they're in for the kill. Formed in...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/ 9 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Stag beetles are so beloved in Japan that they're known as "black diamonds" and are sold live in department stores and...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Roxie Theater
When Harmony Korine, the scriptwriter of Kids and the director of Gummo, was growing up in Nashville, there was a group...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
This is the Book I have Written for You
Friday 7/ 9 @ Park Life
Tucker Nichols is the artist behind anonymouspostcard.org. The site allows users to submit anonymous complaints which Nichols turns into works of...
Another Hole in the Head Film Festival
Friday 7/ 9 @ Roxie Theater
Some movies are measured by the quality of the acting — others, by the quantity of blood. You can treat yourself...
Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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 7/ 9 @ 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,...
More Glitter — Less Bitter: Photos by Daniel Nicoletta
Friday 7/ 9 @ Electric Works
In 1973 Harvey Milk opened a camera shop in the Castro, after a roll of film that he left at another...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Friday 7/ 9 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 7/ 9 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
Friday 7/ 9 @ SFMOMA
This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher...
Friday 7/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Mika Rottenberg’s immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women (not...
