Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Power & Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty

Asian Art Museum10 am to 5 pm, Until 9 pm on Thurs

Why are Ming vases cherished as exquisite artworks of majestic perfection? Find out at this unique exhibition of more than 200 Ming treasures…

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3: Ernesto Burgos, Kyle Ranson & Derrick Snodgrass

Gregory Lind Gallery10:30am - 5:30pm

"3" brings together New York artist Ernesto Burgos and Bay Area artists Kyle Ranson and Derrick Snodgrass whose sculpture and painting present…

Cold+Hot 2008

Micaela Gallery11am-7pm

COLD+HOT 2008" is an annual showcase of the work of select national and international glass artists together in a single exhibition. Featured…

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MIXTAPE Wednesday

Skylark Bar9pm - 2am

We got the beats! Resident DJs Strategy, Junot & Herb Digs plus special guests DJs & MCs droppin' your favorite hip-hop, reggae, r&b and old…

Kidz Bop Live

The Regency Ballroom2pm

Kidz Bop is a "series of popular music albums recorded for children." Songs are "recorded in cover versions with kids singing them, and lyrics…

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Sunset Sessions

The Hotel Vitale5pm - 8pm

Join the crew of OM Records all summer long on the patio of Hotel Vitale for it's 5pm - 8pm party with DJ's King Kooba, J Boogie's Dubtronic…

Birth of the Cool

Oakland Museum of California10am-5pm

The Oakland Museum of California goes from retro to metro in its 1950s-era Birth of the Cool and contemporary Cool Remixed exhibitions, opening…

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Baghead

Landmark's Lumiere Theatre(5:30) 7:30 9:30

Four desperate actors head off into the woods to write the next great American screenplay�without a clue as to how to get it done�in the new…

Future Forward: Exploring the Here and Now

Martin Family Hall, Menlo School7:30pm

Encounter IV Future Forward: Exploring the Here and Now with Ara Guzelimian Wednesday, August 6 7:30 p.m., Martin Family Hall, Menlo School Tickets:…

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The Exiles

Castro Theatre(2:30), 4:15, 6, 8, 9:45pm

Sherman Alexie and Charles Burnett present Kent MacKenzie�s incredible 1961 film chronicling a day in the life of a group of twenty-something…

Sex Workers' Writing Workshop

Center for Sex & Culture7pm - 9pm

This is a writing workshop for people who work or have worked in all areas of the sex industry to share their writing and get honest, non-judgemental…

Hump Night

Elbo Room9pm - afterhours

This month at the Hump Night party will feature DJ's: Kush Arora (Surya Dub/RLR) Salva + Mike Boo (Alpha Pup) Roy Two Thousand Scatter-Shot…

What You Will

American Conservatory Theater - ACT2pm; 8pm

What You Will is the one-man everything there is "to be or not to be" about William Shakespeare: the greatest soliloquies ever written next…

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Hecho por M�xico: The Films of Gabriel Figueroa

Pacific Film Archive (PFA)6:30pm: Victims of Sin; 8:10pm: The Fugitive

Gabriel Figueroa was more than a cinematographer. A consummate artist, he captured with grandeur a sense of Mexico that would, as the poet Carlos…

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Kathleen Lolley

Giant Robot SF11:30am - 8pm

Giant Robot is proud to present Myth & Magic, a solo show by Kathleen Lolley. Lolley is a Louisville, Kentucky-based artist, animator, and…

Josette Urso

Chandler Fine Art9am - 6pm

In these collage works, there is the desire to push the visual matrix to a crescendo just before breakdown, to find, in T.S. Eliot's phrase,"The…

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Wet Wednesdays

The Riptide9pm - 2am

Wet Wednesdays at Riptide is the place to be at if your down for a surf movie night and some free food. Come down to Riptide and check it out!

415.681.TIDE

Alicia Dattner, Katie Rubin, and Barbara Michaels

The Garage8pm

Alicia Dattner, Katie Rubin, and Barbara Michaels doing three evenings of solo-show work together. Alicia Dattner, "Eat, Pray, Laugh" Eat,…

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Let Us Now Praise San Francisco

Marx & ZavatteroTue-Fri 10:30-5:30; Sat 11-5

Join us July 12 - August 16 for our summer group show co-curated by San Francisco author, filmmaker, and raconteur Robert Mailer Anderson. The…

415-627-9111

Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11am-5pm

Photography is an act of concentrated seeing, and by extension an act of knowing. Its origins are intrinsically linked to the idea of the �document,�…

(510) 643-9989