Thursday, August 07, 2008

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2008

Yerba Buena Gardenssee web site for times

The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents music, theater, dance, cultural events, educational and children�s programs, reflecting the rich cultures…

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Bad Habits

Theatre Rhinoceros8:00

Terrence McNally's comedy BAD HABITS is set in competing medical facilities, each designed to help people deal with their bad habits. One place…

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Frida Kahlo

SFMOMA11am - 5:45pm, till 8:40pm on Thu

Exhibit showcases 50 paintings from the beginning of Frida Kahlo's career in 1926 to her death in 1954. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo began…

Music Now: Voices of Our Time

St. Mark's Episcopal Church8pm6pm Free Prelude Performance; 3…

Music Now: Voices of Our Time The wealth of ideas expressed in music has always evolved alongside the march of history; as we enter the twenty-first…

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8 Tracks and Wallbangers

Fecal Face Dot Gallery6pm - 9pmopening reception

The gallery is covered in Mike Shine's harmonously colored drift wood paintings which are hung on his site specific wall murals. We will be…

White Trash Fridays

The Riptide4pm - 7pm

Alisha from Riptide makes home cooked meals like your mamma used to make. Blushin' bunnies, Tuna noodle casserole, wharever she feels. It's…

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Encounters at the End of the World

Roxie Theater7pm

Writer/director/narrator Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations. With…

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Liza Raynal's AMERICAN JOE

The Marsh - Berkeley8pm80 minutes no intermission

Sister. Brother. She's older. He always wanted to be first. She wears ballet flats. He wears steel-toed boots. They're both exercising their…

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Superstition Obstacle Course

Exploratorium10am � 5pm, Close Mondays

For many people, Friday the 13th suggests bad luck -- but is it really tempting fate or taking a risk to break a mirror? Are you Breaking a…

A Brand New Me

New Conservatory Theatre8pm

The New Conservatory Theatre Center Summer Cabaret Series presents... Connie Champange in A Brand New Me! The Dusty Springfield Songbook Directed…

Timothy Cummings

Catharine Clark Gallery10:30am - 5:30pm

Catharine Clark Gallery Solo Exhibition: Timothy Cummings: "Last Call" Installation: Sandow Birk selections from "Leading Causes of Death…

Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Librarycall for details

Displays of original Beethoven manuscripts, first editions, a lock of the composer's hair, art and demonstrations of historical keyboards. Fifth…

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The Butterfly Zone: The Conservatory of Flowers� exhibition of live butterflies

Conservatory of Flowers9 AM- 5 PM Closed Mondays

Fly on over to the Conservatory of Flowers this spring because the butterflies are back, and there are more than ever. The popular exhibit…

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Radialvedic

Johansson Projectsnoon - 6pm

Johansson Projects presents Radialvedic, an art exhibit which explores the subtleties of intrigue with simple objects, zippers, needles, ink…

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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Images of Mexico

Scott Nichols Gallery11am - 5pm

Scott Nichols Gallery will concurrently present photographs by contemporaries of Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera who photographed in Mexico. Amongst…

Chihuly at the de Young

de Young Museum9:30am�8:45pm

New, site-specific installations by glass artist Dale Chihuly. Chihuly at the de Young takes a comprehensive view of the artist�s dramatic,…

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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Celebrating 25 Years Of The Folsom Street Fair

GLBT Historical Museum1-5pm

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society and Folsom Street Events� are celebrating 25 years of the Folsom Street Fair…

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XXY

Landmark's Lumiere Theatre(12:30 2:45) 5:00 7:15 9:15

Adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15-year-old Alex…