Saturday, May 19, 2012

Do Not Destroy; Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought

The Contemporary Jewish Museum11am-5pm

From the very first chapters of the Torah where one encounters them in the Garden of Eden, to the commandment Bal Tashchit (do not destroy)…

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Cochon 555 SF

The Fairmont San Francisco3:30pm - 8:30pm

Hyper-Local Culinary Competition Sets Course on Changing the Food System. Cochon 555, the country�s most talked about culinary competition…

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2012 San Francisco Decorator Showcase

2020 Jackson Street11am - 4pm

WHAT: 2012 San Francisco Decorator Showcase 
 The annual San Francisco Decorator Showcase is the West Coast�s premiere design showhouse…

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Flight to Mars

The Independent8pm (7:30 doors)

Flight to Mars, a tribute to 1970s English heavy rockers UFO featuring Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready, hits the road this May in celebration…

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Bay to Breakers "PRE-GAME"

Eve Lounge - CLOSED7am-11amNo cover

Get your �pre-game� on at EVE lounge Sunday May 20th before you race. FULL BAR and LIBATIONS will be served before you walk or run with characters. Eve…

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New Work (Katharina Wulff)

SFMOMAall day

Imbued with whimsy and gloom, vulnerability and strength, Katharina Wulff's figurative paintings blend myriad art historical styles, depicting…

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The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

de Young Museum9:30am - 5:15pm, till 8:45pm on Friday

Dubbed fashion�s enfant terrible, Jean Paul Gaultier launched his first pr�t-�-porter collection in 1976 and founded his own couture house in…

Plantosaurus Rex

Conservatory of Flowers10 AM - 4 PM

Step back in time � WAY back in time as the Conservatory of Flowers transports you to a real life land of the lost in its newest exhibition…

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Narrows

Rickshaw Stop8pm

NARROWS Spread out across both the United States and two continents, Narrows exists despite geographical inconveniences for the sole purpose…

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Family Sunday

SFMOMA11:00am-3:00pm

Ideas are one thing, what happens is another. See what can happen when you transform your big ideas into art. Let your imagination run with…

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Food photography workshop

Contigo10am-4pm

Renowned The New York Times food photographer Andrew Scrivani will be leading 2 hands-on workshops in San Francisco this May 19 and 20! In this…

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Honey Soundsystem: Prosumer

Holy Cow9pm - 2am

Won�t you dance with me? This is of course a rhetorical question. There are few DJs that would rather get a yes. Since the Berliner-by-choice…

La Boulange - Baker's Dinner

La Boulange Bakery5:30-7:30

Starting March 21, the San Francisco based bakery, La Boulange, will offer a limited number of guests an intimate family style dinner at their…

Avengers Assemble

Cartoon Art Museum11am � 5pm

The Cartoon Art Museum celebrates five decades of Earth�s Mightiest Heroes with Avengers Assemble!, an exhibition featuring some of the most…

Photography In Mexico

SFMOMA10am - 5:45pm, Thu till 8:45pm

Presenting a complex synthesis of art and politics, this exhibition explores Mexico's distinctively rich and diverse photography tradition from…

New Dimensions: Prints and Multiples from the Anderson Collection

de Young Museum9:30am - 5:15pm, till 8:45pm on Friday

The original objective of Los Angeles�based print workshop Gemini G.E.L. was to print and publish prints. During its first decade, however,…

Deep Blue After-Afterhours

Monroe6am - 2pm

Monroe's weekly Sunday morning debauchery brings you an amped up installation to house your afterhours search with DeepBlu and Surprise Guest…

Phantoms of Asia

Asian Art Museum10am - 5pm, Thu till 9pm

One of the most interesting things for the exhibitions team is discovering the way the objects from Phantoms of Asia have been packed. Since…

Dance Elixir

Marines Memorial Theatre 8pm

Thieves (2012, World Premiere) Presented by Dance Elixir and SFIAF While pursuing clarity, an inner conflict arises where one can get engulfed…

Manifest Destiny! SoEx Off-Site's newest public art project by Jenny Chapman and Mark A. Reigelman II

Hotel des Arts12am-11pm

Jenny Chapman and Mark Reigelman's Manifest Destiny! is a temporary rustic cabin occupying one of the last remaining unclaimed spaces of downtown…

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