All events on Sunday April 27

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Music: Rock/Pop
Les Savy Fav
Sunday Apr 27 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is, best grab your vitals... View details »
Les Savy Fav
Music: Jazz/Blues
Lee Konitz
Sunday Apr 27 (7pm) @ Novellus Theater
Though Lee Konitz is still closely associated with the "cool" jazz that flourished in the '40s and '50s, his decades-long discography runs the gamut from... View details »
Lee Konitz
Performing Arts: Dance
May Day
Sunday Apr 27 (8pm) @ CounterPULSE
In appreciation of three years of CounterPULSE's nurturing and indispensible presence in the Bay Area's performing-arts world, dancers from a variety of companies have filled... View details »
May Day
Music: Rock/Pop
Pre
Sunday Apr 27 (8:30pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Led with cheery ferocity by lead singer/violent contortionist Akiko Matsuura, English band Pre pick up the shards of the most caustic No Wave traditions and... View details »
Pre
Film
Films by Michael Robinson
Sunday Apr 27 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Michael Robinson's gentle short films use montage and re-appropriation to uncover the "poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience." Sources as disparate as... View details »
Films by Michael Robinson
Music: Rock/Pop
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Sunday Apr 27 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
Like an eager child with a coloring book, Stephen Malkmus scribbles noisy fragments over familiar structures. With Pavement, he absorbed the sweetened thrash of '80s... View details »
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Art: Photography
Bus Obscura
Sunday Apr 27 (noon–3pm) @ RayKo Photo Center
Free
In celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, Simon Lee's Bus Obscura rolls into town, offering free rides and a fresh perspective on our beautiful city... View details »
Bus Obscura

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Art
An-My Lê
Sunday Apr 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Art
Gilbert & George
Sunday Apr 27 @ de Young Museum More times »
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
Gilbert & George
Art: Photography
Friedlander
Sunday Apr 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
Friedlander
Art
Enrique Chagoya
Sunday Apr 27 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
Enrique Chagoya
Art: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Sunday Apr 27 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
Annie Leibovitz
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Sunday Apr 27 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture — as an integral element... View details »
The Fabric of Cultures
Performing Arts: Dance
Bay Area National Dance Week
Sunday Apr 27 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the city's landscape, packs street... View details »
Bay Area National Dance Week
Art
In Collaboration
Sunday Apr 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
In Collaboration
Art
Drama and Desire
Sunday Apr 27 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum More times »
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
Drama and                    Desire
Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Sunday Apr 27 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The... View details »
Protest in Paris 1968
More Flavor: Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
Sunday Apr 27 @ Various locations More times »
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco International Film Festival is... View details »
San Francisco International Film Festival
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Sunday Apr 27 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
The Way That We Rhyme
Performing Arts: Comedy
Point Break LIVE!
Sunday Apr 27 @ Xenodrome More times »
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown theater and it's, like,... View details »
Point Break LIVE!
Art: Photography
Robert Adler
Sunday Apr 27 (2–8pm) @ Hyde Street Gallery More times »
Free
Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses on the grit behind... View details »
Robert Adler
Art
Self-Storage
Sunday Apr 27 (noon–4pm) @ Self Storage More times »
Free
Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic scrapbook that documents the... View details »
Self-Storage
Art
Neu Wave Feminism
Sunday Apr 27 (noon–6pm) @ Femina Potens Gallery More times »
Free
Radical, queer-friendly gallery Femina Potens presents Neu Wave Feminism, a bold collection of subversive works that spotlights feminism's shifting borders. The stripped-down look at female... View details »
Neu Wave Feminism
Film
Jellyfish
Sunday Apr 27 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
Jellyfish
Art
Paul Sietsema
Sunday Apr 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
Paul Sietsema