All events on Thursday July 24

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Music: Rock/Pop
Darker My Love
Thursday July 24 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
Free
Darker My Love's overdriven soul isn't the most original thing in the world — imagine the Jesus and Mary Chain channeled by Brian Jonestown Massacre... View details »
Darker My Love
Music: Experimental
William Hooker
Thursday July 24 (8:30pm) @ 21 Grand
Though William Hooker's style is steeped in jazz, the drummer has shattered the preconceptions of that genre en route to absolute musical freedom. Hooker got... View details »
William Hooker
Music: DJ
Drop the Lime
Thursday July 24 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
The boys of Bersa Discos have just been killing it lately. From their monthly Tormenta Tropical party to their own idiosyncratic label, Disco Shawn and... View details »
Drop the Lime
Film: Documentary
The Last Zapatistas, Forgotten Heroes
Thursday July 24 (8:30pm) @ Carlos Club
Free
Eighty years after the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was killed in an ambush, filmmaker Francesco Taboada Tabone set out to interview the last surviving members... View details »
The Last Zapatistas, Forgotten Heroes
Film: Festival
Jewish Film Festival
Thursday July 24 @ Various locations More times »
With movies set in locations around the world, this year's SF Jewish Film Festival could easily double as an international film fest. The 28th edition... View details »
Jewish Film Festival

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Art
Tim Lee
Thursday July 24 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Art
Dale Chihuly
Thursday July 24 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
Dale Chihuly
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Thursday July 24 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
2nd Skin
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Thursday July 24 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
Free
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
Art & Artifice
Art
Frida Kahlo
Thursday July 24 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
Frida Kahlo
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Thursday July 24 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Art
American Symbols
Thursday July 24 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
American Symbols
Art
Half-Life of a Dream
Thursday July 24 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
Half-Life of a Dream
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Thursday July 24 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
Trevor Paglen
More Flavor: Exhibition
Birth of the Cool
Thursday July 24 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
Birth of the Cool
More Flavor: Festival
Victory Gardens 2008+
Thursday July 24 @ City Hall More times »
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green activist Amy Franceschini joins... View details »
Victory Gardens 2008+
Art
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Thursday July 24 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually became a generation's time... View details »
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Art: Photography
Tammy Rae Carland
Thursday July 24 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann Cvetkovich's lauded book. Between... View details »
Tammy Rae Carland
Art
INsects INsectos
Thursday July 24 (10am–7pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
INsects INsectos
Art
Timothy Cummings
Thursday July 24 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery More times »
Free
Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and soaking up the Spanish... View details »
Timothy Cummings
More Flavor: Exhibition
Superstition Obstacle Course
Thursday July 24 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
Superstition Obstacle Course
Art
Women Impressionists
Thursday July 24 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
Women Impressionists
Art: Photography
The Art of Lee Miller
Thursday July 24 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless... View details »
The Art of Lee Miller
Performing Arts: Theatre
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Thursday July 24 @ Hypnodrome More times »
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Art: Festival
MOVE>SOUND
Thursday July 24 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
MOVE>SOUND
Art: Photography
New American Fables
Thursday July 24 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
Free
Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic narratives rarely end with... View details »
New American Fables
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Thursday July 24 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
Ground Scores
Art
A Complicated Dominion
Thursday July 24 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
A Complicated Dominion
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Thursday July 24 (noon–8pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
Bay Area Now 5
Film
Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
Thursday July 24 @ SFMOMA More times »
Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy — Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1949), and The Testament of Orpheus (1959) — spans... View details »
Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
Art
Insider/Outsider
Thursday July 24 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division More times »
Free
Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San... View details »
Insider/Outsider
Music: Jazz/Blues
North Beach Jazz Fest
Thursday July 24 @ Various locations More times »
Although NIMBYs had the North Beach Jazz Fest marked for extinction, the summer institution has persevered, adding four new evening shows and new venues to... View details »
North Beach Jazz Fest
Art
Open for Business
Thursday July 24 (5–8pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
Open for Business
Art
Radialvedic
Thursday July 24 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the three artists here work... View details »
Radialvedic
Art: Photography
Windows on Nature
Thursday July 24 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
Windows on Nature
Film
The Wackness
Thursday July 24 @ Various locations More times »
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
The Wackness
Art
Hum
Thursday July 24 (2–5pm) @ Project Artaud Theater More times »
Free
The drone moves across a remarkable spread of human activity, from religious chanting and doom metal to the whir of white noise. For Hum,... View details »
Hum
Art
Jennifer Merrill
Thursday July 24 @ Iceberger Gallery More times »
Free
Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting... View details »
Jennifer Merrill
Art
Kiki
Thursday July 24 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
Kiki
Art: Photography
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Thursday July 24 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean Drapeau's two controversial tenures.... View details »
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Performing Arts: Theatre
What You Will
Thursday July 24 (8pm) @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
Roger Rees has a decidedly multifaceted career. Stateside, he's best known for slapstick roles like the snooty-yet-sexy Robin Colcord on Cheers, or the tongue-in-cheek Sheriff... View details »
What You Will
Art
Ted Pushinsky
Thursday July 24 (10am–10pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter More times »
Free
Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls to boxing rings to... View details »
Ted Pushinsky
Art
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Thursday July 24 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are paired, Maria Antelman's coupling... View details »
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Art
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Thursday July 24 (noon–8pm) @ Park Life More times »
Free
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a deeper unease. Inspired by... View details »
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Art: Photography
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Thursday July 24 (8am–8pm) @ City Hall More times »
Free
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working in a range of... View details »
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Art
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Thursday July 24 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Free
After having spent the last few generations ridding themselves of modernism's pungent aftertaste, the art world's contemporary painters are finally up to the task of... View details »
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Film: Documentary
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Thursday July 24 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Art
Room for Thought
Thursday July 24 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
Room for Thought
Art
Mariah Johnson
Thursday July 24 (1–6pm) @ The Lab More times »
Free
Mariah Johnson's installations re-envision household order as natural phenomena, draping and wrapping bed linens over chairs, walls, and floors in ways that twist the familiar... View details »
Mariah Johnson
Film
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Thursday July 24 (7 & 9pm) @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Film: Festival
Bicycle Film Festival
Thursday July 24 @ Various locations More times »
Now cycling through 17 cities worldwide, the Bicycle Film Festival screens some of the year's finest two-wheeler films — music videos, documentary shorts, and brief... View details »
Bicycle Film Festival
Art
Fanee
Thursday July 24 (noon–7pm) @ The Shooting Gallery More times »
Free
Fanee's Holla at the Bay is a provocative portrayal of female objectification and sexuality that leaves little to the imagination. Two-dozen postcard-sized marker drawings depict... View details »
Fanee
Film: Documentary
Chris & Don: A Love Story
Thursday July 24 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer Christopher Isherwood (his Berlin... View details »
Chris & Don: A Love Story
Art
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Thursday July 24 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
Free
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and embroiders the headline images,... View details »
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Art
We Remember the Sun
Thursday July 24 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
Free
Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
 We Remember the Sun