All events on Sunday July 06
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- Allen Toussaint
- Sunday July 6 (2pm) @ Stern Grove
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- We Are Scientists
- Sunday July 6 (8pm) @ The Independent
- Giveaway
- NY indie rockers We Are Scientists burst onto the scene a few years ago with the snappy, punky single "Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt" and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Todd Rundgren
- Sunday July 6 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
- Press for Todd Rundgren frequently misquotes the BBC, claiming that he is "is universally regarded as one of the most influential and innovative music artists... View details »
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- Fritz Haeg
- Sunday July 6 (11am–3pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- Free
- It's notable enough when art-addled architects redirect their creative attention to the natural world — think Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house, or Andy Goldsworthy's structural... View details »
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- Art
- Dale Chihuly
- Sunday July 6 (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 »
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- 2nd Skin
- Sunday July 6 (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 »
- Art
- Frida Kahlo
- Sunday July 6 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- The Reggae Scrapbook
- Sunday July 6 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
- Free
- The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and archives, award-winning photographer Peter... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- Sunday July 6 (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 »
- Art
- American Symbols
- Sunday July 6 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- Sunday July 6 (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 »
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- Birth of the Cool
- Sunday July 6 (noon–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 »
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- Fillmore Jazz Festival
- Sunday July 6 (10am–6pm) @ Fillmore St btwn Jackson & Eddy Sts More times »
- Free
- The Fillmore district got a boost with the opening of Yoshi's, but not without a cost: like much of San Francisco, the Fillmore is now... View details »
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- Victory Gardens 2008+
- Sunday July 6 @ 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 »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Sunday July 6 (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 »
- Art
- Women Impressionists
- Sunday July 6 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- The Art of Lee Miller
- Sunday July 6 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- Sunday July 6 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- San Francisco Mime Troupe
- Sunday July 6 (2pm) @ Mission Dolores Park More times »
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- The OBIE and Tony award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe's latest foray into razor-sharp farce, Red State was penned by SFMT head writer Michael Gene Sullivan.... View details »
- Art: Festival
- MOVE>SOUND
- Sunday July 6 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- Sunday July 6 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
- Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael Hayden and René Augesen's... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Windows on Nature
- Sunday July 6 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Hank and Mike
- Sunday July 6 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
- Giveaway
- In the vein of "holiday confidential" films like Bad Santa (2003) and Elf (2003), Matthiew Klinck's offbeat buddy comedy Hank and Mike offers a sweet,... View details »
- Art
- Unlikely Arrivals
- Sunday July 6 (noon–5pm) @ 2nd Floor Projects More times »
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- Curator Margaret Tedesco warms the walls of her Mission-district gallery with abstract color compositions in Unlikely Arrivals, an exhibition featuring a trio of artists whose... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Sunday July 6 @ 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 »
