All events on Tuesday July 08
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Playtime
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Tuesday July 8 (6 & 8:30pm) @ The Castro Theatre
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Jacques Tati's jewel of a film gently skewers the mid-20th-century urban rat race. Tati's everyman, the loveable Monsieur Hulot, peregrinates through a Paris of sleek... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Tilly and the Wall
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Tuesday July 8 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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Despite two albums of joyous indie pop, Omaha's Tilly and the Wall will likely always be known as "that band with a tap dancer instead... View details »
- Reading
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Alan Black
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Tuesday July 8 (7pm) @ Vesuvio Cafe
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Kick the Balls is Alan Black's first book, though San Francisco literati might already recognize him from his bartending post at Edinburgh Castle. (The... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
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Poets Picking Poets
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Tuesday July 8 (7pm) @ Rockit Room
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With Poets Picking Poets, local literary powerhouse McSweeney's tries its hand at releasing a poetry anthology, with fascinatingly novel results. In the "poet chain," poets... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Big Business
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Tuesday July 8 (9pm) @ 12 Galaxies
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Little more needs to be said about bass-and-drums trio Big Business beyond the fact that they're the official rhythm section for ancient stoner champions the... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Tuesday July 8 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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Dale Chihuly
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Tuesday July 8 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum
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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
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Tuesday July 8 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium
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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 »
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Frida Kahlo
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Tuesday July 8 (10am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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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 »
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American Symbols
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Tuesday July 8 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
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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 »
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Leigh Wells
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Tuesday July 8 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16
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Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
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INsects INsectos
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Tuesday July 8 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
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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 »
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Women Impressionists
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Tuesday July 8 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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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: Festival
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MOVE>SOUND
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Tuesday July 8 @ Various locations
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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 »
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The Beast in Me
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Tuesday July 8 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man,"... View details »
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Hank and Mike
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Tuesday July 8 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
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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 »
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We Remember the Sun
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Tuesday July 8 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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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 »
