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Artwork by Christina Empedocles
Wed Jul 8 - Tue Jul 14, 2009
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Wed Jul 8
at Moe's Books (7:30pm)

Punk artist and icon Zak Smith made a name for himself by visually re-creating Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and drawing pictures of girls in the "naked girl business." His artistic pedigree and acute observation landed him in high-profile shows from the Whitney to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Thu Jul 9
at SFMOMA (6pm)

At the age of 10, Don Ed Hardy recognized the unique force of tattoo art. Growing up in the center of 1950s and early 1960s California pop culture, he went on to earn an art school degree and then learned to tattoo by apprenticing himself to master artists. Over the last 40 years, Hardy has revolutionized this ancient tradition...
Fri Jul 10
at 1AM (7pm - 10:30pm)

1AM gallery is hosting the dynamic triple threat of DIA, Hyde, and Ed Hsu from July 10th to August 7th. Their three distinct styles and backgrounds will be clearly represented by all new works, which speak about bringing the subconscious into the cognitive world, life through meditation, and the human spiritual experience. Armed with aerosol paint, acrylics, and digital light paint, this trio is vibrant and progressive...
Fri Jul 10
at Electric Works (6pm - 8pm)

Culling work from private collectors and the artists themselves, guest curator, Underground Comix writer, publisher and historian, Dan Fogel, has amassed important work from each artist that spans personal drawings, well-known comix pieces, including covers and original comps, as well as other rare ephemera...
Sat Jul 11
at Gourmet Ghetto (6pm - 9pm; 8pm fashion show)

Join us in for an entertaining evening in the Gourmet Ghetto filled with Fashion, Food and Wine. Free goodie bag with the first 75 fashion show tickets. Tickets available at the event only.
Sat Jul 11 - Sun Aug 23
at San Harbor State Park (see listing for times)

The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival brings summer audiences Shakespeare's deliciously scandalous "Measure for Measure," the hilariously scheming duos of "Much Ado About Nothing" and the premiere of the Urban Village Music Series featuring rotating artists each Monday night...
Gallery Openings
Thursday, Jul 9
Jesse Balmer
at Fecal Face Dot Gallery (6pm - 9pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Until the Light Takes Us
at YBCA Screening Room (7:30pm)
Friday, Jul 10
DIA, Hyde, and Ed Hsu
at 1AM (7pm - 10:30pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Jeong Im Yi: Reverent Memories
at ArtZone 461 Gallery (noon)
Saturday, Jul 11
Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004
at SFMOMA (10am - 4:30pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Until The Whistle Blows
at The Shooting Gallery (7pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Show Me Your Fantasy
at Femina Potens (7pm)
Saturday, Jul 11 Cont.
New Works by BECCA
at White Walls (7pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Smoke & Mirrors
at SOAP Gallery (6pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Stephen Giannetti: Sextuple
at Marx & Zavattero (4pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Family Pictures
at Root Division (7pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Chairman of the Board, Knight of the Realm
at SF Art Exchange (7pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
You Betta Come See M* F# ... (my friends)
at ArtZone 461 Gallery (5pm)
Theater/Dance
Wednesday, Jul 8
Angela Neff's Picnics at the Asylum
at The Marsh (7:30pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Ecstasy in the River
at Thick House (8pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Thursday Night Fling
at The Clubhouse (8pm)
Friday, Jul 10
Scantily Clad Showcase
at The Clubhouse (9pm)
Friday, Jul 10
An Improvised Arabian Nights
at Magic Theatre (8pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival
at Lake Tahoe (see listing for times)
Sat Jul 11 Cont.
Deja Wince
at The Clubhouse (5pm - 7pm)
Sat Jul 11
Stand Up for APAture
at PariSoMa (7pm)
Sat Jul 11
Lydia Pense & Cold Blood Live
at JLaChic Theatre 39 (8:30pm)
Sat Jul 11
From Dusk Until Dawn
at Theatre of Yugen / Noh Space (6pm)
Sun Jul 12
Momo's Songbird Festival
at Make-Out Room (8pm)
Tue Jul 14
The Ballad of Polly Ann
at SomArts Cultural Center (Gallery) (8pm)
Literary Arts
Wednesday, Jul 8
Pakistan: A Nation in Turmoil
at World Affairs Council (6pm)
Wednesday, Jul 8
Building Bone Vitality
at Books Inc. in Laurel Village (7pm)
Wednesday, Jul 8
Intergenerational / Interdisciplinary Writers Lab
at Intersection for the Arts (7pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Ed Hardy
at SFMOMA (6:30pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Pop Salvation
at Books, Inc. In the Castro (7:30pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Hyatt Bass
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Inside Iran and North Korea
at World Affairs Council (6pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Zak Smith: We Did Porn
at City Lights Books (7pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Political Book Club
at Bird & Beckett Books & Records (7pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Where They Are, What They're Doing...
at The Commonwealth Club (4:45pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Book Launch-Benefit
at Fort Mason Center (8pm - 10:30pm)
Thursday, Jul 9
Lance Reynald
at Books, Inc. In the Castro (7:30pm)
Friday, Jul 10
Breathers
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
Friday, Jul 10
The Republican Party in California
at The Commonwealth Club (11:30am)
Saturday, Jul 11
Oh My Gosh! Stories at Chestnut
at Books, Inc. In the Marina (11am)
Saturday, Jul 11
PastForward
at The Lab (8pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
Poetry & Surprise
at The San Francisco Writing Salon (2:30pm)
Saturday, Jul 11
First Course: Introduction to Food Writing
at UC Berkeley Extension (10am)
Sunday, Jul 12
Ted Savarese
at Red Hill Books (3pm)
Sunday, Jul 12
¡Feliz cumpleaños Pablo Naruda!
at Red Poppy Art House (7:30pm)
Monday, Jul 13
Down to a Science Book Club
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (6pm)
Monday, Jul 13
Left Coast Writers
at Book Passage (5:30pm)
Tuesday, Jul 7
Challenges and Progress for SFPUC
at The Commonwealth Club (5:30pm)
Tuesday, Jul 7
A Cup of Comfort for Parents of Children with Special Needs
at Books Inc. (7pm)
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