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Events for August 6, 2013

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Tuesday, August 6

9:30 amLegion of Honor Free Admission Day | First Tuesdays  FREE*
*Free admission to general galleries - special exhibition surcharges may still apply
de Young Museum Free Admission Day | First Tuesdays
Tuesday, August 6 – 9:30 am - Ends at 5:15 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free admission to general galleries - special exhibition surcharges may still apply
| de Young Museum

Located in beautiful Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum is a landmark art museum founded in 1895. Your visit includes a whirlwind trip around the world as the museum’s collections feature priceless treasures and works of arts from the 17th through the 20th centuries ...Monthly

10:00 amConservatory of Flowers: Free Admission Day  FREE
11:00 amCartoon Art Museum: First Tuesday “Pay What You Wish” Day  FREE*
*Pay What You Wish Day
11:00 amContemporary Jewish Museum Free Admission Day | First Tuesdays  FREE
12:00 pmYerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) | Free First Tuesdays  FREE
SF Jewish Film Festival: Neil Diamond Screening | Berkeley
Tuesday, August 6 – 2:20 pm | Cost: FREE | California Theatre (Berkeley)
He’s sold 130 million albums. He’s written tons of top ten smashes including several number one hits covered by other artists (“I’m a Believer” for the Monkees and “Red Red Wine” by UB40). He’s a charismatic live performer who has filled countless stadiums, nightclubs and ...

Top of the Mark Classic 1963 Movie & Wine Night | Nob Hill
Tuesday, August 6 – 5:30 pm - Ends at 11:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free admission, free wine tasting at 5:30p. 21+ First come first served
| Top of the Mark Lounge
In Bye Bye Birdie (1963) A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his “farewell” television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted. Starring Ann-Margaret, Janet Leigh and Dick van Dyke.
Win Tix: SF Beta Startup Mixer: Enterprise & B2B Edition | SoMa
Tuesday, August 6 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm | Cost: WIN*
*Regular cost, $25
| 111 Minna Gallery
The SF Beta startup mixer on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 will focus on enterprise and B2B with sponsor, Yammer a platform that connects people, conversations and data across disparate business applications.
Free Rock Documentary: “Everyday Sunshine”: Story of Fishbone | Sausalito
Tuesday, August 6 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 7:45 pm | Cost: FREE | Bay Model Visitor Center
Everyday Sunshine is a documentary about the band Fishbone, musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From the streets of South Central-Los Angeles and the competitive Hollywood music scene of the 1980s, the band rose to ...
French Film, Wine & Conversation: “Les Choristes” | Polk Gulch
Tuesday, August 6 – 6:45 pm | Cost: $5*
*$5 suggested donation includes movie, wine & popcorn.
| Alliance Française of San Francisco

Set in 1948, music professor Clement Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a boarding school that rehabilitates troublesome little boys. What he discovers disconcerts him: the children are repressed and unhappy. Through the power of song, Clement strives to transform the students. Though at first they are ...Every Tuesday

7:00 pmFunkytown: Tuesday Night Skate | Mission Dist.  $5*
*Regular price, $10. Includes free soda, juices & water while supplies last and a $5 skate rental fee.
7:00 pmFilm Trivia Tuesday Pub Quiz in a Movie Theater | The New Parkway  FREE*
*Let the Box Office know you are there for Trivia Night and they will send you to the Mezzanine Level.
7:00 pmFarm Worker Strike Film, Free Food & Cheap Drinks | North Beach  FREE
7:00 pmChick Lit Author Readings & Free Wine Tasting | North Bay  FREE
Jerry Garcia & The Grateful Dead: History Day | Excelsior
Tuesday, August 6 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Excelsior Branch Library
The Grateful Dead was not merely a rock band, but a subculture, the lasting representative of the San Francisco music renaissance of the 1960s as well as the Haight-Ashbury “hippie” subculture of that era. Dennis McNally, the band’s long-time publicist and authorized biographer (A Long Strange ...
The People’s Painting Party: Live Art & DJs | Temple
Tuesday, August 6 – 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free with RSVP
| Temple Nightclub

Come and make works of art with your friends. Temple will provide the paints, brushes and canvases; all you need is your creativity for The People’s Painting Party. Designed to abolish the midweek doldrums, they seek to bring painting to the proletariat with co-creative canvases, The ...Every Tuesday

8:00 pmIt’s Just 2 Minutes: Free Comedy Improv w/ Natasha Muse | Upper Haight  FREE
Wood Shoppe Free Concert: Lightning Dust’s Minimal Synth Pop | Brick & Mortar
Tuesday, August 6 – 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Brick & Mortar Music Hall

Lightning Dust’s third proper full length finds its inspiration in skeletal synth pop, modern R&B beats, the films of John Carpenter and — in accordance with Lightning Dust’s only longstanding rule — absolute minimalism. The core of Fantasy lies as much in the songwriting as ...Monthly

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