Catherine Russell

Saturday, July 15, 7:30 p.m. SFJazz Center (201 Franklin St.) Called “one of the outstanding singers of our time” by the Wall Street Journal, Grammy-winning vocalist Catherin... Read More

Music

S.F. Symphony Free Concert on the Waterfront

Sunday, July 23, noon Pier 27 Enjoy a program of Bernstein, Copland, Debussy, Dvořák, and Holst. Free, 415-864-6000, sfsymphony.org ... Read More

Music

Alfredo Imparato: Neapolitan Songs

Sunday, July 23, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, July 27, 7 p.m. Museo Italo Americano Building C, Fort Mason Center One of the last minstrels, or posteggiatori, of Naples will return to the... Read More

Nightlife

Paula West

Thu.–Sun. through July, 8 p.m. Feinstein’s at the Nikko (222 Mason St.) Enjoy Bay Area favorite and her rich, powerful contralto voice for an evening featuring of interpretatio... Read More

Nightlife

TechnoClam 01

Saturday, July 15, 9:30 p.m. Public Works (161 Erie St.) Catch Lily Ackerman, DpeshMo, and Eugenia in a techno night. $5–$10, ticketfly.com ... Read More

Nightlife

Motor City Drum Ensemble

Friday, July 21, 10 p.m. 1015 Folsom (1015 Folsom St.) Motor City is a one-man ensemble, made up by German House music pioneer Danilo Plessow. Dam Funk will also perform. $20, even... Read More

Film & Lectures

Is Sloppy Science Killing Us?

Thursday, July 13, 6:30 p.m. The Commonwealth Club (555 Post St.) NPR correspondent Richard Harris and popular science writer Mary Roach explore the mixed-up ways in which scientif... Read More

Film & Lectures

10th Annual S.F. Frozen Film Festival

Fri.–Mon., July 21–23 Roxie Theatre (3117 16th St.) This festival focuses on independent filmmakers, youth, filmmakers of conscience, and artists from underserved communities. ... Read More

Film & Lectures

S. F. Jewish Film Festival 36

Daily, July 21–Aug. 7 Castro Theatre & various Bay Area venues This festival features over 100 screenings and other events that celebrate Jewish cinema and explores its fron... Read More

Science & Environment

Wildcard: Where the Unpredictable Worlds of Cardboard & Imagination Collide

Daily through Sept. 4 Exploratorium (Pier 15) Artists from the Cardboard Institute of Technology bring a cardboard cosmos to life. Visit a village in a vortex, a crashed steamboat,... Read More

Science & Environment

Golden Gate Audubon Society Centennial Exhibit

Daily, July 10–Sept. 29, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Tides Thoreau Center Gallery (1012 Torney Ave., the Presidio) This traveling educational exhibit is focused on Bay Area birds and the Aud... Read More

Science & Environment

Why? What Makes Us Curious

Monday, July 17, 7:30 p.m. California Academy of Sciences Planetarium Astrophysicist and best-selling author Mario Livio describes cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscie... Read More

Science & Environment

Jupiter and Its Moons: Recent Discoveries

Tuesday, July 18, 7:30–9 p.m. Presidio Officers’ Club (50 Moraga Ave.) Despite the fact that Jupiter has been observed for decades from the ground and in situ by spacecraft, we... Read More

Science & Environment

Act on Climate: The California Cool Effect

Friday, July 21, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Golden Gate Club (135 Fisher Loop, the Presidio) This forum will bring together thought leaders in policy (including Congressman Jared Huffman), ... Read More

Potables & Edibles

European Vacation: Best Cheese & Wine of Summer

Monday, July 10, 6:30–8:30 p.m. The Cheese School (2124 Folsom St.) Sample wine and cheese from the great cheese-making regions while learning how the art spread throughout Europ... Read More

Events