The Exploratorium projects the human imagination into the 21st century of fashion. San Francisco's popular museum of science, art, technology and human perception hosts a quirky evening event -- 2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing -- where science/technology and art/fashion converge on Friday, April 25, from 7–11pm.

San Francisco-based artist Lynn Hershman Leeson is a pioneer in new media, and her Internet-based works have won her much acclaim. For No Body Special, part of the Collection Connections program, Hershman Leeson uses a Jean Patou pantsuit from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's extensive costume collection as the vehicle to investigate the nexus of fashion, art, and display.

American Conservatory Theatercore acting company members Steven Anthony Jones and Jack Willis star as South African brothers divided by skin-tone and joined together by blood in Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, directed by Charles Randolph-Wright.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) artistic director Carey Perloff announced casting today for its upcoming world-premiere production of Brainpeople,written by OBIE Award-winning playwright and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter José Rivera and directed by 2007 OBIE Award-winner Chay Yew.

African Americans have played a major role in our maritime history. From the earliest days of our nation to modern times, African Americans have built, crewed, and captained ships, fought in wars, invented shipboard tools, and helped develop maritime music. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park celebrates African American History Month throughout February with programs for the whole family.

A traveling exhibition of extraordinary archaeological treasures from the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul, will begin a 17-month tour of the United States in spring 2008, it was announced today by the National Geographic Society and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Meet local musicians and filmmakers in a special series of “live cinema” programs designed for all ages at the Exploratorium's March Music and Movies Series on March 1, 8 and 15. For these first three Saturdays in March, the Exploratorium highlights a different group of musicians and filmmakers performing original tunes to homemade movies.

The Exploratorium presents a photographic exhibition, The Search for Universals in Human Emotion, from the internationally acclaimed psychologist Paul Ekman, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of his influential work with the isolated South Fore people of New Guinea. Ekman was named by the American Psychological Association as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century.

American Conservatory Theater ( A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced the casting today for David Mamet's brisk, cutting comedy on the movie business, Speed-the-Plow, directed by Loretta Greco, returning to A.C.T. after last season's Blackbird.

California is being hit be a series of storms and it’s being called the worst weather the California has had in years. The storm in California may bring hurricane like winds, mudslides and possible snow. San Francisco Bay Area weather is expected to get nasty today with coastal flooding and high winds.

Tigers and Oil Spills and Auto Emissions Oh My... but nothing could top the mortgage crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Zoo officials are now saying that a Siberian tiger that escaped her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California on December 25, killing one and severely injuring two humans in the Terrace cafe, may have climbed or jumped over the walls that kept the tiger inside her habitat.