Events on Tuesday, November 13

Roller-Disco Double Feature: <i>Roller Boogie</i> (1979) & <i>Skatetown USA</i> (1979)

Film

Roller-Disco Double Feature

Tuesday 11/13 @ The Castro Theatre

Strap on your skates, shimmy into a pair of hot pants, and roll-bounce on over to the Castro Theatre for a... 

[SOLD OUT] Howard Wiley & the Angola Project

Music

[SOLD OUT] Howard Wiley & the Angola Project

Tuesday 11/13 @ Intersection for the Arts

  Saxophonist Howard Wiley performs from his newest release, The Angola Project, which derives its structure from the call-and-response form of... 

<i>Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles</i> (1975)

Film

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Tuesday 11/13 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

Belgium-born director Chantal Akerman's cinéma-vérité-like portrait of three days in the life of a bourgeois widow lays bare the rote series... 

The <i>San Francisco Bay Guardian</i>'s 2007 Goldies Party

Party

The San Francisco Bay Guardian's 2007 Goldies Party

Tuesday 11/13 @ 111 Minna Gallery

Local weekly rag the Bay Guardian is throwing a party fêting the 2007 recipients of its Goldie (Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery)... 

Naomi Wolf in conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, Lakshmi Chaudhry, and Peter Laufer

Special Event

Naomi Wolf

Tuesday 11/13 @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley

Social critic Naomi Wolf became a household name with her groundbreaking feminist critique, The Beauty Myth. Her latest endeavor, The End... 

Ongoing Events

Alyson Belcher: <i>Body of Light</i>

Art

Alyson Belcher

Tuesday 11/13 @ Robert Tat Gallery

Best classified as falling between 19th-century spirit photography and Edward Muybridge's motion studies, Alyson Belcher's spectral self-portraits add a graceful and... 

<i>after the quake</i>

Theatre

after the quake

Tuesday 11/13 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Given the Bay Area's propensity for seismic activity (residents need only think as far back as October 30 for the latest... 

Lucy McKenzie: <I>New Work</I>

Art

Lucy McKenzie

Tuesday 11/13 @ SFMOMA

Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At... 

<i>The Book Art of Edward Gorey</i>

Art

The Book Art of Edward Gorey

Tuesday 11/13 @ The Book Club of California

When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and... 

<I>The Gun Show</I>

Art

The Gun Show

Tuesday 11/13 @ Root Division

As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations... 

Van Arno: <I>Volume</i>

Art

Van Arno

Tuesday 11/13 @ The Shooting Gallery

LA-based painter Van Arno survived early fame in the Juxtapoz school of lowbrow art, and come out the other side a... 

<i>Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten</i>

Film: Documentary

The Future Is Unwritten

Tuesday 11/13 @ Lumiere Theatre

Despite being a proud soldier of the first wave of English punk, Joe Strummer's iconic everyman stance was always more Bruce... 

Edward Gorey's <i>Dracula</i>

Art

Dracula

Tuesday 11/13 @ Cartoon Art Museum

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his... 

Jamie Vasta: <i>Musn't</i>

Art

Jamie Vasta

Tuesday 11/13 @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Anyone who's been keeping an eye on Patricia Sweetow Gallery during the past year or so must have noticed San Francisco-based... 

Jonathan Callan, Frank Ebert, Armando Miguelez, Julio Cesar Morales, and Gabrielle Teschner: <i>Displaced</i>

Art

Displaced

Tuesday 11/13 @ John Berggruen Gallery

Of Montreal w/ Grand Buffet and MGMT

Music

Of Montreal

Tuesday 11/13 @ Great American Music Hall

Of Montreal are the most resilient of Athens, GA's psychedelic Elephant 6 collective. Since the glorious flameouts of the Olivia Tremor... 

The X-Ray Project: <i>Inside Terrorism</i>

Art

Inside Terrorism

Tuesday 11/13 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak... 

Driss Ouadahi: <i>Another Place, Another Me</i>

Art

Driss Ouadahi

Tuesday 11/13 @ Hosfelt Gallery

Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss... 

Tranny Fest: Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Tuesday 11/13 @ Various locations

San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco... 

<i>Sweet Sunny Temper</i>

Art

Sweet Sunny Temper

Tuesday 11/13 @ Double Punch Toy Store

  With prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails,... 

<i>Super Heroes Super Villains</i>

Art

Super Heroes Super Villains

Tuesday 11/13 @ Creativity Explored

In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories... 

<i>Blame It on Fidel!</i>

Film

Blame It on Fidel!

Tuesday 11/13 @ Roxie Theater

Julie Gravas' debut feature works best as a bottom-up portrait of the confused, morally high-strung reality of living leftist in the... 

Nathan Redwood: <i>Recent Works</i>

Art

Recent Works

Tuesday 11/13 @ Electric Works

  Nathan Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl... 

<i>GROUNDED?</i>

Art

GROUNDED?

Tuesday 11/13 @ Intersection for the Arts

In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with... 

Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>

Art

Douglas Gordon

Tuesday 11/13 @ SFMOMA

The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Tuesday 11/13 @ SFMOMA

Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Tuesday 11/13 @ de Young Museum

Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as... 

Del Tha Funky Homosapien w/ Devin the Dude and the Coughee Brothaz

Music: Hip-Hop

Del Tha Funky Homosapien

Tuesday 11/13 @ Slim's

With beats beamed down from the Parliament mothership, Del Tha Funky Homosapien's discography is the soundtrack to an intergalactic sock hop.... 

New Italian Cinema

Film

New Italian Cinema

Tuesday 11/13 @ San Francisco Film Society

More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is... 

Derek Boshier: <i>Magazines</i>

Art

Derek Boshier

Tuesday 11/13 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts

  Known for being a part of the '60s London scene, self-proclaimed "populist artist" Derek Boshier draws inspiration from... 

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Tuesday 11/13 @ Various locations

Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of... 

Olafur Eliasson

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Tuesday 11/13 @ SFMOMA

From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential... 

Forrest Williams: <i>Porches</i>

Art

Forrest Williams

Tuesday 11/13 @ Marx & Zavattero

In Williams' latest show, the theme of porches stands for a state of uncertainty, an in-between space that's neither interior nor... 

Rex Ray

Art

Rex Ray

Tuesday 11/13 @ Gallery 16

An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among San Francisco's most prolific artists and... 

[SOLD OUT] Stars w/ Lloyd Cole

Music

[SOLD OUT] Stars

Tuesday 11/13 @ Bimbo's

First Feist, and now Stars. What Candian indie juggernaut will next emerge from the loins of primogenitor Broken Social Scene?... 

11th International Latino Film Festival

Film

Int'l Latino Film Festival

Tuesday 11/13 @ Various locations

With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more...