All events on Tuesday November 13

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Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Stars
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (8pm) @ Bimbo's More times »
Sold Out!
First Feist, and now Stars. What Candian indie juggernaut will next emerge from the loins of primogenitor Broken Social Scene? Despite embellishments such as... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Stars
Music: Jazz/Blues
[SOLD OUT] Howard Wiley & the Angola Project
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (8pm) @ Intersection for the Arts
Sold Out!
... xophonist Howard Wiley performs from his newest release, The Angola Project, which derives its structure from the call-and-response form of African-American spiritual music and... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Howard Wiley & the Angola Project
More Flavor: Discussion
Naomi Wolf
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (7:30pm) @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Giveaway
Social critic Naomi Wolf became a household name with her groundbreaking feminist critique, The Beauty Myth. Her latest endeavor, The End of America: Letter of... View details »
Naomi Wolf
Music: Hip-Hop
Del Tha Funky Homosapien
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (9pm) @ Slim's More times »
Giveaway
With beats beamed down from the Parliament mothership, Del Tha Funky Homosapien's discography is the soundtrack to an intergalactic sock hop. In a genre where... View details »
Del Tha Funky Homosapien
Film
Roller-Disco Double Feature
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (7pm) @ 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 double dose of heterosexual... View details »
Roller-Disco Double Feature
Film
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (7:30pm) @ 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 of repeated tasks that... View details »
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
More Flavor: Party
The San Francisco Bay Guardian's 2007 Goldies Party
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (9:30pm) @ 111 Minna Gallery
Free
Local weekly rag the Bay Guardian is throwing a party fêting the 2007 recipients of its Goldie (Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery) Awards, and, by extension,... View details »
The San Francisco Bay Guardian's 2007 Goldies Party

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Art
Driss Ouadahi
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Hosfelt Gallery More times »
Free
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss Ouadahi and West Coaster... View details »
Driss Ouadahi
Art
The Gun Show
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Root Division More times »
Free
As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations like no other device... View details »
The Gun Show
Music: Rock/Pop
Of Montreal
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall More times »
Of Montreal are the most resilient of Athens, GA's psychedelic Elephant 6 collective. Since the glorious flameouts of the Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk... View details »
Of Montreal
Film
Blame It on Fidel!
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Julie Gravas' debut feature works best as a bottom-up portrait of the confused, morally high-strung reality of living leftist in the early 1970s. We're swept... View details »
Blame It on Fidel!
Film
New Italian Cinema
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ San Francisco Film Society More times »
More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is currently being featured in... View details »
New Italian Cinema
Art
Jamie Vasta
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times »
Free
Anyone who's been keeping an eye on Patricia Sweetow Gallery during the past year or so must have noticed San Francisco-based Jamie Vasta's work tucked... View details »
Jamie Vasta
Art
Forrest Williams
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
In Williams' latest show, the theme of porches stands for a state of uncertainty, an in-between space that's neither interior nor exterior. It proves to... View details »
Forrest Williams
Art
Alyson Belcher
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Robert Tat Gallery More times »
Free
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 eerie contribution to the... View details »
Alyson Belcher
Art
Inside Terrorism
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library More times »
Free
Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak surrounding acts of terrorism.... View details »
Inside Terrorism
Art
Douglas Gordon
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
Film
Int'l Latino Film Festival
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more attention has been paid... View details »
Int'l Latino Film Festival
Art
Dracula
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum More times »
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his drawings maintaining a darkly... View details »
Dracula
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Art
Derek Boshier
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11:30am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
Free
... own for being a part of the '60s London scene, self-proclaimed "populist artist" Derek Boshier draws inspiration from magazine covers, both real... View details »
Derek Boshier
Art
Super Heroes Super Villains
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories of real-life warriors. This... View details »
Super Heroes Super Villains
Art
Recent Works
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
... than Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl architecture. Even with all... View details »
Recent Works
Art
Sweet Sunny Temper
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Double Punch Toy Store More times »
Free
... th prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails, and a serious attitude... View details »
Sweet Sunny Temper
Art
GROUNDED?
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with its neighbor, the revered... View details »
GROUNDED?
Film: Documentary
The Future Is Unwritten
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Lumiere Theatre More times »
Despite being a proud soldier of the first wave of English punk, Joe Strummer's iconic everyman stance was always more Bruce Springsteen than Johnny Rotten.... View details »
The Future Is Unwritten
Art
Lucy McKenzie
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
Lucy McKenzie
Art
Rex Ray
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times »
Free
An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among San Francisco's most prolific artists and designers. Gallery 16's show... View details »
Rex Ray
More Flavor: Festival
SF Jazz Festival
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of the jazz scene, legends... View details »
SF Jazz Festival
More Flavor: Festival
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco diva Sylvester. So it's... View details »
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Art
Displaced
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art
Van Arno
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (noon–7pm) @ The Shooting Gallery More times »
Free
LA-based painter Van Arno survived early fame in the Juxtapoz school of lowbrow art, and come out the other side a dedicated craftsman. Arno's influences... View details »
Van Arno
Performing Arts: Theatre
after the quake
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre More times »
Given the Bay Area's propensity for seismic activity (residents need only think as far back as October 30 for the latest reminder), the Berkeley Repertory... View details »
after the quake
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
Jeff Wall
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Book Club of California More times »
Free
When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and moribund imagination to others.... View details »
The Book Art of Edward Gorey