All events on Wednesday November 14

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Music: Rock/Pop
Heavy Trash
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Heavy Trash make good on their name, offering a kick-in-the-gut dose of dust-ridden, bloodshot-eyed, rockabilly punk. Matt Verta-Ray's guitar locks horns with Jon Spencer's broke... View details »
Heavy Trash
Music: Rock/Pop
Wooden Shjips
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (7pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Giveaway
Riding in on a wave of local buzz and organ fuzz, trance-psych giants Wooden Shjips have become San Francisco's answer to other chuggy motornik... View details »
Wooden Shjips
Art
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost diametrically opposed coteries. Fortunately,... View details »
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Reading
Adrian Tomine
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (7pm) @ Booksmith
Free
Former Sacramento native Adrian Tomine makes suffering a cleanly outlined, black-and-white art form — literally. Now based in New York, where his sparse... View details »
Adrian Tomine

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Art
Driss Ouadahi
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Takeshi Murata
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
...  the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi Murata's video pieces. His... View details »
Takeshi Murata
Art
The Gun Show
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Stars
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Film
Blame It on Fidel!
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Film
Int'l Latino Film Festival
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos' dynamic sculptural constructions are... View details »
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Art
Recent Works
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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?
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Rex Ray
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art
Van Arno
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Music: Hip-Hop
Del Tha Funky Homosapien
Wednesday Nov 14, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
after the quake
Wednesday Nov 14, 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: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Wednesday Nov 14, 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