Events on Wednesday, November 14
Wednesday 11/14 @ Hemlock Tavern
Riding in on a wave of local buzz and organ fuzz, trance-psych giants Wooden Shjips have become
Wednesday 11/14 @ The Booksmith
Former Sacramento native Adrian Tomine makes suffering a cleanly outlined, black-and-white art form — literally. Now based in
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/14 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Root Division
As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Lumiere Theatre
Despite being a proud soldier of the first wave of English punk, Joe Strummer's iconic everyman stance was always more Bruce...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Wednesday 11/14 @ Haines Gallery
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Berkeley Art Museum
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'...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Wednesday 11/14 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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,...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Wednesday 11/14 @ Oakland Museum of California
Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos'...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Ratio 3
As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Slim's
With beats beamed down from the Parliament mothership, Del Tha Funky Homosapien's discography is the soundtrack to an intergalactic sock hop....
Wednesday 11/14 @ San Francisco Film Society
More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Known for being a part of the '60s
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Creativity Explored
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories...
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Wednesday 11/14 @ Bimbo's
First Feist, and now Stars. What Candian indie juggernaut will next emerge from the loins of primogenitor Broken Social Scene?...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Various locations
With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more...
