All events on Friday November 16

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Film: Shorts
Music and Videos from the Dump
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (8pm) @ Herbst Theatre
Norcal's Artist in Residence Program encourages SF residents to make concerted efforts to conserve the city's natural resources, beyond toting the coveted "I'm Not a... View details »
Music and Videos from the Dump
Film
3rd I South Asian Film Festival
Friday Nov 16, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Now in its fifth year, the 3rd I Film Festival screens new and classic documentaries, narratives, and shorts created by South Asians from across the... View details »
3rd I South Asian Film Festival
Performing Arts: Comedy
The Jesus Roast
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (8pm) @ Broadway Studios
To paraphrase Bart Simpson, the holidays are a time when people from all religions get together to worship Jesus Christ. In the case of Comedy... View details »
The Jesus Roast
More Flavor: Party
Ping Pong Gallery Happy Hour
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
Free
In two short years, Ping Pong Gallery has covered considerable ground. Its recent, notable exhibitions of Amanda Curreri, Jeff Eisenberg, and Brian Wasson proved that... View details »
Ping Pong Gallery Happy Hour
Music: DJ
The Give-In Benefit
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (9pm) @ LoBot Gallery
Xiu Xiu fans, ye of plenty faith, take note: Jamie Stewart is back in town with records in tow. He joins Satomi Matsuzaki, the lead... View details »
The Give-In Benefit
Film
Summer '04
Friday Nov 16, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Stefan Krohmer's Summer '04 is a small-scale psychological thriller with an obvious debt to Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water (1962). Miriam and André are... View details »
Summer '04
More Flavor: Fundraiser
PLAySPACE Gallery Benefit Auction
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (7pm) @ California College of the Arts - San Francisco Campus
Free
... pan style="">Located across from the venerable Wattis Institute, PLAySPACE Gallery exhibits emerging and renowned artists, consistently in step with the CCA's vision, helping cement... View details »
PLAySPACE Gallery Benefit Auction

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Film
New Italian Cinema
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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)
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (9:30am–8:45pm) @ 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
Super Heroes Super Villains
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Bulk
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
Queen's Nails Annex presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Tony Labat, who combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance, and video, not to mention a healthy... View details »
Bulk
Art
Recent Works
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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?
Friday Nov 16, 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?
Art
Lucy McKenzie
Friday Nov 16, 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
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Friday Nov 16, 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
Art
Rex Ray
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
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Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
For the duration of the gallery's Winter Session, Polk Street's San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery space will serve as the command center for the Mission... View details »
Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Art
Displaced
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art
Van Arno
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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
Friday Nov 16, 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