All events on Wednesday November 21

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Film
Dear Pillow
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (7:30pm) @ YBCA Screening Room
Giveaway
Like many teenage guys, Wes is shy, has a distant relationship with his father, and must negotiate the gravitational pull of his hormone-gorged sexuality through... View details »
Dear Pillow
Music: Rock/Pop
Alasdair Roberts
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Though Alasdair Roberts' records have the imprint of traditional folk, they're hardly amateur productions. Indeed, the singer-guitarist details alternative tunings (a different one for each... View details »
Alasdair Roberts
More Flavor: Party
Funksgiving feat. Torpedo Boyz
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (10pm) @ Mighty
Mighty is providing a little funk this Thanksgiving — and we're not talking about the contents of the giblet bag. Wearing matching uniforms that recall... View details »
Funksgiving feat. Torpedo Boyz

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Nov 21, 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 21, 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
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Takeshi Murata
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Nothing Moments
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30 designers offer a multi-city... View details »
Nothing Moments
Art
Jamie Vasta
Wednesday Nov 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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
Dracula
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Super Heroes Super Villains
Wednesday Nov 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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
GROUNDED?
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
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SF Jazz Festival
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Film
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Charlie Chaplin's Tramp is an icon by design, but the bowler hat and mustache only go so far towards describing the substance of cinema's Chaplin.... View details »
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
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Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Film
Summer '04
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just such a pied-à-terre —... View details »
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
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Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art
Van Arno
Wednesday Nov 21, 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
Wednesday Nov 21, 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 21, 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