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More Flavor: Discussion
Frank McCourt
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 (6pm) @ Commonwealth Club
Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes, discusses his latest work, Angela and the Baby Jesus. Marking a departure from his familiar memoir... View details »
Frank McCourt
Music: Rock/Pop
Faun Fables
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 (9pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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Dark and alluring like the most twisted of fairy tales, the music of Faun Fables is unapologetically theatrical and baroque. The fantasia centers on founder... View details »
Faun Fables
Music: Global
Café Tacuba
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 (8pm) @ The Warfield
Considered one of Mexico's greatest rock bands, Latin Grammy and Grammy Award-winning Café Tacuba have taken "rock en español" far beyond its geographic and musical... View details »
Café Tacuba

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Nov 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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
More Flavor: Fair
San Francisco Int'l Auto Show
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 @ Moscone Center More times »
San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual San Francisco International Auto... View details »
San Francisco Int'l Auto Show
Art
Nothing Moments
Wednesday Nov 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Wednesday Nov 28, 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
GROUNDED?
Wednesday Nov 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Wednesday Nov 28, 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 28, 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 28, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art
Van Arno
Wednesday Nov 28, 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 28, 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
"The There, There"
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery More times »
Free
... :p> Although Gertrude Stein's quip that in Oakland, "there was no there, there," is nearly a century old, the phrase's longevity underscores Oakland's... View details »
"The There, There"
Film
R.K.O. Lost & Found
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
In the opening moments of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a pair of disembodied lips sings, "I want to go / to the late-night double-feature... View details »
R.K.O. Lost & Found
Art
More Brains! Part II
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 @ Space Gallery More times »
Free
Other than Halloween, few occasions inspire thoughts of the undead like the holiday season — which may explain why Space Gallery is launching its second... View details »
More Brains! Part II
Art
The Little Show
Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Swarm Gallery More times »
Free
The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers. Swarm Gallery, known for... View details »
The Little Show
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Wednesday Nov 28, 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