Events on Wednesday, November 28
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Cafe du Nord
Dark and alluring like the most twisted of fairy tales, the music of Faun Fables is unapologetically theatrical and baroque. The...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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'...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Space Gallery
Other than Halloween, few occasions inspire thoughts of the undead like the holiday season — which may explain why Space Gallery...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Roxie Theater
In the opening moments of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a pair of disembodied lips sings, "I want to go /...
Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Wednesday 11/28 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
For the duration of the gallery's Winter Session, Polk Street's San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery space will serve as the command...
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Wednesday 11/28 @ Various locations
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ 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...
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Wednesday 11/28 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Swarm Gallery
The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers....
Wednesday 11/28 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Charlie Chaplin's Tramp is an icon by design, but the bowler hat and mustache only go so far towards describing the...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Moscone Center
San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ Silverman Gallery
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30...
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 11/28 @ 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...
