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Film
Hannah Takes the Stairs
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Red Vic More times »
Hannah Takes the Stairs may be the first collective effort to emerge from the "true-blue indie" movement burgeoning in the last decade — that is,... View details »
Hannah Takes the Stairs
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Eric Schlosser
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8pm) @ Herbst Theater
Eric Schlosser made a name for himself with Fast Food Nation, the best-selling critique of America's fast-food industry done in the muckraking style of... View details »
Eric Schlosser
Art
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
Free
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm's photographs of ravaged homes in Louisiana and Kansas, respectively, straddle the line between fine art and photojournalism. Simultaneously harrowing... View details »
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
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Big Ideas, Small Works
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
Free
Big-ticket American art sometimes seems to come in one size only: extra-large. Such scaling can be subversive, but all too often it seems like yet... View details »
 Big Ideas, Small Works
Film
Shampoo
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (7pm) @ The Castro Theatre
Hal Ashby was hardly your typical Hollywood director, producing several memorably off-center movies during his career — that is, after beginning his adult life by... View details »
Shampoo
More Flavor: Spectacle
Circus Oz
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Zellerbach Hall More times »
Defying convention and gravity, Circus Oz's acrobats, trapeze artists, jugglers, tightrope walkers, and BMX trick riders will elicit both thrills and laughs. Circus Oz avoids... View details »
Circus Oz
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Ruth Asawa
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery More times »
Free
Despite the obvious differences in their work, Ruth Asawa's fabric sculptures inspire comparisons with the late Georgia O'Keefe. Both evoke the natural world while refusing... View details »
Ruth Asawa
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8 & 10pm) @ The Finn Theatre More times »
Trannyshack royalty Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as Miami's hottest foursome of a certain age — i.e. Blanche,... View details »
The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
Art
Apocalypse Now
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Politically engaged duo Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have become a major presence on SF's art scene this fall with their co-curated exhibition at CCA... View details »
Apocalypse Now

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ 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
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Driss Ouadahi
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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
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Nothing Moments
Thursday Nov 29, 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
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Jamie Vasta
Thursday Nov 29, 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
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Forrest Williams
Thursday Nov 29, 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
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Alyson Belcher
Thursday Nov 29, 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
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Douglas Gordon
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
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Dracula
Thursday Nov 29, 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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Olafur Eliasson
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Thursday Nov 29, 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)
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A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Thursday Nov 29, 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?
Thursday Nov 29, 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?
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Lucy McKenzie
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
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Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Thursday Nov 29, 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
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Rex Ray
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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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Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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
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Displaced
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
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Van Arno
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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"
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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: Photography
Jeff Wall
Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Thursday Nov 29, 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