All events on Friday November 30

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Music: Rock/Pop
Iron & Wine
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (8pm) @ Paramount Theatre
Sam Beam's creative growth over the last five years is more than a little miraculous. Though his early recordings as Iron & Wine were textbook... View details »
Iron & Wine
Music: Rock/Pop
Damo Suzuki
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Discovered by his future Can band mates while busking outside their gig, vocalist Damo Suzuki later appeared on some of the group's strongest albums, contributing... View details »
Damo Suzuki
Music: Rock/Pop
Escort
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (10pm–5am) @ Mezzanine
Giveaway
Amid the constant blog buzz surrounding disco revivalists such as LCD Soundsystem and Sally Shapiro, word on Brooklyn's 13-piece disco orchestra, Escort, has been relatively... View details »
Escort
Music: Rock/Pop
Etienne de Rocher's Farewell Party
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
For those who have never experienced Etienne de Rocher's tender, blue-eyed soul, this is your last chance to take pride in the local hero before... View details »
Etienne de Rocher's Farewell Party
Music: Rock/Pop
The Lemonheads
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (9pm) @ Slim's
Back in the early '90s, the Lemonheads' Evan Dando was one of the poster children for Generation X: a stoned, sensitive heartthrob along the lines... View details »
The Lemonheads
Music: Electronic
Chris Watson and Florian Hecker
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (8pm) @ Recombinant Media Labs
... pan class="body">You'll never hear the world in quite the same way after experiencing Chris Watson's field recordings. Whether an eerie whistle of wind... View details »
Chris Watson and Florian Hecker
Performing Arts: Dance
Dance Ceres
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (8pm) @ Dance Mission More times »
Choreographer Brittany Brown Ceres' new series of vignettes deftly illustrates natural cycles of change; cerebral and lyrical, her work conveys both death and rebirth. The... View details »
Dance Ceres
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Civil Twilight
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of destruction and transition, mirroring... View details »
Civil Twilight
Performing Arts: Comedy
[SOLD OUT] The Comedians of Comedy
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (9pm) @ The Independent
Sold Out!
No longer relegated to basement venues with checkered floors and overpriced drink minimums, standup comedy finally has rock 'n roll cred, thanks to Patton Oswalt,... View details »
[SOLD OUT] The Comedians of Comedy

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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Friday Nov 30, 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
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Driss Ouadahi
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
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Dracula
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday Nov 30, 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)
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A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Friday Nov 30, 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
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Bulk
Friday Nov 30, 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
GROUNDED?
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
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Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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 30, 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
Hannah Takes the Stairs
Friday Nov 30, 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
Film
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
Friday Nov 30, 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
More Flavor: Festival
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
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Van Arno
Friday Nov 30, 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 30, 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
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"The There, There"
Friday Nov 30, 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"
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Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
More Flavor: Spectacle
Circus Oz
Friday Nov 30, 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
Friday Nov 30, 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
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More Brains! Part II
Friday Nov 30, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
Friday Nov 30, 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
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The Little Show
Friday Nov 30, 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
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Apocalypse Now
Friday Nov 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Friday Nov 30, 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 30, 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