All events on Tuesday November 06

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Hold Steady
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 (8pm) @ Mezzanine
Giveaway
What sets the Brooklyn-based Hold Steady apart from other indie "bar bands" who like their guitars thick and ballads beer-drenched, is the delivery and wordplay... View details »
The Hold Steady
Music: Rock/Pop
Jesu
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
It would be a cop-out to say that grindcore demigod Justin Broadrick's transition from metal superstar to My Bloody Valentine minion is a function of... View details »
Jesu
Film
Global Lens
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Giveaway
Those seeking solace from American cinema's gratuitous violence and chiseled features will appreciate Global Lens. The annual touring film series showcases the best new feature-length... View details »
Global Lens

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Art
Driss Ouadahi
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Jamie Vasta
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Inside Terrorism
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library More times »
Free
Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak surrounding acts of terrorism.... View details »
Inside Terrorism
Art
Douglas Gordon
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Film
Int'l Latino Film Festival
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more attention has been paid... View details »
Int'l Latino Film Festival
Art
Dracula
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Olafur Eliasson
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Art
Pioneers
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Amid its recent spat of new exhibitions and edgy curation, CCA's marvelous Wattis Institute pays aesthetical tithes to those Bay Area artists whose vanguard practices... View details »
Pioneers
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Derek Boshier
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 (11:30am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
Free
... own for being a part of the '60s London scene, self-proclaimed "populist artist" Derek Boshier draws inspiration from magazine covers, both real... View details »
Derek Boshier
Art
Super Heroes Super Villains
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Recent Works
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Sweet Sunny Temper
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Double Punch Toy Store More times »
Free
... th prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails, and a serious attitude... View details »
Sweet Sunny Temper
More Flavor: Festival
SF Jazz Festival
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Art
The Temporal Moving Image
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, and Kota Ezawa all... View details »
The Temporal Moving Image
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Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Displaced
Tuesday Nov 6, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Tuesday Nov 6, 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
Tuesday Nov 6, 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