Events on Thursday, November 8

Eugene Robinson, V. Vale, and James Stark

Books: Reading

Eugene Robinson

Thursday 11/ 8 @ SF Camerawork

  Punk music and violence, whether cartoonishly depicted (The Ramones' "Beat on the Brat") or brutally meted out (see any chapter... 

Crazy Rays: <i>Strain Andromeda The</I> (1992)

Film

Strain Andromeda The

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Roxie Theater

  Video artist Anne McGuire reverses Robert Wise's 1971 adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestselling science fiction potboiler, shot by shot, to... 

KALX 45th Anniversary Show w/ Chow Nasty, Sugar and Gold, Social Studies, and Greg Ashley

Party

KALX 45th Anniversary Show

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Rickshaw Stop

Blues/funk/hard rock trio Chow Nasty are like a bowl of oatmeal in your pants — gross and jarring at first, but... 

Ongoing Events

Takeshi Murata: <i>Escape Spirit VideoSlime</i>

Art

Takeshi Murata

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Ratio 3

  As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi... 

<i>after the quake</i>

Theatre

after the quake

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<i>Pioneers</i>

Art

Pioneers

Thursday 11/ 8 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Amid its recent spat of new exhibitions and edgy curation, CCA's marvelous Wattis Institute pays aesthetical tithes to those Bay Area... 

Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, Kota Ezawa: <i>The Temporal Moving Image</i>

Art

The Temporal Moving Image

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Haines Gallery

Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath,... 

Jonathan Callan, Frank Ebert, Armando Miguelez, Julio Cesar Morales, and Gabrielle Teschner: <i>Displaced</i>

Art

Displaced

Thursday 11/ 8 @ John Berggruen Gallery

Derek Boshier: <i>Magazines</i>

Art

Derek Boshier

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts

  Known for being a part of the '60s London scene, self-proclaimed "populist artist" Derek Boshier draws inspiration from... 

Second San Francisco International Animation Festival

Film

Int'l Animation Festival

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema

D. Jud Jones and Risto Topaloski's feature animation, Film Noir, is a prototypical hard-boiled thriller, with not-so-good good guys, truly bad... 

Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>

Art

Douglas Gordon

Thursday 11/ 8 @ SFMOMA

The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Thursday 11/ 8 @ SFMOMA

Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not... 

<i>A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection</i>

Art

A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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'... 

<I>The Gun Show</I>

Art

The Gun Show

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Root Division

As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations... 

Driss Ouadahi: <i>Another Place, Another Me</i>

Art

Driss Ouadahi

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Hosfelt Gallery

Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss... 

Tranny Fest: Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Various locations

San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco... 

Olafur Eliasson

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Thursday 11/ 8 @ SFMOMA

From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential... 

Forrest Williams: <i>Porches</i>

Art

Forrest Williams

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<i>Oaxaca: Aqu&#237; No Pasa Nada</i>

Art

Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Galería de la Raza

In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus... 

11th International Latino Film Festival

Film

Int'l Latino Film Festival

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Various locations

With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more... 

Alyson Belcher: <i>Body of Light</i>

Art

Alyson Belcher

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<i>Sweet Sunny Temper</i>

Art

Sweet Sunny Temper

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Double Punch Toy Store

  With prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails,... 

<i>Super Heroes Super Villains</i>

Art

Super Heroes Super Villains

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Creativity Explored

In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories... 

Global Lens 2007

Film

Global Lens

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Roxie Theater

Those seeking solace from American cinema's gratuitous violence and chiseled features will appreciate Global Lens. The annual touring film series showcases... 

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Art

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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'... 

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Edward Gorey's <i>Dracula</i>

Art

Dracula

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Cartoon Art Museum

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his... 

Jamie Vasta: <i>Musn't</i>

Art

Jamie Vasta

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<i>The Book Art of Edward Gorey</i>

Art

The Book Art of Edward Gorey

Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Nathan Redwood: <i>Recent Works</i>

Art

Recent Works

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Electric Works

  Nathan Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl... 

The X-Ray Project: <i>Inside Terrorism</i>

Art

Inside Terrorism

Thursday 11/ 8 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak...