All events on Friday December 14

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Film: Documentary
All in This Tea
Friday Dec 14, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Over his four-decade career, local documentary filmmaker Les Blank has shaped any number of sympathetic portraits filled with ethnographic color and individual voices. His latest,... View details »
All in This Tea
Music: Rock/Pop
Crime in Choir
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (10pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Frenetic's ten-year anniversary is such an occasion for celebration, it requires two nights of partying and performances. The SF record label's eclectic roster includes Sactown... View details »
Crime in Choir
Music: Rock/Pop
60 Watt Kid
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Giveaway
Berkeley-based record label Absolutely Kosher teams up with boutique promoter the Kork Agency for a humdinger of a holiday party at the Hemlock. Fresh-faced and... View details »
60 Watt Kid
Art
In the Fullness of Time
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store More times »
Free
Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades as a respected venue... View details »
In the Fullness of Time
More Flavor: Discussion
At the Edge of Art
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
Authors Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais have assembled a compendium of creation called At the Edge of Art, a book of images, interviews, and philosophical... View details »
At the Edge of Art
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Frolic
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (8pm) @ CounterPULSE More times »
Giveaway
Combining the gender-bending spectacle of drag shows, the scintillating glamour of burlesque, and the humor of classic circus clowning, Frolic's performances at once sizzle and... View details »
Frolic
Performing Arts: Dance
The Hard Nut
Friday Dec 14, 2007 @ Zellerbach Hall More times »
You'll notice something odd beneath all the tulle and sequins adorning The Hard Nut's dancers: the pirouetting Sugar Plum Fairies are actually men sashaying with... View details »
The Hard Nut
Art
Gee Vaucher
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
Having designed much of the album art for '80s anarcho-peace punks Crass, Gee Vaucher continues to turn her straight razor on the visual culture of... View details »
Gee Vaucher

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Friday Dec 14, 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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Nothing Moments
Friday Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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?
Friday Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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
Film
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
Friday Dec 14, 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: Benefit
Creativity Explored's Holiday Art Sale
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
Creativity Explored's annual art sale should come as a tonic for the empty consumerism of holiday shopping. Browse a wide array of original pieces, and... View details »
Creativity Explored's Holiday Art Sale
Performing Arts: Dance
Jardin de Mis Sueños
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (8pm) @ ODC Theater More times »
Tonight, the ODC Theater fills with the clatter of castanets and stomping feet, courtesy of Emmy award-winning dancer/choreographer Yaelisa and her company, the Caminos Flamencos.... View details »
Jardin de Mis Sueños
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Friday Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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
Art
Displaced
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
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"The There, There"
Friday Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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
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Ruth Asawa
Friday Dec 14, 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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Civil Twilight
Friday Dec 14, 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: Theatre
The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
Friday Dec 14, 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
The Little Show
Friday Dec 14, 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 Dec 14, 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Christmas Ballet
Friday Dec 14, 2007 @ Novellus Theater More times »
Despite what Clara and the sugar-plum fairies might have you think, The Nutcracker isn't the only holiday dance event around. A Bay Area institution... View details »
Christmas Ballet
Film
Ingmar Bergman
Friday Dec 14, 2007 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Whether they're set in a plague-ravaged medieval landscape or in a stifling island summer home, Ingmar Bergman's films place humankind's uncertainty in the face of... View details »
Ingmar Bergman
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Friday Dec 14, 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
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Robots Are Art
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (10am–10pm) @ Float More times »
Free
... om prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our everyday lives. Celebrating all... View details »
Robots Are Art
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Paper! Paper! Paper!
Friday Dec 14, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Market Street Gallery More times »
Free
The Market Street Gallery's latest group show explores the potential of that most humble of mediums: paper. Twenty-five local artists salute the two-dimensional form through... View details »
Paper! Paper! Paper!
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Friday Dec 14, 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