All events on Sunday December 16

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Music: Jazz/Blues
Biggi Vinkeloe Trio
Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Highly esteemed by European avant-jazz elites, German-born, French- and Swedish-bred Biggi Vinkeloe also has close ties to the Bay Area, thanks to a 2001 residency... View details »
Biggi Vinkeloe Trio
Music: DJ
Mineshaft
Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (9pm–3am) @ 103 Harriet St
Having already thrown some amazing parties, with the likes of Horse Meat Disco and Todd Terje doing guest spots on the decks, the busy bees... View details »
Mineshaft
More Flavor: Shopping
Thread
Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ San Francisco Design Center Galleria
Giveaway
Thread, the fashion spectacle that draws shoppers by the thousands, is every fashionista's dream. This globally covered fair is a prime opportunity to snag some... View details »
Thread
Film
The Draughtsman's Contract
Sunday Dec 16, 2007 @ Red Vic More times »
Peter Greenaway's allegory of conceit, deception, and power is a puzzle box of a film. In 17th-century England, an aristocrat's wife commissions an... View details »
The Draughtsman's Contract

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Art
Douglas Gordon
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Art
Dracula
Sunday Dec 16, 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
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Sunday Dec 16, 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
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–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
Film
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Jardin de Mis Sueños
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Art
"The There, There"
Sunday Dec 16, 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"
Art
The Little Show
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Film: Documentary
All in This Tea
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Christmas Ballet
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Frolic
Sunday Dec 16, 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
Sunday Dec 16, 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