All events on Wednesday December 19

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Music: Rock/Pop
Darondo
Wednesday Dec 19, 2007 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
... rondo's return hasn't been met with as much fanfare as other folk and punk reunions have over the last few years. No matter: the... View details »
Darondo
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Stephen Malkmus
Wednesday Dec 19, 2007 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
Sold Out!
Like an eager child with a coloring book, Stephen Malkmus scribbles noisy fragments over familiar pop structures. With Pavement, he absorbed the sweetened thrash of... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Stephen Malkmus
Film
Silent Shout: An Audiovisual Experience
Wednesday Dec 19, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Mezzanine
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The Knife, Sweden's famously masked goth-dance duo, are as renowned for their reclusiveness as they are for their dark electro-genius. Considering the pair's... View details »
Silent Shout: An Audiovisual Experience
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Dessert as Art
Wednesday Dec 19, 2007 (5:30pm) @ Commonwealth Club
Elizabeth Falkner's desserts are architectural constructions, exploding with spun-sugar ribbons and teetering on mousse-and-pastry buttresses. With a fine-arts background and an impressive list of restaurants... View details »
Dessert as Art

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Dec 19, 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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Forrest Williams
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Wednesday Dec 19, 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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Dracula
Wednesday Dec 19, 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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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday Dec 19, 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)
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A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Wednesday Dec 19, 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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Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
Rex Ray
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
Big Ideas, Small Works
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
Ruth Asawa
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
Civil Twilight
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
The Little Show
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
Apocalypse Now
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Film: Documentary
All in This Tea
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Jovi Schnell
Wednesday Dec 19, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Jovi Schnell
Art
In the Fullness of Time
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
Robots Are Art
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art
Paper! Paper! Paper!
Wednesday Dec 19, 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!
Performing Arts: Dance
The Hard Nut
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Wednesday Dec 19, 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
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Wednesday Dec 19, 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