All events on Sunday December 23

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Venus Christ
Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (8pm) @ 1015
Challenging the traditional gender roles of the Judeo-Christian world, this rock opera promises to tear down the patriarchy and "reinstate Venus to her rightful throne... View details »
Venus Christ
More Flavor: Party
Big Top
Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (8pm–2am) @ The Transfer
Free
Two nights before Christmas, the speakers blare house, the drag queens strut their stuff, and the guests get thoroughly soused. For Rayza Burn and Josh... View details »
Big Top
Music: DJ
Gavin Russom
Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (10pm) @ Knockout SF
Gavin Russom and Delia Gonzalez's 2005 DFA release, The Days of Mars, channeled the cosmic sprawl of analog synth wizards Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream,... View details »
Gavin Russom

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Sunday Dec 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Sunday Dec 23, 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 Little Show
Sunday Dec 23, 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Christmas Ballet
Sunday Dec 23, 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
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Sunday Dec 23, 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: Dance
The Hard Nut
Sunday Dec 23, 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
Film: Documentary
Helvetica
Sunday Dec 23, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
Gary Hustwit's documentary Helvetica considers the cultural importance of typography by tracing the proliferation of the titular font. First developed in Switzerland, the typeface... View details »
Helvetica