All events on Wednesday December 26

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Music: Rock/Pop
French Miami
Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
Two local bands with strong sounds share the bill at Hemlock the night after Christmas. With a name like French Miami, the headliners must know... View details »
French Miami
Film
Spellbound
Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 (2:50pm) @ The Castro Theatre
All of Alfred Hitchcock's films are deeply rooted in psychology, but Spellbound is unusual for its direct treatment of psychoanalysis. Produced in 1945, during... View details »
 Spellbound
Music: Rock/Pop
Reverend Horton Heat
Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
Tonight, the Fillmore opens up double-fisted cans of country-fried whup-ass. On one hand, you've got the good Reverend, who's been stomping out Texas-sized psychobilly since... View details »
Reverend Horton Heat
More Flavor: Exhibition
Walking with Dinosaurs
Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 @ HP Pavilion More times »
Based on the popular BBC series, Walking with Dinosaurs combines top-notch engineering, visual effects, and film for an impressive multi-sensory museum experience. Set in a... View details »
Walking with Dinosaurs
Film
There Will Be Blood
Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 @ Various locations
2007 has been the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild one: There Will... View details »
There Will Be Blood

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Dec 26, 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
Dracula
Wednesday Dec 26, 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)
Wednesday Dec 26, 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
Wednesday Dec 26, 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
More Flavor: Benefit
Creativity Explored's Holiday Art Sale
Wednesday Dec 26, 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 26, 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
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Wednesday Dec 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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
Apocalypse Now
Wednesday Dec 26, 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
Art
Jovi Schnell
Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Jovi Schnell
Art
In the Fullness of Time
Wednesday Dec 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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!
Film: Documentary
Helvetica
Wednesday Dec 26, 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
Art
Gee Vaucher
Wednesday Dec 26, 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 26, 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