All events on Saturday December 29

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Music: Rock/Pop
Hiss Golden Messenger
Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
When MC Taylor left San Francisco for greener North Carolina pastures earlier this year, the city lost one of its most talented songwriters (as well... View details »
Hiss Golden Messenger
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Zero Ground
Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (9pm–5am) @ The Regency Center
It's not easy being green, but Zero Ground offers one of the funkier approaches to reducing your carbon footprint: dancing. Yes, the all-night event is... View details »
Zero Ground

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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Saturday Dec 29, 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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Douglas Gordon
Saturday Dec 29, 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
Saturday Dec 29, 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
Saturday Dec 29, 2007 @ 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)
Saturday Dec 29, 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
Saturday Dec 29, 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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Lucy McKenzie
Saturday Dec 29, 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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Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Saturday Dec 29, 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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Big Ideas, Small Works
Saturday Dec 29, 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
Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Saturday Dec 29, 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
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Apocalypse Now
Saturday Dec 29, 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
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Jovi Schnell
Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
Jovi Schnell
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In the Fullness of Time
Saturday Dec 29, 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: Photography
Jeff Wall
Saturday Dec 29, 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
Saturday Dec 29, 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!
Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (1–5pm) @ 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!
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Gee Vaucher
Saturday Dec 29, 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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Walking with Dinosaurs
Saturday Dec 29, 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
Music: Rock/Pop
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Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (9pm) @ Slim's More times »
Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake were poster children for the malaise of the late-'70s LA underground. With a style equal parts... View details »
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