All events on Monday December 31

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New Year's Eve
Miss Kittin
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (8pm–4am) @ Fat City
Electroclash has come and gone, but Miss Kittin — who garnered hype and dismissal in equal measure for her ice-queen vocals on collaborations with Golden... View details »
Miss Kittin
New Year's Eve
The Melvins
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm) @ Slim's
Certainly the heaviest offering amongst this year's New Year's Eve specials, longtime sludge champions the Melvins face off with Santa Cruz power-psych operators Comets on... View details »
The Melvins
New Year's Eve
Diplo
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm) @ Temple
Mad Decent label head, M.I.A. collaborator (and former flame), and baile funk's unofficial US ambassador, Diplo has become justly famous for spinning sweat-inducing mixes that... View details »
Diplo
New Year's Eve
Champions of the Arena III
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (8pm–4am) @ Club 6ix
Oakland's Crown City Rockers prove that live hip-hop need not dwell in the shadow of the Roots, as the band's jazzy instrumentation and MC Rashaan... View details »
Champions of the Arena III
New Year's Eve
Bootie Pirate New Year's Eve Party
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm) @ DNA Lounge
Bootie keeps the party pumping into 2008 with a live set by Smash-Up Derby, a pirate burlesque show, and plenty of bastard-pop bootlegs from resident... View details »
Bootie Pirate New Year's Eve Party
New Year's Eve
The Phantom of the Opera
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (7pm) @ Grace Cathedral
With Oscar season fast approaching, talk inevitably turns to those actors who submitted themselves to the most physically grueling (or deforming) roles — think Charlize... View details »
The Phantom of the Opera
New Year's Eve
Greg Proops
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Fans of the improv television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? will be well acquainted with the self-lacerating humor of bespectacled comic Greg Proops. Proops,... View details »
Greg Proops
New Year's Eve
Bat Makumba
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
San Francisco's own Brazilian-pop dynamos Bat Makumba pull their veggie-fueled tour bus back into town for a special New Year's Eve performance. Named after a... View details »
Bat Makumba
New Year's Eve
Cake
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm) @ The Warfield
Cake
New Year's Eve
Sea of Dreams
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (8pm) @ SF Concourse and Exhibition Center
Some of the Bay Area's most creative event producers join forces this New Year's Eve to pull together an otherworldly spectacle with pulsating beats, live... View details »
Sea of Dreams

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Art
Douglas Gordon
Monday Dec 31, 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
Olafur Eliasson
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ 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
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Monday Dec 31, 2007 @ 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
Lucy McKenzie
Monday Dec 31, 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
Art
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
Monday Dec 31, 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
Civil Twilight
Monday Dec 31, 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: Photography
Jeff Wall
Monday Dec 31, 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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Walking with Dinosaurs
Monday Dec 31, 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
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (10am–7pm) @ 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