All events on Sunday December 09

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Music: Rock/Pop
Deborah Harry
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
Thirty years after Blondie first broke, singer Deborah Harry still strikes an iconic pose: she is at once a punk-rock incarnation of Marlene Dietrich and... View details »
Deborah Harry
Music: Classical
The Alexander String Quartet
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (3pm) @ McKenna Theatre
Free
... nce 1952, San Francisco State University's Morrison Artists Series has brought some of the world's premier ensembles to the Bay Area for free chamber... View details »
The Alexander String Quartet
More Flavor: Benefit
Nude Aid
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (5–9pm) @ Club Mighty
Happenings of the Allan Kaprow variety still occur, but these days they're called benefits. Case in point: Nude Aid, a live art-making extravaganza in which... View details »
Nude Aid

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Sunday Dec 9, 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
Nothing Moments
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30 designers offer a multi-city... View details »
Nothing Moments
Art
Douglas Gordon
Sunday Dec 9, 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 9, 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)
Sunday Dec 9, 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 9, 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
GROUNDED?
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with its neighbor, the revered... View details »
GROUNDED?
Film
Charles Chaplin Retrospective
Sunday Dec 9, 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
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Sunday Dec 9, 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 There, There"
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery More times »
Free
... :p> Although Gertrude Stein's quip that in Oakland, "there was no there, there," is nearly a century old, the phrase's longevity underscores Oakland's... View details »
"The There, There"
Art
The Little Show
Sunday Dec 9, 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
Film
Diva
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
... genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the glossy, style-conscious movement... View details »
 Diva
Film
Ingmar Bergman
Sunday Dec 9, 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: Photography
Jeff Wall
Sunday Dec 9, 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