Events on Saturday, November 15
Saturday 11/15 @ Cafe du Nord
Confounding music critics is not the Legendary Pink Dots' modus operandi, but it must amuse them to peruse the long lists...
Saturday 11/15 @ The Variety Preview Room
Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West may have received the lion's share of...
McSweeney's 29 and flatmanCROOKED's First Winter
Saturday 11/15 @ KoKo Cocktails
What do jungle warfare, track-team romance, and Jorge Luis Borges all have in common? If you said the fiction offered up...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/15 @ Johansson Projects
The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone...
Saturday 11/15 @ Various locations
A pass to the SF Wine Week thrills every curious palate, as corks pop and glasses clink during the six-day wine...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 11/15 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Saturday 11/15 @ Victoria Theatre
When Rocky Horror first brought its gender-bending antics and rock 'n roll sci-fi to the stage in 1973, it screamed cult...
Saturday 11/15 @ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...
Saturday 11/15 @ Market Street Gallery
The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,...
Saturday 11/15 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Saturday 11/15 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
With this collaborative exhibit that opens a dialogue on nutrition education, resource scarcity, and urban homesteading, the Rock Paper Scissors collective...
Saturday 11/15 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Domestic trappings and urban landscapes collide in Dustin Fosnot's latest series, Cyanide. To install these jarring pieces, the artist drops mattresses...
Saturday 11/15 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Something extraordinary takes place when unlikely collaborators find a common cause in art, and Delinquent is no exception. Circo Zero director...
Saturday 11/15 @ Johansson Projects
Clearly, the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, and the symptoms of Depression 2.0 have started to cripple what was...
Saturday 11/15 @ Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Saturday 11/15 @ Intersection for the Arts
With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from...
San Francisco International Animation Festival
Saturday 11/15 @ Landmark Embarcadero
As with comics, animation has long surpassed the realm of Saturday morning or multiplex kiddie fare. Just look at the popularity...
Saturday 11/15 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Saturday 11/15 @ New Conservatory Theatre
It's all about appearances in As Bees in Honey Drown, a play in which the glitterati flock to anything à la...
Saturday 11/15 @ Rowan Morrison
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of...
Saturday 11/15 @ La Val's Subterranean Theater
Not only do pizza and beer abound at the La Val's Subterranean Theatre, a speakeasy haven for live performance, but the...
Saturday 11/15 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis...
Saturday 11/15 @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
In a devastating display of nature's fury, Chile's Chaitén volcano erupted last May, spewing plumes of roiling ash that generated dense...
Saturday 11/15 @ Various locations
Brimming with South Asian cinematic talent, this year's 3rd I Film Festival has everything from art house flicks and political dramas...
Saturday 11/15 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Saturday 11/15 @ Hypnodrome
In the "terror and taboo" tradition of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Thrillpeddlers presents an evening of horror-themed one-acts that pit humans...
Saturday 11/15 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear quickly dispenses with woodworking's crafty, small-scale reputation. Monumental in size, Puryear's abstract...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Saturday 11/15 @ Oakland Museum of California
In honor of Dias de los Muertos, small altars of glowing candles and sugar skulls, large-scale public installations, and processions fill...
Saturday 11/15 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 11/15 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
August Wilson's series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, is the most ambitious and critically successful attempt ever to stage the...
Saturday 11/15 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the...
Saturday 11/15 @ Slim's
Despite being an aging "alternative nation" act, the Breeders continue to inspire legions of loyalists: Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox has recently...
Saturday 11/15 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Saturday 11/15 @ Climate Theater
Last year, W. Kamau Bell's critically acclaimed one-man show turned heads with its candid approach to celebrity racism, social norms, the...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Saturday 11/15 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth...
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
Saturday 11/15 @ Red Vic
With their landmark album Black Monk Time, the Monks created a unique document of the pre-Woodstock '60s, made up of Beatlemaniac...
Saturday 11/15 @ San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
San Francisco loves all things green, and the proof is its annual Green Festival, a massive three-day event with more than...
