Events on Saturday, November 22
Saturday 11/22 @ Swedish American Hall
While up to 19 members have been known to circulate in and out of the group, Shara Worden remains the driving...
Saturday 11/22 @ Magic Theater
Local sketch comedy ensemble Killing My Lobster celebrates eleven years of absurdity with a one-night-only showcase of their greatest hits, punches,...
Saturday 11/22 @ Secret SF Location
Technophiles rejoice as new-school darling Mathew Jonson performs with the support of inimitable dance-inducer Lee Foss at an underground locale. Jonson's...
The Mighty Underdogs w/ Zion I
Saturday 11/22 @ The Grand Ballroom
Bay Area indie-rap supergroup the Mighty Underdogs return home from a month-long tour to celebrate the release of their first full-length,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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...
San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest
Saturday 11/22 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
The Palace of Fine Arts transforms into a magnificent dance arena this weekend, serving as host to an international talent show...
Saturday 11/22 @ Landmark Embarcadero
More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
What better way to snuggle in for a cold holiday season than with some well-curated smut? YBCA film curator Joel Shepard...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ The Castro Theatre
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...
Saturday 11/22 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Saturday 11/22 @ Scott Richards Contemporary Art
Ever since Robert Rauschenberg challenged the sovereignty of the second dimension in painting by introducing foreign objects into the equation, painters...
The Execution of Precious Memories
Saturday 11/22 @ Project Artaud Theater
While he may be best known for his music with Einstürzende Neubauten and the Bad Seeds, Blixa Bargeld is also multimedia...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
Saturday 11/22 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Roxie Theater
In anticipation of Gus van Sant's new biopic Milk, the Roxie Theater presents a special engagement of The Times of Harvey...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
