Events on Sunday, November 23
Sunday 11/23 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Since filmmakers Bruce Baille and Chick Strand started hosting informal screenings in 1961 and then began distributing films five years later,...
Sunday 11/23 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
Just in case you weren't aware: there's no smoking in the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium. And pot is still totally illegal,...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 11/23 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
The Execution of Precious Memories
Sunday 11/23 @ Project Artaud Theater
While he may be best known for his music with Einstürzende Neubauten and the Bad Seeds, Blixa Bargeld is also multimedia...
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
Sunday 11/23 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Sunday 11/23 @ Landmark Embarcadero
More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and...
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
Sunday 11/23 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
Sunday 11/23 @ The Castro Theatre
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...
Sunday 11/23 @ The Fillmore
Brooklyn's the Hold Steady have come a long way from their roots in legendary Minneapolis indie-rock outfit LFTR PLLR. The self-declared...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Sunday 11/23 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Sunday 11/23 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Sunday 11/23 @ Roxie Theater
In anticipation of Gus van Sant's new biopic Milk, the Roxie Theater presents a special engagement of The Times of Harvey...
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
Sunday 11/23 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Sunday 11/23 @ 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...
