Events on Saturday, November 29
Saturday 11/29 @ Book Zoo
Feast on more than just turkey this Thanksgiving weekend, as local literary pubs Watchword Press and Beeswax Magazine present an evening...
Saturday 11/29 @ Cafe du Nord
While describing a band by referencing others is often a veiled accusation that a sound is derivative, sometimes it simply indicates...
Saturday 11/29 @ DNA Lounge
If you've ever wanted to run away and join the circus, tonight's Bohemian Carnival is your big chance. Best of the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Saturday 11/29 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair
Saturday 11/29 @ Cow Palace
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Fanciful prose and tea and crumpets aren't the only things flowing freely at the 30th-annual Dickens Christmas...
Saturday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Saturday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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...
Saturday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Saturday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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 11/29 @ 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...
