Events on Saturday, November 29
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Shwayze
- @ The Grand Ballroom
- One is the self-described "only black guy in Malibu," the other's the paparazzi's favorite beach bum, and when they come together... View details »
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- More Flavor: Party
- Bohemian Carnival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Folk/Country
- The Skygreen Leopards
- @ Cafe du Nord
- While describing a band by referencing others is often a veiled accusation that a sound is derivative, sometimes it simply indicates... View details »
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- Reading
- A Literary Feast
- @ Book Zoo
- Feast on more than just turkey this Thanksgiving weekend, as local literary pubs Watchword Press and Beeswax Magazine present an evening... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Blowoff
- @ Slim's
- Longtime fans might have had an inkling that former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould was anxious to ditch his guitar when... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art
- Stolen Land
- @ Needles & Pens
- Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined... View details »
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- As Above So Below
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Wizard of Oz
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- The Art of Participation
- @ SFMOMA
- While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- The Great Dickens Christmas Fair
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Dame Edna Everage
- @ Post Street Theatre
- Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Tallgrass Gothic
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Diem Chau
- @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
- With an exacting delicacy, Vietnamese-born artist Diem Chau uses thread, fabric, and porcelain to sculpt fleeting glimpses of the human figure.... View details »
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- Collapsitalism
- @ Johansson Projects
- Clearly, the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, and the symptoms of Depression 2.0 have started to cripple what was... View details »
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- Film
- Milk
- @ The Castro Theatre
- Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... View details »
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- Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
- @ 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... View details »
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- Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
- @ SFMOMA
- The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... View details »
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- Art
- Off the Edge
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- @ 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... View details »
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- Martin Puryear
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The W. Kamau Bell Curve
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tickling Thicket
- @ Johansson Projects
- The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone... View details »
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- Art
- L.A. Paint
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tim Lee
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Yves Saint Laurent
- @ de Young Museum
- After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Brought to Light
- @ SFMOMA
- SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... View details »
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- Kate Gilmore
- @ Catharine Clark Gallery
- Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body... View details »
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- The Totoro Forest Project
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- As Bees in Honey Drown
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Competition
- Shanghai SF
- @ Coit Tower
- Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... View details »
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- Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
- @ 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... View details »
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