Events on Wednesday, November 5
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ City Lights
Due to his overwhelming productivity, the unassailable bad boy of American literature continues to be rediscovered and published more than a...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Vessel-no
Tonight, Vessel opens your ears to every Lite-Brite shade of techno in the spectrum with a rare live set by Simian...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Herbst Theatre
Toumani Diabaté may be the preeminent keeper of Mali's rich history of kora music, but he's hardly a classicist. The 71st-generation...
Donovan Quinn & the Thirteenth Month
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Hemlock Tavern
It's no surprise that Donavan Quinn's psychedelic folk is Cali-brewed. His slow, hushed whispers can be pretty easily likened to the...
Ongoing Events
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Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Market Street Gallery
The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Red Vic
Don't let the name fool you. At 96, Louise Bourgeois is still the diametric opposite of middle-class politesse and mass-produced good...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Rowan Morrison
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Cobb's Comedy Club
Though long adored in England for his onstage antics and hip hyperbole, Russell Brand has yet to truly make his mark...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Various locations
The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of...
