Events on Friday, November 7
Friday 11/ 7 @ Le Petit Trianon Theatre
While dominating the Indian film industry for the past 40 years, Shabana Azmi emerged as a premier advocate for social reform....
Friday 11/ 7 @ Elbo Room
Before Lindstrøm taught the kids how to pronounce Balaeric and Madonna aped Moroder, DJ Daniel Wang was quietly infiltrating NYC's house...
Friday 11/ 7 @ The Independent
Just because a band is friends with Jack Johnson doesn't make it a jam-branded John Mayer in the making. While haunting...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Hemlock Tavern
While Starf*cker's name might seem pedestrian (or at least juvenile), it turns out that the moniker comes from a Rolling Stones...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Friday 11/ 7 @ CounterPULSE
Lucky 13, Huckabay McAllister Dance's newest performance, melds their sensual dancing with elements of fantasy and comedy. Co-directors Emma Lou Huckabay...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous — from cross-dressing Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock-Coit to...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Rowan Morrison
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Victoria Theatre
When Rocky Horror first brought its gender-bending antics and rock 'n roll sci-fi to the stage in 1973, it screamed cult...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Friday 11/ 7 @ Roxie Theater
Who woulda thunk an Oskaloosa-born cellist would one day be remembered as a vital force in New York's experimental-music and underground-dance...
Friday 11/ 7 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Johansson Projects
The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Friday 11/ 7 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Triple Base
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a...
Friday 11/ 7 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
When he arrived stateside for his latest show, London artist Paul Insect pasted the streets of SF with his signature image:...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Market Street Gallery
The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
