Events on Friday, November 7
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Starf*cker
- @ 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... View details »
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- Donut Heat
- @ Elbo Room
- Before Lindstrøm taught the kids how to pronounce Balaeric and Madonna aped Moroder, DJ Daniel Wang was quietly infiltrating NYC's house... View details »
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- Shabana Azmi
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Rogue Wave
- @ 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... 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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- Jay Nelson
- @ Triple Base
- For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a... 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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- 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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- Bay Area Now 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... 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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- Other Than History
- @ Silverman Gallery
- The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Rocky Horror Show
- @ 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... 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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- Recollections
- @ Market Street Gallery
- The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,... View details »
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- Relay
- @ The Lab
- This multimedia exhibit and concert series of experimental sound artists play on the various meanings of the word "relay," both as... 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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- Banned and Recovered
- @ 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... View details »
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- somewhere in advance of nowhere
- @ 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... View details »
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- Paul Insect
- @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
- When he arrived stateside for his latest show, London artist Paul Insect pasted the streets of SF with his signature image:... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Huckabay McAllister Dance
- @ CounterPULSE
- Lucky 13, Huckabay McAllister Dance's newest performance, melds their sensual dancing with elements of fantasy and comedy. Co-directors Emma Lou Huckabay... View details »
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- Volume Too
- @ Rowan Morrison
- Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- It's Alright
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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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- Food Justice
- @ 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... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Monk
- @ EXIT Stage Left
- No Nude Men Productions brings Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic novel of broken vows and grisly murder to the stage. Stuart Bousel,... View details »
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- Dustin Fosnot
- @ 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... View details »
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- Halloween
- Shocktoberfest!! 2008
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tranny Fest
- @ 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... 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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