Events on Monday, December 1

Birds & Batteries w/ Strip Mall Architecture and Junior Panthers

Music: Electronic

Birds & Batteries

Monday 12/ 1 @ Cafe du Nord

Birds & Batteries bandleader Mike Sempert moved to San Francisco a couple of years ago with a batch of home recordings... 

Sherman Alexie

Special Event

Sherman Alexie

Monday 12/ 1 @ Herbst Theater

For a country comprised of less than one percent of its indigenous people, Native American author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie's voice... 

Ongoing Events

NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits

Special Event: Benefit

NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits

Monday 12/ 1 @ Various locations

LA-based nonprofit NextAid is a progressive, hands-on charity that proves, among other things, that ravers are compassionate citizens of the world.... 

<em> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Monday 12/ 1 @ SFMOMA

The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Monday 12/ 1 @ Red Vic

Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts... 

<em>The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now</em>

Art

The Art of Participation

Monday 12/ 1 @ SFMOMA

While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... 

Dame Edna Everage: Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour

Performing Arts

Dame Edna Everage

Monday 12/ 1 @ Post Street Theatre

Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With... 

<em>Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900</em>

Art: Photography

Brought to Light

Monday 12/ 1 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... 

<em>As Above So Below</em>

Art

As Above So Below

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered</em>

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Joe Turner's Come and Gone</em>

Theatre

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Stolen Land: New Works by Other</em>

Art

Stolen Land

Monday 12/ 1 @ Needles & Pens

Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined... 

<em>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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...