Events on Wednesday, December 17
Wednesday 12/17 @ Landmark Bridge Theater
If chins could kill, then Bruce Campbell would rule the world. Until that time comes, the undisputed king of the B-movie...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Artists' Television Access
Oedipus Rex walks into a Tokyo gay bar — no, it's not the start of a horrible joke, but the loose...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/17 @ The Independent
While British outfit the Duke Spirit's rollicking blues riffs are more polished on their latest release, Neptune, their formula remains the...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Off-Market Theater
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Gallery 1988
Equal parts visual titillation and thoughtful exploration, The Vivisect Playset Five dissects the human condition through use of animal characters. Since...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Numerous references and allusions appear throughout Shaun O'Dell's multimedia collages: Zoroastrian symbols, American quilting patterns, ancient Sumerian architecture, the history of...
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
Wednesday 12/17 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Renowned for his formally innovative writing, the late French author Alain Robbe-Grillet depicts the world with an almost scientific objectivism. His...
Wednesday 12/17 @ CFI Rafael Film Center
Inuit murder mysteries, zombie-fueled romances, and emasculated bodybuilders are just three of the topics ripe for the picking when a finely...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Creativity Explored
The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Intersection for the Arts
For over 40 years, the Intersection for the Arts’ bread and butter has been breaking down and blurring the barriers between...
NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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....
Wednesday 12/17 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs....
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ Roxie Theater
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
Wednesday 12/17 @ SF Playhouse
We've all wondered just what may have happened between the country's 16th president and his notoriously handsome friends. Now we have...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
As pundits draw parallels between Obama and Lincoln on the evening news, everyone else is brushing up on their 19th-century history,...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 499 Castro St
One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class...
Wednesday 12/17 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
