Events on Thursday, December 18
Thursday 12/18 @ Slim's
Invigorated by the definitive recent book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source...
Thursday 12/18 @ Great American Music Hall
If the metal resurgence hasn't already jumped the shark, it's getting uncomfortably mainstream, and dyed-in-the-wool headbangers are retreating into increasingly esoteric...
Creative Commons' Birthday Party
Thursday 12/18 @ 111 Minna Gallery
Through multiple access points to booze and fun, Creative Commons celebrates the big six with a party that underscores their mission...
Thursday 12/18 @ Club Mighty
Some ten years in, indie staple Ladytron's retro synth-pop continues to wring life out of vintage analogue equipment (think Korgs and...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/18 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
Thursday 12/18 @ Off-Market Theater
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/18 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Self-taught polyglot and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal originally hails from Harlem, but his unique brand of blues reflects traditions from Cuba, Hawaii,...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ The Independent
While British outfit the Duke Spirit's rollicking blues riffs are more polished on their latest release, Neptune, their formula remains the...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body...
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ Creativity Explored
The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating...
Thursday 12/18 @ Johansson Projects
Clearly, the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, and the symptoms of Depression 2.0 have started to cripple what was...
NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
Thursday 12/18 @ 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....
Thursday 12/18 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ La Val's Subterranean Theater
Not only do pizza and beer abound at the La Val's Subterranean Theatre, a speakeasy haven for live performance, but the...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes
Thursday 12/18 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Trannyshack emerti Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
Thursday 12/18 @ Roxie Theater
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Thursday 12/18 @ Gallery 1988
Equal parts visual titillation and thoughtful exploration, The Vivisect Playset Five dissects the human condition through use of animal characters. Since...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
Thursday 12/18 @ EXIT Theatre
Santa Claus may have been spotted kissing mommy, but that brief episode of womanizing was nothing compared to the charges of...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Thursday 12/18 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Thursday 12/18 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs....
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ 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...
Thursday 12/18 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
