Events on Saturday, December 20
Saturday 12/20 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Thanks to the StoryTime Festival, the supersaturation of Christmas iconography isn't the only grand visualization of mythology on display this week....
Saturday 12/20 @ Bottom of the Hill
Almost 20 years since East bay punk institution Operation Ivy split up, singer Jesse Michaels has a cache of new songs...
Saturday 12/20 @ Mission Dolores Park
Fans of flash mobs and minimalist music will want to come out for this year's Unsilent Night. Experimental composer Phil Kline...
The Diamond Dagger's Holiday Round-Up
Saturday 12/20 @ Fat City
From lavender line dancing to gay rodeos, LGBT folk just can't quit the Wild West. And things don't get much wilder...
Saturday 12/20 @ Paradise Lounge
Club Donuts presents some of the finest producers and DJs currently working to keep disco, electro, and Italo alive and well....
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/20 @ Johansson Projects
Clearly, the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, and the symptoms of Depression 2.0 have started to cripple what was...
Saturday 12/20 @ Off-Market Theater
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
Saturday 12/20 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Creativity Explored
The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating...
Saturday 12/20 @ Roxie Theater
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Saturday 12/20 @ Gallery 1988
Equal parts visual titillation and thoughtful exploration, The Vivisect Playset Five dissects the human condition through use of animal characters. Since...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Tonight's eclectic double feature explores two disparate, yet somehow harmonious, sides of the musical spectrum: the Muppets and Sonic Youth. The...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
Saturday 12/20 @ 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....
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 12/20 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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,...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
Saturday 12/20 @ EXIT Theatre
Santa Claus may have been spotted kissing mommy, but that brief episode of womanizing was nothing compared to the charges of...
Saturday 12/20 @ Red Vic
From The Endless Summer (1966) to Riding Giants (2004), the quest for "the perfect wave" has sustained filmmakers as long as...
Saturday 12/20 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Saturday 12/20 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
Saturday 12/20 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body...
Saturday 12/20 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs....
The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes
Saturday 12/20 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Trannyshack emerti Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
Saturday 12/20 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 12/20 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Saturday 12/20 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair
Saturday 12/20 @ Cow Palace
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Fanciful prose and tea and crumpets aren't the only things flowing freely at the 30th-annual Dickens Christmas...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ The Marsh
Who says a puppet has to fit around a hand, dangle as a marionette, or even be anthropomorphic, for that matter?...
