Events on Wednesday, December 3
The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Mechanic's Institute Library
The Painted Ladies, the TransAmerica building, and the Golden Gate Bridge are often cited as prime examples of the Bay Area's...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ The Grand Ballroom
Wu-Tang Clan hit the road this winter to keep plugging last year's full-length, the fitfully brilliant 8 Diagrams. Although bad blood...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ Diesel, A Bookstore
Although Lawrence Ferlinghetti dubbed poet Gary Snyder the "Thoreau of the Beat Generation" and he appears in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma...
Ongoing Events
NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 3 @ 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...
