Events on Wednesday, December 3
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- Reading
- Gary Snyder
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Wu-Tang Clan
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Oasis
- @ Oracle Arena
- After the warm reception they received for their last album, 2005's Don't Believe the Truth, Oasis stuck to their legendary ain't-broke-don't-fix-it... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art
- Theresa Ganz
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Art
- Diem Chau
- @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
- With an exacting delicacy, Vietnamese-born artist Diem Chau uses thread, fabric, and porcelain to sculpt fleeting glimpses of the human figure.... View details »
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- Art
- L.A. Paint
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- As Bees in Honey Drown
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- The Wizard of Oz
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Kate Gilmore
- @ Catharine Clark Gallery
- Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body... View details »
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- Art
- Off the Edge
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Yves Saint Laurent
- @ de Young Museum
- After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art
- Tim Lee
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake... View details »
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- Art
- The Totoro Forest Project
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- As Above So Below
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Milk
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Dame Edna Everage
- @ Post Street Theatre
- Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Art
- Stolen Land
- @ Needles & Pens
- Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined... View details »
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