Events on Wednesday, December 31
Wednesday 12/31 @ The Phoenix Theater
Tonight's stand-up triple threat should provide a swift rebuttal to any speculation as to whether or not an Obama administration will...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Gift Center Pavilion
At this year's Eclectic Fever, the name says it all. With live Afrofunk, samba, and hip-hop performances, this New Year's soirée...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Paradise Lounge
2008 was the year disco was rescued from the drunken clutches of afro-wig-and-gold-chain-wearing frat boys; the year disco was liberated as...
Wednesday 12/31 @ The Stud
Tonight, Precious Moments, SF's reigning special needs drag queen, and Drag Strip impresario Fudgie Frotage throw a slumber party to ring...
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic
Wednesday 12/31 @ The Warfield
Get out your bop gun and put on your dancing shoes. This New Year's Eve the Star Child himself makes a...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Bimbo's
Since 1931, Bimbo's has offered up some of San Francisco's finest after-hours entertainment, and tonight's New Year's bash is no exception....
Wednesday 12/31 @ Great American Music Hall
Sure, you could ring in the New Year with bubbling flutes of champagne, confetti streamers, and awkward kisses. Or you could...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 1015
Known to most as the beatsmith behind M.I.A.'s mixtape heard 'round the world, Piracy Funds Terrorism, Diplo has proven to be...
Wednesday 12/31 @ San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
Visual titillation meets euphonic utopia tonight at Sea of Dreams, where the eclectic offering of live performances ranges from 20-piece techno...
Wednesday 12/31 @ War Memorial Opera House
For all its offstage stubble, it turns out '90s "alternative rock" cleans up rather well. Fifteen years after Nirvana's acoustic opus...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Rickshaw Stop
Popscene's New Year's bash is going big, with plenty of bubbly to loosen up the crowd, and a booty-shaking lineup of...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
Between two books detailing the history of no wave, Matt Wolf's excellent documentary on underground dance music producer Arthur Russell, and...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/31 @ Off-Market Theater
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs....
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ The Fillmore
While using a name that the FCC wouldn't allow broadcasters to utter on air worked for a while, Butthole Surfers couldn't...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body...
