Events on Friday, December 5
Mortified SF Three-Year Anniversary Show
Friday 12/ 5 @ The Make-Out Room
Luckily, some people resist the urge to burn every artifact from their Kurt Cobain shrine when they gain the self-awareness that...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Mezzanine
SF's Mike Relm has made his name as a multimedia mash-up artist, mixing and manipulating hip-hop beats and indie-rock gems while...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Rickshaw Stop
If toe-tapping is wrong, then the Morning Benders don't want to be right. But, of course, they are — singer Chris...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Elbo Room
Though critics frequently bestow the title grandfather upon their subjects, especially within musical genres, Detroit's Marshall Jefferson is the undisputed grandfather...
Friday 12/ 5 @ The Independent
Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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....
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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,...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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 Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes
Friday 12/ 5 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Trannyshack emerti Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Climate Theater
Last year, W. Kamau Bell's critically acclaimed one-man show turned heads with its candid approach to celebrity racism, social norms, the...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Johansson Projects
The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Post Street Theatre
Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With...
Friday 12/ 5 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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 Eight: Reindeer Monologues
Friday 12/ 5 @ EXIT Theatre
Santa Claus may have been spotted kissing mommy, but that brief episode of womanizing was nothing compared to the charges of...
Friday 12/ 5 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Needles & Pens
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined...
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Gallery 1988
Equal parts visual titillation and thoughtful exploration, The Vivisect Playset Five dissects the human condition through use of animal characters. Since...
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Friday 12/ 5 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Creativity Explored
The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating...
