Events on Saturday, December 6

Supermarket Street Sweep

Sports

Supermarket Street Sweep

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Folsom and Embarcadero

Your mission, should you choose to accept this humanitarian quest, is to dash around town on your bike, hitting several grocery... 

Low vs. Diamond w/ Barcelona and La Rocca

Music

Low vs. Diamond

Saturday 12/ 6 @ The Independent

LA post-punk crew Low vs. Diamond are known for rapturous melodies delivered with an almost-cartoonish level of quaver-voiced, clenched-fist conviction. Signed... 

Chillin' Productions presents 80-150-8

Special Event

80-150-8

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Mezzanine

Clamoring for some culture to go with your Saturday night? Chillin' Productions offers a solution that's all about the numbers: 80... 

Fischerspooner

Music: DJ

Fischerspooner

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Mighty

Backlash is a bitch, and Fischerspooner — the colorful performance troupe that became the poster children for electroclash — have certainly... 

New Wave City's Sweet 16

Party

New Wave City's Sweet 16

Saturday 12/ 6 @ DNA Lounge

Club nights come and go in this town like so many one night stands, but New Wave City has been one... 

Ongoing Events

Katy Stone and Yvette Molina: <em>Tickling Thicket</em>

Art

Tickling Thicket

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Johansson Projects

The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone... 

NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits

Special Event: Benefit

NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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.... 

<em> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Saturday 12/ 6 @ SFMOMA

The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... 

<em>The Totoro Forest Project</em>

Art

The Totoro Forest Project

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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 Shotgun Players present <em>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Ashby Stage

Theatre company Shotgun Players has been bringing cutting-edge productions to the Bay Area for 17 years. It's garnered a solid reputation... 

Diem Chau

Art

Diem Chau

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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.... 

Creativity Explored's Annual Holiday Sale

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Creativity Explored Art Sale

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Creativity Explored

The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating... 

<em>Joe Turner's Come and Gone</em>

Theatre

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Stolen Land: New Works by Other</em>

Art

Stolen Land

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Needles & Pens

Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined... 

Kate Gilmore: <em>Videos</em>

Art

Kate Gilmore

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Catharine Clark Gallery

Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Tallgrass Gothic</em>

Theatre

Tallgrass Gothic

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix</em>

Art

transPOP

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

In transPOP, 16 artists reveal and restructure the love/hate triangle between Korea, Vietnam, and the United States. This international survey examines... 

Dame Edna Everage: Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour

Performing Arts

Dame Edna Everage

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Post Street Theatre

Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With... 

<em>Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900</em>

Art: Photography

Brought to Light

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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

Festival: Performing Arts

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>As Bees in Honey Drown</em>

Theatre

As Bees in Honey Drown

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>The Wizard of Oz</em>

Art

The Wizard of Oz

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Trannyshack presents <em>The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes</em>

Comedy

The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory

Trannyshack emerti Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as Miami's hottest foursome of a certain... 

Yves Saint Laurent

Special Event

Yves Saint Laurent

Saturday 12/ 6 @ de Young Museum

After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... 

Art

Collapsitalism

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Johansson Projects

Clearly, the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, and the symptoms of Depression 2.0 have started to cripple what was... 

<em>The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now</em>

Art

The Art of Participation

Saturday 12/ 6 @ SFMOMA

While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour </em>

Theatre

The W. Kamau Bell Curve

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em> L.A. Paint </em>

Art

L.A. Paint

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Shanghai San Francisco

Special Event

Shanghai SF

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Coit Tower

Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... 

Enigmas and Eternity: The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Festival: Performing Arts

The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>The Vivisect Playset Five</em>

Art

The Vivisect Playset Five

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Gallery 1988

Equal parts visual titillation and thoughtful exploration, The Vivisect Playset Five dissects the human condition through use of animal characters. Since... 

<em>Off the Edge</em>

Art

Off the Edge

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered</em>

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

HarperProductions presents <em>The Eight: Reindeer Monologues</em>

Theatre

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

Saturday 12/ 6 @ EXIT Theatre

Santa Claus may have been spotted kissing mommy, but that brief episode of womanizing was nothing compared to the charges of... 

<em>As Above So Below</em>

Art

As Above So Below

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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...