Events on Sunday, December 7

SF Bike Coalition presents Winterfest 2008

Special Event: Benefit

Winterfest 2008

Sunday 12/ 7 @ SomArts Cultural Center

If you judge a person by the company they keep, then the SF Bike Coalition is one of the coolest kids... 

Meshell Ndegeocello w/ the Coup

Music: Hip-Hop

Meshell Ndegeocello

Sunday 12/ 7 @ The Fillmore

Last time we heard from Oakland rap crew the Coup, it was when mastermind MC Boots Riley called in a nasty... 

Jonathan Richman w/ The Felix Dukes

Music

Jonathan Richman

Sunday 12/ 7 @ Great American Music Hall

Massachusetts-bred Jonathan Richman has been dropping controversial vinyl bombs since the early '70s. Co-founder of the legendary Modern Lovers (1970-74), the... 

Ongoing Events

NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits

Special Event: Benefit

NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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.... 

Liebe Wetzel's <em>Wrapping Paper Caper</em>

Performing Arts: Puppetry

Wrapping Paper Caper

Sunday 12/ 7 @ The Marsh

Who says a puppet has to fit around a hand, dangle as a marionette, or even be anthropomorphic, for that matter?... 

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

Art: Photography

Brought to Light

Sunday 12/ 7 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... 

<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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> L.A. Paint </em>

Art

L.A. Paint

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Art of Participation

Sunday 12/ 7 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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... 

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

Performing Arts

Dame Edna Everage

Sunday 12/ 7 @ Post Street Theatre

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

The Shotgun Players present <em>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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... 

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

Art

Stolen Land

Sunday 12/ 7 @ Needles & Pens

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

<em>The Totoro Forest Project</em>

Art

The Totoro Forest Project

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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... 

Yves Saint Laurent

Special Event

Yves Saint Laurent

Sunday 12/ 7 @ de Young Museum

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

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

Theatre

As Bees in Honey Drown

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Sunday 12/ 7 @ SFMOMA

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

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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... 

Enigmas and Eternity: The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Festival: Performing Arts

The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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>transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix</em>

Art

transPOP

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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... 

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Festival: Performing Arts

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Sunday 12/ 7 @ 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...