Events on Friday, November 13
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Friday 11/13 @ Roxie Theater
In last year's American Movie Critics anthology, Phillip Lopate made a successful argument for "film criticism as a branch of...
Claude VonStroke Record Release Party
Friday 11/13 @ Mezzanine
With its no-holds-barred, we-came-to-party tech house, the local Dirtybird label is giving the proverbial bird to the sparse, clicky, occasionally numbing...
Drinking and Dancing Competition
Friday 11/13 @ The Lab
As anyone with a fun bone in their body knows, dancing and liquor are a potent combo (just imagine how much...
Beats in Space 10 Year Anniversary Party
Friday 11/13 @ The Triple Crown
"Music takes me where I want to be," goes a line in an old disco song by Musique — and DJ...
Friday 11/13 @ San Francisco Performances
Chinese virtuoso Xuefei Yang is a pioneer. Among other “firsts,” she was the first guitarist to enter a music school in...
Cartel + This Providence + The Summer Set + The Dares
Friday 11/13 @ Slim's
Twenty seconds into “Let’s Go,” the opening track...
Ongoing Events
SF International Animation Festival
Friday 11/13 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
With Pixar, Image Movers, and Lucasfilm all proudly hailing from the Bay Area, it should come as no surprise that one...
Friday 11/13 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Friday 11/13 @ CounterPULSE
CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora Festival gives space to 13 performers who are innovating and experimenting within a range of traditional dance forms,...
Friday 11/13 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Friday 11/13 @ The Castro Theatre
What more need be said about Francis Ford Coppola's sprawling, six-hour Aristotelian tragedy — which chronicles the rise (in cash and...
Friday 11/13 @ Castle in the Air
You can thank the Victorians for the continuing source of horror and fascination that is the photography of Anne Geddes. OK,...
Friday 11/13 @ Swarm Gallery
Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title...
Friday 11/13 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
DV8 Physical Theatre presents To Be Straight With You
Friday 11/13 @ San Francisco Performances
It's been 12 long years since DV8 Physical Theatre has been to SF with their remarkable Enter Achilles, and the...
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Friday 11/13 @ The Phoenix Theater
Spine-tingling chills abound in The Woman in Black, an old-school ghost story told in classic Victorian style. The tale centers around...
Friday 11/13 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling...
Friday 11/13 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 11/13 @ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Friday 11/13 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Friday 11/13 @ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...
Friday 11/13 @ Hayes Valley Park
The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the...
Friday 11/13 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Friday 11/13 @ Fort Mason Center
Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with...
Friday 11/13 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild...
Friday 11/13 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of...
Friday 11/13 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
YBCA mounts a colorful tribute to the continued influence of the Tropicália movement in Brazilian art. When Lives Become Form explores...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 11/13 @ David Brower Center
Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed...
Friday 11/13 @ SF Concourse and Exhibition Center
San Francisco loves all things green, and the proof is its annual Green Festival, a massive three-day event with more than...
Friday 11/13 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
Friday 11/13 @ Roxie Theater
Official 2009 Sundance selection Art & Copy captures an inside look at the real people behind pop culture's most iconic advertisements....
Friday 11/13 @ San Francisco Public Library
The Sex Pistols may have imploded after their notorious final show at SF's now-defunct Winterland Ballroom, but the city's own punk...
Friday 11/13 @ California College of the Arts
Reception: Tues., Sept. 22, 6:30–8:30 p.m. An eclectic group of 32 international artists, including Damián Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska,...
Friday 11/13 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 11/13 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
Friday 11/13 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Friday 11/13 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Friday 11/13 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 11/13 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Friday 11/13 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Friday 11/13 @ Asian Art Museum
In the 19th-century Siam and Burma—two neighboring kingdoms in Southeast Asia—were renowned for their golden-roofed temples, lush gardens, and handsomely adorned...
Friday 11/13 @ SOMArts
SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery presents Unfurling: This Land, a group show featuring Mark Bode, Mike Dingle and Isabel Rucker, producing new work...
