Events on Friday, November 13
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- Music: DJ
- DJ T
- @ Mighty
- You may not know DJ T off the top of your head, but you definitely know (and dance to) the artists... View details »
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- Claude VonStroke Record Release Party
- @ 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... View details »
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- Drinking and Dancing Competition
- @ The Lab
- Synth pop band Adonisaurus joins Tom Russotti and guest judge Fauxnique (Monique Jenkinson) to kick off an evening of competitive debauchery... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
- @ Roxie Theater
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For a hundred years (virtually the history of American movies) film critics have championed this... View details » - Featured Flavorpill 50
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- Beats in Space 10 Year Anniversary Party
- @ The Triple Crown
- "Music takes me where I want to be," goes a line in an old disco song by Musique — and DJ... View details »
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- Music: Classical
- Xuefei Yang, guitar
- @ San Francisco Performances
- Chinese virtuoso Xuefei Yang is a pioneer. Among other “firsts,” she was the first guitarist to enter a music school in... View details »
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- Lecture: Charles Atlas
- @ San Francisco Art Institute
- “Video In and As Performance” Since the mid-1970s, Charles Atlas has been working as a film and video... View details »
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- Music
- Cartel + This Providence + The Summer Set + The Dares
- @ Slim's
- Twenty seconds into “Let’s Go,” the opening track... View details »
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- Art
- Jews on Vinyl
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- The CJM has already wowed with its stunning architecture and expansive collection, but if you needed another reason to visit, it's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- November
- @ American Conservatory Theater
- David Mamet is, arguably, a lot of things: a misogynist, a feminist, underrated, overrated. One thing's for certain, though — he's... View details »
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- Film: Double Feature
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Ari Marcopoulos
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Holly Andres
- @ Robert Koch Gallery
- Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Picturing Childhood
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- SF International Animation Festival
- @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
- With Pixar, Image Movers, and Lucasfilm all proudly hailing from the Bay Area, it should come as no surprise that one... View details »
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- San Francisco Green Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- DV8 Physical Theatre presents To Be Straight With You
- @ San Francisco Performances
- San Francisco Performances and YBCA join forces to present England’s DV8 Physical Theatre, which returns after twelve years with the Bay... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Performing Diaspora
- @ CounterPULSE
- CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora Festival gives space to 13 performers who are innovating and experimenting within a range of traditional dance forms,... View details »
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- Art
- Ara Peterson
- @ Ratio 3
- Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Art & Copy
- @ Roxie Theater
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- Film
- Coco Before Chanel
- @ Landmark Clay Theatre
- Audrey Tautou (aka Amélie) stars as Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in this visually stunning French film about the... View details »
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- Passionate Struggle
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- One Day
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- An ancient metropolis now home to some eight million residents, Tehran is as complicated, intriguing, and deeply layered as any city... View details »
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- Outdoor Exploratorium
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
- @ The 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Free Night of Theater
- @ Various locations
- There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of... View details »
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- Tim Roseborough
- @ Scenius
- Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is... View details »
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- There's a Mystery There
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Woman in Black
- @ 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... View details »
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- When Lives Become Form
- @ 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... View details »
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- Moby Dick
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Moby Dick has long been a springboard for grand considerations of everything from transcendental philosophy to racism and political upheaval. Melville's... View details »
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- Taro Hattori
- @ Swarm Gallery
- Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Carleton Watkins
- @ Fraenkel Gallery
- Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of... View details »
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- Mark Baugh-Sasaki
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Richard Avedon
- @ SFMOMA
- Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of... View details »
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- Art
- Wonderland
- @ Tenderloin District
- Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Punk Passage
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
- Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &... View details »
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- Exhibition: Everyday Miracles (Extended), Phase 2
- @ San Francisco Art Institute
- Opening reception for Phase 2: November 12, 2009, 5:30–7:30pm Curated by SFAI’s Director of Exhibitions and Public... View details »
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- Unfurling: This Land
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jews on Vinyl
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- A unique exhibition, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that... View details »
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- Moby-Dick
- @ 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,... View details »
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- As It Is Written: Project 304,805
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- As It Is Written: Project 304,805, is an exhibition centered around a soferet (a professionally trained female scribe) who while on... View details »
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- Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
- @ 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... View details »
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- Echo: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks
- @ Frey Norris Gallery
- Echo is the first exhibition at Frey Norris Gallery to exhibit the important Surrealist masterworks in the gallery's Annex alongside artwork... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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- Dispatches from the Archives
- @ SFMOMA
- How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation... View details »
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