Events on Friday, November 27
Friday 11/27 @ Mezzanine
SMD's latest release, Temporary Pleasure, finds the eclectic knob-twiddlers getting help from some famous (and talented) friends, including Gruff Rhys and...
Friday 11/27 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
If post T-day decompression is what you need, then the Clay is where you should be tonight. With enough glam rock...
Friday 11/27 @ The Fillmore
Toots is a legend, and, although you don't need to catch a live show to prove it (just have a listen...
Norma Jean + HORSE the Band + The Chariot + Arsonists Get All the Girls
Friday 11/27 @ Slim's
"The Anti Mother" has arrived - and Norma Jean wrestle her to the...
Friday 11/27 @ Great American Music Hall
The Savoy Family Cajun Band plays honed down, hard core Cajun music laced with an earthy sensuality. Though the old tunes...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/27 @ Alameda Towne Centre
Pop-up stores, the fashion industry's latest trend to entice consumers during hard times, have been taken up by the art world,...
Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie
Friday 11/27 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social...
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
Ti West's homage to the trashy occult-horror films of the early '80s requires something rarely asked of contemporary horror-film audiences: patience....
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Friday 11/27 @ Landmark Embarcadero
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Friday 11/27 @ The Independent
Sax-man Karl Denson is one of those do-it-all types, forsaking musical boundaries and expectations at every turn in his career. Many...
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Friday 11/27 @ 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...
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ SF Playhouse
A Rubik's cube of shifting love allegiances and convoluted gender bending, David Greenspan's She Stoops to Comedy is a breezy, mischievous...
Friday 11/27 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of...
Friday 11/27 @ The Castro Theatre
When The Sound of Music was first released, some critics regarded the 1965 box-office smash as too sweet for its own...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Roxie Theater
"As goofy as the glint in George Clooney's eye, The Men Who Stare at Goats...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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,...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Friday 11/27 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Friday 11/27 @ 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...
Friday 11/27 @ 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...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Friday 11/27 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
