Events on Sunday, November 8
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- KUSF Rock 'n Swap
- @ McClaren Hall, University of San Francisco Campus
- Keep vinyl and local commercial-free radio alive at KUSF's annual benefit record sale. From the Impulse! back catalog to rarer-than-hen's-teeth punk... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Ornette Coleman
- @ Davies Symphony Hall
- Just shy of the big eight-zero, saxophonist Ornette Coleman is one of the only surviving jazz giants. He practically invented "free... View details »
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- Wiffle Hurling
- @ The Lab
- Wiffle Hurling is a safer version of the insane Irish game of Hurling. Using wiffle bats, players try to score on... View details »
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- More Flavor: Competition
- Iron Science Teacher
- @ Exploratorium
- Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off, where teachers compete before a live audience for the revered title, "Iron... View details »
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- Tom Noddy's Bubble Magic
- @ Exploratorium
- Tom Noddy blows bubbles inside of bubbles. Smoke bubbles. Inside-out bubbles. Caterpillar bubbles. Yin-yang bubbles. And, as part of the Exploratorium’s... 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
- Pearls Over Shanghai
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- ODC Theater presents Fauxnique's Luxury Items
- @ ODC
- Performance artist, dancer and ODC Theater Artist-in-Residence Monique Jenkinson (aka Fauxnique) debuts her newest work, Luxury Items. This solo, evening-length, dance-theater-drag... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- A City of Sadness
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- A landmark of Taiwanese cinema, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness was inaccessible for many years. Thankully (and nicely timed, too,... View details »
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- John Baldessari
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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