Events on Sunday, November 8
Sunday 11/ 8 @ McLaren 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Lab
Wiffle Hurling is a safer version of the insane Irish game of Hurling. Using wiffle bats, players try to score on...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
ODC Theater presents Fauxnique's Luxury Items
Sunday 11/ 8 @ ODC
SF's drag community had its collective breath knocked out of it in 2003 when Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkinson) was the first...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Swarm Gallery
Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ CounterPULSE
CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora Festival gives space to 13 performers who are innovating and experimenting within a range of traditional dance forms,...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
