Events on Friday, December 11
Friday 12/11 @ The Castro Theatre
Without Liquid Sky (1982) — Slava Tsuckerman's bizarre slice of LES new wave, sci-fi — Jem and the Holograms would never...
Friday 12/11 @ Rickshaw Stop
As part of the Brooklyn-based Trouble & Bass crew, laptop remix master AC Slater usually warms up the floor for the...
Breathe Carolina + Cash Cash + Kill Paradise + Fight Fair
Friday 12/11 @ Slim's
When Dave Schmitt and Kyle Even formed Breathe Carolina in 2007 they didn’t anticipate that their project started "just...
Anaphylactic presents Mi Ami w/ Inca Ore, Jozef Van Wissem, and DJ Tristes Tropiques
Friday 12/11 @ The Lab
All ages booking collective Anaphylactic presents a night of music at The Lab to celebrate the release of Mi Ami's Thrill...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/11 @ Curran Theatre
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),...
Friday 12/11 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Zellerbach Hall
You'll notice something odd beneath all the tulle and sequins adorning The Hard Nut's dancers: the pirouetting Sugar Plum Fairies are...
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of...
The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes
Friday 12/11 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Trannyshack emeriti Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as Miami's hottest foursome of a certain...
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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...
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Adobe Bookshop
In an ironic twist, SF expat Toban Nichols only started showing here after he moved to LA, despite recognition in just...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Off-Market Theater
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
Friday 12/11 @ Ashby Stage
Shotgun Players take a bow this season with Bertolt Brecht's beloved The Threepenny Opera. Written in 1928 but still as relevant...
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
Friday 12/11 @ Roxie Theater
"There's a deranged grandeur to Nicolas Cage's performance in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New...
Friday 12/11 @ Roxie Theater
"With the flip of a coin, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's latest film is...
Friday 12/11 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Friday 12/11 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
Marino Formenti presents "Aspects of the Divine"
Friday 12/11 @ San Francisco Performances
Italian-born pianist and conductor Marino Formenti has established himself as one of the most interesting and visionary performers of our time,...
Friday 12/11 @ Roxie Theater
"Most of the snuffling, growling beasts that roam and often stomp through “Where the Wild...
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
