Events on Thursday, December 17
Kenneth Anger: Restored Prints
Thursday 12/17 @ SFMOMA
Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts...
Thursday 12/17 @ The Independent
Robert "El Vez" Lopez isn't your run of the mill Elvis impersonator. Backed by a pair of candy-voiced Elvettes, Lopez struts...
Pop-Up Gallery - CCA Fashion, Furniture, and MFA Student Work
Thursday 12/17 @ California College of the Arts
CCA is proud to announce a pop-up gallery in downtown San Francisco located on the retail level of 74 New Montgomery...
Ongoing Events
Christmas Ballet, 2009 Edition
Thursday 12/17 @ Novellus Theater
Despite what Clara and the sugar-plum fairies might have you think, The Nutcracker isn't the only holiday dance event around. A...
Thursday 12/17 @ Adobe Bookshop
In an ironic twist, SF expat Toban Nichols only started showing here after he moved to LA, despite recognition in just...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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....
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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),...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
Thursday 12/17 @ Ashby Stage
Shotgun Players take a bow this season with Bertolt Brecht's beloved The Threepenny Opera. Written in 1928 but still as relevant...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ Off-Market Theater
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
Thursday 12/17 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of...
Thursday 12/17 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
A product of youth jazz factory Berkeley High School, Charlie Hunter has spent the last two decades refining his gently contrarian...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ The Castro Theatre
If all you want for Christmas is a little foul play and maybe a corpse or two, then head over to...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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
Thursday 12/17 @ Roxie Theater
"There's a deranged grandeur to Nicolas Cage's performance in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New...
Thursday 12/17 @ Roxie Theater
"With the flip of a coin, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's latest film is...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Thursday 12/17 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ Roxie Theater
"Most of the snuffling, growling beasts that roam and often stomp through “Where the Wild...
