Events on Saturday, December 19
Saturday 12/19 @ Mission Dolores Park
Reinventing Christmas caroling since 1992, composer Phil Kline floods the city streets with his ambient musical performances, voiced by an infinite...
Trannyshack Star Search Competition
Saturday 12/19 @ DNA Lounge
Trannyshack may have ceased being a weekly destination, but the infamous drag night's spirit of creative rebellion, sick humor, and serious...
The Mother Hips + Or, the Whale + Dave Gleason & the Golden Cadillacs
Saturday 12/19 @ Great American Music Hall
Formed in 1991 at Chico State in Northern California, The Mother Hips have run the gamut of experiences as a band...
Hepcat + Ron Silva & the Monarchs + The Selecter DJ Kirk (Concrete Jungle - Sweater Funk)
Saturday 12/19 @ Slim's
Hepcat is among the most celebrated bands to emerge from the Southern California...
Ongoing Events
Christmas Ballet, 2009 Edition
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ Ashby Stage
Shotgun Players take a bow this season with Bertolt Brecht's beloved The Threepenny Opera. Written in 1928 but still as relevant...
Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale
Saturday 12/19 @ Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
Sue Daly was just looking for a way to sell her adorable, nature-inspired jewelry when she decided to organize a fair...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ Dance Mission
Sweet Can's performers throw their ridiculously athletic bodies across a simple stage, dangle gracefully from silken strings, and dance with a...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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),...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ The Garage
The Garage wraps up its 2009 season of local, independent productions with a collaborative feast of visual art, poetry, dance, and...
Saturday 12/19 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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....
Saturday 12/19 @ The Castro Theatre
If all you want for Christmas is a little foul play and maybe a corpse or two, then head over to...
Saturday 12/19 @ Adobe Bookshop
In an ironic twist, SF expat Toban Nichols only started showing here after he moved to LA, despite recognition in just...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Adorning royal personalities from the Duchess of Windsor to Daisy Fellowes and a cabal of Hollywood beauties, Cartier was the standard bearer...
Saturday 12/19 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 12/19 @ Off-Market Theater
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 12/19 @ Roxie Theater
In Search of Beethoven has brought together the world's leading performers and experts on Beethoven...
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Saturday 12/19 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 12/19 @ 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...
Saturday 12/19 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Saturday 12/19 @ ODC
The ODC Dance Commons is transformed into an old school juke joint every Saturday Night! This Lindy Hop and Blues Dance...
