Events on Thursday, December 3
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 1015
Forget Black Friday and save your money for Etsy's first San Francisco shopping event: the Handmade Ho-Down. With free admission, dozens...
Movember Gala Parté and Moustache Judging
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Mighty
While some men may be sporting the moustache for fashion, others choose to look that way for Movember, the month when...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ City Lights
An original member of the early '80s New Narrative circle — a loose cluster of Bay Area writers who drew from...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Bottom of the Hill
Alternating abrasive noise passages with New Order-worthy hooks, Philadelphia's Cold Cave have positioned themselves as stand-outs among the growing number of...
David Thomson on The Moment of Psycho
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Booksmith
Thursday, December 3 DAVID THOMSON THE MOMENT OF PSYCHO 7:30 PM It was made like a television movie, and completed in...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ San Francisco Performances
These four ethereal voices bring warm winter light to holiday music in traditional settings of the Christmas story from the 15th...
Alma Desnuda + Highway Robbers + Grace Woods + Earl J Rivard
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Great American Music Hall
Alma Desnuda, Spanish for “Naked Soul”, is an acoustically groovin' four-piece band that plays uplifting, funky and fun, dance-able music with...
Ongoing Events
Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Swarm Gallery
Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Ashby Stage
Shotgun Players take a bow this season with Bertolt Brecht's beloved The Threepenny Opera. Written in 1928 but still as relevant...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
International Body Music Festival
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Various locations
"Body Music" is a great disco track by the Strikers. It also refers to musical forms that primarily use the body...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Off-Market Theater
Actor and writer Jennifer Jajeh is many things: single, a Christian, and a first generation Palestinian American. She's also incredibly funny....
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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....
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Roxie Theater
"As goofy as the glint in George Clooney's eye, The Men Who Stare at Goats...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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,...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
