Events on Thursday, December 31
Thursday 12/31 @ Bambuddha Lounge
No one knows how to do a blowout like drag legend and Booty Call Wednesdays co-hostess and DJ Juanita MORE! (just...
Planet Rock New Year's Eve 2010
Thursday 12/31 @ Club 6ix
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...
Thursday 12/31 @ Bimbo's
Since 1931, Bimbo's has offered up some of San Francisco's finest after-hours entertainment, and tonight's New Year's bash is no exception....
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Thursday 12/31 @ Cowell Theater
20 years ago, a team of dedicated SF thespians carved out a wholly different approach to improv comedy: calling their creation...
Thursday 12/31 @ SF Concourse and Exhibition Center
Some of the Bay Area's most creative event producers join forces this New Year's Eve for Sea of Dreams' 10th anniversary...
Thursday 12/31 @ GAFFTA
SF's newest, sleekest multimedia arts space GAFFTA is throwing a helluva NYE shindig. Riffing on their "Powers of 10" theme, the...
Thursday 12/31 @ The Make-Out Room
I see London, I see France, I see dancers in hot pants! That's right, Stay Gold DJs Pink Lightning and Rapid...
Thursday 12/31 @ Rickshaw Stop
Dance your way into 2010 to the synth pop beats of italo disco revivalists Glass Candy. Singer Ida No and beat-maker...
Thursday 12/31 @ Slim's
The Los Angeles legends known as X have been pushing the boundries of...
Thursday 12/31 @ Elbo Room
Afrolicious New Year's Eve Featuring the AFROLICIOUS SOUNDSYSTEM w/MC Fresh4Life NON STOP BHANGRA DJ Set by Jimmy Love Live set from...
NEW YEAR'S EVE!!! Jackie Greene + Mark Karan & Jemimah Puddleduck
Thursday 12/31 @ Great American Music Hall
Where you're going has always been more important than where you've been. By his music, Jackie Greene appears to have been...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/31 @ Punch Line
Fans of the improv television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? will be well acquainted with the self-lacerating humor of bespectacled...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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),...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ The Phoenix Theater
Tonight's standup triple threat should provide a swift rebuttal to any speculation as to whether or not the Obama administration can...
Thursday 12/31 @ Cartoon Art Museum
Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Aurelia's Oratorio -- EXTENDED!
Thursday 12/31 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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Thursday 12/31 @ 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
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
