Events on Friday, December 4
Friday 12/ 4 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Ellen Fullman has often gone out on a wire for her music. Since 1981, the composer has been developing pieces for...
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4
Friday 12/ 4 @ Herbst Theater
Since 1982, rebel archivist Rick Prelinger has collected what he calls "ephemeral" films: reels made for educational or corporate use, home...
J. Tillman w/ Pearly Gate Music
Friday 12/ 4 @ Great American Music Hall
Since 2004, J. Tillman has quietly been releasing records, some of limited quantity, some mostly available in Europe, but for the...
Poi Dog Pondering + Geographer
Friday 12/ 4 @ Slim's
Poi Dog Pondering keeps thriving because their ethic has always been about following their musical heart. Their steadfast independence...
Holding Patterns & Collective Memories: Elise Baldwin & Kadet Kuhne in performance
Friday 12/ 4 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (map) Presented in association with Overlap.org Drawing from each artist’s extensive work...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/ 4 @ Swarm Gallery
Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title...
Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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
Friday 12/ 4 @ Various locations
"Body Music" is a great disco track by the Strikers. It also refers to musical forms that primarily use the body...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ The Lab
Good things come in small packages. Such is the thinking behind the Lab's annual Postcard Show, in which artists contribute a...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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!
Friday 12/ 4 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Friday 12/ 4 @ The Lab
In conjunction with the Postcard Show 13, the Museum of Pocket Art will have small work on view in the Front...
Friday 12/ 4 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
COMING BACK SOON!
"Michael Moore has a gift for maintaining two things that...
WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE
Friday 12/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
In WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE, filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
Fri, Dec. 4 - Thur, Dec 10
"Wayne has a job, a...
