Events on Thursday, December 29
Inspired by Dieter Rams: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Thursday 12/29 @ SFMOMA
Rams's sleek product design has served as inspiration for myriad cinematic portrayals of the future. With this series, organized in conjunction...
Thursday 12/29 @ Public Works
"Booty Bounce Bungalow" Featuring Boylan (Ghetto Teknitianz, Chicago) Plus DJs: Sleazemore (Lights Down Low) Kid Kameleon (Surya Dub) Buttersauce...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/29 @ photograph and frame
The Art of the Fillmore collection is a series of vintage concert posters commissioned by the late great concert promoter Bill...
Thursday 12/29 @ Collaborate Studio & Art Gallery
Timescapes brings together the work of seven photographers of the Bay Area Photographers Collective. The exhibit is a study on time...
Carl Corey and Joseph O. Holmes
Thursday 12/29 @ RayKo Photo Center
Photographer Carl Corey presents selections from his latest publication, the 2011 USA Best Book Award-winning Tavern League: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars....
Thursday 12/29 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
Winner of the Cinematography Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Pariah is a gritty and heartfelt coming-of-age drama starring talented...
Thursday 12/29 @ New Conservatory Theatre
Xanadu is the perfect frilly fantasy that makes mince meat of Greek mythology. Kira (Chloe Condon) is a muse sent from...
Thursday 12/29 @ Westin St. Francis
Executive Pastry Chef Jean-Francois Houdré will reveal The Westin St. Francis' Sugar Castle in the historic Main Lobby. Resembling a French...
Thursday 12/29 @ 111 Minna Gallery
Secret State examines civilization's long romance with the examination of the space that we inhabit and our scale within it; the...
Thursday 12/29 @ Brown Sugar Kitchen
Don't eat at Brown Sugar Kitchen... only because if you do, you'll just be one more person standing between me and...
Thursday 12/29 @ The Phoenix Theater
Laughter Against the Machine is coming to town for their fourth annual NYE show, and they're serious about getting you to...
Thursday 12/29 @ Photobooth
Vince Donovan and Michael Shindler came up with the idea for Photobooth one day over margaritas in the Mission. They wanted...
Music for a City, Music for the World
Thursday 12/29 @ Main Library
The year is 1911: Revolution is ripping through Mexico to the south, and east, Arizona isn't even a state. Meanwhile San...
Thursday 12/29 @ The Cheese Board Collective
To celebrate their neighbor Chez Panisse's 40th anniversary, the Cheese Board extended their hours and gave away free pizza all night....
Thursday 12/29 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Eighty-five years after his somewhat enigmatic death, the world is still processing the impact of Harry Houdini's art. Debunker of proclaimed...
Thursday 12/29 @ California Institute of Integral Studies, Minna Street Center
When Beth Loffreda, director of the University of Wyoming's writing program, asked Rebecca Solnit to propose a student project to complete...
McSweeney's McMullens: Artwork From Children's Books
Thursday 12/29 @ Electric Works
McSweeney's, the literary journal founded by Dave Eggers in 1998, started out as the ultimate underdogs' publisher — it published only...
Thursday 12/29 @ House of Air
Remember back in April 2010, when it seemed like the whole city was ditching work early to ride on that temporary...
Jenny Chapman and Mark Reigelman
Thursday 12/29 @ Hotel des Arts
Jenny Chapman and Mark Reigelman's Manifest Destiny! is a temporary rustic cabin occupying one of the last remaining unclaimed spaces of...
FORKING II: A Merry FORKING! Christmas
Thursday 12/29 @ Stage Werx
For the third year in a row SF-based production company PianoFight teams with local playwright sensation Daniel Heath for the production...
Thursday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 941 Geary
In an era super-saturated by street art and dominated by its forward-thinking fans, it can be fascinating to look back instead,...
Thursday 12/29 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In October 1991, immediately following a catastrophic firestorm that struck the Oakland and Berkeley hills, renowned Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach...
Thursday 12/29 @ Dogpatch Cafe
For years, artist John Zaklikowski has collected those hard-to-rid-ourselves-of electrical components that make up the guts of the common office and...
Thursday 12/29 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
A compilation of recent videos from The 8th Floor featuring established and emerging artists based in Cuba. It explores a dynamic...
Maharaja: The Splendor of India's Royal Courts
Thursday 12/29 @ Asian Art Museum
Explore the life and times of India’s great kings by getting close to the objects they used and the art they...
New Year's with Brian Culbertson
Thursday 12/29 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Brian Culbertson’s steady stream of top albums and hit singles should come as no surprise since he began playing the piano...
castaneda/reiman: Portrait of the Ground
Thursday 12/29 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman, of the collaborative castaneda/reiman, create a minimalist installation using the landscape as their starting point. With...
Allan deSouza: Close Quarters and Far Pavilions
Thursday 12/29 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Allan deSouza’s new video and photographic installation, “Close Quarters and Far Pavilions,” evokes the exotic allure of a faraway place as...
Thursday 12/29 @ Elbo Room
Afrolicious with DJs/hosts brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, along with resident drummers J. Elrod and B. Lee bring you the best in Latin and...
