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| The Spirit of Canyon, Part 1 Canyon Cinema | Sat., November 22, 7:30pm | South of Market | |
San Francisco has always been a nexus for independent thinkers, but the 1960s saw a wholesale, albeit brief, rejection of the cultural mainstream on nearly every front. There were free concerts in the park and free stores in the Haight. Cohorts like the Merry Pranksters and the Diggers passed... More >> |
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| Pirates 2: Stagnettis' Revenge Femina Potens | Sat., November 22, 8:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
Blurring the line between legitimate cinema and pornography, Ali Joone's Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge has a trailer that could fool you: It doesn't show any sex. If it weren't for the one blonde who can't act, you might think it was just a nice-looking Pirates of the Caribbean rip-off. But it... More >> |
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| Grayceon, Worm Ouroboros, Drift of a Curse Bottom of the Hill | Sat., November 22, 9:30pm | Potrero Hill | |
Grayceons tunes are mammoth in scope. Since 2005, the trio cellist-vocalist Jackie Perez Gratz, guitarist-vocalist Max Doyle, and drummer Zach Farwell has mixed metal, prog, and postrock influences, with an emphasis on the sprawling and cinematic. Theyve refined this... More >> |
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| Killing My Lobster Goes to 11 Magic Theatre | Sat., November 22, 8:00pm | Marina/Cow Hollow | |
Killing My Lobster has been called "our own little Second City" so many times it's getting boring, so we won't repeat it (starting
now). Any long-form comedy troupe that sticks around for more than ten years is bound to wind up with a cliché stuck to it, right? And KML turns 11... More >> |
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| RawkMoms 4th Annual Thanksgiving Show Stork Club | Sat., November 22, 4:00pm | Downtown Oakland | |
Sad Thanksgivings Are for Indians & Emo Turkeys! the flyer shouts. Plymouth Rawk!!! Political incorrectness aside (especially for the poor glum native in the picture, screwed by Pilgrim treaties and assorted colonial cruelties), its a pretty awesome poster ... More >> |
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| Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Yoshi's SF |
Daily from Tue., November 18 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Japantown/Pacific Heights | |
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones went and made a truly creative holiday collection, Jingle All the Way -- one hepcats the world over can swing with and to. For the uninitiated, Bela Fleck is of the generation of pickers (along with Mike Marshall, Tony Rice, and local Laurie Lewis) who seeks new... More >> |
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| "Fluke" Baer Ridgway Exhibitions | Daily from Sat., November 22 until Sat., January 3 | Union Square/Financial District | |
Artists who trade in found items often get lucky: An old photographic slide can decompose just so, producing a beautifully decayed image when printed. Berlin-based artist Wolfgang Ganter doesnt leave it up to the elements. As a student working with recycled materials, he often came across... More >> |
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| McCoy Tyner Trio with Marc Ribot Yoshi's |
Daily from Tue., November 18 until Sat., November 22, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Jack London Square | |
Theres no shortage of rock musicians trundling right past retirement age without hanging it up. Theyre often content to satisfy fans with rote deliveries of greatest hits that have more to do with muscle memory than with inspiration. Conversely, jazz players in their golden years... More >> |
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| 51st Annual International Auto Show Moscone Center | Daily from Sat., November 22 until Sat., November 29, 10:00am | South of Market | |
Few days are better than Thanksgiving for standing around and looking at cars. The 51st Annual International Auto Show has around 800 of them the Mercedes-Benz SL63AMG, the VW CC, the Mini John Cooper Works Clubman. Political types might want to check out the river barges from Detroit's... More >> |
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| "Assembly Instructions" Jack Hanley Gallery | Daily from Wed., November 19 until Sat., November 29 | South of Market | |
Like Amanda Eicher's art constellation of names which enlivens the ceiling at Adobe Bookshop, "Assembly Instructions" is a flow chart of an exhibition, and very pretty. Artist Alexandre Singh's show was a "mid-month pick" by artbusiness.com's Alan Bamberger, but it's only up for another few... More >> |
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| A Christmas Tale Bridge Theatre | Daily from Fri., November 21 until Thu., December 25 | Richmond (Inner) | |
A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic, ultimately touching family melodrama is a heady plum pudding of a moviestudded with outsized performances and drenched in cinematic brio. The concoction is over-rich, yet irresistible. The narrative... More >> |
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| Happy-Go-Lucky Lumiere Theatre | Daily from Thu., November 20 until Thu., November 27 | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
After extended cameos in two previous Mike Leigh films (as a resourceful pop tart in All or Nothing and the date-raped rich girl in Vera Drake), fine-boned Sally Hawkins shoulders the burden of every scene as the most relentlessly upbeat 30-year-old kindergarten teacher ever to bicycle... More >> |
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| Were the World Mine Opera Plaza Cinema | Daily from Fri., November 21 until Thu., November 27 | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
Tom Gustafsons queer-centric take on Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream teeters between banal conceptualizing and inspired execution. When high school homo and jock punching bag Timothy (Tanner Cohen) is cast as Puck in his all-boys schools production of Midsummer, he... More >> |
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| The 1000 Journals Project San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Daily from Thu., November 20 until Sun., April 5 | South of Market | |
A few years ago, Someguy (he's an artist) sent out 1,000 blank journals into the world with a humble request: Hey, you holding the blank journal, fill it up! People did. Some people did. Some sent their journals back to Someguy; others kept them in circulation, and they traveled the world. A... More >> |
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| More Events | |||
| AIDS/HIV/Hepatitis C Nightline Multiple San Francisco locations | Daily | Union Square/Financial District | |
| "In a New Light: The Asian Art Museum Collection" Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | Daily | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
| Gallery Tours Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 11:00am more dates/times |
Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
| Architectural Tours Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
Every week Thursday, 12:00pm more dates/times |
Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
| Basic Brown Bear Factory Tour Basic Brown Bear Factory | Daily, 10:00am | Potrero Hill | |
| Permanent Exhibit Cable Car Museum | Daily | North Beach/Chinatown | |
| Carla Cruz Café Arguello | Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 7:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| Monthly Cartooning Classes for Adults Cartoon Art Museum | Fourth Saturday of every month, 1:00pm | South of Market | |
| "Destination Universe" Chabot Space & Science Center | Daily | East Oakland | |
| "Mars Encounter" Chabot Space & Science Center | Daily | East Oakland | |
| "One Giant Leap: A Moon Odyssey" Chabot Space & Science Center | Daily | East Oakland | |