Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery12pm-5pm

The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery is proud to present its newest exhibition, Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite. Lewis Watts is a photographer,…

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Gifts from the Gods: Art and the Olympic Ideal

Legion of Honor9:30am - 5:15pm

Plato considered both art and athletics to be gifts from the gods, and the connection between art and sports in ancient Greece can be viewed…

Food & Wine of the San Francisco Bay Area: Tastings with a Local Focus

Bluxome Street Winery12:30 pm

(Repeats every Sun., Tue., Thu., & Fri.) Enjoy a taste of the Bay Area�s artisan food & wine, and the stories of the locals who grow and craft…

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Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting

San Jose Museum of Art11am-5pm

For its fall exhibition, the San Jose Museum of Art offers a rare opportunity to explore the practice of painting through the work of one of…

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All Out 2012

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)6pm

All Out 2012 will convene 1000 of the Bay Area�s brightest minds to accelerate us down the path to creating 25,000 good jobs. The goal is to…

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The Radical Camera: New York�s Photo League, 1936 � 1951

The Contemporary Jewish Museum1-8pm

The Contemporary Jewish Museum presents The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951, the first comprehensive museum survey in three…

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Jay Defeo

SFMOMA11am - 8:45pm

This retrospective offers a revelatory, in-depth encounter with the work of Jay DeFeo (1929-1989), one of the most important and innovative…

Maya Jane Coles

Monarch9pm - 2am

Liaison Artists & Monarch Present: Maya Jane Coles (Hypercoulour, Mobilee) Moniker (DJ Set - Smash Hit Music) Brian Bejarano (As You Like It) Pre-sale…

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Wood, Metal, Paint: Sculpture from the Fisher Collection

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm Wed-Sun; 11am-8pm Thurs

Beginning February 29th, Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center presents a new installation featuring work by John Chamberlain, Martin Puryear,…

Animating Dark Dreams

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Screening Room7:30 PMAlice

�Sadly, our civilization has no time for dreams. There�s no money in them.� � Jan Svankmajer We present a retrospective of the brilliant Czech…

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Barry McGee

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11 AM � 5 PM

�Throughout his career,� writes Alex Baker in the exhibition catalog, �Barry McGee has continued to surprise and contradict expectations.� Including…

Tilly and the Wall

Great American Music Hall (GAMH)Show @ 8pm

Tilly & the Wall are five people from Omaha, NE who became friends exploring music. The band operates as a collective with five songwriters,…

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...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

The IndependentShow @ 8pm

These guys rock! These guys do whatever the hell they want! Austin, TX has a long history of sonic, in your face, noise rock and this band is…

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San Francisco Transgender Film Festival 2012

CounterPULSE8:00pm

San Francisco Transgender Film Festival 2012 Returns for our 11th Annual Festival November 8-11 The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival…

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Trying

Theatre on San Pedro Square8pm

Trying is Joanna McClelland Glass' award-winning play based on her experience as a 25-year-old personal assistant to Francis Biddle, a retired…

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Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Band

Yoshi's San Francisco - Live Music & Japanese Restaurant - CLOSED8:00pm, 10:00pm

Thursday 8pm $25, 10pm $20 Friday & Saturday 8pm $30, 10pm $25 For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, conguero…

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Adopt-A-Family Holiday Project

Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz CountyAll Day

The holiday season is just around the corner, and unfortunately, an unprecedented number of local families find themselves struggling with poverty,…

Kirstin Jackson and Seana Doughty at Books Inc in the Marina

Books Inc. in the Marina7:00 pm

Cheese expert KIRSTIN JACKSON gives us the inside scoop on fifty different American cheeses with her book It's Not You, It's Brie, complete…

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Raging Opulence: Mark Dean Veca

San Jose Museum of Art11 AM - 5 PM

Mark Dean Veca, known for combining the opulence of Rococo wallpaper with the renegade attitude of cartoons, comics, and street art, will paint…

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An Evening with Ken Burns

Castro Theatre7:30 pm

See a sneak preview of The Dust Bowl which chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat…