• Francesca Berrini by Jesse Nathan
• The Fetching Veggie Etchings by Aimee Le Duc
• Seasonal Theater for the Entire Family by Nirmala Nataraj

• ODC Theater
• Asian Art Museum
• SFMOMA

Thu Jan 17

Celebrate and dance to today's cutting edge djs and video artists and their Mac-created, Mac-produced art and entertainment!

Fri Jan 18

He examines the challenges that Barack Obama must overcome in his bid to become President of the United States in A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win. Having to cater to both black voters and white voters in what binds Obama, and his dilemma is that he achieved visibility more as a racial icon than as an individual. In his analysis, Shelby Steele discusses his own mixed race background, and he empathizes with Obama's inner conflicts even as he critiques him. He also identifies the two 'masks' that blacks wear in order to seek success and power in the American mainstream: bargaining and challenging...

Fri Jan 18

Everyone knows comedians have "issues," but thankfully help is on the way when comedian/writer/producer Jonathan Katz returns to the couch for two rare evenings of comic therapy with guest patients Bob Odenkirk, Maria Bamford, Andy Kindler, Eugene Mirman and his animated son, Ben, played by Jon Benjamin. They may not end up feeling better about life, but you will.

Thu Jan 17 - Sat Jan 19

Join The Crucible as we celebrate our Ninth Anniversary with a blazing showcase of wearable art from Bay Area designers, awe-inspiring fire performances, aerial artistry, and fire arts demonstrations. It's conflagration on the catwalk with models strutting incendiary creations from over twenty designers, and some of Oakland's finest firefighters joining them on the runway.

Fri Jan 18

California-based artist and art history professor Kenney Mencher knows what it's like to be at the center of controversy stemming from his artwork. Although Mencher does not intend to upset, past controversy has indeed buttressed proof of his success at probing the unconscious with oil on canvas. These provocative slice-of-life paintings in a Realist style always tell a story with cryptic scenes...

Tolula Sol Niger (Black Sun) Still Life with Commentator Creepshow Peepshow Filaments & Derivatives Savage Arts Elagabalus, Emperor of Rome

We Interrupt Your Program Small Things End, Great Things Endure Hot Couture Cultivating Cozy Peter Stegall Kenney Mencher: Lovers & Liars Conduits of Labor ICONS : Reflections of influence

Fred Luskin
Paul Auster
InsideStoryTime Foodies Matthew Reilly
Michael Parenti
Suzanne Arruda Fray Busted: True Stories of Getting Caught in the Act Shelby Steele Shakespeare's Greatest Hits CD Release Party Concert Creating the "Readable" Non-fiction Book Exploring Your Writer's Voice