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Artwork by William Chiapella
Wed Apr 9 - Tue Apr 15, 2008
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Drama and Desire at the Asian Art Museum
Editorial Event Features
Fri Apr 11 - Sat Jun 21
at Xenodrome (see listing for times)
"Point Break LIVE!", is the absurdist stage adaptation of the 1992 Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze extreme-sports blockbuster that tells the story of former College football star, Johnny Utah, in pursuit of the surfing, bank robbing, skydiving, bare-hand-fighting adrenaline-junkie-cum-Zen-master Bodhi Sattva. Since it's Seattle debut in 2003, "Point Break Live!" has 'rawked' sell-out crowds in Minneapolis, and New York City, and it continues strong after six-months in Los Angeles to rave reviews, with all shows sold out two weeks in advance.
Fri Apr 11 - Sat Apr 12
at Zeum (8pm)
A group of former slaves and Seminoles wrestle with identity and survival as they forge a new life in Oklahoma in the mid-1800s. Gorgeously cadenced language and daring humor summon the spirit of August Wilson in this gripping story by one of theater's brightest new talents.
Sat Apr 12
at Issues (5pm)
Swee(t)Art Magazine creator and Oakland painter Obi Kaufmann likes to set up release parties for the magazine along with his paintings. "I did it the first time last summer at Cricket Engine Gallery and I am doing it again now at Issues because the synergy with this art-showing magazine shop is obvious."...
Sat Apr 12
at Root Division (7pm - 10pm)
The 18 artists in the exhibition use the subject matter of food and many different mediums, both edible and not, to express the palatable, playful, and political. These artists ask us to pay attention to the food we eat and where it comes from, how we consume food as a culture, and the fantasies or desires associated with food.
Theater/Dance
Wednesday, April 9
Clinton Jackson with Jason Wheeler, Rob F. Martinez
at Punch Line Comedy Club (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Wednesday, April 9
Caroline, Or Change
at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (7:30pm) Buy Tickets!
Wednesday, April 9
Lysistrata
at City Lights Theater Company (8pm)
Thursday, April 10
StringWreck
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, April 10
Cinema Supper Club: Carmen Jones
at Legion of Honor (Gallery: 6pm; Movie: 8pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, April 10
L'Egisto
at Cowell Theater (7:30pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, April 10
Paul Mooney
at Cobb's Comedy Club (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, April 10
Comics 4 Comix Benefit
at Cartoon Art Museum (7pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, April 10
Laugh Orgy w/ Anthony Hill in North Beach SF
at Grant & Green (9pm)
Friday, April 11
First Look: The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry
at Zeum Theater(YBCA) (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Friday, April 11
Tender Ground
at CounterPULSE (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Friday, April 11
The 4th Annual Cafe con Comedy
at Dolores Park Cafe (7:30pm)
Saturday, April 12
Company C Contemporary Ballet: World Premiere of Twyla Tharp's "Armenia"
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
Carnaval San Francisco Junior King and Queen Competition
at Everett Middle School (1pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
QYOP's One Year Anniversary Party
at El Rio (4pm)
Saturday, April 12
CREATE Fundraiser
at Fort Mason Center (7pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
Ghost Hunting in SF with Shadow Circus
at Fat City (10pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12 Cont.
Secret Improv Society
at Shelton Theater (10pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
Dancing For Joy
at Expressions Gallery (12pm - 5pm)
Saturday, April 12
Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008
at NASA Ames Research Center (2pm-2am) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
The Emperor's New Clothes
at Julia Morgan Center for the Arts (2pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
2nd Sat / Live Music Contra Dance
at First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto (7:30pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
"Swing! Swing! Swing!" Big Band Show
at Spangenberg Theatre (7:30pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
Joyfull Noise Brass Band & Kally Price
at JCC East Bay (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
Unlock'd
at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (7:30pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, April 12
"Coastside Comedy Improv"
at Enso (8pm)
Sunday, April 13
2nd Sundays
at CounterPULSE (2pm) Buy Tickets!
Sunday, April 13
Soul Sanctuary Dance
at Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center (11am - 1pm)
Sunday, April 13
Koret Visiting Artist Series: Wu Hsing-Kuo
at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) (5pm)
Sunday, April 13
Creating Claire
at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (7:30pm) Buy Tickets!
Sunday, April 13
Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Co.
at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (11am & 2pm) Buy Tickets!
Monday, April 14
Boot Camp for Artists
at CounterPULSE (6:30pm - 9:30pm)
Tuesday, April 15
The Bachata Dance Party
at Glas Kat (8:40pm)
Tuesday, April 15
Brent Weinbach with Louis Katz, Moshe Kasher
at Punch Line Comedy Club (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Gallery Openings
Wednesday, Apr 9
Taraneh Hemami
at The Lab (1pm - 6pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Once Within A Room, Phantom Rosebuds
at New Langton Arts (7pm - 9pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
at Sculpturesite Gallery (5:30pm - 7:30pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Burlesque: Photographs by Robert Adler
at Hyde St. Gallery (6pm - 9pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Heads by Matt Furie
at Adobe Books (7pm - 10pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
American Gladiators
at Lower Hater (7pm - 10pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Art Opening With Michael Rosen
at Good Vibrations (6pm - 8pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Freedom Illuminated: Arthur Szyk Haggadah
at BJE Jewish Community Library (7:30pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Cinema Supper Club: Carmel Jones
at Legion of Honor (6pm)
Friday, Apr 11
When Hell Freezes Over
at Gallery 16 (6pm - 9pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Haute Monde
at Space Gallery (8pm - late)
Friday, Apr 11
Radio Wine, Paintings About Language
at Issues (5pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Bag'o Neo/New Modernism
at Micaela Gallery (5pm - 8pm)
Friday, Apr 11
If These Walls Could Talk
at Reaves Gallery (6pm - 9pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Etheral Realities
at Aftermodern (6pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Pacific Noise Presents: Paintings by Marc Tweed and John Weiss
at Balazo 18 Art Gallery (7pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Opus Magnum
at Venus Superstar (7pm - 10pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Transformation: a Photographic Exhibit
at First Unitarian Universalist Hall (9am - 3pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Deric Carner "Double Heading"
at Ping Pong Gallery (6pm - 9pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
Dancing For Joy
at Expressions Gallery (noon - 5pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
The Neti Project
at 20 Go To 10 (7pm - 11pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
Fins, Feathers & Fur
at Super 7 (7pm - 11pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
Taste 2008 Exhibition
at Root Division (7pm - 10pm)
Monday, Apr 14
Attack of the B-Movies
at Space Gallery (8pm - late)
Tuesday, Apr 15
Flagtown Coyote
at California College of the Arts (5:30pm - 7:30pm)
Literary Arts
Wednesday, Apr 9
Nowtopia Release Party!
at CounterPULSE (7pm)
Wednesday, Apr 9
Grant Bailie and Dedra Johnson
at City Lights Books (7pm)
Wednesday, Apr 9
Thomas McNamee
at Stacey's Bookstore (12:30pm)
Wednesday, Apr 9
Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs
at Herbst Theatre (8pm)
Wednesday, Apr 9
Literary Death Match, Episode 8
at Rickshaw Stop (7pm)
Wednesday, Apr 9
Poets Nickole Brown and Ray McDaniel
at Moe's Books (7:30pm)
Wednesday, Apr 9
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
at Cody's Books (7pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Toni Mirosevich reading from Pink Harvest
at Books, Inc. In the Castro (7:30pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
RADAR Reading Series
at San Francisco Main Public Library (6pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Tom Hayden
at City Lights Books (7pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Comics 4 Comix Benefit
at Cartoon Art Museum (7pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Jose Canseco
at Books, Inc. In the Marina (7:30pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Freedom Illuminated: Understanding the Arthur Szyk Haggadah
at BJE Jewish Community Library (7:30pm)
Thursday, Apr 10
Local author Katie Crouch's launch party for her debut novel Girls In Trucks!
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Queer Open Mic
at Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe (7:30pm)
Friday, Apr 11
Katherine Hastings, Al Young, & Jane Hirshfield
at Books, Inc. In the Marina (7:30pm)
Friday, Apr 11
AquaTots, "Bat Ray Buddies"
at Aquarium of the Bay (10am - 12pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
Sizzle
at Femina Potens (7pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
Karen Joy Fowler & Juvenal Acosta at Writers With Drinks
at Make-Out Room (7:30pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
Spring Concert of Celtic and Early Music
at Sanchez Concert Hall (7:30pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
Show a Lot, Tell a Little
at The Berkeley Writing Salon (10am - 4pm)
Saturday, Apr 12
Beating the Writer's Blues
at The San Francisco Writing Salon (10am - 4pm)
Sunday, Apr 13
Northern California Book Awards
at San Francisco Main Public Library (1pm)
Sunday, Apr 13
Gay Mens Science Fiction Book Club
at Borderlands Books (5pm)
Sunday, Apr 13
Screenwriting Workshop - The Inside Story
at The Berkeley Writing Salon (7pm - 9:30pm)
Sunday, Apr 13
Fiction Workshop
at The San Francisco Writing Salon (3pm - 5:30pm or 7pm - 9:30pm)
Sunday, Apr 13
Intro to Fiction
at The Berkeley Writing Salon (2pm - 4:30pm)
Monday, Apr 14
Author Paul Polak for Out of Poverty!
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
Monday, Apr 14
Exploring Your Writer's Voice
at The Berkeley Writing Salon (7pm - 9:30pm)
Monday, Apr 14
Screenwriting Workshop
at The Berkeley Writing Salon (7pm - 9:30pm)
Tuesday, Apr 15
Passing On The Pen
at GLBT Historical Society (6:30)
Tuesday, Apr 15
Legendary Poet as Translator
at 111 Minna Gallery (12:30pm)
Tuesday, Apr 15
Author Andrew Foster Altschul for Lady Lazarus!
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
Tuesday, Apr 15
Screenwriting as a Pro
at Fort Mason Center (6:30 - 9:30pm)
Tuesday, Apr 15
The Poem You Weren't Expecting
at The Berkeley Writing Salon (7pm - 9:30pm)
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