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Wed May 21 - Tue May 27, 2008
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Editorial Event Features
Fri May 23
at Swarm Gallery (6pm - 8pm)
"'Picket Fencing' is simply my attempt to capture the spirit of that manic scenario using a cast of characters I have developed over time. The implied politics or metaphors are left open-ended for the viewer to parse. Remember, it's always fun until someone looses an eye." - John Casey
Fri May 23
at Southern Exposure (7pm - 9pm)
Being an American has rarely been so depressing. Current US policy inspires a maelstrom of international bile. Presidential candidates deliver a rhetoric of hope and change which experience suggests is an attempt to co-opt the desire for radical transformation for an agenda that will do little to upset the demands of capital.
Sun May 25
at Artists for Television Access (5pm)
Flashing through the New York underground in the late 1970s, No Wave was the ultimate anti-movement. Its bands consisted of artists and poets untrained in music, looking to explode rock and disappear before the smoke cleared. Authors Marc Masters and Weasel Walter will read from the book, discuss the movement, and play music and videos from the time period...
Sun May 25
at Hayes Green (11am - 6pm)
Featuring 160 independent designers of men's and women's clothing, accessories, bags, jewelry, home decor, dolls, weird stuff that is hard to categorize, some art, and other sundry...
Theater/Dance
Wednesday, May 21
LiYana Silver's BeFor(e) Play
at The Garage, 975 Howarde (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Wednesday, May 21
Unfiltered Underground Comedy Show
at Improv Comedy Club and Restaurant (8pm)
Wednesday, May 21
Rooster's New Talent Showcase
at Rooster T. Feathers (8pm)
Thursday, May 22
thirty-seven isolated events (world premiere)
at CounterPULSE (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, May 22
Jewels in the Square
at Union Square (12pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, May 22
Speaking Chinese (world premiere)
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) (8pm)
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Thursday, May 22
Mordake (world premiere)
at Shotwell Studios (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, May 22
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
at Marin Theatre Company (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, May 22
Mortified SF
at Make-Out Room (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Thursday, May 22
Brian Malow
at Rooster T. Feathers (8pm)
Friday, May 13
She...Dancing new world into being!
at Dance Mission Theatre (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Friday, May 13
the beauty that was mine, through the middle, without stopping & Oust
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) (7pm)
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Friday, May 23
Nita Little: Mind in Motion
at Danceground Keriac (10am-6pm) Buy Tickets!
Friday, May 23
Carnival Fever
at 12 Galaxies (10pm) Buy Tickets!
Friday, May 23
Showdown: An Epic Battle on the Wheels of Steel
at Vessel (9:30pm)
Friday, May 23
Dancing for the Health of it
at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (7pm)
Friday, May 23
Spring Dance Concert
at Cabrillo College - Cabrillo Stage-summer Theatre (8pm)
Friday, May 23
World Premiere of Twyla Tharp's Armenia
at Dean Lesher Center For the Arts (8pm)
Friday, May 23
"I", The Impeachment Trial of George W. Bush and Richard B Cheney
at International Studies Academy Theater (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Friday, May 23
Rocky LaPorte
at Rooster T. Feathers (8pm & 10:30pm)
Friday, May 23 Cont.
ComedySportz
at ComedySportz (9pm & 11pm)
Friday, May 23
Buried Child
at Actors Theatre - San Francisco (8pm) Buy Tickets!
Friday, May 23
Rhythm of Russia
at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (8pm)
Friday, May 23
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (9:30am & 11am)
Friday, May 23
Der fliegende Hollander
at Lucie Stern Theatre (8pm)
Friday, May 23
The Phantom Tollbooth
at Live Oak Theatre (7:30 & 10:30pm) Buy Tickets!
Friday, May 23
The Constant Wife
at Triton Museum Hall Pavilion (8pm)
Saturday, May 24
Unleash Your Fire Erotic Workshop for Women
at The Garage, 975 Howard (9am-5pm)
Saturday, May 24
Carnaval 2008
at Harrison Street (10am-6pm)
Saturday, May 24
MIC CHECK: Checkin' the current state of Hip Hop
at Stanford Cubberly Auditorium (7pm)
Saturday, May 24
Ciuca Y Clave 7
at Karibbean City (6pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, May 24
Snow White
at California Theatre (1:30pm & 5:30pm)
Saturday, May 24
City Ballet Spring Showcase
at Cowell Theater (7pm) Buy Tickets!
Saturday, May 24
New Talent Comedy Showcase
at San Francisco Comedy College (6pm)
Saturday, May 24
Donizetti's Don Pasquale
at Legion of Honor (2pm)
Sunday, May 25
Carey Perloff: Behind the Scenes
at Grace Cathedral (9:30am)
Sunday, May 25
Ecstatic Dance East Bay
at Historic Sweet's Ballroom (10:30am)
Sunday, May 25
Horizon
at The Montgomery Theatre (8pm)
Tuesday, May 27
Flight of the Conchords
at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium (Center) (9:30am)
Tuesday, May 27
Das Rheingold: Opera Lecture & Preview
at Little House Activity Center (7:30pm)
Gallery Openings
Thursday, May 22
Donald Feasel
at Brian Goss Fine Art (5:30pm - 7:30pm)
Thursday, May 22
Joan Perlman
at David Cunningham Projects (6pm - 9pm)
Thursday, May 22
Nicholas Park
at Candybar (7pm)
Friday, May 23
Suite Jesus
at 111 Minna Gallery (9pm - 11pm)
Friday, May 23
Hopeless and Otherwise
at Southern Exposure (7pm - 9pm)
Friday, May 23
You make me you
at Triple Base Gallery (7pm - 10pm)
Friday, May 23 Cont.
Picket Fencing and Improvised Territory
at Swarm gallery (6pm - 8pm)
Saturday, May 24
Mark Mothersbaugh
at Sacred Rose Tattoo (6pm - 11pm)
Saturday, May 24
Living the Dream
at A Space (5pm - 11pm)
Saturday, May 24
Kimberly Austin
at Braunstein/Quay Gallery (3pm - 5pm)
Saturday, May 24
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
at Luscious Garage (3pm - 8pm)
Literary Arts
Wednesday, May 21
Intergenerational Writer's Lab 2008 Reading #3
at Intersection for the Arts (7:30pm)
Wednesday, May 21
The Arrival of Benito Cereno
at La Pena Cultural Center (8pm)
Wednesday, May 21
Nomy Lamm at Smack Dab: Open Mic in the Castro
at Magnet (8pm)
Wednesday, May 21
An Unpredictable Evening with August Kleinzahler
at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (8pm)
Wednesday, May 21
Ted Kerasote
at Barnes and Noble (7pm)
Wednesday, May 21
Book Group Meeting for May
at Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe (7pm)
Wednesday, May 21
Ellen Sussman
at West Valley Branch Library City of San Jose (6:30pm)
Thursday, May 22
Joel Derfner at Books Inc. in the Castro
at Books Inc. (7:30pm)
Thursday, May 22
Impresarios
at Edinburgh Castle (6:30pm)
Thursday, May 22
Author Michael Ondaatje for Divisadero!
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
Thursday, May 22
Revision Bootcamp for Writers
at The San Francisco Writing Salon (7pm - 9:30pm)
Thursday, May 22 Cont.
Mary Tillman
at Barnes Noble Bookseller (7pm)
Thursday, May 22
Richie Unterberger
at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (7pm)
Thursday, May 22
Marissa Silver's The God of War
at Books Inc. (7pm)
Thursday, May 22
Ron Hansen's Exiles
at Sunnyvale Public Library (7pm)
Friday, May 23
WatchWord Press Issue X Release Party
at Space Gallery (7pm)
Friday, May 23
Queer Open Mic
at Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe (7:30pm)
Friday, May 23
Graphic Novelist Ariel Shrag
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
Saturday, May 24
Mic Check: Checkin' the current state of Hip Hop
at Stanford Cubberly Auditorium (7pm)
Saturday, May 24
Vivienne Flesher's Alfred's Nose
at Books Inc. (10:30am)
Sunday, May 25
NO WAVE Book Release Event
at Artists' for Television Access (ATA) (5pm)
Tuesday, May 27
Adam Mansbach with Jeff Chang & Dan Wolf
at Intersection for the Arts (7:30pm)
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