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Green Festival 2007
The Bay Area is the kind of place where conformity is the exception rather than the rule. SF tends to cultivate the quirky and welcome the revolutionary. So here's to all those eccentrics out there who march to their own beat. If you've been growing out your goth roots, re-dye your hair, enshroud yourself in black and drag yourself over to Shutter at 330 Ritch. On Thursday, every punk worth his/her weight in piercings and patches, should check out The Misfits at the DNA Lounge on their 30th (!) Anniversary Tour. While there may not be fans tattooing her name on their shaved heads, songstress Feist has garnered plenty of fervent followers; see what all the fuss is about when she plays the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium this Friday. Still trying to figure out what "being green" actually entails? Bike, walk or use public transport and take in the Green Festival at the SF Design Center to find out all you need. And if you get really pissed off (damn you global warming!), you can let it all out at The Swearing Festival at Edinburgh Castle. On Sunday, grab a bite to eat at The Ferry Building and try to find Waldo at the Mob of Waldos.


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David Shrigley
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
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Depravities of War
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Green Festival 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
at The Nob Hill Masonic Center (5pm - 10pm)
Manhattan's most spectacular shopping event is coming to San Francisco and you're invited! Attend Shecky's Girls Night Out November 6th & 7th at The Nob Hill Masonic Center for an indulgent evening of endless complimentary cocktails, the hottest trends in fall fashion and accessories, and our coveted Deluxe Goodie Bag! Don't miss our 2 for 1 offer and purchase tickets today!
at Mezzanine (8pm)
"They seem to be a Marmite band: one group of people thinks they're quite the most exciting thing they've heard in years and years and years, while another thinks they are the new Hootie and the Blowfish. It's not even that they think they're not that special; they just cannot see the point in the Hold Steady's existence." - guardian.co.uk
at 330 Ritch (10pm)
Shutter opens its doors the first Tuesdays of every month, with DJs Nako & Omar spinning post-punk, goth, indie, and more. Go on and put your dark eyeliner on, because this night isn't one you want to miss out on.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (8pm)
Evil Heat happends every Wednesday nights at the Arrow Bar playing you electro, acidhaus, black metal, post punk, and free style to keep your energy flowing all night long.
at Arrow Bar (10pm)
Evil Heat happends every Wednesday nights at the Arrow Bar playing you electro, acidhaus, black metal, post punk, and free style to keep your energy flowing all night long.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
at Element Lounge (7pm - 2am)
His Triptyque Sans Titre was the most talked-about performance of the 05_06 season. This year, the contemporary dance visionary returns with an extraordinary dance theater experience: part installation, part party, part community event. In Lies, Linyekula, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, evokes "the ruins of his native land." Amid a street-fair atmosphere, actors tell stories of daily life and lies of a country misled.
at RVCA Store & Gallery (7pm - 11pm)
Launching the gallery to the public, VASF is proud to announce "Family Tree" - an exhibition with the likes of R.Pimple, Phil Frost, Pushead and Craig Stecyk - a show billed to be RVCA's most premiere event to date. The culmination of RVCA culture is the gallery space in VASF. The gallery is a special platform for ANP artists. VASF will curate four art shows each year and will provide a new and exciting source of art culture for the local community, working alongside the ANP and local artists and personalities on special projects and events.
at DNA Lounge (8pm)
""It started as a twisted dream"... 30 years ago in a small town in New Jersey called Lodi. It was there in April of 1977, at the dawn of the punk movement, that the Misfits were born. Taking the title of Marilyn Monroe's last movie as their name in a move to immortalize her image - singer Glenn Danzig and bassist Jerry Only set out to make an impression. They wound up making history and creating a legacy that's power has not only stood the test of time, but also transcended into an entirely new generation..."
at YBCA (8pm)
His Triptyque Sans Titre was the most talked-about performance of the 05_06 season. This year, the contemporary dance visionary returns with an extraordinary dance theater experience: part installation, part party, part community event. In Lies, Linyekula, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, evokes "the ruins of his native land." Amid a street-fair atmosphere, actors tell stories of daily life and lies of a country misled.
at Rickshaw Stop (8pm)
Come support local radio and check out KALX Radio's 45th Anniversary Benefit Show. Listen to Chow Nasty, Sugar & Gold, Social Studies and Greg Ashley (The Gris Gris). Plus DJ sets from Yoni of Wolf or Why?
at Cafe du Nord (8pm)
Citay are from San Francisco and were one of the Top 10 Bands in 2006 for San Francisco Bay Guardian. The first Citay record is out now on Important Records (importantrecords.com). The second Citay record will be called "Little Kingdom."
Green Festival 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
at The Concourse at SF Design Center (see listing for times)
The big three-day party with a purpose. You'll enjoy more than 150 visionary speakers, 400 green businesses (start your holiday shopping now!), great how-to workshops, organic beer and wine, delicious organic cuisine and diverse live music. Recharge your batteries with great ideas, positive energy and the abundant hope you'll find at the Green Festival.
at Gallery 16 (Sixteen) (6pm - 9pm)
Gallery 16 is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition with Rex Ray which coincides with the publication of Chronicle Books' Rex Ray Art + Design, a new, 160 page, hardbound survey of Ray's work.
at Mezzanine (7:30pm - late)
Experience a night of music, live art and performances. IGNITION! features exciting live bands and electronica DJs from different genres in the Bay Area. Interact and indulge your creative side at this invitation-only event.
at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium (Center) (8pm)
The unclassifiable siren and Broken Social Scene alumnus Leslie Fiest brings her songbook to San Francisco's Masonic Center for one sold out night. Don't miss a chance to see the hottest artist of the summer. Her newest album, The Reminder, is featured on best lists from critics across the globe and features the hit song 1-2-3-4
at Hemlock Tavern (9:30pm)
RTX, fronted by the goddess of hard rock deconstruction bursts through the doors with guns ablaze on their latest Western Xterminator, vacillating between mushroom-hazy psychedelic numbers like the opening title track, vocals sounding like they were forced through a hookah into an echo chamber, and Motor City endgame blasts like "Dude Love" and "Restoration Sleep" reeling off into the night like Guns N Roses interpreting the Book of Revelations.
at 1015 (Ten 15) (10pm - 5am)
Featuring The Glitch Mob, Aquasky, An-Ten-Nae, Vau De Vire Society, Gooferman and more!
at ODC Theater (8pm)
Last time at the ODC Theater KML Faced the Music, now they are going to do it again, but for the First Time. San Francisco's premiere sketch comedy troupe presents its new full length sketch comedy show based on first experiences, featuring an all female cast.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
at Modern Times Bookstore (1pm - 5pm)
What can you do when gentrifiers squeeze you out of your neighborhood seemingly with the full support of City Hall? Reclaim public space! Bring your friends, your mom, your little brother, and your grandma and join local artists from around San Francisco and Oakland for this hands-on workshop on low cost and low skill methods for making street art.
at Amoeba Music (2pm)
Meet the "Godfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis! He's the sick, sick man responsible for such splatter cinema classics as Blood Feast, 2,000 Maniacs, The Gore Gore Girls, and Wizard of Gore! Pick up a copy of his new DVD on the day of the in-store and get it autographed by the master himself! Sponsored by The Late Night Picture Show.
at Edinburgh Castle (3pm & 8pm)
The Swearing Festival is a wild event that brings to the fore the verbal world of swearing and cussing. Featuring the Mass Swearing Experiment, the Most Vile Oath Contest, the Verbal Abuse Duel, the Confessional Booth and live music from Les Merdes. Surprise guests and much more fun!
at Frankee Uno San Francisco (6pm - 9pm)
In "Urban Foraging," San Francisco artist Hilary Williams showcases her colorful screen prints of San Francisco and urban landscapes. Also on display are her dolls and paintings. She works with fabrics creating unique handmade dolls and uses acrylic, fabric and screens to create layered mixed media paintings. This show, full of collage, color, humor, irony and melancholy, is an en-joyable new world. She has created a special NOPA District print for this show...
at The Warfield (8pm)
Onion AV Club says "For a band famous for not taking itself too seriously, Ween can be pretty serious sometimes. Aaron "Gene Ween" Freeman and Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondo often explore deeply disturbing subject matter from the inside out-with no ironic distance-so the laughs on Ween albums are just as likely to be uncomfortable as they are goofy. Ween has described La Cucaracha as "a party record,"
at Oakland Metro (8pm - 2am)
Electric Vardo and Darker Still Productions present Shadowdance 2007, a darkly intense, heart-pounding journey into the silhouette of night with some of the most amazing Dancers, Musicians and DJs from SF, Oakland, Sacramento, Washington D.C., Southern California, and Portland, OR.
at Paramount Theatre (8pm)
"One cannot simply classify the raw appeal of Ben Harper. He is a musician, an artist, and an individualist. Whether it's through the soul dances of southern Gospel, 70s funk or electric blues, Harper maintains a stance for a simple beauty."
at Mighty (10pm)
The ladies of the Fringe Arts Collective have spent the past 3 years "bringing culture to the counterculture" through dance, and fine art. On November 10, ladies curate the stage and the decks as well, celebrating the eclectic and the electric passionate expression of women. The front room will feature hip hop and world soul with the Coup's resident beatslinger Pam the Funkstress and live hip hop ensemble Goddess Alchemy Project, Dub Mission diva DJ Sep and Glitchmob maven Ana Sia.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
at The Ferry Building (noon - 6pm)
"Let's re-create the most difficult Waldo puzzle ever! Come dressed in a red and white striped shirt and blue pants and meet other Waldo fans! This event will occur rain or shine. If it rains, we will congregate inside the Ferry Building."
at Magic Theater (2pm)
"SOPRO is pure form and emotion and offers the spectator a similar pleasure to standing before a painting." - Folha de Londrina, Brazilian newspaper. The Dell'Arte Company, an internationally recognized physical theatre ensemble based in Humboldt County, is proud to kick off its first San Francisco season at the Magic Theatre with "SOPRO" a production of the Brazilian theatre ensemble Lume Teatro.
at Boxcar Playhouse (7pm)
The Criterion Collection and Square One Cinema proudly present a collection of some of the most innovative and exciting short films from the Bay Area and around the world. Please come and join us for a festival that celebrates the artist's vision, and proves that all great films start at square one.
at The Independent (8pm)
"Predecessors like The Birthday Party and Bauhaus, Celebration's music is essentially modern soul music, which marries the sort of rhythmic hypnosis found in the music of Fela Kuti or James Brown to an arch-romantic sense of drama."
at Rickshaw Stop (8pm)
"Predecessors like The Birthday Party and Bauhaus, Celebration's music is essentially modern soul music, which marries the sort of rhythmic hypnosis found in the music of Fela Kuti or James Brown to an arch-romantic sense of drama."
Monday, November 12, 2007
at 12 Galaxies (10am - 6pm)
"Black Dice is a noise rock/experimental band based in Brooklyn, New York, USA. They formed in spring, 1997 at the Rhode Island School of Design and are currently signed to DFA Records. The group began as a harsh, noisy thrash outift, with a sound far different from the more psychedelic leanings of the last few albums."
at The Fillmore (8pm)
I've had the freedom to do what I wanted, on my own terms and on my own timetable. I'm very handmade,' says Vega. 'I see my career as a spiral, revolving around the central point of my guitar and lyrics.'
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