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Green Festival 2007
In honor of family-oriented Thanksgiving Day (aka Native American National Day of Mourning), this week's guide is strictly PG-rated. Almost all of our picks are above board and no ID is necessary. Before you sit down and stuff yourselves with Tofurkey, why not first wear off a few calories? Get all bundled up and enjoy some Holiday Ice Skating at Justin Herman Plaza or don your fav turkey suit for the Turkey Beach Trot at Golden Gate Park. Don't forget that the biggest travel weekend of the year also equals a (mostly) empty city. Take advantage of the thinned crowds and bring the family down to Union Square for the annual Tree Lighting. And for those nay-sayers who claim that SF lacks holiday spirit, there's The Great Dickens Christmas Fair and Victorian Holiday Party which kicks off at the Cow Palace. Think the Ren Fair but with tons of holiday spirit and more clothes. Last but not least, this Sunday is the California Academy of Sciences' 23rd annual Run Wild 5K/10K. If you didn't get your fill of becostumed runners earlier on in the week, then this crazy race will be sure to indulge you.
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Green Festival 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
at Embarcadero Center (10am - 10pm)
Delighting families, couples and ice skating enthusiasts for 15 years, Embarcadero Center's rink will be open to the public for eight fun-filled weeks!
at Cartoon Art Museum (10am - 10pm)
One of the first women to work as a concept artist for Disney, Blair was responsible for the look of some of the key Disney films of the 1940s and 1950s including Cinderella and Peter Pan. Her colorful, charming geometric designs, synonymous with 1950s style, appeared in advertisements and children¹s books.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
at Harry Denton's Starlight Room (8pm - 2am)
Sebastien + Harry Denton + Tony Kutulas invite you to our 11th Annual Thanksgiving Eve Party San Francisco's hottest Wednesday night tradition. Come feast yourself with libations + eye candy go go dancers, and dance the night away with old and new friends with sweeping, beautiful penthouse views.
at Vessel (9pm - 2am)
This truly is one of the last big party nights of the year and what better place to celebrate than at one of San Francisco's hottest & sexiest new venues: Vessel. After completely selling out our Flowers Party at Vessel back in October, this Wednesday Before Thanksgiving guarantees to be another blow-out evening of the city's hottest local fashion crowd.
at Ruby Skye (9pm)
For all your support through the years we take this opportunity to say "Thanks" with a FREE performance by Mark Farina. With your help let's give something to those who need it most.
at Mighty (10pm)
Bay Area funk and breaks Djs Romanowski, Motion Potion, Fred Funk, Malarkey, Tal Klein, Tim Dietz, Big Dolla and Victor Vega stuff the dance-floor with heaping helpings of hearty beats
Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, November 22, 2007
at Golden Gate Park (8am)
Kick off Thanksgiving Day with an invigorating fun run or walk at the beach--before the parades, football games, and feasting commence! Relive the spirit of 1620, and run among fellow turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indians!
at The Endup (10pm)
Two days of launch with 13 DJs celebrating Thanksgiving.
Green Festival 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
at Cow Palace (11am - 7pm)
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair: a timegame adventure into Victorian Holiday partying with hundreds of costumed players in 90,000 square feet of theatrically-lit music halls, pubs, dance parties and Christmas shops on winding lanes. It's a twilight evening in Charles Dickens' London Town - a city filled with lively and colorful characters from both literature and history. Enticing aromas of roasted chestnuts and hearty foods fill the air.
at Union Square (6:30pm)
San Francisco's most recognized Christmas tree will be officially lit on Friday, November 23rd in Union Square. Macy's gift to the city, an 85-foot California White Fir from the Carlton Tree Farm in Mount Shasta, will be adorned with thousands of twinkling, energy-efficient LED lights provided by PG&E and 1,500 red and gold ornaments.
at Hemlock Tavern (9:30pm)
Brooklyn's dark indie folk trio White Magic features singer/guitarist/pianist Mira Billotte, drummer/bassist Miggy Littleton, and guitarist/drummer Andy Macleod. Billotte played in Quix*o*tic with her sister Charlotte (also of Slant 6); Littleton played in Ida...
at The Knockout (10pm)
"A standing drummer, a guitarist that could pass for early Royal Trux Neil Haggerty and a front man that would give Tim from the Fav a run for his money. Sweet shit, Monotonix were much more savage and full bore than post punk. I'd call it total rock performance art energy." - Chunklet
at DNA Lounge (10pm)
Hip-Hop Showcase with Med (Stonesthrow, LA), Rasco featuring Concise Kilgore (Cali Agents / Pockets Linted, SF), Jam Patrol - Live bboy / bgirl performance...
at Duplex (10pm)
Here is Something new ! Ladies dress your best, party and take a chance to win $500 bar credit Nov 23rd, at the 1st "nice legs" contest organised at Duplex Club.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
at Moscone Center (10am - 10pm)
In these days of environmental consciousness, dwindling fuel supplies and increasingly high gasoline prices, it is only fitting that the San Francisco Chronicle|SFGate.com 50th Annual International Auto Show provides visitors with an opportunity to see and learn more about the many alternative fuel, hybrid and fuel efficient vehicles currently available.
at 111 Minna (9pm)
Matador Travel, San Francisco's social networking and travel site, is saying thanks, giving back and getting down with a celebration of local music, art, photography and positive change. The celebration will raise funds for 826 Valencia, the innovative youth literacy program that supports students, teachers and schools in the Bay Area.
at The Knockout (10pm)
Featuring Beatbroker (Flexx, Spectral), Steve Summers (confusedhouse.org), Pickpocket (Donuts) & more! A new night brought to you by Pickpocket as an extension of DONUTS. It's a night focusing more on the dance party aspect of the night with more time for dancing and appreciating music to dance to! Features dj's spinning everything from classic disco, mutant disco, italo, cosmic, dutch electro old school hip hop and house.
at Pink (10pm - afterhours)
Dixon and Ame has always followed thier own musical path. Started as Jazzanova's Sonarkollektiv's sub lable, they created Innervisions inspired by the Dixon's residency in Berlin "Inner City". Over the years, Innervisions has become the label for house heads everywhere thanks to era-defining club hits.
at Temple Nightclub (10pm - 4am)
Featuring Craze, Killa Kela, Klever, Tittsworth, L.A. Riots...
Sunday, November 25, 2007
at Golden Gate Park (8:30am)
The most unusual run in Golden Gate Park is back! The 23rd annual Run Wild 5K/10K, hosted by the California Academy of Sciences, is the only race where herds of costumed cows, chickens, squid, cavemen, and other wild things compete side-by-side with serious athletes in a beautiful jaunt through Golden Gate Park.
at UC Berkeley Art Museum (11am - 5pm)
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now is a major exhibition that considers issues of ethnicity and identity in the work of an emerging generation of Asian American artists. The exhibition features more than thirty works by seventeen artists, most of whom were born after 1970 or who grew up in the U.S. during that decade, whose work is grounded as much in American culture as Asian culture.
at Bimbo's 365 Club (8pm)
"In his teens he learned how to play classical guitar and some time later, when he was part of one punk band and one hardcore band, he sat at home writing low-voiced pieces on his guitar. That range of expression, or maybe that contradiction in expression, says a lot about José as a person - and about the new album In Our Nature."
Monday, November 26, 2007
at Cody's Books (7pm)
New forms of expression are often male dominated as they fight to become accepted - think of the jazz community and Bessie Smith. As a burgeoning contemporary medium the same holds true for spoken word poetry. In recent years, however, women artists have become some of the most popular voices on the scene. The combination of the eminent slam movement and the surge of bold feminist movements created a group of women changing the perception of the typical performance poet.
at Roxie New College Film Center (see listing for times)
The Roxie is proud to present the RKO Lost & Found series, which features five RKO Radio pictures which have never been seen in any format since 1959, and one, A Man to Remember, which has remained unseen since its 1938 premier. For each film, a new fine grain master and two 35mm archival prints were created from negative sources. Also included in this series is the rarely seen Frank Capra pre-code film Lady for A Day.
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