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| "27th Annual Encuentro del Canto Popular" Brava Theater Center | Fri., December 5, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
With an impressive roster of local and internationally recognized musicians and performers, the Encuentro del Canto Popular began during a period marked by revolutionary uprisings and CIA-backed armies fighting in Central America. Almost three decades later, the U.S. is still at war with brown... More >>
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| "Club Six 10-Year Anniversary" Club Six | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | South of Market | |
In its 10 years, Club Six has given a platform to international artists as well as budding locals in a number of genres ranging from reggae and hip-hop to house and techno. It has helped to clean up Sixth Street, and even had its silver screen debut in 2005 as a set for the movie Rent. Owner... More >>
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| "First Annual International Body Music Festival" Project Artaud Theater | Fri., December 5, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
Upon finding delight in the corporeal world, most infants express it by slapping, clapping, stomping, thumping, and vocalizing. This same combination has been cultivated and refined in every culture around the world. Yet, there has never been an international gathering of body musicians. This... More >>
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| Meat Beat Manifesto, Dub Gabriel The Independent | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Haight/Fillmore | |
British-born producer and longtime Bay Area resident Jack Dangers has had a productive musical year. He released a limited-edition CD, Music for Planetarium, for a science center in Hungary as well as the tenth studio album for his brainchild, Meat Beat Manifesto. The latter, Autoimmune,... More >>
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| Mike Relm, Peanut Butter Wolf, Party Ben Mezzanine | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | South of Market | |
Bay Area natives Mike Relm and Peanut Butter Wolf (the latter lives in L.A., but he grew up here so we can still claim him) have taken their DJing into new dimensions over the last several years by mixing videos with vinyl. Relm tends to weave together swathes of film and television samples,... More >>
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| Aries Spears Cobb's Comedy Club |
Fri., December 5, 8:00pm more dates/times |
North Beach/Chinatown | |
Heres how you save network sketch comedy: You kill it. Were halfway there. MadTV, after 13 years of surprising viewers by remaining on the air, is down to its last episodes. Perhaps it will reinvent itself on some cable channel and never be heard from again, like the Whitest Kids... More >>
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| Von Iva, Run Run Run, The Bruises Café Du Nord | Fri., December 5, 9:30pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
If youre Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails, you can throw a new record up on the Web without major label support and fans will come running (or, as it were, clicking). But for indie artists who arent even household names in their own hometowns, freedom from corporate contracts can be a... More >>
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| The Golden Girls Christmas Episodes Mama Calizo's Voice Factory |
Every week Thursday from Thu., December 4 until Thu., December 18, 9:00pm more dates/times |
South of Market | |
Picture local drag performer Matthew Martin, one hand outstretched towards a man in a disheveled Santa suit. Martin (as Rue McClanahan) calls out to fellow thespian Pollo Del Mar (as Betty White), who's busy showing Santa the door: "Rose! I had to stand in line for an hour to sit on his lap!" As... More >>
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| Star Wars: Live on Stage! Dark Room Theater | Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., December 5 until Sat., December 27, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
Unlike holders of certain deep-space franchises, Lucasfilm is quite encouraging of all fan-generated apocrypha set in a galaxy far, far away. Inspired, perhaps, by the 1977 short film Hardware Wars, in which a cassette player roams through space, Lucasfilm even sponsors the Official Star Wars... More >>
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| More Events | |||
| "14 Dresses Launch Party" Slide | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
| "The 75th Anniversary of Prohibition Repeal Day" 111 Minna Gallery | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Union Square/Financial District | |
| "Across the Trax" House of Shields | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Union Square/Financial District | |
| "Activate" LookOut | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Castro/Noe Valley | |
| "Anaphylactic" Dreamers & Make Believers | Fri., December 5, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| The Back Pages Johnny Foley's Irish House | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
| "Bad to Worse" Casanova Lounge | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| Garrin Benfield, Mokai Dolores Park Cafe | Fri., December 5, 7:30pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| "B.O.D.Y.H.E.A.T." Elbo Room | Fri., December 5, 10:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| Cafe R&B Biscuits & Blues |
Fri., December 5, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
| "Champagne" Heights | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
| "Charlie Horse: Juanita Fajitas Birthday Party Night of 1,000 Juanitas" The Cinch | Fri., December 5, 10:00pm | Nob Hill/Russian Hill | |
| Christmas Jug Band with Norton Buffalo 142 Throckmorton Theatre | Fri., December 5, 8:00pm | Mill Valley | |
| Cloakwheel, Points North Beale Street Bar & Grill | Fri., December 5, 10:00pm | Union Square/Financial District | |
| "Club Dragon" Eight | Fri., December 5, 9:00pm | South of Market | |
| "Club Loaded" Rickshaw Stop | First Friday of every month, 10:00pm | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |