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Exene Cervenka Slim's	Sun., November 8, 8:00pm	South of Market	Music
Someone, please make a movie based on Exene Cervenka’s life. The protagonist (played by whoever the next pre-diet Christina Ricci is) flees Florida, invents punk rock, counts among her conquests Viggo Mortensen and John Doe, becomes a fashion icon, invents alt-country, invents spoken-word... More >>

The Drums 330 Ritch	Thu., November 12, 10:00pm	South of Market	Music
The idea of mournful lyrics buoyed by joyous music is an old one, going back in time to when Oog beat frantically on a rock while yelling about his pet mastodon running away. Folks tend to point to the Beach Boys as the modern masters of this style, but that outlook neglects such earlier iconic... More >>

15 Degrees Below Zero, Mem1 The Luggage Store	Thu., November 12, 8:00pm	South of Market	Music
Local experimental outfit 15 Degrees Below Zero traverses the boundary between chance and control, playing inside a loose compositional wireframe that's more defined than those preferred by pure-improv noiseniks, but with the sonic details nevertheless fleshed out via aleatory improvisational... More >>

Drinking and Dancing Competition The Lab	Fri., November 13, 8:00pm	South of Market	Dance Food & Drink Free Events Games
Championship dancing usually takes place in a ballroom sprinkled with glitter and applause. Championship drinking usually happens at 2 a.m. in a sweaty apartment on a godforsaken couch lit by the deadening glare of late-night infomercials. When you merge them, they become the Drinking and... More >>

To Be Straight with You Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	Daily from Thu., November 12 until Sat., November 14, 8:00pm	South of Market	Dance Theater
The beauty of dancers floating across the stage, making exquisite patterns for the sake of exquisite patterns — snooze. Or so thinks DV8 Physical Theatre artistic director Lloyd Newson, who used to refer to dance as "the Prozac of the art forms." He pulled off a quote like that because the... More >>

“In What Era Will You Get Stuck?” Electric Works	Daily from Fri., November 13 until Sat., January 9	South of Market	Art Art - Galleries
Paul Madonna is known for drawings of the city and sometimes maddening text. His new venture concerns toys from his childhood and sometimes maddening text. What’s the connection … with the art? We don’t know. Both are irresistible, and that’s progression enough for us. The... More >>

Claude VonStroke, DJ Solar Mezzanine	Fri., November 13, 10:00pm	South of Market	Music Nightlife
Claude VonStroke knows the value of branding. It's not that the San Francisco–based house and techno DJ and producer is a commercial automaton. After all, the man has been known to rock a bird costume. But don't let his fowl fixation fool you. VonStroke is skilled at moving product. "I'm a... More >>

"'Science' Fiction" Creativity Explored	Daily from Thu., October 8 until Sat., November 21	South of Market	Art Art - Galleries
Curator Francis Kohler is an instructor at the art gallery specializing in work made by adults with developmental disabilities. Of the recent show, "'Science' Fiction," he says, “The quotation marks around the word science in the title of the show refer to the various excerpts of text... More >>

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"Architecture & Design Permanent Collection" SFMOMA	Daily	South of Market	Museum Exhibits & Events

"The Art of Design" SFMOMA	Daily	South of Market	Museum Exhibits & Events

"Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection" SFMOMA	Daily	South of Market	Museum Exhibits & Events

"SFMOMA Collection Highlights" SFMOMA	Daily	South of Market	Lectures Museum Exhibits & Events

Wok Wiz Daily Tour Wok Wiz Cooking Center	Daily, 10:00am	South of Market	Food & Drink Tours

Daily Tours SFMOMA	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 11:30am more dates/times	South of Market	Lectures Museum Exhibits & Events

Spotlight Tours SFMOMA	Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 12:00pm	South of Market	Film Lectures Museum Exhibits & Events

Reel Moms Metreon	Every week Tuesday, 11:00am	South of Market	Children's Events

Gay Men's Sketch Mark I. Chester Studio	Every week Tuesday, 6:30pm	South of Market	Classes & Seminars Art - Galleries LGBT Events

Volunteer Night for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition San Francisco Bicycle Coalition	Every week Wednesday, 5:00pm	South of Market	Classes & Seminars Outdoors Volunteer Opportunities

San Francisco Living Wage Coalition 995 Market	Third Thursday of every month, 7:00pm	South of Market	Activism

Monthly Cartooning Classes for Adults Cartoon Art Museum	Fourth Saturday of every month, 1:00pm	South of Market	Museum Exhibits & Events

"Exile to Eulipia" The Luggage Store	First Tuesday of every month	South of Market	Art - Galleries Book Events

Museum Boxcar Theatre	Daily from Mon., November 2 until Sun., November 22	South of Market	Theater

"Replay: From Traditional to Contemporary Art in Ghana" Museum of Craft & Folk Art	Daily	South of Market	Museum Exhibits & Events

"When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the Present" Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	Daily from Thu., November 5 until Sun., January 31	South of Market	Museum Exhibits & Events

Two Videos by DV8 Physical Theatre Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	Sun., November 8, 2:00pm	South of Market	Film Film - Art House