Bubbles On Fire Burlesque Presents Holidays from Hell

Friday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m. Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St.) If the Mayans were correct and the world ends on this day, it might be entirely appropriate to go out of this life surrounded... Read More

Nightlife

El VEZ: MEX-mas!

Tuesday, Dec. 18, 8 p.m. The Independent (628 Divisadero St.) If you can imagine Caesar Chavez fronting a punk band, or Liberace teaching Chicano studies, then you’ll know wh... Read More

Film & Lectures

Annual Holiday Animation Film Festival

Wed–Sun, Dec. 26–30, noon, 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. McBean Theater, Exploratorium This roundup of animated shorts utilizes computers, stop-motion and other animation techni... Read More

Film & Lectures

12 Gifts of Christmas

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m. Cinearts Empire 3 (85 West Portal Ave.) & San Francisco Centre (835 Market St.) Lisa Welchel, who portrayed Blair on The Facts of Life, hosts a Chr... Read More

Performances

Dial M for Music

Sunday, Dec. 30, 3 p.m. Herbst Theatre Featuring award-winning New York City composer Harold Meltzer, enjoy classical masterpieces from Mendelssohn and Mozart in this program commi... Read More

Performances

Count Basie

Sunday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m. Davies Symphony Hall One of the more celebrated jazz bands of all time, the Count Basie Orchestra, with 17 Grammy Awards, leads a sensational evening of ... Read More

Performances

City Dance Winter Onstage 2012

Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m. Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center Enjoy an energetic evening of Bay Area dance featuring the many diverse students and professional companies performing ja... Read More

Galas & Benefits

Sicilian-American Artists Joseph Oddo & Jean Gallagher

Tue–Sun, Dec. 14–Mar 10, 12–4 p.m. Museo ItaloAmericano, Bldg. C, Fort Mason Center View a retrospective, Visions and Vistas, of longtime S.F. resident and urban ... Read More

Arts & Culture

This World Is Not My Home: Photographs by Danny Lyon

Thru Jan. 27, 2013 de Young Museum This exhibition of more than 60 photographs and photographic montages from 1962 to the present traces Lyon’s fascinating and wide-ranging c... Read More

Arts & Culture

A Taste for Modernism

Thru Dec. 30 M.H. de Young Museum This selection of major works from the Museum of Modern Art in New York features works of Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, and Henri M... Read More

Galas & Benefits

2012 Christmas Tree Lot Party

Saturday, Dec. 15, 9:30 p.m.–1:30 a.m. Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center Enjoy a hosted bar, hors d’oeuvres, D.J., dancing, and a spirited crowd while you party the... Read More

Galas & Benefits

Help Is on the Way for the Holidays XI

Monday, Dec. 10, 7: 30 p.m. Marines’ Memorial Theater (609 Sutter St.) Benefiting Shanti and Broadway Cares, this annual gala includes entertainment by the touring cast membe... Read More

Galas & Benefits

26th Annual Cable Car Caroling

Sunday, Dec. 9, 12:30–6 p.m. St. Mary’s Cathedral (1111 Gough St.) Tour the city on motorized cable cars, stopping to carol for low-income seniors at their residences. ... Read More

Galas & Benefits

42nd Annual KPFA Crafts Fair

Sat–Sun, Dec. 8–9, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Concourse Exhibition Center (8th & Brannan) Northern California’s largest weekend holiday craft fair features high-qu... Read More

Galas & Benefits

24th Annual Holiday Hob Nob on the Hill

Friday, Dec. 7 St. Francis Hotel Enjoy a cocktail reception only or the entire evening, which includes dinner, dancing and a single live auction item: The opportunity to race on th... Read More

Events