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HEY YOU, YES YOU
Know about a cool happening, soiree, and/or event? Been to someplace quirky? I can’t be everywhere and know about everything, so
share it with me! I’ll do my best to include it in the next issue.
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Bay Area, California
[12/30] Lost Horizon Night Market (new truck proprietors sought)
Various Cities
[Ongoing] Silent Book Club
[Ongoing] Escape rooms and adventures, curated by No Proscenium
[Ongoing] The Joy Experiment, “inspired by the ideas of the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu as chronicled in The Book of Joy, The Joy Experiment is an attempt to “test” those ideas in the real world”
[Through 12/24] SantaCon
[Until 2/2017] A Good Trip Tour with Shaune Mauss, comedy centered around psychedelics
[Until 2/9/2017] Mortified Live! “Witness a night of adults telling stories about their lives by sharing their most mortifying childhood artifacts (diaries, letters, lyrics, poems, home movies)… in front of total strangers”
Adelaide, Australia
[3/3-3/19/2017] Adelaide Festival Thanks, Jeff!
[3/10-3/13/2017] WOMADelaide 2017, the World’s Festival Thanks, Jeff!
Akron, Ohio
[2/10-5/7/2017] Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose at Akron Art Museum
Alameda, California
[Until 1/1/2017] Must-see Holiday Lights at Christmas Tree Lane (Thompson Avenue)
[Until 1/8/2017] The Little Ice Rink at Alameda South Shore Center
[12/31] Rockin’ New Year’s Eve Celebration at Forbidden Island, 6 PM to 2 AM
Berkeley, California
[1/6/2017] The Lookouting: A Celebration of Lookout! Records at 924 Gilman
Black Rock City, Nevada
[8/27-9/4/2017] Burning Man 2017: Radical Ritual
Chattanooga, Tennessee
[Until 10/31/2017] Wayne White‘s Wayne-o-Rama at 1800 Rossville Avenue, open Weds-Sun, 11 AM to 6 PM and by special appointment
Cleveland, Ohio
[Ongoing] A Christmas Story House and Museum, open year round for public tours
Bid on a chance to spend Christmas (two nights) in the house!
Denver, Colorado
[4/8-4/9/2017] DINK: Independent Comic Expo, “Urban art with literature, zines, small press publishers, underground comix and cocktails!” Thanks, Mike McDaniel!
Detroit
[4/2017] Allee Willis’ The “D” premieres at the Fisher Building, party to follow
Hermosa Beach, California
[3/11] Corey Feldman & The Angels at Saint Rocke, 9 PM [Tickets]
Las Vegas
[Ongoing] Akhob, an immersive “Ganzfeld effect” experience by artist James Turrell at Louis Vuitton [by appt only: 702-730-3150] HIGHLY recommended!
Los Angeles
:: Iconic diners of L.A.
[1/19-1/22/2017] Riot LA Comedy Festival
[1/27-1/29] stARTup Fair LA, “Los Angeles’s contemporary art fair for independent artists”
[Starts 10/2017] Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at The Broad
[11/10-11/11/2017] National Beard and Mustache Championship
Malden, Massachusetts
[Ongoing] Boda Borg
Maxwell, California
[6/15-6/18/2017] Camp Tipsy 2017, “an annual rotten boat building contest and campout”
New Orleans
[7/18-7/23/2017] Tales of the Cocktail
New York City
Quirky NYC by Oriana Leckert:
:: “From Bumper Cars to Torah Taxidermy: A Guide to 25 of Brooklyn’s Most Unusual Museums”
:: “From Elevators to Outsider Art: A Guide to 16 Under-the-Radar Museums in Queens”
[Ongoing] Sleep No More at The McKittrick Hotel [Tickets]
[Ongoing] The Ferry Play on the Staten Island Ferry, $1.99
[Ongoing] More NYC events
[Ongoing] Madame Tussauds New York hyper-reality Ghostbusters Experience
[Sundays in December] The Doubtful Guest, “an evening of music, magic, and spirits” at LubDub Theatre [Tickets]
[Through 1/8] Pip’s Island, an “indoor immersive experience lasting one hour for children between the ages of 4-10” [Tickets]
[Until 1/15/2017] Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest at New Museum, 235 Bowery, Manhattan, Free
[Until 1/29/2017] The Strange Undoing of Prudence Hart at The McKittrick Hotel [Tickets]
[Through 2/2017] Refuge, an “immersive performance and gameplay experience set in a mirrored 2016 reality where coastal cities are going underwater, temperature increases have caused nearly all vegetation to disappear, and natural disasters are wreaking havoc across every continent,” Needs a team of 4 to play [Tickets]
[1/8/2017] No Pants Subway Ride 2017
Oakland
[Until 2/17/2017] All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50 at OMCA
[12/22-4/2/2017] Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture at OMCA
[1/7/2017] Tycho at Fox Theater, 8 PM to 11 PM
[1/15/2017] Tourettes Without Regrets at Oakland Metrohouse, $15
[1/29/2017] Oakland Museum’s White Elephant PREVIEW Sale, 10 AM to 5 PM, [Tickets now on sale] $15-$20
[3/4-3/5/2017] Oakland Museum’s White Elephant Sale
[4/19-4/24, 2017] Psychedelic Science 2017 at Oakland Marriott Center [Tickets]
Oregon
[8/17-8/23/2017] Oregon Eclipse 2017, a “total solar eclipse gathering”
Pasadena, California
[Until 1/28/2017] Enchanted: Forest of Light, an interactive, nighttime experience at Descanso Gardens [Tickets]
Plains, Georgia
[Sundays] (Former President) Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School Class
Tulare and Sacramento, California
[Weekends until 1/6/2017] Global Winter Wonderland
Sacramento, California
[6/11-9/17/2017] Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose at Crocker Art Gallery
San Diego
[3/4-3/11] JoCo Cruise 2017, “a whole cruise ship full of music, comedy, and general nerdery”
San Francisco
:: “Best storytelling events in the Bay Area”
:: Upscale vs. Frugal SF
[Ongoing] Elsewhere Philatelic Society, highly recommended!
[Ongoing] More SF events
[Ongoing] Prelinger Library events
{Gallery] Keane Eyes Gallery featuring the art of Margaret Keane, 3040 Larkin Street
[Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day] Illuminate SF, a citywide festival of light [The PDF guide]
[1/12-1/29/2017] SF Sketchfest
[1/14] Kids in the Hall: “Brain Candy” Live Staged Reading at Castro Theatre
[1/25] Bawdy Storytelling with Dixie de la Tour at Punchline Comedy Club [Tickets]
[Until 12/31] Real Housewives of Macaroni, New portraits by Jason Mecier at Dog Eared Books Castro, 489 Castro Street
[Until 12/31] Cynthia Yee’s San Francisco Chinatown Ghost Tour, 7:30 PM
[Until 1/1/2017] Fairmont San Francisco Gingerbread House
[Until 1/14/2017] Street Talk: Puerto Rico, MFA Thesis Show, at Desai | Matta Gallery
[Until 1/15/2017] LogJam Cafe, part of Tom Sachs’ Space Program: Europa exhibition, a must see!
[Until 1/29/2017] Curious Contraptions featuring cabaret mechanical theatre at the Exploratorium [Tickets]
[Until 4/16/2017] Vintage: Wine, Beer, and Spirits Labels from the Kemble Collections on Western Printing and Publishing at California Historical Society
[12/21] Nerd Nite SF #79: Prehistoric Ecology, Metadata, and more at Rickshaw Stop [Tickets]
[1/1/2017] The 17th Annual Breakfast of Champions, 6 AM to 6 PM [Tickets]
[1/21/2017] The Calling All Choir’s 2017 San Francisco Fall/Winter Finale at Mission Dolores Basilica, 8 PM to 10 PM
[1/28-1/29/2017] Worlds Fair Nano [Tickets]
[2/12] Phenomenauts ~ Mustard Plug ~ Aloha Screwdriver at Bottom of the Hill
[3/12/2017] Breasts. An Art Exhibit of Form and Function. 6 PM
[7/21-7/23/2017] San Francisco Art Book Fair [accepting submissions in January 2017]
[10/2017] 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love
Santa Fe, New Mexico
[Ongoing] Meow Wolf [Read this] [Tickets]
Scottsboro, Alabama
[Ongoing] Unclaimed Baggage Center Thanks, Farrah!
Seattle
“The Obscure, the Charming and the Odd: Mark Pahlow’s Guide to Seattle”
[Until 1/1/2017] Krampus Christmas, a “kind of carnival ride through your Christmas nightmares” at Seattle Immersive Theatre
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
[Until 5/29/2017] Hanna-Barbera: The Architects of Saturday Morning at Norman Rockwell Museum via
Sun Valley, Idaho
[3/19-3/22/2017] Dent 2017, a creative retreat for people who want to “put a dent in the universe,” as Steve Jobs once said. Highly recommended!
Valetta, Malta
[12/31] The House of Expressive Liberties NYE party (exhibit opens 12/31) at Splendid, 84, Strait Street, Valletta, MALTA, featuring the work of Spy Emerson
Venice, Italy
[5/13-11/26/2017] We are from the Dust is participating in VIVA ARTE VIVA, The Venice Art Biennale: 57th International Art Exhibition
Virginia Beach, Virginia
[Until 12/31/2016] Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
