All events on Tuesday October 30

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Reading
Susan Faludi
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (7:30pm) @ First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco
In her thought-provoking The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, local journalist Susan Faludi explores myths surrounding that fateful day. Faludi positions 9/11... View details »
Susan Faludi
Music: Rock/Pop
Roky Erickson
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall More times »
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As a founding member of 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson wasn't shy about experimenting with drugs in the '60s, describing psychedelic music as "where the... View details »
Roky Erickson
Music: Rock/Pop
Hot Hot Heat
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
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Canada's Hot Hot Heat yelped their way onto dance-floor rotations and college-radio playlists in 2002 with Make Up the Breakdown's jumpy, jangly indie rock. Their... View details »
Hot Hot Heat

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Art
Driss Ouadahi
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Hosfelt Gallery More times »
Free
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss Ouadahi and West Coaster... View details »
Driss Ouadahi
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Douglas Gordon
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
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Dracula
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum More times »
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his drawings maintaining a darkly... View details »
Dracula
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Olafur Eliasson
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
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Pioneers
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Amid its recent spat of new exhibitions and edgy curation, CCA's marvelous Wattis Institute pays aesthetical tithes to those Bay Area artists whose vanguard practices... View details »
Pioneers
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
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Derek Boshier
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11:30am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
Free
... own for being a part of the '60s London scene, self-proclaimed "populist artist" Derek Boshier draws inspiration from magazine covers, both real... View details »
Derek Boshier
Art
Super Heroes Super Villains
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories of real-life warriors. This... View details »
Super Heroes Super Villains
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Recent Works
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
... than Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl architecture. Even with all... View details »
Recent Works
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Sweet Sunny Temper
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Double Punch Toy Store More times »
Free
... th prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails, and a serious attitude... View details »
Sweet Sunny Temper
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A Memory of Shadows and Stone
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
Westerners tend to impose self-created "exotic" qualities on Asian cultures when faced with interpreting the Far East. Artist Will Rogan avoids this trap in his... View details »
A Memory of Shadows and Stone
More Flavor: Festival
SF Jazz Festival
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of the jazz scene, legends... View details »
SF Jazz Festival
Art
The Temporal Moving Image
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, and Kota Ezawa all... View details »
The Temporal Moving Image
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
Jeff Wall
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Book Club of California More times »
Free
When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and moribund imagination to others.... View details »
The Book Art of Edward Gorey