All events on Wednesday October 31

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Polyphonic Spree
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
Tim Delaughter's massive indie ensemble, the Polyphonic Spree, may have moved from the non-denominational church to the front lines (trading in their trademark robes for... View details »
The Polyphonic Spree
Film
The Last Man on Earth
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
The Pacific Film Archive resuscitates The Last Man on Earth for a Halloween screening sure to induce shivers, and perhaps a few yucks, as well.... View details »
The Last Man on Earth
Halloween
Metalween
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (9pm) @ Elbo Room
While heavy metal has long been a boys' club — with women typically typecast as either cover-art cheesecake or ditzy groupies — local gloom brigade... View details »
Metalween
Halloween
Kinky Carnival
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (7–11pm) @ Good Vibrations
Free
Who doesn't love toys and costumes on Halloween? Expect lots of sexy nurses (and cops, mechanics, school teachers, bumble bees... you get the idea) at... View details »
Kinky Carnival

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Music: Rock/Pop
Roky Erickson
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall More times »
Giveaway
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
Art
Driss Ouadahi
Wednesday Oct 31, 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
Art
Takeshi Murata
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
...  the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi Murata's video pieces. His... View details »
Takeshi Murata
Art
Dracula
Wednesday Oct 31, 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
Art
Bachelor Machines Part I
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
For the past few years, London-based artist and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi (winner of a Beck's Futures Award) has received great acclaim for her quiet, poignant... View details »
Bachelor Machines Part I
Art
Pioneers
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ 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
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Wednesday Oct 31, 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)
Art
Derek Boshier
Wednesday Oct 31, 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
Wednesday Oct 31, 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
Art
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos' dynamic sculptural constructions are... View details »
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Art
Recent Works
Wednesday Oct 31, 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
Art
Sweet Sunny Temper
Wednesday Oct 31, 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
Art
A Memory of Shadows and Stone
Wednesday Oct 31, 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
Wednesday Oct 31, 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
Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus of Mexico's popularly supported... View details »
Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
Art
The Temporal Moving Image
Wednesday Oct 31, 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: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Wednesday Oct 31, 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