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Heavy Hitterz
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (7–11pm) @ AgeSong Gallery
AgeSong Gallery is devoted to providing therapeutic environments for seniors in the urban community. But advanced age doesn't mean out of touch. With Heavy Hitterz,... View details »
Heavy Hitterz
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Le Bal des Vampires
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (6:30pm–midnight) @ Alameda Elks Lodge
As ZombieCon so clearly demonstrated, people love hanging out with their undead brethren. For those less enthusiastic about guts and gore, a night of decadence... View details »
Le Bal des Vampires
More Flavor: City Gem
SwapSF Book Swap
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (noon–3pm) @ CELLspace
The Bay Area is flush with good used bookstores, but that doesn't change the fact that there's nothing so tantalizing as a well-stocked private collection.... View details »
SwapSF Book Swap
Music: Rock/Pop
400 Blows
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (9pm) @ El Rio
Things get wicked and wicked loud at the El Rio tonight, as LA-based punk trio 400 Blows bring ultra-heavy harmonies up north. Dropping slick and... View details »
400 Blows

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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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Driss Ouadahi
Saturday Nov 3, 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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Takeshi Murata
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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Jamie Vasta
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (10:30am–5pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times »
Free
Anyone who's been keeping an eye on Patricia Sweetow Gallery during the past year or so must have noticed San Francisco-based Jamie Vasta's work tucked... View details »
Jamie Vasta
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Forrest Williams
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
In Williams' latest show, the theme of porches stands for a state of uncertainty, an in-between space that's neither interior nor exterior. It proves to... View details »
Forrest Williams
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Alyson Belcher
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Robert Tat Gallery More times »
Free
Best classified as falling between 19th-century spirit photography and Edward Muybridge's motion studies, Alyson Belcher's spectral self-portraits add a graceful and eerie contribution to the... View details »
Alyson Belcher
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Douglas Gordon
Saturday Nov 3, 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
Film
Int'l Latino Film Festival
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more attention has been paid... View details »
Int'l Latino Film Festival
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Dracula
Saturday Nov 3, 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
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 @ 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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Bachelor Machines Part I
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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Pioneers
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Saturday Nov 3, 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
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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Super Heroes Super Villains
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (1–6pm) @ 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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A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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Bulk
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
Queen's Nails Annex presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Tony Labat, who combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance, and video, not to mention a healthy... View details »
Bulk
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Recent Works
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Saturday Nov 3, 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
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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SF Jazz Festival
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
Saturday Nov 3, 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
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The Temporal Moving Image
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (10:30am–5pm) @ 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
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Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco diva Sylvester. So it's... View details »
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
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Displaced
Saturday Nov 3, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Saturday Nov 3, 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