All events on Wednesday October 01

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Music: Hip-Hop
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Wednesday Oct 1 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip return to San Francisco fresh from supporting Mark Ronson on the road — and managing to shoehorn in a... View details »
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beyond the Mirror
Wednesday Oct 1 (8pm) @ Brava Theater Center More times »
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good idea. Formed in 2000... View details »
Beyond the Mirror
Music: Hip-Hop
Kid Cudi & Hollywood Hult
Wednesday Oct 1 (10pm) @ Vessel
Free
While Kid Cudi's "Day 'N' Nite" has become a staple for clued-in DJs the world over, the Cleveland rapper is anything but a one-hit wonder.... View details »
Kid Cudi & Hollywood Hult
Music: Electronic
MSTRKRFT
Wednesday Oct 1 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
As MSTRKRFT, producer ALP and former Death from Above 1979 bassist Jesse F. Keeler have become one of indie dance's go-to remix teams. Retooling singles... View details »
MSTRKRFT

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Art
Tim Lee
Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Performing Arts: Theatre
More Stories by Tobias Wolff
Wednesday Oct 1 (8pm) @ Magic Theater More times »
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability to blend complex nuance... View details »
More Stories by Tobias Wolff
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Wednesday Oct 1 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
Ground Scores
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
Bay Area Now 5
Art
Banned and Recovered
Wednesday Oct 1 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book More times »
Free
In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of schools, libraries, and the... View details »
Banned and Recovered
Art
Tasty
Wednesday Oct 1 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
The artists featured in this exhibit pay tribute to the food we eat with a delicious array of colors and textures, as well as a... View details »
Tasty
Art
The Wizard of Oz
Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis of this tightly-packed group... View details »
The Wizard of Oz
More Flavor: Exhibition
Cool Globes
Wednesday Oct 1 @ Crissy Field More times »
Free
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history have all happened since... View details »
Cool Globes
Art
73 Funshine
Wednesday Oct 1 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially music, his pieces bounce... View details »
73 Funshine
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rock 'n' Roll
Wednesday Oct 1 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge, England and Prague. Incorporating... View details »
Rock 'n' Roll
Art: Photography
Hungry Planet
Wednesday Oct 1 (9am–5pm) @ World Affairs Center More times »
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate — noted food editor James... View details »
Hungry Planet
Art
Duality of Humanity
Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery More times »
Free
Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst of HOPE. In this... View details »
Duality of Humanity
Art
New Heaven
Wednesday Oct 1 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop More times »
Free
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf Shop, then, is a... View details »
New Heaven
Art
Frank Lobdell
Wednesday Oct 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery More times »
Free
During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank Lobdell fought on the... View details »
Frank Lobdell
Art
Art of Democracy
Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–5pm) @ Meridian Gallery More times »
Free
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated exhibitions have cropped up... View details »
 Art of Democracy
Performing Arts: Comedy
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Wednesday Oct 1 @ Post Street Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood into a one-man show... View details »
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Art: Photography
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks to transform gallery goers... View details »
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Art
Rachel Kaye
Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–10pm) @ Adobe Bookshop More times »
Free
In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is as old as the... View details »
Rachel Kaye
Art
Spencer Sweeney
Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York painter has many more... View details »
Spencer Sweeney
Art
A Moment for Reflection
Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be a "moment for reflection"... View details »
A Moment for Reflection
Art
Welcome All
Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–7pm) @ Needles & Pens More times »
Free
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an alternative American landscape in... View details »
 Welcome All
Art
buZ blurr
Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
Trains may not have the same hold on the popular imagination as they once did, but a recent flurry of films and books (Who is... View details »
buZ blurr
Art
It's Alright
Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–7pm) @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery More times »
Free
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a whimsical effect that relies... View details »
It's Alright
Art
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–5pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
Free
With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from the urban landscapes it... View details »
somewhere in advance of nowhere