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More Flavor: Fashion
Bay Area Fashion
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–7pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Giveaway
At this fashion-forward all-day gathering, designers, craftspeople, and clotheshorses alike celebrate the Bay Area's ever-churning independent fashion scene. The event accompanies an upcoming book of... View details »
Bay Area Fashion
Reading
Haruki Murakami
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Zellerbach Hall
Sold Out!
Despite the criticism leveled by his country's literati that his novels read too much like works in translation, Haruki Murakami has nevertheless become Japan's leading... View details »
Haruki Murakami
Art: Photography
Brought to Light
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring the ways it led... View details »
Brought to Light
Music: Festival
Frisco Freak Out
Saturday Oct 11 (2:30pm) @ Thee Parkside
Sure, the summer of love may be long gone, but a day full of smoldering grooves, shared eats, and all manner of beads and beards... View details »
Frisco Freak Out
Film
Protest-ploitation
Saturday Oct 11 (8:30pm) @ Artists' Television Access
The revolution may not have been televised, but it certainly was filmed: by 1970, it seemed that filmmakers of all stripes were focusing their cameras... View details »
 Protest-ploitation
More Flavor: Sports
Bay Area Derby Girls 2008 Championship Bout
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Fort Mason Center
The Bay Area's finest quad-skating athletes are wrapping up their league's season with a bang. Tonight, the Oakland Outlaws and the Richmond Wrecking Belles go... View details »
Bay Area Derby Girls 2008 Championship Bout
Art
Game Over
Saturday Oct 11 (6:30–10pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Opening
Free
Whether they favor 3D first-person shooters or old-school 8-bit technology, video-game junkies can find something to geek out about at Giant Robot's latest group show.... View details »
Game Over
Art
Volume Too
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison More times »
Free
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of Raylene Gorum, the tapes's... View details »
Volume Too

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Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Saturday Oct 11 @ 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
Saturday Oct 11 (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
The Wizard of Oz
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Saturday Oct 11 @ 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
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5pm) @ 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
More Flavor: Festival
Litquake
Saturday Oct 11 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
The topic of Suckered: Writers Confess a Profound Lack of Judgment, Litquake's star-studded opening night, is eerily prescient, given our country's current lending crisis in... View details »
Litquake
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rock 'n' Roll
Saturday Oct 11 @ 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
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and blueprints that emerge from... View details »
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
More Flavor: Competition
Shanghai SF
Saturday Oct 11 (12:30, 1, 1:30, 2 & 2:30pm) @ Coit Tower More times »
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with a map and basic... View details »
Shanghai SF
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Monk
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ EXIT Stage Left More times »
Giveaway
No Nude Men Productions brings Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic novel of broken vows and grisly murder to the stage. Stuart Bousel, who guided the company's... View details »
The Monk
Art
New Heaven
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
7 Beggars
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Climate Theater More times »
Over 200 years ago, Rebbe Nachman said to a group of followers, "Now I am going to tell you stories." Flash forward to Tim Barsky,... View details »
7 Beggars
Film
Ingmar Bergman
Saturday Oct 11 (2–9pm) @ CFI Rafael Film Center More times »
Giveaway
The installation Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions explores and celebrates the influential oeuvre of one of the world's seminal filmmakers. In masterpieces... View details »
Ingmar Bergman
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beyond the Mirror
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Art
Art of Democracy
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Art
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
In honor of Dias de los Muertos, small altars of glowing candles and sugar skulls, large-scale public installations, and processions fill the Oakland Museum of... View details »
 Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Art
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into the emotional substance of... View details »
 Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Art
West, Wester, Westest
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery More times »
Free
Fecal Face's Chicago correspondent, Ryan Christian, heads west with a talent pool plucked from all over the map — New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, and... View details »
West, Wester, Westest
Art
Koralie
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ FIFTY24SF Gallery More times »
Free
French street artist Koralie started out wheat-pasting the walls of Toulouse with her signature kimono-clad geishas and has since moved on to decorate the back... View details »
Koralie
Performing Arts: Comedy
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Saturday Oct 11 @ 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
Film
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Saturday Oct 11 @ SFMOMA More times »
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and filmmakers produced a flurry... View details »
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Art: Photography
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Spencer Sweeney
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Jay Nelson
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a dominant government. But for... View details »
Jay Nelson
Art
L.A. Paint
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases some of SoCal's best... View details »
 L.A. Paint
Art
buZ blurr
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–7pm) @ 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
Saturday Oct 11 (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
More Flavor: Lecture
Japanese Tattoo
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum More times »
Giveaway
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject for the October edition... View details »
Japanese Tattoo
Performing Arts: Dance
Icarus/Rise
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Red Poppy Art House More times »
Giveaway
The hot sun melting fragile wax wings has long served as a cautionary tale about the hubris of man. Now director, writer, translator, and performer... View details »
Icarus/Rise
Performing Arts: Theatre
Good Breeding
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens More times »
Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding is a new addition to a rich history of Oresteia adaptations, but it has already generated plenty of off-stage drama, with... View details »
Good Breeding
Art
Richard T. Walker
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ David Cunningham Projects More times »
Free
The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition follows in this tradition.... View details »
Richard T. Walker
Film: Festival
Envisioning Russia
Saturday Oct 11 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive More times »
Commemorating the centenary of Russian cinema, the PFA festival draws from an extensive catalog of films produced at Mosfilm, the most prominent Soviet film-production studio.... View details »
Envisioning Russia
Art
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Saturday Oct 11 (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
Film
The Superstars Next Door
Saturday Oct 11 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
The '60s infused San Franciscans with a recklessness and disregard for authority that affected every genre of art and ushered in an unprecedented era of... View details »
The Superstars Next Door
Film: Festival
French Cinema Now
Saturday Oct 11 @ Landmark Clay Theatre More times »
The French invented the art of the moving image over a century ago, and they haven't stopped innovating onscreen since. The San Francisco Film Society's... View details »
French Cinema Now
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Saturday Oct 11 @ Various Locations More times »
BhangraFest is San Francisco's way of vibrantly celebrating one of India's most popular styles of music. Learn the latest moves during dance lessons with Nonstop... View details »
BhangraFest