All events on Tuesday October 14

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Music: Rock/Pop
Brightblack Morning Light
Tuesday Oct 14 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord More times »
For their latest release, Motion to Rejoin, Alabama earthies Brightblack Morning Light conjured longhair folk spirits at solar-powered desert studio in New Mexico. Tonight, the... View details »
Brightblack Morning Light
Film: Documentary
RR
Tuesday Oct 14 (7:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Canny critics have long noted the overlapping late-19th-century technologies of railroads and motion pictures, but James Benning's RR is a more fluid integration of the... View details »
 RR
More Flavor: Benefit
Andre Dubus III
Tuesday Oct 14 (8pm) @ Herbst Theatre
Giveaway
Andre Dubus III's résumé reads a bit like a novel; the man has been everything from bartender to bounty hunter, and all the while never... View details »
Andre Dubus III
Music: Punk/Metal
Kataklysm w/ Keep of Kalessin
Tuesday Oct 14 (6:30pm) @ Oakland Metro
With Cryptopsy succumbing to the metalcore epidemic, Kataklysm remain one of the only Canadian bands left standing from the '90s death-metal renaissance. The veteran head-crushers... View details »
Kataklysm w/ Keep of Kalessin
Reading
Art Spiegelman
Tuesday Oct 14 (7pm) @ Books Inc.
Free
In the late '70s, Art Spiegelman published his first major work, Breakdowns, a collection of strips that tackle the artist's own nervous break and time... View details »
Art Spiegelman

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Art
Tim Lee
Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–7pm) @ 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
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Tuesday Oct 14 @ 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
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Bay Area Now 5
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–5:30pm) @ Contemporary Jewish Museum More times »
It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century would warrant a... View details »
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Art
The Wizard of Oz
Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–7pm) @ 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
Art
73 Funshine
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Tuesday Oct 14 @ 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
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
New Heaven
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Film
Ingmar Bergman
Tuesday Oct 14 (6–9pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
Brought to Light
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Art
Art of Democracy
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
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Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
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Gwenaël Rattke
Tuesday Oct 14 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got his start fashioning punk... View details »
Gwenaël Rattke
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Dustin Fosnot
Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
Free
Domestic trappings and urban landscapes collide in Dustin Fosnot's latest series, Cyanide. To install these jarring pieces, the artist drops mattresses printed with a shadowy... View details »
Dustin Fosnot
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Koralie
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Film
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Tuesday Oct 14 @ 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
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
buZ blurr
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Tuesday Oct 14 (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
Film: Festival
Envisioning Russia
Tuesday Oct 14 @ 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
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Tuesday Oct 14 @ 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
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Game Over
Tuesday Oct 14 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
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