All events on Wednesday October 15

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Music: Rock/Pop
Jolie Holland
Wednesday Oct 15 (8pm) @ Bimbo's
Giveaway
Jolie Holland's songs are at once old and new — too freaky for blues, too jazzy for folk, and too punky for country. The title... View details »
Jolie Holland
Music: Soul/R&B
Mavis Staples
Wednesday Oct 15 (7:30pm) @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
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Renowned for her heart-wrenching rasp and unassailable take on Chicago soul, Mavis Staples was a Stax institution by the early '70s. Of course, even before... View details »
Mavis Staples
Music: Rock/Pop
Born Ruffians
Wednesday Oct 15 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
Sure, the Canadian springs have just about run dry, but when an incredible label like Warp starts dropping pail, there must be at least one... View details »
Born Ruffians
More Flavor: Benefit
Equalipalooza
Wednesday Oct 15 (8pm) @ Broadway Studios
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During his recent stopover at the Castro Theatre, John Waters quipped that if gays are denied the right to marry, then heterosexuals should be denied... View details »
Equalipalooza

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Art
Tim Lee
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Wednesday Oct 15 @ 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 15 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
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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 15 (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
The Wizard of Oz
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Art
73 Funshine
Wednesday Oct 15 (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 15 @ 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
Music: Rock/Pop
Brightblack Morning Light
Wednesday Oct 15 (9pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
Hungry Planet
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Wednesday Oct 15 (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 15 (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
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Art of Democracy
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Dustin Fosnot
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Art
Koralie
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Wednesday Oct 15 @ 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
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Wednesday Oct 15 (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 15 (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
L.A. Paint
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Wednesday Oct 15 (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 15 (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
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Wednesday Oct 15 @ 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
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Wednesday Oct 15 @ 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
Art
Game Over
Wednesday Oct 15 (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
Art
Volume Too
Wednesday Oct 15 (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