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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Randy Newman
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Friday Oct 17 (8pm) @ Davies Symphony Hall
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Though he's now best known for scoring films for Disney's Pixar (or perhaps for being lampooned in an apocalyptic episode of Family Guy), Randy Newman's... View details »
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Other Than History
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery
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The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds, Torreya Cummings purchased samples... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Dengue Fever
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Friday Oct 17 (9pm) @ Bimbo's
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Fronted by the dazzling Chhom Nimol, Dengue Fever grind up retro Cambodian rock, Ethiopian jazz, and driving surf-guitar riffs, then mix the ingredients into a... View details »
- Reading
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Sarah Vowell
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Friday Oct 17 (12:30pm) @ Stacey's Bookstore
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Zinger-slinging journalist, historian, author, and radio personality Sarah Vowell has spent the last several years working on The Wordy Shipmates, a book that examines the... View details »
- Film: Festival
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DocFest
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Friday Oct 17 @ Various locations
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The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica and oddball tales. This... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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UNKLE
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Friday Oct 17 (10pm) @ Mighty
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Everyone has an opinion about James Lavelle. He's variously described as a collaborative virtuoso — capable of bringing together established stars alongside lesser-known up-and-comers —... View details »
- Film
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Ashes of Time Redux
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Friday Oct 17 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was never fully... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
- More Flavor: Tour
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Ground Scores
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Friday Oct 17 @ Various locations
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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 »
- Art
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Bay Area Now 5
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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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 »
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Banned and Recovered
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book
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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 »
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The Wizard of Oz
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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73 Funshine
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works
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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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Rock 'n' Roll
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Friday Oct 17 @ American Conservatory Theater
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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 »
- Art
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Frank Lobdell
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Friday Oct 17 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
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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 »
- Film
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Ingmar Bergman
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Friday Oct 17 (6–9pm) @ CFI Rafael Film Center
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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 »
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Art of Democracy
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–5pm) @ Meridian Gallery
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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 »
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Gwenaël Rattke
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–5pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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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 »
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Dustin Fosnot
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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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 »
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West, Wester, Westest
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Friday Oct 17 (4–8pm) @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
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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 »
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Koralie
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–6pm) @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
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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 »
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Spencer Sweeney
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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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 »
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Jay Nelson
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base
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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 »
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L.A. Paint
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California
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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 »
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buZ blurr
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling
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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 »
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It's Alright
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–7pm) @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
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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 »
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Richard T. Walker
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–6pm) @ David Cunningham Projects
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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 »
- Film: Festival
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Envisioning Russia
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Friday Oct 17 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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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 »
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Game Over
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Friday Oct 17 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot
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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 »
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Volume Too
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison
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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 »
