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- Music: Jazz/Blues
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Max Raabe
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Saturday Oct 18 (8pm) @ Paramount Theatre
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Max Raabe's immaculate, stately appearance recalls the male fashions of Weimar Germany, and when he opens his mouth, audiences are instantly transported 80 years into... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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M.A.N.D.Y.
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Saturday Oct 18 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
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Thanks to a string of singles from now-superstars Booka Shade and a couple of genre-defining anniversary comps, Get Physical planted electro house on the dance-music... View details »
- Music: Soul/R&B
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Mary J. Blige
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Saturday Oct 18 (7:30pm) @ Sleep Train Pavilion
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Mary J. Blige, the queen of hip hop soul, has managed to turn a life that had its share of drama (drugs, destructive relationships, etc.)... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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SF Trolley Dances
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Saturday Oct 18 (11am, 11:45am, 12:30pm, 1:15pm, 2pm & 2:45pm) @ Mission Bay Public Library
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Dance is usually presented in the rarefied vacuum of a ballet hall or carefully lit theater, but Epiphany Productions' SF Trolley Dances has bucked this... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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SOMA Theatre Crawl
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Saturday Oct 18 (1–4pm) @ The Boxcar Theatre
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Cocktails and culture are always a winning combination, and the SOMA Cultural Coalition has put together a jam-packed schedule of groundbreaking performance and liquid indulgence... View details »
- Film
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Home Movie Day
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Saturday Oct 18 (4pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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Because of their inherent amateurism, home movies have an ineffable quality that transcends the banality of the events they record as well as the intentions... View details »
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- Art
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Tim Lee
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Saturday Oct 18 (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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Saturday Oct 18 @ 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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Saturday Oct 18 (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 »
- Art
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The Wizard of Oz
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Saturday Oct 18 (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 »
- Art
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73 Funshine
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Saturday Oct 18 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday Oct 18 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Competition
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Shanghai SF
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Saturday Oct 18 (12:30, 1, 1:30, 2 & 2:30pm) @ Coit Tower
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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 »
- Art
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Frank Lobdell
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Saturday Oct 18 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday Oct 18 (2–9pm) @ 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 »
- Art
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Art of Democracy
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Saturday Oct 18 (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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Other Than History
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Saturday Oct 18 (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 »
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Dustin Fosnot
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Saturday Oct 18 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art
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West, Wester, Westest
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Saturday Oct 18 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Saturday Oct 18 (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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Saturday Oct 18 (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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Saturday Oct 18 (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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Saturday Oct 18 (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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Saturday Oct 18 (noon–7pm) @ 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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Saturday Oct 18 (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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Saturday Oct 18 (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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Saturday Oct 18 @ 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 »
- Film: Festival
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DocFest
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Saturday Oct 18 @ 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 »
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Game Over
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Saturday Oct 18 (11am–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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Saturday Oct 18 (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 »
