All events on Wednesday October 22

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Music: Jazz/Blues
Jimmy Scott
Wednesday Oct 22 (7:30pm) @ Herbst Theater
Jimmy Scott's voice is something special. Both honeyed and husky, it bleats and croons like the supplest trumpet line, making even the most familiar chestnut... View details »
Jimmy Scott
Film
A Dirty Story
Wednesday Oct 22 (8:40pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Giveaway
Jean Eustache exploits the gap between imagination and reality in A Dirty Story (1977), playing deliciously with our preconceived notions regarding pornography and storytelling. The... View details »
A Dirty Story
Film
Watch Out
Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Stage Werks
Giveaway
Watch Out is a unique experiment in mass-marketed guerrilla filmmaking; it was shot entirely without permits, and its actors often doubled — in costume —... View details »
Watch Out
Film: Double Feature
All About Eve and Dark Victory
Wednesday Oct 22 (2:10, 4:50, 7 & 9:40pm) @ The Castro Theatre
Winner of six Oscars, All About Eve will never go out of style, and neither will its themes: the world of theatre, Hollywood, and the... View details »
All About Eve and Dark Victory
Art
Relay
Wednesday Oct 22 (1–6pm) @ The Lab More times »
Free
This multimedia exhibit and concert series of experimental sound artists play on the various meanings of the word "relay," both as a signal chain and... View details »
Relay
Film: Animation
Ascended Master
Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ Artists' Television Access
Local conjurers Ascended Master channel new-age vibrations through a heavy gauze of drones. The band's mix of throbbing repetitions and ethereal flutes and vocal chimes... View details »
Ascended Master

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Art
Tim Lee
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
Stereolab
Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ The Fillmore More times »
Giveaway
Art-pop connoisseurs Stereolab have a knack for nostalgia. With a name borrowed from a '50s record label's designation for stereo LPs, and a predilection for... View details »
Stereolab
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 22 (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: Photography
Hungry Planet
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Frank Lobdell
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Art
Art of Democracy
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 22 (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
Other Than History
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Other Than History
Art
Dustin Fosnot
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 22 (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 22 @ 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 22 (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 22 (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
L.A. Paint
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
It's Alright
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 22 (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 22 @ 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 22 (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: Festival
DocFest
Wednesday Oct 22 @ Various locations More times »
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 »
DocFest
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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 22 (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 22 (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