All events on Thursday October 23

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Film
I Love Beijing
Thursday Oct 23 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
After being inundated with state-sponsored images of Beijing during the Olympics, Bay Area audiences can get a different perspective during Chinese filmmaker Ning Ying's weekend... View details »
 I Love Beijing
Performing Arts: Theatre
Angry Black White Boy
Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
As suggested by the colliding adjectives in its title, Dan Wolf and Tommy Shepherd's theatrical adaptation of Adam Mansbach's novel of the same name doesn't... View details »
Angry Black White Boy
Music: Folk/Country
The Felice Brothers
Thursday Oct 23 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
With Catskills-bred manners, feel-good refrains, and the occasional harmonica interlude, the Felice Brothers claim they "sound like a barn smells." Some critics contend that the... View details »
The Felice Brothers
Music: Rock/Pop
Mountain Goats w/ Kaki King
Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ The Independent
Sold Out!
The Mountain Goats come to San Francisco this week as part of their depressingly titled The Last Happy Night of Your Life tour. With a... View details »
Mountain Goats w/ Kaki King
Performing Arts: Opera
L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Oakland Metro Operahouse More times »
Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky compositions. The first, "A... View details »
L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock

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Art
Tim Lee
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Thursday Oct 23 (noon–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Thursday Oct 23 (1–8:30pm) @ 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
Thursday Oct 23 (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: Photography
Hungry Planet
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Thursday Oct 23 (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: Photography
Brought to Light
Thursday Oct 23 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Thursday Oct 23 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
Art
Other Than History
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
West, Wester, Westest
Thursday Oct 23 (4–8pm) @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
West, Wester, Westest
Art
Koralie
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Thursday Oct 23 @ 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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Jay Nelson
Thursday Oct 23 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
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 »
Jay Nelson
Art
L.A. Paint
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Thursday Oct 23 (10am–9pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Good Breeding
Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens More times »
Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding is a new addition to a rich history of Oresteia adaptations, but it has already generated plenty of off-stage drama, with... View details »
Good Breeding
Art
Richard T. Walker
Thursday Oct 23 (noon–6pm) @ David Cunningham Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Richard T. Walker
Film: Festival
Envisioning Russia
Thursday Oct 23 @ 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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Rocky Horror Show
Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Victoria Theatre More times »
Giveaway
When Rocky Horror first brought its gender-bending antics and rock 'n roll sci-fi to the stage in 1973, it screamed cult classic. Since then, the... View details »
The Rocky Horror Show
Film: Festival
DocFest
Thursday Oct 23 @ 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
Halloween
Shocktoberfest!! 2008
Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Hypnodrome More times »
In the "terror and taboo" tradition of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Thrillpeddlers presents an evening of horror-themed one-acts that pit humans against the elements. Rob... View details »
Shocktoberfest!! 2008
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Thursday Oct 23 @ 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
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Relay
Thursday Oct 23 (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
Art
Volume Too
Thursday Oct 23 (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