Events on Friday, October 24

Kinky Friedman

Music

Kinky Friedman

Friday 10/24 @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF

Say what you will about the bumper stickers and his brash, cigar-chomping demeanor, but Kinky Friedman surely boosted his standing as... 

USAISAMONSTER

Music: Experimental

USAISAMONSTER

Friday 10/24 @ Hemlock Tavern

Brooklyn duo USAISAMONSTER (pronounced as if spaces exist between the words) are seasoned veterans of the global basement/warehouse scene. More adventurous... 

Cecil Taylor: <em>Sacred Space</em>

Music

Cecil Taylor

Friday 10/24 @ Grace Cathedral

Free-jazz pioneer Cecil Taylor shows no sign of slowing down as he approaches 80. Having played a slate of club and... 

Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band

Music

Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band

Friday 10/24 @ The Warfield

Conor Oberst couldn't have recorded his first solo effort in 12 years without help from a big ol' family band. Tapping... 

Ongoing Events

Bay Area Now 5: <em>Inside/Outside</em>

Art

Bay Area Now 5

Friday 10/24 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the... 

BhangraFest

Festival: Performing Arts

BhangraFest

Friday 10/24 @ Various locations

BhangraFest is San Francisco's way of vibrantly celebrating one of India's most popular styles of music. Learn the latest moves during... 

Torreya Cummings, Patricia Esquivias, and Airyka Rockefeller: <em>Other Than History</em>

Art

Other Than History

Friday 10/24 @ Silverman Gallery

The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,... 

Shocktoberfest!! 2008: Elemental Horror

Party: Halloween

Shocktoberfest!! 2008

Friday 10/24 @ Hypnodrome

In the "terror and taboo" tradition of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Thrillpeddlers presents an evening of horror-themed one-acts that pit humans... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Friday 10/24 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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... 

<em>West, Wester, Westest</em>

Art

West, Wester, Westest

Friday 10/24 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery

Fecal Face's Chicago correspondent, Ryan Christian, heads west with a talent pool plucked from all over the map — New York,... 

<em> Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008 </em>

Art

Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008

Friday 10/24 @ Oakland Museum of California

In honor of Dias de los Muertos, small altars of glowing candles and sugar skulls, large-scale public installations, and processions fill... 

Kate Durkin: <em>It's Alright</em>

Art

It's Alright

Friday 10/24 @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery

Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a... 

Rediscovering the Fourth Generation

Film

Rediscovering the Fourth Generation

Friday 10/24 @ SFMOMA

In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and... 

<em>Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900</em>

Art: Photography

Brought to Light

Friday 10/24 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... 

Spencer Sweeney

Art

Spencer Sweeney

Friday 10/24 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York... 

Laurie Anderson: <em>Homeland</em>

Music: Electronic

Laurie Anderson

Friday 10/24 @ Zellerbach Hall

Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work for two nights at Zellerbach Hall. Featuring innovative electronic grooves,... 

<em>The Wizard of Oz</em>

Art

The Wizard of Oz

Friday 10/24 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis... 

Koralie: <em>Haiku</em>

Art

Koralie

Friday 10/24 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery

French street artist Koralie started out wheat-pasting the walls of Toulouse with her signature kimono-clad geishas and has since moved on... 

<em>Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship</em>

Art

Banned and Recovered

Friday 10/24 @ San Francisco Center for the Book

In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of... 

Evan Bissell: <em>somewhere in advance of nowhere: youth, imagination and transformation</em>

Art

somewhere in advance of nowhere

Friday 10/24 @ Intersection for the Arts

With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from... 

SF Indiefest presents DocFest

Festival: Performing Arts

DocFest

Friday 10/24 @ Various locations

The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica... 

<em> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Friday 10/24 @ SFMOMA

The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... 

<em>The Rocky Horror Show</em>

Theatre

The Rocky Horror Show

Friday 10/24 @ Victoria Theatre

When Rocky Horror first brought its gender-bending antics and rock 'n roll sci-fi to the stage in 1973, it screamed cult... 

<em>The Totoro Forest Project</em>

Art

The Totoro Forest Project

Friday 10/24 @ Cartoon Art Museum

If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global... 

International Vintage Poster Fair

Special Event

International Vintage Poster Fair

Friday 10/24 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion

Beyond the perfectly coiffed Martini & Rossi damsels, vintage posters offer a whole host of tantalizing imagery, from the dark geometry... 

MATCHA: Japanese Tattoo

Special Event

Japanese Tattoo

Friday 10/24 @ Asian Art Museum

Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject... 

Jay Nelson: <em>The Autonomous Zone</em>

Art

Jay Nelson

Friday 10/24 @ Triple Base

For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a... 

<em> I Love Beijing: The Films of Nang Ying </em>

Film

I Love Beijing

Friday 10/24 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

After being inundated with state-sponsored images of Beijing during the Olympics, Bay Area audiences can get a different perspective during Chinese... 

<em>Game Over: Art of the Gamer Generation</em>

Art

Game Over

Friday 10/24 @ Giant Robot

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... 

Dustin Fosnot: <em>Cyanide</em>

Art

Dustin Fosnot

Friday 10/24 @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Domestic trappings and urban landscapes collide in Dustin Fosnot's latest series, Cyanide. To install these jarring pieces, the artist drops mattresses... 

Igor Stravinsky's <em>L'Histoire du Soldat </em>and<em> Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock </em>

Performing Arts: Opera

L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock

Friday 10/24 @ Oakland Metro Operahouse

Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky... 

<em>Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered</em>

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Friday 10/24 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth... 

<em>Relay</em>

Art

Relay

Friday 10/24 @ The Lab

This multimedia exhibit and concert series of experimental sound artists play on the various meanings of the word "relay," both as... 

<em> L.A. Paint </em>

Art

L.A. Paint

Friday 10/24 @ Oakland Museum of California

Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases... 

Richard T. Walker: <em>i want to want you like i wanted to want you</em>

Art

Richard T. Walker

Friday 10/24 @ David Cunningham Projects

The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition... 

<em>Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking</em>

Festival: Performing Arts

Envisioning Russia

Friday 10/24 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Commemorating the centenary of Russian cinema, the PFA festival draws from an extensive catalog of films produced at Mosfilm, the most... 

<em> Art of Democracy: War and Empire </em>

Art

Art of Democracy

Friday 10/24 @ Meridian Gallery

Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated... 

<em>Good Breeding</em>

Theatre

Good Breeding

Friday 10/24 @ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens

Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding is a new addition to a rich history of Oresteia adaptations, but it has already generated plenty... 

<em> </em>Raylene Gorum:<em> </em><em>Volume Too: Tapings and Prints</em>

Art

Volume Too

Friday 10/24 @ Rowan Morrison

Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of... 

No Nude Men Productions presents <em>The Monk</em>

Theatre

The Monk

Friday 10/24 @ EXIT Stage Left

No Nude Men Productions brings Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic novel of broken vows and grisly murder to the stage. Stuart Bousel,... 

Frank Lobdell: <em> The Dance Series 1969-1972 </em>

Art

Frank Lobdell

Friday 10/24 @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery

During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank... 

<em>I feel I am free but I know I am not</em>

Art: Photography

I feel I am free but I know I am not

Friday 10/24 @ SF Camerawork

This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks... 

<em>Hungry Planet: What the World Eats</em>

Art: Photography

Hungry Planet

Friday 10/24 @ World Affairs Center

The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...