All events on Saturday October 25

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Art
Silent Painting Protest
Saturday Oct 25 (11am) @ Mission Dolores Park
Free
There is plenty to be upset about at this point in our country's history: a crippled economy, a seemingly endless war, unequal access to health... View details »
Silent Painting Protest
Music: Festival
Wonders of Cannabis
Saturday Oct 25 (1pm–midnight) @ Golden Gate Park More times »
Equal parts Malcolm X and Abbie Hoffman, Dead Prez make hyper-intelligent and unflinchingly combative hip-hop that mixes progressive politics and thug life narratives. A Dave... View details »
Wonders of Cannabis
Music: Rock/Pop
22nd Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert
Saturday Oct 25 (5pm) @ Shoreline Amphitheatre More times »
Back for its 22nd year, the Bridge School Benefit Concert unites socially conscious rockers in the name of a good cause. The Bridge School, which... View details »
22nd Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert
More Flavor: Party
6th Annual Pirate Ship Party
Saturday Oct 25 (6–10pm) @ Pier 40 and Embarcadero
Peg leg buried in the back of your closet? Captain Jack hat gathering dust? Urban Diversion presents the perfect opportunity to trot out your pirate... View details »
6th Annual Pirate Ship Party
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Chance Operations
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm–midnight) @ Climate Theater
Giveaway
Although John Cage is perhaps most infamous for those four minutes and 33 seconds of silence, his larger cultural legacy was to utilize chance— the... View details »
Chance Operations
Reading
Christian Lander
Saturday Oct 25 (7:30pm) @ Booksmith
Free
Christian Lander's much-discussed blog, Stuff White People Like, is an Internet sensation, and now it's also a book. And whether you find Lander's anthropological encyclopedia... View details »
Christian Lander

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Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Oct 25 (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: Electronic
Laurie Anderson
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Zellerbach Hall More times »
Giveaway
Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work for two nights at Zellerbach Hall. Featuring innovative electronic grooves, powerful songwriting, and Anderson's... View details »
Laurie Anderson
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–5:30pm) @ 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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
More Flavor: Competition
Shanghai SF
Saturday Oct 25 (12:30, 1, 1:30, 2 & 2:30pm) @ Coit Tower More times »
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 »
Shanghai SF
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Monk
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ EXIT Stage Left More times »
Giveaway
No Nude Men Productions brings Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic novel of broken vows and grisly murder to the stage. Stuart Bousel, who guided the company's... View details »
The Monk
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Frank Lobdell
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–5:45pm) @ 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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Film
I Love Beijing
Saturday Oct 25 @ 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
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Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Saturday Oct 25 (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
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Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–5:45pm) @ 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
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Other Than History
Saturday Oct 25 (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
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Dustin Fosnot
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–6pm) @ 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
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Koralie
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Saturday Oct 25 @ 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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
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Spencer Sweeney
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
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It's Alright
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Good Breeding
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Saturday Oct 25 @ 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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Saturday Oct 25 (8 & 11pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Angry Black White Boy
Saturday Oct 25 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
International Vintage Poster Fair
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–7pm) @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion More times »
Giveaway
Beyond the perfectly coiffed Martini & Rossi damsels, vintage posters offer a whole host of tantalizing imagery, from the dark geometry of the Russian constructivists... View details »
International Vintage Poster Fair
Film: Festival
DocFest
Saturday Oct 25 @ 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
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Saturday Oct 25 @ 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
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–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
Performing Arts: Opera
L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Art
Relay
Saturday Oct 25 (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
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Volume Too
Saturday Oct 25 (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