All events on Friday October 03

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Music: Rock/Pop
Sigur Rós
Friday Oct 3 (8pm) @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
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Icelandic sprites Sigur Rós grace the Greek Theatre stage with an atmospheric set that includes selections from the enigmatic group's sixth album, Með suð í... View details »
Sigur Rós
More Flavor: Festival
Litquake
Friday Oct 3 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
The topic of Suckered: Writers Confess a Profound Lack of Judgment, Litquake's star-studded opening night, is eerily prescient, given our country's current lending crisis in... View details »
Litquake
Music: Festival
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Friday Oct 3 (10am–7pm) @ Golden Gate Park More times »
Free
Golden Gate Park hosts a weekend of live music spread across several stages, each boasting a lineup of world-class talent. Wait, didn't we just do... View details »
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Film: Double Feature
Rosemary's Baby and The Devils
Friday Oct 3 (7 & 9:35pm) @ The Castro Theatre
So by now we all know just how extra-special the bun in Rosemary Woodhouse's oven is. This makes The Devils, the far-less-screened half of tonight's... View details »
Rosemary's Baby and The Devils
Performing Arts
Hate Log
Friday Oct 3 (8pm) @ CELLspace More times »
Hate Log strives to "transform the accumulation of the mundane into beauty," and the producers achieve that goal with a unique combination of live performance... View details »
Hate Log
More Flavor: Party
Buraka Som Sistema
Friday Oct 3 (10pm) @ Elbo Room
Over in Lisbon, you can forget baile funk or dubstep — the hottest underground sound right now is kuduro. Originating in the war-torn African nation... View details »
Buraka Som Sistema

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Art
Tim Lee
Friday Oct 3 (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
Art
Half-Life of a Dream
Friday Oct 3 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
Half-Life of a Dream
Performing Arts: Theatre
More Stories by Tobias Wolff
Friday Oct 3 (8pm) @ Magic Theater More times »
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability to blend complex nuance... View details »
More Stories by Tobias Wolff
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Friday Oct 3 @ Various locations More times »
Free
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 »
Ground Scores
Art
Bay Area Now 5
Friday Oct 3 (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
Friday Oct 3 (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
Room for Thought
Friday Oct 3 (10am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
Room for Thought
Art
The Wizard of Oz
Friday Oct 3 (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: Exhibition
Cool Globes
Friday Oct 3 @ Crissy Field More times »
Free
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history have all happened since... View details »
Cool Globes
Art
73 Funshine
Friday Oct 3 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
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 »
73 Funshine
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rock 'n' Roll
Friday Oct 3 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
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 »
Rock 'n' Roll
Art
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Friday Oct 3 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and blueprints that emerge from... View details »
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Art: Photography
Hungry Planet
Friday Oct 3 (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
Duality of Humanity
Friday Oct 3 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery More times »
Free
Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst of HOPE. In this... View details »
Duality of Humanity
Art
New Heaven
Friday Oct 3 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop More times »
Free
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf Shop, then, is a... View details »
New Heaven
Art
Frank Lobdell
Friday Oct 3 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
7 Beggars
Friday Oct 3 (8pm) @ Climate Theater More times »
Over 200 years ago, Rebbe Nachman said to a group of followers, "Now I am going to tell you stories." Flash forward to Tim Barsky,... View details »
7 Beggars
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beyond the Mirror
Friday Oct 3 (8pm) @ Brava Theater Center More times »
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good idea. Formed in 2000... View details »
Beyond the Mirror
Art
Art of Democracy
Friday Oct 3 (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
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Friday Oct 3 (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
Art
Gwenaël Rattke
Friday Oct 3 (11am–5pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got his start fashioning punk... View details »
Gwenaël Rattke
Art
Koralie
Friday Oct 3 (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
Performing Arts: Comedy
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Friday Oct 3 @ Post Street Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood into a one-man show... View details »
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Art: Photography
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Friday Oct 3 (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
Rachel Kaye
Friday Oct 3 (11am–11pm) @ Adobe Bookshop More times »
Free
In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is as old as the... View details »
Rachel Kaye
Art
Spencer Sweeney
Friday Oct 3 (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
A Moment for Reflection
Friday Oct 3 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be a "moment for reflection"... View details »
A Moment for Reflection
Art
Welcome All
Friday Oct 3 (noon–7pm) @ Needles & Pens More times »
Free
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an alternative American landscape in... View details »
 Welcome All
Art
buZ blurr
Friday Oct 3 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
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 »
buZ blurr
Art
It's Alright
Friday Oct 3 (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
Friday Oct 3 (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
ATA Film & Video Festival
Friday Oct 3 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access More times »
Come and support Artists’ Television Access, a bastion of Bay Area independent arts, during their annual Film & Video festival. Opening night features Craig Baldwin's... View details »
ATA Film & Video Festival
Art
Richard T. Walker
Friday Oct 3 (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
Dead Channels
Friday Oct 3 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
The curators of Dead Channels never fail to fully exploit — or graphically illustrate — the many senses of the phrase "gut-wrenching." From the genuinely... View details »
Dead Channels
Art
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Friday Oct 3 (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
More Flavor: Festival
Tease-O-Rama Roadshow
Friday Oct 3 @ Various locations More times »
The eighth annual Tease-O-Rama burlesque convention arrives in town with a schedule so packed that it's sure to make your tassels spin. The Rickshaw Stop... View details »
Tease-O-Rama Roadshow