All events on Thursday October 30
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DJ Spooky
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Thursday Oct 30 (7pm) @ City Lights
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As DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, Paul Miller has long been slipping strains of Afro-futurist technology into the hip-hop marketplace. The second part of his... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Soulwax
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Thursday Oct 30 (8:30pm) @ Mezzanine
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Though they go by many names (2 Many DJs, the Flying Dewaele Brothers), Belgian electro-head brothers David and Stephen Dewaele may be best known as... View details »
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Tickling Thicket
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Thursday Oct 30 (6–9pm) @ Johansson Projects
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The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone and Yvette Molina successfully... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
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Alex Ross
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Thursday Oct 30 (8pm) @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
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New Yorker music critic Alex Ross grew up listening to traditional classical music like Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert; in college, however, the burgeoning music snob... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Thursday Oct 30 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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Bay Area Now 5
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Thursday Oct 30 (noon–8pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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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 »
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Banned and Recovered
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Thursday Oct 30 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book
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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 »
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The Wizard of Oz
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Thursday Oct 30 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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Frank Lobdell
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Thursday Oct 30 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
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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 »
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Art of Democracy
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Thursday Oct 30 (11am–5pm) @ Meridian Gallery
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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 »
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Other Than History
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Thursday Oct 30 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery
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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 »
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Dustin Fosnot
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Thursday Oct 30 (11am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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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 »
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West, Wester, Westest
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Thursday Oct 30 (4–8pm) @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
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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 »
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Koralie
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Thursday Oct 30 (noon–6pm) @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
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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 »
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Jay Nelson
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Thursday Oct 30 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base
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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 »
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L.A. Paint
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Thursday Oct 30 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California
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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 »
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It's Alright
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Thursday Oct 30 (noon–7pm) @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
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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 »
- Film: Festival
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Envisioning Russia
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Thursday Oct 30 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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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 »
- Film: Festival
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DocFest
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Thursday Oct 30 @ Various locations
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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 »
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Relay
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Thursday Oct 30 (1–6pm) @ The Lab
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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 »
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Volume Too
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Thursday Oct 30 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison
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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 »
