Events on Friday, October 31
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- Halloween
- Phantasmagorium
- @ Exploratorium
- All manner of gleefully morbid and downright creepy curiosities take center stage at Phantasmagorium, the Exploratorium's first annual October fête. The... View details »
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- Halloween
- Blow Up Halloween Special feat. Hot Tub
- @ Rickshaw Stop
- Known for hosting some of the best parties in town, the Rickshaw Stop's Blow Up — brainchild of DJs Jeffrey Paradise... View details »
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- Halloween
- Blood Pact
- @ SomArts Cultural Center
- Homochic, San Francisco's newest lavender nightlife cabal, joins infernal forces with the party people at Tantra to throw one of Halloween's... View details »
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- Halloween
- Halloween (A Party)
- @ Cat Club
- Halloween may be the only time of year that you rock a wig and enough makeup to suffocate a clown, but... View details »
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- Inferno Paradiso
- @ The Regency Ballroom
- The creators of the ever-popular ghoulish soiree the Edwardian Ball and the underwater-themed New Year's Eve extravaganza Sea of Dreams have... View details »
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- Halloween
- Phantom of the Opera
- @ Paramount Theatre
- Explore the origins of horror this Halloween with the genre-defining silent classic Phantom of the Opera. The shadowy expressionism of Rupert... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Z-Trip
- @ Supperclub
- Mashups are soooo 2001. Now that every Serato-toting DJ has figured out how to drop T-Pain a cappellas on top of... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Yelle
- @ Mezzanine
- Yelle's timing couldn't be better. Hot on the heels of fellow Frenchies Justice and the Ed Banger crew, she's riding waves... View details »
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- Halloween
- SpiderBall
- @ Bently Reserve
- Expect plenty of playa regulars, sexy ghouls and gals, and bass-heads at this underground rager of a Halloween party. The dreaded... View details »
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- Halloween
- DJ Spooky and Forro in the Dark
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- East Coast meets West this Halloween at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' New Groove Lounge, where some of New York... View details »
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- Halloween
- Greg Wilson
- @ Paradise Lounge
- Back when sounds took a while to migrate across the Atlantic, Britain's Greg Wilson was an avid supporter of early NYC... View details »
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- Halloween
- 7th Annual Murder Ballads Ball
- @ Starry Plough
- In the introduction to their book on American ballads, The Rose and the Briar, Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus write that,... View details »
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- Music: Soul/R&B
- Morris Day & the Time
- @ The Grand Ballroom
- While you may have seen them palling around with Jay and Silent Bob, odds are you know Morris Day & the... View details »
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- Film
- The Werewolf of Washington
- @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
- In its annual homage to all things spooky, the Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley presents The Werewolf of Washington, an... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art: Photography
- Hungry Planet
- @ World Affairs Center
- The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
- August Wilson's series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, is the most ambitious and critically successful attempt ever to stage the... View details »
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- Art
- Tickling Thicket
- @ Johansson Projects
- The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone... View details »
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- Art
- Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Monk
- @ EXIT Stage Left
- No Nude Men Productions brings Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic novel of broken vows and grisly murder to the stage. Stuart Bousel,... View details »
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- Halloween
- Shocktoberfest!! 2008
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
- @ SFMOMA
- The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... View details »
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- Relay
- @ The Lab
- This multimedia exhibit and concert series of experimental sound artists play on the various meanings of the word "relay," both as... View details »
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- Art
- Volume Too
- @ Rowan Morrison
- Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of... View details »
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- Japanese Tattoo
- @ Asian Art Museum
- Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject... View details »
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- Art
- Koralie
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- L.A. Paint
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- DocFest
- @ Various locations
- The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica... View details »
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- Art
- somewhere in advance of nowhere
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tim Lee
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Delwende
- @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
- Shelter— as safe haven, and in the sense of “keeping something hidden” — provides narrative thrust and acts as a key... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Brought to Light
- @ SFMOMA
- SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... View details »
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- Halloween
- Improv Juggernaut Comedy: The Halloween Spectacular
- @ The Dark Room
- Do world events seem scarier than last year's Leatherface mask? The Dark Room Theatre has an ideal solution: two nights of... View details »
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- West, Wester, Westest
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Dustin Fosnot
- @ 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... View details »
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- Frank Lobdell
- @ 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... View details »
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- Bay Area Now 5
- @ 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... View details »
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- Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
- @ 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... View details »
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- It's Alright
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art of Democracy
- @ Meridian Gallery
- Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated... View details »
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OngoingFree Venue Partner
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- Wonderfest
- @ Various locations
- Clearly well-versed in the speculative science and coincidental phenomena explored in Malcom Gladwell's Blink, along with the theories on randomness and... View details »
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- The Wizard of Oz
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Rocky Horror Show
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
- @ Oakland Metro Operahouse
- Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky... View details »
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- Art
- Other Than History
- @ Silverman Gallery
- The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- I feel I am free but I know I am not
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Totoro Forest Project
- @ 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... View details »
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- Banned and Recovered
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jay Nelson
- @ Triple Base
- For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a... View details »
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