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Yelle
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
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Yelle's timing couldn't be better. Hot on the heels of fellow Frenchies Justice and the Ed Banger crew, she's riding waves kicked up by a... View details »
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The Werewolf of Washington
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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In its annual homage to all things spooky, the Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley presents The Werewolf of Washington, an aptly timed B movie... View details »
- Halloween
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Phantasmagorium
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Friday Oct 31 (6–9pm) @ Exploratorium
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All manner of gleefully morbid and downright creepy curiosities take center stage at Phantasmagorium, the Exploratorium's first annual October fête. The family oriented fright fest... View details »
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Greg Wilson
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Friday Oct 31 (10pm–4am) @ Paradise Lounge
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Back when sounds took a while to migrate across the Atlantic, Britain's Greg Wilson was an avid supporter of early NYC electro-funk sounds, mixing cuts... View details »
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Delwende
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Friday Oct 31 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
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Shelter— as safe haven, and in the sense of “keeping something hidden” — provides narrative thrust and acts as a key motif in S. Pierre... View details »
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Phantom of the Opera
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Paramount Theatre
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Explore the origins of horror this Halloween with the genre-defining silent classic Phantom of the Opera. The shadowy expressionism of Rupert Julian's direction and spine-tingling... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Z-Trip
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Friday Oct 31 (10pm) @ Supperclub
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Mashups are soooo 2001. Now that every Serato-toting DJ has figured out how to drop T-Pain a cappellas on top of Steve Miller riffs, these... View details »
- Halloween
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Blood Pact
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Friday Oct 31 (10pm–5am) @ SomArts Cultural Center
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Homochic, San Francisco's newest lavender nightlife cabal, joins infernal forces with the party people at Tantra to throw one of Halloween's sexiest and sleaziest soirées.... View details »
- Halloween
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SpiderBall
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm–4am) @ Bently Reserve
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Expect plenty of playa regulars, sexy ghouls and gals, and bass-heads at this underground rager of a Halloween party. The dreaded FreQ Nasty covers all... View details »
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Inferno Paradiso
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm–4am) @ The Regency Center
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The creators of the ever-popular ghoulish soiree the Edwardian Ball and the underwater-themed New Year's Eve extravaganza Sea of Dreams have torn the heavens asunder... View details »
- Film
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I've Loved You So Long
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Friday Oct 31 (1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:35pm) @ Landmark Clay Theatre
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English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes sense that she's finally... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday Oct 31 (11am–6pm) @ 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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Friday Oct 31 (noon–5pm) @ 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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (11am–6pm) @ 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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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DocFest
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Friday Oct 31 @ 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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Tickling Thicket
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Friday Oct 31 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
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Volume Too
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Friday Oct 31 (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 »
