Events on Friday, October 31
Friday 10/31 @ Exploratorium
All manner of gleefully morbid and downright creepy curiosities take center stage at Phantasmagorium, the Exploratorium's first annual October fête. The...
Blow Up Halloween Special feat. Hot Tub
Friday 10/31 @ Rickshaw Stop
Known for hosting some of the best parties in town, the Rickshaw Stop's Blow Up — brainchild of DJs Jeffrey Paradise...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ The Grand Ballroom
While you may have seen them palling around with Jay and Silent Bob, odds are you know Morris Day & the...
Friday 10/31 @ Paramount Theatre
Explore the origins of horror this Halloween with the genre-defining silent classic Phantom of the Opera. The shadowy expressionism of Rupert...
7th Annual Murder Ballads Ball
Friday 10/31 @ Starry Plough
In the introduction to their book on American ballads, The Rose and the Briar, Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus write that,...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Paradise Lounge
Back when sounds took a while to migrate across the Atlantic, Britain's Greg Wilson was an avid supporter of early NYC...
Friday 10/31 @ Cat Club
Halloween may be the only time of year that you rock a wig and enough makeup to suffocate a clown, but...
DJ Spooky and Forro in the Dark
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Bently Reserve
Expect plenty of playa regulars, sexy ghouls and gals, and bass-heads at this underground rager of a Halloween party. The dreaded...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/31 @ Triple Base
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a...
Friday 10/31 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Friday 10/31 @ Rowan Morrison
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of...
Improv Juggernaut Comedy: The Halloween Spectacular
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Friday 10/31 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
Friday 10/31 @ Oakland Metro Operahouse
Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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,...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Friday 10/31 @ Various locations
The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica...
Friday 10/31 @ Johansson Projects
The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone...
Friday 10/31 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
