All events on Sunday October 05

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Music: Electronic
Cut Copy
Sunday Oct 5 (8pm) @ Mezzanine
Sold Out!
Recalling an era when all you needed for a great pop song were some shimmering keyboard melodies, a sexily aloof vocalist, and fashionable outfits, Australian... View details »
Cut Copy
Reading
Neil Gaiman
Sunday Oct 5 (3pm) @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Neil Gaiman is a conjurer of contemporary fairy tales and imaginative fiction. Deemed one of the top ten living postmodern authors by the Dictionary of... View details »
Neil Gaiman
More Flavor: Benefit
Gogol Bordello
Sunday Oct 5 (9pm) @ Slim's
Gogol Bordello are known for raucous live shows that spill into the crowd, often ending with a Gogol girl perched defiantly on top of a... View details »
Gogol Bordello
Music: Rock/Pop
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Sunday Oct 5 (8pm) @ The Independent
Giveaway
Unlike their namesake, elusive playwright Margot Tenenbaum in Wes Anderson's quirky delight The Royal Tenenbaums, bittersweet indie collective Margot & the Nuclear So and So's... View details »
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
More Flavor: Fair
Castro Street Fair
Sunday Oct 5 (11am–6pm) @ Castro & Market Sts
Free
With LGBT Pride festivities having gone the way of corporate sponsorship long ago, the smaller-scale Castro Street Fair is a nice reminder of what a... View details »
Castro Street Fair

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Art
Half-Life of a Dream
Sunday Oct 5 (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
Sunday Oct 5 (2:30pm) @ 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
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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
Sunday Oct 5 (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
More Flavor: Fair
World Veg Festival
Sunday Oct 5 (10am–6pm) @ County Fair Building More times »
A novice to the vegetarian way of life may be overwhelmed at the thought of a diet stripped of all things animal. Luckily, the World... View details »
World Veg Festival
Art
Room for Thought
Sunday Oct 5 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Cool Globes
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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
More Flavor: Festival
Litquake
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rock 'n' Roll
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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
New Heaven
Sunday Oct 5 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beyond the Mirror
Sunday Oct 5 (3pm) @ 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
Music: Festival
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Sunday Oct 5 (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
Art
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Sunday Oct 5 (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
West, Wester, Westest
Sunday Oct 5 (noon–6pm) @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
West, Wester, Westest
Art
Koralie
Sunday Oct 5 (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
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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
Film
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Sunday Oct 5 @ SFMOMA More times »
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and filmmakers produced a flurry... View details »
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Art
L.A. Paint
Sunday Oct 5 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
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 »
 L.A. Paint
Art
buZ blurr
Sunday Oct 5 (noon–7pm) @ 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
Sunday Oct 5 (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
Sunday Oct 5 (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
Dead Channels
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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
More Flavor: Festival
Tease-O-Rama Roadshow
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various Locations More times »
BhangraFest is San Francisco's way of vibrantly celebrating one of India's most popular styles of music. Learn the latest moves during dance lessons with Nonstop... View details »
BhangraFest