All events on Monday October 06

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More Flavor: Discussion
George Saunders
Monday Oct 6 (8pm) @ Herbst Theater
George Saunders has been compared to Norman Mailer and David Foster Wallace for his ease with both fiction and reporting, though the sharp-eyed satirist is... View details »
George Saunders
Music: Global
David Byrne
Monday Oct 6 (8pm) @ Davies Symphony Hall More times »
Giveaway
Released nearly three decades ago, Brian Eno and David Byrne's first collaboration, My Life in the Bush Of Ghosts, went out of its way to... View details »
David Byrne
Reading
Literary Death Match
Monday Oct 6 (7pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
Litquake's annual festival fills SF's bars, theaters, and performance spaces with major players and emerging stars from the literary world. The bicoastal word junkies over... View details »
Literary Death Match
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
John Waters
Monday Oct 6 (7:30pm) @ The Castro Theatre
Giveaway
Tracy Turnblad and the "drapes" may have gone a bit more mainstream in the Broadway versions of John Waters films Hairspray (1988) and Cry-Baby (1990),... View details »
John Waters
Music: Rock/Pop
Stars
Monday Oct 6 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
From Do Make Say Think's bombastic guitarkestras to the Dears' Morrissey fixation, most of the Broken Social Scene-related bands are fans of the Grand Romantic... View details »
Stars

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More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Monday Oct 6 @ 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
Banned and Recovered
Monday Oct 6 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book More times »
Free
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 »
Banned and Recovered
More Flavor: Exhibition
Cool Globes
Monday Oct 6 @ 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
Art
73 Funshine
Monday Oct 6 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially music, his pieces bounce... View details »
73 Funshine
More Flavor: Festival
Litquake
Monday Oct 6 @ 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
Monday Oct 6 @ 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: Photography
Hungry Planet
Monday Oct 6 (9am–5pm) @ World Affairs Center More times »
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate — noted food editor James... View details »
Hungry Planet
Art
New Heaven
Monday Oct 6 (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
Art
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Monday Oct 6 (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
Performing Arts: Comedy
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Monday Oct 6 @ 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
Monday Oct 6 @ 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
It's Alright
Monday Oct 6 (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
Film: Festival
Dead Channels
Monday Oct 6 @ 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
BhangraFest
Monday Oct 6 @ 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