All events on Thursday October 09

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Music: Global
Cesária Évora
Thursday Oct 9 (8pm) @ Zellerbach Hall More times »
Cesária Évora brings her majestic voice from the Cape Verde Islands to Cali tonight. Évora sings in the morna tradition, which incorporates elements of Portuguese... View details »
Cesária Évora
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Jay Nelson
Friday Oct 10 (7–10pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
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 »
Jay Nelson
Performing Arts: Theatre
Good Breeding
Thursday Oct 9 (8pm) @ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens More times »
Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding is a new addition to a rich history of Oresteia adaptations, but it has already generated plenty of off-stage drama, with... View details »
Good Breeding
Performing Arts: Comedy
No Pants Comedy Pageant
Thursday Oct 9 (8pm) @ The Clubhouse
Giveaway
Ever-prolific comedienne and local favorite Margaret France presents an evening of pageantry and comedy carrying the particularly apropos themes of laughter and world peace. Contestants... View details »
No Pants Comedy Pageant
Film
The Superstars Next Door
Thursday Oct 9 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
The '60s infused San Franciscans with a recklessness and disregard for authority that affected every genre of art and ushered in an unprecedented era of... View details »
The Superstars Next Door

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Tim Lee
Thursday Oct 9 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
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 »
Tim Lee
Performing Arts: Theatre
More Stories by Tobias Wolff
Thursday Oct 9 (8pm) @ 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
Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
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Bay Area Now 5
Thursday Oct 9 (noon–8pm) @ 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
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Banned and Recovered
Thursday Oct 9 (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
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The Wizard of Oz
Thursday Oct 9 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
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 »
The Wizard of Oz
More Flavor: Exhibition
Cool Globes
Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
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73 Funshine
Thursday Oct 9 (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
Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
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David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Thursday Oct 9 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and blueprints that emerge from... View details »
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Art: Photography
Hungry Planet
Thursday Oct 9 (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
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New Heaven
Thursday Oct 9 (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
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Frank Lobdell
Thursday Oct 9 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Frank Lobdell
Performing Arts: Theatre
7 Beggars
Thursday Oct 9 (8pm) @ Climate Theater More times »
Over 200 years ago, Rebbe Nachman said to a group of followers, "Now I am going to tell you stories." Flash forward to Tim Barsky,... View details »
7 Beggars
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beyond the Mirror
Thursday Oct 9 (8pm) @ 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
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Art of Democracy
Thursday Oct 9 (11am–5pm) @ Meridian Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
 Art of Democracy
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Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Thursday Oct 9 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
In honor of Dias de los Muertos, small altars of glowing candles and sugar skulls, large-scale public installations, and processions fill the Oakland Museum of... View details »
 Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
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Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Thursday Oct 9 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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
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Gwenaël Rattke
Thursday Oct 9 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got his start fashioning punk... View details »
Gwenaël Rattke
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West, Wester, Westest
Thursday Oct 9 (4–8pm) @ 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
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Koralie
Thursday Oct 9 (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
Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
Thursday Oct 9 @ 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: Photography
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Thursday Oct 9 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks to transform gallery goers... View details »
I feel I am free but I know I am not
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Spencer Sweeney
Thursday Oct 9 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York painter has many more... View details »
Spencer Sweeney
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A Moment for Reflection
Thursday Oct 9 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be a "moment for reflection"... View details »
A Moment for Reflection
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L.A. Paint
Thursday Oct 9 (10am–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
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buZ blurr
Thursday Oct 9 (noon–9pm) @ 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
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It's Alright
Thursday Oct 9 (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
Thursday Oct 9 (10am–9pm) @ 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
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Richard T. Walker
Thursday Oct 9 (noon–6pm) @ David Cunningham Projects More times »
Free
The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition follows in this tradition.... View details »
Richard T. Walker
Film: Festival
Dead Channels
Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
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somewhere in advance of nowhere
Thursday Oct 9 (noon–5pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
Free
With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from the urban landscapes it... View details »
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Film: Festival
French Cinema Now
Thursday Oct 9 @ Landmark Clay Theatre More times »
The French invented the art of the moving image over a century ago, and they haven't stopped innovating onscreen since. The San Francisco Film Society's... View details »
French Cinema Now
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
Thursday Oct 9 @ 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