All events on Saturday November 01
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- Music: Global
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Milton Nascimento
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Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ Zellerbach Hall
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Two families of Brazilian bossa-nova royalty reconnect tonight, as superstar Milton Nascimento performs with the son and grandson of legend (and former collaborator) Antonio Carlos... View details »
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Ricky Jay
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Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
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Though the raffish Ricky Jay is probably best known for his acting roles in Deadwood and David Mamet's movies, he is first and foremost an... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
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Wonderfest
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Saturday Nov 1 @ Various locations
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Clearly well-versed in the speculative science and coincidental phenomena explored in Malcom Gladwell's Blink, along with the theories on randomness and uncertainty addressed in Nassim... View details »
- Halloween
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GhostShip 2008
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Saturday Nov 1 (10pm–4am) @ Treasure Island
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If you still have energy to spare the day after your All Hallows Eve partying, head over to Treasure Island to board the GhostShip. Space... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Parts & Labor
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Saturday Nov 1 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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Brooklyn noise rockers Parts & Labor never stray far from the formula — dense layers of scabrous noise coating the band's basic, riffy punk core.... View details »
- Art
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Diem Chau
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Saturday Nov 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
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With an exacting delicacy, Vietnamese-born artist Diem Chau uses thread, fabric, and porcelain to sculpt fleeting glimpses of the human figure. In her latest work,... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Saturday Nov 1 (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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Saturday Nov 1 (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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The Wizard of Oz
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Saturday Nov 1 (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 »
- More Flavor: Competition
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Shanghai SF
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Saturday Nov 1 (12:30, 1, 1:30, 2 & 2:30pm) @ Coit Tower
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Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with a map and basic... View details »
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Frank Lobdell
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Saturday Nov 1 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday Nov 1 (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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Saturday Nov 1 (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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Saturday Nov 1 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday Nov 1 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Jay Nelson
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Saturday Nov 1 (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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Saturday Nov 1 (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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Saturday Nov 1 (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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Saturday Nov 1 @ 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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Delwende
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Saturday Nov 1 @ 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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Relay
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Saturday Nov 1 (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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Saturday Nov 1 (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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Saturday Nov 1 (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 »
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I've Loved You So Long
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Saturday Nov 1 (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 »
