Events on Saturday, November 1

An Evening with Ricky Jay

Special Event

Ricky Jay

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF

Though the raffish Ricky Jay is probably best known for his acting roles in Deadwood and David Mamet's movies, he is... 

Party: Halloween

GhostShip 2008

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Treasure Island

If you still have energy to spare the day after your All Hallows Eve partying, head over to Treasure Island to... 

Milton Nascimento and the Jobim Trio

Music: Global

Milton Nascimento

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Zellerbach Hall

Two families of Brazilian bossa-nova royalty reconnect tonight, as superstar Milton Nascimento performs with the son and grandson of legend (and... 

Parts & Labor w/ Gowns and Curse of the Birthmark

Music

Parts & Labor

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Hemlock Tavern

Brooklyn noise rockers Parts & Labor never stray far from the formula — dense layers of scabrous noise coating the band's... 

Ongoing Events

Evan Bissell: <em>somewhere in advance of nowhere: youth, imagination and transformation</em>

Art

somewhere in advance of nowhere

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Delwende </em>(2005)

Film

Delwende

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema

Shelter— as safe haven, and in the sense of “keeping something hidden” — provides narrative thrust and acts as a key... 

<em> Art of Democracy: War and Empire </em>

Art

Art of Democracy

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Meridian Gallery

Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated... 

<em> </em>Raylene Gorum:<em> </em><em>Volume Too: Tapings and Prints</em>

Art

Volume Too

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Rowan Morrison

Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of... 

Igor Stravinsky's <em>L'Histoire du Soldat </em>and<em> Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock </em>

Performing Arts: Opera

L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Oakland Metro Operahouse

Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky... 

Diem Chau

Art

Diem Chau

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

With an exacting delicacy, Vietnamese-born artist Diem Chau uses thread, fabric, and porcelain to sculpt fleeting glimpses of the human figure.... 

<em>I feel I am free but I know I am not</em>

Art: Photography

I feel I am free but I know I am not

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

SF Indiefest presents DocFest

Festival: Performing Arts

DocFest

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Various locations

The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica... 

Bay Area Now 5: <em>Inside/Outside</em>

Art

Bay Area Now 5

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

Torreya Cummings, Patricia Esquivias, and Airyka Rockefeller: <em>Other Than History</em>

Art

Other Than History

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Silverman Gallery

The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,... 

<em>The Rocky Horror Show</em>

Theatre

The Rocky Horror Show

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Saturday 11/ 1 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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... 

<em>Relay</em>

Art

Relay

Saturday 11/ 1 @ The Lab

This multimedia exhibit and concert series of experimental sound artists play on the various meanings of the word "relay," both as... 

<em> Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008 </em>

Art

Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

Kate Durkin: <em>It's Alright</em>

Art

It's Alright

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

Wonderfest

Festival: Performing Arts

Wonderfest

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Various locations

Clearly well-versed in the speculative science and coincidental phenomena explored in Malcom Gladwell's Blink, along with the theories on randomness and... 

<em>Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900</em>

Art: Photography

Brought to Light

Saturday 11/ 1 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... 

Alternative Press Expo

Special Event

Alternative Press Expo

Saturday 11/ 1 @ San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center

For the underground comic collector, DIY craft aficionado, art lover, or simply curious spectator, APE is a small slice of heaven.... 

Shocktoberfest!! 2008: Elemental Horror

Party: Halloween

Shocktoberfest!! 2008

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>The Wizard of Oz</em>

Art

The Wizard of Oz

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>West, Wester, Westest</em>

Art

West, Wester, Westest

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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,... 

Yves Saint Laurent

Special Event

Yves Saint Laurent

Saturday 11/ 1 @ de Young Museum

After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... 

Katy Stone and Yvette Molina: <em>Tickling Thicket</em>

Art

Tickling Thicket

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Johansson Projects

The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone... 

<em> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Saturday 11/ 1 @ SFMOMA

The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... 

Roky Erickson w/ the Black Angels

Music

Roky Erickson

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Great American Music Hall

Hailed as one of the unknown heroes of rock and roll, Roky Erickson has influenced countless musicians, from Robert Plant to... 

<em>The Totoro Forest Project</em>

Art

The Totoro Forest Project

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

No Nude Men Productions presents <em>The Monk</em>

Theatre

The Monk

Saturday 11/ 1 @ EXIT Stage Left

No Nude Men Productions brings Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic novel of broken vows and grisly murder to the stage. Stuart Bousel,... 

MATCHA: Japanese Tattoo

Special Event

Japanese Tattoo

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Asian Art Museum

Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject... 

Jay Nelson: <em>The Autonomous Zone</em>

Art

Jay Nelson

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Triple Base

For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a... 

<em>Joe Turner's Come and Gone</em>

Theatre

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

Frank Lobdell: <em> The Dance Series 1969-1972 </em>

Art

Frank Lobdell

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

Dustin Fosnot: <em>Cyanide</em>

Art

Dustin Fosnot

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

Improv Juggernaut Comedy: The Halloween Spectacular

Party: Halloween

Improv Juggernaut Comedy: The Halloween Spectacular

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered</em>

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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... 

Shanghai San Francisco

Special Event

Shanghai SF

Saturday 11/ 1 @ Coit Tower

Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... 

<em> L.A. Paint </em>

Art

L.A. Paint

Saturday 11/ 1 @ 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...