Events on Saturday, November 1
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
