All events on Saturday November 01

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Music: Global
Milton Nascimento
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ Zellerbach Hall
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 »
Milton Nascimento
More Flavor: Exhibition
Yves Saint Laurent
Saturday Nov 1 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode: a retrospective of the... View details »
Yves Saint Laurent
More Flavor: Spectacle
Ricky Jay
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ 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 first and foremost an... View details »
Ricky Jay
More Flavor: Exhibition
Alternative Press Expo
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–7pm) @ San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center More times »
For the underground comic collector, DIY craft aficionado, art lover, or simply curious spectator, APE is a small slice of heaven. For two days, hundreds... View details »
Alternative Press Expo
Music: Rock/Pop
Roky Erickson
Saturday Nov 1 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall More times »
Hailed as one of the unknown heroes of rock and roll, Roky Erickson has influenced countless musicians, from Robert Plant to Thurston Moore. He began... View details »
Roky Erickson
More Flavor: Festival
Wonderfest
Saturday Nov 1 @ Various locations More times »
Free
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 »
Wonderfest
Halloween
GhostShip 2008
Saturday Nov 1 (10pm–4am) @ Treasure Island
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
Parts & Labor
Saturday Nov 1 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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 »
Parts & Labor
Art
Diem Chau
Saturday Nov 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art More times »
Free
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 »
Diem Chau

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Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–6pm) @ 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
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Bay Area Now 5
Saturday Nov 1 (noon–5pm) @ 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
Art
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–5:30pm) @ Contemporary Jewish Museum More times »
It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century would warrant a... View details »
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Art
The Wizard of Oz
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–6pm) @ 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: Competition
Shanghai SF
Saturday Nov 1 (12:30, 1, 1:30, 2 & 2:30pm) @ Coit Tower More times »
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 »
Shanghai SF
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Monk
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ EXIT Stage Left More times »
Giveaway
No Nude Men Productions brings Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic novel of broken vows and grisly murder to the stage. Stuart Bousel, who guided the company's... View details »
The Monk
Art
Frank Lobdell
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
Brought to Light
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring the ways it led... View details »
Brought to Light
Art
Art of Democracy
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Art
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Art
Other Than History
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Other Than History
Art
Dustin Fosnot
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–5pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
Free
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 »
Dustin Fosnot
Art
West, Wester, Westest
Saturday Nov 1 (noon–6pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Art
Jay Nelson
Saturday Nov 1 (noon–5pm) @ 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
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L.A. Paint
Saturday Nov 1 (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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It's Alright
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Saturday Nov 1 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Art
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Rocky Horror Show
Saturday Nov 1 (8 & 11pm) @ Victoria Theatre More times »
Giveaway
When Rocky Horror first brought its gender-bending antics and rock 'n roll sci-fi to the stage in 1973, it screamed cult classic. Since then, the... View details »
The Rocky Horror Show
Performing Arts: Theatre
Angry Black White Boy
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
As suggested by the colliding adjectives in its title, Dan Wolf and Tommy Shepherd's theatrical adaptation of Adam Mansbach's novel of the same name doesn't... View details »
Angry Black White Boy
Halloween
Improv Juggernaut Comedy: The Halloween Spectacular
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ The Dark Room More times »
Do world events seem scarier than last year's Leatherface mask? The Dark Room Theatre has an ideal solution: two nights of intellectual improv paired with... View details »
Improv Juggernaut Comedy: The Halloween Spectacular
Film: Festival
DocFest
Saturday Nov 1 @ Various locations More times »
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 »
DocFest
Performing Arts: Theatre
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Saturday Nov 1 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre More times »
August Wilson's series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, is the most ambitious and critically successful attempt ever to stage the African-American experience. One of... View details »
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Halloween
Shocktoberfest!! 2008
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ Hypnodrome More times »
In the "terror and taboo" tradition of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Thrillpeddlers presents an evening of horror-themed one-acts that pit humans against the elements. Rob... View details »
Shocktoberfest!! 2008
Film
Delwende
Saturday Nov 1 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
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 »
Delwende
Performing Arts: Opera
L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ Oakland Metro Operahouse More times »
Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky compositions. The first, "A... View details »
L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
Art
Relay
Saturday Nov 1 (1–6pm) @ The Lab More times »
Free
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 »
Relay
Art
Tickling Thicket
Saturday Nov 1 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Tickling Thicket
Art
Volume Too
Saturday Nov 1 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison More times »
Free
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 »
Volume Too
Film
I've Loved You So Long
Saturday Nov 1 (1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:35pm) @ Landmark Clay Theatre More times »
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 »
I've Loved You So Long