Events on Sunday, November 2

Shudder to Think

Music

Shudder to Think

Sunday 11/ 2 @ The Fillmore

Oh that reunion train, she just keeps rolling along. Fresh from a surprise appearance at a Barack Obama campaign rally organized... 

The 88 w/ Oh Darling

Music

The 88

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Cafe du Nord

While their tunes have bedecked everything from Sears and Target commercials to Weeds, Gossip Girl, and the almighty OC, the 88's... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Delwende </em>(2005)

Film

Delwende

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema

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

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

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Oakland Metro Operahouse

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

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

Art

L.A. Paint

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Alternative Press Expo

Special Event

Alternative Press Expo

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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.... 

SF Indiefest presents DocFest

Festival: Performing Arts

DocFest

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bay Area Now 5

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Wonderfest

Festival: Performing Arts

Wonderfest

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Roky Erickson w/ the Black Angels

Music

Roky Erickson

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jay Nelson

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Sunday 11/ 2 @ SFMOMA

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

Yves Saint Laurent

Special Event

Yves Saint Laurent

Sunday 11/ 2 @ de Young Museum

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

<em> Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine <em> </em></em>

Film: Documentary

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Red Vic

Don't let the name fool you. At 96, Louise Bourgeois is still the diametric opposite of middle-class politesse and mass-produced good... 

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

Art

It's Alright

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>The Totoro Forest Project</em>

Art

The Totoro Forest Project

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

West, Wester, Westest

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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,... 

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

Art: Photography

Brought to Light

Sunday 11/ 2 @ SFMOMA

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

MATCHA: Japanese Tattoo

Special Event

Japanese Tattoo

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Asian Art Museum

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