Next Stage Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 2:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Multi Ethnic Theater presents the premiere production of two short plays by newly discovered West Coast playwright, Ed Ballou. Return from Bird Island is the story of a family of sea-going settlers in the year 1900 struggling for survival. The Glimmer is about an alcoholic couple (a half-blind ex-boxer and his critical yet nurturing wife) battling their pasts and each other.
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Zeum Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 2:00pm
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $15.50 - $20.50 Our Price: $8.00 - $10.50*
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American Conservatory Theatre's Master of Fine Arts Program presents Good Breeding, by Award-winning playwright Robert O'Hara. This daring, incendiary play shifts the drama of Aeschylus' Greek classic Oresteia to the decadent surroundings of New York disco hotspot Studio 54.
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Club Deluxe (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, Oct. 13 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $5.00 Our Price: FREE*
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Club Deluxe welcomes Hari Kondabolu. Known for his fiercely intelligent sociaopolitical humor, Hari started his comedy career in Seattle, and has appeared on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and at the 2007 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
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Osher Marin Jewish Community Center (San Rafael, CA)
Monday, Oct. 13 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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A 16 Restaurant's Chef Nate Appleman and Wine Director Shelley Lindgren discuss their new cookbook, and share the source of inspiration for their highly acclaimed SF restaurant with Bay Area food writer and radio personality GraceAnn Walden. This event at Osher Marin Jewish Community Center includes a food and wine tasting.
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, Oct. 15 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco screens director Francesco Rosi's The Truce (La Tregua). The film is based upon Italian writer Primo Levi's The Reawakening, an autobiographical account of his liberation from Auschwitz and his nine-month journey home to Turin. John Turturro stars as Levi in this moving portrait of a man's reawakening to love and humanity.
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Join scholar Eddy Portnoy of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America for a fascinating romp through the little-known history of Jewish psychics, pseudo-scientists and seers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Hypnodrome (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 7 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 - $69.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $34.50*
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Thrillpeddlers present Shocktoberfest!! 2008: Elemental Horror at the Hypnodrome. This year's installment of the company's popular Halloween series continues to revive the sensational Grand Guignol theatre, with a series of thrilling, outrageous, and frequently gory one-act plays.
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The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 24 @ 8:00pm
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $35.00 Our Price: $17.50*
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Gundlach Bundschu, California's oldest family-owned and operated winery, is celebrating its sesquicentennial throughout 2008 at the winery and across the nation by putting wine on center stage with the creation of Towle's Hill, an original, one-man play performed by Mark Kenward and directed by David Ford.
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Verdi Club (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm (& all day/night Sat & Sun)
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 7:00pm-Midnight
Full Price: $10.00 - $179.00 Our Price: FREE - $89.00*
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The Second annual San Francisco Shag Jam features 1930s music, dance and culture. The three-day festival features the Collegiate Ball Shag Jam Championships with the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra, the Mobsters Ball with Dean Mora's Modern Swingtet and Varsity Drag with JP & The Rhythm Chasers. Plus, dances, workshops and competitions each day.
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Cobb's Comedy Club (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.50 Our Price: $9.25*
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Cobb's Comedy Club presents Bo Burnham. Bo's Internet videos, featuring him singing such songs as "My Whole Family Thinks I'm Gay," have been seen over ten million times worldwide. He's also appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly. Also featured: MTV's Ryan Stout.
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The Paramount Theatre of the Arts (Oakland, CA)
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $42.00 - $57.00 Our Price: $21.00 - $28.50*
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The San Francisco Jazz Festival presents Max Raabe and Palast Orchester. The German baritone's irresistible, madcap take on the classics of Germany's 1920s and 1930s Weimar era is backed by a big band. They also deliver modern pop tunes in the same style, brilliantly bridging the gap between virtuosity and camp.
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Club Deluxe (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
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Comedian Barry Sobel headlines Club Deluxe. A veteran of the stand-up scene, Barry was known for his comedy rapping act in the '80s, when he also appeared in such movies as Revenge of the Nerds 2. A former Saturday Night Live writer, he's now on Comedy Central's Chocolate News.
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First Congregational Church of Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $50.00 - $75.00 Our Price: $25.00 - $37.50*
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The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra presents Bach Reconstructed, an all-Bach program at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley. The orchestra will be performing selections ranging from the familiar (Brandenburg Concerto No. 1) to the mostly unknown (Suite of Sinfonias).
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Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (San Francisco, CA)
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $36.25 - $101.50 Our Price: $18.75 - $51.50*
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Classical music and grand opera once again go to the dogs — and the cats — as some of classical music's A-list takes the stage for this benefit concert. Proceeds from this family-friendly benefit support Pets Unlimited's critical needs shelter and charity veterinary programs. There will be performances by Jennifer Holloway, Kristin Clayton, Bojan Knezevic, Marc Shapiro and many other outstanding artists.
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Magician Jay Alexander performs at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco's Kanbar Hall. He's appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America and MTV, and worked with stars ranging from Robin Williams to the Rolling Stones. He presents a show which will appeal to children ages 8 and up, as well as their parents.
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, Oct. 20 @ 11:00am
Full Price: $18.00 Our Price: $9.00*
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie Blair reveals what it was like to combine life as a working mother with life married to the Prime Minister. An accomplished lawyer and human rights activist, she offers inside details of her relationships with Presidents Clinton and Bush, as well as the royals, including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, and Princess Diana.
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Club Deluxe (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, Oct. 20 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
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Comedian Felipe Esparza headlines a show at Club Deluxe. He's toured with Gabriel Iglesias, and appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and BET's Comic View, among others. He's half of the comic radio duo of "Siskel and Negro".
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, Oct. 20 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco present the Bay Area premiere of David Vyorst's The First Basket. The film tracks the impact of basketball on modern Jewish history, as well as the profound influence of unsung Jewish pioneers on the evolution of the sport.
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San Francisco Conservatory of Music (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, Oct. 20 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
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Pacific Chamber Symphony presents Whirlwind: Suites and Serenades for Orchestral Winds by Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss and Dvorák. The concert will take place at San Francisco Conservatory of Music and be conducted by Lawrence Kohl.
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Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church (Lafayette, CA)
Tuesday, Oct. 21 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $62.00 - $75.00 Our Price: $31.00 - $37.50*
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The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra presents Bach Reconstructed, an all-Bach program at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church. The orchestra will be performing selections ranging from the familiar (Brandenburg Concerto No. 1) to the mostly unknown (Suite of Sinfonias).
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Brava Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, Oct. 22 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Kung Pao Kosher Comedy presents a night of political comedy featuring anti-death penalty lawyer/comic Aundre the Wonderwoman, gay Iranian Muslim comic Ali Mafi, Bush show veteran Ross Turner and creator/producer of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, Lisa Geduldig. There will also be a Sarah Palin Look-alike contest.
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Zellerbach Hall (Berkeley, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 23 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $60.00 Our Price: $15.00 - $30.00*
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Guest conductor William Eddins leads the Berkeley Symphony, and also plays piano in Allan Gilliland's Rhapsody GEB, a work inspired by Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The program also includes Martinu's Symphony no. 1, plus works by Debussy and more. Eddins is Music Director of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
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Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 24 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $75.00 Our Price: $15.00 - $37.50*
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The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra presents Bach Reconstructed, an all-Bach program at the Herbst Theatre. The orchestra will be performing selections ranging from the familiar (Brandenburg Concerto No. 1) to the mostly unknown (Suite of Sinfonias).
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, Oct. 25 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $68.00 Our Price: $34.00*
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Phoebe Snow makes her long-awaited return to the stage at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco's Kanbar Hall. Renowned for her powerful voice, Snow burst onto the scene in 1974 with the hit "Poetry Man". Her career has run the gamut between rock, folk, and rhythm and blues music.
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, Oct. 29 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco presents Rick Ray's film 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama. This enlightening and provocative documentary explores the life and beliefs of the famous spiritual leader, and the history of the Himalayan region where he is revered. A discussion with the filmmaker follows the screening.
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Darkroom (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 31 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Nov. 1 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $7.50 - $15.00 Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
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Improv Juggernaut Comedy presents a special Halloween show. Two of California's top improv teams — the duo Irish Mutts and San Francisco's ground-breaking African-American ensemble Oui Be Negroes — present frighteningly funny long-form improv.
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Live Oak Theater (Berkeley, CA)
Friday, Oct. 31 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Nov. 1 @ 8:00pm
and 4 more dates.
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe's grand tragedy about a scholar who makes a deal with the Devil for ultimate knowledge and power. His dilemma highlights the rise of the Renaissance and its science in England, and the play boasts one of the most powerful conclusions in English literature.
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Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, Nov. 15 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $64.00 Our Price: $32.75*
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Sixties rock sensations Bobby Rydell and Lou Christie take the stage at the Herbst Theatre with A Rockin' and Rollin' Evening to Remember. Rydell scored numerous hits on the rock charts with "Wild One," "Volare," "Swingin' School" and "Forget Him." Christie charted with songs like "Lightnin' Strikes," "Rhapsody in the Rain" and "I'm Gonna Make You Mine."
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Osher Marin Jewish Community Center (San Rafael, CA)
Saturday, Nov. 15 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $27.00 Our Price: $13.50*
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Lavay Smith and her all-star 8-piece band, the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, perform at Osher Marin Jewish Community Center. The jazz chanteuse's last album, Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing!, spent 20 weeks on Billboard's charts.
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Palace of Fine Arts Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, Dec. 20 @ 4:00pm
Saturday, Dec. 20 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $50.00 Our Price: $15.00 - $25.00*
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Vau De Vire creates an enchanted world populated with interactive circus acts, magical character encounters, painters and sculptors showcasing their art, traders selling trinkets and fortune tellers. The world's legends come to life through dances from Bolivia and Peru to India and Russia, followed by a circus show featuring classically-trained dancers, acclaimed acrobats, aerial artist, side show acts and live orchestra.
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