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COMMONWEALTH CLUB PRESENTS
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01/01/2008 |
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The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its more than 18,000 members plus guest attendees for over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. The Club has offices in San Francisco and San Jose, with regular events in both cities, as well as programs in the East and North Bay. Check website for list of events and information about attending a program.
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BEACH BLANKET BABYLON (Musical/Comedy)
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Wednesday & Thursday 8pm; Friday & Saturday 7 & 10pm; Sunday 2 & 5pm |
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Club Fugazi
678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. (Green Street)
San Francisco, CA 94133 |
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Steve Silver's BEACH BLANKET BABYLON is the longest running, hit musical revue in theatre history. It is a zany musical spoof of pop culture with extravagant costumes and outrageously huge hats. Take a zany, fast-paced musical tour around the world as Snow White searches for a prince and encounters a star-studded lineup of “celebrity” characters. BEACH BLANKET BABYLON continually evolves in its hilarious parodies of popular icons, with spectacular costumes and outrageously huge hats, updating its spoofs and adding new characters, songs, and send-ups throughout the year.
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INDONESIAN DAY
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Enjoy Indonesian traditional dance performances, music, martial arts, and authentic Indonesian cuisine.
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Grant Avenue between California & Pacific
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The Chinatown Merchants Association and ATT present the annual Autumn Moon Festival. The Moon Festival, one of the most celebrated traditions observed by Asians throughout the world, falls on the 15th day of the 8th moon, when the moon is the brightest. Enjoy nonstop entertainment including lion dances, dragon parades, Chinese acrobats, martial arts performances, traditional Chinese music and dance, children's games, raffles, arts and crafts vendors, festive lanterns, delicious food, moon cakes and much more.
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On September 27, some of the best local mariachis and folkloric dancers in the bay area will perform at various hotels and restaurants all around downtown San José. Stop in for great food, great ambience, and great mariachi music. Check their website for more information. On September 28, Feria del Mariachi at downtown San José’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez is a community festival with music and dance, food and family activities. Admission is $10 for ages 13+. Children 12 and under are FREE. Tickets will be sold at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Feria del Mariachi entrances. Floreo de soga workshop presented by Los Hermanos Escamilla at the outdoor festival. The outdoor festival will showcase different genres of Latin music and will feature Lila Downs, Los Cenzontles, Quetzal, Los Pinguos, and traditional Mariachi music and dance including, at the El Mexicano Main Stage, performances by Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Mariachi Azteca, Los Lupeños de San José, Mariachi Las Pioneras, Mariachi Ellas Son, Mariachi Internacional Guadalajara, and a GRAND FINALE WITH ALL MARIACHI.
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BROUGHT TO LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE INVISIBLE, 1840-1900
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This exhibition will explore the use of photography in 19th-century science, considering in particular the representation of phenomena invisible to the naked eye. Over the course of the 19th century, scientists—both amateur and professional—applied the camera to the microscope and telescope, photographing worlds both infinitesimally small and unimaginably large. The exhibition not only will include examples of these groundbreaking scientific experiments, but will investigate some of photography’s pseudoscientific uses, including spirit photography, whose practitioners used the X-ray’s ability to picture invisible objects as a means of lending credence to their own claims of ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. Consisting of approximately 200 vintage photographs, many of which have never before been exhibited in the United States, the exhibition will include works made between 1839 and 1900 by both noted scientists and amateur experimenters.
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Lots of fun events for Halloween.
October 17-18:
Shock It to Me!
Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street
This two-day horror film festival features classic (and not so classic) cinematic chillers. This year’s fearsome film lineup includes “Whatever Happened to Spider Baby” and “Night of the Living Dead.” Ghoulish guests of honor include Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker from “Dark Shadows.” For information call 415-621-6120 or visit www.castrotheatre.com or www.shock-it-to-me.com.
October 18:
Physics of Toys: Frightful Fun
Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon St.
11am-3pm
The Physics of Toys team gets into the spooky spirit with toys that ooze, screech and scare! Make slime, screeching balloons and other gruesome gadgets. Physics of Toys is included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium. Take home what you make. All materials provided. For information visit www.exploratorium.edu or call 415-EXP-LORE (397-5673).
October 18-19:
Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival (38th Annual)
Main Street, between Miramontes and Spruce Street, Half Moon Bay
9am-5pm
Half Moon Bay, the “World Pumpkin Capital,” celebrates its bountiful fall harvest with a wicked and delicious lineup of rustic pumpkin patches, harvest-inspired crafts, home-style foods, expert pumpkin carvers, the Great Pumpkin Parade with Grand Marshal Will Clark, a bone-chilling Haunted House, titanic weigh-off champion pumpkins, pie-eating, carving and costume contests, pancake breakfast, 5 and 10k run/walk, and three stages of blockbuster entertainment. Admission is free. For information call 650-726-9652 or visit www.miramarevents.com.
October 18-19:
Goblin Jamboree
Bay Area Discovery Museum, 557 McReynolds Road, East Fort Baker, Sausalito
10am-4pm
An annual family-oriented fundraiser features Halloween excitement with games, decorations, train rides, live entertainment, and, of course, trick-or-treats. Attend witches school, visit the petting zoo, ride a pony and enjoy a full brew of games, including Boo Bowling, and activities. $14 per person, ages one and above. For information call 415-339-3900 or visit www.baykidsmuseum.org.
October 18, 25 and 31:
Halloween Flashlight Tours
Winchester Mystery House, 525 S. Winchester Blvd., San Jose
6:30pm-12:27am
This one takes the pumpkin. Special flashlight tours ($43 per person) are offered on Oct. 18, 25 and 31 and every Friday the 13th. Tour the rambling mansion with only the moonlight, a souvenir flashlight and your imagination to guide you through a bewildering maze of rooms and stairways. For Halloween, there’s also special entertainment and trick-or-treating in the gardens for the whole family. For information, call 408-247-2000 or visit www.winchestermysteryhouse.com.
October 24:
Green Halloween
California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park
6:30-8:30pm
This fundraiser for the California Academy of Sciences is $350 per family (two adults plus up to two children), $100 each additional adult ticket, $75 per each additional child ticket. The greenest scene this Halloween will be inside the new Academy, from the rainforest to the ocean deep. Enjoy “spooktacular” activities, entertainment, crafts and fun for the entire family and have face-to-face encounters with Academy scientists and their creepy, crawly collection. Delicious food and creative entertainment will delight kids of all ages. For tickets call 415-379-5404 or visit www.calacademy.org.
October 24:
Queens Are Wild in the Castro
2001 Market St.
7 pm-12am
One of San Francisco’s newest Halloween traditions features casino games with celebrity dealers. Presented by the Stop AIDS project and Elbow Grease, the event includes dancing, performances, silent auction and a free glass of wine for everyone who comes in costume. Ticket levels start at $50 per person. To order tickets visit www.stopaids.org or call 415-575-0150, ext. 260.
October 24:
Halloween Ball
The Regency Center, 1290 Sutter St.
8:30pm-3am
Three floors of Halloween fun for ages 21 and over. Ten DJs and six venues in one; the Grand Ballroom features Trevor Simpson of 92.7, an 11-piece Latin salsa band will hold forth in the Latin Room, DJ Big Bad Bruce will bring back the ‘70s and ‘80s and there will be costume contests in all rooms with great prizes. For more information, call 415-673-6464 or 415-260-9920 or visit www.alfandalf.com or www.aykutevents.com.
October 24-25:
Exotic Erotic Ball & Expo
Treasure Island
Expo is open Friday, Oct. 24 2-10 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 25 noon-6pm
Ball Saturday Oct. 25 8pm-2am
Through its unique combination of mixing live mainstream musical, burlesque and circus performances with political irreverence and the bizarre, the 29th annual Perry Mann's Exotic Erotic Ball, considered the world's #1 adult-themed party event, has drawn more than half a million attendees over its long history. The entertainment is non-stop, of a limitless variety, traverses across multiple stages and more than 30,000 revelers are expected at this year's event, which is moving to a new location at Treasure Island. The expo will be open during the ball for the enjoyment of ball attendees. Hotel packages are available at four local hotels. For information visit www.exoticeroticball.com or call 415-567-BALL (2255).
October 25:
Family Halloween Day
Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, off Roosevelt above 14th and Castro streets
10am-2pm
Come in costume and join in the kid-friendly festivities at the Randall Museum’s Family Halloween Day. The Museum will be transformed into a Halloween haunt with a gamut of ghoulish games, creepy crafts, tricks and treats, pumpkins and more. Entertainment includes Jackie Jones playing the saw with her amazing dancing cat. Kids, ages 2-12, and their families; must be accompanied by an adult. Admission is free; low cost activities. For information call 415-554-9600 or visit www.randallmuseum.org.
October 25:
Halloween Family Cruise
Red and White Fleet, Pier 43½, Fisherman’s Wharf
Departs at 5pm
Just in time for Halloween, come aboard for a Halloween family cruise to enjoy chills and thrills on this fun, 90-minute costume party cruise for families on San Francisco Bay. Take part in a costume contest, enjoy delicious sweets, and marvel about the magnificent sights that San Francisco Bay has to offer. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. Adults $28; children ages 5-17, $18. To reserve space visit www.redandwhite.com or call 415-673-2900.
October 25:
Voices in the Dark
Marin Headlands
6-9 p.m.
Special five-mile, relatively flat, dusk-to-night hike is in search of two inhabitants — the coyote and great horned owl — whose nightly sounds haunt many human visitors. Along the way, learn more about the secret lives of these reclusive characters. Free. Meet at Tennessee Valley trailhead. For reservations, call 415-331-1540 or visit www.parksconservancy.org.
October 25:
Monster Bash
USS Hornet Museum, 707 W. Hornet Ave., Pier 3, Alameda Point, Alameda
7:30pm-12am
All ages are welcomed aboard this National Historic Landmark, the USS Hornet. Aptly nicknamed “The Gray Ghost,” the ship is the setting for a thrilling evening of dancing and haunted happenings. The family friendly event will feature live dance music from the 60s to the present by The Cocktail Monkeys, prizes for best costumes, a children’s area and haunted tours. Tickets are $20 adults, $10 children up to age 17; $25 at the gangplank. Proceeds benefit preservation of the historic aircraft carrier. For information, call 510-521-8448, ext. 282 or visit www.hornetevents.com.
October 25:
The KISS Screamin' Halloween Cruise
Hornblower Cruises and Events, Pier 3, The Embarcadero
Boarding begins at 8:30pm; boat departs at 9:30pm
Join 98.1 KISS-FM and Hornblower Cruises for the second annual KISS Screamin' Halloween Cruise. Come dressed to trick or treat and then jive to KISS-FM tunes until the clock strikes midnight. Tasty cocktails, delicious appetizers and stunning views make for a frighteningly good time. Tickets $38.30; gratuity, service and tax additional. For information call 888-467-6256 or visit www.hornblower.com.
October 25-26:
Boo at the Zoo
San Francisco Zoo, One Zoo Road, Great Highway and Sloat Blvd.
10am-4pm
Looking for an “un-boo-lievably” wild way to celebrate Halloween? Make plans to join the animals for two days of not-so-scary, high-spirited Halloween fun at Boo at the Zoo. Costumed kids and their families will have a howling good time encountering animals on the Haunted Nature Trail and thrills and chills visiting the Creepy Crawley Critters in the Insect Zoo. Make sure to check out the “Stomp and Chomp” animal enrichments when chimps, gorillas, lions, meerkats and more get to devour their pumpkins filled with treats. Kids will also enjoy free trick-or-treat stations all over the Zoo. Bring your family and friends for two days of big fun at Boo at the Zoo! The daytime event takes place rain or shine and is free with paid Zoo admission. For information call 415-753-7080 or visit www.sfzoo.org.
October 25-November 2:
Zeum’s Halloween Haunted House 10th Anniversary Celebration
Zeum, 221 Fourth St.
11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Haunted House open October 25-26 and Nov. 1-2 11am-5pm and October 29-31 1-5pm
Zeum, San Francisco’s hands-on multimedia museum for kids, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a week-long Halloween Haunted House experience opening with a free day on Saturday, Oct. 25, and continuing through Sunday, Nov. 2. The free day Oct. 25 will be a Halloween Birthday Bash including birthday cake and a trick-or-treating parade. Kids will also be able create spooky videos and animations, show off and win prizes for their costumes and enter a raffle for a free birthday party at Zeum and other prizes. Throughout the week, the Haunted House will be free with admission. Additional events for Zeum’s 10th anniversary include a Dia de Los Muertos Party Nov. 1, 12:30-2:30pm.; free gift for 10-year-olds with proof of age and inclusion in Zeum’s “10-Year-Old Celebrities” wall. Admission is $8 youth; $8 seniors and students; $10 adults; free for visitors age 2 and younger. For information call 415-820-3320 or visit www.zeum.org.
October 26:
Pumpkin Time!
Marin Headlands Visitors Center
10am-noon
Bring the whole family and a pumpkin or two to paint, carve and decorate and share some Halloween folklore and recipes that are truly scary. Reservations required. Free. For information call 415-331-1540 or visit www.parksconservancy.org.
October 26:
Pet Pride Day
Sharon Meadow, Golden Gate Park
11am–3pm
Hosted by Doug McConnell, Pet Pride Day is a fun-filled day of entertainment, education and information for everyone with two, or even four, legs. There will be a pet costume contest, trick competition, working animal demonstrations, and all kinds of adoptable animals — from chickens to chinchillas. The event is limited to dogs who must be leashed. For information, call 415-554-6364 or visit www.sfgov.org/site/acc.
October 26:
Gardens Halloween Costume Walk
Children’s Garden, Rooftop, Yerba Buena Gardens, Fourth and Howard streets
Noon–2pm
Hosted by the Unique Derique and featuring live music, children under 10 and their families are invited to parade around in Halloween finery. The Costume Walk also features performances and interactive games for kids. Kids in costume and their parents receive free admission to Zeum’s Haunted House experience. For information call 415-543-1718 or visit www.ybgf.org.
October 26:
Pumpkin Pandemonium
Pier 39, Bay and Embarcadero
Noon-4pm
Ghoulish and giddy behavior is part of the fun as kids in costume trick or treat throughout PIER 39’s Pumpkin Pandemonium. Children 12 and under are welcome to visit the shops, restaurants and attractions to gather their sweets. Pumpkin carving demonstrations, and face painting will be available, as well as photos with frightful characters and an ‘80s Halloween show, “It’s Like Halloween.” Children will be able to wander through the pumpkin patch to pick their one free pumpkin. For information, call 415-705-5500 or visit www.pier39.com.
October 26:
Halloween T-Dance
Ruby Skye, 420 Mason St.
6pm-12am
Dance the night away at Fresh's (www.freshsf.com) special Halloween T-Dance at Ruby Skye (www.rubyskye.com). DJ Phil B. will be working his usual magic. Restricted to ages 21 and over.
October 27:
Halloween Heroes
The Exploratorium, Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon St.
6-8:30pm
The Exploratorium partners with the Wender Weis Foundation for Children (WWFC) for their annual Halloween Heroes event. The museum will be transformed into a cool Halloween headquarters with hands-on science and art activities, celebrity athletes and media personalities, food and drink donated by top Bay Area restaurants, costumed characters, face painting, pumpkin carving, trick-or-treat stations and more. Tickets are $185 per adult plus one child under 18; $350 per couple plus two children under 18; $55 additional child 3-17; children 3 and under will be admitted free of charge; other options available. For information or to purchase tickets, visit www.wenderweis.org.
October 30:
Goblins, Ghouls and Ghosts Halloween Party
Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf, 165 Jefferson St.
8pm-1am
The Wax Museum of Fisherman’s Wharf, noted for more than 200 life-sized figures staged in elaborate scenes with costumes, props and lighting, may be the only place in San Francisco where one can actually party with ghosts. Outrageous costumes are encouraged. Advance tickets $80, $100 at the door, include hosted bar and “Frankenstein Franks.” For information and to purchase tickets, visit www.waxmuseum.com/halloween.
October 30-31:8
Yerba Buena Gardens and Oracle “Learning Days”
Yerba Buena Gardens Children’s Learning Center, Howard and Fourth Streets, near Zeum Carousel
11am-4pm
The year-long series of environmentally-focused educational activities and events for children sponsored by Oracle will incorporate a Halloween theme; craft activities include pumpkin decorating, the history and facts about pumpkins and Halloween. With kid-safe carving tools, stickers and paints, parents and children will create pumpkin art and monster puppets from paper bags. The Ghost Story Theatre will feature a shared activity with guides crafting and performing spooky stories. Little visitors will be assisted with face painting to prepare for the yearly Halloween costume walk at Yerba Buena Gardens. For information call 415-543-1718 or visit www.ybgf.org.
October 31:
Halloween Entertainment
The Cannery at Del Monte Square, 2801 Leavenworth St.
11:45am-8pm
Musical entertainment begins at 11:45 a.m. For information call 415-771-3112 or visit www.thecannery.com.
October 31:
City Halloween Celebration
Parking Lot A, open lot near AT&T Park
4 p.m. Family Event
8pm Live Music
Halloween in San Francisco takes on a decidedly different look for 2008 with an event planned for Parking Lot A, an open space south of Market near the ballpark. Plans include a family-friendly celebration from 4-8pm, complete with costume and pie-eating contests, followed by entertainment featuring local musicians and performers beginning at 8pm. Admission is free and open to the public. Smaller neighborhood celebrations will take place at clubs and businesses all over the City, as reflected in the City-sponsored campaign, Home for Halloween. At the heart of the LGBT community, the Castro, bars and restaurants will be open. However, streets will not be closed and traffic will flow normally. Guests are welcomed to dress up and join in celebrating San Francisco’s diversity and creativity while supporting local businesses and respecting the surrounding neighborhood. For information visit www.homeforhalloween.com.
October 31:
Halloween Carnival
Japanese Community and Cultural Center of Northern California (JCCNC), 1840 Sutter St.
6-8:30pm
Come to JCCCNC's and the Japanese Community Youth Council's Halloween Carnival for a safe spooky scene. Indoors arts and crafts, games, a trick or treat parade and a jumper are part of the fun. Also featured this year will be an all-new Mad Scientist Lab with hands-on experiments for kids of all ages. Space is limited. $3 per person at the door. For information call 415-567-5505 ext. 239 or visit http://www.jcccnc.org.
October 31:
Phantasmagorium- Halloween Night at the Palace of Frights
Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon St.
6-9pm
The Exploratorim will be transformed into a Phantasmagorium of spooky science and frightful fun. In the first annual Halloween fright night, the Exploratorium digs six feet under the cultural and scientific phenomena behind Halloween, Dia de los Muertos and death. Find out how nature deals with death and regeneration with a decomposing snake at the Energy from Death exhibit. Get sucked into the finer points of leech science with nurses (in costume, but for real) from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). Walk through a "graveyard" dedicated to debunked science ideas, including the recently entombed Pluto is a Planet (1930 - 2006). Witness the Iron Science Teacher competition where teachers compete before a live audience, or catch a sugar skull candy-making demonstration with master confectioner Irma Ortiz, among other events. Included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium. For information visit www.exploratorium.edu or call 415-EXP-LORE (397-5673).
October 31:
Teatro ZinZombie - A Macabre Ball at Teatro ZinZanni
Pier 29, The Embarcadero at Battery and Lombard streets
6:30pm
Teatro ZinZanni will host a special Halloween evening performance full of ghoulish love and chaotic decadence. Audiences are invited to dress up in their favorite costumes and join the Macabre Ball at Teatro ZinZombie. This promises to be a memorable evening that includes a costume parade and prizes to the top three costumes judged by Teatro ZinZanni’s spectacular cast members. For tickets, call 415-438.2668 or visit www.zinzanni.org.
October 31:
The Phantom of the Opera
Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave.
8pm
Relive the golden days of early cinema with Lon Chaney in his classic role in “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925). The live musical accompaniment to this gem of the silent film era comes from our majestic, 9,000-pipe Ruffatti organ, the largest concert hall organ in North America. Prices start at $25; half-price for ages 12 and under. For ticket information visit www.sfsymphony.org or call 415-864-6000.
October 31-November 1:
Wild Nights Family Overnight – Spooky Sleepover
San Francisco Zoo, One Zoo Road
Friday 6pm-Saturday 10am
This Halloween-themed version of the Zoo’s popular overnight program invites families for a nocturnal safari, pumpkin carving, keeper talk, comfy indoor camping, a continental breakfast and an exciting morning challenge for the whole family. Children must be six years old and accompanied by an adult. For groups of 30 or more, call to schedule your overnight. Fee for members $65 for children 6-12 years old and $75 for adults; all others $75 and $85. Pre-registration required. For information call 415-753-8124 or visit www.sfzoo.org.
October 31-November 1:
Improv Halloween Show
Bayfront Theatre, Building B, Fort Mason
8pm
True Fiction Magazine returns to the Bayfront Theatre for its annual Halloween shows. The renowned ensemble creates a night of intersecting stories from a single suggestion from the audience. For information call 415-474-6776 or visit www.improv.org.
November 2:
Doggy Halloween Party & Fashion Show
Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point
4pm
Hosted by Yap, the fashion show will include pooches dressed up for Halloween with DJ entertainment and prizes for winners. Refreshments for dogs and their owners. For information visit www.ghirardellisq.com or call 415-775-5500.
November 2:
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and Festival of Altars
24th and Bryant streets
7pm
The annual procession in San Francisco’s Mission District begins at the corner of 24th and Bryant at 7pm. It will continue on Bryant Street, then to Mission, and will end at Garfield Park, Harrison and 26th Streets, where local artists have been commissioned to build community altars. The theme for the Festival of Altars is “Crossing Borderlines,” to celebrate the journey that many people have taken to call San Francisco home. Participants are invited to bring candles, flowers, photos, food and/or drink and other mementos to place on the altars in celebration of the lives of those now gone. Dia de los Muertos is a traditional Meso-American holiday dedicated to ancestors; it honors both death and the cycle of life. This event is family friendly and free. For information, visit www.dayofthedeadsf.org. A guided walking tour ($25 per person) in conjunction with the Day of the Dead is available by reservation at www.jwalks.com.
San Francisco Ghost Hunt at The Queen Anne Hotel
1590 Sutter St.
7 p.m. nightly (except Tuesdays)
Stories of a friendly ghost at The Queen Anne Hotel come from its origin as Miss Mary Lake's Finishing School For Girls. The former head of the school, Miss Mary Lake, disappeared shortly after the school closed. Some locals believe that she never left her role as caretaker and still looks after people at the hotel today, specifically overnight guests in Room 410 where she used to live. Ghost hunters are encouraged to dress warmly. $20, $10 for ages 15 and younger; not recommended for ages eight and under. Tours meet in the lobby of The Queen Anne. For details call 415-922-5590 or visit www.sfghosthunt.com.
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HUMANITIES WEST 2008-2009 SEASON
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10/17/2008 |
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04/18/2009 |
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Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue near McAllister
San Francisco |
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Humanities West, now in its twenty-fifth year, will present three unique lecture/performance programs during its 2008 - 2009 season: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND THE INVENTION OF AMERICA (October 17 - 18, 2008); INDIA RISING - TRADITION MEETS MODERNITY (February 27 - 28, 2009) and CONFRONTING NAPOLEON – EUROPEAN CULTURE AT THE CROSSROADS (April 17 - 18, 2009). Check their website for program information.
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REDBULL SOAPBOX RACE
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http://www.redbullsoapboxusa.com |
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10/18/2008 |
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Dolores Park
Dolores Street between 18th Street and 20th Street
San Francisco
Muni bus: 26 Valencia. Muni metro: J Church
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The event will feature a field of 40 hand-made racers, driven by men and women daring enough to brave steep drops, hairpin turns and scary speeds in pursuit of achieving raceway glory. San Franciscans can keep their eyes peeled for a burrito truck, a giant baseball, a cable car, a belt
sander and more zooming down Dolores Street alongside historic Mission
Dolores Park. Red Bull Soapbox Race will finally put to rest the long-standing argument about which San Francisco landmark is faster - the Transamerica Pyramid or the Golden Gate Bridge – as both take to the street as racers in a cross-town shootout. Other crafts rounding out the roster include: a hamster wheel, a pig with wheels, a giant squid, the Death Star and the Tin Man. The teams come from all over California and as far north as Bellingham, WA and as far west as Honolulu, HI.
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WISDOM FESTIVAL
| Website: |
http://www.wisdomfestival.com |
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10/18/2008 |
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10/19/2008 |
| Time: |
9am-8pm |
| Price: |
$59 for both days |
| Location: |
Fort Mason Center
Herbst Pavilion
Buchanan Street & Marina Boulevard
San Francisco |
| Phone: |
800-367-5777 |
The Wisdom Festival is a two day conversation about…wisdom. How we can take what we have learned through books, teachings, science and our own experience and combine it with developed insight and apply it to our careers, relationships, our personal lives and the state of the world and planet today.
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THE STATE MUSEUMS OF BERLIN AND THE LEGACY OF JAMES SIMON
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http://www.legionofhonor.org |
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10/18/2008 |
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01/18/2009 |
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Tuesday–Sunday, 9:30 am–5:15 pm; closed on Monday |
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$20 adults; $17 seniors; $16 youths 13–17 and students with college I.D; members and children 12 and under are free; $10 special exhibition surcharge included in the pricing above; eneral admission is free the first Tuesday of every month ($10 special exhibition surcharge still applies);$10 admission for permanent collection only. |
| Location: |
Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park
34th Avenue and Clement Street
San Francisco
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| Phone: |
415-750-3600 |
An outstanding collection of the treasures of the State Museums of Berlin that honors the contributions of patron James Simon debuts at the Legion of Honor this October. The State Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon is a case study of the history of collecting during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and features approximately 150 works from nine separate Berlin museums. This exhibition includes Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque sculptures, Old Master paintings, works on paper including eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints, art of the Silk Road, and European folk art donated by Simon for the State Museums of Berlin. James Simon (1851–1932), a German Jew, was a patron of the arts, connoisseur, collector and philanthropist best known for his sponsorship of excavations in Egypt, the Near East, and Central Asia that brought great riches from the ancient world to Berlin including the bust of Nefertiti and the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and its Processional Way. Dedicating his life to public welfare, Simon displayed a remarkable social commitment and created an extraordinary cultural legacy. His gift of thousands of items to the State Museums of Berlin identified him as one of Berlin’s most important patrons and elevated Berlin to the ranks of museum capitals such as London, Paris, and Vienna.
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HALLOWEEN BALL
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http://www.aykutevents.com/events_halloween.htm |
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10/24/2008 |
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10/24/2008 |
| Time: |
8:30pm-3am |
| Price: |
Call for information |
| Location: |
Hyatt Regency Center
1290 Sutter Street at Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco |
| Phone: |
415-260-9920 |
Three floors of Halloween fun for ages 21 and over. Top DJs sping music and there will be costume contests in all rooms with great prizes.
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ZEUM HALLOWEEN BASH
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http://www.zeum.org/ |
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10/25/2008 |
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10/25/2008 |
| Time: |
6-8pm |
| Price: |
Free |
| Location: |
Zeum
221 Fourth Street at Howard
San Francisco, CA |
| Phone: |
415-820-3320 |
Zeum, San Francisco’s hands-on multimedia museum for kids, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a week-long Halloween Haunted House experience opening with a FREE day on Saturday, October 25 and continuing through Sunday, November 2, from 11am–5pm each day. In addition to being the opening day of San Francisco’s only Haunted House experience for kids, the FREE day on Saturday, October 25th will be a Halloween Birthday Bash including birthday cake and a trick-or-treating parade. Kids will also be able create spooky videos and animations, show off and win prizes for their costumes and enter a raffle for a free birthday party at Zeum, a Zeum Carousel Pass for the year, a Zeum Store gift card, and other prizes. Throughout the week, the Haunted House will be free with admission.
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