ART: The Ever Gold Gallery presents Beats by the Bay: SF Artists & Galleries of the Fifties, featuring work by the less publicized Beat visual artists, including artist/writer/educator Fred Martin, gallery ephemera from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library artist files, vintage photographs by Jerry Burchard, as well as Beat era posters, photographs, publications, mail art and paintings from noted area galleries, private dealers and collectors. (8 to 10 p.m., The Ever Gold Gallery, 441 O'Farrell Street) more ›

Classical Halloween at Freight & Salvage, writer/New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik at JCCSF, and costume contest and trick or treating in Nopa. more ›

PERFORMANCE: Surrealistic one-man band, Andrew Goldfarb (aka The Slow Poisoner) and absurdist writer/performer Dan Carbone, have merged as The Wounded Stag, a "psychotronic vaudeville," in which they "sing from their hearts and play from their guts about demon children, demon blackbirds, demon dogs, demon Eskimos and most of other popular demon themes beloved by all the people." more ›

BENEFIT: Green Planet Films presents a benefit screening of Truck Farm!, in which filmmaker Ian Cheney turned the 40 square feet of space in his truck's bed into an urban farm bed. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by David Perkins from Malibu Compost on the importance of growing healthy soil, to grow healthy plants. Space is limited, so get there early! more ›

MEET-UP: The creators of Shitty Kitty are moving to Morocco, and this is Shitty Kitty's last meet-up for quite some time. So come by for their Bastille Day Partay and bid them adieu. more ›

We've been big fans of Good Magazine since their premier issue came out last fall. We love the inspiring stories they cover and the ways they present them -- graphics, design, and concept are given as much weight as the words. We also love that the staff is predominantly made up of young people -- much younger than we are, we might add. (Incidentally, bad-boy Al Gore III is the associate publisher.) Some recent,... more ›

La Vie En Rose (the Embarcadero) is a full course, all four food groups, soup and cocktails, dinner of a film. (It screened at the SFIFF, and we loved it then too!) And if you haven’t had your fill by the end of Olivier Dahan’s homage to the great Parisian icon Edith Piaf (breathtakingly portrayed by Marion Cotillard), you can always watch it again. more ›

Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro: Gary Singh does his best Travis Bickel to help out a friend getting blackmailed for her journal. Cover article: Blogs! Will they change politics? (no.) An experimental Canadian thriller, a documentary about Israel and Palestine: it's Cinequest time. Greek food in Santa Clara -- we were taken by the title, "Your Pal Is Athena." And BET Uncut -- the educational TV program! ("Once an acoustic guitar gets to strumming, a half-naked multicultural boat party will break out." So true!) more ›