See Paris through rose-colored glasses, learn about why Hitler jokes were prevalent even in Nazi Germany, and hear some skilled storytellers tell randomly themed tales without any scripts or notes. more ›

Avengers play Bottom of the Hill, a former Blair Witch star dishes about the marijuana industry at the Booksmith, and video artists from eight different international cities showcase their work at YBCA. more ›

MUSIC: It's a night of classic '80s new wave at Mezzanine, featuring Tom Tom Club, which was formed by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (of Talking Heads fame) and The Fixx, whose most memorable hit was “One Thing Leads To Another”. (8 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street) more ›

PHOTOGRAPHY: Rayko presents its 5th Annual Plastic Camera Show, featuring the work of local, national, and international photographers who were picked from thousands of entries, including Robert Holmgren, a past best-of-show winner. (6 to 8 p.m., Rayko Photo Center, 428 Third Street) more ›

Tonight, meet some cutting edge female authors at Not Your Mother's Book Club, watch iconic soul and jazz artists from the '60s and '70s on the big-screen at Oddball Films, or experience the soulful sounds of female Bay Area artists live and on-stage at Yoshi's Oakland. more ›

MUSIC: Sunset Promotions and Mezzanine present a night of dubstep and bass with West Londoner Caspa, who was "brought up on a diet of jungle & hiphop," along with guests Antennae and the Ritual Dubstep DJs. (9 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street) more ›

One-of-a-kind gifts at Project One Gallery, Holiday Lights Bike Ride through town and a potluck at a secret locale, and The Mother Hips, Kelley Stoltz, and Acacia at Great American. more ›

DRINKING: FunCheapSF has the scoop on 21st Amendment Brewery's annual celebration of Repeal Day with 5-cent beers, a march against Prohibition, a secret speakeasy event (password required!), and the tapping of the cask of Repeal Day IPA. Costumes encouraged! (4 p.m. to Midnight, 21st Amendment Brewery & Restaurant, 563 2nd Street) more ›

TALK: Ben Fong-Torres will be interviewing composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Taj Mahal, one of the most prominent and influential figures in contemporary blues and roots music, with accompaniment by live musical interludes. (8 p.m., Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street) more ›

ART/LECTURE: Visiting artist Stephen Kaltenbach with speak about his lengthy and diverse career most notably "creating conceptual gestures, magazine advertisements, diagrammatic propositions, 'Street Works,' time capsules, and photorealistic paintings," as part of S.F. Art Institute's free Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. (7:30 p.m., San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut 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 ›

MUSIC: Male Bonding, whose music is "animated by an infectious, evangelical zeal that reflects their roots in the D.I.Y. indie rock community," takes the stage at the Rickshaw, along with Water (featuring Van of Port O'Brien) and Lilac. (8 p.m., Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street) more ›

PHOTOGRAPHY: Open Show, which organizes live events worldwide featuring the work of photographers, filmmakers, and multimedia producers in high-profile spaces, is celebrating its two-year anniversary with a special print exhibition featuring more than 60 photographers from 25 Bay Area shows. (5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Rayko Photo Center, 428 Third Street) more ›

San Francisco gem Daniel Handler recently penned a clever synopsis of Occupy Wall Street through the voice of Lemony Snicket, entitled "Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance." more ›

MUSIC: New Zealand's The Renderers will fill the Hemlock with their psychedelic noise rock, which they've been making since before the 90s, along with folk psych-rockers Sore Eros from Northampton, Massachusetts and the Bay Area's Christine Shields. (9 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk Street) more ›

IndieMart: IndieMart celebrates Indian Summer with a "full fledged metal & psych rock fest, loaded with short sleeves a plenty, foxy ladies in fringe, summer BBQ, one too many beers and oh yeah, the best part- 100 rad vendors," including DIY-ers, makers, designers, screenprinters, illustrators, artists, typographers, vintage, a few carpenters, and foodies. more ›

READING: Author Adam Mansbach will be at City Lights performing a complete reading of Go the F**k to Sleep, a kids book that's just for adults. (It's a phrase that SFist finds ourselves muttering almost nightly, among millions of others.) (7 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue) more ›

LITERARY: There might still be tickets available at the door to see the multi-talented John Lithgow at the Kabuki Theater talking about his new memoir, Drama, which Steve Martin says, "tells of transgressions, indiscretions, and tabloid-worthy affairs that my PR people could only have wished for." (7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Sundance Kabuki Theater, 1881 Post Street) more ›

Pop-Up Magazine fans, get your fingers ready -- tickets to Pop-Up Magazine Issue No. 5, which takes place on November 9th at Davies Symphony Hall, go on sale tomorrow at Noon. The event, which is the world's first "live" magazine, sells out within hours of tickets going on sale, with good reason. more ›

THEATER: It's opening night of Primitive Screwheads' month-long comedic theater production of ShEvil Dead, in which "[f]ive girls vacation at a cabin in the woods and inadvertently unleash powerful demons and monsters into the world." (8 p.m., CellSpace, 2050 Bryant) more ›

COMEDY: You have two weekends left to catch beloved local comedy troupe Killing My Lobster's latest sketch comedy show, Killing My Lobster Conquers the Galaxy, which includes "the real story of how Dr. Who chooses his time-traveling companions; Space Wizard antics; Italians running a space station and more." (8 p.m., The Jewish Theater San Francisco, 470 Florida Street) more ›

STORYTELLING: The talented folks at Muni Diaries, who are seriously funny people in person, are hosting their first Muni Diaries Live Reunion and Open Mic, featuring Muni Diaries Live alumni telling the stories that they didn't tell the first time around. Additionally, special guest Anna Conda will be at the event reading the winning review from Muni Diaries' Muni Google Places contest. (6:30 to 9 p.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street) more ›

MUSIC: SFJazz presents Carmen Souza, a Lisbon-born "jazz-tinged chanteuse" of Cape Verdean descent, who performs a seductive combination of traditional rhythms and songs with jazz and Brazilian influences. (7:30 p.m., Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street) more ›

COMEDY: Ex-scientist turned comedian Tim Lee takes the stage at the Punchline. As NY Times reports, "The former biologist was Tim Lee. After completing his undergraduate biology degree at the University of California, San Diego, he worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for a while before he realized he needed a doctorate to do the interesting work. But by the time he finished his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, he had realized he hated academia." Hilarious! $20, 8 pm, Punchline (444 Battery) more ›

FILM: Noise Pop and The Roxie present the West Coast premiere of Better Than Something, the new documentary about the controversial and prolific Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, aka Jay Reatard, which intimately captures Jay just months before his untimely passing amidst his complicated punk-rock world in Memphis, Tennessee. (7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

FILM: Vigilante Vigilante, the documentary featuring Berkeley's infamous anti-graffiti cleaner-upper among others, will be at the Roxie for a couple more days. Ironically, the filmmakers have royally pissed off the city, whose crews have had to clean up dozens of wheat paste posters for the film throughout the city. (7 and 9 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

FASHION: Project One Gallery is being transformed into a modern-day salon for Entitled, in which avant garde artists and designers have been invited to be "entitled and courageous in their expression of culture, sexuality, and fashion," featuring both fashion pieces and fashion-inspired art and sculpture. (7 p.m. to 1 a.m., Project One, 251 Rhode Island Street) more ›

FILM: The newly restored dystopic 1973 science-fiction epic, World on a Wire, which is a "cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia" is a previously "unseen three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth from one of cinema’s 'kinkiest geniuses'". (7 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street) more ›

READING: Bestselling author Christopher Moore and award-winning screenwriter and director Ian Corson will be at the Booksmith tonight presenting their new collaboration, The Griff: A Graphic Novel, which is about "an alien invasion of Earth and the motley crew of humans who save the world—sort of." (7:30 p.m., The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street) more ›

The folks at Contemporary Jewish Museum are pretty smart cookies when it comes to putting out fires. In response to the controversy that SFist wrote about earlier this week regarding a security guard who told a lesbian couple that they couldn't hold hands while viewing the current Seeing Gertrude Stein exhibit, the museum has swiftly and brilliantly organized a Hand Holding Day, which will take place this Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. more ›