Los Angeles [Until 10/31] Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s “Halloween Spooktacular” [Tickets]
California
[10/28-10/30] Explorers Guild Caravan Rally 2016, “an epic journey crossing hundreds of miles, locating checkpoints, accomplishing outlandish tasks and doing so all in the company of some of the weirdest / greatest people in SF” [Register your team]
SF Bay Area
[10/29-10/30] Treasure Island Flea Market, Treasure Island, SF
Various Cities
[Ongoing] Silent Book Club
[Until 2/9/2017] Mortified Live! “Witness a night of adults telling stories about their lives by sharing their most mortifying childhood artifacts (diaries, letters, lyrics, poems, home movies)… in front of total strangers”
[2017] Adam Ant goes on tour, playing his 1980 album, Kings of the Wild Frontier, live
Alameda, California
[Fri/Sat/Sundays in October] Haunted Hornet at the USS Hornet [Tickets]
[11/5] The 23rd Annual Le Bal des Vampires at Alameda Elks Lodge [Tickets]
[11/10-11/13] Shoot The Moon! Pacific Pinball Expo #7 [Tickets]
[12/10] Accordion Babes Cabaret Revue at Rhythmix Cultural Works, 8 PM [Tickets]
[12/10] SOLD OUT! Mid-Century Supper Club Holiday Potluck Extravaganza! at the Eagles Hall, 6 PM to 11 PM
Albany, California
[11/11] Secret Identities, the Real Numbers & Jason Berk at Ivy Room, 9 PM show [Tickets]
Austin, Texas
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Berkeley, California
[11/3] That Really Happened???, a monthly storytelling series at The Monkey House, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM Thanks, Susie!
[1/6] The Lookouting: A Celebration of Lookout! Records at 924 Gilman
Black Rock City, Nevada
[8/27-9/4/2017] Burning Man 2017
Boston, Massachusetts
[12/17] A John Waters Christmas at Berklee Performance Center, 8 PM [Tickets]
Burbank, California
[10/23-11/2] It’s the Great Pumpkin Art Show, Charlie Brown! art show at Creature Features Gallery
Carefree, Arizona
[Until 10/31] Ray Villafane’s Enchanted Pumpkin Garden
Denver, Colorado
[4/8-4/9/2017] DINK: Independent Comic Expo, “Urban art with literature, zines, small press publishers, underground comix and cocktails!” Thanks, Mike McDaniel!
[12/7] A John Waters Christmas at Boulder Theater, 8 PM [Tickets]
Detroit
[April 2017] Allee Willis’ The “D” premieres at the Fisher Building, party to follow
Houston, Texas
[11/4-11/5] Puddles Pity Party at Alley Theatre, 8 PM [Tickets]
[5/12/2017] Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds
Las Vegas
[Ongoing] Akhob, an immersive “Ganzfeld effect” experience by artist James Turrell at Louis Vuitton [by appt only: 702-730-3150] HIGHLY recommended!
London
[Until 10/30] Dinner At The Twits: “Join Mr & Mrs Twit in their windowless house and ghastly garden for an evening you will never forget.” [Tickets]
Los Angeles
[Until 10/31] Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s “Halloween Spooktacular” [Tickets]
[Until 10/31] Queen Mary Dark Harbor at That Big Ship in Long Beach
[Until 11/27] Guillermo del Toro exhibit at LACMA
[10/28, 10/29 & 10/30] “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”: Danny Elfman Halloween show at Hollywood Bowl with special guests, including Paul Reubens (second two shows are sold out!)
[10/30] The Heritage Scare, an evening of competitive murder [Tickets] Thanks, Tommy!
[10/30] Alone: The Rite of the Anthropocene at an undisclosed location, 8 PM [Tickets]
[10/30] The Cory Beers Cimbalom Band at Museum of Jurassic Technology [Tickets]
[10/31] Shep Gordon with Alice Cooper, 8 PM [Tickets]
[10/31] Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Spooktacular at Cinefamily, 7:30 PM [Tickets]
[11/4 & 11/5] Cinefamily screening of The Point! at Bob Baker Marionette Theater (with puppet show) “On the heels of his Grammy win for ‘Everybody’s Talkin’,’ pioneering singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson submerged himself deep in an LSD trip and emerged with his sixth studio album, the hallucinogen-fueled, narrative-driven The Point!” [Tickets]
[11/5 &11/6] Krampus mask-masking workshops, 1 PM to 5 PM [Register for 11/5 event]
[11/10] Sam Green & Yo La Tengo Live Score: The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller at Skirball Cultural Center, 8 PM [Tickets]
[11/10-11/11/2017] National Beard and Mustache Championship
[11/19] Publication party for The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas at La Luz de Jesus
[11/26] Krampus lecture with costumed characters, slides, and video at the Goethe Institut
[12/2] Fourth Annual Krampus Ball with D’Oberlandler Bavarian dance troupe and others TBA
[12/5-12/8] Henry Rollins at Largo
[12/8] Los Angeles Krampuslauf at Downtown Art Walk. After-party with Rosemary’s Billygoat at the Regent
[12/10] TORRANCE: Krammpstein at Alpine Village
[12/11] St. Nicholas-Krampus Play, Austrian folk songs and stories by Michael Kaufmann, from Styria, Austria.
[12/17 & 12/18] Charles Phoenix’s Retro Slide Show, “Live Comedy Performance Celebrating 50s & 60s Holiday Life And Style!, Brea, CA
[1/27-1/29] stARTup Fair LA, “Los Angeles’s contemporary art fair for independent artists”
[Starts 10/2017] Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at The Broad
Malden, Massachusetts
[Ongoing] Boda Borg
Maxwell, California
[6/15-6/18/2017] Camp Tipsy 2017, “an annual rotten boat building contest and campout”
Nevada City, California
[11/5] Mark Growden Quartet + The Calling All Choir, 8 PM
[11/6] Mark Growden’s Community Sing at the Nevada Theatre, 11 AM, donations accepted
New Orleans
[7/18-7/23/2017] Tales of the Cocktail
New York City
Quirky NYC by Oriana Leckert:
:: “From Bumper Cars to Torah Taxidermy: A Guide to 25 of Brooklyn’s Most Unusual Museums”
:: “From Elevators to Outsider Art: A Guide to 16 Under-the-Radar Museums in Queens”
[Ongoing] Sleep No More at The McKittrick Hotel
[Ongoing] Jungle-Ized by Sound Collective, Free
[Ongoing] The Ferry Play on the Staten Island Ferry, $1.99
[Ongoing] More NYC events
[Ongoing] Madame Tussauds New York hyper-reality Ghostbusters Experience
[10/26] Opening night for Wilderness, a “multimedia, documentary theatre experience that illuminates the quest for connection within the 21st century American family”
[11/10] 55th Annual Gala for La MaMa experimental theatre (with a live performance by Allee Willis)
[11/13] California Typewriter at IFC Center, 1:30 PM [Tickets]
[11/27] A John Waters Christmas at City Winery New York, 8 PM
Oakland
[Until 12/11] Root Collection: 20 Years of the Patti Smith Collection at Mills College Art Museum
[11/16] #PATTIGRAM opening reception
[Until 2/17/2017] All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50 at OMCA
[10/29] Extra Action Marching Band with Bluball Review (burlesque) and DJ Justin Credible at Oakland Metro Opera House
[ELECTION NIGHT 11/8] The SMASH Arcade Presents: Electoral Catharsis ” election results will be broadcast along with some live entertainment and a whole lot of smashing up of bullshit, arcade style” at NIMBY
[11/13] An Afternoon with David Sedaris, 4 PM to 7 PM [Tickets]
[12/6] Yarn 4 : Comedy Storytelling hosted by Heather Gold
[12/13] Tig Notaro at Fox Theater, 8 PM [Tickets]
[4/19-4/24, 2017] Psychedelic Science 2017 at Oakland Marriott Center [Tickets]
Oregon
[8/17-8/23/2017] Oregon Eclipse 2017, a “total solar eclipse gathering”
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thank you, Stefan Jewett!
[Until 10/31] ERASERHEAD FOREVER exhibit at Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art
[11/9] Diane Coffee at Boot & Saddle, 8:30 PM
Plains, Georgia
[Sundays] (Former President) Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School Class
Portland, Oregon
[11/20] PDX : Va-Jay-Jay Day! A Celebration of All Things Pussy!
Tulare and Sacramento, California
[Weekends until 1/6/2017] Global Winter Wonderland
San Diego
[12/15] Presentation on The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas at San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park
[3/4-3/11] JoCo Cruise 2017, “a whole cruise ship full of music, comedy, and general nerdery”
Santa Fe, New Mexico
[Ongoing] Meow Wolf [Read this] [Tickets]
San Francisco
:: “Best storytelling events in the Bay Area”
:: Upscale vs. Frugal SF
[Ongoing] Elsewhere Philatelic Society
[Ongoing] More SF events
[Ongoing] Prelinger Library events
[10/13-10/28] Into the Mouth of the Wolf Part I, a hybrid storytelling and circus show at the Great Star Theater
[10/29-11/13] Into the Mouth of the Wolf Part 2, a hybrid storytelling and circus show at the Great Star Theater
[Friday nights in October] Ask Dr. Hal at Chez Poulet
[Through Oct] San Francisco Neon Survivors and Icons From the Archives, SF Library, Main Branch, 4th floor
[Until 10/30] Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition at The Contemporary Jewish Museum (highly recommended!)
[Through November] Come Out and Play SF 2016
Some highlights: Thx, Albert!
[11/20] The Dance and the Dawn: Dreams of Ice and Ash, “An improvisational theater LARP, with high drama and emotional investment.”
[Until 12/18] Home Land Security at Fort Winfield Scott and the Presidio, Wednesday through Sunday, 10 AM to 6 PM, Free
[Until 12/31] Real Housewives of Macaroni, New portraits by Jason Mecier at Dog Eared Books Castro, 489 Castro Street
[10/25] Odd Salon: Justice at DNA Lounge [Tickets]
[10/26] RAW:San Francisco presents VERVE, 7 PM
[10/27] Author Dale Dougherty on the Maker Movement at Mechanics’ Institute Library and Chess Room, 6 PM to 9 PM [Tickets]
[10/27-11/6] Secret of the Cursed Chapel (site-specific escape room) [Tickets]
[10/31] 5th Annual American Tripps Halloween Party at Pops Bar, 6 PM on
[10/31] The Night Circus Halloween Soirée, 7 PM to 12 AM [Tickets]
[11/1] Human Organ Painting Night at the Hotel Majestic, “An evening of wine, painting, science, hearts, and brains,” 7 PM to 9 PM, 21+ [Tickets]
[11/6] Children Are Forever: All Sales Are Final, a show by Julia Jackson at Stage Werx, 2 PM to 3:30 PM [Tickets]
[11/9] Fireside Storytelling: “Caught in the Act” at Chez Poulet, 8 PM
[11/9] Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘More! More! More!’ at the Verdi Club, 8 PM
[11/12] Concert: The First Annual SF SingFest with Mark Growden’s Calling All Choir at Mission Dolores Basilica
[11/13] The Community Sing: The First Annual SF SingFest with Mark Growden’s Calling All Choir at Polish Club, 3040 22nd Street, 6 PM
[11/17] Flying Robot International Film Festival at the Roxie Theatre, 7 PM [Tickets]
[11/19] Aerial Imagery Workshop Day at Monument, 11 AM to 7 PM
[11/19] The Artumnal Gathering, 5:45 PM to 2 AM
[11/19-12/18] The Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace
[11/20] The Cannaisseur Series presents “The Harvest to Table Dinner,” Password: FRAULEINCHEF420
[11/30] A John Waters Christmas at Great American Music Hall, 8 PM [Tickets]
[12/7 & 12/8) “Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show Parts 1 & 2” at the Alamo Drafthouse
[12/14] Fireside Storytelling: “Hot!” at Chez Poulet, 8 PM
[1/1/2017] The 17th Annual Breakfast of Champions, 6 AM to 6 PM [Tickets]
[10/2017] 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love
Santa Monica, California
[11/6] LA: Va-Jay-Jay Day! A Celebration of All Things Pussy!, 2 PM to 6 PM
Scottsboro, Alabama
[Ongoing] Unclaimed Baggage Center Thanks, Farrah!
Seattle
“The Obscure, the Charming and the Odd: Mark Pahlow’s Guide to Seattle”
[10/27] Bawdy Storytelling: Wicked at Re-Bar, 8 PM to 10:30 PM
Sun Valley, Idaho
[3/19/2017-3/22/2017] Dent 2017, a creative retreat for people who want to “put a dent in the universe,” as Steve Jobs once said. (Highly recommended!)
Vancouver, BC
Personal Piñata: Craft and Artistry Workshop with Meaghan Kennedy, 12 PM to 4 PM
Vienna, Austria
[12/8-12/11] Roboexotica, a festival for cocktail robots
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