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By Maria Mouk for Silicon Valley Watcher

Days have gotten shorter, so embrace the longer nights as the Bay culture saturates the darker hours with possibility. Thursday evening starts off with the SF Sustainable Business Happy Hour at Elixir (16th St. @ Guerrero.) from 6:00 - 8:00PM, where this week Michelle from Organic Vintners will be pouring Pinot Grigio, Cabernet Savignon, and Tawny Port samples. Also, Green Zebra will be joining in to promote their new coupon book for green businesses.

Friday; Modeselektor, of label BPitch, and recent release 'Hello, Mom' are performing at 1015 Folsom. Coming all the way from Berlin and hailing a pretty amazing IDM glitch hiphop sprawl, this show is not to be missed. Also on deck will be Adam Freeland, a UK based DJ and Producer specializing in nu skool breaks with quite a history of his own, and keep your ears open while you're out for the free special underground venue performance.

Dont forget to stop by to the Grist Happy Hour on Friday. The environmental news and commentary publication from Seattle will be at 111 Minna Gallery serving up conversation and a variety of organic food and cocktails.

Saturday afternoon, the Messy Monkey Arts has teamed up with the Ghetto Gourmet, voted BEST OF THE BAY for their exclusive gourmet dinner parties. Also voted BEST OF THE BAY, will be Das Frachtgut, known for their legendary veggie-fueled orange party bus to take you on adventure throughout the City & beyond.

The "Teacher With the Bus" will pick you up and stop at different hidden pockets to engage in intriguing activities such as painting with brooms and feet to live music by our special guests, the Bluebellies;  as well as engaging in an enticing 4-course meal, with only the finest cuisine prepared by the Ghetto Gourmet. Between intervals, guests will hop back on the bus where drinking and dancing are both allowed and encouraged. It will end with champagne toasts and a fashion show. Vague and
interesting. 

If you're feeling political, with the voting agenda that befell this week's activity, be the riot at BeThe Riott. On Saturday, a huge concert lands at Bill Graham Auditorium, with artists such as The Rapture, Diplo, Saul Williams, Breakestra, and more. The Riott aims to
be a culture expo, featuring the most cohesive representation of music, street fashion, and art in the nation. Should make for an exciting evening and culturally diverse evening.

Scorpio Ball also falls on Saturday night, at Kink.com's Porn Palace.This years theme is titled "The Tropic of Scorpio", so slather on the bain du soleil and dive deep into the sounds of Eskmo, Dave Seied, Ripple, Syd Gris, Mozaic, and then some.

Lasting all weekend is the San Francisco Green Festival (Nov 10th- 12th), at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center. Speakers, exhibitors, individuals, business and community leaders will come together to discuss social and environmental issues of personal, local, national, and global concern.

[diggrz refers to the nomadic lifestyle offered by mobile digital technologies and gadgets - creating a "nomadig" culture. The diggrz name is also a tip-of-the-hat to some of the ideas of the Diggers, a democratic group that arose in 1649, out of the English revolution .

The Diggers were a radical group that cultivated and protected common lands, and sought to create egalitarian, self-sustaining communities. The Diggers would have found  kindred spirits in today's software engineer culture,  and the focus on creating  commonly owned technologies through egalitarian open source community projects. - Tom Foremski]

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