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Sherman Alexie
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Monday Dec 1 (8pm) @ Herbst Theater
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For a country comprised of less than one percent of its indigenous people, Native American author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie's voice is crucially important. But... View details »
- Film: Animation
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Martha Colburn
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Tuesday Dec 2 (7:30pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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Martha Colburn's ability to successfully comment on the complexities, anomalies, and contradictions of our society stems from her own anxiety, outsider perspective, and downright amazing... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Blitzen Trapper
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Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ The Independent
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Portland's Blitzen Trapper stick closer to countrified indie rock this time around, drawing some obvious influence from Wilco on their latest release, Furr. The sextet's... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Sea and Cake
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Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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Built from the wreckage of the late, great Shrimp Boat, arty popsters the Sea and Cake are the frothy confection their name implies, with the... View details »
- Reading
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Gary Snyder
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Wednesday Dec 3 (7pm) @ Diesel, A Bookstore
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Although Lawrence Ferlinghetti dubbed poet Gary Snyder the "Thoreau of the Beat Generation" and he appears in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, Snyder remained somewhat... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Oasis
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Wednesday Dec 3 (7pm) @ Oracle Arena
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After the warm reception they received for their last album, 2005's Don't Believe the Truth, Oasis stuck to their legendary ain't-broke-don't-fix-it ethos, with the Gallagher... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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Wu-Tang Clan
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Wednesday Dec 3 (8pm) @ The Grand Ballroom
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Wu-Tang Clan hit the road this winter to keep plugging last year's full-length, the fitfully brilliant 8 Diagrams. Although bad blood emerged briefly between the... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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No Age
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Thursday Dec 4 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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After censors forced him to remove his Obama shirt at a taping for the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, No Age guitarist Randy Randall... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Stebastien Tellier
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Thursday Dec 4 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
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A club superstar for the American Apparel set, French popster Sebastien Tellier toes the line between bangin' electroclash and unrepentant new wave kitsch, simultaneously alluding... View details »
- Art
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The Vivisect Playset Five
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Friday Dec 5 (7–10pm) @ Gallery 1988
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Equal parts visual titillation and thoughtful exploration, The Vivisect Playset Five dissects the human condition through use of animal characters. Since its relocation to SF... View details »
- Art
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transPOP
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Friday Dec 5 (8–11pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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In transPOP, 16 artists reveal and restructure the love/hate triangle between Korea, Vietnam, and the United States. This international survey examines the legacy of the... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Mike Relm
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Friday Dec 5 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
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SF's Mike Relm has made his name as a multimedia mash-up artist, mixing and manipulating hip-hop beats and indie-rock gems while combining Japanese cult-film footage... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Meat Beat Manifesto
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Friday Dec 5 (9pm) @ The Independent
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Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving out a distinct (if... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Marshall Jefferson
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Friday Dec 5 (10pm) @ Elbo Room
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Though critics frequently bestow the title grandfather upon their subjects, especially within musical genres, Detroit's Marshall Jefferson is the undisputed grandfather of house music. Soulful... View details »
- More Flavor: Sports
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Supermarket Street Sweep
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Saturday Dec 6 (noon) @ Cupid's Span sculpture (Folsom and Embarcadero)
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Your mission, should you choose to accept this humanitarian quest, is to dash around town on your bike, hitting several grocery stores along to way... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
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80-150-8
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Saturday Dec 6 (8pm) @ Mezzanine
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Clamoring for some culture to go with your Saturday night? Chillin' Productions offers a solution that's all about the numbers: 80 fashion designers, 150 visual... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Low vs. Diamond
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Saturday Dec 6 (9pm) @ The Independent
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LA post-punk crew Low vs. Diamond are known for rapturous melodies delivered with an almost-cartoonish level of quaver-voiced, clenched-fist conviction. Signed to Marrakesh Records —... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Fischerspooner
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Saturday Dec 6 (10pm) @ Mighty
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Backlash is a bitch, and Fischerspooner — the colorful performance troupe that became the poster children for electroclash — have certainly endured their share. Whatever... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Jonathan Richman
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Sunday Dec 7 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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Massachusetts-bred Jonathan Richman has been dropping controversial vinyl bombs since the early '70s. Co-founder of the legendary Modern Lovers (1970-74), the one-man Vienna Boys' Choir... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Furious Craft
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Monday Dec 8 (8pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Tonight, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players perform a technically dazzling set of experimental works by four maverick composers in Furious Craft. The program starts... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Little Joy
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Tuesday Dec 9 (8pm) @ Slim's
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If the Strokes is the tree, Fabrizio Moretti's new side project, Little Joy, doesn't fall far from it. Rodrigo Amarante's (Los Hermanos) croon recalls Julian... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Dressy Bessy
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Tuesday Dec 9 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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Dressy Bessy, quite simply, are all about having a good time. The playful tone this Denver-based collective adopts has bubbled over into a few mediums;... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Switch
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Wednesday Dec 10 (9pm) @ Vessel
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On the strength of MIA's Kala and Santogold's "Creator," British DJ/producer/label honcho Switch went from underground beatsmith to XLR8R Artist of the Year faster than... View details »
- Film: Festival
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Quebec Film Week
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Wednesday Dec 10 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
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The San Francisco Film Society honors Quebec's quadricentennial with a cinematic survey of seven modern Quebecois pictures along with a '70s classic. Sophie Deraspe's disorienting... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Wilderness
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Thursday Dec 11 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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The members of Florida-cum-Baltimore-based band Wilderness have been working together for 11 years, and it shows in the maturity of their sound. James Johnson's plaintive,... View details »
- Music: Global
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The Bug
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Thursday Dec 11 (9pm) @ 103 Harriet St
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Like so much music out of the UK, Kevin Martin's projects have always shown a strong Jamaican influence. Whether recording as Pressure, Ladybug (his collaborations... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Mudhoney
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Friday Dec 12 (8pm) @ The Independent
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Flannel-driven slackertude attempts a comeback as grunge-metal mainstays Mudhoney hit the stage. Signed to Sub Pop in the label's late-80's/early-'90s heyday, Mudhoney paved the way... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Venetian Snares
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Saturday Dec 13 (8pm) @ Historic Sweet's Ballroom
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In the world of glitchy electronic experimentalism, Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, and Autechre tend to garner the lion's share of accolades. While their ADD-addled, breakbeat-heavy... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Ting Tings
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Saturday Dec 13 (9pm) @ Popscene
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Combining bright bits of lo-fi electro and pouty girl-pop, the Ting Tings fit snuggly into our post-Justice popocalypse. The Mancs already have NME's panties in... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Amanda Palmer
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Monday Dec 15 (8pm) @ Bimbo's
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On her solo debut, Brechtian cabaret punk and Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer checks out of Hot Topic and into adulthood. While Who Killed Amanda... View details »
- Film
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My Name Is Bruce
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Wednesday Dec 17 (7 & 9:40pm) @ Landmark Bridge Theater
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If chins could kill, then Bruce Campbell would rule the world. Until that time comes, the undisputed king of the B-movie makes a rare public... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Ya Ho Wha 13
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Thursday Dec 18 (8pm) @ Slim's
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Invigorated by the definitive recent book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source Family, the Source Family... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Andrew Bird
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Thursday Feb 19, 2009 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
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Just as Joanna Newsom hearts the harp, chanteur Andrew Bird vanquishes the violin. Not only does Bird (signed to Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records) strum... View details »
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JCVD
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Monday Dec 1 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Some action stars age gracefully, (see Sean Connery) some not so gracefully (see Chuck Norris), and still others go into politics (see California).View details »
- Art
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As Above So Below
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Monday Dec 1 (10am–8pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
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In a devastating display of nature's fury, Chile's Chaitén volcano erupted last May, spewing plumes of roiling ash that generated dense thickets of lightning. Inspired... View details »
- Art
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The Art of Participation
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Monday Dec 1 (10am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate a countercurrent in 20th-century... View details »
- Film
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Milk
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Monday Dec 1 (10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm & 10pm) @ The Castro Theatre
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Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected office — couldn't be... View details »
- Art
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Stolen Land
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Monday Dec 1 (noon–7pm) @ Needles & Pens
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Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined the concept of graffiti.... View details »
- Film
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I've Loved You So Long
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Monday Dec 1 (1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:35pm) @ Landmark Clay Theatre
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English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes sense that she's finally... View details »
- Art
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Off the Edge
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Scott Richards Contemporary Art
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Ever since Robert Rauschenberg challenged the sovereignty of the second dimension in painting by introducing foreign objects into the equation, painters have been itching to... View details »
- Art
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Kate Gilmore
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery
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Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body headlong into painful physical... View details »
- Art
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Diem Chau
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
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With an exacting delicacy, Vietnamese-born artist Diem Chau uses thread, fabric, and porcelain to sculpt fleeting glimpses of the human figure. In her latest work,... View details »
- Art
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The Wizard of Oz
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis of this tightly-packed group... View details »
- Art
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Tim Lee
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
- Art
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Theresa Ganz
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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As pundits draw parallels between Obama and Lincoln on the evening news, everyone else is brushing up on their 19th-century history, including artist Theresa Ganz.... View details »
- Art
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L.A. Paint
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Wednesday Dec 3 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California
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Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases some of SoCal's best... View details »
- Art
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Collapsitalism
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Thursday Dec 4 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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Clearly, the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, and the symptoms of Depression 2.0 have started to cripple what was once capitalism's most spectacular... View details »
- Art
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Tickling Thicket
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Thursday Dec 4 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone and Yvette Molina successfully... View details »
- More Flavor: Competition
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Shanghai SF
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Saturday Dec 6 (12:30, 1, 1:30, 2 & 2:30pm) @ Coit Tower
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Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with a map and basic... View details »
