Events on Saturday, November 10
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- Reading
- Lydia Lunch
- @ Moe's Books
- In his definitive study of post-punk, Rip It Up and Start Again, rock critic Simon Reynolds aptly describes punk goddess Lydia... View details »
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- Swearing Festival
- @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
- Back for its second annual celebration of raunchy words, the Swearing Festival has a little something for everyone, from scatological etymologists... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Video Makes the Radio Star
- @ Mezzanine
- Combining YouTube's distribution democracy with an American Idol-borne obsession with reality-show sportsmanship, Mezzanine's music-video competition enlists the aid of indie-centric Owl... View details »
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- Free 4-All
- @ Various locations
- Eastern SoMa is quickly evolving into SF's de facto museum district, anchored by the relatively established Yerba Buena Center and SFMOMA... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists'... View details »
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- New Italian Cinema
- @ San Francisco Film Society
- More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is... View details »
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- Film
- Int'l Latino Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more... View details »
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- Forrest Williams
- @ Marx & Zavattero
- In Williams' latest show, the theme of porches stands for a state of uncertainty, an in-between space that's neither interior nor... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Future Is Unwritten
- @ Lumiere Theatre
- Despite being a proud soldier of the first wave of English punk, Joe Strummer's iconic everyman stance was always more Bruce... View details »
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- Art
- Dracula
- @ Cartoon Art Museum
- Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his... View details »
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- Lucy McKenzie
- @ SFMOMA
- Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
- @ Various locations
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San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
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- Art
- Bulk
- @ Queen's Nail Annex
- Queen's Nails Annex presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Tony Labat, who combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance, and video, not... View details »
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- Jamie Vasta
- @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Anyone who's been keeping an eye on Patricia Sweetow Gallery during the past year or so must have noticed San Francisco-based... View details »
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- Derek Boshier
- @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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Known for being a part of the '60s
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- A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
- @ Oakland Museum of California
- Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos'... View details »
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- Film
- Blame It on Fidel!
- @ Roxie Theater
- Julie Gravas' debut feature works best as a bottom-up portrait of the confused, morally high-strung reality of living leftist in the... View details »
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- Inside Terrorism
- @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
- Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak... View details »
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- Takeshi Murata
- @ Ratio 3
- As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi... View details »
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- GROUNDED?
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with... View details »
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- Douglas Gordon
- @ SFMOMA
- The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves... View details »
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- Sweet Sunny Temper
- @ Double Punch Toy Store
- With prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails,... View details »
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- SF Jazz Festival
- @ Various locations
- Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Jeff Wall
- @ SFMOMA
- Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not... View details »
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- Super Heroes Super Villains
- @ Creativity Explored
- In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories... View details »
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- Van Arno
- @ The Shooting Gallery
- LA-based painter Van Arno survived early fame in the Juxtapoz school of lowbrow art, and come out the other side a... View details »
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- The Temporal Moving Image
- @ Haines Gallery
- Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath,... View details »
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- Driss Ouadahi
- @ Hosfelt Gallery
- Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss... View details »
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- The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
- @ de Young Museum
- Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as... View details »
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- The Gun Show
- @ Root Division
- As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations... View details »
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- Int'l Animation Festival
- @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
- D. Jud Jones and Risto Topaloski's feature animation, Film Noir, is a prototypical hard-boiled thriller, with not-so-good good guys, truly bad... View details »
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- Alyson Belcher
- @ Robert Tat Gallery
- Best classified as falling between 19th-century spirit photography and Edward Muybridge's motion studies, Alyson Belcher's spectral self-portraits add a graceful and... View details »
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- Pioneers
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Amid its recent spat of new exhibitions and edgy curation, CCA's marvelous Wattis Institute pays aesthetical tithes to those Bay Area... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fair
- JTAF 5
- @ Fort Mason Center
- Drawing over 1,200 people from all over the Bay Area and beyond, JTAF 5 promises anything but an average day in... View details »
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- Rex Ray
- @ Gallery 16
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An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- after the quake
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
- Given the Bay Area's propensity for seismic activity (residents need only think as far back as October 30 for the latest... View details »
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- Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
- @ Galería de la Raza
- In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus... View details »
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- Recent Works
- @ Electric Works
- Nathan Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl... View details »
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