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- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Finches
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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If you have yet to witness the pared-down charms of the Finches, head to the Hemlock and welcome them back to San Francisco. Human Like... View details »
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The Killers
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (3:05pm) @ The Castro Theatre
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Directed by Robert Siodmak, noir thriller The Killers brilliantly refracts Ernest Hemingway's original short story, telling the seedy tale in a series of disconnected flashbacks.... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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Wu-Tang Clan
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (8pm) @ Ruby Skye
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In order to record the Wu-Tang Clan's fifth album, the RZA had to drag the guys into the studio (Ghostface's solo career is taking off,... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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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' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
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Douglas Gordon
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
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Dracula
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum
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Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his drawings maintaining a darkly... View details »
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Olafur Eliasson
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
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Lucy McKenzie
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
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Big Ideas, Small Works
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery
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Big-ticket American art sometimes seems to come in one size only: extra-large. Such scaling can be subversive, but all too often it seems like yet... View details »
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Ruth Asawa
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery
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Despite the obvious differences in their work, Ruth Asawa's fabric sculptures inspire comparisons with the late Georgia O'Keefe. Both evoke the natural world while refusing... View details »
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Civil Twilight
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works
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Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of destruction and transition, mirroring... View details »
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Apocalypse Now
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Politically engaged duo Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have become a major presence on SF's art scene this fall with their co-curated exhibition at CCA... View details »
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In the Fullness of Time
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store
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Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades as a respected venue... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Jeff Wall
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
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Robots Are Art
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (10am–10pm) @ Float
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... om prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our everyday lives. Celebrating all... View details »
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Paper! Paper! Paper!
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Market Street Gallery
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The Market Street Gallery's latest group show explores the potential of that most humble of mediums: paper. Twenty-five local artists salute the two-dimensional form through... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Helvetica
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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Gary Hustwit's documentary Helvetica considers the cultural importance of typography by tracing the proliferation of the titular font. First developed in Switzerland, the typeface... View details »
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Gee Vaucher
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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Having designed much of the album art for '80s anarcho-peace punks Crass, Gee Vaucher continues to turn her straight razor on the visual culture of... View details »
