Events on Tuesday, December 16
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Mantles
- @ Hemlock Tavern
- San Francisco-based lo-fi pop-punksters the Mantles walk the fine line between grungy rock and melodic pop, drawing equal influences from '60s... View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Quincy Jones
- @ Herbst Theater
- Quincy Jones' curriculum vitae reads like a pocket guide to the past half century of American music. The '50s saw him... View details »
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- Art
- The Vivisect Playset Five
- @ Gallery 1988
- Equal parts visual titillation and thoughtful exploration, The Vivisect Playset Five dissects the human condition through use of animal characters. Since... View details »
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- Martin Puryear
- @ SFMOMA
- SFMOMA's retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear quickly dispenses with woodworking's crafty, small-scale reputation. Monumental in size, Puryear's abstract... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Brought to Light
- @ SFMOMA
- SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... View details »
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- Film
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- @ Roxie Theater
- British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... View details »
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- Art
- The Totoro Forest Project
- @ Cartoon Art Museum
- If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global... View details »
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- Shaun O'Dell
- @ Jack Hanley Gallery
- Numerous references and allusions appear throughout Shaun O'Dell's multimedia collages: Zoroastrian symbols, American quilting patterns, ancient Sumerian architecture, the history of... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
- @ Various locations
- LA-based nonprofit NextAid is a progressive, hands-on charity that proves, among other things, that ravers are compassionate citizens of the world.... View details »
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- Film: Shorts
- Sundance 2008 Shorts
- @ CFI Rafael Film Center
- Inuit murder mysteries, zombie-fueled romances, and emasculated bodybuilders are just three of the topics ripe for the picking when a finely... View details »
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- The Art of Participation
- @ SFMOMA
- While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... View details »
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- Stolen Land
- @ Needles & Pens
- Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined... View details »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Creativity Explored Art Sale
- @ Creativity Explored
- The are plenty of reasons for buying original art directly from its source, the most obvious being that — besides decorating... View details »
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- Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth... View details »
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- Theresa Ganz
- @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
- As pundits draw parallels between Obama and Lincoln on the evening news, everyone else is brushing up on their 19th-century history,... View details »
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- Emil Lukas
- @ Hosfelt Gallery
- Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Dame Edna Everage
- @ Post Street Theatre
- Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With... View details »
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- Diem Chau
- @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
- With an exacting delicacy, Vietnamese-born artist Diem Chau uses thread, fabric, and porcelain to sculpt fleeting glimpses of the human figure.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- Hybrid Festival
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- For over 40 years, the Intersection for the Arts’ bread and butter has been breaking down and blurring the barriers between... View details »
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- transPOP
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- In transPOP, 16 artists reveal and restructure the love/hate triangle between Korea, Vietnam, and the United States. This international survey examines... View details »
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- Off the Edge
- @ Scott Richards Contemporary Art
- Ever since Robert Rauschenberg challenged the sovereignty of the second dimension in painting by introducing foreign objects into the equation, painters... View details »
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- Tim Lee
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Yves Saint Laurent
- @ de Young Museum
- After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... View details »
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- Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
- @ SFMOMA
- The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Passionate Struggle
- @ 499 Castro St
- One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Renowned for his formally innovative writing, the late French author Alain Robbe-Grillet depicts the world with an almost scientific objectivism. His... View details »
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- Kate Gilmore
- @ Catharine Clark Gallery
- Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Santaland Diaries
- @ Off-Market Theater
- Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
- @ SF Playhouse
- We've all wondered just what may have happened between the country's 16th president and his notoriously handsome friends. Now we have... View details »
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- Milk
- @ The Castro Theatre
- Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... View details »
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