Events on Saturday, February 2
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Nada Surf
- @ Swedish American Hall
- Rising to popularity with 1996's buzzing post-punk dirge "Popular," Brooklyn's Nada Surf have spent the past decade hopping labels and redefining... View details »
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- Music: Global
- Sila and the Afrofunk Experience
- @ The Independent
- The harsh realities of Kenya's devastated social climate are tempered by the work of Carolina for Kibera, an empowered nonprofit run... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Around the World in 80 Beers
- @ O'Neill's Irish Pub
- Those who lack Phileas Fogg's incentive to travel, but share his adventurous tastes — particularly in the area of fine malt... View details »
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- Reading
- David Rieff
- @ Cody's on Fourth Street
- The writer David Rieff comes from some pretty heavy intellectual stock. He is the sole child of Philip Rieff, an American... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- Art: Photography
- Katsushige Nakahashi
- @ SF Camerawork
- While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces... 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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- Bad Moon Rising
- @ Silverman Gallery
- Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
- @ Novellus Theater
- High-definition television has made watching sports a uniquely eye-popping experience, though the onscreen graphics and exquisite close-ups sometimes obscure a sense... View details »
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- Finders Keepers
- @ Creativity Explored
- Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Small Things End, Great Things Endure
- @ New Langton Arts
- Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution,... View details »
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- Andrew Moore
- @ Rena Bransten Gallery
- Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Persepolis
- @ Various locations
- Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political... View details »
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- Film
- 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
- In late-80's Romania, close friends Otilia and Gabita are faced with the urgent problem of Gabita's unwanted pregnancy. Their solution is... View details »
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- In the Fullness of Time
- @ The Luggage Store
- Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades... 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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- Jordan Kantor
- @ Ratio 3
- Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of... View details »
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- Film
- Noir City Film Festival
- @ The Castro Theatre
- Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lydia's Funeral Video
- @ The Dark Room
- Visions of the not-so-distant future usually connote alien invasions, zombie attacks, or at least some presidential administration shake-ups, but local actress,... View details »
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- An Equal Playing Field
- @ Triple Base
- Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement... View details »
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- Jens Haaning
- @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
- Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His... View details »
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- Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
- @ Various locations
- Despite being so far west of the Mississippi, San Francisco can seem like a bluegrass lover's paradise. The annual Hardly Strictly... View details »
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- Enter the Center
- @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
- For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the... 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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- Caroline Hwang
- @ Giant Robot
- Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Films of Emile de Antonio
- @ SFMOMA
- Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Black White + Gray
- @ Roxie Theater
- Sam approaches Robert seeking "somebody to spoil." Robert responds, "you found him." So goes the momentous meeting between iconoclastic curator/collector Sam... View details »
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- Conduits of Labor
- @ Queen's Nail Annex
- In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean... View details »
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- An-My Lê
- @ SFMOMA
- An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... 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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- African Film Festival
- @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
- Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Chuck Arnett
- @ GLBT Historical Society
- June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo... View details »
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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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Is It a Fiber Show?
- @ Bucheon Gallery
- In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- @ American Conservatory Theater
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In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
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- More Flavor: Festival
- Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
- @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
- With all the media attention surrounding the upcoming presidential election, the war in Iraq, and Britney Spears' latest breakdown, it's easy... View details »
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