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- Art: Photography
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Pictures of Me
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Friday Feb 29 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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Elliott Smith's threadbare songs, personal melancholy, and early death cast a long shadow over his photographic record. In drizzly Portland portraits and long-faced close-ups, the... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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Wale
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Friday Feb 29 (9pm) @ Mighty
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Twenty-three-year-old Wale (pronounced "wah-lay") is being touted as hip-hop's next golden boy by The Fader, bloggers, and his DJ/producer and collaborator Mark Ronson. But all... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Wesley Willis' Joy Rides
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Friday Feb 29 (7pm) @ Artists' Television Access
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Before his untimely death at the age of 40, Wesley Willis amassed a cult following for his music, art, and Batman-hating, McDonald's-loving personality. Schizophrenic and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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[SOLD OUT] Holy Fuck
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Friday Feb 29 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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Far from the domain of one-man laptop bands and sequencer junkies, Holy Fuck draw immediate comparisons to noisy, rhythmic acts like Battles and Dan Deacon.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Jim Kweskin
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Friday Feb 29 (8pm) @ Freight & Salvage Coffee House
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A shining light of the early-'60s coffeehouse circuit, Jim Kweskin sang with an affecting drawl, leading his Jug Band through a good-natured mix of bluegrass,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Slavic Soul Party!
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Friday Feb 29 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
- Film
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A Boy and His Dog
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Friday Feb 29 (11:55pm) @ Landmark Clay Theatre
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L.Q. Jones' low-budget cult classic A Boy and His Dog takes Harlan Ellison's short story about a post-apocalyptic America and retells it in the spirit... View details »
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The Great Exhibition
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Friday Feb 29 (6–10pm) @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
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For artists having a tough time getting their work shown, the second iteration of Bring Your Own Art (Show) is a good chance for exposure.... View details »
- Film
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The Counterfeiters
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Friday Feb 29 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
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Someone's got to say this aloud: It's getting hard to rouse the will to see more films about the Holocaust. Only Austria still excavates new... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Friday Feb 29 @ Various locations
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Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
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Paul McCarthy
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's bizarre, shrewd provocations encompass... View details »
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An-My Lê
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
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Gilbert & George
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Friday Feb 29 @ de Young Museum
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Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Friedlander
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
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Zhan Wang
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Friday Feb 29 (10:30–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery
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Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed as a minature example... View details »
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Jens Haaning
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His daring conceptual works toy... View details »
- Film
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Raising Caine
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Friday Feb 29 (6:30pm) @ Mechanic's Institute Library
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With his affable good looks and distinctive cockney accent, Michael Caine has gone from being a '60s pop icon to a highly seasoned actor. Nominated... View details »
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Enrique Chagoya
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
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Chuck Arnett
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Friday Feb 29 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society
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June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
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James Gobel
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Friday Feb 29 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero
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Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and the often ruggedly masculine... View details »
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Emory Douglas
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Friday Feb 29 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling
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When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory Douglas' incendiary graphic-design work... View details »
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Jordan Kantor
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of three stacked skulls serves... View details »
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Jordan Eagles
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Friday Feb 29 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
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Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood, which at first resemble... View details »
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You ROYGBIV Me
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Friday Feb 29 @ Tartine Bakery
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Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down 18th Street, but recently, under curator Brianna Toth,... View details »
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Matt Furie
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery
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Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way of Troma Entertainment's schlocky... View details »
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Drama and Desire
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Friday Feb 29 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum
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On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
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Leonora Carrington
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Endgame
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Friday Feb 29 @ Traveling Jewish Theater
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When Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame in 1957, audiences were more accustomed to stark, conceptual writing and avant-garde theatrics than today. The utterly bizarre one-act play... View details »
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