All events on Saturday March 15
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Beach House
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Saturday Mar 15 (10pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally comprise Baltimore duo Beach House, peddling a lovely line of lush, lo-fi dream pop. Their sound is rich and warm,... View details »
- Film
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A Girl Is a Gun
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Saturday Mar 15 (3pm) @ SFMOMA
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Luc Moullet's rarely screened meta-western stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as a long-haired gunslinger who gets into a tête-à-tête with Rachel Kesterber's tanned seductress. Moullet named King... View details »
- Art
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Jeremy Blake
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Saturday Mar 15 (11am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery
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Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake rose to fame nearly... View details »
- Music: Global
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Clover Clash
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Saturday Mar 15 (10pm) @ Mighty
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British second-generation dub doctor Mad Professor transforms Mighty into his own personal echo chamber, where his ping-ponging mutant electronics — as heard on his Dub... View details »
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Moth & Moon
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Saturday Mar 15 (2pm) @ Exploratorium
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Like Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou's Microcosmos, the 1996 documentary that got up-close and personal with the insect world, Paul Clipson's 8mm compendium of tiny... View details »
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At the Movies
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Saturday Mar 15 (11am–8pm) @ Giant Robot
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It's not often that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is spoken of in the same breath as Akira Kurosawa's Rashômon, but for the... View details »
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Enter the Dancehall
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Saturday Mar 15 (9pm–3am) @ Club 6ix
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"One-hit wonder" has always smacked of a backhanded compliment. And yet, dancehall toaster Sister Nancy's 1982 sing-song pairing of powerful patois, booming bass, and echoey... View details »
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- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Saturday Mar 15 @ 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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Saturday Mar 15 (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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Saturday Mar 15 (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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Saturday Mar 15 (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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Saturday Mar 15 @ 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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Saturday Mar 15 (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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Saturday Mar 15 (10:30–5pm) @ 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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Enrique Chagoya
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Saturday Mar 15 (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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Saturday Mar 15 (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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Saturday Mar 15 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Annie Leibovitz
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Saturday Mar 15 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
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Jordan Eagles
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Saturday Mar 15 (11am–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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Saturday Mar 15 @ 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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Saturday Mar 15 (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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Saturday Mar 15 (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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Saturday Mar 15 (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 »
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Landscape, Nature, and Space
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Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery
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Bucheon Gallery's new group exhibition might have been smothered under any number of names referencing each artist's respective take on the landscape. Fortunately, the curators... View details »
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Victor Cartagena
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Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza
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Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Endgame
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Saturday Mar 15 @ 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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Chris Johanson
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Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in the Whitney Biennial and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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ODC
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Saturday Mar 15 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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San Francisco's Oberlin Dance Collective has long enjoyed the admiration of international modern dancers and critics alike, impressing with its performers' agility and physical artistry.... View details »
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Barbara Takenaga
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Saturday Mar 15 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery
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Mesmerizing fields of color and pattern gently radiate outward from Barbara Takenaga's new series of paintings. While the artist has limited her abstract vocabulary to... View details »
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Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
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Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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Four Walls founder Julie Deamer organized Ukrainian Citizens and Strangers, an impressive collaboration between nine American and Ukrainian artists. Filled with narratives haunted by memories... View details »
