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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Golem
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Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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Named after the righteously animated clay monster of Jewish mythology, New York's Golem make an inspired connection between the speedy trills of Yiddish klezmer and... View details »
- Reading
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Anne Lamott
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Wednesday Mar 26 (7pm) @ Booksmith
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Self-deprecating and refreshingly honest, author Anne Lamott has cultivated a following based on her wry observations, sardonic wit, and underlying compassion. Her latest anthology of... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Fully Flared
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Wednesday Mar 26 (7:30pm) @ Mezzanine
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Fully Flared, the hotly anticipated skating video four years in the making from directors Ty Evans and Spike Jonze, doesn't disappoint. It's a dazzling display... View details »
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Bob Mould Band
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Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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Like a post-hardcore version of Woody Allen, Bob Mould has settled into an elder-statesman role for artists of every stripe. And though, like the Woodman,... View details »
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- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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 »
- Art
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Tim Lee
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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Gilbert & George
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Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Enrique Chagoya
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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Annie Leibovitz
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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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You ROYGBIV Me
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Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Victor Cartagena
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Wednesday Mar 26 (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 »
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Chris Johanson
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Wednesday Mar 26 (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 »
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Jeremy Blake
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Wednesday Mar 26 (10:30am–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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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ODC
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Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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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Wednesday Mar 26 (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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Whimsy
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Wednesday Mar 26 (10am–10pm) @ RayKo Photo Center
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Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous. The photos share a... View details »
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At the Movies
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Wednesday Mar 26 (11:30am–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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Feral
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Wednesday Mar 26 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store
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In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps, and paper collage. Canilao's... View details »
