All events on Thursday March 06
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- Music: Global
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Balkan Beat Box
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Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
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Indie rock has never seen such affection for Eastern Europe. Between Beirut's love affair with Slavic folk tunes and Gogol Bordello's love affair with —... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Old Time Relijun
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Thursday Mar 6 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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Half slappy neo-no wave, half swagger-happy cowpunk, alien rockers Old Time Relijun axe aggressively, hacking at traditional modes of composition until there's nothing left but... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Mahjongg
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Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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Chicago-based music collective Mahjongg tend toward the same sort of upbeat art-rock that Talking Heads perfected on albums like Fear of Music and... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Orchestral Innovators
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Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ Novellus Theater
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The songs of Icelandic chanteuse Björk, with their complex layers and tonalities, are great candidates for jazz interpretation. Alto saxophonist Travis Sullivan takes the task... View details »
- Film
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El Topo
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Thursday Mar 6 (6:30pm) @ SFMOMA
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John Lennon was so impressed with Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky's psychedelic western El Topo that he convinced a friend to buy out the film's... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Other Minds
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Thursday Mar 6 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
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Now in its 13th year, San Francisco's Other Minds New Music Festival can't be called under the radar anymore, even if the music it spotlights... View details »
- Reading
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Small Press Month
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Thursday Mar 6 (8:30pm) @ City Lights
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore is ground zero for Bay Area indie lit, so it makes sense to host Small Press Month at the counter-cultural... View details »
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- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Thursday Mar 6 @ 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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Thursday Mar 6 (11am–7pm) @ 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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Thursday Mar 6 (11am–7pm) @ 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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Thursday Mar 6 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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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Thursday Mar 6 @ 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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Thursday Mar 6 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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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Thursday Mar 6 (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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Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
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Enrique Chagoya
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Thursday Mar 6 (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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Thursday Mar 6 (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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Thursday Mar 6 (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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Thursday Mar 6 (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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Thursday Mar 6 (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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Thursday Mar 6 @ 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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Thursday Mar 6 (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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Thursday Mar 6 (10am–9pm) @ 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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Thursday Mar 6 (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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Thursday Mar 6 @ 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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Barbara Takenaga
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Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
