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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Xiu Xiu
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Saturday Apr 12 (10pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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Whoever called consistency "the hobgoblin of small minds" clearly never heard Xiu Xiu. Women as Lovers is the band's sixth album in a seemingly endless... View details »
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Nick Lowe
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Saturday Apr 12 (9pm) @ The Fillmore
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Nick Lowe is one of power pop's original architects, long known for his association with Elvis Costello (he produced the spectacled singer's debut album, My... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
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Saturday Apr 12 (8pm) @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley
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Their name might conjure visions of Krautrock, but the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin are actually classical musicians. The Berliners formed in 1982 without state... View details »
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Landscape Is Destiny
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Saturday Apr 12 (3pm) @ Phyllis Wattis Theater
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... MOMA's Lee Friedlander retrospective provides the occasion for a fascinating round-table discussion on the shifting American landscape, both physical and political. Local author Rebecca... View details »
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Hot Challenge
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Saturday Apr 12 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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Hot Challenge and Panda lit up Flavorpill's radar as emerging purveyors of bubblegum pop and goofy, indie-dance-party bliss. Supported by local electro upstarts Dangraham, they... View details »
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Yuri's Night
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Saturday Apr 12 (2pm–2am) @ NASA Ames Research Center
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As part of a worldwide celebration of space exploration, Yuri's Night (named for Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space) brings together scientists, engineers, artists,... View details »
- Reading
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SPD Spring Open House
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–4pm) @ Small Press Distribution
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Without independent book distributors championing tiny, not-so-wealthy publishing houses, much of the world's finest literature wouldn't be so easy to find. Just outside the money-driven,... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Saturday Apr 12 (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 Apr 12 (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 Apr 12 (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 Apr 12 @ 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 »
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Friedlander
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Saturday Apr 12 (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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Enrique Chagoya
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Saturday Apr 12 (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 Apr 12 (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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Annie Leibovitz
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Saturday Apr 12 (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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In Collaboration
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Saturday Apr 12 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
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Drama and Desire
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Saturday Apr 12 (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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Victor Cartagena
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Saturday Apr 12 (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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Saturday Apr 12 (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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Saturday Apr 12 (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 »
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Whimsy
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Saturday Apr 12 (10am–8pm) @ 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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Propogations
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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Paul Hayes' folded-paper-and-wire sculpture Cultivated Momentum hangs from Johansson Projects' ceiling like a recycled-kelp forest, its black squiggles calling fish to mind. Hayes' organic, abstract... View details »
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At the Movies
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Saturday Apr 12 (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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Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
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Saturday Apr 12 (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 »
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Feral
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Saturday Apr 12 (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 »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
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Science Fair
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–7pm) @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
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Rock Paper Scissors' Science Fair hosts much stranger exhibits than those found in elementary schools' baking-soda-and-vinegar volcano competitions. Guest curator Andrew Thompson has compiled creative... View details »
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Robert Adler
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Saturday Apr 12 (2–8pm) @ Hyde Street Gallery
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Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses on the grit behind... View details »
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Neu Wave Feminism
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–6pm) @ Femina Potens Gallery
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Radical, queer-friendly gallery Femina Potens presents Neu Wave Feminism, a bold collection of subversive works that spotlights feminism's shifting borders. The stripped-down look at female... View details »
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Paul Sietsema
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Saturday Apr 12 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
