All events on Friday April 25
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Booka Shade
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Friday Apr 25 (10pm) @ Mezzanine
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German electrohouse pioneers Booka Shade treat San Francisco to a rare stateside club appearance on their way to Coachella. Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier produce... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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KUSF Birthday Celebration
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Friday Apr 25 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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SF's favorite left-of-the-dial radio station celebrates its 31st anniversary with this local triple bill. Wooden Shjips haven't played in town for a few months, though... View details »
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Para One
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Friday Apr 25 (10pm–4am) @ Mighty
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Paris' Institubes imprint expands upon the usual "French touch" dance-music hallmarks. The label showcases a broad spectrum of artists, including future hip-hop trio TTC, Drop... View details »
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Plastiscines
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Friday Apr 25 (10pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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Plastiscines, a Parisian all-girl group, are at the forefront of the bébés rockeurs movement, a burgeoning wave of French teen bands known more for pouty... View details »
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2nd Skin
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Friday Apr 25 (7–11pm) @ Exploratorium
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With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
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Ecocity
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Friday Apr 25 (7pm–4am) @ Temple
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"Earth Day is every day," goes the old slogan, but not every day is there as technologically minded and green a festival as Ecocity. A... View details »
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Kimya Dawson
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Friday Apr 25 (8pm) @ Herbst Theater
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Long before a certain snarky film about a certain snarky pregnant teenager propelled Kimya Dawson to household-name status, the former Moldy Peaches songstress was cranking... View details »
- Film
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The Golem
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Friday Apr 25 (9:30pm) @ The Castro Theatre
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In an inspired pairing of sight and sound, the San Francisco International Film Festival presents The Golem with live original music by Black Francis (aka... View details »
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Jellyfish
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Friday Apr 25 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday Apr 25 (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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An-My Lê
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Friday Apr 25 (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 Apr 25 @ 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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Friday Apr 25 (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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Friday Apr 25 (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 Apr 25 (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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Friday Apr 25 (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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Friday Apr 25 (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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Friday Apr 25 (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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Friday Apr 25 (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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How I Learned to...
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Friday Apr 25 (noon–5pm) @ Intersection for the Arts
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It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's blueprints, though it's hard... View details »
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Deric Carner
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Friday Apr 25 (11am–5pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments. Double Heading is full... View details »
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Propogations
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Friday Apr 25 (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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Feral
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Friday Apr 25 (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 Question Is Known
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Friday Apr 25 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the work of mixed-media painter... View details »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Friday Apr 25 (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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Friday Apr 25 (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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After the Revolution
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Friday Apr 25 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has become the privileged site... View details »
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Robert Adler
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Friday Apr 25 (3–9pm) @ 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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Self-Storage
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Friday Apr 25 (noon–4pm) @ Self Storage
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Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic scrapbook that documents the... View details »
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Neu Wave Feminism
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Friday Apr 25 (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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Friday Apr 25 (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 »
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Greg Lamarche
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Friday Apr 25 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery
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Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a graffiti artist in Boston... View details »
