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- Music
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Halou
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Wednesday Apr 9 (9pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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Bay Area dream-pop group Halou take up a Wednesday-night residency at Cafe du Nord throughout April. The trio's new Sawtooth EP is more organic than... View details »
- Reading
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Literary Death Match 8
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Wednesday Apr 9 (7pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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... American Idol for the literary masses, Literary Death Match brings the smackdown to a bookish and booze-loving crowd. With a panel of esteemed... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
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Design Green Now
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Wednesday Apr 9 (6–8:30pm) @ Timken Lecture Hall
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Over the past few years, green architecture and sustainability have become major concerns in the design world. Design Green Now, a touring think tank of... View details »
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- Art
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Tim Lee
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Wednesday Apr 9 (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 Apr 9 (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 Apr 9 @ 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 Apr 9 (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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Wednesday Apr 9 (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 Apr 9 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Annie Leibovitz
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Wednesday Apr 9 (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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Drama and Desire
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Wednesday Apr 9 (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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Wednesday Apr 9 (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 Apr 9 (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 Apr 9 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Whimsy
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Wednesday Apr 9 (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 Apr 9 (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 Apr 9 (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 »
- Art
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Wednesday Apr 9 (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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Wednesday Apr 9 (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 »
- Film
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The Cool School
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Wednesday Apr 9 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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These days, referring to the LA art scene as a contradiction in terms is an unfounded cliché. Back in the early 1950s, though, Los Angeles... View details »
