Events on Sunday, May 25
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- Italians Do It Better
- @ Rickshaw Stop
- Italians Do It Better Records rolls into town to show off its crown jewels with a party hosted by Popscene veteran... View details »
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- I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
- @ Cody's Books
- To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee made a rare public appearance in 2007, hanging on George W. Bush's arm as... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Ariel Pink
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- From the beginning, the LA-based art rocker Ariel Pink has been a love-him-or-hate-him sort of guy. His mix of muddied home... View details »
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- Day of Wrath
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Like his 1928 masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath concerns a woman sentenced to... View details »
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- Capsule Design Festival
- @ Hayes Valley Park
- Spanning several blocks in Hayes Valley — including Linden Alley, home to Blue Bottle coffee — the semi-annual Capsule street fair... View details »
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- Japanther
- @ Hemlock Tavern
- New York City has a lot of bands lying around, but few are as loud and as lovable as Japanther. The... View details »
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- Cluster
- @ Great American Music Hall
- After having much of their discography reissued by Water, Lilith, and Captain Trip Records, Berlin's Cluster take a well-deserved victory lap.... View details »
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- Mighty Underdogs
- @ Maiden Ln btwn Kearny St & Grant Ave
- As Dave Chappelle proved, nothing says "good times" like a summer block party. With a killer lineup of bands and DJs... View details »
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- Paul Sietsema
- @ SFMOMA
- Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles... View details »
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- SF International Arts Festival
- @ Various locations
- The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at... View details »
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- Carnaval
- @ Harrison St btwn 16th and 24th Sts
- Grab your finest feathered tail-piece, some timbales, and plastic beads, and get ready to shake your coconuts for Carnaval. The two-day... View details »
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- Mister Lonely
- @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
- Harmony Korine's much-anticipated directorial return finds the former enfant terrible trying a little tenderness. Korine has always been fascinated by bands... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- The Reggae Scrapbook
- @ Babylon Falling
- The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and... View details »
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- Feudal Echo
- @ Park Life
- Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,... View details »
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- Birth of the Cool
- @ Oakland Museum of California
- Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That... View details »
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- Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
- @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
- Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the... View details »
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- Protest in Paris 1968
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
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- Veronica Graham
- @ CELLspace
- Composed of more than 2000 hand-printed cloth swatches, Veronica Graham's sprawling installation Bonus Map takes over CELLspace's wall like cartographic kudzu.... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Dalai Lama Renaissance
- @ Roxie Theater
- Beloved throughout the world as a symbol of enlightenment and peace, the Dalai Lama has achieved significant acclaim as a world... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- Queenie Pie
- @ Oakland Metro
- Queenie Pie, jazz giant Duke Ellington's final large-scale work, receives the royal treatment from the Oakland Opera Theater. Ellington's muse was... View details »
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- Annie Leibovitz
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's... View details »
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- Suzanne Husky
- @ Triple Base
- Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and... View details »
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- The Way That We Rhyme
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to... View details »
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- The Rape of the Sabine Women
- @ SFMOMA
- Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical... View details »
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- In Collaboration
- @ SFMOMA
- San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media... View details »
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- American Symbols
- @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations.... View details »
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- Redbelt
- @ Various locations
- Redbelt, David Mamet's latest, is an absorbing foray into the world of mixed martial arts. An unconventional fight film, Redbelt centers... View details »
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- 2nd Skin
- @ Exploratorium
- With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing.... View details »
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- Eddie Muller
- @ Cerrito Speakeasy Theater
- Eddie Muller has done as much as anyone to ensure that film noir gets its due in America. He touches down... View details »
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- Uncharted
- @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery
- Like intrepid cartographers, the nine artists featured in this exhibit navigate land and space from many angles. Their interpretations range in... View details »
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- Recession
- @ Queen's Nail Annex
- They say money makes the world go round — and although Maximo Gonzalez might agree, he's got his own cynical take... View details »
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- Inkie Whang
- @ Frey Norris Gallery
- Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the... View details »
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