Events on Saturday, May 3
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- More Flavor: Fair
- Book It!
- @ New Langton Arts
- Considering how many times mainstream print journalism has cried wolf over the Internet, it's reassuring to know that underground publishing is... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Yo Majesty
- @ Slim's
- Bringing some real butch fierceness to what's often seen as a boys' club, the Tampa-based female rap trio Yo Majesty confront... View details »
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- Shampoo
- @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
- Up there with Paul Schrader, Robert Towne was one of the premiere screenwriters of the New Hollywood boom in the '70s.... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Rogue Wave
- @ The Fillmore
- Last year, Rogue Wave — they of the whispering-to-soaring, Pacific Coast anthem — signed with lame-o troubadour Jack Johnson's label for... View details »
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- Conspiracy of Beards
- @ The Make-Out Room
- Barely catching their breath after a densely packed two-day tour of New York that included a performance at the Whitney Museum,... View details »
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- Cinco de Mayo
- @ Mission Dolores Park
- Dolores Park hosts a pretty darn festive Cinco de Mayo party. With its central location and a gorgeous view of the... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Dave Nada
- @ Rickshaw Stop
- The boys at Bersa Discos know how to throw a party — and ever since they started turning heads with their... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Blood on the Wall
- @ 12 Galaxies
- Bouncy Brooklynites Blood on the Wall aren't afraid of anything — least of all the judgmental eyes of indie-rock elitists. Whether... 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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- 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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- 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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- Graduation
- @ Landmark Opera Plaza
- Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Friedlander
- @ SFMOMA
- Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape.... View details »
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- Lacey Jane Roberts
- @ Little Tree Gallery
- Little Tree Gallery has now been fortified, thanks to Bay Area artist Lacey Jane Roberts' handwoven barbed-wire fence. Even though every... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Protest in Paris 1968
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
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- Christian Marclay
- @ Fraenkel Gallery
- Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in... View details »
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- Quarter Century
- @ Creativity Explored
- Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th... 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Joy Division
- @ Roxie Theater
- When Grant Gee's documentary portrait of the iconic Manchester post-punk band Joy Division played at Yerba Buena last January, legions of... View details »
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- Greg Lamarche
- @ White Walls Gallery
- Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a... View details »
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- The Question Is Known
- @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
- Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the... View details »
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- San Francisco International Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Dhamma Brothers
- @ Red Vic
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It's difficult to imagine a Buddhist meditation retreat in a maximum-security prison, but at Donaldson Correctional Facility in
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- An-My Lê
- @ SFMOMA
- An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- The Little Prince
- @ Zellerbach Hall
- A worldwide symbol of youthful optimism, The Little Prince — set to music for the San Francisco Opear by British composer... 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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- 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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- Robert Adler
- @ Hyde Street Gallery
- Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses... View details »
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- Drama and Desire
- @ Asian Art Museum
- On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of... View details »
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- How I Learned to...
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's... View details »
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- Self-Storage
- @ Self Storage
- Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic... View details »
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- Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
- @ Sculpturesite Gallery
- One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Bay Area National Dance Week
- @ Various locations
- Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the... View details »
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- Tim Lee
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- 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... 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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- Jellyfish
- @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
- Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Flaming Sin
- @ Hypnodrome
- Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have... View details »
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- Enrique Chagoya
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to... View details »
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- Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
- @ Hosfelt Gallery
- Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox... 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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- Sarah Wagner
- @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement... View details »
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- Victor Cartagena
- @ Galería de la Raza
- Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Art & Artifice
- @ Museum of Performance & Design
- Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fair
- Maker Faire
- @ San Mateo Fairgrounds
- Engineering savvy and childlike whimsy overlap at the increasingly popular Maker Faire, as scores of techies, crafters, artists, and visionaries erect... View details »
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- Gilbert & George
- @ de Young Museum
- Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work... View details »
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