All events on Friday June 06
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Los Campesinos!
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Friday June 6 (9pm) @ Bimbo's
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Part performance art, part serious rock 'n roll, Wales-based septet Los Campesinos! play indie-pop songs that sound like Arcade Fire at a Brady Bunch reunion.... View details »
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Frog Eyes
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Friday June 6 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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Offering an uncompromising counterpoint to Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown's erratic pop exorcisms, British Columbia's Frog Eyes are an indie-rock success story that doesn't necessarily... View details »
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Firewater
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Friday June 6 (10pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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After the disintegration of his industrial group Cop Shoot Cop in 1996, singer Tod A. started Firewater, an outfit that has, at one time or... View details »
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Leigh Wells
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Friday June 6 (6–9pm) @ Gallery 16
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Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
- Film
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MindFLESH and Imp of Satan
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Friday June 6 (7:15pm) @ Roxie New College Film Center
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Flynn Witmeyer, the impresario behind Synchronium Films, is saving the queer-horror genre from the clutches of those hell-bent on destroying it. In his latest feature,... View details »
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VINYL APOCALYPSE
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Friday June 6 (7–11pm) @ Lower Haters Gallery
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Many have lamented the slow fade of vinyl records. Even if you were born after the rise of the CD, it's easy to get nostalgic... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Wonderboy
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Friday June 6 (8pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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With an expert hand, Guggenheim Fellow Joe Goode directs and choreographs Wonderboy, which follows the travails of an unlikely superhero. Dancers move around a puppet... View details »
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Sean Talley
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Friday June 6 (5–8pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery
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Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes commingle on a flat,... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Stefan Goldmann
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Friday June 6 (9pm–2am) @ Club 6ix
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"I'm ignorant toward Harvey, Cosmic, Balearic, Italo and all that sort of vibe," confesses techno DJ/producer Stefan Goldmann on his MySpace page, glossing over dance... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday June 6 (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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In Collaboration
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Friday June 6 (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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The Way That We Rhyme
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Friday June 6 (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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2nd Skin
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Friday June 6 (10am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
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After the Revolution
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Friday June 6 (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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Quarter Century
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Friday June 6 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
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Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
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Paul Sietsema
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Friday June 6 (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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Portals
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Friday June 6 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife, Jen Stark carves stacks... View details »
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Karla Wozniak
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Friday June 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery
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Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly every roadside in America.... View details »
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American Symbols
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Friday June 6 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
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Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
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Suzanne Husky
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Friday June 6 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base
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Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and environmental angst, aren't always... View details »
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Sarah Wagner
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Friday June 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement floors and plaster walls,... View details »
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Adam5100
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Friday June 6 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison
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The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his painting and printmaking at... View details »
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William T. Wiley
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Friday June 6 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works
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Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting a 1964 game called... View details »
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Christian Marclay
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Friday June 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery
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Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in used record shops. He's... View details »
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Feudal Echo
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Friday June 6 (noon–8pm) @ Park Life
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Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days, but painters Alex Lukas... View details »
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Improbable\Unlikely
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Friday June 6 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely Library, shelves of books... View details »
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365
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Friday June 6 @ 111 Minna Gallery
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... m>365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual experience is only heightened... View details »
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Hopeless and Otherwise
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Friday June 6 (10am–6pm) @ Southern Exposure
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With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of unrest in US history... View details »
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Recession
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Friday June 6 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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They say money makes the world go round — and although Maximo Gonzalez might agree, he's got his own cynical take on the spiraling global... View details »
