Events on Saturday, July 12
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- Music: Electronic
- Matmos
- @ Great American Music Hall
- There's intelligent dance music, and then there's intelligent dance music. Since 1998's quasi-objects LP, which exclusively relied on found sounds, Matmos... View details »
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- The Mortified Guide to Love, Sex & Death
- @ JCC East Bay
- Ah, the '90s: the time of tapered pants, Mr. Bungle, and the parade of literary shame known as Mortified. These ongoing... View details »
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- The New Talkies
- @ Artists' Television Access
- Early movie audiences in Japan expected silent films to be accompanied by both music and live narration performed by a... View details »
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- Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Showcase
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- The Girls Rock Camp Alliance, founded in Portland and now spanning the globe from Austin to Sweden, has a new local... View details »
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- F*ck Sports!
- @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
- While many would cite a love of the game, the thrill of competition, or health benefits as reasons to play sports,... View details »
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- Mechanicrawl
- @ Various Locations
- This plan-it-yourself tour of some of San Francisco's mechanical treasures is sure to appeal to steampunks, Popular Mechanics readers, Burning Man... 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
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- @ Landmark Embarcadero
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Windows on Nature
- @ Frey Norris Gallery
- With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns.... 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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- 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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- CineKink
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Whether you're crazy for leather, proudly polyamorous, or you just like to watch, CineKink's popular, perverse film series educates while it... View details »
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- Leigh Wells
- @ Gallery 16
- Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little... View details »
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- Room for Thought
- @ SFMOMA
- In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle.... View details »
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- Dykes on Bikes®
- @ GLBT Historical Society
- Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride... View details »
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- 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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- The Beast in Me
- @ Ping Pong Gallery
- While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain... View details »
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- Insider/Outsider
- @ Root Division
- Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors... View details »
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- Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
- @ Jack Hanley Gallery
- While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are... View details »
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- Victory Gardens 2008+
- @ City Hall
- During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green... View details »
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- New American Fables
- @ Robert Koch Gallery
- Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic... View details »
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- The Wackness
- @ Various locations
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... View details »
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- Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
- @ Jancar Jones Gallery
- After having spent the last few generations ridding themselves of modernism's pungent aftertaste, the art world's contemporary painters are finally up... View details »
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- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He... View details »
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- Frida Kahlo
- @ SFMOMA
- The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led... View details »
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- The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
- @ The Crucible
- For those who can't wait until August's Burning Man to set stuff ablaze, there's always Crucible's Fire Arts Festival. The West... View details »
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- Trevor Paglen
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of... View details »
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- Ted Pushinsky
- @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
- Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls... View details »
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- Viva
- @ Red Vic
- It's hard to keep a feature film running on camp alone, so credit Viva's writer, director, and star, Anna Biller,... View details »
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- Women Impressionists
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often... View details »
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- Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
- @ SF Camerawork
- Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean... View details »
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- Tammy Rae Carland
- @ Silverman Gallery
- It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann... View details »
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- A Complicated Dominion
- @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With... View details »
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- Renegade Craft Fair
- @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
- Sue Daly was just looking for a way to sell her adorable, nature-inspired jewelry when she decided to organize a fair... View details »
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- The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
- @ The Castro Theatre
- After opening with Harold Lloyd's classic comedy The Kid Brother (1927), the 13th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival packs 11... View details »
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- We Remember the Sun
- @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
- Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans... View details »
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- MOVE>SOUND
- @ Various locations
- Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco.... View details »
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- Heroes & Villains
- @ The Shooting Gallery
- A collection of who's who in the alt-comic and street-art scenes adorns the walls tonight in a portrait series by photographers... View details »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- @ Exploratorium
- Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Mose Allison
- @ Yoshi's San Francisco
- Mose Allison has lived in New York since 1956, but his smoky piano blues still bear the imprint of the Mississippi... 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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- Half-Life of a Dream
- @ SFMOMA
- With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over... View details »
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- The Art of Lee Miller
- @ SFMOMA
- Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray,... View details »
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- Jennifer Merrill
- @ Iceberger Gallery
- Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than... View details »
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- Dale Chihuly
- @ de Young Museum
- Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish,... View details »
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- INsects INsectos
- @ Creativity Explored
- From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new... View details »
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- Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
- @ Marx & Zavattero
- When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually... View details »
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- Soft Underbelly Recognition
- @ Little Tree Gallery
- In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition —... View details »
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- Kiki
- @ Ratio 3
- As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at... View details »
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- Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
- @ Jack Fischer Gallery
- Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- @ Hypnodrome
- Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay... View details »
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- Open for Business
- @ Triple Base
- Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within.... View details »
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