All events on Thursday July 17
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Wolf Parade
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Thursday July 17 (9pm) @ The Fillmore
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Wolf Parade's 2005 full-length debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, marked the arrival of a compelling new force in indie rock — a pair of... View details »
- Film
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A Listener's Tale
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Thursday July 17 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Yerba Buena film programmer Joel Shepard snags another unusual US premiere. This one is a documentary tone poem set in a Buddhist community in Sikkim,... View details »
- Music: Experimental
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Tussle
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Thursday July 17 (8pm) @ Gray Area Gallery
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San Francisco may be 6,000 miles from Berlin, but local quartet Tussle turn out propulsive motorik grooves that are as authentic as Deutschland's best. Despite... View details »
- Music: Experimental
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ETE PROM NOISE
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Thursday July 17 (8pm) @ Balazo 18
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... t1:city>San Francisco saxophone/drums duo Ettrick describe their own style as "brutal improv," a fitting banner for the seven acts in the Mission Creek Music... View details »
- Art
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Radialvedic
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Thursday July 17 (6–9pm) @ Johansson Projects
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With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the three artists here work... View details »
- Reading
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Daphne Gottlieb
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Thursday July 17 (7:30pm) @ Booksmith
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Daphne Gottlieb's poetry — which entwines academic language and dirty talk — is populated with personas, from the archetypal slasher-film survivor of Final Girl (2003)... View details »
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- Art
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Tim Lee
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Thursday July 17 (11am–7pm) @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
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2nd Skin
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Thursday July 17 (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 »
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American Symbols
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Thursday July 17 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Trevor Paglen
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Thursday July 17 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
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A Complicated Dominion
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Thursday July 17 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
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Dale Chihuly
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Thursday July 17 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum
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Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
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Frida Kahlo
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Thursday July 17 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
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We Remember the Sun
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Thursday July 17 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
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The Beast in Me
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Thursday July 17 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man,"... View details »
- Art
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Women Impressionists
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Thursday July 17 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
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INsects INsectos
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Thursday July 17 (10am–7pm) @ Creativity Explored
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From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
- Art: Festival
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MOVE>SOUND
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Thursday July 17 @ Various locations
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Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
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Kiki
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Thursday July 17 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Windows on Nature
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Thursday July 17 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
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Insider/Outsider
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Thursday July 17 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division
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Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San... View details »
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Open for Business
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Thursday July 17 (5–8pm) @ Triple Base
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Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
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Ted Pushinsky
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Thursday July 17 (10am–10pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
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Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls to boxing rings to... View details »
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Room for Thought
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Thursday July 17 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
- Film
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The Wackness
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Thursday July 17 @ Various locations
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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Jennifer Merrill
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Thursday July 17 @ Iceberger Gallery
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Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting... View details »
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Hum
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Friday July 18 (5–7:30pm) @ Project Artaud Theater
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The drone moves across a remarkable spread of human activity, from religious chanting and doom metal to the whir of white noise. For Hum,... View details »
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Mariah Johnson
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Thursday July 17 (1–6pm) @ The Lab
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Mariah Johnson's installations re-envision household order as natural phenomena, draping and wrapping bed linens over chairs, walls, and floors in ways that twist the familiar... View details »
