Events on Sunday, August 17
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Judgement Day
- @ Cafe du Nord
- Tonight's bill is so diverse that it might as well be called a variety show. One thing all three groups do... View details »
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- 3rd Annual Lake Merritt Radio Regatta
- @ Lake Merritt Boating Center
- Leave the iPod at home and hit up your local thrift store for a handheld transistor for this afternoon of pleasure... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ubu for President
- @ John Hinkel Park
- With its infamous opening salvo ("Merdre!"), Alfred Jarry's vulgar, nonsensical satire of 19th-century despotism, Ubu Roi scandalized Parisian theatergoers upon its... View details »
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- Art
- 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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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- I Feel a Thong Coming On
- @ New Conservatory Theatre
- Tom Orr lives up to his billing as a star of comedy, cabaret, and porn by parodying show tunes in various... View details »
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- Art
- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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
- Angel of Fire
- @ SFMOMA
- Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Pride and Succubus
- @ New Langton Arts
- Since 1998, the Thunderbird Theatre Company has produced original comedic plays with a literary and cinematic twist; its last two seasons... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- The Ron Stoner Show
- @ Mollusk Surf Shop
- Ron Stoner rode a wave of acclaim over mid-'60s SoCal beach culture, legendary for the vivid eye he brought to surf... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Sputnik Mania
- @ Red Vic
- Last October 4th marked the beginning of "Sputnik Year," the 50th anniversary of the Soviet satellite's launch. The timing seems right... View details »
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- Art
- Bay Area Now 5
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the... View details »
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- Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
- @ Park Life
- Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a... 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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- More Flavor: Tour
- Ground Scores
- @ Various locations
- Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Trumbo
- @ Lumiere Theatre
- The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005), but this extraordinary documentary... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fair
- American Craft Show
- @ Fort Mason Center
- As American artists find new avenues for their creativity — recycled materials and urban stories woven through tapestries, for instance —... View details »
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- Kwatro-Kantos
- @ 21 Grand
- Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of... View details »
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- Art
- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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- More Flavor: Festival
- 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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- Cool Globes
- @ Crissy Field
- Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history... 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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