Events on Friday, August 22
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- Film: Shorts
- San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival
- @ Bridge Theatre
- Peaches Christ and Vinsantos host this annual celebration of Bay Area's short filmmakers. Highlights include a surreal look at neuro-linguistic programming... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War
- @ Artists' Television Access
- In the halcyon days of 2003, the streets seethed with enough peacemongering fervor that it seemed we could forestall bloodshed in... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- A-Trak
- @ 330 Ritch
- After winning the DMC DJ Championships at age 15, A-Trak embarked on a meteoric rise that continues to this day. The... View details »
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- Tasty
- @ Creativity Explored
- The artists featured in this exhibit pay tribute to the food we eat with a delicious array of colors and textures,... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Kill Pixie and Cleon Peterson
- @ White Walls Gallery
- Cleon Peterson's multipanel works depict violent urban scenes in black acrylic and hot pink enamel, bringing the seedy underworld of the... 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Emo! The Musical
- @ The Boxcar Theatre
- Revenge of the Nerds meets High School Musical in this musical satire of sad-sack teens with angular hair cuts. The underdogs... View details »
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- It Came from Outer Space
- @ Red Vic
- In 1953, not much was niftier than a 3-D movie about an alien invasion. That's still pretty much the case, so... 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: 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Festival
- Outside Lands Festival
- @ Golden Gate Park
- The good folks at Another Planet Entertainment seem to have found the perfect formula for a music festival: a full weekend... View details »
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- Clare Haggarty and Andrew Tosiello
- @ Little Tree Gallery
- Anyone who caught CCA's last MFA show knows that Andrew Tosiello's work — in particular, his texts that recast the artist-buyer... 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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- Art: Photography
- Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
- @ City Hall
- As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working... 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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- Timothy Cummings
- @ Catharine Clark Gallery
- Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and... 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- Banned and Recovered
- @ San Francisco Center for the Book
- In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of... View details »
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- The Montage Art of Winston Smith
- @ Glama-Rama Salon
- Winston Smith's dense, darkly playful collages are Boschian panoramas of our consumer society. Smith wasn't the first punk to pick up... View details »
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- Radialvedic
- @ Johansson Projects
- With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Graphic Content T-Shirt Show
- @ Space Gallery
- In its fourth year, this group show of wearable art continues to be a popular outlet for local creative types, receiving... 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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- Music: Soul/R&B
- The Shirelles
- @ The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko
- The oldies circuit has always been a gamble. You had the ringers in the Drifters (without any original members)... 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: 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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