Events on Saturday, August 30
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Anal Cunt
- @ Annie's Social Club
- We dare you to drag your friends to see noisegrind/comedy-metal legends Anal Cunt without explaining to them what the band is... View details »
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Slim Cessna
- @ Great American Music Hall
- Wailing and twisting onstage, Slim Cessna and his cohorts shake things up tonight with their spooky brand of gospel. Banjos, bass,... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Weedeater
- @ Elbo Room
- With ex-members of the notoriously violent Buzzov*en, an album recorded by Steve Albini and released on Southern Lord records, and quite... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Activism Through Documentary Film
- @ Artists' Television Access
- As YouTube and digital-video technology collapse the distance between film production and distribution, it's no surprise that industrious political documentarians are... 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Slow Food Nation
- @ Various locations
- Slow Food — a vital cultural movement that challenges people's relationship with the food they eat — gears up for the... View details »
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- Julie Heffernan
- @ Catharine Clark Gallery
- In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Best Man
- @ Aurora Theatre
- It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Christine Shields
- @ Triple Base
- A musician, comic-book author, and freak-folk portraitist, Christine Shields evokes a fiercely personal vision of girlhood with pastel-colored, phantasmal paintings of... 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- Rachel Kaye
- @ Adobe Bookshop
- In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is... View details »
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- Film
- What We Do Is Secret
- @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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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 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- 9 @ Night: Cinema of the Forgotten
- @ Roxie Theater
- Rob Nilsson has always been a fiercely independent filmmaker, but his 9 @ Night series takes his maverick spirit to another... 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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- 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: 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Competition
- Shanghai SF
- @ Coit Tower
- Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... View details »
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