Events on Friday, September 26
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- Music: Experimental
- Kim Gordon Meets Phantom Orchard
- @ Montalvo Arts Center
- These mad scientists of sound create the most gorgeous noise since, well, any of their previous projects. A convocation of the... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Superpitcher w/ Michael Mayer
- @ Club Mighty
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- Film: Documentary
- Useless
- @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
- In the same way that Michelangelo Antonioni has been described as the quintessential modernist filmmaker of the early '60s, Sixth Generation... View details »
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- Music: Global
- Chicha Libre
- @ Cafe du Nord
- Chicha might have been another lost artifact of the Amazon had it not been for a boom box on the streets... View details »
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- Desperate Divas
- @ SomArts Cultural Center
- Part gutter/glitter fashion show, part drag Oscars, the Desperate Divas competition pits local gender benders against one another for a worthy... 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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- Architecture and the City
- @ Various locations
- Home to classic painted ladies, tree-lined hills, and recent prefab houses, San Francisco's landscape is distinct and ever-evolving. During the Architecture... View details »
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- somewhere in advance of nowhere
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from... View details »
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- New Heaven
- @ Mollusk Surf Shop
- Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- More Stories by Tobias Wolff
- @ Magic Theater
- Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability... 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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- The Wizard of Oz
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 7 Beggars
- @ Climate Theater
- Over 200 years ago, Rebbe Nachman said to a group of followers, "Now I am going to tell you stories." Flash... View details »
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- Spencer Sweeney
- @ Jack Hanley Gallery
- After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York... View details »
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- David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
- @ Johansson Projects
- David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and... View details »
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- Welcome All
- @ Needles & Pens
- From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an... 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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- 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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- Richard T. Walker
- @ David Cunningham Projects
- The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition... 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
- @ Post Street Theatre
- Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood... View details »
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- 73 Funshine
- @ Electric Works
- Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Mission of Burma
- @ The Independent
- Inspiration to guitar-dads everywhere, Mission of Burma prove the rock doesn't have to stop on the other side of the hill.... View details »
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- Art of Democracy
- @ Meridian Gallery
- Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated... View details »
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- SF Greek Food Festival
- @ Annunciation Cathedral
- This festival of Hellenic flavor, hosted by the parish of Annunciation Cathedral, is a treat for both foodies and cultural savants.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Hungry Planet
- @ World Affairs Center
- The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare
- @ Zellerbach Hall
- Cal Performances snags the hotly anticipated West Coast premiere of Mark Morris' adaptation of Sergey Prokofiev's ballet, based on the Bard's... 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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- 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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- Duality of Humanity
- @ White Walls Gallery
- Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst... View details »
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- The Totoro Forest Project
- @ Cartoon Art Museum
- If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global... View details »
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- It's Alright
- @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
- Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rock 'n' Roll
- @ American Conservatory Theater
- Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge,... 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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- Music: Festival
- San Francisco Blues Festival
- @ Great Meadow, Fort Mason
- The blues may have well-documented origins in the Mississippi Delta, but the country's longest continuously running blues fest calls the Bay... View details »
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- Shen Shaomin
- @ Frey Norris Gallery
- Chinese artist Shen Shaomin uses mismatched groups of human and animal bones (some real, some cast in plaster) to form skeletal... 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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- 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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- 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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- Gwenaël Rattke
- @ Ping Pong Gallery
- Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- I feel I am free but I know I am not
- @ SF Camerawork
- This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks... View details »
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- A Moment for Reflection
- @ Ratio 3
- Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be... 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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- buZ blurr
- @ Babylon Falling
- Trains may not have the same hold on the popular imagination as they once did, but a recent flurry of films... View details »
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- Frank Lobdell
- @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
- During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank... 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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