Events on Friday, September 5
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- Music: Electronic
- Ellen Allien
- @ Mighty
- The Berlin invasion rolls through town tonight, bringing doe-eyed techno doyenne Ellen Allien and party monsters Modeselektor to Club Mighty. In... View details »
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- What's Cuter Than a Bunch of Nerds?
- @ Li Po Lounge
- School's back from the summer — better start getting your nerd on. Local duo Dangraham throw a celebration for the freaks... View details »
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Ida
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- Long described as a more pastoral Low, New York's Ida have recently been pushing their trademark slowcore into folksier terrain. Their... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Nine Inch Nails
- @ Oracle Arena
- Since parting ways with Interscope last year, industrial-music impresario Trent Reznor has taken a stand against corporate interference and high consumer... View details »
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Jana Hunter
- @ Hemlock Tavern
- Jana Hunter has been a mainstay in neo-folk circles since her gleefully fractured genre picked up critical steam around five years... 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
- 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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- Lebowski Fest
- @ Various locations
- Just in time to celebrate the DVD's tenth anniversary, Lebowski Fest rolls into the bowling lanes of San Francisco, featuring buckets... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Colman Domingo
- @ Thick House
- Local showman Colman Domingo revives his 2005 hit, A Boy and His Soul, for Thick House's 20th-anniversary season. Domingo's tour of... 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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- What We Do Is Secret
- @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Hornucopia
- @ Various locations
- Just when you thought the summer — and consequently, the Bay Area's overstuffed calendar of music festivals — was winding down,... 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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- 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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- 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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- Music: Festival
- SF Electronic Music Festival
- @ Project Artaud Theater
- As described in David W. Bernstein's recent book, The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, San Francisco... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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