All events on Saturday September 06
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Blowoff
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Saturday Sep 6 (10pm) @ Slim's
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Longtime fans might have had an inkling that former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould was anxious to ditch his guitar when he released 2002's largely... View details »
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Death Vessel
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Saturday Sep 6 (10pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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Joel Thibodeau's stratospherically high voice and bright delivery don't sound particularly funereal, but he carries his Death Vessel moniker with unflinching pride. His 2005 release... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
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Power to the Peaceful Festival
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Saturday Sep 6 (11am–5pm) @ Speedway Meadow
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For ten years, the Power to the Peaceful non-profit has celebrated "Personal Peace, Community Cooperation, International Co-existence, and Environmental Sustainability." This year's festival features peace-groove... View details »
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New Heaven
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Saturday Sep 6 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop
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Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf Shop, then, is a... View details »
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Witchcraft
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Saturday Sep 6 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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Encyclopaedia Metallum lists a whopping 12 bands named Witchcraft, two of which are from Sweden. Only one of these bands sports cable-knit sweaters and bell-bottoms... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Saturday Sep 6 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 his work for a... View details »
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Dale Chihuly
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Saturday Sep 6 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum
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Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
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2nd Skin
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Saturday Sep 6 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium
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With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
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Frida Kahlo
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Saturday Sep 6 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
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Women Impressionists
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Saturday Sep 6 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
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Ground Scores
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Saturday Sep 6 @ Various locations
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Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
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Bay Area Now 5
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Saturday Sep 6 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
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Julie Heffernan
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Saturday Sep 6 (11am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery
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In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and Bosch there — and... View details »
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Shen Shaomin
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Saturday Sep 6 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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Chinese artist Shen Shaomin uses mismatched groups of human and animal bones (some real, some cast in plaster) to form skeletal creatures that wouldn't look... View details »
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Room for Thought
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Saturday Sep 6 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
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Tasty
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Saturday Sep 6 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored
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The artists featured in this exhibit pay tribute to the food we eat with a delicious array of colors and textures, as well as a... View details »
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The Wizard of Oz
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Saturday Sep 6 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis of this tightly-packed group... View details »
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Shanghai SF
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Saturday Sep 6 (12:30, 1, 1:30, 2 & 2:30pm) @ Coit Tower
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Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with a map and basic... View details »
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Kwatro-Kantos
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Saturday Sep 6 (4–6pm) @ 21 Grand
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Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of drinks — but this... View details »
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Christine Shields
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Saturday Sep 6 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base
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A musician, comic-book author, and freak-folk portraitist, Christine Shields evokes a fiercely personal vision of girlhood with pastel-colored, phantasmal paintings of sad-eyed girls before totemic... View details »
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We Remember the Sun
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Saturday Sep 6 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
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Art of Democracy
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Saturday Sep 6 (11am–5pm) @ Meridian Gallery
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Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated exhibitions have cropped up... View details »
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Rachel Kaye
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Saturday Sep 6 (11am–11pm) @ Adobe Bookshop
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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 as old as the... View details »
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It's Alright
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Saturday Sep 6 (noon–7pm) @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
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Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a whimsical effect that relies... View details »
