All events on Tuesday September 09
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Neal Stephenson
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Tuesday Sep 9 (7–11pm) @ The Regency Center
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Neal Stephenson is that rare novelist whose fantastic-yet-plausible scenarios for scientific enterprise can't be dismissed as "science fiction." Sure, he paints futures full of strange... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
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The Bad Plus
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Tuesday Sep 9 (8 & 10pm) @ Yoshi's San Francisco
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Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides a link to jazz,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Eat Tapes
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Tuesday Sep 9 (9pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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Opting for suitcases full of battered analog electronics over the laptops ubiquitous with their peers, Gregory Zifcak and Marijke Jorritsma make spastic experimental techno that's... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Tuesday Sep 9 (11am–7pm) @ 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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Tuesday Sep 9 (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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Frida Kahlo
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Tuesday Sep 9 (10am–5:45pm) @ 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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Tuesday Sep 9 (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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Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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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Tuesday Sep 9 (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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Banned and Recovered
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Tuesday Sep 9 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book
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In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of schools, libraries, and the... View details »
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Julie Heffernan
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Tuesday Sep 9 (10:30am–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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Tuesday Sep 9 (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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Tuesday Sep 9 (10am–5:45pm) @ 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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Tuesday Sep 9 (10am–3pm) @ 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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Tuesday Sep 9 (11am–7pm) @ 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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New Heaven
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Tuesday Sep 9 (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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We Remember the Sun
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Tuesday Sep 9 (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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Tuesday Sep 9 (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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Tuesday Sep 9 (11am–10pm) @ 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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Tuesday Sep 9 (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 »
