Events on Saturday, January 10
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Jonas Reinhardt
- @ Million Fishes
- There must be something in the city's water supply that keeps getting the kids all riled up over percussive, keyboard-heavy psych... View details »
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- Music: Soul/R&B
- The Funky Meters
- @ The Fillmore
- There's no questioning their cred: not only have Funky Meters men Art Neville, Leo Nocentelli, and Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste created some... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Angry Samoans
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- The class clowns of the early-'80s SoCal punk scene, Angry Samoans earned a reputation for their under-a-minute songs that sophomorically covered... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Deth P. Sun
- @ Rowan Morrison
- Deth P. Sun taps into the cartoon worlds of Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, and Moomin to create his own illustrated universe... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Andy Warhol: Good For the Jews?
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- It should come as no surprise that monologuist Josh Kornbluth, that most famous of red diaper babies, would run wild with... View details »
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- The Art of Participation
- @ SFMOMA
- While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... View details »
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- Monsieur Verdoux
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- The initial response to Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux was notoriously mixed. James Agee's superlative-laced review was the exception, as most American... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Alec Soth
- @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery
- As W. heads back to Crawford for good, he leaves behind memories both pathetic and dire — flying size 10s, bungled... View details »
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- It's Happening All the Time...
- @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
- Groupthink might seem antithetical to artistic practice, but Rock Paper Scissor Gallery's first show of the new year assembles an intriguing... 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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- Shaun O'Dell
- @ Jack Hanley Gallery
- Numerous references and allusions appear throughout Shaun O'Dell's multimedia collages: Zoroastrian symbols, American quilting patterns, ancient Sumerian architecture, the history of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- @ Ashby Stage
- Theatre company Shotgun Players has been bringing cutting-edge productions to the Bay Area for 17 years. It's garnered a solid reputation... View details »
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- Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
- @ SFMOMA
- The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sincerity Forever
- @ Brava Theater Center
- Strong critical reactions are often thought to be signifiers of meaningful art. Well, try this one on for size: Mac Wellman's... View details »
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- Martin Puryear
- @ SFMOMA
- SFMOMA's retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear quickly dispenses with woodworking's crafty, small-scale reputation. Monumental in size, Puryear's abstract... View details »
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- Yves Saint Laurent
- @ de Young Museum
- After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... View details »
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- Paul Urich
- @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
- Paul Urich, FecalFace.com's first featured artist, returns to his old stomping ground for an exhibition of new work. Driven by the... View details »
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- Test Patterns
- @ SF Camerawork
- South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of... View details »
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- Emil Lukas
- @ Hosfelt Gallery
- Titration refers to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until a visible change occurs.... View details »
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- Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth... View details »
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- Chantal Akerman
- @ SFMOMA
- Chantal Akerman's films pass slowly, allowing viewers the necessary time to luxuriate in the depth of her work. The Belgian auteur... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
- @ SF Playhouse
- We've all wondered just what may have happened between the country's 16th president and his notoriously handsome friends. Now we have... View details »
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- Passionate Struggle
- @ 499 Castro St
- One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class... View details »
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- L.A. Paint
- @ Oakland Museum of California
- Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases... 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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- transPOP
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- In transPOP, 16 artists reveal and restructure the love/hate triangle between Korea, Vietnam, and the United States. This international survey examines... 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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