Events on Friday, July 17
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- More Flavor: Sports
- B.A.D. Mud Wrestling
- @ CELLspace
- It turns out those quad-skating fiends in the Bay Area Derby Girls aren't just fearsome roller chicks — they've also got... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- MEN
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- Everyone needs more men in their life — especially if they happen to include dapper calendar girl and former Le Tigre... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Richard Avedon
- @ SFMOMA
- Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- Ninth Annual Fire Arts Festival
- @ The Crucible Fire Arts Arena, Wake Street at West Grand Avenue, Oakland CA 94607
- The Crucible's ninth-annual Fire Arts Festival is the largest event of its kind on the West Coast. Be astonished by colossal... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
- @ The David Brower Center
- Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed... View details »
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- OCEAN + BEACH
- @ Needles & Pens
- Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20... View details »
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- Jews on Vinyl
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- The CJM has already wowed with its stunning architecture and expansive collection, but if you needed another reason to visit, it's... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Robert Frank's The Americans
- @ SFMOMA
- In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Outdoor Exploratorium
- @ Fort Mason Center
- Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
- @ Various locations
- The little local arts-and-music-festival-that-could just keeps getting bigger and better. Now celebrating its 13th year, Mission Creek has expanded its scope,... View details »
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- This Town
- @ Eclectix Gallery
- New York City has its skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty. Los Angeles has its vericose freeway interchanges, the Hollywood sign,... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Midnight Mass
- @ Landmark Bridge Theater
- It could be a tabloid headline: "Cult-movie host morphs into seven-figure film director." Instead, it's the end to this 12th season... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Hunted and Gathered
- @ Modernism
- Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Edible Expeditions
- @ Conservatory of Flowers
- Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Pae White
- @ New Langton Arts
- Entering Pae White's exhibit is a bit like walking into a different time, in another place and culture altogether. This is,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- 10x10x10
- @ San Francisco City Hall
- San Francisco is often described by its square mileage (7x7), but the city's Art Comission Gallery and PhotoAlliance have expanded those... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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- Film: Festival
- San Francisco Bicycle Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- As we mentioned last week, San Francisco just got a little more bike-friendly, with the approved addition of 30-plus miles of... View details »
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- Galaxy
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- With the financial crisis affecting all spheres of the market, including the art world, it's not surprising that museums are looking... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Soul Power
- @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
- Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in... View details »
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- Safe Word
- @ Ratio 3
- Ratio3 Gallery's new exhibition Safe Word helps puts to rest that age-old question: What will the neighbors think? In this case,... View details »
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- John Baldessari
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Graphic Sexual Horror
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- The Internet has undoubtedly been one of the biggest factors in helping kink come into the mainstream — not to mention... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
- @ de Young Museum
- "Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of... View details »
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- Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
- @ Triple Base
- All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Rebecca Martinez
- @ Robert Tat Gallery
- Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of... View details »
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- Warren MacKenzie
- @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- Trading in glitz and gloss for elegant understatement, American pottery master Warren MacKenzie has spent half a century crafting simple, eminently... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- In the Realm of Oshima
- @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Frequently hailed as the Jean Luc Godard of Japan, Nagisa Oshima has a reputation as one of his country's foremost radical... View details »
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- Humpday
- @ Landmark Embarcadero
- Don't let the doltish title dissuade: Humpday is a truly astute comedy of manners. Herein lies the basic setup behind Kelly... View details »
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- The Cresting Wave
- @ Electric Works
- Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to... View details »
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- Jews on Vinyl
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- A unique exhibition, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that... View details »
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