Events on Thursday, July 23
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- Film: Documentary
- RiP
- @ Mezzanine
- For a skinny kid from Pittsburgh who smashes buttons for a living, Girl Talk has come a long way in the... View details »
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- Night Tide
- @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Experimental filmmaker Curtis Harrington made his feature debut with this moody tale of doomed romance. Dennis Hopper (in one of his... 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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- The Fall
- @ Red Vic
- In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pearls Over Shanghai
- @ Hypnodrome
- The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag... 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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- Lake Tahoe
- @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
- The wry humor and the languid pace of Lake Tahoe make Jarmusch comparisons unavoidable, but director Fernando Eimbcke seems just as... 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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- 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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- Films of Lucrecia Martel
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Lucrecia Martel dabbled in documentaries, shorts, and children's films before ascending to become one of the reigning heavyweights of New Argentine... 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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- 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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- Wallworks
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Ten years ago, renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki designed YBCA's unique exhibition space. Now, with Wallworks, the beauty and utility 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Lebowski Fest
- @ Fox Theater
- Whether you're an adherent of the Abiding Church of the Dude, a collector of priceless pee-stained rugs, a harness-surfing conceptual artist... View details »
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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- International Poetry Festival
- @ Various locations
- Whether you're a lover of lyric or a connoisseur of concrete poetry, the International Poetry Festival is an excellent opportunity to... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is always an eye-opening reminder of the diversity and variety of experience that falls under... View details »
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- 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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- Getaway
- Wanderlust
- @ Squaw Valley USA
- You're at one of the summer's biggest outdoor concerts. You've just sweated buckets dancing to one of Girl Talk's manic sets.... 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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- 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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