Events on Wednesday, July 29
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Magnolia Electric Co.
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- Two years have passed since Magnolia Electric Co.'s last substantial release. For a prolific songwriter like Jason Molina, who began to... 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- Mark Baugh-Sasaki
- @ Hayes Valley Park
- The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Festival
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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