Events on Tuesday, August 18
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Pissed Jeans
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- Allentown, Pennsylvania, might not be the first place you think of for groundbreaking heavy rock — in fact, excepting Billy Joel's... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Max Tundra
- @ Cafe du Nord
- The Max Tundra faithful waited an excruciating six years for Parallax Error Beheads You, the follow-up to the groundbreakingly idiosyncratic Mastered... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- Stepology
- @ Various locations
- This year's Bay Area Tap Festival will have dance aficionados clicking their heels in delight. In addition to a variety of... 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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- 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
- 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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- 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: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Curran Theatre
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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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- Film
- Beyond ESPN
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Sports, like romance, have become somewhat of an over-determined cinematic subject. Beyond ESPN, a series of sports-themed films and docs curated... 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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- 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
- 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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- 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
- Secrets Beyond the Door
- @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Forget BlueRay discs and plasma TVs. For true cinephiles, nothing lets a movie really sing like a pristine celluloid print. In... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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