Events on Thursday, September 17

<em>American Idiot</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
American Idiot
@ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Local punks-turned-multi-platinum-Grammy-winners Green Day are returning to their Berkeley stomping grounds, but not how you'd expect. Collaborating with Spring Awakening director...  View details »
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10th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Music: Festival
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
@ Brava Theater Center
From the synth wizards of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the '60s to the laptop-wielding young Turks of the...  View details »
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John Baldessari: <em>A Print Retrospective</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
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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<em>Wallworks</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
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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<em>Then and Now: Photographs by Sebasti&atilde;o Salgado</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
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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Free
7th Annual <em>Altered Barbie</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
Altered Barbie
@ Shotwell 50 Studios
One of the 20th century's most recognizable, beloved, and debated icons (and her genital-less beau) gets made over by more than...  View details »
Ongoing
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Thrillpeddlers presents <em>Pearls Over Shanghai</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_18
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 »
Ongoing
Hiroshi Sugimoto: <em>Lightning Fields</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art: Photography
Hiroshi Sugimoto
@ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...  View details »
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<em>The Headless Woman</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_18
Film
The Headless Woman
@ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Lucricia Martel's films pulse with ideas and nuance underneath their surface of foregrounded sound design and rich colors. In the Argentinean...  View details »
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<em>I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid To Tell You</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
I Heart Hamas
@ Off-Market Theater
Actor and writer Jennifer Jajeh is many things: single, a Christian, and a first generation Palestinian American. She's also incredibly funny....  View details »
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<em>Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
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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Mel Kadel: <em>Echo Test</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
Mel Kadel
@ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
LA-based Mel Kadel turns out pen-and-ink drawings that teem with creatures straight from a Sendak story. Flitting about, pushing, pulling, and...  View details »
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Conservatory of Flowers presents <em>Edible Expeditions</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
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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<em>10x10x10: An Invitational Exhibition </em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
There's a Mystery There
@ Contemporary Jewish Museum
With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild...  View details »
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Outdoor Exploratorium
Month_09 Friday Day_18
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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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Free
Jennie Ottinger: <em>Ibid</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
Jennie Ottinger
@ Johansson Projects
Jennie Ottinger's art presents a floating world populated with refugees from Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon canvases. Their skeletal frames...  View details »
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<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
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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 »
Ongoing
SF Fringe Festival
Month_09 Friday Day_18
Performing Arts: Festival
SF Fringe Festival
@ Various locations
Attending the SF Fringe Festival is a bit of a crapshoot by design: coveted performance slots are awarded by chance via...  View details »
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Bruce Conner
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
Bruce Conner
@ Gallery Paule Anglim
Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner...  View details »
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<em>Brief Encounter</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
Brief Encounter
@ American Conservatory Theater
Teaming up with ACT, England's Kneehigh Theatre smashes the fourth wall and then reconstructs it as a video screen in their...  View details »
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<em>Punk Passage: San Francisco First Wave Punk 1977-1981</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art: Photography
Punk Passage
@ San Francisco Public Library
The Sex Pistols may have imploded after their notorious final show at SF's now-defunct Winterland Ballroom, but the city's own punk...  View details »
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<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
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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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<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
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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Mark Baugh-Sasaki: <em>Adaptations</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_18
Art
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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<em>An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art: Photography
San Francisco Plays Itself
@ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...  View details »
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Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth: <em>Theory of the Unforeseen</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth
@ Frey Norris Gallery
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth's art plays off of science's tendency to make the world endlessly sub-divisible. What Michael Pollan...  View details »
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Free Night of Theater
Month_09 Friday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
Free Night of Theater
@ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...  View details »
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Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box
@ California College of the Arts
This event takes place at the Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway, Oakland CA   Ana... 
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Jews on Vinyl
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Art
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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American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Month_09 Thursday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
@ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong  Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...  View details »
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