Events on Thursday, September 17
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- @ 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- @ 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- @ 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
- 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
- @ 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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- 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
- @ California College of the Arts
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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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- 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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