Events on Saturday, February 20
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Whipped
- @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
- A Mangos with Chili performance constitutes a special sort of magic act: one in which feelings, moods, and even beings are... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Vitalic
- @ Mezzanine
- Pascal Arbez, the French-born Italian better known as Vitalic, has a national and musical pedigree seemingly predestined for electro greatness. OK... View details »
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- More Flavor: Tour
- Tour De Taco
- @ Fruitvale BART
- Cyrus Farivar, mastermind behind the California Taco Trucks blog, is teaming up with Oaklandish and the East Bay Bicycle Coalition to... View details »
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- Teen Witch
- @ Landmark Bridge Theater
- Who needs the strum und drang of Hogwarts when there is Dorian Lively's cult classic Teen Witch? Robyn Lively plays the... View details »
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- Music: Folk/Country
- SF Bluegrass & Old Time Festival presents The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band + Eric & Suzy Thompson
- @ Slim's
- The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band consists of dyed-in-the-wool traditional players with over 100 years of combined live gigging experience.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Workshop
- Flower Dissections at the San Francisco Botanical Garden
- @ Exploratorium
- Join Exploratorium educator Ken Finn and take a closer look at our city’s garden. As we walk along, we’ll explore flower... View details »
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- John Butler Trio
- @ Great American Music Hall
- In June this year, John Butler proudly announced the new line up of the ever evolving John Butler Trio. Prominent Melbourne... View details »
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- Apparent Motion: Program I
- @ San Francisco Cinematheque
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Screening at the Victoria Theatre (map)
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- Apparent Motion: Program II
- @ San Francisco Cinematheque
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Screening at the Victoria Theatre (map)
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- The Day I Became a Woman
- @ Meridian Gallery
- Screening of the award-winning Iranian film The Day I Became a Woman drected by Marzieh Meshkini with a conversation between curator... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Physics of Toys: Balancing Act
- @ Exploratorium
- Seeking balance between work and play? Join the team and build gadgets, toys, and artworks based on balance. Recommended for ages... View details »
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- Rives Granade
- @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
- While well-documented in photography, the eerie picturesque of slick corporate environments has been addressed much less in painting. Cue Rives Granade,... View details »
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- The White Ribbon
- @ Landmark Embarcadero
- In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the... View details »
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- Lending Library
- @ Royal NoneSuch Gallery
- While not actually available for check out, the miscellany on display in Lending Library — on loan from the likes of... View details »
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- Route 1: R for Replicant
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- From George Washington's cherry tree chop to the sale of Manhattan for a pocketful of beads, American history is full of... View details »
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- Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
- @ Various locations
- SFMOMA isn't the only cultural institution in town celebrating a milestone this year. In honor of its 40th anniversary the city-run... View details »
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- David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis
- @ Johansson Projects
- In the hands of artists David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis, the trappings of everyday life — coffee pots, bathroom scales, high... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Doubt: A Parable
- @ New Conservatory Theatre
- Doubt drags so much award hardware behind it, each new staging seems gilded-by-association. Now, the LGBT-friendly New Conservatory Theater is generating... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Kirk Crippens
- @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
- Created without any staging or manipulation, the photographs in Kirk Crippens' Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession capture the emotion and enormity... View details »
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- Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf, the extraordinary exhibition in its first North American showing, is based on the collective artwork... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Luxury Items
- @ CounterPULSE
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- Mary Iverson
- @ Park Life
- In Mary Iverson's landscapes, primary-colored shipping containers are nestled within Hudson River school–influenced landscapes. It's a meeting of two worlds: the pastoral... View details »
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- Coco Before Chanel
- @ Landmark Clay Theatre
- Audrey Tautou (aka Amélie) stars as Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in this visually stunning French film about the... View details »
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- Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain
- @ Creativity Explored
- Hold that tiger! Creativity Explored's new exhibit, inspired by the Chinese Lunar New Year's regal symbol, has plenty of tigers burning... View details »
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- Ahmet Öğüt
- @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Large-scale models recreating the structural causalities of recent acts of terrorism form the clumpy, futuristic metropolis of Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City.... 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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- Andy Ristaino
- @ Cartoon Art Museum
- Somewhere between madman and uncanny visionary, cartoonist Andy Ristiano creates comics as exhilarating for their bold flourishes of color as for... View details »
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- Film: Shorts
- Bike Porn 3
- @ Roxie Theater
- Bike smut: porn's final frontier or the next logical step for cycle hounds? Either way, the shorts in the third-annual Bike... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Don't Feel: The Death of Dahmer
- @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
- Who is a serial killer beyond his crimes? Perhaps he is someone who feels no compassion. He might start as a... View details »
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- Kamau Patton
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Before the Internet, another kind of magic — wireless telegraphy, aka radio — made teleportation possible, astoundingly collapsing distance to bring... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Real Americans
- @ The Marsh
- Dan Hoyle is often noted as a rare hybrid of playwright, actor, and journalist. On the heels of his long-running, much... View details »
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- Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,... View details »
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- Chris Ballantyne
- @ Hosfelt Gallery
- Brooklyn-based painter (and San Francisco Art Institute grad) Chris Ballantyne creates strange intersections of the natural and the man-made. But his... 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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- Broken Embraces
- @ Landmark Clay Theatre
- A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most... View details »
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- More Flavor: Competition
- Shanghai SF
- @ Coit Tower
- Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Katherine Westerhout
- @ Electric Works
- As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Cartier and America
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Adorning royal personalities from the Duchess of Windsor to Daisy Fellowes and a cabal of Hollywood beauties, Cartier was the standard bearer... View details »
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- Nowhere / Anywhere
- @ Blankspace
- Steuart Pittman, a 2009 Mills MFA grad, makes abstract drawings and paintings of simple rectangles, half-circles, and squares, using colors that... View details »
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- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
- @ The Castro Theatre
- More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is... View details »
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- Luc Tuymans
- @ SFMOMA
- Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a... View details »
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- Alternorthern: Contemporary Art from Canada
- @ The Lab
- "Alternorthern," curated by Kevin Betram and Jason Gowans, features the work of Sonny Assu, Valerie Boxer, Vincent Chevalier, Brendan Fernandes, Jenny... View details »
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- Music: Soul/R&B
- SATURDAY NIGHT SOUL PARTY
- @ Elbo Room
- Saturday Night Soul Party with DJs Lucky, Paul Paul, and Phengren Oswald spin original 60s soul 45s for your dancing pleasure... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- SERJ TANKIAN - ELECT THE DEAD SYMPHONY
- @ Roxie Theater
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- As It Is Written: Project 304,805
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- As It Is Written: Project 304,805, is an exhibition centered around a soferet (a professionally trained female scribe) who while on... View details »
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- Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking
- @ SOMArts
- SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery invites the public to experience spanView 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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- Dispatches from the Archives
- @ SFMOMA
- How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Coming Home
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
- WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD DIRECTED BY... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- BIKE PORN 3: CYCLE BOUND
- @ Roxie Theater
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Akram Khan Company
- @ San Francisco Performances
- San Francisco Performances and YBCA join together to present celebrated Bangladeshi-British choreographer Akram Khan, who brings Bahok to San Francisco. Named... View details »
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- People's Torah
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Give us your hands! Help write a Torah by participating in the People's Torah an interactive, multi-media art installation that is... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- LEONARD COHEN LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970
- @ Roxie Theater
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