Events on Friday, February 5

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down and the Thermals w/ Grass Widow
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Music: Rock/Pop
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down and the Thermals w/ Grass Widow
@ Great American Music Hall
Willis Thompson and Thao Nguyen met in a re-enactment in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. We found Adam Thompson one summer at a...  View details »
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JAM ON IT
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Music: Hip-Hop
JAM ON IT
@ Elbo Room
  Females Wit Funk  & On Blatz! Present JAM ON IT feat. KAT010, LADY FINGAZ, THE...  View details »
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irr. app. (ext.): The Final Utterance
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Music: Experimental
irr. app. (ext.): The Final Utterance
@ The Lab
For the past 12 years, irr. app. (ext.) has been the chrome-plated megaphone for Canadian Matthew Waldron, who has released a...  View details »
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Help for Haiti: Benefit for Direct Relief Intl. w/ La Plebe + Dead to Me + King City + Love Songs
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Music
Help for Haiti: Benefit for Direct Relief Intl. w/ La Plebe + Dead to Me + King City + Love Songs
@ Slim's
Since 1948, Direct Relief has provided medicines and medical supplies to improve the health of people victimized by poverty,...  View details »
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Henry Lewis and Mike Davis
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
Henry Lewis and Mike Davis
@ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Mike Davis creates nightmarish landscapes, both delicate and monstrous, that would make Bosch proud. The self-taught painter and tattoo artist's latest...  View details »
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Ahmet &Ouml;ğ&uuml;t: <em>Exploded City</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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<em>Broken Embraces</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Film
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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Katherine Westerhout: <em>Rust Belt</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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Mark Baugh-Sasaki: <em>Adaptations</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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>The White Ribbon</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Film
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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Steuart Pittman: <em>Nowhere / Anywhere</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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SF Independent Film Festival
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Film: Festival
SF Indiefest
@ Roxie Theater
Rolling into its twelfth year, SF's Independent Film Festival continues to bring the best, finest, and weirdest indie films to the...  View details »
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Mary Iverson: <em>Frontier</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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Lucy Pullen: <em>The Effect Effect</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
Lucy Pullen
@ Ping Pong Gallery
Canadian artist Lucy Pullen, whose oeuvre includes a punny edible intervention riffing on one of Bruce Nauman's greatest hits (Eat Your...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Doubt: A Parable</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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<em>Lending Library</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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<em>Coco Before Chanel</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Ari Marcopoulos: <em>Within Arm's Reach</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art: Photography
Ari Marcopoulos
@ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...  View details »
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<em>Cartier and America</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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SF Beer Week
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
More Flavor: Food/Wine
SF Beer Week
@ Various locations
For ten glorious days, your cup will runneth over as the city salutes one of humankind's oldest libations. The SF Brewer's...  View details »
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Kirk Crippens: <em>Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Route 1: R for Replicant</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Dan Hoyle's <em>The Real Americans</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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Kamau Patton: <em>Icons of Attention</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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Small Press Spotlight: Andy Ristaino
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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David Trautrimas and Kristina Lewis: <em>Article X</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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<em>Santos y Otros Creatures</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
Santos y Otros Creatures
@ Creativity Explored
Saints are odd role models, amalgams of historical fact and divine intervention whose exemplary nature is inseparable from the aura of...  View details »
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Outdoor Exploratorium
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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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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<em>Luxury Items</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Performing Arts: Theatre
Luxury Items
@ CounterPULSE

Back by popular demand, performance artist, dancer, and 2009 Guardian GOLDIE award winner, Monique... 
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Chris Ballantyne: <em>Some Songs from the Shore</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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$5 Admission through February 9
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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$5 Admission through February 9
@ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Admission to the Museum is just $5 through February 9, before the opening of Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf on...  View details »
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Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Art
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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People's Torah
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
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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Yoga & Improvisation Workshop: Sourcing Personal Practice for Performance
Month_02 Friday Day_05
More Flavor: Workshop
Yoga & Improvisation Workshop: Sourcing Personal Practice for Performance
@ ODC
This workshop will focus on the vocabulary of yoga and explore the use of improvisation to subvert traditional forms for...  View details »
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Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Art
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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Jews on Vinyl
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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Coming Home
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Performing Arts: Theatre
Coming Home
@ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD
 DIRECTED BY...  View details »
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