Events on Friday, February 5
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- @ 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 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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- 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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- 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
- @ 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- @ 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
- @ 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- @ 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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- 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
- @ 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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- 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
- @ 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Luxury Items
- @ CounterPULSE
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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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- $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
- @ 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
- @ 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
- @ 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
- @ 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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- 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
- @ 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
- Coming Home
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
- WRITTEN BY ATHOL FUGARD DIRECTED BY... View details »
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