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Issue 290 |
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Your cultural event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in San Francisco this week. |
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San Francisco
Nov 20-26, 2007
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After watching local artists accept their Goldie Awards last Tuesday, we're reminded that the Bay Area has a lot to be thankful for: that female poets and fledgling filmmakers draw as much enthusiasm as rock bands, and that, despite the cost of living here, people still find the means to create anything at all. Count your blessings and spread it.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Jackie Nickerson
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In the tradition of crossover photographers such as Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Steven Meisel, Jackie Nickerson switched from snapping fashion spreads to staging inventive portraits. In the last ten years, she has lived in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ireland, and Spain, with each place facilitating her investigations of cultural and religious practices.
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Chica and the Folder
A compact album brimming with oblique hooks, oddball rhythms, and polylingual play.
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Testimony
Gillian Laub's portraiture reveals private experiences of a much-publicized conflict.
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
Dead Bird Movement presents Entry by Entrance
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Tuesday Nov 20, 2007 (8pm)
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Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia St, 415.824.3890)
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Jessie Smith, Dead Bird Movement's artistic director and lead dancer, embraces high and low physical theater, tackling her company's darkly humorous narratives as if running the gauntlet on American Gladiators. In one moment, a tutu-sporting Ryan Mitchell and Mandie O'Connell toss pies; in the next, Mitchell's hands tighten around Smith's neck. While the troupe can do pratfalls à la I Love Lucy with the best of them, its Punch and Judy-style performances also channel the aggressive impulses of another constantly quarreling couple: Sid and Nancy.
- Isaac Amala
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FILM
Dear Pillow (2004)
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (7:30pm)
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YBCA Screening Room (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
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Like many teenage guys, Wes is shy, has a distant relationship with his father, and must negotiate the gravitational pull of his hormone-gorged sexuality through solitary means: namely, by eavesdropping on a phone-sex line with a police scanner. Wes soon befriends his porn director-turned-smut-author neighbor, Dusty, who convinces the sullen teen to try his hand at yank-rag prose, using his late-night listening sessions as source material. Part Cyrano de Bergerac and part Catcher in the Rye by way of Larry Clark, Bryan Poyser's 2004 sleeper hit is an unflinching coming-of-age film that's as creepy as it is tender.
- Matt Sussman
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MORE FLAVOR: Volunteer
Meals on Wheels Thanksgiving Dinner Delivery
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Thursday Nov 22, 2007 (9am–noon)
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Various locations
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Ideally, Thanksgiving should afford everyone the nourishment provided by food, friends, and family. For the homebound elderly who lack the opportunity to share in a communal meal, however, Meals on Wheels provides a hot turkey dinner, complete with pumpkin pie, flowers, and a friendly face. Volunteering with MOW — which has 3000 meals over 90 routes to deliver this holiday — is a great opportunity to help brighten someone's Thanksgiving Day before you dig into your own feast and give thanks.
- Annie Lo
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Volunteers need their own cars and valid California driver's licenses. Please contact Linda Murley, Meals on Wheels' Volunteer Program Manager, for more information.
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FILM: Documentary
What Would Jesus Buy?
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Friday Nov 23, 2007
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Lumiere Theatre (1572 California St, 415.267.4893)
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Despite Ebenezer Scrooge's perennial lesson on the true value of Christmas, it's hard not to view the holiday season as a month-long binge on rampant commercialization and crass consumerism. How appropriate then, that What Would Jesus Buy?, a documentary about agitprop "preacher" Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, is being released just before the onslaught of post-Thanksgiving sales. Singing and proselytizing their anti-consumerism message in malls and cities throughout the US (and getting ejected by security guards), Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping challenge America's culture of conspicuous consumption and offer dire warnings about the "impending Shopocalypse.
- Annie Lo
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FILM
Mouchette (1967)
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007
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SFMOMA (151 3rd St, 415.357.4000)
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How is it that a restrained film about an unremarkable, put-upon peasant girl came to be considered an absolute classic of art cinema? In a word: Bresson. As in, Robert Bresson, the French-Catholic director whose transparent film style circumvents traditional expository narration and psychological characterizations. In Mouchette, Bresson presents his title character's desperate existence as a hagiographer would the life of a saint. Artist Jeff Wall selected the film for a series complementing SFMOMA's retrospective of his large-scale light box photography, so that Bresson's penetrating vision might take on extra meaning in relation to Wall's own studied "cinematographic" technique.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Busdriver w/ Daedalus and Antimc
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (9pm)
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Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750)
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To say that Regan Farquhar has hip-hop in his blood wouldn't be far off — his dad is, after all, the guy who wrote Krush Groove. But to call the man better-known as Busdriver a "rapper" is a gross understatement: Farquhar's flow leaves Twista in the dust and makes Saul Williams and Sage Francis look like coffee-shop amateurs. With a style as fast and incisive as it is off-kilter, Busdriver's lyrical content — critical takedowns of modern music delivered in ten-ton rhymes — will get stuck in your head, even if you can't quite keep up.
- Foster Kamer
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MORE FLAVOR: Competition
Run Wild! 5K/10K Race
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Sunday Nov 25, 2007 (8:30am–noon)
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JFK Dr and 8th Ave
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In addition to the thousands of runners dressed as cows, chickens, penguins, and cavemen, the 23rd-annual race to benefit the California Academy of Sciences has a special guest star: the Academy's newly constructed home in Golden Gate Park. While the museum itself won't be completed until next fall, the building's "living roof" and restored facade are complete and on prominent display during the morning's events. Come gape at the costumed weirdos and sneak a peek at one of SF's most sustainable green-built structures.
- Connie Hwong
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READING: Poetry
Alix Olson: Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
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Monday Nov 26, 2007 (7pm)
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Cody's on Fourth Street (1730 4th St, 510.559.9500)
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Activist-poet-performer (and Def Poetry Jam veteran) Alix Olson comes to Berkeley on tour with Word Warriors, an anthology she edited to reflect the variety of spoken word being performed by women today. Contributors including Michelle Tea and Eileen Myles were asked to submit an original poem as well as an essay on some aspect of their experience as women performer-poets, making Word Warriors not just a compendium of spoken word but also a survey into the state of the art. Olson's own radical credentials are impeccable, having received plugs from bell hooks, Eve Ensler, and Howard Zinn.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Jazz/Blues
Kaufmann / Gratkowski / de Joode
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Monday Nov 26, 2007 (7:30pm)
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Mills College Art Museum (5000 MacArthur Blvd, 510.430.2164)
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The illustrious Mills College music department hosts an evening of world-class jazz improvisation as part of its ongoing Songlines free-concert series. Achim Kaufmann (piano), Frank Gratkowski (clarinet and alto sax), and Wilbert de Joode (bass) all have lengthy individual discographies reflecting their solid standing in the European avant-garde jazz world. Further evidence: both Kaufmann and Gratkowski have received Germany's prestigious SWR award, and de Joode has collaborated with innovators ranging from guitarist Derek Bailey to punks the Ex. As a trio they practice a kind of improvised chamber music that needs to be heard to be believed.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM
R.K.O. Lost & Found
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Friday Nov 23, 2007
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Roxie Theater (3117 16th St, 415.863.1087)
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In the opening moments of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a pair of disembodied lips sings, "I want to go / to the late-night double-feature picture show / by R.K.O." That's a reference to R.K.O. Pictures, a prolific studio that produced a slew of sci-fi and creature features (including the original King Kong) in the '40s and '50s. R.K.O. Lost and Found, a series of rare films not seen in any format since 1959, proves that the studio has more to offer than scream fests. Cineastes may flock to the Dalton Trumbo-scripted A Man to Remember (1938), but the crowd pleaser here has to be Frank Capra's delightful pre-code society farce Lady for a Day (1933).
- Matt Sussman
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