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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 27-Dec 3, 2007
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The post-T Day furlong leading up to Christmas is all about epic proportions: Oscar-buzz blockbusters; super-sales that start at 5am; mounting credit-card debt. This week brings its share of spectacular spectaculars (Circus Oz, Escort) and outsized personalities (Kathy Griffin). But don't worry, we didn't forget about the little guys — hit up Big Ideas, Small Works and The Little Show to see how less can definitely be more. Keep things in perspective and spread it.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
The Flavorpill Blog
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Laurie Simmons
At the forefront of New York's contemporary art scene since the late '70s.
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Big Statement
As "It"-bag fatigue grows, labels are redefining the statement accessory.
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READING
Michael A. Stusser: The Dead Guy Interviews
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Tuesday Nov 27, 2007 (6–8pm)
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Mechanic's Institute Library (57 Post St, 415.393.0100)
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Hypothetical interlocutor Michael Stusser has done his homework, assembling a collection of imaginary conversations with an eon's worth of rulers, luminaries, and renegades, including Cleopatra, Karl Marx, and Queen Isabella I. Originally posted as a feature on the smartypants blog Mental Floss, Stusser's Dead Guy Interviews combine a dishy gossip-rag format with an intellectual's probing curiosity, resulting in a collection of historical fiction that is both kitschy and compelling. Tonight, Stusser reads selections from his newly published anthology, giving each character his own personal spin and enlivening the literary reading with performative gusto.
- Connie Hwong
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Faun Fables w/ Daevid Allen and Wymond & his Spirit Children
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Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 (9pm)
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Cafe du Nord (2170 Market St, 415.861.5016)
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Dark and alluring like the most twisted of fairy tales, the music of Faun Fables is unapologetically theatrical and baroque. The fantasia centers on founder Dawn McCarthy's resonating vocals, with orchestrations clanging around her haunting croon. After collaborating with Bonnie "Prince" Billy on last year's The Letting Go, McCarthy has been playing with an all-female incarnation of her group. Also on the bill are Daevid Allen, the erstwhile guitarist of prog legends Gong and Soft Machine, and local space-pixies Wymond & his Spirit Children, who play an infectious brand of glam rock.
- Max Goldberg
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MORE FLAVOR: Spectacle
Circus Oz: The Laughing at Gravity Tour
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007
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Zellerbach Hall (2100 Bancroft Way, 510.642.9988)
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Defying convention and gravity, Circus Oz's acrobats, trapeze artists, jugglers, tightrope walkers, and BMX trick riders will elicit both thrills and laughs. Circus Oz avoids Cirque du Soleil's artier, esoteric approach, bringing an unbridled energy and cheeky, Aussie attitude to the stage and making good on its credo to honor "Community, Diversity, Humanity, [and] Hilarity." Backed by a live band that can go from chamber music to funk at the drop of a hat, Circus Oz's wild and irreverent performances might just make you want to, well, run away and join the circus.
- Annie Lo
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Trannyshack presents The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8 & 10pm)
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The Finn Theatre (814 Grove St.)
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Trannyshack royalty Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as Miami's hottest foursome of a certain age — i.e. Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia — in a clear San Francisco holiday tradition in the making. The two special Christmas episodes being performed have enough St. Olaf anecdotes, shoulder pads, fugly holiday sweaters, and primo zingers to last you until the next Lifetime G.G. marathon.
- Matt Sussman
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Pre-sale tickets are no longer available. To reserve seats for the remaining open shows please email: goldengirlssf@earthlink.net
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
Dance Ceres: The Limits of the Marvelous
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Friday Nov 30, 2007 (8pm)
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Dance Mission (3316 24th St, 415.826.4441)
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Choreographer Brittany Brown Ceres' new series of vignettes deftly illustrates natural cycles of change; cerebral and lyrical, her work conveys both death and rebirth. The Limits of the Marvelous juxtaposes Ceres' own painstaking creative process with the surge and collapse of spontaneous movement, probing the space between communicative intent and performative gesture and ultimately evoking a meta-narrative exploration of the self. The evening long program is a collaboration with award-winning video artist Austin Forbord, whose projections add another layer of interactivity to the already-striking performance.
- Annie Lo
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Escort w/ Safety Scissors and DJs Nicky B and Derrick Love
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Friday Nov 30, 2007 (10pm–5am)
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Mezzanine (444 Jessie St, 415.625.8880)
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Amid the constant blog buzz surrounding disco revivalists such as LCD Soundsystem and Sally Shapiro, word on Brooklyn's 13-piece disco orchestra, Escort, has been relatively muted. Aside from a handful of meticulously produced 12-inches, which conjure spot-on evocations of Tom Moulton or the Salsoul Orchestra, the group has kept a low profile — their concert appearances can practically be counted on one hand. You can add one more digit tonight when they play this all-night dance party, which also features local DJs spinning sounds from '77 through '81. Let's do the time warp again!
- Matt Sussman
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FILM
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2007 Winter Event
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007
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The Castro Theatre (429 Castro St, 415.621.6120)
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Nothing warms a cinephile's heart like a packed house at the Castro for a few beautiful prints of silent movies. The annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival has become enough of a draw that its organizers are teasing July's main event with a winter triple-feature. First up is a rare program of Vitaphone vaudeville shorts, the earliest sound films. Next is D.W. Griffith's three-hour, continent- and history-spanning epic Intolerance (1916) (which Dave Kehr dubbed "the Ulysses of the cinema"), and the night finishes with headliner Flesh and the Devil (1926), a lascivious melodrama in the key of Garbo.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
From Monuments to Masses w/ Desa and Silian Rail
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (9:30pm)
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Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St, 415.621.4455)
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Following their brief visit to Japan, post-punk ideologues From Monuments to Masses return to the States for a West Coast mini-tour. Their 2005 release, Schools of Thought Contend, was packed with a few new tracks and remixes by Subtle, Pretty Girls Make Graves, and other indie/underground bands and knob-twiddlers. Material from FMTM's mysterious third album (more than a year in the making now) should make an appearance at tonight's show, which also includes sets from Oakland's pop-rock quartet Desa and fuzzy instrumental duo Silian Rail.
- Connie Hwong
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MORE FLAVOR: Benefit
SF Bike Coalition WinterFest 2007 feat. the Extra Action Marching Band
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Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (6–10:30pm)
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SomArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan St, 415.863.1414)
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SF's biggest bicycling-advocacy group hosts its annual winter party and fundraising auction this weekend, with a fine selection of snacks, entertainment, and cycling goodies to whet your check-writing pen. The boisterous Extra Action Marching Band get dirty with horns and hot pants while auctioneers hawk a tempting selection of stock and custom road bikes, fixies, cruisers, bike bags, accessories, and services from local shops and restaurants. But this year's hottest item may also be the wackiest: a lunch or dinner date with staunchly pro-bike Supe Ross Mirkarimi, plus a custom-recorded voicemail greeting from the dulcet-voiced politician.
- Connie Hwong
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Don Caballero w/ the Enablers and Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound
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Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (9pm)
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Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St, 415.621.4455)
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When Don Caballero burst onto the scene in the early '90s, their heady, precise, neo-classical metal (unfortunately tagged "math rock") seemed from a different planet, a genuine alternative to "alternative nation." They've since gone through many formations, and at least two breakups (rather dramatically, the band got into a car accident en route to a 2000 farewell show in Detroit). Former guitarist Ian Williams has lately found success shredding with future-rockers Battles, but gonzo drummer Damon Che — sometimes (appropriately) known as "the Octopus" — carries the Don Cab torch.
- Max Goldberg
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
John Richardson on Pablo Picasso
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Monday Dec 3, 2007 (8pm)
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Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness Ave, 415.621.6600)
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With innumerable distinct eras marking his seven-decade career, Pablo Picasso created enough masterpieces for several lifetimes. It's a big enough puzzle to overwhelm any critic, and it surely must have consumed John Richardson, author of the expansive A Life of Picasso series, over the years. The British critic's latest volume, The Triumphant Years, takes us through the key period of 1917-1932. City Arts & Lectures invites Richardson to discuss his research and perhaps reminisce on his own personal relationship with Picasso, struck up in the south of France during the artist's later years.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Grey Daturas w/ Kit and Numinous Eye
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Monday Dec 3, 2007 (9pm)
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Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St, 415.621.4455)
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Over a continuous slew of limited releases and what seems like an interminable touring schedule, Aussie trio Grey Daturas have repeatedly hogtied psych rock to the back of their busted Chevy Nova and dragged it around heavy metal's parking lot. Coughing up riffs from a bilious tar pit of distorted guitars set to the lo-fi metronome of cheaply recorded drums, the band sound like the Dead C covering Blue Cheer's back catalog. Local opening acts Kit and Numinous Eye bring the ferocity in equal measure with respectively terse post-hardcore and noisy drum-bass improvisatory freakouts.
- Matt Sussman
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ART
The Little Show
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Tuesday Nov 27, 2007 (noon–6pm)
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Swarm Gallery (560 2nd St, 510.839.2787)
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The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers. Swarm Gallery, known for its brainy, ambitious exhibitions, has enlisted more than 75 artists across the country to create works of Lilliputian scale: eight-inches square, to be exact. Including pieces by local artists Kevin E. Taylor, Christine Wong Yap, and Paul Madonna, The Little Show encourages an interactive intimacy with each tiny objet d'art and validates scaled-back economy in the face of economies of scale.
- Connie Hwong
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There is a reception for this exhibit on Thur Nov 29 (6-9pm)
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FILM
I'm Not There
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Tuesday Nov 27, 2007
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Landmark Embarcadero (1 Embarcadero Center, 415.267.4893)
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In I'm Not There, director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, 2002) has achieved the seemingly impossible: he's created a great biopic about Bob Dylan. And he's done it by mining the artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman's rich catalogue of aliases, rather than trying to pin him down with any one identity. Starring the likes of Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, and 11-year-old (and black) Marcus Carl Franklin as various Dylan incarnates who overlap each other in a narrative anchored by the singer/songwriter's momentous tunes, this is the most original, and arguably most important, film to emerge about American pop culture this decade.
- Lisa Rosman
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