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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
Dec 4-10, 2007
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The noticeable dip in temperature this past weekend portends more bluster for the coming days, but there are plenty of warm pockets to take the edge off. Divas bring the heat both onstage and on the ice, while we work up a sweat dancing along with The Nutcracker. Yes baby, it's cold outside. Just keep that mercury rising and spread it.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Explore the World
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Flavorpill and Le Méridien are bringing four explorers the New Year's Eve of a lifetime. From December 4-12, enter to win a three-night stay at a Le Méridien hotel, including a Flavorpill-curated odyssey, in Shanghai, Vienna, Monaco, or Miami. Winners share adventures — from afternoon tea to afterhours nightclubs — with a digital camera and a dedicated blog.
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Art Basel Miami Beach
Featuring 200 gallery booths and a dynamic program of video, sound, performance, and public art.
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FILM
Xperimental Eros
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Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (7:30pm)
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Pacific Film Archive Theater (2575 Bancroft Way, 510.642.0808)
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Other Cinema Digital, purveyor of the cinematically obscure and unsung, continues to dissolve genre boundaries with its latest collection, Xperimental Eros. Compiled by local curator and filmmaker Noah Lawrence, Xperimental Eros surveys the intersection between experimental form and pornographic content. Tonight's screening includes Peggy Ahwesh's psychedelic appropriation of found footage The Color of Love (1994), plus Heavy Metal Parking Lot director Jeff Krulik's King of Porn (1996), a brief documentary look at "porn curator" Ralph Whittington. Afterwards, Lawrence discusses the screening with pornography theorist, feminist film critic, and Berkeley professor Linda Williams.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Juliette and the Licks w/ Scissors for Lefty and Suffrajett
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Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (8pm)
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Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750)
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Sure, the "Juliette" is actress Juliette Lewis, but her band is no movie star novelty act. Unlike other celebrity-fronted outfits (anybody remember Dogstar?), the feathered headdress-wearing Lewis and her backing band thrash with real conviction. Todd Morse of veteran punk-rock band H20 provides the guitar swagger behind Lewis' invigorated, arena-ready yelp, and the group's two studio albums are unfiltered, sexed-up fun. Local indie-pop favorites Scissors for Lefty open.
- Dan O'Hare
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READING
Christopher Felver: Beat
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Wednesday Dec 5, 2007 (7:30pm)
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Moe's Books (2476 Telegraph Ave, 510.849.2087)
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Fifty years after Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the beat generation's influence is still felt in San Francisco's literary culture. Photographer and filmmaker Christopher Felver addresses the movement's enduring appeal with Beat, a lovingly composed collection of photographs and ephemera that documents the scene's evolution on an intimate scale. The survey covers the expected icons (Kerouac, Ginsburg, Kesey) as well as a wide swath of peripheral figures (everyone from Richard Brautigan to Willem de Kooning) to give a full sense of the beats' wide impact. Felver speaks at Moe's Books tonight.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone w/ the Papercuts
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Wednesday Dec 5, 2007 (9pm)
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Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St, 415.621.4455)
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It's a special night for Owen Ashworth, as the SF-based film-school dropout and master of melancholy celebrates ten years of his aptly named musical project, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Ashworth's earliest recordings set brief, broken-hearted verses to an endearingly limited palette of keyboard drones and shallow, pre-programmed beats. The formula has deepened over the last two records (Twinkle Echo, Etiquette), with Ashworth adapting a more melodic singing voice, but intimate confessionals are still Casiotone's bread and butter. Opening are fellow San Franciscans the Papercuts, who trade in the kind of golden-hued mellowness favored by Golden State indie fans.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM
Ingmar Bergman: Light and Shadow
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Thursday Dec 6, 2007
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Pacific Film Archive Theater (2575 Bancroft Way, 510.642.0808)
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Whether they're set in a plague-ravaged medieval landscape or in a stifling island summer home, Ingmar Bergman's films place humankind's uncertainty in the face of death, waning spiritual faith, and physical desires front and center. While the chess game between the knight and Death from The Seventh Seal is perhaps Bergman's most memorable image, the late director's career spans six decades beyond that single iconic frame. Among this retrospective's nine selections are classics Wild Strawberries and Persona, as well as Saraband, Bergman's final film and a continuation of Scenes from a Marriage.
- Tanya Feldman
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FILM
Reich 'n Roll Revisited: A Residents Retrospective
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Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (7:30pm)
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
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Leave it to Yerba Buena's adventurous programmers to place avant-rock pranksters the Residents in the Bay Area multimedia-artist pantheon. Though best known for their squirrelly music, these mysterios have incorporated film, video, web design, and performance art into their oeuvre as well. The Residents have have long obscured their members' identities (usually behind giant eyeball masks) and directed all communiqués via the Cryptic Corporation, making their 30-year career seem like a Pynchon novel come to life. Yerba Buena covers much of the band's cryptic film transmissions over the course of three programs: Previous Millennium, Current Millennium, and Live Video.
- Max Goldberg
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ART
The Centennial Celebration of the Elationists
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007
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The Foundation for the Preservation of Fantastic Possibilities (444 Clementina St)
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Out of the ashes of San Francisco's great 1906 earthquake and fire, a group of free thinkers sought to create cultural expression out of the detritus — fashioning fantastic instruments from crushed Victorian homes and channeling the anxieties of the times into their paintings — all in the hopes of once again bringing joy to their city. They were called the Elationists, and their work, music, and spirit will be feted at this centennial celebration, which exhibits recovered artifacts, archival films, and musical recordings. Whether the Elationists really were a lost movement or just an apocryphal creation of present day artists is a moot point — joy is joy.
- Matt Sussman
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MORE FLAVOR: Party
Body Heat feat. Boom Bip w/ San Serac, Codebreaker, and DJ James F!@.$%^ Friedman
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Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10pm)
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Elbo Room (647 Valencia St, 415.552.7788)
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Those familiar with Brian Hollon's earlier downtempo beats may scratch their heads when he activates the rave sirens in his new dance jams. The LA-based musician fully expects his latest work to startle old fans, however. The title of his first solo EP, Sacchrilege, gleefully refers to his dramatic shift from moody instrumental musings to playful high-energy ear candy peppered with Italo-disco, house, and new-wave influences. Charm City native San Serac drops his own dance pop alongside Milwaukee's Codebreaker. Guest DJ James F!@.$%^ Friedman and the Body Heat residents keep folks sweatin' on the floor between sets.
- Sidra Durst
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MUSIC: Electronic
Prefuse 73 w/ School of Seven Bells and Blank Blue
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (9pm)
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Slim's (333 11th St, 415.255.0333)
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King of glitch-hop Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) is touring in support of his fifth full-length album, Preparations. Prefuse 73's records are cerebral affairs, but when performing, he often uses live musicians to give his laptop minutiae more heft. School of Seven Bells, who collaborate on Prefuse 73's single "The Class of 73 Bells," appear onstage tonight; featuring ex-members of Secret Machines and On!Air!Library!, the Brooklyn-based band blends ethereal indie rock and warm trip-hop. Long Beach's Blank Blue play coolly apocalyptic lounge music — like their co-performers, they flesh out their chosen genre with subtle hip-hop accents.
- Brian Howe
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MORE FLAVOR: Party
The Church of the SubGenius presents Mongoloid-A-Palooza
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (9pm)
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12 Galaxies (2565 Mission St, 415.970.9777)
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The Devo-lution is alive and well, working hand in hand with postmodern faux-cult the Church of the SubGenius to spread the gospel of red plastic hats, subversive slackerdom, and quirky synth pop. Devo tribute band Mongoloid channel the spirits of the original Akron four, while Church founder Reverend Ivan Stang pays a visit to the faithful. There's also a Devo-themed lounge, outré video selections from the SubGenius vaults, and an exhibit of works by long-time Devo illustrator KRK Ryden.
- Matt Sussman
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MORE FLAVOR: Benefit
Nude Aid: An Erotic Art-Making and Take-Away Event
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Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (5–9pm)
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Club Mighty (119 Utah St, 415.762.0151)
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Happenings of the Allan Kaprow variety still occur, but these days they're called benefits. Case in point: Nude Aid, a live art-making extravaganza in which artists, working in a variety of mediums, create works inspired by an army of scantily clad male and female models. Although you can't take home the models, admission entitles you to one piece of art (any additional tickets purchased can be used to claim more artworks). Between the live DJs and the "whore d'oeuvres"— not to mention all that tantalizingly framed flesh — you might be leaving with an armful.
- Matt Sussman
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Partygoers must be 21+ to enter.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Deborah Harry w/ Kristoffer Ragnstam
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Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (8pm)
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The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000)
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Thirty years after Blondie first broke, singer Deborah Harry still strikes an iconic pose: she is at once a punk-rock incarnation of Marlene Dietrich and a hybridized figure predating famous eclectics like Gwen Stefani and M.I.A. Blondie emerged with the first wave of New York punk, but quickly distinguished themselves through a willingness to cross-pollinate their pointed melodies with effects borrowed from disco and early hip-hop. The band was canonized with an induction into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, though Harry continues to push the envelope as a solo artist. Her most recent album, Necessary Evil, is steeped in industrial and dance-pop fusions, a bold stroke for a sixtysomething performer.
- Max Goldberg
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READING
Debbie Stoller: Son of Stitch 'n Bitch: 45 Projects to Knit and Crochet for Men
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Monday Dec 10, 2007 (7:30pm)
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Moe's Books (2476 Telegraph Ave, 510.849.2087)
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Over the last couple of years, it's become hip to knit: Le Tigre sings about crocheting, skull-and-cross-bones sweaters are everywhere, and knitting needles are as punk as spikes. Much of the gospel has been spread by the Stitch 'n Bitch how-to book series, started in 2003 by craft maven and Bust magazine co-founder, Debbie Stoller. Son of Stitch 'n Bitch, the latest volume in the series, includes instructions for men's knitwear like DJ bags and rugged sweaters. While the knitting revival's most avid advocates are predominantly female, don't be surprised if your boyfriend, brother, or even dad finds inspiration through Stoller's fun, clear instructions and edgy designs.
- Tanya Feldman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Eugene Chadbourne
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Monday Dec 10, 2007 (9pm)
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Elbo Room (647 Valencia St, 415.552.7788)
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Often armed with only an amplified banjo, Eugene Chadbourne has been cutting his own twisted path through musical Americana since his days churning out twangy psychedelia with Shockabilly. Whether transforming a lawn rake into an amplified instrument or perversely dedicating a solo acoustic guitar album to free-jazz giant Anthony Braxton, Chadbourne has chartered a direct course between bluegrass and extreme noise improv — even if his logic isn't always apparent on the surface. Expect misanthropy couched in a cheery two-step (and many strange asides) as Chadbourne takes the stage for this solo performance.
- Matt Sussman
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ART: Photography
Jeff Wall
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Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–5:45pm)
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SFMOMA (151 3rd St, 415.357.4000)
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Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes, whether drawn from memory or art history, of enigmatic figures in ambiguously emotional spaces. His large-scale cinematographic approach to image making — along with the vanguard work of Cindy Sherman and others — helped break through the art world's unofficial moratorium on staged photography. In doing so, Wall also re-contextualized photography as a medium capable of achieving the grandness of classical paintings and film, without sacrificing subtlety or relying on photojournalistic tropes.
- Isaac Amala
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ART
CCA Wattis Institute presents: Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War
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Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–7pm)
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CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (1111 8th St, 415.551.9210)
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Politically engaged duo Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have become a major presence on SF's art scene this fall with their co-curated exhibition at CCA Wattis, Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War. Hearkening back to the Bay Area's early leftist days, the exhibition features notable anti-war art, printed matter, and film from as early as Leonardo da Vinci. Selections from Francisco de Goya's ghoulish prints The Disasters of War and American Civil War photographer Mathew Brady's wrenchingly solemn portraits depict two of the 19th century's worst conflicts. Much of the work delves into the 20th century's tragic quagmires, including Otto Dix's gruesome World War I-inspired nightmares and Dadaist George Grosz's crude caricatures.
- H.G. Masters
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