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Issue 295 |
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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 26-Jan 1, 2008
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Tear down the tinsel, break out the bubbly, and raise a glass to that boogeyman of the right wing: San Francisco values. Why? Because San Franciscans value both Miami booty bass and mind-flaying psych rock; because we value the movie palace over the megaplex; because we value parties that assign a non-monetary meaning to "green." Party safe, vote with your conscience, and spread it.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Gudrun Gut
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Few people have personally witnessed the changes in Berlin's cultural and physical landscape like Gudrun Gut. When she began performing in West Berlin in the late '70s, the Wall was standing, East Germany was a good place to get cheap cigarettes and vodka, and one stood a fair chance of running into David Bowie.
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Magna Carta Millions
A privately owned copy of England's historic document has sold for $21.3 million.
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Adam Pendleton
Manipulating language to provocatively juxtapose signification and abstraction.
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FILM
Spellbound (1945)
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Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 (2:50pm)
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The Castro Theatre (429 Castro St, 415.621.6120)
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All of Alfred Hitchcock's films are deeply rooted in psychology, but Spellbound is unusual for its direct treatment of psychoanalysis. Produced in 1945, during a great Hollywood obsession with Freud, the film stars Gregory Peck as a man overcome by amnesia. Supported by the sultry psychoanalyst Ingrid Bergman, Peck is drawn into a Hitchcockian fantasy of complicity and trauma. A famous Salvador Dalí dream sequence is disastrously overplayed, but the central relationship between Peck's lost man and Ingrid Bergman's psychoanalyst achieves a simmering intensity in near-constant reversals and revelations.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007
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SFMOMA (151 3rd St, 415.357.4000)
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$5 / Free w/ museum admission
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SFMOMA presents a rare screening of Jean Eustache's extra-long 1973 film, thanks to a request from featured artist Jeff Wall. Considered a response to Bernardo Bertolucci's primal Last Tango in Paris (1972), The Mother and the Whore traces characters falling apart in a souring love triangle. The tangled romances are set in the aftermath of May '68, and the film is carefully directed to convey an impromptu, confessional style. The Mother and the Whore embodies the specific crises of a generation, inspiring critic Jonathan Rosenbaum to note that the characters are "universal expressions of how men and women were trying to relate to one another in the early '70s."
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Finches w/ the Mantles and RyRock
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Thursday Dec 27, 2007 (9:30pm)
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Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St, 415.923.0923)
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If you have yet to witness the pared-down charms of the Finches, head to the Hemlock and welcome them back to San Francisco. Human Like a House, their debut album, only hints at singer Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs' sly vocal presence. She recently moved from the Bay to LA, exhibited two art shows, and won a Best Music Goldie award, so the Bay is glad to have her back. The evening kicks off with sets from local garage heroes the Mantles and LA-based soundsmith RyRock.
- Nicholas Nauman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Radiators
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Friday Dec 28, 2007 (9pm)
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Cafe du Nord (2170 Market St, 415.861.5016)
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$35 / $100 New Year's Eve
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Hailing from New Orleans, the Radiators exhibit the musicality and showmanship characteristic of their fair city. Mixing funky rhythms, pulsating horns, and soulful vocals, the high-energy jam band performs songs whose influences — jazz, blues, R&B, country, and funk — play off each other like the flavors in jambalaya. Having performed together for over 25 years, the group is legendary for its three-hour-long sets, garnering a following of "Fishheads" devoted to its unique form of swamp rock — what they fittingly call "Fish Head Music."
- Annie Lo
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MORE FLAVOR: Party
Zero Ground feat. Z-Trip w/ Bassnectar and Skream
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Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (9pm–5am)
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The Regency Center (1290 Sutter St, 415.673.5716)
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$65 / $50 advance
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It's not easy being green, but Zero Ground offers one of the funkier approaches to reducing your carbon footprint: dancing. Yes, the all-night event is using biodegradable cups and printing hemp tickets with non-toxic ink, but who would have thought that hip-hop and dubstep DJs would join in to spread eco-consciousness? Acrobatic scratch wizard Z-Trip and grime cipher Skream are just two headliners at this unprecedented meeting of underground bass and environmental advocacy.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Hiss Golden Messenger w/ the Parson Red Heads and Michael Talbott
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Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (9:30pm)
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Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St, 415.923.0923)
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When MC Taylor left San Francisco for greener North Carolina pastures earlier this year, the city lost one of its most talented songwriters (as well as reliable alt-country group the Court & Spark). Even before the Court & Spark went on extended hiatus, Taylor had been experimenting with Hiss Golden Messenger, a loose-limbed outfit chasing after '70s-inspired studio rock. Taylor is a musical omnivore and a knowledgeable one at that — check out his latest favorites and start digging. Hiss Golden Messenger return to the Bay Area tonight for a one-off with LA tricksters the Parson Red Heads.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Jazz/Blues
Citta di Vitti
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Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (3pm)
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Red Hill Books (401 Cortland Ave, 415.648.5331)
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FREE
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All of Michelangelo Antonioni's moody, early-'60s masterpieces feature sharp, ambient scores befitting the modernist visual architectures of his films; in particular, Carlo Savani's dissonant electronic score for Red Desert paved the way for more explicitly experimental soundtracks. Oakland saxophonist Phillip Greenlief began composing his own melodic accompaniments to Red Desert, as well as the director's L'Eclisse and L'Avventura, while watching the films on mute. Since then, he's fleshed out his compositional fragments for a trio, aptly named Citta di Vitti (Monica Vitti stars in all three films). Antonioni's works from this era carve out such a specific emotional state — of ennui and stasis, beauty and dread — that Greenlief can't help but channel their boldly eccentric appeal.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Classical
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra presents Prodigies
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Sunday Dec 30, 2007
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Various locations
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FREE
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Best not to measure yourself against prodigies when making your New Year's resolutions. What were you doing at age 12? Mendelssohn found time to compose his Symphony No. 9 in C-major. How about at 22? Mozart expanded his bulging portfolio with two ebullient concerti — Horn Concerto No. 2 in D-major and Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E-flat-major. The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra dips into these geniuses' fountains of youth with a free performance of all three works — a perfect opportunity to round out 2007 with an afternoon (or evening) of impressive beauty.
- Max Goldberg
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NEW YEAR'S EVE
Metro-Tech feat. Diplo w/ Pharrell and DJ Rekha
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Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm)
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Temple (540 Howard St, 415.978.9953)
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$65
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Mad Decent label head, M.I.A. collaborator (and former flame), and baile funk's unofficial US ambassador, Diplo has become justly famous for spinning sweat-inducing mixes that train hop from Philly to Charm City to Rio de Janeiro in a matter of minutes. Most recently, the DJ/producer has made a series of pit stops in Jamaica, cutting tracks with some of dancehall's finest. Chances are that you might have heard some of those recent dub plates on the recent hot-shit blog Fluokids, whose very own Pharrell (no, not Skateboard P) headlines his own room at Temple's booty-quaking New Year's Eve party.
- Matt Sussman
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NEW YEAR'S EVE
The Melvins w/ Comets on Fire
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Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm)
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Slim's (333 11th St, 415.255.0333)
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$40
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Certainly the heaviest offering amongst this year's New Year's Eve specials, longtime sludge champions the Melvins face off with Santa Cruz power-psych operators Comets on Fire. As with so many other underground bands from the Pacific Northwest, Kurt Cobain's adulation of the Melvins was both blessing and curse, leading to a major-label deal with Atlantic, but also unfairly typecasting the band as a prototypical grunge act. Atlantic ran scared long ago, but the band's pulverized version of prog has won them legions of devoted admirers. Comets on Fire have lately embraced conventional rock textures, but their signature full-tilt guitar and Echoplex attack remains a formidable wrecking ball.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM
Double Indemnity (1944) and The Lost Weekend (1945)
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Tuesday Jan 1 (1pm)
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The Castro Theatre (429 Castro St, 415.621.6120)
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What better way to gear up for January's Noir City 6 than with this double shot of noir classics courtesy of Billy Wilder? While Raymond Chandler's script does justice to James M. Cain's insurance-scam whammy Double Indemnity, it's the illicit chemistry between Barbara Stanwyck's golden ringlet-framed black widow and Edward G. Robinson's claims investigator that really ignites the film. Meanwhile, perfectly timed to coincide with all those bubbly-induced headaches, The Lost Weekend paints one of the bleakest portraits of alcoholism ever seen on screen. That Ray Milland's sauce-swigging writer was homosexual — and not a lush — in the original novel tellingly transforms the film into a grueling allegory for the Cold War closet.
- Matt Sussman
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ART: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
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Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 (10am–5pm)
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The Book Club of California (312 Sutter St, Suite 510, 415.781.7532)
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When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and moribund imagination to others. Examples of his collaborations include illustrations for authors such as John Bellairs, and, perhaps most famously, the animated title sequence to PBS' Mystery! series. This intimate exhibit of Malcolm and Karen Whyte's collection of Gorey-related printed matter offers a vision of the artist as a hungry, prolific bibliophile, paying particular attention to his love of unusual formats (including accordion, pop-up, and flip books). Unsurprisingly, most betray an appropriately Gothic sensibility.
- Matt Sussman
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FILM
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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Wednesday Dec 26, 2007
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Landmark Embarcadero (1 Embarcadero Center, 415.267.4893)
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Chic and charismatic, Jean-Dominique Bauby was ELLE magazine's elegant editor-in-chief until, in 1995, a massive stroke stripped him of his speech and all other motor faculties except the ability to blink his left eyelid. Despite his particular paralysis (called locked-in syndrome), Bauby systematically parlayed the imprisonment of his nimble mind into a memoir, titled The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. American artist Julian Schnabel, whose paintings breathe brutality and bare emotion, harvests Bauby's inspirational tale to craft a film of tragedy and triumph. Loyal to the original French lyricism, the film assumes an empathetic and enlivening first-person perspective, including periods of blackness that powerfully convey Bauby's reliance on blinking.
- Jason Jude Chan
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