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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
Feb 5-11, 2008
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The first sign on the Chinese Zodiac, the rat represents leadership and pioneering spirit. So it's fitting that the Year of the Rat kicks off this week with so many inspirations for the intrepid, from Indie Fest's maverick filmmakers to train-hopping author William T. Vollman and outlaw musician Merle Haggard. And don't forget, today is Super Tuesday, which means it's your civic duty to shake things up in the polling booth, as well.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Live@Sundance
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The Sundance Institute shared exclusive footage of this year's film fest with Flavorpill. Gain fresh perspective on both the Institute and the festival, as Live@Sundance profiles the new directors and promising films, as well as the ins, outs, and hijinks of Sundance.
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Flavorpill Mobile
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Celebration of Inspiration
Meet the intrepid explorers who conquered all in Flavorpill and Le Méridien's New Year's contest.
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MORE FLAVOR: Lecture
Dodie Bellamy
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Tuesday Feb 5 (7pm)
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California College of the Arts - San Francisco Campus (1111 8th St, 415.703.9500)
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Since garnering wide attention with The Letters of Mina Harker — an epistolary reworking of Bram Stoker's Dracula that mixed literary allusion and real-life gossip, Gothic horror and postmodern poetics — local author Dodie Bellamy has continued to explore the messy entanglements of sexuality, politics, and pop culture. Whether trying on autobiographical fiction in Pink Steam or snipping her prose to ribbons à la William S. Burroughs in the cheekily titled Cunt-Ups, Bellamy's writing disregards the supposed boundaries between fact and fiction, simultaneously questioning the techniques of both. Tonight Bellamy, the current CCA writer-in-residence, lectures about her craft.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Birds of America w/ Coconut
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Tuesday Feb 5 (8pm)
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Climate Theater (285 9th St, 415.263.0830)
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Local tree-gazers Birds of America play their first San Francisco show in more than a year, an interminable break for those who have grown attached to the band's sleepy melodies and oceanic instrumental passages. The band is mostly the province of artist/designer/rad blogger Nathaniel Russell, and this special performance at the Climate Theater reunites the guitarist/vocalist with frequent collaborator Sam Flax Keener and a sympathetic rhythm section. Russell's simple campfire melodies open up to swirling textures ideally suited to deep headphone listening; thankfully, he promises to drop a follow-up to his 2005 grower, Current Carry, within the year.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM: Documentary
ITVS Community Cinema presents Iron Ladies of Liberia
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Wednesday Feb 6 (6–8pm)
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San Francisco Public Library (100 Larkin St, 415.557.4566)
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While Liberia was one of the few African nations to escape direct European occupation, its recent history has been marred by nearly two decades of civil war, poverty, and corruption. Iron Ladies profiles Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's first female president (and Africa's first female head of state). She was elected in 2005 on the basis of an anti-corruption platform and promises to restore her nation's economic and civil security. Covering Johnson Sirleaf's first year in office, this doc tracks the president's role as a groundbreaking catalyst that inspired thousands of Liberians — especially women — to act for social, political, and economic change. A panel discussion led by reps from the League of Women Voters and the International Museum of Women follows the screening.
- Connie Hwong
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MUSIC: Global
Hugh Masekela's Chissa All-Stars
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Wednesday Feb 6 (8pm)
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Zellerbach Hall (2100 Bancroft Way, 510.642.9988)
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Afro-pop innovator and consummate trumpeter Hugh Masekela appears in Berkeley alongside a band of standout players from his own Chissa Records. First given a trumpet in the mid-'50s by the famous anti-Apartheid archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Masekela traveled to America during a prolonged exile from South Africa and ignited a long career of crossover successes with his unlikely 1968 hit, "Grazing in the Grass." A key go-between for world-minded musicians like Harry Belafonte and Paul Simon, Masekela has done as much to preserve South African musical forms as Alan Lomax did for America's folk traditions.
- Max Goldberg
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READING
William T. Vollman: Riding Toward Everywhere
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Thursday Feb 7 (7pm)
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Booksmith (1644 Haight St, 415.863.8688)
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Some of the most compelling elements of William T. Vollman's work — in both his fiction and nonfiction — spring from his stubborn sense of journalistic integrity. With pragmatic cantankerousness, conceptual ambition, and grisly details, Vollman purports to have experienced much of what he writes about, including all manner of deaths, disease, despair, and destruction. Of course, his stories also include encounters with truth and beauty, and his insight is always hard-won. His new book, Riding Toward Everywhere, recounts his adventures with the shifty notion of "freedom" in the American landscape, as experienced in a cross-country train-hopping trip. Vollman signs and reads from the book at Booksmith this evening.
- Nicholas Nauman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Robyn
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Thursday Feb 7 (10pm)
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330 Ritch (360 Ritch St, 415.522.9558)
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Hailing from the land of ABBA, Robyn reminds us that Swedes are second to none when it comes to insanely catchy, Euro-infused pop tunes. Since relaunching her career with the sassy hit "Konnichiwa Bitches," the singer has been dropping entrancing, radio-ready cuts (on her own label, no less) that blend glossy electro beats, feisty lyrics, and a sunny pop sensibility. The high-energy sound will get you on the dance floor, but Robyn's music might pack enough attitude to keep would-be Romeos in check.
- Annie Lo
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MUSIC: DJ
Tormenta Tropical feat. Paul Devro
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Friday Feb 8 (10pm)
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Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St, 415.861.2011)
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The heavy rains of the past week have nothing on the steamy tempest brewing at the Rickshaw Stop, courtesy of the Tormenta Tropical boys. Now on their third installment, residents Disco Shawn and Oro11 spread the cumbia love, beating out the blogosphere with the hottest hand-delivered tracks from Buenos Aires' bedroom producers and basement DJs. Tonight's guest is none other than Mad Decent emissary Paul Devro, who loves the bass, whether it's in Portuguese or with patois on top.
- Matt Sussman
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ART
Deadpan Exchange III
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Friday Feb 8 (1–6pm)
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The Lab (2948 16th St, 415.864.8855)
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While comedians are lucky to keep their jokes alive over the course of an evening, the visual artists in Deadpan Exchange have somehow breathed non-stop life into their gags since last June. The three-part, transatlantic exhibition features a suite of Danish and American artists who take turns delving into the nature of straight-faced humor and the more bawdy (and bathetic) relationship between comedy and communication. In the final installment, the Copenhagen-based Koh-i-noor collective, the Agressive Mimes of Team Lexington, Joe McKay, and Matthew Hughes Boyko bring a little irreverence to those plagued with l'esprit de l'escalier.
- Isaac Amala
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There is an opening reception on Fri Feb 8 (6-9pm).
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MORE FLAVOR: Fashion
Eternal Spring 2008
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Saturday Feb 9 (2–10pm)
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SomArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan St, 415.863.1414)
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Defying the wintry chill of the last few months, the artists, performers, and workshop hosts of Eternal Spring drum up anticipation of the new season's impending rejuvenation with their spring-themed sale. Trade in your sartorial cocoon for pieces from dozens of designers, from the impeccably constructed garments by Al of North Beach to abstract, deconstructed frocks from Bad Unkl Sista. Come for the clothes, but stick around for the flamenco dancers, hula hoopers, and psychedelic rockers offering up entertainment, along with three hours of yoga, martial-arts instruction, Thai massage, and organic snacks. DJs Aaron Jay and Flook set the constant, pulsing beat with house, breaks, and psy-trance tracks throughout the evening.
- Tanya Feldman
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An afterparty follows the show ($15 / FREE before 11pm).
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ART
Acid Show III
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Sunday Feb 10 (7pm)
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Climate Theater (285 9th St, 415.263.0830)
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The American experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger (Aleister Crowley's cinematic heir apparent) has often said that his films are, in fact, spells. The local 4-D Dream-a-Thon crew casts its own form of celluloid black magic in Acid Show III, a freaky concoction of flashlights, homemade analog synthesizers, and 16mm occultism that brings to mind both the Summer of Love "happenings" and current practitioners of live cinema like Animal Charm and Bruce McClure. Sandy Ding performs with flashlights and projections, accompanied by the Dog of Tears (filmmaker David Chaim Cohen on hand-built synth), followed by the SF premiere of Ding's charmed film Water Spell.
- Matt Sussman
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FILM: Shorts
SF Cinematheque presents An Invention Without a Future
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Sunday Feb 10 (7pm)
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
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Built for recording grainy video footage directly onto cassette tapes, Fisher-Price's PXL video camera is one of the loveliest relics of '80s audiovisual gadgetry. It was a genuine revelation for basement-bound auteurs like Sadie Benning, who worked in the years before YouTube and digital everything. SF Cinematheque invites curator Gerry Fialka to share some of the strange treasures of PXL THIS, an atypical film festival dedicated to homemade wonders of modest means. Here's hoping that Struan Ashby and Roy Parkhurst's Somnigraphic Traces of the Otherwise Undocumented Friedkin Institute for Sleep Disorder Research lives up to its amazing title.
- Max Goldberg
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
The Folly of Attacking Iran feat. Stephen Kinzer, Barbara Slavin, and Reese Erlich
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Monday Feb 11 (7pm)
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Grace Cathedral (1100 California St, 415.749.6300)
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When last November's National Intelligence Estimate report concluded that Iran had halted its nuclear-weapon program back in 2003, the Bush Administration's push for a sequel to the Iraq War seemed dashed. But even with these findings, little diplomatic progress has been made, and periodic flare-ups (like the Strait of Hormuz affair) still loom large. Foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer inaugurated this lecture tour to help clear up the many misconceptions surrounding the delicate issue. He touches down at Grace Cathedral to discuss diplomacy's necessity with political analyst Barbara Slavin and Reese Erlich, author of The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis.
- Max Goldberg
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Contact Stephen McNeil at 415.350.9305 or email by email for more information.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Merle Haggard
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Monday Feb 11 (8pm)
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The Grand Ballroom (1290 Sutter St, 415.673.5716)
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Merle Haggard is country music's original bad boy. Having escaped from jail 17 times before he even had a hit single, he's consistently bucked Nashville's polished honky-tonk sound for a grittier, electrified tone suited to songs of prison, betrayal, and the bottle. Though he was eventually pardoned for his youthful criminal record (by California's then-governor Ronald Reagan), Haggard's gravelly voice has remained outspoken, recently taking shots at the Iraq War. Nice to know he still refuses to cozy up with the crossover imperatives of the country-music establishment.
- Matt Sussman
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ART
Gabriele Basilico
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Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–5:45pm)
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SFMOMA (151 3rd St, 415.357.4000)
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Silicon Valley's sprawling developments — renowned for their ability to make architecture critics reel — are the focus of Gabriele Basilico's new exhibition at SFMOMA. The Italian photographer continues his ongoing investigation of the metropolis, whether reframing geometric postcard-skylines or documenting exurban sprawl. His spare compositions and jarring juxtapositions keep his photos from being easily read as indexes of kitsch or nostalgia. Here, expressways frame San Francisco's esteemed cityscape, images of sun-parched buildings loom ominously high over the horizon, and silhouettes of lanky palm trunks seem to more closely resemble oppressive barricades than the products of urban "greening."
- Isaac Amala
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FILM
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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Tuesday Feb 5
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Embarcadero Center Cinema (1 Embarcadero Ctr, 415.267.4893)
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In late-80's Romania, close friends Otilia and Gabita are faced with the urgent problem of Gabita's unwanted pregnancy. Their solution is to seek an illegal abortion, but the consequences that follow from their actions are as unforeseen as they are horrific. Brutal, unwavering, and brilliantly acted, Cristian Mungiu's riveting film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Mungiu delivers an exceptionally well-paced story that is at turns intense, provocative, and disturbing; as we witness the unfolding drama of individuals, their personal duress is set into relief by the oppressive atmosphere of Nicolae Ceausescu's government.
- Annie Lo
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