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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
Mar 4-10, 2008
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Kudos to Ame Johnson and Shane King, the local filmmakers behind Girls Rock!, for providing some necessary tonic to Hannah Montana's arena-sized platitudes. Their documentary never confuses "girl power" for actual empowerment — something the film's four rock 'n roll campers get to savor by their final gig. Don't mess with sisterhood, especially when it's run through a distortion pedal.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Michael Chabon
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Michael Chabon has penned more acclaimed novels than we can reasonably list, but the upcoming Maps and Legends is his first collection of nonfiction. The author talks to Boldtype about his personal pantheon, collecting vintage sci-fi, the ecstasy of influence, and the thrill of fooling a reader.
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READING
Richard Powers: The Echo Maker
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Tuesday Mar 4 (8pm)
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (3200 California St, 415.292.1200)
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Novelist Richard Powers switched his major from physics to English when he was an undergraduate, but his fiction remains informed by modern science. His latest novel, The Echo Maker, is a meta brain-twister about a young man whose post-traumatic condition makes him see his sister as an impostor. Powers, who won a National Book Award for his efforts (he'd been nominated four times previously), makes up for the lack of poetry in his writing with his fiercely inquisitive nature. His personality should make for an enjoyable reading at JCCSF.
- Max Goldberg
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READING
Ian Philips: The Rapture for Big Sinners: 66+6 Things to Do Before and After the Righteous Lift Off
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Tuesday Mar 4 (8pm)
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Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, 415.282.1901)
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The Rapture for Big Sinners: 66+6 Things to Do Before and After the Righteous Lift Off is author Ian Philips' The Book of Revelation for Dummies — a guide to the end times clearly aimed at those who'll be left behind. With the mischievous satyr Mr. Rumpus as guide, readers catch up on what every good heathen should know: the real secrets of the da Vinci code; the Whore of Babylon's true identity (Debbie Harry! Who knew?); and where to find the best vacant real estate after the families of the chosen have ascended to the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Matt Sussman
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Thursday Mar 6
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Zellerbach Hall (2100 Bancroft Way, 510.642.9988)
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$34 - 60
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Master choreographer Alvin Ailey and his diverse, fiercely athletic dance company have come to define their own school of movement — incorporating elements of jazz, West African dance, samba, and hip-hop into classical ballet to create an entirely new style. Although Ailey died nearly 20 years ago, his troupe continues to thrive in its New York headquarters, creating new programs to perform around the world. The company's annual residency with Cal Performances includes the West Coast premieres of Firebird and The Road of the Phoebe Snow, as well as a new interpretation of Ailey's stunning, signature Revelations.
- Connie Hwong
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MUSIC: DJ
Junior Boys w/ Lo Fi Fnk, San Serac, and Sorcerer
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Wednesday Mar 5 (9pm)
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Mezzanine (444 Jessie St, 415.625.8880)
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When founding member Johnny Dark left Canada's Junior Boys, he seemed to take the electronic act's original, grime-meets-Timbaland aesthetic with him. But even die-hard fans of the Boys' debut have to concede: different or not, their first DJ mix is pretty much unassailable. Like a blueprint for modern electronic music, Body Language Vol. 6 meshes everything from Matthew Dear microhouse to Visage's New Romantic-swooning and the avant-disco of Kelley Polar. And while the songs retain a certain futurism, they also nestle comfortably alongside the group's 2006 house-pop triumph, So This Is Goodbye. The dancing begins early tonight, as local DJ faves Lo Fi Fnk, San Serac, and Sorcerer lay the groundwork for a big set by the Boys.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Classical
Other Minds Music Festival
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Thursday Mar 6
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Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (3200 California St, 415.292.1200)
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$25 - 35 / $65 - 79 festival pass
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Now in its 13th year, San Francisco's Other Minds New Music Festival can't be called under the radar anymore, even if the music it spotlights is still far from mainstream. This year's concerts feature the American premiere of a composition by the late John Cage, freshly commissioned pieces by free-jazz pioneer Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, and a performance by Bay Area electronic-music innovator Morton Subotnick. It's an ambitious lineup, eager to challenge traditional boundaries by, as the New Yorker's Alex Ross says, "cultivating all the music that would otherwise drop between the cracks."
- Max Goldberg
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READING
Small Press Month Marathon Reading and Trading Post
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Thursday Mar 6 (8:30pm)
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City Lights (261 Columbus Ave, 415.362.8193)
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore is ground zero for Bay Area indie lit, so it makes sense to host Small Press Month at the counter-cultural landmark. Authors and editors representing Manic D Press, Sixteen Rivers Press, Heyday Books, nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, O Books and Writers Corp read selections from their newest editions, and a Poetry Trading Post promises a free book to participants who submit an original poem.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM
Loaf-i Records presents: Sabreteeth vs Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (1982)
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Friday Mar 7 (8pm)
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Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia St, 415.824.3890)
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George Lucas has said that Star Wars (1977) was greatly inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (1958). But Turkish director Çetin Inanç's debt to Lucas isn't merely a case of one auteur's influence upon another: Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves the World) takes appropriation to the level of the chop job. Space battles are waged via actual Star Wars clips and newsreel footage of Soviet and American rockets; the soundtrack pilfers liberally from Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and many other films; and there's the lovely restaging of the Mos Eisley Cantina. Then again, Lucas' film doesn't include zombies or ninjas. Free jazz-inspired rockers Sabreteeth leave their mark on this cult classic with their live accompaniment.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Heavenly States w/ Citay and the Botticellis
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Friday Mar 7 (9pm)
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The Independent (628 Divisadero St, 415.771.1422)
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The Heavenly States headline a triple-bill of stellar local power-pop. The Oakland band has quietly earned a following with its energetic, soulful brand of punk, featuring an unlikely lead violin. They're just as iconoclastic in their politics; they made waves in 2005 when they performed in Libya. Ezra Feinberg, the man behind openers Citay, gives the large ensemble appropriately long-form classic rock to work with, and the result is at once kaleidoscopic and mellow. The Botticellis conjure lilting melancholy in the key of Big Star and the Shins on their debut, Old Home Movies, set to be released this May.
- Max Goldberg
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ART
Chris Johanson
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Saturday Mar 8 (11am–6pm)
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Jack Hanley Gallery (395 Valencia St, 415.522.1623)
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2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in the Whitney Biennial and receiving one of SFMOMA's four SECA awards for emerging artists. Since then, Johanson has moved to Portland with fellow artist and partner Jo Jackson, where he has continued to create paintings that veer from brightly colored abstractions to more figurative work recalling his early, cartoon-like Sharpie renderings of Mission-inspired characters. This show represents a homecoming to Johanson's alma mater, Jack Hanley Gallery, and includes pieces spanning all the way back to his 20s, or in Johanson's succinct phrasing: "the time [that] went into making right now."
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: DJ
Tormenta Tropical presents DJ /rupture w/ Zizek Urban Beats Club
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Saturday Mar 8 (9pm)
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Mezzanine (444 Jessie St, 415.625.8880)
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Eclecticism is that ineffable quality that many DJs fancy possessing, but it's actually quite difficult to pull off. Enter DJ /rupture. Often working with three turntables, /rupture creates technically impeccable sonic palimpsests, layering dancehall toasts on top of spastic breakcore 12-inches and traditional Arabic rhythms over French hip-hop. Tonight, he shares the sound system with the equally eclectic Zizek Urban Beats Club, an Argentinian DJ crew who've developed their own "kitchen sink" take on cumbia, much like the Diplo-hyped baile funk of Brazil.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Immortal Technique
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Sunday Mar 9 (8pm)
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The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000)
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In spite of the inflated MC name, Felipe Coronel's Immortal Technique records are among the most fiercely radical in current hip-hop. While 50 Cent and others extol the "Get Rich or Die Trying" ethos, the Peru-born, Harlem-based MC is more interested in critiquing capitalism and American imperialism — one of his recent blog posts name-checks economist Leo Strauss before discussing the debasement of American currency. As Immortal Technique, Coronel delivers his indictments with a husky growl and ominous, echoing production. Four years after becoming the only unsigned rapper ever to be honored with a "Hip-Hop Quotable" in The Source, he remains independent, releasing music on his own Viper Records.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM: Documentary
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)
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Sunday Mar 9
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Red Vic (1727 Haight St, 415.668.3994)
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Though documentaries about cult musicians are a dime a dozen, Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin's documentary portrait of free-jazz genius Albert Ayler is still cause for celebration. When the Ohio-born tenor saxophonist first emerged in Stockholm in 1962, his wailing, unmoored invocations of spiritual music caught the jazz world off-guard. John Coltrane specifically requested that Ayler play at his funeral, and some of that legendary performance is shown here, along with many other archival pearls. Before his untimely death in 1970, Ayler remarked about his music, "If people don't like it now, they will." As it turns out, that wasn't so much egotism as a simple statement of fact.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Popscene presents SXSF feat. Persephone's Bees, the Duke Spirit, the Ting Tings, and Hottub
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Monday Mar 10 (8pm)
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Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St, 415.861.2011)
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For those who can't make it to Austin this time around, SXSF brings together a stellar sampling of up-and-coming indie rock. Persephone's Bees synthesize a Russian gypsy-folk influence into a sound akin to Blonde Redhead and the B-52s. The UK's the Duke Spirit combine blues-rock riffs with lead singer Liela Moss' mesmerizing yowl. Their fellow countrymen the Ting Tings play synth-pop with catchy hooks, punchy attitude, and energetic cowbell thwacks. Oakland hip-hop crew Hottub open.
- Annie Lo
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Alice Russell
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Monday Mar 10 (10pm)
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Mojito (1337 Grant Ave, 415.398.1120)
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Call her the next British blue-eyed soul export if you want, but Alice Russell doesn't need a trademark look, tabloid troubles, or a promotional deal to make her mark: her voice, which veers from a Beth Gibbons croon to a throaty growl worthy of another Beth (Ditto, of the Gossip), speaks for itself. (Check out her righteous re-working of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army.") The songbird has guested on releases by the Quantic Soul Orchestra and released three records on her own — catch her two-night SF stopover before NME descends.
- Matt Sussman
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ART
Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690–1850
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Tuesday Mar 4 (10am–5pm)
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Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin St, 415.581.3500)
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On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of the floating world") from the Edo period (1615-1868). Among the 80 prints and scrolls provided by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston are works by masters such as Hokusai and Hiroshige; some of the paintings have not been exhibited in nearly a century. The selected works reflect the seasonal majesty of nature as a backdrop to leisurely pastimes, the refinement of dramatic arts like kabuki theater, and the sensuality of courtesans, geishas, and their patrons, including several risqué erotic prints.
- Tanya Feldman
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ART
Landscape, Nature, and Space
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Tuesday Mar 4 (11am–6pm)
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Bucheon Gallery (389 Grove St, 415.863.2891)
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Bucheon Gallery's new group exhibition might have been smothered under any number of names referencing each artist's respective take on the landscape. Fortunately, the curators of Landscape, Nature, and Space let the artists do the talking, leaving their vastly different theses to flesh out the show's simple title. Margaret Wall-Romana's scenes of roiling vegetation expose the forest floor's dark underbelly, while Gregory Euclide's paintings explore romantic, (literally) crumpled Arcadian scenes. And though the figures in Mary Lou Zelanzy's collages earnestly attempt to commune with the great outdoors, their open-collared Hawaiian shirts and faded denim leave them looking more like tourists in the brush.
- Isaac Amala
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