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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 11-17, 2008
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Spring's breezes are carrying the spirits of the departed. The late Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang receives honors at the SFIAAFF, and his 1991 breakthrough, A Bright Summer's Day, is beautifully haunted by the ghosts of Taipei's tumultuous past. Meanwhile, it's hard not to read Jeremy Blake's multimedia séance for an eccentric rifle heiress' mansion as a memento mori of the artist, in light of his tragic suicide last year.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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READING
Lit & Lunch: Edith Grossman
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Tuesday Mar 11 (12:30pm)
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111 Minna Gallery (111 Minna St, 415.974.1719)
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The San Francisco-based Center for the Art of Translation hosts Edith Grossman as part of its Lit & Lunch series. Grossman works exclusively as a translator, with special emphasis on the novels of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and other leading lights of 20th-century Latin American fiction. She sealed her reputation as America's foremost Spanish-language translator in 2003, when HarperCollins published her interpretation of Cervantes' Don Quixote to much acclaim. Expect an enriching lunch with the woman who once commented about her craft, "Fidelity is surely our highest aim, but a translation is not made with tracing paper. It is an act of critical interpretation."
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Barn Owl w/ Extra Life and Snowblink
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Tuesday Mar 11 (9:30pm)
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Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St, 415.923.0923)
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San Francisco's Barn Owl conjure a sound that genuinely invokes their namesake animal: nocturnal and reasonably menacing, but still warranting a cozy cuddle now and again. Barn Owl's "doom dub" shares the shade with Extra Life, one of the most brutal live acts to come out of Brooklyn in recent years. With former members of Zs and Dirty Projectors, Extra Life reflect and refract their affiliates' influences into a math-y assault of "violent medieval vibes." Only a singer as bright-eyed as Snowblink's Daniela Gesundheit could lend a bit of levity to the evening.
- Nicholas Nauman
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ART: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg
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Wednesday Mar 12 (11am–5pm)
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Berkeley Art Museum (2626 Bancroft Way, 510.642.0808)
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Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The Berkeley Art Museum complements the Pacific Film Archive's The Clash of '68 series with this landmark exhibition of large-scale photos by Serge Hambourg, a photojournalist who captured the tumult for the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. His striking images of riots and marches have a special resonance on the UC-Berkeley campus, itself a beacon of '60s radicalism.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Little Wings w/ Tim Bluhm, Rubies, and Landy
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Wednesday Mar 12 (9:30pm)
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Cafe du Nord (2170 Market St, 415.861.5016)
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Little Wings progenitor Kyle Field is a bard of the beach, his lazily strummed chords and drifting verses evoking an endless summer. (The guy's record label is named Rad — that just about says it all.) Field recycles many of his own melodies and lyrics — "Look at What the Light Did Now" alone has gone through several incarnations — making his songbook seem like a living, breathing entity, inseparable from the oft-bearded man himself. After keeping a low profile following last summer's Soft Pow'r album, Field recently played a couple of sharp shows in San Francisco, and reemerges yet again for this strong bill.
- Max Goldberg
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MORE FLAVOR: Festival
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
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Thursday Mar 13
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"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of its kind. The 26th edition spotlights some of Asia's most significant filmmakers and movements, while responding to evolving notions of transnationalism. Local director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, The Joy Luck Club) is a featured guest and presents his two new films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska. Other highlights include a visit from Filipino director Brillante Mendoza, Hou Hsiao-hsien's adaptation of The Red Balloon, a massive Bollywood hit starring Shahrukh Khan, and a three-film tribute to Edward Yang, the artful Taiwanese director who died last year.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM
The Stranger (1946)
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Thursday Mar 13 (6:30pm)
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Pacific Film Archive Theater (2575 Bancroft Way, 510.642.0808)
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Generally held to be one of Orson Welles' minor films, The Stranger (1946) occupies an unenviable place in the maverick artist's filmography — it's one of the only instances in which he tamped down his intellectual sleights-of-hand at the behest of a studio. That said, even Welles' lesser offerings are worth watching, and this cynical noir is punchily entertaining. Pug-faced Edward G. Robinson stars as an FBI agent investigating a Nazi war criminal (played by Welles with his usual actor-y bravura) who has settled in a waspy Connecticut hamlet. A gripping chase climax caps Welles' foray into America's heart of darkness.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Magik Markers w/ Paper Legs and Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month
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Friday Mar 14 (9:30pm)
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Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St, 415.923.0923)
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With countless releases on CD-R and vinyl (many adorned with their namesake's ink), Magik Markers have built a sizable catalog of jagged, noisy glory. Their live shows ambush the senses with screeches, writhing, and unholy good humor from Elisa Ambrogio, Pete Nolan, and their revolving cast of partners. Most recently, Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label adopted the Markers, distributed some of their releases, and sent them out on tour with Sonic Youth. Last year, the band put out BOSS, a concise album of rambunctious explosions that, improbably, could actually be called "pop songs." Paper Legs and Donovan Quinn (of the Skygreen Leopards) open.
- Nicholas Nauman
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MUSIC: Electronic
Audion w/ John Tejada
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Friday Mar 14 (10pm)
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Mighty (119 Utah St, 415.762.0151)
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The hypnogogic, Bridget Riley-inspired cover art of Audion's first few 12-inches was the perfect visual analog to their twisted, acid-spattered techno tracks. While Matthew Dear tends to wear his heart on his sleeve on his own releases, his Audion moniker leads dancers down dark rabbit holes where tweaked-out 303 bass lines and metallic synths make for very strange bedfellows. Where Audion's tracks boil over with eroticism, opener John Tejada (also performing live) prefers to let the sexiness simmer in his productions. Regardless of which strikes your fancy, get ready to get dirty.
- Matt Sussman
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MORE FLAVOR: Benefit
Progressive Reading Series 3: Benefit to Save Rent Control
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Saturday Mar 15 (7pm)
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The Make-Out Room (3225 22nd St, 415.647.2888)
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Maybe politics in this country would be in a better place if people drank more, read more, and had more of a good time. A simplistic argument, yes, but it was this philosophy that lifted the Progressive Reading Series off the ground. Tonight, the literati are out in force for intellectual fun and a cause: saving rent control in California. The lineup includes local superstar Amy Tan, punk-rock poet and comedian Bucky Sinister, Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine, and novelist Jerry Stahl — whose career-igniting memoir, Permanent Midnight (and its 1998 Ben Stiller-starring film adaptation), delves into the harsh yet hilarious realities of drug addiction and television writing.
- Annie Lo
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Margaret Cho
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Saturday Mar 15 (8pm)
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The Warfield (982 Market St, 415.775.7722)
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Margaret Cho is back in style with her latest burlesque variety show, The Sensuous Woman. The comedienne is at her best when sending up sex and sexuality — which she does aplenty — while showcasing her bodacious curves. The rest of the performers run the body-type gamut, from Selene Luna, a sexy 3'10" diva, to Dirty Martini, one of New York's favorite "big girls." Weirdly enough, however, two of the best numbers come from men: an uproariously hot performance by dancer and choreographer Ryan Heffington, and YouTube sensation Liam Sullivan inhabiting his Kelly persona, of "Shoes" fame.
- Stephan Paschalides
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FILM
Jennifer Reeves: Argument for the Immediate Sensuous
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Sunday Mar 16 (7:30pm)
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
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The second of the three programs comprising SF Cinematheque's brief Jennifer Reeves retrospective presents the fullest sense of the director's startling range. Light Work 1 (2007) is an eye-popping meditation on the changing textures of cinema, jumping from scratchy, reconstituted 16mm footage to hallucinations in high definition. Chronic (1997), meanwhile, marks an early stab at the kind of immersive narrative Reeves expanded on in 2004's The Time We Killed. The program also includes two of her hand-painted films, along with a work by Stan Brakhage (1999's Stately Mansions Did Decree) — a good example of an earlier master's use of that uniquely impressionistic film technique.
- Max Goldberg
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MORE FLAVOR: Competition
What's Your Answer?
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Sunday Mar 16 (9pm)
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Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St, 415.923.0923)
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Pub-quiz nights are a dime a dozen, but What's Your Answer? puts a twist on the concept by awarding points for the funniest responses. Accuracy is great, but non-sequiturs, zingers, and enough WTF moments to make up for all those questions that left you blanking on one-hit wonders of the '80s and sports statistics are far better. Sure, with the audience writing the jokes, there's bound to be a few groaners, but with a portion of the cash prize going to a local charity chosen by the winning team, suffering through the duds has extra perks.
- Matt Sussman
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FILM
Sing-Along: Colma: The Musical
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Monday Mar 17 (9:30pm)
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Sundance Kabuki Cinema (1881 Post St, 415.346.3243)
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Joining the fine company of The Sound of Music and R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet, San Francisco natives H.P. Mendoza and Richard Wong's little-movie-that-could has reached the pinnacle of cult-film status by launching its own sing-along. Energetic and fresh, sweet and honest, Colma: The Musical captures the growing pains of young adulthood and the youthful need to follow your dreams. Channel your inner suburban teen as you belt out the unforgettable lyrics of "Crash the Party" and "Could We Get Any Older?" with Colma residents Billy, Rodel, and Maribel.
- Annie Lo
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FILM
City of Men
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Tuesday Mar 11
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Landmark Embarcadero (1 Embarcadero Center, 415.267.4893)
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City of God, that dizzying, well-articulated catalog of Rio street youth, burst onto the international film scene in 2002. Soon after, a Brazilian TV series called City of Men reprised many of the same characters and themes; this new feature of the same title is an outgrowth of that show. On the cusp of their 18th birthdays, and in the middle of a war between rival neighborhood drug gangs, best friends Acerola and Laranjinha seek out the truth about their missing fathers. City of Men's plotting may be more mechanical than its predecessor, but it evinces the same passion and integrity with a greater technical sophistication.
- Lisa Rosman
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ART
Barbara Takenaga: Paintings
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Tuesday Mar 11 (10:30am–5:30pm)
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Gregory Lind Gallery (49 Geary St, 415.296.9661)
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Mesmerizing fields of color and pattern gently radiate outward from Barbara Takenaga's new series of paintings. While the artist has limited her abstract vocabulary to a handful of spots, lines, and flares, her meticulous renderings are rich with references, at once suggestive of op art and aboriginal imagery, as well as biological vivisections and grand, cosmological events. Under the weight of so many apparitions, her dense worlds appear to contract and expand within the picture plane, alternating between the claustrophobic and the infinitely spacious.
- Isaac Amala
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