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Issue 307 |
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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 18-24, 2008
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Exchange those wool sweaters for fabulous spring millinery and consult your Farmer's Almanacs. The vernal equinox falls on Thursday, which means fresh starts are in bloom everywhere. On our calendar, too, everything old is new again: the Thrillpeddlers resurrect a long-lost play, Good Vibrations might inspire a mid-career switch into porn direction, and an aging French art-house belle receives a facelift upon her theatrical re-release.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Boredoms
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Tuesday Mar 18 (7pm)
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The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000)
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After the 77-member percussive spiral galaxy that assembled beneath the Brooklyn Bridge last summer, it might seem like a comedown to witness Boredoms, those Japanese psychedelic drum-circle emissaries, with only their core members. But even with just three drummers — and with mastermind Eye acting as squad leader behind a towering array of mounted guitars and tabletop electronics — Boredoms are a force to be reckoned with, moving from pastoral cymbal washes to thunderous tom-tom runs to Sunny Murray-worthy free-form jams with unrivaled precision and intensity.
- Matt Sussman
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READING
Scott Heim: We Disappear
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Tuesday Mar 18 (7:30pm)
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Books Inc. in the Castro (2275 Market St, 415.864.6777)
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Scott Heim, author of the luminous and disturbing Mysterious Skin, is still running with lost boys in his latest novel, We Disappear. In the wake of a young boy's murder, Heim's protagonist (incidentally also named Scott) — a journalist with a meth problem — is summoned back to his Kansas hometown by his ill, missing-children-obsessed mother. Without pandering or rubbernecking, Heim's taut, clean prose conveys the psychic disorder of his characters and the ways in which their missteps and half-truths have irrevocably shaped their lives. Though "innocence lost" is a perennial favorite of America's news media, Heim might just be the subject's current laureate. He reads and takes questions tonight.
- Matt Sussman
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FILM
SF Sketchfest presents A Salute to Gene Wilder: Young Frankenstein (1974) and Gene Wilder in person
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Wednesday Mar 19 (6:30pm)
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The Castro Theatre (429 Castro St, 415.621.5288)
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Without Gene Wilder, there'd be no Will Ferrell; there'd be no Willy Wonka with whom to compare Johnny Depp; no interracial comedy duo with Richard Pryor to inspire Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. The Oscar-nominated Young Frankenstein was the pinnacle of Wilder's ongoing collaboration with Mel Brooks; the film parodies the classic horror films of the early cinematic era to brilliant comedic effect, using black-and-white film and the same props as the original 1931 Frankenstein. Better yet, after the screening, Wilder himself appears for an in-depth conversation and Q&A about his career.
- Annie Lo
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Dr. Octagon
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Wednesday Mar 19 (9pm)
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Mezzanine (444 Jessie St, 415.625.8880)
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The inimitable Kool Keith returns for another go 'round in his bawdy, bizarre Dr. Octagon persona. Keith has performed under innumerable aliases, but Octagon continues to be his best known — his near-classic 1996 album Dr. Octagonecologyst matched Dan "the Automator" Nakamura's futuristic production with Doc Oc's stream-of-consciousness patter to otherworldly effect. Controversy plagued the 2006 release of The Return of Dr. Octagon, though Keith has hardly let it slow him down, releasing albums since as Mr. Nogatco and Project Polaroid. The former Ultramagnetic MC's artistic restlessness and endless unpredictability make him a true hip-hop anomaly, and a total pleasure to experience.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM
Paul McCarthy Film Series: Stan VanDerBeek, Bruce Conner, Yayoi Kusama, and Yoko Ono
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Thursday Mar 20 (7pm)
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CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (1111 8th St, 415.551.9210)
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In Low Life, Slow Life: Part 1, artist Paul McCarthy curates an exhibition of his influences, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and printed matter from his favorite artists. Many of the collection's pieces are featured in Allan Kaprow's canonical 1966 volume Assemblage, Environments & Happenings, a first edition of which features in the display. Tonight's program also includes a look at the mid-century cinematic avant-garde; Bruce Conner's montages of appropriated film stock and Yoko Ono's fluxus shorts are better known, but Ono contemporary Yayoi Kusama's polka-dotted "happenings" really get viewers seeing spots.
- Matt Sussman
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READING
David Hajdu: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
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Thursday Mar 20 (7–9pm)
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Cartoon Art Museum (655 Mission St, 415.227.8666)
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Before video games had parents and pundits up-in-arms about America's youth, comic books were public enemy number one. Of course, as author David Hajdu explains in his latest history of oddball Americana, The Ten-Cent Plague, comics in the '40s and early '50s weren't always kid stuff: mutant monsters defrocked damsels, gangsters were cut from pulp fiction's rough cloth, and even biblical comics weren't afraid to play up the more violent aspects of the Old Testament. How the Justice League survived Senate hearings, while Tales from the Crypt suffered, is just one of the questions Hajdu addresses tonight.
- Matt Sussman
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FILM
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
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Friday Mar 21
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The Castro Theatre (429 Castro St, 415.621.5288)
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Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' New-Wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. The film follows a nameless man (Giorgio Albertazzi) who is trying to convince a nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they'd met the year before in the same opulent hotel — but the woman has no recollection of ever meeting him. The film is a cascading series of cryptic, nonlinear flashbacks that blur the line between truth and memory. Dark figures dance and play, repeating the same conversations as if merely going through the motions (like zombies?), while the frantic organ score and chiaroscuro lighting conjure a terrifying, beautiful mood.
- Gerry Mak
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Flaming Sin: London's Grand Guignol
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Friday Mar 21 (8pm)
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Hypnodrome (575 10th St, 415.377.4202)
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Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have never been as deliciously paired as in this double bill of theatrical British blood sausage. The evening begins on a caustic note with the US premiere of Noel Coward's "lost" one-act play The Better Half. Coward was only 22 when he wrote this comedy of the poorly mannered, but his biting wit is in full effect. The innuendo continues in The Old Women, a gory, twisted tale set in a French madhouse that the Thrillpeddlers stage with all the sanguine gusto of a Herschell Gordon Lewis splatter-fest.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Jens Lekman w/ the Honeydrips
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Saturday Mar 22 (9pm)
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Bimbo's (1025 Columbus Ave, 415.474.0365)
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A Swedish sweetie-pie of the most huggable variety (seriously, he's like a puppy), Jens Lekman may be the most agreed-upon indie-pop sensation in recent memory. His smooth, soothing croon has the power to simultaneously melt hearts ("I Remember Every Kiss"), fill a room with laughter ("A Postcard to Nina"), and kick a sing-along party into off-key overdrive ("A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill"). With soaring strings, Motown samples, ukulele interludes, fat horns, and uncomfortable situations aplenty ("Nina" chronicles his awkward attempts to convince a lesbian's father he's her boyfriend), his new record, Night Falls Over Kortedala, is a roundly pleasant, unbelievably endearing affair. And live, he's even more adorable.
- Andrew Phillips
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A limited number of tickets will be released at the box office the night of the show.
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MUSIC: DJ
Surya Dub feat. Flying Lotus
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Saturday Mar 22 (10pm)
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Club 6ix (60 6th St, 415.863.1221)
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Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) gained notoriety while making beats for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, joining the ranks of off-the-wall hip-hop producers like Danger Mouse and Witchdoctor. Straddling the line between hip-hop and electronica, Flying Lotus' beats betray influences ranging from Brian Eno and Portishead to his late, great aunt Alice Coltrane. Ellison follows in the footsteps of such giants as DJ Shadow and J Dilla — his music doesn't adhere to any specific genre, and doesn't need a microphone to make it interesting. Support from pan-genre bass lover Dhruva and local fave (and Surya Dub regular) Maneesh the Twista make tonight a solid date.
- Joseph Mangan
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MUSIC: DJ
Honey Sound System presents Mineshaft: Dancer from the Dance feat. Jeffrey Sfire and Steve Summers
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Sunday Mar 23 (9pm–3am)
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103 Harriet St (103 Harriet St, 415.431.8609)
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In his 1978 novel Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran wrote of the post-Stonewall gay scene: "No one was allowed to be serious, except about the importance of music, the glory of faces seen in the crowd." Taking their cue from Holleran's dream-like tale of music-obsessed queens and their sexual quarries, the Honey Sound System DJs throw a followup to their last Mineshaft soiree. This time, guest DJs Jeffrey Sfire (Ghostly International) and Steve Summers (Confused House) — along with the Honey DJs themselves — provide a soundtrack evocative of Dancer's Fire Island clubs, with rare disco gems that even Holleran's most ardent partiers probably couldn't identify.
- Matt Sussman
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MORE FLAVOR: City Gem
Noir: The Sisters' 29th Anniversary Celebration
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Sunday Mar 23 (10:30am–4pm)
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Mission Dolores Park (18th & Dolores St, 415.285.1717)
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What do you do when you turn 29? Well, when you're the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — San Francisco's favorite wimple-wearing, charitable drag queens — you transform your annual Easter picnic into an outdoor den of ill repute. The sisters offer many temptations to indulge in (and all the donated dough goes back to the community), so it pays to stray. Whether your cheating heart gets hung up on the sounds of the Ex-Boyfriends, or you wind up (almost) baring all in the hunky Jesus competition, what happens at San Francisco's best little benefit stays there.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Tokyo Police Club w/ Eagle Seagull and We Barbarians
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Monday Mar 24 (8pm)
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The Independent (628 Divisadero St, 415.771.1422)
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Neither Japanese nor particularly authoritarian, Canadian quartet Tokyo Police Club are dabblers. They deftly blend angular Brit-pop guitars with indie-garage bass lines and poppy vocal harmonies to generate their own version of pepped-up rock, fronted by keyboardist Graham Wright. The retro-grandiose Eagle Seagull — fresh off a whirlwind of SXSW gigs — warm up the stage with melodic orchestral pop songs that are vaguely like a fuzzed-out version of the New Pornographers combined with the Cure. Moody, mysterious SoCal trio We Barbarians kick off the night with their stripped-down, melancholic oeuvre.
- Connie Hwong
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Yakuza w/ One Hundred Suns and Burmese
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Monday Mar 24 (9pm)
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Elbo Room (647 Valencia St, 415.552.7788)
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Yakuza's last album was called Transmutations, which is an appropriate title given the Chicago prog-metal band's tendency to work through a dizzying array of styles during its live sets. Yakuza approach everything from jazzy fusion to full-on thrash with pounding intensity, and are sure to please metalheads looking for a full spectrum of weighty sounds. By contrast, San Francisco's Burmese take a more direct — if brutal — approach. They channel the bile of Whitehouse lyrics (see song titles like "Rapewar" and "Broken Legs, Broken Face, Blood Everywhere") through a sludgy, rhythm-heavy attack, bolstered by the incomparable drum work of Weasel Walter.
- Max Goldberg
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ART
Tariq Alvi: Hanging Matters
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Sunday Mar 23 (noon–5pm)
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2nd Floor Projects (3740 25th St, #205, 415.824.2644 )
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British artist Tariq Alvi reappropriates and subverts found materials gathered from mass media; he constructs highly charged and complex collages with images ranging from pornography to haute-couture ads, as well as sensationalist texts excerpted from tabloids and newspapers. Hanging Matters, Alvi's striking new solo exhibition at 2nd Floor Projects, continues where his 2005 Capp Street Project residency left off — deterritorializing viewers' common associations with the images found in his work while making a larger commentary on Western materialism and the war in Iraq.
- Isaac Amala
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
ODC/Dance Downtown 2008
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Tuesday Mar 18
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
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San Francisco's Oberlin Dance Collective has long enjoyed the admiration of international modern dancers and critics alike, impressing with its performers' agility and physical artistry. This year, ODC performs at Yerba Buena, presenting five world premieres by KT Nelson and Brenda Way. Scored by rock and experimental icons including Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, and Brian Eno, the pieces embody the company's zeal for conceptual and physical innovation. But even Scramble, set to music by Bach, dazzles with its contemporary flair.
- Nicholas Nauman
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