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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
Apr 22-28, 2008
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Holly-where? The 51st San Francisco International Film Festival once again proves that, while America may dominate the movies worldwide, the medium's most vital contributors often lie beyond our shores. Whether you choose to catch up on what Cannes and Vancouver were buzzing about, or opt instead for blind dates in the dark, prepare to witness cinema's borders redrawn.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Mexican Art
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Mexican-born artist Gabriel Orozco's formidable body of work ranges from sculpture and photography to installation and video, and is characterized by a winsomely madcap and thought-provoking lyricism. His distinctive aesthetic and that of kurimanzutto, the nomadic gallery he founded in 1999, have influenced Mexico's most noteworthy artists — a group that rarely settles on any one artistic medium.
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Girl Talk
Gregg Gillis dishes on his next ADD mashup, tentatively titled Wild Peace IV.
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PURE Photo Series
With BMW's help, Flavorpill commissioned photographers to uniquely capture our five US cities.
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FILM
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and The Killing (1956)
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Tuesday Apr 22
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The Castro Theatre (429 Castro St, 415.621.5288)
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Both Kiss Me Deadly and The Killing came after the apex of film noir. Gone are the melodramatic flourishes and moral codes of earlier films like Laura (1944) and The Maltese Falcon (1941) — we're in the real heart of darkness now. In Kiss Me Deadly, director Robert Aldrich places Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer in a world of illogical violence. The apocalyptic ending beats Donnie Darko to the punch by more than five decades. Stanley Kubrick experiments with non-linear narration in The Killing and comes out with a perfectly executed heist picture. The film's cast is a who's-who of noir's best bit players.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Old Haunts
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Tuesday Apr 22 (9:30pm)
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Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St, 415.923.0923)
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The Pacific Northwest's history of great garage rock stretches at least as far back as 1963, to the Kingsmen's famous take on "Louie, Louie." Olympia's the Old Haunts have a distinctly punk edge on the surface — but peel back Craig Extine's nasal Richard Hell-like croon, and you land squarely in the fuzzy terrain of '60s forebears like the Sonics and Paul Revere & the Raiders. Newly invigorated, the band makes the trip south with the welcome addition of former Bikini Kill drummer Tobi Vail and an excellent new album, Poisonous Times, on Kill Rock Stars.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Electronic
Caribou w/ Fuck Buttons
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Wednesday Apr 23 (8pm)
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The Independent (628 Divisadero St, 415.771.1422)
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Algebra fanatic Dan Snaith finds time outside of his busy PhD schedule to wield his mathematical, whimsical electronica for the scruffy kids at the Independent. Spin out to two drum kits spewing Manitoba wildness, over which Snaith's wacky laptop loops and distant vocals provide technicolor weirdness in glossy flashes and flickers — making your eyes shine bright and your neon t-shirt glow even more. Ride waves of clattering cymbals that wash in and out of whirring pastures, clicks, moose, mounties, and maple syrup, belying grid-like composition and hypnotic rhythms during the best math class in history.
- Oliver Spall
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Man Man w/ Yeasayer
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Wednesday Apr 23 (9pm)
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Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750)
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Step right up! The traveling Man Man circus is back in town. And yes, Honus Honus still bellows like a carnival barker over proggy sea shanties full of xylophone and brass, but fans of 2006's Six Demon Bag might be surprised by the band's subdued follow-up, Rabbit Habits. As cuts like "Whalebones" and "Poor Jackie" show, Man Man's teary waltzes and New Orleans dirges have grown more solemn than before. Brooklyn's Yeasayer, meanwhile, are new to the avant-worldbeat game — but last year's All Hour Cymbals justifies most of the early hullabaloo surrounding them.
- Stephen Gossett
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Pre-sale tickets are sold out.
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MORE FLAVOR: Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
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Thursday Apr 24
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While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco International Film Festival is the city's real heavy hitter. The SFIFF is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas, showcasing narratives, documentaries, shorts, and experimental films from all corners. Opening night kicks off with The Last Mistress, a provocative French period drama starring Asia Argento as the sultry Spanish mistress of a French aristocrat whose pending marriage may mean the end of their passionate liaison. The festival closes with Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a riveting documentary about the iconoclastic journalist.
- Annie Lo
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
Bay Area National Dance Week
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Friday Apr 25
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Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the city's landscape, packs street corners, and fills performance spaces on both sides of the Bay. The calendar is packed with free performances and workshops representing a variety of dance forms — lindy-hop, capoeira, tap, modern, and so forth. If you've ever imagined your life as a musical, in which passersby break into song and dance, this might be the opportunity to live that fantasy.
- Tanya Feldman
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MORE FLAVOR: Exhibition
2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing
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Friday Apr 25 (7–11pm)
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Exploratorium (3601 Lyon St, 415.561.0360)
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With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from repurposed goods to glowing electrical supplies from the hardware store. Among the pieces featured are Yu-Shin "Mue" Kim's spacepod knitwear and Takehito Etani's interactive Masticator headgear, which tracks the wearer's chewing. Sha Sha Higby's performance, meanwhile, finds her swathed in a cocoon of textures that becomes an energized extension of her body as she dances. Your own wearable concotions will grant you a discount for the reception, and may even be selected for the Clothesline exhibit, on view through September.
- Tanya Feldman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
KUSF Birthday Celebration feat. Wooden Shjips, Citay, and Jenny Hoyston
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Friday Apr 25 (9:30pm)
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Cafe du Nord (2170 Market St, 415.861.5016)
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$10 - 20 / $10 advance
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SF's favorite left-of-the-dial radio station celebrates its 31st anniversary with this local triple bill. Wooden Shjips haven't played in town for a few months, though their molten garage rock is still earning raves after a series of singles and a self-titled LP on Holy Mountain. Bearing lipstick traces of the Doors, Terry Riley, the Velvet Underground, and Hawkwind, it's a record collector's dream come true. Citay's guitar duels are no less entrancing for being more pastoral than the Shjips' assault. Opener Jenny Hoyston also plays with avant-rockers Erase Errata and embodies that band's genre-bending intelligence in her solo work.
- Max Goldberg
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READING
Neal Pollack: Alternadad
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Saturday Apr 26 (7pm)
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Red Hill Books (401 Cortland Ave, 415.648.5331)
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Neal Pollack is trying to be the coolest dad ever, and he wants everyone to know how he did it. From the smarmy, snarky essayist behind satirical anthologies like Beneath the Axis of Evil and the McSweeney's-imprinted The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature — as well as the wry frontman of the Neal Pollack Invasion — his newest tome is a more straightforward how-to manual, chronicling the early years of raising his son while trying to keep it weird in Austin, TX. With Pollack's boy approaching his sixth birthday, the indie-rock dad is still angling for the Bernal Heights stroller set (and parents) at today's reading.
- Connie Hwong
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MORE FLAVOR: Benefit
Sparkly Devil and Little Minsky's present a Benefit for Burlesque Legends and Exotic World
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Saturday Apr 26 (9pm)
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Club Deluxe (1511 Haight St)
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Performances at Club Deluxe's glamor-centric Little Minsky's consistently titillate while tickling the funny bone. Tonight, MCs Kingfish and Eddie invite to the stage some of the Bay Area's most cherished acts, including naughty songstress Kitten on the Keys and Atomic-age vixens Tit 4 Tat, as well as guests from across the country. The stars all shimmy for a cause, donating the proceeds to three 1960s burlesque legends (Holiday O'Hara, Lottie the Body, and Toni Elling) who hope to make their way to Vegas for this year's Exotic World Weekend.
- Tanya Feldman
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ART: Photography
Bus Obscura
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Sunday Apr 27 (noon–3pm)
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RayKo Photo Center (428 Third St, 415.495.3773)
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In celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, Simon Lee's Bus Obscura rolls into town, offering free rides and a fresh perspective on our beautiful city by the Bay. Riders on this passenger bus, which has been converted into a mobile, multiple-aperture pinhole camera, can indulge in a unique sensory experience: viewing San Francisco not through the bus windows, but through inverted real-time projections that flow into each other. Accompanied by a specially curated SF-centric soundtrack, the interplay of light and images creates an atmosphere that's simply magical.
- Annie Lo
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
May Day: CounterPULSE's Third Anniversary Show
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Sunday Apr 27 (8pm)
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CounterPULSE (1310 Mission St, 415.626.2060)
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In appreciation of three years of CounterPULSE's nurturing and indispensible presence in the Bay Area's performing-arts world, dancers from a variety of companies have filled the roster for this anniversary event. Among the artists performing are Butoh dancer Shinichi Iova-Koga of Inkboat, as well as members of the Joe Goode Performance Group, whose narrative dances are always accompanied by equally innovative local musicians (Carla Kihlsted and Beth Custer have both scored their work in the past). A silent auction is also taking place, with proceeds going to the maintenance and development of CounterPULSE.
- Tanya Feldman
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
Historian vs Futurist on Human Progress: Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz
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Monday Apr 28 (7:30pm)
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Cowell Theater (Marina Blvd & Buchanan St, 415.345.7575)
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This co-lecture features two commentators who buck the trend of miniaturizing history and economics. Scottish historian Niall Ferguson creates detailed, often controversial "counterfactual histories." His most recent book, The War of the World, tackles violence in the 20th century — something he'll surely hone in on with his next work, a biography of Henry Kissinger. He's joined by futurist Peter Schwartz, whose The Art of the Long View changed the field of scenario planning. Schwartz is also on the board of directors of the Long Now Foundation, the group sponsoring tonight's discussion.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Night Marchers
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Monday Apr 28 (8:30pm)
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Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St, 415.621.4455)
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Rocket-tattooed fans around the world mourned when Rocket from the Crypt, San Diego's horn-infused punksters, disbanded in late 2005. But lead singer John Reis (aka Speedo) couldn't stay quiet for long, and is now on to a new project, the Night Marchers. Featuring ex-Hot Snakes and CPC Gangbangs members, the four-piece is heavily influenced by RFTC's original sound, minus the horns and plus a few garage riffs and some rockabilly twang. It's a welcome Rocket replacement for Reis' die-hard fans, and plenty of brash, raucous fun for the rest of us.
- Connie Hwong
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ART
Neu Wave Feminism
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Thursday Apr 24 (noon–6pm)
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Femina Potens Gallery (2199 Market St, 415.864.1558)
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Radical, queer-friendly gallery Femina Potens presents Neu Wave Feminism, a bold collection of subversive works that spotlights feminism's shifting borders. The stripped-down look at female sexuality features three rising artists: Bay Area painter Alicia DeBrincat, queer artist Lex McQuilkin, and Los Angeles-based Rocksusto, a sculptural photographer whose provocative, staged images read as symbolic riddles. The latter's strangest piece, Population, challenges traditional masculine/feminine roles with a chessboard featuring condoms and cracked eggs at match point.
- Julian Hooper
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ART
The Question Is Known: (W)here Is Latin American / Latino Art
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Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–5pm)
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Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (2868 Mission St, 415.821.1155)
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Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the work of mixed-media painter Claire Rojas, known for her colorful murals and installations, and renowned sculptor Manuel Neri, one of the leading artists in the Bay Area's figurative movement. The discourse continues the following day at a free symposium at SFAI, with several contributors and curators from both coasts discussing the evolving identity of the Latin-American artist.
- Tanya Feldman
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There is a $5 admission fee to attend the opening reception.
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