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Issue 321 |
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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
Jun 24-30, 2008
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Why be a stick in the mud when you can play in it? We've got the dirt on some of late June's grittiest fare: get splattered by the mud-caked maneuvers of the Bay Area Derby Girls, or take a ringside seat for some Incredibly Strange Wrestling courtesy of Bob Calhoun. And if you're looking for sonic scuzz, few DJs go to the Crookers' filthy, genre-perverting extremes. Here's hoping those Pride goodie bags contain Wet-Naps.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Carl Craig
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In his nearly 20-year career, Carl Craig's passion for music has run the gamut from melodic techno and drum 'n bass to funk, soul, and jazz. As he tells our sister publication Earplug, it was projects like the Innerzone Orchestra and the Detroit Experiment that fueled Craig's desire to helm the reunification of jazz collective Tribe.
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FILM: Documentary
The Hippie Temptation (1967)
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Tuesday June 24 (7:15 & 9:15pm)
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Red Vic (1727 Haight St, 415.668.3994)
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As the staid '50s gave way to the strange days of the late '60s, a hairy beast grew in the country's gutters — the hippie! — and its home base was here in San Francisco. The 1967 CBS news special The Hippie Temptation profiled the stoned counterculture for the prime-time masses, featuring interviews with the Grateful Dead and all manner of tripping heads. (In fact, the film details Haight Ashbury's groovy times with such enthusiasm that the filmmakers' intended warnings ended up being lost on the daisy-strewn hordes.) See it where it happened at the Red Vic.
- Nicholas Nauman
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FILM: Shorts
Southern Exposure presents Global Honking Ground
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Tuesday June 24 (7:30pm)
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
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16 Beaver is a collective of politically minded artists located in New York City's financial district. Moving beyond the usual installation pieces, the group publishes alternative news reportage on its website, regularly holds teach-ins, and has organized an early conference about the strange case of artist Steve Kurtz — a SUNY Buffalo professor who was arrested by the FBI in 2004 on suspicion of bioterrorism. Tonight, several of 16 Beaver's members visit Yerba Buena to screen video shorts in conjunction with Southern Exposure's likeminded Hopeless and Otherwise exhibit.
- Max Goldberg
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READING
David W. Bernstein: The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde
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Wednesday June 25 (7pm)
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Park Branch Library (1833 Page St, 415.355.5656)
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In 1962, experimental-music composers Morton Subotnik and Ramon Sender started the San Francisco Tape Music Center, a resource where young upstarts (like Terry Riley and Steve Reich) could explore the versatile, meta-musical world of electronics. A new book edited by David W. Bernstein, The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, chronicles the SFTMC's place in the period's fertile West Coast art scene. Subotnik and Sender join Riley and others for a panel discussion revisiting such artful relics as the Buchla Box (Don Buchla's early modular synthesizer) and the "Riley Delay."
- Nicholas Nauman
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MUSIC: Electronic
Crookers
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Wednesday June 25 (9pm–2am)
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Vessel (85 Campton Pl, 415.433.8585)
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Like many of dance music's current bastards, "fidget house" started off as an in-joke between a few DJs. But if, as DJ Jesse Rose has remarked, the joke has "gone a little too far," Italian production duo Crookers take things all the way over the edge: saw-toothed bass lines wiggle like Jell-O, sampled vocals hack like coughing fits atop a stuttering kick, and the rave-horn keyboard lines are just three presets shy of Aqua. Clearly, Crookers are having just as much fun shamelessly flaunting their borrowed wares (B'more house, nu rave, and dubstep) as their audiences have dancing.
- Matt Sussman
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FILM
[POSTPONED] Mysterious Objects: The Short Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Thursday June 26 (7:30pm)
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
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To say that Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films may make you fall asleep is to pay them a high compliment. Somnambulant and elliptical features like Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and a Century (2006) follow their own dream logic, in which the local lore and forest landscape shape the narratives as much as the peripherally observed actions of humans. More mysterious are Weerasethakul's short films, ranging from early student work to music-video-inspired caprices. The 40-minute Worldly Desires (2005) ranks among the most beautiful of this maverick's puzzling jungle treks.
- Matt Sussman
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Due to shipping problems the series Mysterious Objects has been postponed. Instead, Weerasethakul's feature Syndromes and a Century (2006) will be shown for free on Thursday, June 26th at 7:30pm and on Sunday, June 29th at 2pm.
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
People Under the Stairs
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Thursday June 26 (9pm)
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The Independent (628 Divisadero St, 415.771.1422)
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Classic hip-hop, with its no-frills rhythms and shell-toe Adidas, seems anachronistic in an age ruled by shiny grills, stripper poles, and pimp cups overflowing with tangy, life-giving crunk juice. But vintage beats and rhymes never sound dated when they're delivered with the polish and poise of People Under the Stairs. Like fellow Cali crew Jurassic 5, MCs Double K and Thes One are hyped-up and positive, laying down metronome-steady flows over bright, soulful rhythms. Their study of music theory adds a progressive edge to the beats on Stepfather (2006) and the Tuxedo Rap series of remixes that followed — old-school indeed.
- Patrick Sisson
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MORE FLAVOR: Sports
B.A.D. Mud Wrestling
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Friday June 27 (9pm)
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CELLspace (2050 Bryant St, 415.648.7562)
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It turns out those quad-skating fiends in the Bay Area Derby Girls aren't just fearsome roller chicks — they've also got a knack for getting down and dirty in the wrestling pit. Tonight, the ladies of the Richmond Wrecking Belles, Oakland Outlaws, and the SF ShEvil Dead duke it out in the mud, waging sloppy smackdowns to raise funds for their league. With Derby girls Annie Agony and Nancy Drew Blood on the team roster, expect just as many raucous moments and unsportsmanlike maneuvers as you might encounter at a typical B.A.D. Girls bout.
- Connie Hwong
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ART: Festival
MOVE>SOUND: Soundwave>Series 3
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Friday June 27
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Various locations
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Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances at sundry Mission District venues, as well as onboard the peripatetic AudioBus, MOVE>SOUND explores the intersection of movement, sound, and art. Showcased are local musicians Goh Nakamura, Zoe Keating, and Moe!Kestra!; nationally recognized artists Andrea Polli and Jonny Farrow; and a fully interactive "soundwalk," curated and led by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology. The festival's opening night features a collaboration by Sam McKinlay and Christian Nicolay, who use a skateboard and an amplified railing to create an improvised urban soundscape that easily allies with the Mission's skate-friendly streets.
- Connie Hwong
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MORE FLAVOR: Parade
38th Annual SF Pride Celebration and Parade
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Saturday June 28 (noon–6pm)
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Civic Center (355 McAllister St)
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There's plenty to be proud of this year — most of all, the recent landmark legal victory that has California's LGBT couples lining up across the state to say "I do." Newlywed bliss is in the air at this year's Pride festivities, but you can always count on a fair share of glitter, bared flesh, and rainbow flags wrapped in weird places, as well. Aside from parade institutions like the Dykes on Bikes, be on the lookout for Charo — one of this year's Grand Marshals — surrounded by a bevy of Charo-lookalike drag queens.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Gary Panter
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Saturday June 28 (2pm)
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Amoeba Music (2455 Telegraph Ave)
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Gary Panter's hyper-colored visuals influenced a generation of wide-eyed imaginations. As the set designer for Pee-wee's Playhouse, Panter conjured domestic hallucinations and childlike reveries that shaped many a Saturday morning. Dubbed the "King of Punk Art," Panter had honed his aesthetic as an illustrator and underground comix artist, lending his pen to Frank Zappa album covers and punk magazines Slash and RAW. Nowadays, Panter still draws, making fine-art pieces as ecstatically creative as any of his early work, and he's also scared up a "semi-musical collaboration" with fellow cartoonist Devin Flynn. This afternoon, the pair performs at Amoeba.
- Nicholas Nauman
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FILM
Opening Night (1978)
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Sunday June 29 (6:30pm)
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Pacific Film Archive Theater (2575 Bancroft Way, 510.642.0808)
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Writer, director, and indie saint John Cassavetes raised the curtain on backstage melodrama with his 1978 film Opening Night. Gena Rowlands gives a tender performance as aging stage actress Myrtle, and Cassavetes regulars Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk also make appearances. But the PFA is screening the film for Joan Blondell: the blonde bombshell of vintage Hollywood musicals like Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade (both filmed in 1933) here plays a wizened playwright. Blondell's own long resume makes Myrtle's struggle all the more poignant.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Lucha VaVoom
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Sunday June 29 (8pm)
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The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000)
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Rolling into town like a rollicking, sex-addled circus, Lucha VaVoom is the love child of a Mexican-wrestling fan and a burlesque dancer — and its DNA is entirely evident. Luchadores of all shapes and sizes (including the obligatory midgets) compete in lightning-round format, while stand-up comedians provide ringside commentary and dirty jokes. In between bouts, a cavalcade of sequined strippers strut their stuff, stopping occasionally to engage in a brawl or two themselves. After sell-out crowds in its native LA, the hubba-hubba hubbub hits SF for one crazy night.
- Connie Hwong
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READING
Bob Calhoun: Beer, Blood & Cornmeal: Seven Years of Strange Wrestling
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Monday June 30 (7pm)
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Cody's Books (2201 Shattuck Ave, 510.559.9500)
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Bob Calhoun spent seven years of his life making San Francisco a little more bizarre with Incredibly Strange Wrestling — performance art taken to the level of blood sport. The phenomenon featured a revolving cast of lucha libre-inspired characters who would step into a makeshift ring and battle it out, while bands like NOFX, the Dickies, and the Donnas provided the live soundtrack. Spectacles included the Ku Klux Klowns in heated battle against Hasidic Jews, and a flock of Christians being "fed" to the lions. Lucky for us, Calhoun (aka Count Dante) lived to tell the tale in his raucous memoir, Beer, Blood & Cornmeal, which he reads from tonight.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Jazz/Blues
Blind Boys of Alabama
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Monday June 30 (8pm)
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Yoshi's (510 Embarcadero W, 510.238.9200)
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The Blind Boys of Alabama may be hitting Yoshi's on a Monday evening, but it's a sure bet that they're bringing their Sunday best. Formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939, the Blind Boys, with their heavenly harmonies, are the gold-standard gospel group — a reputation that they cemented earlier this year with the uplifting collection Down in New Orleans. Backed by Big Easy standbys Allen Toussaint and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Boys turn standards like "Down by the Riverside" and "I'll Fly Away" into spirited testimonies to the city's ongoing struggle.
- Max Goldberg
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ART
Alicia McCarthy
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Tuesday June 24 (11am–6pm)
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Jack Hanley Gallery (395 Valencia St, 415.522.1623)
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Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this motley collection of her new and old work. McCarthy's op-art-ish rainbow prisms and Borromean knots have a meticulous delicacy that's frequently hidden beneath the initial impression of "crudeness" imparted by her preference for wood-scrap canvases and colored pencils. Her folksy amateurism seems to be the product of both circumstance and practice — a tension that her drawings negotiate with a knowing wink and a genuine smile.
- Matt Sussman
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A Complicated Dominion: Nature and New Political Narratives
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Wednesday June 25 (noon–5pm)
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San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102, 415.554.6080)
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When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this master illustrator, five artists offer updated visions of the animal kingdom, but this time around, the picture is not quite as rosy. The specter of human interference lingers over these portraits like white noise. Leiv Fagereng's owls stare wide-eyed, caught in the headlights of big rigs, while Tara Tucker's mutant sheep graze contentedly, oblivious to the trees growing from their backs. Tiffany Bozic's marine menageries, meanwhile, spin in frenetic whirlpools — the perfect metaphor for the way humans have become entangled with the natural world.
- Jeanne Storck
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About Us |
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Matt Sussman
DEPUTY EDITOR
Max Goldberg
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Axel Anderson
SENIOR EDITORS
Anna Balkrishna
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Seiji Carpenter
Connie Hwong
Nicholas Nauman
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
IMAGE EDITORS
Adda Birnir
Sarah Steele
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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