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Issue 324 |
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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
Jul 15-21, 2008
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San Francisco lost one of its most protean and radical creative figures in artist Bruce Conner, who passed away last week. From splicing together found film reels in the beat era to documenting the punk shows at Mabuhay Gardens two decades later, Connor's M.O. and choice of medium always responded to the city's shifting subcultural zeitgeist. His prescient vision is sorely missed.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Marlene Dumas
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One of the most influential and controversial painters working today, Marlene Dumas brings a dark intensity to her work. Favoring subjects with profound sociopolitical subtexts, the South African-born, Holland-based artist addresses explosive issues of gender, race, religion, and explicit sexuality through the prism of her striking, graphic, heavily worked portraiture.
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Feministing.com
Activate speaks with the trailblazing blog's politics editor, Courtney E. Martin.
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Flavorpill Mobile
Access Flavorpill listings, rate events, and find friends on the go, all via your handheld device.
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READING
Barbara Ehrenreich: This Land Is Their Land
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Tuesday July 15 (7:30pm)
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First Congregational Church of Oakland (2501 Harrison St, 510.444.8511)
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Perhaps you can chalk it up to the political fires of 1968: that's the year Barbara Ehrenreich received her Ph.D. in cell biology and promptly set out on a career of progressive activism. Ehrenreich has since written on a wide array of subjects, but her signal issue is the economy. Previously in Nickel and Dimed, and now in This Land Is Their Land, she explores a super-capitalist society in which the deck is stacked against the poor and middle classes. And with the American worker grousing like it's 1992, Ehrenreich's damaging critiques might fall on more receptive ears than usual this election year.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Citay
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Tuesday July 15 (8pm)
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Cafe du Nord (2170 Market St, 415.861.5016)
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Part pastoral collage, part AOR pastiche, Citay recall a simpler — er, more complex — time for rock 'n roll. The San Francisco collective's latest album, Little Kingdom, owes a great deal to the surname-only heroes of yore, fleshing out CSNY-style harmonies with thick analog-synth arrangements reminiscent of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Yet, bandleader Ezra Feinberg steers his unit clear of instrumental excess, instead infusing subdued folk with the sense of triumph that is often absent in indie rock.
- Nick Earhart
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FILM: Double Feature
The Revival House presents LA Plays Itself (1972) and Sex Garage (1972)
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Wednesday July 16 (8pm)
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Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia St, 415.824.3890)
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$6
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Those who caught William E. Jones' v.o. last year at the Pacific Film Archive might recognize particular streets, warehouses, and knowing glances in Fred Halsted's gay-porn masterpieces of the '70s. Jones' film strips the sex from certain classic gay flicks — Halsted's being the most notable — and leaves only their gritty urban landscapes and hungry eyes. Tonight, the Revival House screens this source material in all its original hardcore glory. LA Plays Itself and its companion film, Sex Garage, redefined gay sex on the screen, with their ecumenical attitude towards BDSM, unconventional body types, and bisexuality. These reminders of a bygone era are a bracing antidote to the sterility of most niche-marketed contemporary gay porn.
- Matt Sussman
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Both films contain graphic scenes of BDSM and violent sexual imagery.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Leon Russell
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Wednesday July 16 (8pm)
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The Independent (628 Divisadero St, 415.771.1422)
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You've heard him countless times — a particular organ swell, a sweet tease of the ivory, a syrupy slide on guitar. Leon Russell never quite became a household name, but he was the go-to studio musician throughout the '60s and '70s. His contributions can be heard on records by everyone from the Beach Boys to the Rolling Stones to Dean Martin, and his sly, big-bearded style stands out in period footage of concerts by George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Russell continues to tour with the hits that he made famous and the songs he's been writing his whole life. And his beard is as fierce as ever in a blinding white.
- Nicholas Nauman
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MORE FLAVOR: Festival
12th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival
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Thursday July 17
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Noise Pop gets more buzz and Outside Lands nabs the big names, but the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival still offers the best sampling of underground music around. Founder Jeff Ray has been running Mission Creek on a shoestring budget for 12 years now, filling a familiar gamut of atypical venues (galleries and warehouses in addition to bars/clubs) with forward-thinking, genre-busting bands. Highlights include Tussle, Lazarus, Coconut, and Oaxacan, but Mission Creek is all about chancing upon that amazing, undiscovered gem of a band — so get out there and see for yourself.
- Max Goldberg
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
William Steig and the World of The New Yorker: A Panel Discussion with Robert Mankoff and Owen Smith
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Thursday July 17 (7–8:30pm)
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Contemporary Jewish Museum (736 Mission St, 415.655.7800)
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The New Yorker's notoriously droll cartoons have done much to shape America's sense of highbrow humor, and few artists lent their singular talents to the magazine as frequently as William Steig. For more than 70 years, he contributed drawings, while illustrating a slew of classic children's books like Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Dr. De Soto, and Shrek!, which of course spawned the ubiquitous film franchise. As part of the CJM's William Steig and the World of The New Yorker exhibit, the magazine's cartoon editor Robert Mankoff, alongside illustrator Owen Smith, contextualizes Steig's work in light of the magazine's history and answers audience questions.
- Nicholas Nauman
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ART
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
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Friday July 18 (7–10pm)
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Park Life (220 Clement St, 415.386.7275)
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FREE
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Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a deeper unease. Inspired by photographs, her paintings swim in a photorealistic blur and have the bleached-out look of overexposed snapshots: a movie-theater audience fading to white in the dazzle of the screen, or beachgoers wavering in a sun-filled mirage. Her work appears alongside paintings and drawings from New York-based Justin Gabbard, whose flare for sharp, angular lines and color has landed his illustrations in Good magazine and The New Yorker.
- Jeanne Storck
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
What You Will feat. Roger Rees
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Friday July 18 (8pm)
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American Conservatory Theater (415 Geary St, 415.749.2228)
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$25 - 85
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Roger Rees has a decidedly multifaceted career. Stateside, he's best known for slapstick roles like the snooty-yet-sexy Robin Colcord on Cheers, or the tongue-in-cheek Sheriff of Rottingham from Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). But beyond television and B films, Rees has a 22-year tenure with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Put his two worlds together, and you get What You Will — half stand-up comedy and half Shakespearean homage. In the spirit of Monty Python, Rees performs Bill's best-loved soliloquies and recounts the method and madness of backstage life in the shadow of the Bard.
- Laureen Mahler
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MORE FLAVOR: Fair
San Francisco Zine Fest
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Saturday July 19 (11am–8pm)
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County Fair Building (9th Ave & Lincoln Way)
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FREE
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More than 100 small-press publishers, zine creators, and crafters flock to the SF Zine Fest this weekend to talk shop with fellow creators and sell their publications. The main building's schedule includes Q&As with special guests Cindy Crabb (Doris) and Vanessa Davis (Spaniel Rage), a morning walk to sketch in the Arboretum, as well as workshops on bookbinding, screen printing, and watercolor. Other events around town include a performance of Cheap City... the Show by comedian/illustrator Michael Capozzola at the Dark Room, plus comics read by their illustrators and authors at the Cartoon Art Museum.
- Tanya Feldman
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MORE FLAVOR: Party
Official Download 2008 Afterparty feat. Datarock w/ Flosstradamus
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Saturday July 19 (10pm)
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Mezzanine (444 Jessie St, 415.625.8880)
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Norwegian duo Datarock cite Devo as one of their main influences, as if it weren't obvious. (They wear matching sci-fi jumpsuits and have a proclivity for jerky, synth-driven computer pop and deadpan voice-overs.) Of course, the group's arcade bleeps and zaps are all their own — however couched in bawdy, self-consciously nerdy lyrics and deep disco grooves. The band hit it big in 2005 with its single "Computer Camp Love," a cheeky tribute to Grease's "Summer Nights," and in 2008 received the highest honor possible — a remix of "Computer Camp Love" by none other than the devolution dudes themselves. Chicago DJ twosome Flosstradamus open tonight with hip-hop-studded spins and scratches.
- Anna Wiener
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Come early and be among the first to taste the Flavorpill Orange Fresh cocktail.
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MUSIC: Jazz/Blues
14th Annual North Beach Jazz Fest
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Sunday July 20
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Although NIMBYs had the North Beach Jazz Fest marked for extinction, the summer institution has persevered, adding four new evening shows and new venues to its regular Washington Square digs. Former Herbie Hancock drummer Mike Clark and bassist/keyboardist Paul Jackson kick things off, performing for three nights as a fusion trio with sax phenom Skerik. Other highlights include a Latin block party with a set by Django Reinhardt-reincarnate Stephane Wrembel and an all-ages Ladies in the Park performance.
- Matt Sussman
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MORE FLAVOR: Food/Wine
Meatpaper and Gastronomica present a Summer Feast
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Sunday July 20 (6–9pm)
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Perbacco (230 California St, 415.955.0663)
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The magazines Gastronomica and Meatpaper throw a scrumptious party to extol the joys of cooking without guilt. Hosted at Perbacco, which features a hearty menu, the event includes tastings prepared by the restaurant's chefs, as well as cooks from Slow Club and other establishments. There's also a fine selection of spirits and photographer Charlie Grosso's thought-provoking display of global food markets. A performance by gypsy-jazz sextet Gaucho adds extra sizzle.
- Tanya Feldman
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ART
Jennifer Merrill
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Monday July 21
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Iceberger Gallery (3150 18th St. #109, 415.225.8392)
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Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting couple in The Argument gets tangled in a mess of blood-red schematic arrows issuing from their mouths. In Hearing, a listener is pierced by similar arrows, and cries softly. Merrill references fellow paper-cutter Eva Rothschild in Is Something Wrong Dear?, substituting a lanyard of blue ribbons for the brain's synapses — but where Rothschild uses paper sculpture to illustrate static states, Merrill uses quilling to critique an institution that treats all passion as illness.
- Dale Tegman
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The gallery is open by appointment only. Please call 415.225.8392.
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
N.E.R.D.
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Monday July 21 (9pm)
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The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000)
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Between his constant jet-setting and recent production work for Madonna, it's sometimes hard to remember that Pharrell has a posse — a full-blown group, in fact. But Chad and Shay weren't just polishing their ice all these months. N.E.R.D. were busy finishing up their latest kitchen-sink hip-pop opus, Seeing Sounds. First road-tested on Kanye's Glow in the Dark tour, the album is a sounding board for ideas probably deemed too weird for the Neptunes' chart-topping productions. Sure, their rhymes could use a little work, but N.E.R.D.'s strengths have always been the unlikely hook and the abrupt stylistic about-face.
- Matt Sussman
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ART
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection
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Tuesday July 15 (11am–5:45pm)
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SFMOMA (151 3rd St, 415.357.4000)
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With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and installations, the ghost of Mao lingers and a dreamlike quality pervades, revealing China as a place still waking up to its contemporary self. Fang Lijun's bald, grimacing faces romp by the sea; Zeng Fanzhi's subjects hide behind masks; and Sui Jianguo's installation fills an entire room with swarms of tiny toy dinosaurs, laid out in the shape of the Asian continent and massed around a life-sized, slumbering Mao.
- Jeanne Storck
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ART
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
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Tuesday July 15 (11am–6pm)
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Jack Hanley Gallery (395 Valencia St, 415.522.1623)
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While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are paired, Maria Antelman's coupling of disparate sound bites and video clips produces a more complex relationship. In New Horizons, Antelman pairs rodeo footage with a salesman hawking his cryogenics services, giving the equestrians' Western frippery an eerie funereal quality. Tamar Halpern's imposing photographs are also created through layering, but she's not as much a student of Kruger as she is of the vanguards of painting like de Kooning. Running her compositions through a battery of digital and photographic processes, Halpern forges expressive works that capture fleeting moments and narratives at the point of transition.
- Isaac Amala
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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
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