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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 29-Aug 4, 2008
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This week, the sun is going out. And I'm not talking about some right-wing fantasy of divine retribution for our much-maligned civic values. Rather, Thursday's solar eclipse over China — which can be viewed live at the Exploratorium — portends much good, at least for creatures of the night. So, after strutting with the cabaret peacocks at Tingle Tangle or letting Juan Atkins chauffeur you through Detroit-techno city, just remember to thank Broke-Ass Stuart for tipping you off to the cheapest 24-hour breakfast in town. The sun should be back up by then, anyway.
- Matt Sussman, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Behance Network
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When asked to curate a page on the Behance Network — a social networking site for creative professionals — Flavorpill co-founder Sascha Lewis chose his favorite galleries from the thousands posted by artists and designers on the site. Check out all of his picks, and learn more about Behance. We can all be creators.
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Tracey Moffatt
The Australian artist on her work and the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
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READING
Zak Sally w/ Nate Denver
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Tuesday July 29 (6pm)
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Needles & Pens (3253 16th St, 415.255.1534)
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When Zak Sally left the band Low after a 12-year tenure, he found a new home in the world of comics and printmaking. Sally started La Mano 21, a press that publishes handcrafted graphic novels and posters, and Fantagraphics picked up his own series — Sammy the Mouse — which chronicles the adventures of an alcoholic rodent and his postmodern pals. Sally also began to explore the connection between print and music, which is reflected in his current West Coast tour: it combines solo performances by Sally and Nate Denver (La Mano recently published Denver's Wait, You're Not a Centaur, an amalgam of fiction, images, and songs) with book signings, Q&As, and other artful miscellany.
- Laureen Mahler
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READING
George E. Lewis: A Power Stronger Than Itself
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Tuesday July 29 (7pm)
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City Lights (261 Columbus Ave, 415.362.8193)
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The Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians is an enduring model of arts activism and self-determination. Founded in 1965 by a small group including key composers Muhal Richard Abrams and Phil Cohran, the association cultivated community-music programs in the South Side of Chicago while corralling a who's-who of the jazz avant-garde (Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Roscoe Mitchell). George E. Lewis joined in 1971, and tonight the trombonist visits City Lights with his decade-in-the-making AACM history, A Power Stronger Than Itself.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Electronic
The Cataracs Dance Party
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Wednesday July 30 (9pm)
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Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St, 415.861.2011)
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Ain't no dance party like a Cataracs dance party! The vocoder-enhanced boy band plays sassy, '90s-style synth pop, and its live act features photo booths, dancing girls, and a fog machine on the dance floor. The band's party comes with another Bay Area presence, too — turntable all-star Trackademicks spins his signature blend of hyphy, new wave, and electro to warm up the crowd.
- Connie Hwong
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Tingle Tangle feat. Johnny Dynell
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Wednesday July 30 (9pm)
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Bubble Lounge (714 Montgomery St, 415.434.4204)
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Tonight, New York and San Francisco's bohemians put aside coastal differences to enjoy a broad range of cabaret at Bubble Lounge. Chi Chi Valenti of NYC's the Jackie Factory presides over the evening's festivities, as Kellita of Hot Pink Feathers entertains with her unique blend of Carnaval and burlesque and DJ Johnny Dynell spins gospel and disco-infused house. Bubble Lounge's bartenders pour numerous varieties of champagne and fine liquors, so everyone from shirtless studs to down-at-the-heels drag queens can get a taste of something a little different — and a little more decadent.
- Dale Tegman
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MUSIC: Jazz/Blues
Le Jazz Hot
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Thursday July 31 (12:30–1:30pm)
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Yerba Buena Gardens (Mission St & 4th St, 415.561.7686)
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More than 50 years after his death, guitarists still marvel over Django Reinhardt's blistering jazz solos and tangy gypsy scales, made all the more marvelous because the longtime Parisian played his shimmering runs with two fewer fingers than everyone else. He defined the sound of jazz manouche in the '30s with his popular Hot Club Quintet, especially in the way he traded vivacious leads with violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Le Jazz Hot are our own local practioners of those tender glissandos and popping gypsy-jazz rhythms that remain such an enchanting soundtrack for a summer afternoon.
- Max Goldberg
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MORE FLAVOR: City Gem
Total Solar Eclipse 2008
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Thursday July 31 (9pm–6am)
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Exploratorium (3601 Lyon St, 415.561.0360)
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On August 1, a total solar eclipse will be visible from parts of China and Siberia. For those of us who can't swing the international airfare to camp out on the Russian tundra, however, the Exploratorium is hosting a live simulcast and sleepover party in honor of the event. The pre-party features eclipse-themed film screenings, lectures from NASA specialists and the Explo's staff scientists, performances by Chinese folk dancers, and an opportunity to explore the culture of Xinjiang, a Muslim province in Western China. At 3am, dragon dancers bearing gongs and finery make sure everyone is awake and ready to watch the eclipse in its totality — that finally happens at 4:05 in the morning.
- Connie Hwong
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FILM
The Exiles (1961)
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Friday Aug 1 (6, 8 & 9:45pm)
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The Castro Theatre (429 Castro St, 415.621.5288)
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Milestone Films recently scored a surprise hit with a restoration of Charles Burnett's 1977 film Killer of Sheep. The company hopes lightning strikes twice with its "re-premiere" of Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles (1961). Like Burnett's film, The Exiles borrows some of the documentary-like techniques of Italian neorealism to draw a low-key portrait of a marginalized population in Los Angeles — in this case, a small community of Native Americans living in the crumbling Bunker Hill neighborhood. LA aficionado Thom Andersen makes extensive use of The Exiles in his trenchant essay-cum-symphony Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), and it's easy to see why: both beauty and history are captured by Mackenzie's unobtrusive camera.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: DJ
B.O.D.Y.H.E.A.T. feat. Juan Atkins
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Friday Aug 1 (10pm)
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Elbo Room (647 Valencia St, 415.552.7788)
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$15 / $10 before 11pm
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Put your hands up for Detroit! The godfather of techno, Juan Atkins, swings in from Motor City to take over the B.O.D.Y.H.E.A.T. decks. Atkins' early releases as Model 500 and Cybotron took Kraftwerk for a night drive through Detroit's underground garage clubs and all-night radio sessions, putting a definitively urban American spin on their icy brand of Teutonic electro. The rest is history, as Atkins has continued to take partyers back to the future with DJ sets that mix classic techno cuts with the newer material they helped inspire.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Punk/Metal
Boris w/ Torche
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Saturday Aug 2 (9pm)
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Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750)
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Boris rattle the brain harder than any flag-waving, metal-zone-stomping, B.C. Rich-tapping good ol' boys ever could. The Japanese doom lords are just heavy in a way that is difficult to describe, down-shifting seismic grooves into a cathartic mess of overdriven guitar and satanic incantation. While collaborations with Sunn O))) and psych-shredder extraordinaire Michio Kurihara reflect the trio's droning and melodic tendencies, respectively, the group's recent Smile LP is perhaps Boris' most accomplished and varied foray into the nether regions of psychedelia. Tonight, they conjure a small earthquake alongside fellow wave-shaking force Torche.
- Nick Earhart
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Soul Slam 2: Michael Jackson vs Prince
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Saturday Aug 2 (9pm–4am)
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Mezzanine (444 Jessie St, 415.625.8880)
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The Soul Slam party has been turning dance floors into sweaty booty-traps since 1999, and now it's time to party like it's that fateful year all over again — unless, of course, you ally yourself with the King of Pop instead of the Purple One. Tonight, two giants of eccentric soul-pop androgyny go head-to-head, as DJ Spinna (of Wonderwax and Beyond Real fame) plays referee. Tracks from Prince alternate with Michael Jackson cuts, while hits from their posse members — Sheila E., the Time, Jermaine Jackson, and the rest of the Jackson 5 — round out the night.
- Nicholas Nauman
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FILM: Documentary
Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong
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Sunday Aug 3 (2 & 5pm)
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Cerrito Speakeasy Theater (10070 San Pablo Ave, 510.814.2400)
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In the days before On Demand and Netflix (or even VHS, for that matter), movie buffs got their fix at home through weekly television showcases — and none were more gloriously homespun than Creature Features. Bob Wilkins hosted eight years of monster mashes for Bay Area audiences, always backed by a banner proclaiming, "Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong." Tom Wyrsch borrows the motto for his illuminating documentary on this forgotten chapter of television history. George Lucas was reportedly a big fan of Wilkins, so it's all too fitting that tonight's screening opens with Ernie Fosselius' classic Star Wars spoof, 1977's Hardware Wars.
- Max Goldberg
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Dirty Words: Litquake’s Tribute to Smut
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Sunday Aug 3 (8pm)
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CELLspace (2050 Bryant St, 415.648.7562)
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The lascivious bookworms over at Litquake know how to grab our attention — and our wallets. Their latest fundraiser features the oral (as in oratory) talents of some of the Bay Area's best and brightest horndogs, including Stephen Elliott (My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up), Ellen Sussman (Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex), and the illustrious Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), who reads a decidedly R-rated selection from Watch Your Mouth, his comedic incest novel. The evening also includes a burlesque performance from the Twilight Vixen Review, a corset-ripping fashion show, and plenty of drinks to lubricate the palate and the mind.
- Connie Hwong
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The price of admission includes two drinks.
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ART: Photography
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
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Monday Aug 4 (8am–8pm)
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City Hall (1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl, 415.554.4933)
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As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working in a range of styles, from documentary and abstraction to landscape and collage. Elizabeth Pedinotti turns the innocent trappings of domesticity — piles of laundry, ice-cream cones, spoonfuls of medicine — into darkly humorous moments; Sean McFarland's landscapes move in and out of focus, shrouded in light and fog, as well as the faulty emulsions of Polaroid film; and Hiroyo Kaneko snaps dreamy tufts of cherry blossoms that collide with pedestrian scenes from contemporary Japanese life.
- Jeanne Storck
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MUSIC: Electronic
The Faint
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Monday Aug 4 (9pm)
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The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000)
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The synth-loving new-wave enthusiasts in the Faint have finally left Omaha's scenester Saddle Creek Records in favor of their own blank.wav label — but the switcheroo hasn't affected the band's trademark danceable dance beats or Todd Fink's spooky, disaffected vocals. Fasciinatiion, the band's first self-released effort, includes a few wonkily upbeat hits that could almost be classified as dance pop — though the album largely serves as a distillation of the band's last three records, mixing Blank-Wave Arcade's dire fatalism with Danse Macabre's dramatic guitar riffs and Wet From Birth's ominous anthems.
- Connie Hwong
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ART: Photography
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
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Tuesday July 29 (noon–5pm)
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SF Camerawork (657 Mission St, 2nd Fl, 415.512.2020)
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Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean Drapeau's two controversial tenures. Like Parisian lensman Eugène Atget before him, Stone captures old Montreal as it is eclipsed by the modern— here represented by the construction of the Expo 67 complex. The other story of Montreal depicts a city punctuated by men's physiques, with Stone focusing on construction workers and dockhands as much as the landscapes that frame them. There is also plenty of posed beefcake from Stone's '50s and '60s Mark One Studio, but it's his officially commissioned photos of Boy Scouts doing lifeguard training that are the most daring, simply for the eroticism they imply.
- Matt Sussman
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ART
Fanee: Holla at the Bay
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Tuesday July 29 (noon–7pm)
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The Shooting Gallery (839 Larkin St, 415.931.8035)
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Fanee's Holla at the Bay is a provocative portrayal of female objectification and sexuality that leaves little to the imagination. Two-dozen postcard-sized marker drawings depict clown-faced women in explicit poses, tattooed with trite one-liners plucked from theater marquees and junk email. The cartoonish pieces, decorated with silver paint-pen, are graffiti-inspired indictments of minority women's social position and subjugation. However, the work is also marked by its unwillingness to come forward with its critique — the only overtly political piece is hidden in a corner: a dancer whose tattoos read "Ignorance + Greed + Ego = U.S. GOV."
- Mario Jose Aguilar
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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
Jake Lancaster
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Seiji Carpenter
Connie Hwong
Nicholas Nauman
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
Tanya Feldman
IMAGE EDITORS
Adda Birnir
Tom Starkweather
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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