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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
Aug 26-Sep 1, 2008
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Barack Obama's presidential bid takes center stage during this week's Democratic National Convention, and you can bet plenty of Bay Area activists will be making the trip to Denver. But there are plenty of reasons to celebrate the local roots of social change this Labor Day weekend. Mental-Rev Productions' gritty documentaries showcase the increasingly flexible mechanisms for political filmmaking, while a full run of the 9 @ Night series demonstrates Rob Nilsson's steadfast pursuit of authentic cinematic storytelling. Even this week's marquee event, a weekend-long foodie bonanza called Slow Food Nation, has a progressive edge. From Alice Waters to Michael Pollan, Bay Area cooks and critics have been instrumental in establishing the politics of food — so eat, drink, and be aware.
- Max Goldberg
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Ahmet Ögüt
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Ahmet Ögüt's conceptual interests include speed, distance, and roads, as well as the absurdities of everyday life. The Turkish-born, Amsterdam-based artist works in a variety of media to explore social structures related to power and imagination. Our sister publication Artkrush caught up with Ögüt at his Amsterdam studio.
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Water Wars
Spain is suffering from its worst drought in decades.
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
Marion Nestle: Pet Food Politics
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Tuesday Aug 26 (6pm)
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Commonwealth Club (595 Market St, 2nd Fl, 415.597.6700)
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Last year, Americans got a heartbreaking glimpse into the inner workings of food production when cats and dogs across the country fell ill after eating tainted pet food. Marion Nestle, celebrated Professor of Nutrition at NYU and author of the groundbreaking Food Politics, now turns her attention to the disaster in Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine. The book reveals the mechanisms and machinations that resulted in the largest product recall in consumer history, and its implication for all consumers.
- Nicholas Nauman
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MUSIC: DJ
Blipswitch presents 222uesdays All Star Night
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Tuesday Aug 26 (7pm–2am)
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222 Club (222 Hyde St, 415.440.0222)
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Though it's no Berghain, the basement-like 222 Club has witnessed many a sweaty dance party, thanks to the DJs that make up the club's weekly Tuesday-night parties. The Techno 222uesdays crew is a brain-and-beat trust of some of the city's most forward-thinking techno DJs, promoters, and producers, so it was no surprise to see them welcome the folks behind Blipswitch to the fold last month. As a way of saying thanks, Blipswitch invites a host of 222uesday residents and past guests, including Nikola Baytala (KONTROL), Kenneth Scott (Auralism, Nightlight), dCoy (Black Market Techno, Killswitch), and recent Miami transplant Anatoli Russki to work the decks.
- Matt Sussman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
!!! w/ Sugar and Gold
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Wednesday Aug 27 (8pm)
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The Independent (628 Divisadero St, 415.771.1422)
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It's been 12 years since the un-Google-able !!! started producing high-energy dance rock, but, as last year's Myth Takes proved, the band is still expanding. In addition to complex dance rhythms, the group added tribal drums and throbbing bass lines to complement frontman Nic Offer's tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Of course, !!!'s live show is still the main draw, featuring Offer's frantic dancing (it reminds us of a modern Mick Jagger). The six other members jam like the ultimate house party band. They're joined by local electro rockers Sugar and Gold.
- Scott Tomford
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FILM: Shorts
Yacht Rock feat. DJ Roscoe 2000 and Cocoon: the Movie: the Band
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Wednesday Aug 27 (8pm)
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Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St, 415.861.2011)
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Ever wish you could sail away to a simpler time — a time of piña coladas and getting caught in the rain? The masterminds of webisode sensation Yacht Rock lived that dream, producing 11 short films explaining the inspiration behind hits by Hall & Oates, Kenny Loggins, Jimmy Buffett, and other master craftsmen of AM gold. Tonight, Rickshaw Stop screens every episode with KALX's Roscoe 2000, while Cocoon: the Movie: the Band, a side project of the Guitar Hero controller-wielding Guitar Zeros, bring you original and cover versions of smooth hit after smooth hit.
- Leah Taylor
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
The Best Man
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Thursday Aug 28 (8pm)
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Aurora Theatre (2081 Addison St, 510.843.4822)
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It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the impending election inches closer. The subject matter more than applies to current events, even though Gore Vidal wrote this political satire nearly 50 years ago. The Best Man debuted on Broadway in 1960 and enjoyed a brief revival during the 2000 election. Now, in a similarly timely manner, it's back and presented by the Aurora Theatre Company.
- Laureen Mahler
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MORE FLAVOR: Food/Wine
Slow Food Nation
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Thursday Aug 28
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Various locations
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Slow Food — a vital cultural movement that challenges people's relationship with the food they eat — gears up for the holiday weekend to celebrate the joys of eating healthily and ethically. Cooking workshops, foraging hikes, and thought-provoking discussions with culinary legends like Alice Waters pack this festival's calendar, while slow dinners at restaurants like Destino and Boulevard pack festivalgoers' stomachs. Most lectures, gourmet road trips, and dinner salons require advance tickets, but if you're looking for something on the cheap, a stroll through the lush Victory Gardens or the bustling marketplace at the Civic Center is free and open to the public.
- Tanya Feldman
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Why? w/ Tussle
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Friday Aug 29 (9pm)
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Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750)
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Oakland's genre-bending art-hop outfit Why? bring their deranged, poetic pop back to the Bay Area in support of their latest album, Alopecia. Frontman Yoni Wolf spits wordy diatribes that fall somewhere between his Anticon Records backpacker brethren and a Malkmus drawl, while his band follows suit, shifting chameleon-like between hip-hop panoramas and indie-pop jangle. Alopecia is a masterpiece of hybrid hip-hop, full of complex, upsetting songs — the sort of stuff that gives pigeonhole-happy music journalists nightmares. For the rest of us, it's a dark, bittersweet delight.
- Oliver Spall
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FILM: Documentary
9 @ Night: Cinema of the Forgotten
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Friday Aug 29
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Roxie Theater (3117 16th St, 415.863.1087)
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Rob Nilsson has always been a fiercely independent filmmaker, but his 9 @ Night series takes his maverick spirit to another level. After picking up the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his 1988 film Heat and Sunlight, Nilsson helped launch the Tenderloin yGroup, a collective of non-professional actors and collaborators drawn from the troubled San Francisco neighborhood. The resulting 9 @ Night films resemble direct cinema in their means and Krzysztof Kieslowski's works in their intertwined dramatic structures. Come celebrate a San Francisco landmark with this rare chance to see the entire 9 @ Night cycle screened over a week.
- Max Goldberg
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ART
Julie Heffernan: Broken Homes
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Saturday Aug 30 (11am–5:30pm)
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Catharine Clark Gallery (150 Minna St, 415.399.1439)
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In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and Bosch there — and yet her paintings are resolutely contemporary. In these so-called self-portraits, Heffernan appears as a languid, naked nymph sporting outsized floral headdresses or sweeping skirts bedecked with dead hares, deer, and egrets that could have been plucked from a Flemish still life. But modernity — in the shape of power lines, skyscrapers, jet planes, and urban sprawl — always threads its way into these gardens of Eden.
- Jeanne Storck
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FILM: Documentary
Mental-Rev Productions presents Activism Through Documentary Film
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Saturday Aug 30 (8pm)
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Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia St, 415.824.3890)
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As YouTube and digital-video technology collapse the distance between film production and distribution, it's no surprise that industrious political documentarians are working to condense the processes hampering up-to-date reportage. A case in point is Mental-Rev Productions, a San Francisco-based video cooperative producing eyewitness accounts of oppression and resistance. The results aren't always nuanced, but they're an important rejoinder to the bird's-eye view political documentaries that normally get theatrical distribution. This special presentation spotlights some of Mental-Rev's latest work, including short films on the clashes over gay marriage (Equality) and the Ohio results of the 2004 election (Struggle).
- Max Goldberg
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FILM: Documentary
Love Story (2006)
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Sunday Aug 31 (2, 4:20, 7 & 9:20pm)
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Red Vic (1727 Haight St, 415.668.3994)
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When Arthur Lee died of leukemia in 2006, he left behind an ambiguous legacy. Depending on the obituary you read, he was either an underrated songwriting genius or a burnout whose rep included six years in prison for illegal firearm possession. Regardless of Lee's checkered past, Forever Changes stands as one of the best albums of the '60s. Chris Hall's documentary Love Story features Lee giving a tour of the house in the Los Angeles hills in which his interracial band Love conceived of the classic album, and other footage that should have psych-pop fans licking their chops.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Folk/Country
Paula Frazer w/ Casual Fog
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Sunday Aug 31 (8pm)
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The Make-Out Room (3225 22nd St, 415.647.2888)
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Paula Frazer has lived in San Francisco for more than 20 years, but she still carries some of her native Georgia and Arkansas in her oaky singing voice. After years of fronting the alt-country band Tarnation, Frazer's lately settled into mid-tempo ballads that give her captivating voice (and poetic lyrics full of heartbreak and longing) ample breathing room. Nevada City opener Casual Fog records for Grass Roots Records, but his music eschews forest-folk in favor of barroom waltzes indebted to Leon Russell and Exile on Main St.'s acoustic half.
- Max Goldberg
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MUSIC: Punk/Metal
Fucked Up w/ Crystal Antlers and Strange Boys
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Monday Sep 1 (6pm)
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Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St, 415.923.0923)
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Whatever mystique Canadian hardcore agitators Fucked Up lost in 2006 by releasing a conventional full-length CD (on a major indie label like Jade Tree, no less) pales in comparison to the creative triumph that is Hidden World. Years of nose-thumbing goofs (an Israel-only 7", an infamous Maximumrocknroll interview) may have upped their mythical status among the crusty collector set, but a band this ambitious deserves a close-up. Epic song lengths ("Year of the Pig" clocks in at over 18 minutes) and un-punk arrangements never obscure the songs' fist-pumping nature. Smart hardcore bands tend to develop guilt complexes after trying to reconcile Milton (quoted in "Jacob's Ladder") with the Meatmen. Fucked Up just dare you to keep pace.
- Stephen Gossett
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FILM
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
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Monday Sep 1 (7 & 9:20pm)
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Red Vic (1727 Haight St, 415.668.3994)
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Jean-Luc Godard's spirited feature Pierrot le Fou is considered by some to be his greatest achievement. Fleeing a dull bourgeois party, Ferdinand takes off with Marianne, a former lover who insists on calling him Pierrot. They have a freewheeling life on the run before things go awry. The meandering narrative is equal parts outlaw movie, love story, and political indictment, punctuated by comic moments and homages to other artists. As you'd expect from the game-changing Godard, the film joyously pushes against many cinematic conventions, although Pierrot marked the end of an era for the auteur, who subsequently concentrated on making radically political films.
- Karsten Lund
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ART: Photography
The Ron Stoner Show
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Tuesday Aug 26 (10am–6:30pm)
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Mollusk Surf Shop (4500 Irving St, 415.564.6300)
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Ron Stoner rode a wave of acclaim over mid-'60s SoCal beach culture, legendary for the vivid eye he brought to surf photography. Curls and pipelines, bikinis and boards — Stoner caught them all with the golden glow of Kodachrome for the pages of Surfer magazine, as stars like Dickie Moon skimming Pacific swells captured the essence of the big blue. But in the late '60s, Stoner succumbed to the lure of drugs, dropped out, and finally went missing in 1977, sealing his mythic status as a talent whose time in the sun was dazzling and tragically short-lived. The Ron Stoner Show showcases Stoner's bright azure prints, very much at home in the Mollusk Surf Shop.
- Jeanne Storck
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ART
We Remember the Sun
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Tuesday Aug 26 (11am–6pm)
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San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries (800 Chestnut St, 415.749.4563)
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Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with the '60s. SFAI's We Remember the Sun celebrates the vitality that erupted in those fervent years (particularly in our own Bay Area) with the work of 15 modern Californians who draw inspiration from the period's idealism without succumbing to blind nostalgia. Included are Shaun O'Dell's video exploration of eschatological associations with the sun; Jill Miller's filmed chronicle of a search for Sasquatch; and, to close the show, an interpretation of the '60s tensions between hope and dismay by performance masters L.M. Bogad and Praba Pilar.
- Nicholas Nauman
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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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