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- Music: Rock/Pop
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[SOLD OUT] The Breeders
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Wednesday Apr 30 (8pm) @ Slim's
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Despite being an aging "alternative nation" act, the Breeders continue to inspire legions of loyalists: Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox could be seen sporting a shirt... View details »
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Akron/Family
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Wednesday Apr 30 (7:30pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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Akron/Family, a trio of ethereal, hirsute fellows from Pennsylvania via Brooklyn, descend on San Francisco. Their music — crackling alt-folk punctuated by surprising acoustic interludes... View details »
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Colin Meloy
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Wednesday Apr 30 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
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Decemberists leader Colin Meloy strips away the accordions, melodicas, and Stephen Colbert-trumping sidemen for tonight's solo acoustic performance. Befitting the man who literally wrote the... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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[CANCELLED] The Field
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Wednesday Apr 30 (9pm) @ The Independent
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The Field is Axel Willner, a Swedish electro-wizard at the forefront of a growing European movement to reintroduce trance and minimalism back into the DJ... View details »
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Mike Leigh
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Wednesday Apr 30 (7:30pm) @ The Castro Theatre
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Director Mike Leigh is the natural heir to the British kitchen-sink dramatists of the '50s and '60s who explored social issues through the lens of... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
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Gilbert & George
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Wednesday Apr 30 @ de Young Museum
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Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Friedlander
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Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
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Enrique Chagoya
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Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
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Chuck Arnett
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Wednesday Apr 30 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society
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June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
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Annie Leibovitz
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Wednesday Apr 30 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
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Drama and Desire
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Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum
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On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
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Victor Cartagena
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Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza
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Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
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How I Learned to...
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Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–5pm) @ Intersection for the Arts
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It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's blueprints, though it's hard... View details »
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The Question Is Known
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Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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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... View details »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
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2nd Skin
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Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium
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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... View details »
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After the Revolution
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Wednesday Apr 30 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has become the privileged site... View details »
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Robert Adler
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Wednesday Apr 30 (3–9pm) @ Hyde Street Gallery
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Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses on the grit behind... View details »
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Self-Storage
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Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–4pm) @ Self Storage
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Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic scrapbook that documents the... View details »
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Jellyfish
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Wednesday Apr 30 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
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Greg Lamarche
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Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery
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Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a graffiti artist in Boston... View details »
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