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- Music: Rock/Pop
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White Rabbits
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Tuesday May 27 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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Although White Rabbits' debut, Fort Nightly, wriggled onto countless 2007 year-end lists (and with good reason), the sextet's Carribbean-fried Walkmen-isms were born for the stage.... View details »
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[SOLD OUT] Flight of the Conchords
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Tuesday May 27 (8pm) @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
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If you consider brushing your teeth part of foreplay, chances are you're familiar with "business time" — the intense two-minute form of lovemaking made famous... View details »
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Adam Mansbach
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Tuesday May 27 (7:30pm) @ Intersection for the Arts
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Adam Mansbach is a white hip-hopper who caused a literary stir with his novel Angry Black White Boy, a sensitive yet audacious exploration of race... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
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Craft Kills
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Tuesday May 27 (7pm) @ Oakland Museum of California
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As a noun, the word "craft" used to indicate folkloric creations like whittled wood figurines and painted porcelain. These days, the word has become an... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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[SOLD OUT] Ladytron
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Tuesday May 27 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
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The snarls of Bulgarian-born Mira Aroyo tease Helen Marnie's hushed vocals, while their Ladytron bandmates mess about on analog synthesizers. The band's dark, low-end synths... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Tuesday May 27 (11am–7pm) @ 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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In Collaboration
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Tuesday May 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Tuesday May 27 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
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2nd Skin
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Tuesday May 27 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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After the Revolution
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Tuesday May 27 (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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Inkie Whang
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Tuesday May 27 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the dozen paintings on display... View details »
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Quarter Century
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Tuesday May 27 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
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Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
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Paul Sietsema
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Tuesday May 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
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Gareth Moore
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Tuesday May 27 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Vancouver artist Gareth Moore takes hold of the reins at the Wattis, presenting the ninth solo exhibition in the gallery's ongoing Passengers series. Moore strives... View details »
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Saskia Leek
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Tuesday May 27 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures her imagery around pastel... View details »
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American Symbols
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Tuesday May 27 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
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Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
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Sarah Wagner
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Tuesday May 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement floors and plaster walls,... View details »
- Film
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Redbelt
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Tuesday May 27 @ Various locations
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Redbelt, David Mamet's latest, is an absorbing foray into the world of mixed martial arts. An unconventional fight film, Redbelt centers around the story of... View details »
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William T. Wiley
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Tuesday May 27 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works
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Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting a 1964 game called... View details »
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Christian Marclay
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Tuesday May 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery
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Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in used record shops. He's... View details »
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Mister Lonely
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Tuesday May 27 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Harmony Korine's much-anticipated directorial return finds the former enfant terrible trying a little tenderness. Korine has always been fascinated by bands of outsiders, particularly teenage... View details »
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Feudal Echo
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Tuesday May 27 (noon–8pm) @ Park Life
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Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days, but painters Alex Lukas... View details »
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Hopeless and Otherwise
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Tuesday May 27 (10am–6pm) @ Southern Exposure
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With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of unrest in US history... View details »