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Maker Faire
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Saturday May 3 (10am–10pm) @ San Mateo Fairgrounds
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Engineering savvy and childlike whimsy overlap at the increasingly popular Maker Faire, as scores of techies, crafters, artists, and visionaries erect an imaginative playland for... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Rogue Wave
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Saturday May 3 (9pm) @ The Fillmore
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Last year, Rogue Wave — they of the whispering-to-soaring, Pacific Coast anthem — signed with lame-o troubadour Jack Johnson's label for their latest release, Asleep... View details »
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Book It!
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Saturday May 3 (11am–6pm) @ New Langton Arts
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Considering how many times mainstream print journalism has cried wolf over the Internet, it's reassuring to know that underground publishing is alive and well —... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Dave Nada
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Saturday May 3 (10pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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The boys at Bersa Discos know how to throw a party — and ever since they started turning heads with their eclectic mix of South... View details »
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Shampoo
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Saturday May 3 (4pm) @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
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Up there with Paul Schrader, Robert Towne was one of the premiere screenwriters of the New Hollywood boom in the '70s. A perennial favorite of... View details »
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Lacey Jane Roberts
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Saturday May 3 (6–9pm) @ Little Tree Gallery
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Little Tree Gallery has now been fortified, thanks to Bay Area artist Lacey Jane Roberts' handwoven barbed-wire fence. Even though every link of Roberts' formidable... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Conspiracy of Beards
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Saturday May 3 (7:30pm) @ The Make-Out Room
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Barely catching their breath after a densely packed two-day tour of New York that included a performance at the Whitney Museum, Conspiracy of Beards return... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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Yo Majesty
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Saturday May 3 (9pm) @ Slim's
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Bringing some real butch fierceness to what's often seen as a boys' club, the Tampa-based female rap trio Yo Majesty confront hip-hop's chauvinist stereotypes with... View details »
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Uncharted
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Saturday May 3 (5–8pm) @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery
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Like intrepid cartographers, the nine artists featured in this exhibit navigate land and space from many angles. Their interpretations range in style and media, from... View details »
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Cinco de Mayo
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Saturday May 3 (10am) @ Mission Dolores Park
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Dolores Park hosts a pretty darn festive Cinco de Mayo party. With its central location and a gorgeous view of the Mission, the park is... View details »
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Blood on the Wall
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Saturday May 3 (9pm) @ 12 Galaxies
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Bouncy Brooklynites Blood on the Wall aren't afraid of anything — least of all the judgmental eyes of indie-rock elitists. Whether cozying up to a... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Saturday May 3 (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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An-My Lê
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Saturday May 3 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
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Gilbert & George
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Saturday May 3 @ 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 »
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Friedlander
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Saturday May 3 (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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Saturday May 3 (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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Annie Leibovitz
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Saturday May 3 (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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In Collaboration
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Saturday May 3 (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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Drama and Desire
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Saturday May 3 (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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Saturday May 3 (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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Saturday May 3 (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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Saturday May 3 (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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Saturday May 3 (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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Saturday May 3 (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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Inkie Whang
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Saturday May 3 (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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Saturday May 3 (1–6pm) @ 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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Robert Adler
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Saturday May 3 (2–8pm) @ 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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Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
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Joy Division
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Saturday May 3 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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When Grant Gee's documentary portrait of the iconic Manchester post-punk band Joy Division played at Yerba Buena last January, legions of Ian Curtis fans made... View details »
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Veronica Graham
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Saturday May 3 (10am–10pm) @ CELLspace
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Composed of more than 2000 hand-printed cloth swatches, Veronica Graham's sprawling installation Bonus Map takes over CELLspace's wall like cartographic kudzu. Each individual tile evokes... View details »
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Jellyfish
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Saturday May 3 @ 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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Paul Sietsema
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Saturday May 3 (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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Greg Lamarche
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Saturday May 3 (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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Graduation
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Saturday May 3 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
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Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank heist of Dog... View details »
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Sarah Wagner
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Saturday May 3 (10:30am–5pm) @ 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 »
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Christian Marclay
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Saturday May 3 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
