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- Music: Electronic
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[SOLD OUT] Ratatat
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Thursday July 10 (9pm) @ Slim's
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After two studio albums and two bootleg hip-hop mixtapes, New York's Ratatat decamped to an old mansion in the Catskills to record their third full-length... View details »
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CineKink
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Thursday July 10 (7 & 9pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Whether you're crazy for leather, proudly polyamorous, or you just like to watch, CineKink's popular, perverse film series educates while it titillates. Susan for Now... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Kode9
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Thursday July 10 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
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South London's Kode9 returns to SF after a long, worldwide jaunt, hitting the decks at Mezzanine. His DJ sets span a range of bass-heavy sounds,... View details »
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Open for Business
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Thursday July 10 (5–8pm) @ Triple Base
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Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
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Kira Lynn Cain
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Thursday July 10 (9pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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On Kira Lynn Cain's debut album, The Ideal Hunter, echoing guitar notes, xylophone, piano, and drums wrap around pained, ethereal vocals. Cain's lyrics are mysterious... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
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Boogie Slappin
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Thursday July 10 (8pm) @ 111 Minna Gallery
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San Francisco is becoming a hotbed of bedroom-producer Frankensteins, who stitch together party monsters from Lil Jon, Diplo, and Ghislain Poirier with supernatural skill. Heading... View details »
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WORK
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Thursday July 10 (10pm) @ Underground SF
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SF's new electro label Unicrons (like the one-horned horse, but spelled funny!) debuts its secretive roster at the first installment of new monthly party WORK.... View details »
- Film
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Vertigo
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Thursday July 10 (8pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Like Scottie and his phantasmic Madeleine, San Francisco just can't give up the ghost of Vertigo. And why should we? Our city has never been... View details »
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Ted Pushinsky
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Thursday July 10 (5–9pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
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Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls to boxing rings to... View details »
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Room for Thought
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Thursday July 10 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Thursday July 10 (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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Dale Chihuly
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Thursday July 10 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum
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Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
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2nd Skin
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Thursday July 10 (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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Frida Kahlo
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Thursday July 10 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
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American Symbols
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Thursday July 10 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Trevor Paglen
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Thursday July 10 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
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Leigh Wells
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Thursday July 10 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16
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Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
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INsects INsectos
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Thursday July 10 (10am–7pm) @ Creativity Explored
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From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
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Women Impressionists
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Thursday July 10 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
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Soft Underbelly Recognition
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Thursday July 10 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery
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In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition — a group exhibition that... View details »
- Art: Festival
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MOVE>SOUND
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Thursday July 10 @ Various locations
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Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
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A Complicated Dominion
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Thursday July 10 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
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Insider/Outsider
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Saturday July 12 (7–10pm) @ Root Division
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Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San... View details »
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The Beast in Me
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Thursday July 10 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man,"... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Windows on Nature
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Thursday July 10 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
- Film
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Hank and Mike
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Thursday July 10 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
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In the vein of "holiday confidential" films like Bad Santa (2003) and Elf (2003), Matthiew Klinck's offbeat buddy comedy Hank and Mike offers a sweet,... View details »
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Kiki
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Thursday July 10 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
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We Remember the Sun
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Thursday July 10 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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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... View details »