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APR 6 - APR 12
If there's one thing San Franciscans know how to do, it's bring the noise. From street parties to impromptu hoedowns on public transit to oceanside raves, there's nothing we like better than being free to make one hell of a racket. Hammering drums in Golden Gate Park! DJs on every block! Even the Cable Car bell ringers are more like pied pipers than conductors — all that's missing is a rootin' tootin' New Orleans horn section, and the rails would make for a daylong parade. So get in step and make yourself heard: get it on, bang a gong, and spread it. |
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ART
Free First Tuesday
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| when: | Tue 4.6 (11am-6pm) |
| where: | SFMOMA (151 3rd St, 415.357.4130) |
| price: |  FREE |
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| | Ditch work early and enjoy the city's largest collection of modern art without that pesky $10 admission fee. That's right — the first Tuesday of each month is a free day at SFMOMA. Soak up San Francisco-based Yves Béhar's newly opened industrial design exhibition, Pipilotti Rist's video installations, the major pop art retrospective, and four decades of Romare Bearden's collage work documenting African American culture. You can blow all that money you just saved on some California cuisine in the very tasty Caffè Museo. (EC)
  
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| | No need to stand in line for hours tomorrow night waiting for last-minute ticket releases at the Warfield's Strokes show — you can get an extended dose of the Raveonettes' Mary Chain-style, big love sound in a much more intimate space tonight. Still touring in support of their catchy, feedback-laden, dance-inducing, riot-inciting album Chain Gang of Love, the Raveonettes unleash their garage-punk crashing guitars on what is likely to be a packed house. Georgia-based garage rockers the Hiss and all-girl four-piece Von Iva whip things up as starters. (EC)
 Which cult movie was the inspiration behind the Hiss' debut album Panic Movement?
The first five correct answers each win a copy.
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| | Youth Speaks and KPFA's Hard Knock Radio bring the noise back to Bimbo's tonight with their third-annual benefit featuring Me'shell NdegéOcello, Marcus Shelby, Omaya, and the 2004 Youth Speaks Teen Slam Champions. Youth Speaks is the country's premier nonprofit for youth arts education, focusing on spoken word and youth poetry activities that help kids find their own voices. This evening caps off the 2004 Teen Slam competition with the soulful, ethereal, and groove-filled sounds of Me'shell, the jazz stylings of bassist Shelby, and Omaya's Latin-infused hip-hop. (CW)
Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" namechecked which thrash metal band? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | The question of whether the music rapper Buck 65 and producer DJ Signify create still should be categorized as hip-hop has been coming up more and more lately. As it should, though maybe not in the context haters want to put it. Let's face it: the talking blues of Nova Scotia's top-ranked MC and the art-rock beats of the Anticon cohort have cribbed what they needed to from hip-hop and have moved on. Buck 65 has escaped to an emo-rap land that defines modern-day singer-songwriting; Signify to a prog-hop country where Basehead and Genesis are one and the same. Not that there's anything wrong with that. (PO)
What's the best thing — or collection of things — you could buy for a buck sixty-five? Our favorite two answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | The Ladyfest-affiliated Electrelane proudly and glossily challenge the male-centric world of bombastic rock. Originally tapped as Godspeed-like instrumental post-rock, Electrelane took a walk with shrewd producer Steve Albini toward punky vocals and electro melodies. These four women incorporate more fire and tension into their set than their obvious comparisons Nico and Stereolab, with a rhythm section that chaperones the womanliest head-bobbing and foot-tapping you've ever seen at an indie show. (CT)
Electrelane released an EP called I Want to Be the President; what would you want to be president of, if you had your choice? Our favorite two answers each win a pair of tickets to the show; the next best two each win an Electrelane prize pack.
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THEATRE
The Sweet New
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| when: | Fri 4.9 (8pm) |
| where: | EXIT Theatre Stage Left (156 Eddy St, 415.776.7427) |
| price: | $15-20 sliding scale |
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| | San Francisco's EXIT Theater, the city's experimental incubator, premieres this play written and directed by Raymond Rea. Following a family for three generations, it begins with an Italian immigrant who's left Mussolini's fascist grip only to be interned as an "enemy alien" in America. From this, the story shifts to a man, born in a woman's body, finally setting things straight. Sharp politics and forbidden love meld in a cauldron of magical realism in this almost boundless masterwork of theatre. (SNS)
Note: The Sweet New plays through Sat 5.8 (schedule).
If you could have a sweet new something, what would it be? Our favorite answer wins a pair of tickets to either the Fri 4.9 or Sat 4.10 show.
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| | It should come as no surprise that LA native DJ Marques Wyatt has finally achieved legendary status in the realm of house music. If you consider his tireless work ethic as a DJ, producer, and remixer, not to mention his efforts as a promoter — his LA house weekly DEEP is in its fifth consecutive year — it's no wonder that Wyatt is reaping the credit he deserves. Tonight's record release party for his upcoming mix CD Horizons gives the SoCal selector a chance to make his Marq on an SF dance floor. When Wyatt drops his trademark sound of spiritually uplifting, soul-kissed, deep house beats, the crowd has nothing left to do but get down. (JC)
What is the name of Wyatt's production project with Jay-J? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the party.
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| | A teen phenom who played with Wynton Marsalis before he was old enough to vote, James Carter remains a saxophonist of prodigious talent, which lately has been focused on songs associated with Billie Holiday and her contemporaries. Gardenias for Lady Day (2003) features arrangements by longtime Tom Waits bassist Greg Cohen and finds Carter, a tenor player sometimes compared to frequent Holiday collaborator Lester Young, expanding his tonal palette by demonstrating mastery of other saxophones as well as the bass clarinet. He draws from this luminous recording with his group tonight, which includes the spirited pianist John Hicks. (PDS)
Note: Carter and his group are at Yoshi's from Thur 4.8 to Sun 4.11 (schedule).
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LECTURE
Gettin' It On: The History of the Tattoo Stencil
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| when: | Sat 4.10 (7pm) |
| where: | Hold Fast Gallery (487 14th St, 415.252.7479) |
| price: | FREE |
| | While tattoo shops in San Francisco are a dime a dozen, masters of the art are a bit more rare. Gettin' It On: The History of the Tattoo Stencil features works from the collections of two such legends, Don Ed Hardy and C.W. Eldridge, and provides a deep look into the history of the mind- (and body-) bending art form. As well as being master tattooists, Hardy and Eldridge are tattoologists — avid collectors and curators of historical tattoo archives — and to open the Mission's brand new Hold Fast gallery, they lead a special walk-through lecture about the collection tonight. (KT)
Note: This exhibit runs until Fri 4.30 (Wed-Sat: 12-7pm).
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| | Va-Va-Voom! Our favorite sisters of the burly-q make a triumphant trip up the coast to hypnotize us with their feminine wiles. Voted the best burlesque show in LA by Los Angeles Magazine, Michelle Carr leads this raucous troupe of real women who torch anything masquerading as sexiness on MTV. Championing the notion that Britney has nothing on Gypsy Rose Lee and that vaudeville is infinitely more daring than most comedy out there, they turn their come-hither glance to the Great American's scenester crowd in a way that would make Camille Paglia proud, with a nod to '40s pin-up girls, a slight wink in Tom Waits' direction, and a firm bump just to make sure you haven't fainted. (MS)
Velvet Hammer is a record by which Ohio indie-rockers? The third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to the early show.
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| | New Langton continues its recent series of musical events with an evening of composed and improvised music for double bass and koto. Tokyo's Tetsu Saitoh uses the acoustic double bass as a bridge between Western free jazz, Japanese folk, and classical traditions. He's accompanied tonight by SF's Shoko Hikage, Vancouver's Brett Larner, and Rochester's Ryuko Mizutani, a trio of koto players whose individual credits include the San Francisco Butoh Festival, the Bang On a Can Festival, and studies with Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier. Expect a shifting lattice of unfamiliar sounds punctuated by Saitoh's powerful, resonant presence. (PS)
How many strings does a koto have? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the concert.
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DJ
Echoes of Rio featuring John Beltran and John Arnold
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| when: | Sat 4.10 (9pm-4am) |
| where: | Club Six (60 6th St, 415.863.1221) |
| price: | $10 |
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Event Info | John Beltran |
| | The Fresco, Massive Selector, Future Juju, and Ubiquity crews come together tonight to benefit Project Open Hand, a nonprofit providing meals to the homebound and critically ill. The night's lineup represents an unusual mixture of styles from Brazil and Detroit: headliner John Beltran made his name turning out soulful but-clinical techno for labels like Peacefrog, but in his tenure at Ubiquity, he's increasingly turned to tropical rhythms and organic textures. Ubiquity's John Arnold brings his future-jazzed broken beat into dialogue with percussionist Carlos Araiza, and DJs Soulsalaam and Hakobo get the party started with a solid refresher course for all the folks that dropped out of samba school. (PS)
Beltran's "Collage of Dreams," from his album Ten Days of Blue, was used on what popular cable TV series? The first three correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | In much the same way that Kevin MacDonald's gripping 1999 documentary One Day in September examined how the presence of cameras affected the outcome of a terrorist attack on Munich's 1972 Summer Olympics, José Padilha's Bus 174 retraces a 2000 Rio de Janeiro bus hijacking that caught the nation's TV eye. Combing through extensive footage (the event unfolded over four and a half hours on Brazilian television), documents, and interviews, Bus 174 delves into the anatomy of a street kid-turned-terrorist while it pointedly calls into question the role of broadcast media and its penchant for going too far. (KT)
Note: Bus 174 also plays on Mon 4.12 (7 & 9:30pm).
Which documentary has made you most uncomfortable, and why? The best answer wins a pair of tickets to the film.
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| | Known as the progenitor of the modern jazz harmonica, Jean Batiste "Toots" Thielemans has honked out tunes with everyone from Charlie Parker to Big Bird. Seriously. The whines that close the Sesame Street theme song came straight from Thielemans' weathered lips. The 82-year-old Belgian deservedly has a been-there, done-that sense about him, but he's no less the passionate player than he was in his salad days. For this spring performance at SF Jazz, Toots' trio — typically rounded out by guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves and pianist Kenny Werner — is joined by living percussion legend Airto Moreira. (KT)
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| | Porch Light, San Francisco's seriously inspired storytelling series, gets lusty tonight. Wanderlusty, that is. In accordance with April's theme of "Wherever you go: Travel Stories," tonight's lineup promises more planes, trains, and automobiles than you can shake a passport at, with tale-tellers including hard-touring musician Felix Costanza (of Granfaloon Bus), sfgate.com columnist Lisa Margonelli, and Second City alumna Blair Butler waxing peripatetic. Tonight's star performer is surely Mark Hertsgaard, a widely published journalist whose book The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World (2002) couldn't have been more timely. Take notes, get inspired, and, perhaps, gear up for a "what I did on my summer vacation" essay of your own. (PS)
Tell us a summer travel story. Our favorite response wins a pair of tickets and a Porch Light t-shirt, second best wins a t-shirt.
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| | Boasting a rolodex including such famed rockers as David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Gwen Stefani, and Brian Wilson, Rodney Bingenheimer has partied with the music industry's elite. In this documentary, director George Hickenlooper goes backstage with the now-aging radio DJ. Initially viewed as a lost puppy eager to lap up knowledge of the scene, Rodney's shy and unobtrusive demeanor allowed him to insinuate himself with powerful players like Elvis and Sonny and Cher. He later gained credibility with his LA glam club the English Disco and radio show Rodney on the ROQ, which demonstrated his keen ear for talent. Many of Rodney's discoveries have made bank while he still lives a modest lifestyle — perhaps this humorous and emotive portrait will bring the mayor his just desserts. (MB)
Note: Producer Greg Little appears at the opening night screenings (7:30 & 10pm).
Tell us a last name that rivals those of Bingenheimer and Hickenlooper. Our three favorite answers each win a pair of tickets to the film.
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| | Dogville is the perfect movie-house escape from election-year propaganda. Danish director Lars von Trier's (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark) rumination on the nature of America opens like a lecture. But the precision of his writing (equally skewering conservative demagogues and righteous liberals) and the power of his ensemble cast (a virtuosic Nicole Kidman, Ben Gazzara, and Lauren Bacall) turns the heavy-handedness into a tour de force of philosophical theater. Cannes and NY Film Fest haters panned it as reactionary, but only a foreigner enamored of the American ideal could critique it so eloquently. Just ask de Tocqueville. (PO)
In which country would you like to set a film — without ever visiting it — and why? Our three favorite answers each win a pair of tickets to the film.
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| | Like the Smiths, this eight-piece Glaswegian ensemble draws a devoted cult to its oddball sound, so it's hardly too early to snap up tickets to this sure-to-sell-out show. Superstars of the indie world and perpetual favorites of Insound.com, Belle and Sebastian mesh '60s psychedelic pop with a quirky melancholy. Oddly, the producer of the group's latest album, Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003), was none other than Trevor Horn, an expert in excess responsible for memorable music from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, t.A.T.u., and Yes. Pull out those monochrome-covered classics, buy a ticket or three, and prepare to see pop through rose-tinted lenses. (AB&PS)
Tell us about a waitress catastrophe; our favorite answer wins a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | Benjamin Gibbard's main gig, Death Cab for Cutie, pretty much runs things in indie rock these days, but that's no surprise. The band's knack for fusing classic Built to Spillisms with emo's barely contained yearning sums up all the pleasures and terrors of adolescence in three chords and change. Death Cab songs are mixtape manna — readymade heartbreakers made for roadtrips (or ripping, burning, and slipping under the door of the object of your latest crush). You can bet the kids will be coming from far and wide for this one, so snap up tickets now. (PS)
Note: Ben Kweller and the Thermals open the show.
Name the two female singers who contributed to Gibbard's other recording project. The third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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| CD REVIEW: Greyboy, Soul Mosaic |
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Ubiquity
Released April 2004
$16.98 (Amazon)
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Greyboy returns after a three-year album hiatus with a "case study in beats, soul and funk," an appropriately clinical description as Soul Mosaic is indeed well-researched. As always, the beats are meticulously crafted, but he's collaborated with artists from around the globe for the first time to add new depth with full vocal tracks. A home renovator by hobby, Greyboy has "stripped back the musical layers," allowing space for the vocal performances to shine through. "Genevieve," a favorite amongst Gilles Peterson's Worldwide contingent, is simple: slow broken beats, stunning vocals, bass, and acoustic guitar. These mature, uncluttered arrangements coupled with stellar collaborations prove Soul Mosaic to be Greyboy's defining work. (CJN)
Which action sports star founded the P-Jays record label with Greyboy? The first correct answer wins a copy of this album.
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| VOLUNTEER: Bay Area Literacy |
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The job outlook in the Bay Area may not be much better than it was two years ago, but it's not all bad — with that extra time on your hands, why not take a break from editing your resume and offer your services to BALIT, the Bay Area Literacy program? BALIT is always on the lookout for literacy tutors, who receive training before and during their tutoring assignments at libraries throughout the Bay Area. The organization also solicits assistance in computer lab support, publicity, fundraising, and special events. If time's the one thing you lack, consider donating an old cell phone to the program. Just think: cleaning out your junk drawer could put a book on someone's shelf. (PS)
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| STREAMS: dublab |
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Some days are better than others. It's hard when you're in the middle of one that's not so hot. When things start to get too stressful, all you want is to escape. Well, you're lucky we're chatting because dublab has a solution. We've developed the Forget a Bit Plan. When life reaches a boiling point just repeat the mantra, "I'm not here. I'm floating in a space, enjoying the view of Venus while chomping on astronaut ice cream." You'll start to feel better instantly. Trust us. (frosty)
*dublab's Spring Proton Drive is happening now. Support free music expression with a contribution today.
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