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APR 27 - MAY 3
We don't want to seem like we're putting on airs, but we're pretty pleased with ourselves this week. Today marks two years of our weekly transmissions: that's two years of breaking the news, growing the scene, and making the occasionally rapturous proclamation about San Francisco's best cultural events. It would be a pretty grim task were it not for all the great feedback we've had from you in the past 104 weeks, so we raise our glass to you: keep reading, keep writing, and keep on rocking and raving. And above all, spread it. |
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In celebration of May Day, Absolut Citron invites you to share an Absolut Citron Cosmopolitan with others. Visit absolut.com for more ideas on what to share.
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ART
FREE Tuesdays at the Legion of Honor
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| when: | Every Tuesday (9:30am-5pm) |
| where: | The Legion of Honor Museum (100 34th Ave, 415.863.3330) |
| price: |  FREE |
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| | If you haven't made it out to Land's End to check out Art Deco, 1910-1930 at the Legion of Honor, avoid the general admission charges and visit any Tuesday to only pay a $7 special exhibit surcharge, thanks to a grant from the Ford Motor Company. In addition to the sleek chrome lines of the hundreds of objects on display for Art Deco, the Legion shows 20 photographs by Israeli artist Adi Nes — the first exhibit of contemporary photography at the Fine Arts Museums in recent history — and Photo Image in Prints: 1960s-1990s, a small show that includes works by Jasper Johns, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Chuck Close. (EC)
Note: Advance tickets for Art Deco, 1910-1930 are not available on Ford Free Tuesdays; tickets available at the door only.
  
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FILM
Grimm
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| when: | Tue 4.27 (6:45pm) & Wed 4.28 (9:30pm) |
| where: | AMC Kabuki 8 (1881 Post St, 415.922.4AMC) |
| price: | $12 |
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| | The tale of Hansel and Gretel gets a homicidal Dutch update in Grimm, an absurdist comedy playing as part of the 47th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Incestuous siblings Jacob and Maria are abandoned in the gloomy woods of Holland by their heartless father, then battle with some sadistic farmers and their prized cow as they trek to their uncle's house in Spain. They embark upon a spree of robbery, prostitution, and murder, and a quick moped ride through a short dark tunnel leads them to Spain and into the comforting arms of the wealthy surgeon Diego, who takes them in. Jealousy, organ theft, and a shootout in an abandoned western movie set round out the film. (EC)
 Who is this year's recipient of the SF Film Society Directing Award? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets for the Thur 4.29 closing night Laws of Attraction screening and party, the next three answers each win a pair of tickets for Tue 4.27, and the next six answers each win a pair of tickets for Wed 4.28.
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MUSIC: Indie Rock
stellastarr* w/ the Killers and Evening
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| when: | Wed 4.28 (8pm) |
| where: | Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750) |
| price: | $13 / $11 advance |
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Event Info | stellastarr* |
| | Three songs into stellastarr*'s blistering opening set for the Raveonettes last fall, a line several people thick crowded the merch table, all of them hankering to capture frontman Shawn Christensen's dramatic shrieks, backed by exuberant, new-wave influenced tunes, on CD. This time around, fans get to dance and scream in time to a headlining set from these NYC rockers, right before their Coachella debut puts their tunes on the lips of every indie hipster in the state. The Killers and Evening open. (EC)
Note: Get a preview of tonight's set and get your stellastarr* CDs signed at a free in-store appearance at the Virgin Megastore at 5pm.
The Killers supported which mopey rocker at some recent California shows? The third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | LA's dopest netcasters dublab get offline tonight, bringing their unparalleled mix of deranged dancehall, experimental beats, avant soul, and underground hip-hop straight to Milk's heaving dance floor. DJs Dr. Rock, Cypriano, Kutmah, and Frosty — who, alongside Daedelus, comprises Plug Research act Adventure Time — prove that there's no sound too far afield to get a crowd crackling. Hollertronix's recombinant king Diplo, fresh off his killer Big Dada single "Newsflash," drops roots, rock, and rear-guard pop in a mixture he calls "new age space crunk." Bring your moon boots. (PS)
What are the titles of dublab's two CD compilations? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | It's hard to imagine that Arianna Huffington was once a cheerleader for the Republican Party. From writing her scathing column in the left-leaning Salon.com to spearheading the Detroit Project — an anti-SUV, anti-foreign oil dependency campaign — she's won over more than just sarcastic Bill Maher's heart, who was so politically smitten that he nearly proposed to her on the last episode of Politically Incorrect. Her latest book, from which she reads tonight, is Fanatics & Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America, which argues that reformers cannot afford to be divided if changing the guard at the Oval Office is their end goal. Which, even for many once-faithful GOP members, it increasingly is. (KT)
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| | Former San Francisco three-piece Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have produced an album of punk riffs, fuzzed-up rock, and dreamy lyrics that actually surpasses the jagged elegance of their now-classic self-titled debut. With Take Them On, On Your Own, BRMC show a surprising depth that, while still reminiscent of the Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine (hardly a bad thing), transcends their obvious influences and comes into its own. The Rapture open the show with their own version of punk-disco-trance. Sounding like the lost son of Robert Smith, lead singer Luke Jenner wails away against jagged machine beats and shredded guitars, producing a sound at once disconcerting and eminently danceable. (NIN)
What's the coolest name of an actual motorcycle club? Our two favorite answers - with a link verifying the source - each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | You don't see many indie-rock collectives. Bands usually top off at the five-member mark, sometimes six if they're especially kooky. But not Toronto's Broken Social Scene. This is a band who at any given moment could feature anywhere from seven to 14 people on stage, each adding his or her own distinct color to the overall wash. The end effect is a sound to behold — dense layers of ultra-vivid sonics saturate the air with a sexy kind of warmth that seems utterly new. Their stellar 2003 release, You Forgot It In People, barely does their live show justice — which is saying something, considering it was many a hard-nosed critic's favorite record of last year. (KD)
What Canadian music award for best alternative album did Broken Social Scene win for You Forgot It In People? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | Scott Herren used to be better known as Prefuse 73. But with his latest album, Apropa't, Herren may soon be better known as Savath & Savalas. Debuting in 1999 with Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey and following up with a 2002 EP, S&S appeared at first to simply be a (more or less) acoustic side project for Herren's popular glitch-hop albums as Prefuse 73. But with Apropa't, Herren's collaboration with Barcelona vocalist Eva Puyuelo Muns, S&S take center stage. Cool minimalism, simple hooks, and an unwavering hush provide the perfect backdrop to gentle songs written in Spanish and Catalan. Tonight at Great American, Herren promises something far more than minimal — an eight-piece band with an unbelievable vocal lineup featuring Eva, Juana Molina (worth the price of admission on her own), and Vinia Mojica. (CW)
What is Scott Herren's third production alias? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | A new evening-length ballet is rare, and it's even rarer for a ballet company to commission a modern dance choreographer with a reputation for irreverence to create it. But Mark Morris, whose imaginative takes on classics have converted, for example, The Nutcracker's delicate dancing snowflakes into men with hairy armpits soaring across the stage in his Hard Nut, is often considered the Balanchine of our time. His interpretation of the rarely performed Sylvia, with a Delibes score admired by Tchaikovsky, is a pseudo-mythological tale of a nymph's romantic travails. In Morris' hands, anything could happen, but if his past works are any indication, this is likely to be full of wit and luminescent beauty. (CS)
Note: Performances continue through Sun 5.9.
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| | Hosted by Oakland-based laptop assassins Blevin Blectum, J. Lesser, Wobbly, and friends, Rx Gallery's Jiffy Scuttler Series is intently tuned in to forward-thinking sounds that quiver on the edge of experimental and electronic pop. Tonight's installment features Pepito, the SF-based duo of Ana Machado and José Márquez, playing from their recently released second album, Everything Changes. Like their new record, the band's live show is peppered with influences from their Tijuana and Havana hometowns. Machado and Márquez mix equal parts Latin disco and glitchy abstraction with Spanish and English vocals for a sound that's far from the expected — and often dull — collision of techno and world music. (KT)
What do you think a "Jiffy Scuttler" is? The two best answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | For those who enjoy diversity in their dance music, or just have short attention spans, 2ManyDJs throw the ultimate house party. Rapidly cutting and pasting recognizable pop songs, these Belgian brothers incite both amusement and the urge to dance during their frenetic sets; expect close to 50 songs per hour, from Adam Ant to ZZ Top. Charting the course of 21st-century disco, DFA producer James Murphy sets aloof vocals to lo-fi funk with a healthy dose of punk. Besides lengthy, crescendoed dance-rock from Murphy's LCD Soundsystem, await better-than-the-real-thing N*E*R*D and Rapture remixes in his DJ set tonight. (CT)
Note: LCD Soundsystem play with !!! Thur 4.29 at the Independent.
What's the best mash-up out there? Our two favorite answers, with links to the song online, each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | Marshall McLuhan's famous formulation "the medium is the message" has come to define communication theory over the last 50 years, and can be applied to everything from blogging to Britney. Those who bring their boom boxes to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts today honor the scholar in an unusual piece of "radio art," creating a living soundscape under the direction of audio artists Chris Brown and Guillermo Galindo. Upon assembling at the site, members of the audience tune in to secret radio broadcasts emitted by special transmitters; the artists respond with their own live sound mixes based on field recordings of San Francisco's Mission District. (KT)
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| | May Day, for many, is about celebrating spring with sprigs of lily of the valley. City Lights, however, ensures San Franciscans a healthy dose of May Day's other historical significance: radical protest in defense of workers and the downtrodden. In collaboration with CELLspace, City Lights has brought together 30 local authors to deliver three-minute declarations against the "logic of rule" and to forge a cultural declaration from the heart of San Francisco. Come hear local authors and activists, including Beth Lisick, Justin Chin, Diane di Prima, 826 Valencia Kids, Dave Eggers, Ishmael Reed, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Matt Gonzalez, and Michelle Tea speak out about the real state of the union. (EC)
Write a short declaration against the "logic of rule." Our favorite answer wins a pair of tickets to the event.
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Quannum World Tour 2004
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| when: | Sat 5.1 (8pm) |
| where: | The Warfield (982 Market St, 415.421.TIXS) |
| price: | $30-35 |
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| | Quannum Projects reads like a who's who of West Coast underground hip-hop. Both a label and artist collective, Quannum brought some of the most vibrant voices of the '90s label SoleSides together in 1997 for the masterful debut album Quannum Spectrum, and has continued purveying quality hip-hop ever since. DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, Latryx, Lifesavas, and Joyo Velarde are just a few of the Quannum artists who cap off the Quannum World Tour 2004 at the Warfield tonight. Though critics have given DJ Shadow most of the attention, Quannum Projects continues to represent an anomalous phenomenon — danceable grooves, production that plays on the edges of funk, soul, and R&B, and respected artists setting the musical and political tone for the unknown future of hip-hop. (CW)
Lyrics Born recorded under what name on SoleSides' first releases? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets to the show.
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| | Black Heart Procession's recent collaboration with Dutch prog rockers Solbakken, In the Fishtank 11, must have been quite a challenge for the San Diego chamber rock quartet. BHP had the musical end covered, but when it came to naming the new tracks, they couldn't simply rely on variations of "love" or "heart" any longer; hence oblique titles like "Nervous Persian." Suffice to say that Pall Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel, the band's unchanging core, have made a career out of personifying broken hearts and lost love, translating relationship ills into aching piano/bass ballads for the indie rock set. Tonight's show, in the gothy cabaret confines of SF's Great American Music Hall, is sure to break a few hearts as well. (KT)
Black Heart Procession contain members of which seminal San Diego bands? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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MUSIC: Electro Pop
Air
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| when: | Mon 5.3 (8pm) |
| where: | Paramount Theatre (2025 Broadway, Oakland, 510.465.6400) |
| price: | $37.50 |
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Event Info | Air |
| | Air, the French duo who gained critical acclaim with the ethereal albums 10,000 Hz Legend and Moon Safari, bring some appropriately cinematic intrigue to the gorgeous Paramount tonight. Continuing in the lush, ambient vein of previous works, Air's new release, Talkie Walkie, makes the fuzzy auditory textures more personal with the intimate vocals of bandmates Nicolas Godin and J.B. Dunckel. Tonight they fill out the epic structures with tolling bells, live acoustic guitars, and a synchronized array of sweeping lights. Looking over it all, you may not see a raging dance floor, but you're likely to find a sea of aurally sated, blissfully bobbing heads. (SC)
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| | In Haitian political activist and journalist Jean Dominique, Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense) has found a subject as drolly sincere as his direction. A Wyclef Jean score and jangly editing — all freeze-frames and rapid-fire loops — match the jagged, perpetually besieged nature of Haiti and Dominique himself, who caterwauls relentlessly while puffing on his ever-present pipe. His mugging doesn't eclipse his import for his country, however: the founder of Radio Haiti, for 30 years Dominique provided the only government-uncensored information available until he was gunned down in 2000. Using footage of Dominique, his wife and colleague Michele Montas, and Haiti's eternal turmoil, Demme nails the ineffectualness of US interventions as well as the resurrective power of social dissidence. (LR)
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THEATRE
Slaughter City
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| when: | Thur - Sat through Sat 5.8 (8pm) |
| where: | EXIT Theatre (156 Eddy St, 415.675.5995) |
| price: | $15-20 / Thur: pay what you can |
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| | Thespians take note of the West Coast premiere of UK-transplanted Kentucky poet and playwright Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City. Acclaimed for its bold productions of "difficult" contemporary plays on a shoestring budget, the young Crowded Fire Theater Company again proves itself to be a well-honed troupe of actors and designers under the confident direction of Rebecca Novick. Portraying the passionately colliding lives of workers in a labor dispute at a modern-day Southern slaughterhouse, Wallace's dense play convincingly wrestles with issues of class, race, gender, and sexual relations within the twin boundaries of politics and love. A haunting experience, at once grisly and mystical. (SS)
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| CD REVIEW: dios, dios |
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Star Time
Released March 2004
$13.98 (Amazon)
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In Big Sur gravity taunts us: the mountains drop straight into the ocean; the air sweats thick, salty beads; the heavy breezes waft promise. Without Big Sur, rock would be without the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Neil Young, or even the Eagles. Each act reappropriated the Pacific's pregnant sighs into jangling melancholies. Californians dios' contentedly resigned vocals, gridlocked tempos, and forlorn melodies could hardly be more geocentric — a rarity in this region-free rock age. Their cover of Neil Young's "Birds" tempers the original's dourness with a lilting sweetness, "50 Cents" lifts the a capella opening hook from the Beach Boys' "You Still Believe in Me," and "Just Another Girl" sounds like Sean Lennon covering his dad's "Julia." Major-key obvious, but startlingly satisfying. (YS)
Name two recording artists that hail from dios' hometown of Hawthorne, CA.
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| AURAL OVERLOAD: Bleep.com |
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While the major labels are taking their sweet time
getting into the downloading business, indie labels and artists are paving the way toward a brickless, mortarless future of music. Even if you're a diehard fan of vinyl or aluminum, this can be a very good thing: witness Bleep.com, which offers up almost every release issued by England's groundbreaking Warp label, all for remarkably cheap. Recent albums like Squarepusher's Ultravisitor and Savath &
Savalas' Apropa't are available, of course,
track by track or as whole albums, but better yet are the plentiful archives. Where else are
you going to find classic, long-unavailable releases from Black Dog Productions, Tricky Disco, and the ready-for-rediscovery Sweet Exorcist? Throw in rarities like Richard D. James' Gak EP, Lex Records' hip-hop catalogue, and pre-releases like tracks from Two Lone Swordsmen's Faux, not in stores for another month, and you'll find plenty of reasons to rest your soul — and your SoulSeek. (PS)
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| STREAMS: Solid Steel |
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Solid Steel is a worldwide syndicated radio show that was started by Ninjatune founders Jonathan More and Matt Black (aka Coldcut). The ever-eclectic show features a mix of all things beats, breaks, jazz, and hip-hop with some funk and soul thrown in for good measure. On a weekly basis, it's mixed, cut, and scratched on the decks by an array of special guests and hosted by main ninjas Strictly Kev, DK, and, of course, the Coldcut boys themselves. (CJN)
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