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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art American Detritus; Bay Area Now 4; Photo San Francisco 2005 Opening Reception
city gem Happy Birthday Don Knotts! The Love God?; San Francisco Symphony
discussion The Quiet Canons
festival Amoebapalooza
film We Jam Econo; Murderball
multimedia Dead Cows Song Cycle
music Mark Knopfler; Kings of Leon w/ Secret Machines; Nicolai Dunger; The Dont's; Ruins; Need New Body w/ Pit Er Pat; Kaiser Chiefs w/ Brendan Benson; Dr. Know; Alkaline Trio; Freestyle Olympics; Beenie Man
photography Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection
reading UC Press New California Poetry Series; Ingrid Hill: Ursula Under
djThe Culprits present Hird & Yukimi Nagano
FEAT worldwide coverage Health Equity Project; streams BBC Collective; cd review Fantômas, Suspended Animation


Spotlight






Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


DISCUSSION
The Quiet Canons

when: Tue 7.19 (6:30pm)
where: Commonwealth Club (595 Market St, 2nd Fl, 415.597.6700) map
price: $20
links: Event Info

Of all the panelists assembling to discuss the precarious future of literacy and arts in our media-saturated environment, it's Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, who most interests us. In the pages of his magazine — itself a dichotomous example of a traditional media source dedicated to forward-thinking technologies — Anderson has tackled this topic a number of times, via outspoken editorials bemoaning the hegemony of major entertainment channels. This evening, with Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware, Chronicle Book Review editor Oscar Villalon, and a host of others, Anderson will head a challenging conversation in response to the one-year anniversary of the NEA's "Reading at Risk" report — happening, appropriately, in the heart of the nation's most literate city. (NC)



MUSIC: Hair Rock
Kings of Leon w/ Secret Machines

when: Tue 7.19 (8:30pm)
where: The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000) map
price: $25
links: Event Info | Kings of Leon | Secret Machines

Tennessee's Kings of Leon are probably sick of the Southern rock comparisons by now. Their sophomore release, Aha Shake Heartbreak, even shed some of the more obvious Allman Brothers/Lynyrd Skynyrd elements for a cooler, more spacious sound that resembles an earthier version of Wilco's recent musical direction. Full-on Southern rock or no, the Kings still mystified audiences when they opened for U2 on their recent arena tour. For their own headlining show, they've brought along two equally worthy bands, making for a dynamic triple bill: epic rockers Secret Machines and Sweden's latest quality pop import, the Shout Out Louds. (EJL)



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


READING
Ingrid Hill: Ursula Under

when: Wed 7.20 (12pm)
where: (seven-O-seven) (1612 Terrace Way, Santa Rosa, 707.523.0317) map
price:
links: Event Info | Ursula Under

With Ursula Under, award-winning short story writer Ingrid Hill makes a broad leap, debuting as a novelist with a blend of historical and contemporary fiction substantive enough to bring to mind the burly tomes of James Michener. The story of the rescue efforts to save a young girl from an abandoned mine shaft in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is interspersed with flashes of the victim's genealogical ancestors — a rich dig that explores hundreds of years and dozens of generations. All told, the success of Hill's hefty work is in the strength of its details, whether she's offering us hockey fans in Michigan or their lost relatives in distant corners of the globe. (NC)

Note: Hill also reads tonight at 7pm at Rakestraw Books in Danville.



MUSIC: Indie Folk
Nicolai Dunger w/ Sean Hayes

when: Wed 7.20 (8pm)
where: Swedish American Hall (2174 Market St, 415.861.5016) map
price: $12
links: Event Info | Nicolai Dunger | Sean Hayes

For most musicians, an album a year is a worthy goal, but one seldom met; genius status is bestowed, almost by default, to those who spend half a decade or more squeezing out the sounds of a tortured (and tortoise-paced) inner life. So what to do with Nicolai Dunger? In 2001, the Swedish singer/songwriter released no fewer than three full-length albums, and he hasn't slowed much since. More important, though, is his quality control. His songs aren't tossed-off jams, but full-on pop gems that shine with the light of Van Morrison, or even an unplugged Kurt Cobain. Tonight's show with Sean Hayes may highlight acoustic strumming and throaty warbles, but don't call it alt folk — it's simply the sound of two musical minds blazing full speed ahead, broken strings be damned. (PS)

  Which short-lived band featuring members of the Melvins did Kurt Cobain front before he formed Nirvana? The fifth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


READING: Poetry
UC Press New California Poetry Series

when: Thur 7.21 (7pm)
where: City Lights (261 Columbus Ave, 415.362.8193) map
price:
links: Event Info | New California Poetry Series

While dissenting voices cite modern American poetry as becoming increasingly denatured by the academy, the New California Poetry Series (edited in part by former Poet Laureate and Berkeley resident Robert Hass) confronts this assertion with high-spirited, vibrant, and unpredictable works from an emerging generation of academy poets. The perfect example is Laura Mullen's recent collection, Subject, a breathless recounting of our place and time delivered with unrelenting brio. And while her deftness and ability for narrative storytelling are clear, these poems also have the ability to shake up the conventional boundaries of language. (NC)

Note: Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Martha Ronk, Carol Snow, and Juliana Spahr also read.



CITY GEM: Furley
Happy Birthday Don Knotts! The Love God?

when: Thur 7.21 (7:30pm)
where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater (700 Howard St, 415.978.2787) map
price: $8
links: Event Info

Most people know Don Knotts as the prototypical sitcom lunatic — that shifty guy at work or the overzealous neighbor/landlord who just can't take a hint. What's less celebrated is his role as a sex symbol or, to put it more accurately, the Love God. In this 1969 satire, which is being screened in honor of the West Virginia native's 81st birthday, Knotts plays Abner, the editor of a bird watching magazine. After a predatory businessman transforms the publication into a girlie mag, Abner is thrust into a lifestyle that would make Hugh Hefner proud. (JK)

  What was the highest rank Don Knotts achieved in the army? The third and fourth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.



ALSO ON THUR

ART
Photo San Francisco 2005 Opening Reception
Thur 7.21 (6-9pm) Fort Mason Center (99 Marina Blvd, 415.721.4770) map $50

Event Info
 
Art fair producer Stephen Cohen presents this Fort Mason exhibit spanning the photographic ages. Beginning with 19th-century experimentation and continuing through the more contemporary video and digital arts, there's enough here to satisfy anyone's photo obsession. (RS)



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART: Opening
American Detritus

when: Fri 7.22 & Sat 7.23 (Fri: 5-9pm / Sat: 1-5pm)
where: Art Studio at the Dump (503 Tunnel Ave, 415.330.1414) map
price:
links: Event Info

With gas prices soaring, the cheapest way to drive a Hummer now might be to do what artist Andrew Junge has done — create a life-size reproduction, made entirely of Styrofoam. As part of the Artist in Residence program at Norcal Waste Management, this self-proclaimed "junk junkie" has spent the last three months scavenging the SF dump in hopes of bringing recycling to a more artistic level, while simultaneously forcing patrons to reconsider their own refuse. You may well leave wondering if you should have kept that old set of Tonka trucks and bundle of rusted aluminum siding after all. (LT)



FILM
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

when: Fri 7.22 - Sat 7.28 (7 & 9pm)
where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787) map
price: $8
links: Event Info

Double Nickels on the Dime, the best album by San Pedro, California's greatest export, the Minutemen, begins with a van ignition's cough. It's a wonderful metaphor for the punk trio's career, which motored through countless odometer spins. We Jam Econo tells the story of D. Boon, Mike Watt, and George Hurley through archival footage and interviews with the surviving band members and the journalists who chronicled them — including Michael Azerrad, who lovingly told the Minutemen's tale in Our Band Could Be Your Life, a phrase pulled from their "History Lesson, Pt. II," the greatest love song to music ever written. This band could change your life. (YS)

  One of the Minutemen's songs is also the theme song for which TV show? The fourth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this film.



MULTIMEDIA
Dead Cows Song Cycle

when: Fri 7.22 & Sat 7.23 (8pm)
where: New Langton Arts (1246 Folsom St, 415.626.5416) map
price: $8
links: Event Info

When Duke Ellington first graced the Carnegie Hall stage in 1943, jazz received the kind of serious regard normally reserved for European classical music. Since then, pioneers from Charles Mingus to William Parker have further elevated jazz's stature, melding the presumed sophistication of traditional European forms with the grittiness and freedom many (however narrowly) associate with the music of the African Diaspora. In this fashion, composer Sebastian Robin Craig and his trio Ascendant present the instrumental opera The Dead Cows Song Cycle, a story of a farmer who receives counsel from a tree that suddenly sprouts on his land. (JK)

  Write a song for a dead cow. The best two each win a pair of tickets to either the Fri or Sat concert.



MUSIC: Art Damaged Punk
The Dont's

when: Fri 7.22 (9:30pm)
where: Edinburgh Castle Pub (950 Geary St, 415.885.4074) map
price: $5
links: Event Info | The Dont's

To their credit, there are moments during Dont's shows — usually around the time when singer Johnny Don't pulls his bullhorn trigger and starts howling — when things nearly veer out of control. While it never comes fully unhinged, the quartet has refined the art of teetering at the splintered edge of disaster, embracing just the right amount of abandon to breathe new life into the well-trod territory of post-everything dance punk. Plus, as invigorating as their snarling recklessness can be, when they rein it in with long, elegantly melodic tunes like "It All Falls Apart" and "Sissy Resist," they're every bit as compelling. (NC)

Note: The Drogues open.



FILM
Murderball

when: Opens Fri 7.22
where: Embarcadero Center Cinema (1 Embarcadero Ctr, 415.352.0810) map
price: $9.75
links: Event Info | Murderball

Focusing on Olympic-level quadriplegic rugby players, Murderball is at once a backstage story, a reconciliation saga, a rehab drama, a classic sports documentary, and a crash course in how to convey a potentially maudlin topic with grace and humor. For the US team members, it's not as if just playing is winning, Special Olympics style. In their armored chairs, they are cyborg gladiators: part man, part machine, and completely out for blood. Each of them has already conquered so much internal strife in order to come to terms with his physical limitations that they radiate a Buddha-like equanimity, just below the surface of their boys-will-be-boys bluster. (LR)

  Tell us about what overwhelming physical or mental challenges you have overcome in 50 words or less. The three most inspiring stories each win a pair of tickets to this movie.



ALSO ON FRI

MUSIC: Not Topic
Alkaline Trio w/ Rise Against and Death by Stereo
Fri 7.22 (8pm) The Warfield (982 Market St, 415.421.TIXS) map $19

Event Info
 
Easily lumped in with the bevy of Hot Topic emo bands, Alkaline Trio have an on-the-nose honesty that elevates them above the fray. It takes a certain something to sing "kissing the curve of your clavicle" like you mean it. (JCF)



MUSIC: Dancehall
Beenie Man w/ Silver Cat
Fri 7.22 & Sat 7.23 (8pm) Shattuck Down Low (2284 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, 510.548.1159) map $35 / $32.50 advance

Event Info
 
Beenie Man's dynamic vocal skills and streetwise knowledge from his hometown ghetto of Waterhouse, Jamaica have won him a Grammy award and over 50 chart-topping Jamaican singles. It's easy to see why he's considered the dancehall king. (JC)



DJ: Scandinavian Electronica
The Culprits present Hird & Yukimi Nagano
Fri 7.22 (9pm) Pink (2925 16th St, 415.431.8889) map $10

Event Info
 
Twenty-two-year-old savant Christoffer Berg mans a Rhodes, laptop, and decks with vocalist Yukimi Nagano. Expect a crowded dance floor, the pulse of broken nu-jazz, and house-friendly beats. (JC)



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Guitar God
Mark Knopfler

when: Sat 7.23 (8pm)
where: Greek Theatre (Grayley Road, Berkeley 415.8497) map
price: $35-85
links: Event Info | Mark Knopfler

Every aspiring rock guitarist bows down to Jimmy Page and Slash, but Mark Knopfler? His band Dire Straits debuted in 1977 and met commercial success through the '80s. But Knopfler himself certainly remains one of the most undersung heroes of rock guitar. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler embarked on a solo career that nurtured his experimental side, producing works ranging from small-town Americana to motion picture scores, highlighting his skills as composer, poet, and kick-ass guitar player. So come see this sultan of more than just swing tonight outdoors at the Greek. (SNS)

  Who added the line "I want my MTV" to "Money for Nothing?" The fifth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.



MUSIC: Nardcore
Dr. Know w/ Eyes of Hate, the Lincolns, the Fuzz and more

when: Sat 7.23 (8:30pm)
where: Pound SF (100 Cargo Way, Pier 96, 415.826.5009) map
price: $12 / $10 advance
links: Event Info | Dr. Know | Eyes of Hate | The Fuzz

Those totally appalled by the term "hardcore" becoming synonymous with straight-edge aggro choads should be heartened by the fact that a band like Dr. Know is still out there making honest-to-God Reagan-era punk friggin' rock. Drinking and fighting are every punk's birthrights, and rest assured, dogmatic ideologies are not welcome tonight. The bill overflows with snot-nosed, angry, offensive acts including Mohawked knuckle-draggers Eyes of Hate, the cop-hating the Fuzz, and SF's own tongue-maybe-in-cheek raunchcore sexists, the Lincolns. If you wanted to kill those Gary Numan electro-dweebs in the '80s, you probably went to shows like this. (GM)



FESTIVAL: Geek Irony
Amoebapalooza

when: Sat 7.23 (9pm)
where: 12 Galaxies (2565 Mission St, 415.970.9777) map
price: $5
links: Event Info | Amoebapalooza

If your company's summer outing consists merely of rubbery wieners and awkward conversation, feel free to crash Amoeba's employee bash instead. This annual blowout features a smattering of 12-minute performances by the snarky employees themselves. Post-Modern Lovers, International Jet Set, 5 Cent Mustache Ride, and I Want My Dolly, among other coffee break-inspired revelations, are on the bill this year. Whether you've been slighted by a cashier's smirk for purchasing that whiny throwback band from your fading youth or you have a crush on the clerk at register three, here's your chance to heckle and mingle with Amoeba's famed proletariat. (JH)

  Where and when did the first Amoeba Music open? Third, sixth and ninth correct answers win a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON SAT

MUSIC: Battle Rhymes
Freestyle Olympics
Sat 7.23 (8pm-4am) Club Six (60 6th St, 415.863.1221) map $10

Event Info
 
The Freestyle Olympics stretch verbal versatility to the linguistic limit, as eight finalists go head-to-head in three categories — Tempo, Topics, and full-on Battle — to compete for the Bay Area's limber-lip crown. (PS)



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Prog Thrash
Ruins

when: Sun 7.24 (9:30pm)
where: Hemlock Tavern (1131 Polk St, 415.923.0923) map
price: $8
links: Event Info | Ruins

Ruins were shredding eardrums and driving bespeckled music nerds into a frothing frenzy more than a decade before Lightning Bolt first blasted out of a Providence warehouse with their fuzzed-out Van Halen licks. Inspired by the intensity of punk and the complexity of bands such as France's Magma, drummer Yoshida Tatsuya formed the prog thrash duo in 1985. Since then they've melted faces with releases on both Tzadik and Skin Graft. But it's their live shows that make avant-hipsters pee themselves: "That song was a cover," Tatsuya once announced after a tune. "But you may not recognize it. It's 'Ride the Lightning' backwards." (GM)

Note: This show is part of the Bassist Wanted Tour, in the wake of longtime bassist Hisashi Sasaki's departure. Tonight, Edward Rodriguez of the Flying Luttenbachers tries out for the position before the salivating minions.



ALSO ON SUN

CITY GEM: Classical
San Francisco Symphony
Sun 7.24 (2pm) Dolores Park (Dolores St btwn 18th & 20th Sts, 510.420.0813) map FREE

Event Info
 
For those of us who can't often handle the eye-popping sticker price of Symphony tickets, today's free performance is a welcome treat of orchestral chestnuts, including Rimsky-Korsakov and Bizet. (NC)



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Saccharine Pop
Kaiser Chiefs w/ Brendan Benson and the Cribs

when: Mon 7.25 (9pm)
where: The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd, 415.346.6000) map
price: $20
links: Event Info | Kaiser Chiefs | Brendan Benson

After a bombed major-label debut and a minor indie-rock resurrection, Brendan Benson might finally be coming into his own. The Detroit singer/songwriter has a seductive way with both lyric and riff, blending bits of autobiography and reverse psychology into one unlikely hook after the next. Consider his recent roughed-up take on McCartney and Wings' "Let Me Roll It," or the wry smirk he's unfurled on recent songs like "Spit It Out" (soon to be showing on MTV2 at 4am), or the well-worn confessional ballads that always plead for the girl to "go with me, and no one else." We'll go with you Brendan; we'll go all the way. The Kaiser Chiefs headline. (NVB)

Note: The Cribs also open.

  Your mom asks you what the song "Pearl Necklace" by ZZ Top is about. She knows it's not literal. How do you answer? The most creative answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.



MUSIC: Spazzcore
Need New Body w/ Pit Er Pat

when: Mon 7.25 (9pm)
where: Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St, 415.621.4455) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Need New Body | Pit Er Pat

As bands like Man Man and Mahjongg endear themselves to audiences with flailing, uninhibited weirdness, the time seems ripe for Philadelphia's Need New Body to claim their seats as the court jesters of Freakrock Kingdom. On stage, the quartet elevates the full-band spasm to an artform and shifts between styles like a Ritalin-starved child, all feedback, shrieks, and banjos, bringing the madcap eclecticism of their new album, Where Is Black Ben?, lurching to life. Though tame by comparison, openers Pit Er Pat make up in craft and naïve charm what they lack in sheer obnoxiousness. (TG)



PHOTOGRAPHY
Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection

when: Now through Tue 9.6 (Fri-Tue: 10am-6pm / Thur: 10am-9pm)
where: SFMOMA (151 3rd St, 415.357.4000) map
price: $12.50
links: Event Info | Taking Place

Taking Place, a comprehensive history of photography sponsored by real estate developer Paul Sack, concentrates on notable locales. The 300 works from 1840 to the 1970s include an 1878 panoramic view of San Francisco by Eadweard Muybridge taken from atop Nob Hill, offering a rare sweeping view of the city before the 1906 earthquake. Although San Francisco's streets are the focus, the East Coast is represented in an early Walker Evans piece, "South Street, New York City." The exhibit covers all photographic processes within the period, from daguerreotypes to gelatin silver prints. Sack has recently donated 800 additional photographs to the museum, so visitors can expect even more exhibits of this magnitude. (MV)

  What did the French government say when they acquired the patent for daguerreotype photography? The second, third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, and ninth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this exhibit.



ART
Bay Area Now 4

when: Now through Sun 11.6 (Thur-Sat: 12-8pm / Sun, Tue & Wed: 12-5pm)
where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater (700 Howard St, 415.978.2787) map
price: $6
links: Event Info | Bay Area Now 4

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' signature exhibition, Bay Area Now 4, celebrates the artistic and cultural trends that define the region. The triennial show includes some 30-odd emerging and mid-career artists and collectives who practice in a variety of visual media but share the common distinction of being innovators in their field. BAN4's loose theme of relationships within the family, community, and physical environment will resonate with an audience tired of the "us versus them" mentality pervasive in today's politico-speak. Highlights include Adriane Colburn's delicate paper cutout of San Francisco's sewage system (aka our common denominator) and Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada's wearable musical instruments that require a team effort to play. (AL)

  How do you think the shifting boundaries and notions of community are affecting humanity as a whole? The best answer in 60 words or less wins a pair of tickets to this exhibition.



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  WORLDWIDE COVERAGE: Health Equity Project  

While the G8 leaders debate African aid levels and crunch debt relief numbers from a decidedly macro perspective, it's also worth noting the people doing the actual legwork to address poverty, disease, and the spread of AIDS. The Health Equity Project is a US-based, all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that provides on-the-ground support in developing countries, helping facilitate access to medicine and quality healthcare providers. One of the most innovative initiatives is the group's recently launched healthcare program for sexual minorities, who are often denied treatment. Ghana is currently the test site for the program, which will expand to sub-Saharan Africa with adequate funding. For more information, check the recent BBC World Service story or visit HEP's website. (CJN)



 


  STREAMS: BBC Collective  

The BBC Collective's stated intent is simple: to exchange views on new music, film, and culture. And what a job they do — the site is among the best on the web to get the scoop on forthcoming albums and preview full tracks, as well as participate in interactive discussions. This week, we have Gilles Peterson talkin' loud about his new African music compilation (with full tracks from Konono No.1 and Letta Mbulu), as well as the Juan Maclean on his new DFA release. Finally, Ninja Tune's Fink throws down a 60-minute DJ mix of the beats, breaks, and funk that we know and love from the imprint. (CJN)



Gilles Peterson: Interview & tracks
The Juan Maclean: Interview & tracks
Fink: Ninja Tune mix (Beats 'n breaks)


 


  CD REVIEW: Fantômas, Suspended Animation  

Ipecac Recordings
Released April 2005
$12.99 (Amazon)

From the sound of Suspended Animation, it seems Mike Patton and his Fantômas supergroup have been battling yakuza clowns from outer space. The album's arsenal includes boings and splats from the Acme armory, Speak & Spell samples, steely and impossibly precise riffs from the Melvins' King Buzzo, whip-thrash blast-beats from Slayer's Dave Lombardo, bass and compositional derangement from Mr. Bungle's Trevor Dunn, and of course, the schizoid voice of fellow Bungler Patton himself. Fantômas' M.O. is always high-concept — on S.A., each track corresponds to a day in April, and the CD is packaged in a calendar illustrated by cutesy pop artist Yoshitomo Nara — but Patton remains able to make metalheads and Wire-reading dorks alike drop their shorts. (GM)


 


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CassetteJocelyn K Glei
BellJake Lancaster
Air PumpPaul Laster
Panier BagsDoug Levy
Chain GuideSascha Lewis
Rear ShocksGerry Mak
SkewerMark Mangan
StemColin J Nagy
SprocketPhilip Sherburne
Carbon ForkClaire Smith
ShiftersPeter D Stepek
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HubJosh C Forbes
RimsKrista Freibaum
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SpokeSam N Shah
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