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Masterminds 2012

By Jonathan Curiel
Honoring 10 extraordinary Bay Area artists. More >>

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The Exhibitionist

2:30 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
Meet Our Masterminds: Eric Cohen and Eliane Lima
By Ruby Perez
The economy sucks, but we don't care -- the Bay Area is home to artists so talented they deserve to take over the world. That's why the Masterminds grants are given to three local and emerging ar... More >>

The Exhibitionist

1:30 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
S.F. Street Fashion: Local Style Survives New York Fashion Week
By Kate Conger
Unfortunately, this week in San Francisco fashion is a depressing one. Not because our citizens weren't looking fabulous as usual -- they always are -- but because this is the one week out of the... More >>

The Exhibitionist

12:30 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
The Interrupters and More Free Films Screening at Oakland City Hall This Month
By Tamara Palmer
Oakland City Hall's Black History Film Series continues tonight with The Interrupters, a 2011 documentary about a few brave individuals' hardcore efforts to curb inner city violence. Though it ... More >>

The Exhibitionist

12:00 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
Counter Attack! at the Ashby Stage Looks Like More Fun Than it Is
By Lily Janiak
The best thing about Counter Attack!, a Stagebridge production now at the Ashby Stage, might be the sheer number of actors it puts onstage--seventeen of them playing sixty roles, by one estimat... More >>

The Exhibitionist

12:00 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
Twitter Hates You: Don't Believe It? Ask Roland Martin
By W. Kamau Bell
Twitter is not your friend. Twitter does not have your back. Twitter is a cold, conniving gossip. Twitter is horrible at keeping secrets. Twitter is an old man who sits on his porch watching eve... More >>

The Exhibitionist

10:00 am
Feb. 10, 2012
"Female Trouble" Explores the Flipside of Masculinity via Film
By Silke Tudor
The monthlong series at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, "Bros Before Hos," explores "masculinity and its discontent" via avenues such as vintage stag movies, the bonding experience between men ... More >>

The Exhibitionist

9:00 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Cat Videos Before YouTube: kittypr0n On Access SF, Part 2
By Sherilyn Connelly
"We should do a public access show about cats!" That's what my girlfriend Katrina said one night in December 2001 as we watched Channel 29, Access San Francisco. I thought it sounded like a grea... More >>

The Exhibitionist

8:00 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Hotel in a Bottle Performance Mimics Murikami's Literature, Takes Us to "the Other Side"
By Stephanie Echeveste
Last Saturday we got sucked into a television set. We were walking through the lobby at CounterPULSE and somehow fell through to the other side. Luckily, we spent our time experiencing a sneak-p... More >>

The Exhibitionist

5:00 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Seven Ways The Phantom Menace Could Be Fixed
By Brad Balukjian
George Lucas finally gets it. Sort of. The flannel-abusing 67-year-old director recently told The New York Times Magazine, "Why would I make any more [Star Wars movies] when everybody yells at... More >>

The Exhibitionist

2:00 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Skin for Sale: SPCA's Laura Gretch to Let Auction Decide Her Next Tattoo
By Chris Torres
When we think of pet adoption drives, we think of Saturday mornings in a Petco parking lot, not tattoos, cocktails, and auctions. But the latter is what you'll get Friday night, as Laura Gretch ... More >>

The Exhibitionist

12:30 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Queer Performance Art Series The News Starts Strong at SOMArts
By Kate Conger
Queer performance art series The News made a powerful debut Tuesday night at SOMArts. The evening offered an array of queer narratives, made even more timely and poignant by the federal appeals... More >>

The Exhibitionist

11:30 am
Feb. 9, 2012
San Francisco's S3X Gallery Is a Welcome Newcomer in a Small Field
By Keith Bowers
S3X Gallery says that it's San Francisco's first gallery dedicated to displaying only erotic art. While certain other venues in town might have something to say about that (Hello, Femina Potens... More >>

The Exhibitionist

10:30 am
Feb. 9, 2012
Jeff Ross Says SF Indiefest Couldn't Happen in Any Other City But San Francisco
By Emily Wilson
Jeff Ross founded the San Francisco Independent Film Festival 14 years ago as a way to give his friend Rand Alexander a place in town to show his movie Caged. What started as a four-day event no... More >>

The Exhibitionist

9:30 am
Feb. 9, 2012
For Sex Week, Yale University Has to Borrow Several San Franciscans
By Vanessa L. Pinto
How many of us fantasized about going to college in the Ivy League? To be thought of as among "the best and the brightest," and get a shot at opportunities most people don't have? When a few of m... More >>

The Exhibitionist

8:30 am
Feb. 9, 2012
Too Much G-Chat Can Hurt Your Relationship
By Anna Pulley
Let me preface this by saying that the "relationship" I'll refer to is f*ed up in it's own right -- a kind of "friends with benefits" situation I've somehow ended up in, where both parties are af... More >>

The Exhibitionist

7:30 am
Feb. 9, 2012
Accidentally Dirty Kids' Book Roundup, Featuring The Lonely Doll
By Alan Scherstuhl
Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. The Lonely Doll Author: Dare Wright, sto... More >>

The Exhibitionist

1:21 pm
Feb. 8, 2012
Six Serious Questions We Want to Ask Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage
By Alan Scherstuhl
Hi, Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage! I suppose you're wondering why we've invited you here today, the day Washington state joined the world of the future by approving the kinds of weddings you d... More >>

The Exhibitionist

11:00 am
Feb. 8, 2012
Krys Lee Finds a Hole in North Korea's Iron Curtain
By Paul M. Davis
What is it about North Korea that so ignites the Western imagination? Is it the air of exoticism the West projects upon this defiant, seemingly unknowable Asian land? The novelty of a modern co... More >>

The Exhibitionist

9:30 am
Feb. 8, 2012
Asian Art Museum Emulates Antiques Roadshow on Members Consultation Day
By Alexis Coe
"Don't buy anything in Hong Kong," warns Maurice Jonas, a volunteer tasked with ferrying eager members of the Asian Art Museum to and from their 20-minute appointments. "They all do, and it's al... More >>

The Exhibitionist

8:30 am
Feb. 8, 2012
What to Read in McSweeney's 39
By Sylvie Kim
As I've explained previously, by the time I get my McSweeney's update e-mail hyping the forthcoming issue, I'm chiding myself with "Shit. I still haven't read the last one." But thanks to a rece... More >>

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Masterminds 2012: Honoring 10 Extraordinary Bay Area artists
By Jonathan Curiel

Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen. Artists are everywhere we look in the San Francisco Bay Area. They wait the café tables where we eat. They staff the markets where we shop.… More >>

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