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The Fillmore district has long been the city’s go-to spot for music so slick and greasy it makes you feel like you cheated on a diet. So it’s only natural that a celebration dedicated to gluttony, recklessness, and debauchery -- Fat Tuesday -- finds the district a nice home to...
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Haight/ Fillmore
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Performing Arts, Music, Mardi Gras, Food & Drink, Festivals, Cultural Events, Arts |
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ODC Theater :
Daily from Fri., February 17 until Sun., February 19
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Seeing a dance choreographed by Holly Johnson is like going to a Tennessee Williams play where the actors have forgotten how to speak and instead deliver their lines through movement. Her latest piece, Want, which has its world premier this weekend, dives into the intense emotions of human...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Performing Arts, Dance, Arts |
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CounterPULSE :
Daily from Fri., February 17 until Mon., February 20, 8:00pm
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For the artist, the decision between making a living and following creative bliss -- the decision between eating and creating -- has always been a struggle. Patti Smith was homeless when she moved to New York City, and Vincent Van Gogh was poor and all but unknown when he died. The dual nature...
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South of Market
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Theater - Small, Theater, Drag, DIY, Arts |
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Hedge Gallery :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 17 until Sat., April 21
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Raised in an artistic family, Christophe Come began making jewelry and bronze sculpture under the prestigious tutelage of French sculptor Louise Derbre. The young artist’s interest in the ornamental, however, quickly gave way to a fascination with the fundamental. He was particularly...
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Embarcadero
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Free Events, Arts, Art - Openings & Events, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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Exit Theatre :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 23 until Sun., March 11
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The fall of the Soviet Union freed not only political prisoners and some high-end vodka brands but also truckloads of culture -- including some fairy tales so dark they make Tim Burton and Edward Gorey look like My Little Pony. One is Tontlawald (in previews this weekend), an Estonian tale...
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Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin
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Theater - Openings, Theater - Ongoing, Theater, Arts |
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Contemporary Jewish Museum :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 16 until Mon., May 28
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The tree, as a motif, repeatedly appears in mythology and ancient tales, often representing a powerful aspect of nature. There’s Yggdrasil in Norse cosmology -- a tree that is central to all that exists -- as well as the one in the Garden of Eden that Adam and Eve weren’t supposed...
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South of Market
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Religion & Spirituality, Environmental, Cultural Events, Arts, Art - Openings & Events, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., February 18 until Sun., May 27
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“Audience” does not always equal “spectator.” Have you ever bulled into the thick of a mosh pit, body-surfed at an outdoor festival, or thrilled to the collective power of a political rally? These scenarios and others are presented for what they are -- and aren’t...
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South of Market
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Arts, Art - Openings & Events, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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Make-Out Room :
Second Saturday of every month, 7:30pm
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Charlie Anders, blond of bob and mini of skirt, is the hostess with the mostest science fiction at her literary hootenanny, Writers with Drinks. (She's also the news editor of io9, Gawker's sci-fi/fantasy blog.) Aside from Anders' charming ways, the lineup of readers is always delightful....
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Literary Events, LGBT Events, Arts |
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Euripides, like many ancient Greeks, regarded passionate love as a form of insanity. So he might not seem like the most fitting playwright around whom to center your Valentine’s Day date. But his Helen, which gets a staged reading tonight by SF Theater Pub, is perhaps the only play...
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Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin
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Valentine's Day, Theater, Arts |
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Stage Werx 446 :
Third Sunday of every month, 7:00pm
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Comedians are “always depressed,” we hear. After we’re done fervently hoping it isn’t true, we wonder how “funny” and “depressing” ever came to be separate categories, especially post-Mitch Hedberg. At Previously Secret Information, they aren’t, sort...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Theater, Spoken Word, Performing Arts, Literary Events, Comedy, Arts |
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Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 19 until Sat., February 25
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A woman sits in shadows, wrapped in a great checkered cowl. Behind her, golden light pours from a contraption of cogs, bells, tubes, and funnels that reach into the clouds. The conduits draw rainwater into small elixir bottles. It’s Useless Science or the Alchemist, a painting by Remedios...
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South of Market
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Openings & Events, Art - Galleries |
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Have you ever seen a Gritchen in your kitchen? Or dared to dance with the One-Legged Zantz? We can’t think of a better time to start than during the final days before Christmas. Long out of print, Don’t Bump the Glump was Shel Silverstein’s first and strangest collection of...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Literary Events, Free Events, Family Events, Children's Events, Arts |
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The Stud :
Every week Friday
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The unGoogleable inheritor of the Trannyshack art-drag scepter is known as Some Thing; each Friday brings a new theme via semi-pun. It could be simple, such as Some Thing Good, or it could be A Li’l Sumptin’ Some Thing, which is funny but what are you going to wear? The first show...
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South of Market
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Theater, LGBT Events, Drag, Arts |
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Verdi Club :
Second Wednesday of every month
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“We’ve all done some fucked-up shit,” says Dixie De La Tour: going home with the wrong person, getting in over our heads in a BDSM scenario, sitting through that timeless, endless feature Nightmare Date II: The Boundary-Free Zone. We’ve all also been blown away by indoor...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Spoken Word, Sex & Fetish Events, Literary Events, Arts |
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Exploratorium :
Daily from Sat., February 11 until Sun., February 12, 1:00pm
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We've become a bit leery of the more easy-to-come-by Valentines day gestures: flowers, anatomically incorrect heart-shaped cards, chocolate -- no, scratch that, we like the chocolate. But still, if you're seeking something different, here's the Ultimate Date Tour. It offers a multitude of...
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Marina/ Cow Hollow
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Valentine's Day, Nature, Education, DIY, Arts |
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The Marsh Theater :
Every week Thursday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 9 until Sun., March 18
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If you're looking for a little more humanity and a little less apocalypse on the subject of endings, Geoff Hoyle's Geezer is a very funny one-man show about aging, decline, and death. It's back for another run after a successful run in 2011. At the beginning, Hoyle tells us that his father died...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Theater, Performing Arts, Arts |
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The Hypnodrome :
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 27 until Sat., March 3
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Combine Poe's The Masque of the Red Death with Fellini's La Dolce Vita, persuade most of your actors to show off their peens, then stage the whole thing as a '30s musical revue. You might end up with something like Vice Palace, but you'll be lucky if your version is anywhere near as much fun to...
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South of Market
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Theater, Sex & Fetish Events, LGBT Events, Arts |
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SF Playhouse Stage 2 :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., January 24 until Sat., March 10
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Becky Shaw is like a two-hour greatest hits album ... for a soap opera. Have a favorite cliché of the genre? You'll probably find it somewhere in Gina Gionfriddo's careening script. There's a well-to-do family that, upon the death of its patriarch, discovers it has no savings left, and...
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Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin
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Theater, Performing Arts, Arts |
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Conservatory of Flowers :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., January 3 until Sun., April 15
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Bottom line: Playland at the Beach is where the ice-cream-and-cookie concoction known as the It's-It came from. People love their memories of the amusement park -- San Francisco's answer to Coney Island (1926-1972) -- and that's cool, but let's be serious: the It's-It. For those of you trying...
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Sunset (Outer)
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Free Events, Festivals, Family Events, Arts |
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We San Franciscans are experimental types, so if you’ve never given ballet a try, it’s about time you did. Three lauded names in contemporary choreography exhibit their work tonight. Picking a favorite from the diverse set won’t be easy. Chroma by Wayne McGregor and Number...
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Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin
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Performance Art, Dance, Arts |
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Royce Gallery :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 20 until Sat., February 18
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"A country road. A tree. Evening." So go the opening stage directions of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, one of the most important plays of the 20th century. But if the set description seems minimal, Tides Theatre's interpretation of them is anything but. Director Jennifer Welch says the...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Theater - Openings, Theater, Performing Arts, Performance Art, Arts |
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Gough Street Playhouse :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., January 19 until Sat., February 25, 8:00pm
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Marcus is a 17-year-old hacker – er, high school student – living in San Francisco in the near future. And like any smart hacker – uh, teenager – he lives for technological challenges such as bypassing, disabling, and otherwise eluding his school's surveillance network....
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Nob Hill/ Russian Hill/ Fisherman's Wharf
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Theater - Openings, Theater, Performing Arts, Arts |
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The Marsh Berkeley :
Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., January 7 until Sun., March 25
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Talk about an identity crisis. Don Reed spent time in the shocking-pink world of 1980s Hollywood with a pimp for a dad. He tried various routes to finding himself: gigolo, stripper, college student. One that stuck (for a while) was a waiter in what he calls a “retirement hotel,”...
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Downtown Berkeley
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Theater, Performing Arts, Cultural Events, Arts |
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Fabric8 :
Daily from Mon., October 3 until Fri., August 31
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We went to Rome once. One thing that blew our minds was the public art. There’s so much of it that some has been reclaimed by the needs of everyday life. You see people taking lunch on what’s left of an ancient fountain or a big sculpture that anywhere else would be surrounded by...
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Mission/ Bernal Heights
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Parks & Preserves, Free Events, Arts, Art - Galleries |
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Asian Art Museum of San Francisco :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., January 3 until Sun., April 22
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Ideally, art exhibits offer an "ah-ha" moment, when you stand transfixed and realize, "This speaks to me like nothing before." This exhibit contains pieces that scream "ah-ha" — that challenge your assumptions and reveal the massive contradictions of a culture that has enthralled...
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Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin
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Visual Art, Cultural Events, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums |
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