Burn your other plans for the evening if you've ever heard of Margaret Kilgallen. Ratio 3's new show, "Summer/Selections," has some never before seen work of hers -- nothing in the city is more important tonight. It continues through Aug. 5.
The cover illustration of SF Weekly's issue of Nov. 3, 2010, "Wounded Pride," turns out to be quite worthy of pride, as illustrator Scott Bakal recently received a merit award in a competition run by 3x3, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration.
Say goodbye to SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. As of Sept. 1, the San Francisco Film Society is relocating its theatrical exhibition outpost two blocks down Post Street at the New People complex.
The state of the art, 143-seat theater currently known as Viz Cinema will be rechristened San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema. It's a mouthful, sure, but at least you won't have to deal with an annoying surcharge and reserved seats to see a foreign-language art film or local documentary. (No, we haven't forgotten all the friends who complained to us when the Sundance instituted its then-new-to-S.F. price structure.)
"The Kabuki arrangement was a very amicable one, and it allowed us to get our feet wet in expanded exhibition," SFFS executive director Graham Leggat told us. "Now we need to take this lovely little plant we've grown and repot it."
Is the book dead?
I've heard this question so many times you'd think books were as impossible to find as dinosaurs. In peril is the publishing industry as we know it, not the book, and with the advent of print-on-demand publishing, some are finding new models to create and distribute books. One such innovator is Matthew Stadler, who appeared in conversation last night with author and curator Lawrence Rinder at Kadist Art Foundation. In 2009 Stadler cofounded the Portland-based Publication Studios with Patricia No. Now with six imprints spanning North America, Publication Studios offers a glimpse of the possibilities of independent outfits producing handcrafted books.
Stadler is also an innovator in literature itself. He discussed at length his new novel, Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha, which is what he calls a "cover novel" -- much like a cover song, essentially writing over and expanding upon an established work.
How many people do you know who can do the splits? We don't know any.
It's quite possible that we're just not hanging out with a bendy enough crowd, but, frankly, this wasn't something we ever thought about until So You Think You Can Dance came along and convinced us that if you're not constantly throwing your legs over your head in perfect lines and dropping to the ground, legs splayed, every three minutes, you're utterly useless as a human machine. It all makes our legs feel a little remedial.
Regardless, season eight of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance has found its Top 20 dancers and is now in full swing. Certain elements remain as annoying as ever: most notably, judge and queen of the caterwaulers, Mary Murphy, whose voice resembles a cat being murdered when she's at her most excited.
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