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Friday, June 8, 2012

Cheryl Kelley's "Detailed": Cars We Would F**k

Posted By on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM

Edsel - CHERYL KELLEY
  • Cheryl Kelley
  • Edsel
Have you ever seen a car so sexy that you wanted to run your hands all over it, maybe even stretch out luxuriously on the hood? The Jaguars, Corvettes, and even the Edsel in Cheryl Kelley's series "Detailed" are those kinds of cars. These objects are impressive enough, but when you consider that you are admiring not elegantly composed photos but oil paintings, they are even more breathtaking.

The Opening Reception for "Detailed" begins Thursday, June 7 at Scott Richards Contemporary Art.

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Recent Acquisitions: The Mystery of the Miniature Phonograph

Posted By on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:30 AM

ONE OF THE FIRST PORTABLE PHONOGRAPHS TO HIT THE MARKET IN 1903, FOUND IN THE SOCIETY OF PIONEERS ARCHIVE LAST WEEK.
  • One of the first portable phonographs to hit the market in 1903, found in the Society of Pioneers archive last week.
Cultural institutions in San Francisco continually search for new acquisitions. Alexis Coe brings you the most important, often wondrous, sometimes bizarre, and occasionally downright vexing finds each week.

Patricia Keats was knee deep in cameras, searching for a special donation from the 1930s. Case after case held a camera, but not the right one.

This case looks normal enough.
  • This case looks normal enough.

The director of the Society of Pioneers library and archives persevered until she pulled out something peculiar, a case within a case. Keats continued unpacking the device, but there was no lens in sight. Instead, there seemed to be a silver-plated horn with a logo dominating the rounded edge.

This was no camera at all, but something altogether different.

Sir, this is no camera!
  • Sir, this is no camera!

"At first we weren't sure what it was," Keats recalled. Even the best librarian turns to the Internet in moments like this, although her expertise led her to believe it might appeal to an entirely different sense.

This machine pleased the ear far more than the eye.

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The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" Gets a Digital Makeover

Posted By on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:00 AM

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The cultural and social upheaval of the 1960s was so pervasive and palpable that even a child couldn't miss it, especially if that child's parents provided a couple of quarters to see the latest feature-length cartoon. One day in the fall of 1967, the kid might go to The Jungle Book, an amiable, undemanding adventure that happened to be the last animated movie that Walt Disney (the man, not the company) produced. Less than a year later, however, the little innocent's mind would be blown by the unfettered imagination, flamboyant Pop Art palette, grown-up irreverence, and punning one-liners of Yellow Submarine, and nothing is ever the same.

Yellow Submarine runs June 8 and June 10-12 at the Castro Theatre.

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Interview: Bruja Playwright Luis Alfaro on Assimilation, Teen Felons, and Witchery

Posted By on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:30 AM

Sabina Zuniga Varela and Armando Rodriguez in Bruja at Magic Theatre - JENNIFER REILEY
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  • Sabina Zuniga Varela and Armando Rodriguez in Bruja at Magic Theatre

Poet, playwright, community activist, and MacArthur fellow Luis Alfaro is no stranger to Greeking out. Bruja is his third in a series of plays adapted from Greek myths, the first two being Electricidad (Electra) and Oedipus El Rey (Oedipus the King). Bruja is a reimagining of Euripides' Medea, where a young Medea is taken from her home by her older husband to live in San Francisco's Mission District. Alfaro sat down with us to talk about assimilation, seeing contemporary themes in ancient works, and how art asks us to change.

You say you begin your plays with a question. What's the question with Bruja?

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