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    Calendar, Night&Day Cute, or Something

    Cute, or Something

    No one has gone broke overestimating alt-culture’s appetite for cutesy images of anthropomorphic creatures. Given the bustling market for adorable cryptids, chatty birds, and coffee-swilling bears, the craft fair aesthetic threatens to devolve into precious, saccharine kitsch. While we’re not…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Mushroom Cloud? Liz Taylor Film Flop

    Mushroom Cloud? Liz Taylor Film Flop

    What does the word “BOOM!” bring to mind? That Thomas Pynchon line about a jet engine tearing through the sky? An 808 drum kick? The mics held by stiff-armed tall people on a soundstage? Art submissions addressing this vague notion…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Radical Shopping

    Radical Shopping

    It happens every year: The media blitz begins on Black Friday and Cyber Monday compelling us to buy a pile of crap bound to be obsolete by April. For those of us who have resisted the siren call of consumerism…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Good Things

    Good Things

    "Pop-up shop" is a cutesy euphemism for what is essentially an old-fashioned arts and crafts fair, different from your grandmother's only in aesthetics and the average age of attendees. We'll allow it, though, if only because the objects for sale…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Bird Is the Word

    Bird Is the Word

    Anne Lamott has the rare ability to approach subjects devalued by empty platitudes and false sentiment — faith, grief, the writing process — in a considered yet unsentimental manner. She’s a hero among fellow writers thanks to her book Bird…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Marble Thigh City

    Marble Thigh City

    The preponderance of cracked ribs and shattered MacBook screens among our friends demonstrates that booze and bicycles don’t generally mix. But so long as the drunkies leave their velocipedes at home, the Winterfest Party offers an opportunity to heartily toast…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    Neon lights aren’t usually associated with highfalutin’ notions of art or metaphysics. They’re usually the domain of Vegas and Times Square tackiness, synonymous with seedy titty bars, bottom-shelf booze, and blinking advertisements for failing brands. So for Meryl Pataky to…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Just Before It All Went Kablooey

    Just Before It All Went Kablooey

    Modern society is so intractably fucked that it's a fair question whether we still need the dystopian novel. Many of the most despairing science fiction visions, such as Philip K. Dick's fever-dreams of capitalist dictatorships and surveillance states, could pass…
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    Calendar, Night&Day If It’s Too Loud ...

    If It’s Too Loud ...

    Probably the last place you want to be on Saturday morning with a hangover, the International Taiko Festival is still worth rousing yourself from bed and downing a couple Bloody Marys for. The tribute to thunderous Japanese drumming presented by…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Do You Feel Drained?

    Do You Feel Drained?

    Rolling Stone political journalist Matt Taibbi has won many admirers (and plenty of enemies) with his take-no-prisoners reportage on the crooks responsible for the financial collapse. His approach is questionable — it resides somewhere between the foul-mouthed gonzo journalism of…
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    Calendar, Night&Day You Mean It’s True? Damn.

    You Mean It’s True? Damn.

    Trevor Paglen documents democracy's most obscure swamps: secret testing installations that don't appear on maps, extraordinary rendition centers run by the military in lawless corners of the world. While these subjects are often the disreputable domain of conspiracy thrillers and…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Old New Again

    Old New Again

    Well-worn irony is still the de facto tone for many stand-up comedians, while the Internet and Adult Swim have championed a type of comedy that resides somewhere between Dada and Jackass. Bearing that in mind, it may appear that there…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Learning to Kroll

    Learning to Kroll

    Nick Kroll may be best known for his numerous appearances on VH1’s Best Week Ever series (and the endless run of I Love the specials that preceded it.) Over the past couple of years, however, he has made a…
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    Calendar, Night&Day When Worlds Collide

    When Worlds Collide

    The tattoo and fine art communities have long existed in uneasy symbiosis. The fine art world has provided the tattoo scene with some of its best practitioners ― it’s one of the few sure ways a visual artist can make…
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    Calendar, Night&Day We Are Not Afraid

    We Are Not Afraid

    H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos has become the dominant joke religion for Internet geeks the world over, eclipsing other willfully anachronistic belief systems such as the Church of the Subgenius and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. There is a staggering wealth of…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Boring Is Safe

    Boring Is Safe

    It’s well-established that the devil has the best music, roller derby teams, and cocktail mixers, so we can assume his nine circles of eternal pain and suffering are overflowing with eager participants. The premise of author E.E. King’s first novel,…
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    Calendar, Night&Day It Looks So Reel

    It Looks So Reel

    Tightly orchestrated sound accompanies lingering shots of abstract figures and pulsating light in Paul Clipson’s impressionistic films. He takes micro and macro views to their logical extremes — his subjects are the minute details and overarching systems that govern the…
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    Calendar, Night&Day The Only Vampire Books We’ll Put Up With Right Now

    The Only Vampire Books We’ll Put Up With Right Now

    The steady stream of bullshit that nurtures Hollywood can drive its denizens to believe they're capable of anything: Actors want to direct, directors wish to write, and transients see themselves headlining summer blockbusters. In reality, most successful Hollywood players are…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Storm Warning

    Storm Warning

    As though he’s doing penance for younger indulgences, Dave Eggers has gone in an unexpected direction in recent years, focusing on sober, intimate accounts of underreported subjects. It's a sharp contrast to his precious early work, and it has rehabilitated…
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    Calendar, Night&Day The Outsider Is In

    The Outsider Is In

    Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong may be the most successful immigrant comic working today. He voraciously consumed Western culture in China as a child, listening to American classic rock on static-laden short-wave radio. Both an insider and an outsider, he bridges…
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    Calendar, Night&Day The Future Is Coming

    The Future Is Coming

    It’s a forgone conclusion that author William Gibson is remarkably prescient. This is the guy who coined the term "cyberspace," after all. Sure, every prognosticator gets lucky once in a while — if this wasn’t the case, the Psychic Friends…
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    Calendar, Night&Day BFE

    BFE

    Spend any time driving around this country, and you’ll find that the one thing America has a surplus of is dead-end towns. These are the kinds of places where job prospects dried up with Henry Ford’s death, the bowling alley…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Been a Long Time, Been a Long Time

    Been a Long Time, Been a Long Time

    It’s strange that it took years for the visual art world to establish its online voice. Despite a plethora of image-sharing services such as Flickr, Tumblr, and ffffound, sites that meaningfully document the art scene have been few and far…
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    Music, All Shook Down What to Do? Friday's Pick: Comedian Jim Short

    What to Do? Friday's Pick: Comedian Jim Short

    Jim ShortPunch Line8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $24.05Jim Short is a literate comic, but not one who takes pains to demonstrate what a smarty-pants he is. Unlike David Cross, Short isn't throwing out the occasional Lexis-Nexis reference. Regardless, the San…
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    Calendar, Night&Day Print Party

    Print Party

    Even though new-media pundits have declared zines dead and irrelevant for at least a decade, and many of the largest print publications have gone under in recent years, the scrawled-pamphlet form has demonstrated the tenacity of the cockroach. There are…
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  • clipping at Brava Theater Sept. 11
    Sub Pop recording artists 'clipping.' brought their brand of noise-driven experimental hip hop to the closing night of 2016's San Francisco Electronic Music Fest this past Sunday. The packed Brava Theater hosted an initially seated crowd that ended the night jumping and dancing against the front of the stage. The trio performed a set focused on their recently released Sci-Fi Horror concept album, 'Splendor & Misery', then delved into their dancier and more aggressive back catalogue, and recent single 'Wriggle'. Opening performances included local experimental electronic duo 'Tujurikkuja' and computer music artist 'Madalyn Merkey.'"

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