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MAY 14 - MAY 20
So here it is, your second weekly dose of flavor. Don't worry about the turbulence... everything will sort itself out. Just keep your seatbelt on and know the exits. |  |
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This week's flavor:
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| art: | Faces of Ground Zero, Ray Beldner's "Counterfeit", Ted Vasin Reception |
| city gem: | The Projects |
| comedy: | Kids in the Hall |
| dj: | Karsh Kale, Merge, XLR8R's Ninth Anniversary, Yogataichi Day Party |
| film: | 2nd Annual SF DocFest, Barbarella |
| music: | Def Jux Fantastic Damage Tour, Oliver Mtukudzi, The Return of the Chinatown Beatdown, Tikiman with Scion, Will Bernard & Motherbug |
| performance: | Flux Capacitor Avatars |
| sports: | Bay to Breakers & Footstock |
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| | In the days following 9/11 — when most us of were cringing before the TV, daring ourselves to turn if off — Life photographer Joe McNally was producing the biggest shoot of his career, gathering firemen, aid workers, and victims' families to stand in front of the largest Polaroid camera in the world. "Faces of Ground Zero," which opens today, is a collection of dozens of McNally's 9-foot-tall, stunningly life-like portraits. Sponsored by Morgan Stanley, which had 3700 workers at the WTC, the show has garnered worldwide press but will only be seen in seven cities. Said McNally at the time: "I've been shooting through tears." Come see with your own eyes. (RR)
  
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| | Zimbabwe's Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a veteran of Southern Africa's Wagon Wheels in the 1970's, brings his band Black Spirits into town for an evening of politically-conscious Afropop. Rooted in chimurenga, a genre based on thumb piano and pioneered by Tuku's former bandmate Mapfumo, Black Spirits' grooves also incorporate South African mbaqanga, Zimbabwean JIT, traditional kateke drumming, and a healthy dose of pop. Some of the flavorpill crew caught him last month in NY and danced late to his positive beats. (PS)
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CITY GEM
The Projects
| | when: | Wed 5.15 (8pm - 12am) | | where: | Laszlo (2534 Mission St, 415.648.7600) | | price: |  FREE |
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Laszlo |
| | Fashion designer Loren Cronk, industrial designer Yves Behar, and modernist boutique owner Brent Haas share a special bond. Their respective companies — Beta Project, Fuse Project, and Haas Project — all favor a forward-looking yet contemporary aesthetic that promotes accessible design in daily life. (Oh, and their companies all end with the word "project.") Tonight is an opportunity to meet and hang with the crews and friends that support these local independent companies. (MC)
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DJ
Karsh Kale
| | when: | Wed 5.15 (9pm - 2am) | | where: | Backflip (601 Eddy St, 415.771.FLIP) | | price: | $5 before 10:30pm / $10 after |
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Karsh Kale | Backflip |
| | If you're into the Asian massive movement, then this is it. If you've never even heard of the Asian massive movement, then listen up: percussionist/songwriter Karsh Kale (pronounced kursh kah-lay) will be hitting the decks at Séance, the Wed weekly at Backflip. You can check out his creations on his first full-length solo release Realize, which beautifully blends Indian classical music and drum-n-bass — a melodic transfer of sound and rhythm that pulls you into a dream then drop kicks you right onto the dance floor. You may have seen him running with the likes of Bill Laswell on Tabla Beat Science or hanging with longtime colleague Talvin Singh. Nihal Mehta of Urban Grooves Network will be opening up for Karsh, who goes on a little before midnight. (RELYR)
 The first two people to tell us something interesting about India will win a pair of tickets to this show.
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FILM
2nd Annual SF DocFest
| | when: | Thur 5.16 - Tue 5.21 | | where: | Studio Z (314 11th St, 415.252.7666) | | price: | $8 / $40 all access |
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DocFest | Buy Tickets |
| | The 2nd Annual SF Documentary Film Festival kicks off today with an eclectic mix of short and feature-length films that are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always engaging. DocFest covers a spectrum of strange American subcultures, including hyper-intelligent kids in a grueling spelling bee tour (Spellbound), a guy who mounts a webcam to his head (Cyberman), and a hacker who spends his life screwing with the government (Owned). Who knows, you may find a kindred spirit or two up on the screen. If anything, DocFest makes you realize that truth can be much, much stranger than fiction. (NN)
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| | Anyone who trashes Roger Vadim's 1968 camp classic Barbarella is probably taking life way too seriously. Adapted from a comic book series, the film features Jane Fonda as a sex-doll heroine. Commissioned to save the galaxy from the evil Duran Duran (yes, this is where those '80s Brit-pop sensations got their name), Barbarella gets into various space-age predicaments while finding every opportunity to get out of her already skimpy costumes. Sure this film is ridiculous, full of outrageous sexual innuendo and bad special effects, but who cares! Barbarella is the reason to love shag carpet, psychedelic garb, swirling lava lamps, and bubblegum pop — anything that has that '60s kitschy charm. (JK)
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| | San Francisco-based art collective Future Primitive Soundsession presents a beatdown of infamous DJ's including J-Rocc & Melo-D, Peanut Butter Wolf & DJ Egon, Foreign Legion, Doc Fu, and DJ Enki, with visuals by Jetpack and Macroscopic. Come early for finger food and drink specials. A special movie showing of The Drunken Master will begin at 9pm. (LS)
Note: Buy tickets at Aquarius Records, Open Mind Music, Red Five, or at Ticket Web.
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PERFORMANCE
Flux Capacitor Avatars
| | when: | Fri 5.17 - Sat 5.18 (8:30pm & 10:30pm late show w/ DJs) | | where: | King Street Garage (174 King St, 415.665.6715) | | price: | $15 advance / $20 door |
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King Street Garage | Capacitor |
| | Ladies and Gentleman, kindly place your seats in their full upright position as Capacitor, your evening flight simulators, takes you on musical journey through a world reminiscent of Super Mario Bros. In their new video-game inspired show, "Flux Capacitor Avatars," the experimental SF performance group works with over 20 local artists to combine live and electronic music, dance, film, and motion capture animation all on one stage. (JK)
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DJ
XLR8R's Ninth Anniversary Bash featuring Seiji and Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes
| | when: | Fri 5.17 (10pm) | | where: | The Galaxy Club (1840 Haight St, 415.387.2996) | | price: | $5 before 11pm / $10 after |
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XLR8R | Ubiquity |
| | What better way to kick off a new monthly than with an anniversary? XLR8R, San Francisco’s vaunted electronic music rag, tonight celebrates nine years in the trenches by joining up with longtime allies Ubiquity Records to launch Are Friends Electric?, a party that'll have you breaking sweat to broken beats every third Friday. The West London future jazzbo Seiji (of Bugz in the Attic) drops breakbeat science with Detroit's Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes (Tresor, Azuli) making sure the Motor City soul quotient is complete. With Andrew Jervis (Ubiquity) and a tag-team session from XLR8R's Ms. E and Stareyes. (PS)
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DJ
Yogataichi Day Party
| | when: | Sat 5.18 (12pm - 6pm) | | where: | Bandshell @ Golden Gate Park (next to the Academy of Science) | | price: | FREE |
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Golden Gate Park |
| | The Yoga Tai Chi Collective is bringing their love and healing power outdoors. This "synchronized kung fu troupe" combines dance choreography with yoga and martial arts, giving the crowd an alternative and conscious approach to partying. In the spirit of this family, relax your body, soothe your soul, and dance to the music all in one afternoon. If you feel inspired to begin your day with some guided yoga and Tai Chi, join these healing arts practitioners for your daily dose. That funky dancefloor beat will keep you afloat the rest of the day. Music and sound is provided by the YogaTaiChi/ Mystic Family Circus DJs (or creative visualizers, if you will...) (JK)
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MUSIC
Tikiman with Scion (Burial Mix, Chain Reaction)
| | when: | Sat 5.18 (9pm & midnight) | | where: | Recombinant Labs Compound (1070 Van Dyke, 415.971.4276) | | price: | $10 each seating |
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Recombinant |
| | An evening so rare it's practically bleu: Chain Reaction's most reclusive minimalists, Vainqueur and Substance, bring their Scion project to town for the first time since 1998. The Jamaican-born, Berlin-based Tikiman will accompany them, laying down the praise-Jah vocals that graced Burial Mix and Rhythm & Sound — their two series of post-techno roots riddims. Rarer even is the choice of venue — Asphodel honcho Naut Humon's Recombinant Labs Compound, seldom open to the public, where Humon will air selections from his collection of "virtual appearance DJ modules," including bits from Terre Thaemlitz and DJ Olive. Moving pictures provided courtesy of Sue and the Musorkians and Scott Pagano (of Swipe). (PS)
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| | Tim and the Merge crew have assembled an all-star house lineup for their first all-night massive at Kelly's:
settle in for Eddie Amador's signature Yoshitoshi sound and Colette's beautiful self singing over her house licks, joined by local rockstars Jeno (Wicked) and David Coleman & Sen-sei (Kinetic Grooves). Don't forget Viva!'s local pride and joy, Rick Preston, who's been bumpin' for years now, joined by Harry Who? and Graeme. Not a party to miss for nightowls looking for some solid late beats. (SE)
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SPORTS
91st Annual Bay to Breakers & Footstock
| | when: | Sat 5.19 (8am - 3pm) | | where: | Streets of SF (starting line at Howard & Spear, finish at Great Highway, 415.359.2800) | | price: | $30 all access / $15 Footstock only |
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Bay to Breakers | Footstock |
| | Mixing athleticism, civic-mindedness, and only-in-SF partying, Bay to Breakers may be the world’s wackiest foot race. Certainly it's one of the biggest — 80,000 red-faced locals struggle behind a handful of world-class runners over the 7.4-mile course. In fact, the race is even stranger than it sounds. Teams push floats while individuals vie for best costume or run au naturel and "Centipede" squads (13 joined runners) wind their way through the course. At 2.5 miles, runners hit the Hayes Street Hill; at the end, they hit the keg at the Footstock party (this year's headliner is Smashmouth). (RR)
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| | Aren't you glad that Comedy Central isn't the only place left to see Kids in the Hall? The Canadian comedy troupe is coming back live with "Tour of Duty." If this tour is anything like their last, you can expect to see many of your favorite Kids in the Hall skits and, we hope, another hilarious monologue by Scott Thompson. This comic cast of freaks display such amazing chemistry with one another, surely they'll keep every moment filled with fast and witty improv. (JK)
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| | Bay Area-based Will Bernard & Motherbug is no average "hippie jam band." A few seconds into one of Bernard's angular, rump-shaking compositions and the term fades faster than you can say "Phish." Imagine a guitar-playing Thelonious Monk with Sly Stone's rhythm section. Returning home from their debut at the New Orleans JazzFest, this talented group promises soulful, quirky guitar backed by funky drums and bass with burning Hammond B3 organ over the top. Bernard is best known for his work with guitarist Charlie Hunter in their band TJ Kirk. (JO)
The first four people to tell us how many strings are on a traditional Japanese Koto win a pair of comp'd guest list spots to this event.
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MUSIC
Def Jux Fantastic Damage Tour: El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, DJ Abilities, RJD2
| | when: | Mon 5.20 (9pm) | | where: | Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750) | | price: | $20 |
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| | "El Producto" sounds a bit like a revolutionary's alias, so it's no surprise that his record label, Def Jux, rocks as heavily and walks as stealthily as a guerilla squadron. The war, in this case, concerns nothing less than the liberation of hip hop. El-P for short, the former Company Flow MC and producer brings his crew — nimble tongued Aesop Rock, shady character Mr. Lif, DJ Abilities, and the about-to-blow-up beatmaker RJD2 — on the road to prove why Def Jux is the most radical name in underground hip hop, alight with incendiary lyricism and encrusted with the ashes of incinerated funk. (PS)
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| | Early in the morning on those rare hot days in SF, alleys and concrete pockets south of Market Street are urban deserts — grit-filled, barren places — which Moscow-born Ted Vasin captures in his luridly beautiful abstract paintings. Tonight is the reception for his new series, "Overpass," and the inaugural opening of Suarez Gallery. Vasin will also be performing his audio "paintings" — collections of processed ambient sounds created in collaboration with David Collin. (MP)
Note: For more information email Suarez Gallery.
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| | Money, you don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is... As art critic Dave Hickey wrote, "Art and money have no intrinsic value. When one buys a piece of art, they are simply trading a piece of green paper, signed by a bureaucrat, for a piece of white paper with a picture on it, signed by an artist." SF sculptor Ray Beldner has selected 20th-century artists, such as Duchamp, O'Keefe, Pollock, Magritte, and Warhol, and remade their most famous works with U.S. paper currency. (NN)
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| CD REVIEW: Kindai-Tek(i) |
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Bambola
Released May 2002
It's no secret that the English language creates a special fascination in Japanese culture, and Japanese musicians have also shown an affinity for Anglo-American styles of electronic music. Kindai-Tek(i) showcases a dozen artists working within the framework of broken beat and future jazz, relying on healthy doses of heavy funk and Brazilian swing to move the music forward. The compilation is admirably diverse, ranging from Romp's intelligent techno sound to the classic jazzy garage of Shiba and Organ Language. On the more experimental side, Quante Jubila flips electro breaks like a robot tossing coins and Yakayuki Shiraishi turns wooden chimes into a gritty, post-techno stormer. But the gem here is Silicom's downtempo stunner "Kes" — roughed-up breaks and smoothed-over keys shot through with a psychedelic vertigo that will have you levitating from the downbeat. (PS) |
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| GEAR: Flight 001 |
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The one-stop travel store Flight 001 which recently opened at 525 Hayes Street takes its inspiration from the original Pan Am Flight 001 that originated in SF, circling the globe making stops in Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Delhi, Beirut, Istanbul, Frankfurt, London and finally landing NYC in 48 hours.
This jetset
bunch has been providing NYC denizens and net-setters with creative travel goods since '99 — all neatly organized into "pre-flight", "in-flight", and "arrival" accessories.
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| STREAMS: Groovetech |
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Every week we serve up three freshly squeezed DJ sets to whet your musical appetite compliments
of our chef de music — Groovetech. A virtual sonic feast for all those who are willing to take a byte. Go ahead, the beats are tasty and the flavor long-lasting.
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