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Theater
At the Palace of Fine Arts
The 24th annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, the oldest festival in the United States dedicated to the preservation of cross-cultural ethnic dance, will be featuring more than thirty companies in an opulent collection of performances. Divided into three programs, this year's festival will include performances from over twenty nationalities and will take viewers on a journey through classical dance forms from across the globe. More
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Galleries
By Rachel Churner
Over the past six weeks, we've become accustomed to the visual drone of the TV, always tuned to CNN, MSNBC, Peter Jennings on ABC. We leave the TV on just in case, so that we know if another anthrax exposure is confirmed, another suspect is arrested, another threat is made. The sound is kept low or muted, so that we can go on with our days "uninterrupted" because all that's really needed are the images from this new shining roommate. More
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Museums
By Greg Youmans
Few things are scarier than math. Other subjects, art for instance, may be daunting and inscrutable. But faced with difficult art, we can always defend ourselves with our imperious subjectivity, scoffing at an artwork's failure to affect us as intended, or, better yet, accusing a piece of simply not meaning anything. These are harder positions to take when math confronts us in our ignorance. For many of us, math is meaning. And when faced with the austere beauty of a parabola, reducible to a simple equation composed of numbers and symbols — into which the subjectivity and imprecision of language do not even enter! — a person can indeed feel s More
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Galleries
By Sarah Lidgus
Even after living for only six months in San Francisco, the mere utterance of the words "dot" and "com" still trigger an wave of nausea within, accompanied by flashing neon warning signs pleading with me to run far, far away not from the modern ghost town of abandoned live/work SOMA lofts, but from the inevitable "screw those yuppies" diatribe. Residents of the Bay Area may be the largest concentrated population to understand the ugly effects of a shotgun marriage between the dot coms and the electronic-everything craze. The result, however, is that a lot of time and energy has been spent picking at the dot com scab and then complaining... More
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Galleries
Exhibition At the Presidio
How long does it take to transform a traditionalist Eastern nation into a modern Westernized one? For Japan, it took roughly forty-four years. During the Meiji Era (1868-1912), Japan went through a culture-wide shift of ideals that sent her charging into a world predominantly governed by Western powers. More
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Museums
By Julie Kim
It's hard not to like what's showing in the little hallway tucked away in the otherwise expansive Architecture & Design galleries at SFMOMA. It's an intimate space, reminiscent of the corridor connecting the bedroom and kitchen in your Victorian flat. A visit to this gallery provides a much needed respite from rainy-day-museum-overload, where you might find yourself wandering aimlessly from one large white box to the next, unable to really focus on or be enlightened by the art. There's only room enough for a handful of contemporary design pieces, so it's a good place to hide out if you really want to absorb. More
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Galleries
By Maya Kroth
Housed in a cozy gallery in downtown Oakland, "That Girl!" showcases the work of the Bay Area's finest up-and-coming female artists. Works by Lisa Solomon, Jungsun Kim, Stella Lai, and Simone Shubuck and Katherine Aoki adorn the walls of Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery in a show that proves that feminism has truly come a long way, baby. More
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Theater
By Rachel Churner
When the holidays arrive, the families do too, so when you're looking for somewhere to take the folks, the kids, or the in-laws this week, try the Liebe Wetzel's "Another Wrapping Paper Caper." Wetzel and her Oakland-based puppetry troupe Lunatique Fantastique take kids of all ages on a wild puppet adventure, as the trench-coated private eye follows a trail of packing peanuts to track down a stolen package. Along the way the sleuth runs into a host of wrapping paper-clad, found-object puppets created on stage, including Ribbon, Tinsel, Styrofoam peanuts, Fedora Hat, along with guest appearances by Bread Rolls and Silverware. More
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Theater
By Charyn Pfeuffer
I love going to the theater, but sometimes, it can be a bit of a production. The experience can be pretentious and costly, and I always feel like proper etiquette is fully enforced. A night at the ODC Theater breaks all of those stigmas. I dress up because I want to -- not because I feel obligated to. There are no stuffy tuxedo-clad ushers or assigned seats. And the ODC provides top-notch local theater without breaking the bank. More
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Galleries
By Kira Garcia
I learned a couple of lessons about visiting galleries during a recent trip to Southern Exposure. First, it's difficult to maintain a kind of pensive, art-watching, gallery face while ducking a model train doing acrobatics on a flying track just above your head. And second, there are some things you just can't fake. More
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