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Sat Aug 16

It's Pop It's Art with Electrocute

with DJ's J Montag and J-Maz

at Gray Area Gallery (8pm - 11pm) Music

Featuring limited edition prints from the It's Pop It's Art collaboration between Airside and EMI Music Publishing, as well as never before seen pieces from US artists Hit&Run, Retna, Mike Genovese, Ethos...
Sat Jul 19

Fashion On The Square

at Union Square (noon - 5pm) Fashion

The largest outdoor runway show on the West Coast. FOTS will rock the runway, in its 5th consecutive year on Union Square in beautiful San Francisco. FOTS 2008 will feature the hottest designers around the world, including Zambia, Africa, to be featured on the runway...
Sat Jul 19

Leisure

at W Hotel (9pm - 2am) Clubs

Dedicated to a more "loungy" and "social" atmosphere with friends. When is the last time you partied at the W? So spread the word to fashionable friends and join us for another unique, sophisticated evening at one of the chicest, most luxurious venues in the city.
Sat Jul 19

Bay Area Now 5 Opening Night

at YBCA (8pm) Music

Join us for the party of the year as we celebrate the opening of Bay Area Now 5 with bands, DJs, interactive projects with BAN 5 artists, performances by the Bay Area’s best talent and of course Campari cocktails. Expect performances and sets by Softhug (Official Tourist), T.I.T.S., Eugene International and a band so secret we can’t even tell you!
Sat Jul 19

Download Festival

Gang of Four, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mutemath, Yeasayer, M83 and more!

at Shoreline Amphitheatre (1pm) Music

"Ready to experience Download 2008? Tap into your inner tech nerd and get plugged into innovative music, the latest gadgets, and free schwag." Sign up for a chance to win tickets!
Sat Jul 19

Eddie Izzard Stripped

at Orpheum Theatre (8pm) Theater

Critics have described Izzard as everything from the "funniest man in pretty much all of the known universe," to "a human search engine," to "a surrealist maestro of historical and scientific trivia”, and "a one-man Monty Python crew."...
Sun Jul 20

AIDS Walk San Francisco

at Golden Gate Park (8:30am - 2:45pm) City Events

Since 1987, AIDS Walk San Francisco has raised over $65 million for HIV programs and services in the Bay Area. In 2007 alone, 25,000 participants raised a record sum of $4.6 million for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and more than 40 Bay Area HIV/AIDS organizations. AIDS Walk San Francisco is notable not only for its size, but also for its diversity...
Sun Jul 20

Prepare for the Playa

at Cafe Cocomo (1pm - 1am) Clubs

The Prepare for the Playa Event series connects participants of Burning Man to things they need to prepare for the desert while celebrating and providing a local outlet for performers and artists alike. The Prepare for the Playa Event series will be held every 3rd Sunday of the month.
Sat Jul 19 - Sun Jul 20

SF Zine Fest

at SF County Fair Building (11am - 7pm) City Events

Celebration of small press, zines, comics, and all things DIY in an even bigger and better new location: The San Francisco County Fair Building, in Golden Gate Park. As always, the Zine Fest is free and open to the public! Over 100 small-press and DIY creators will be selling, trading, and otherwise sharing their work with over a thousand...
Sun Jul 20 - Tue Jul 22

North Beach Jazz Fest

Mike Clark, Paul Jackson and Skerik

at Mojito (9pm) Music

Clark and Jackson are best known for their work as part of the legendary jazz-fusion supergroup Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters. Between them they have played for a who's who of the jazz and funk world and with Jackson in Tokyo and Clark in New York...
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Artist, Icon, Revolutionary
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Frida Kahlo is typically rendered as either the eccentric lady artist of the mustache and unibrow, memorialized by Hollywood goddess Salma Hayek, or the shunned wife of legendary muralist and revolutionary Diego Rivera. MORE
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