San Francisco Bay Guardian

Page 1

Occupy 101! Let’s go after Apple and Google P5

The one percent’s mayor Why did Ed Lee win — and what comes next? P8

Women In Punk

New doc explores three decades of DIY P22

‘California’s Best Large Weekly’ – California Newspaper Publishers Association

celebrating 45 years

the san francisco bay guardian | sfbg.com november 16 - 22, 2011 | Vol. 46, No. 7 | Free

With its trademark blend of social commentary, insightful humor, and energetic dancing, Krissy Keefer’s revolutionary company marks a milestone year — and is still going strong P18 Krissy Keefer (center) with (clockwise from bottom left) Sarah Bush, Kimberly Valmore, Jill Hibbert, Tina Banchero, Lena Gatchalian, Fredrika Keefer, and Leila Baradaran. | Guardian photos by Pat Mazzera

SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

=lcc [\ekXc ZXi\ ]fi k_\ \ek`i\ ]Xd`cp

:fjd\k`Z ;\ek`jkip Most Crowns & Implants Done in 1 Day!

95($400 vAluE) 54 New Patients Only

$

Cleaning, exam & necessary xrays.

Ocean View

Dental

fZ\Xem`\n[\ekXc%Zfd

BOTOX TREATMENTS to relieve headaches, jaw pain (TMJ) & clenching

CdWdYn hV^Y ndj ]VY id WZ V

*0

<DD9 H6CI6

:_`ifgiXZk`Z fi Fe\ ?fli DXjjX^\ D\ek`fe J=9> › F]]\i \og`i\j ()&((&((

FREE BLEACHING FOR LIFE!

Usual dental fees must be paid in full for exam, xrays & cleaning. offer expires 12/24/11

+(,$.--$'(0,,. NXcc\i Jk% 7 =`ccdfi\ nnn%k_i`m`e^c`]\n\cce\jj%Zfd

H6CI6 HJ>IH ;i% :_i`jk`e\ :Xekn\cc# ;:

Fe k_\ N@>>C< Y`b\ iflk\

=Xd`cp :_`ifgiXZkfi

+(, ))($,,0) › .-' CX GcXpX Ykn% 9XcYfX :XYi`ccf

:_`ifgiXZk`Z s DXjjX^\ s 8ZlgleZkli\ s Elki`k`fe

@e$_flj\ [\ekXc gcXe XmX`cXYc\$fecp ('-&p\Xi! Dfjk [\ekXc `ejliXeZ\j XZZ\gk\[% !:fjk `eZcl[\j fe\ k`d\ fecp (' jkXik lg ]\\%

Free phone reading Bring happiness back in your life

512-293-9938 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

editorials

The 1 percent are just up the street

for more news content visit sfbg.com/politics

editor’s notes

NEWS

Tim Redmond

The great divide

tredmond@sfbg.com

The rich and powerful went for Mayor Ed Lee. Now what happens to the rest of us? P8

alerts P9 Rank complaints

Calls to repeal ranked-choice voting come from its regular downtownallied critics — but progressives also have concerns P10

state of the occupations P11 herbwise P12 food + drink

appetite P13 cheap eats P14 picks guardian picks P16 arts + culture

Her way

Krissy Keefer celebrates 35 years of rabble-rousing and dance-making P18

trash P20 Thoughtful hooligans The World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation speaks to its whiteflagged constituency P21

Past and present

Female punks step out ‘From the Back of the Room’ P22

Playlist

Cass McCombs, The Musical Art Quartet, AYSHAY, Atlas Sound — what we’re listening to right now. P23

hairy eyeball P24 Visual wizard

Talking special effects with Bay Area legend Phil Tippett P25

Blue Hawaii

A downbeat George Clooney shines in Alexander Payne’s wry, restrained Descendants P26

Let’s get lost

Skateboarding doc Dragonslayer coasts to a pretty picture of wasted youth P27

super ego P28 MUSIC listings 29 / STAGE listings 33 on the cheap 34 / FILM listings 36 CLASSIFIEDS 40 editorials

news

food + Drink

the guardian editorial

Ed Lee’s challenges EDITORIAL Mayor Ed Lee has always talked about bringing the city together, about avoiding division and harsh conflict. And how that he’s won a four-year term, he’s going to have to address a wide range of city problems that in the past haven’t responded well to consensus and compromise. He’s going to have to do it in the wake of an election in which the centrist candidates all finished low in the pack — and the strongest progressive actually won more votes than anyone else on Election Day. And his victory comes at a time when there’s more concern over economic inequality than this country has seen since the 1930s — represented most visibly by the large and growing OccupySF encampment. The mayor received huge financial support — in the hundreds of thousands of dollars — from some of the same people and businesses that the Occupy movement is targeting. Some of his campaign contributors have an conservative economic agenda that’s way to the right of the center of San Francisco politics. And picks

arts + culture

some of his closest allies (and strongest supporters) are, to put it kindly, ethically challenged. So it’s not going to be easy for the mild-mannered mayor to lead the city — and if he wants to be successful, he needs to work with and not ignore the left. There are a few critical steps that would show the people who opposed him that he’s not a captive of big-business interests and that he can be trusted: 1. Appoint a real progressive to Sheriff-elect Ross Mirkarimi’s District Five supervisorial seat. If Lee is really a mayor who’s above petty politics, the chief criterion for the appointment shouldn’t be loyalty to Lee. District Five supported Avalos over Lee by a solid margin (in the Haight, Avalos got twice as many votes as Lee). The district has been represented by two people, Matt Gonzalez and Mirkarimi, both of whom were elected as Green Party members. It’s almost certainly the most left-leaning district in the city, and deserves a supervisor who represents that political perspective. Most of CONTINUES ON PAGE >>

music listings

stage listings

By Raj Jayadev OPINION The One Percent are not only the bankers and traders on Wall Street — they’re alive and thriving in Silicon Valley. And yet no one is encamped outside of Google in Mountain View or in front of Facebook. The protestors have rather targeted Wall Street and the government. But the new super rich of Silicon Valley have managed to come up in an economy that as shed jobs and houses and social safety nets — and their money allows them to set its rules. President Obama flies to Silicon Valley and is flattered by the company of the valley’s One Percent. Steven Jobs even famously criticized the way the president was doing his job. And the president took it. At the southern end of Silicon Valley, in front of San Jose’s City Hall, there are dozens of Occupy San Jose protesters, championing the call to action that originated CONTINUES ON PAGE >>

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

Occupy Oakland has been very good at exposing one local problem — police brutality. The first raids, and the tear gas and rubber bullets that flew afterward showed the world how poorly trained the Oakland cops are and how unprepared they were for a largely peaceful demonstration. But overall, the Occupy movement has been about national issues — or rather, The National Issue, which is income inequality. Nothing else going on in the United States compares. On an economic level, I could argue that nothing else matters — until we resolve the wealth and income gap, the recession will never end, the deficit will never improve, the unemployment rate won’t decline, the nation will grow weaker and weaker and more and more unstable ... basically, we’re doomed. But while there have been marches on local banks and corporations, not a lot of Occupy attention has gone to local inequality — to what the folks at San Francisco City Hall, and Oakland City Hall are doing to make the one percent in our own backyards pay its fair share for the services that most impact many of our lives. Mayor Jean Quan got booed for calling in the riot cops, but Mayor Ed Lee isn’t getting booed for corporate tax breaks. The OccupySF people came out in force to a Board of Supervisors hearing to demand that their camp be left alone. But they aren’t out in force to demand, say, a local fee on bank foreclosures. That’s not a criticism of a movement that continues to inspire me every day; it’s just a statement about tactics and strategy. And it’s one we all ought to be thinking about. In a brilliant opinion piece this week, Raj Jayadev, director of Silicon Valley Debug, notes: “In San Jose, the city that used to promote itself as the capitol of Silicon Valley, city budget cuts have either eliminated or dramatically slashed hours for youth sanctuaries like libraries and community centers. ... For us, the one percent are just up the street -– the 101 to be precise. Those tech giants exist in the same Silicon Valley that cannot even keep its library doors open. Why have they not given? Why have we not demanded?” Good question. 2 november 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

editorials ed lee’s challenges CONT>>

<8K# ;I@EB J?FG CF:8C

y Clothin s a

o. gC

Fan t

N_\e pfl \Xk# [i`eb Xe[ j_fg cfZXc# -/ Z\ekj f] \m\ip [fccXi jkXpj `e k_\ Z`kpËj \Zfefdp ZfdgXi\[ kf +* Z\ekj `] pfl j_fg Xk Y`^ Yfo Z_X`ej# Xe[ \m\e c\jj `] pfl Ylp fec`e\ % Efk fecp [f pfl ^\k kf d\\k Xe[ d`e^c\ n`k_ pfli e\`^_Yfij# Ylk pfl Y\e\Ôk `e k_\ cfe^ ile Yp _\cg`e^ kf b\\g k_\ cfZXc \Zfefdp jkife^ Xe[ m`YiXek% CF:8C G8PJ

BENDER’S GRILL NEW MENU!! NoW W/TATER ToTS!! TUE-fRI 6pM-11pM, SAT 4pM-10pM

Costume Sales & Rentals

hAppy hoUR M-f 4-7pM WhISkEy WED pBR & ShoT $5 fREE BBq SUNDAyS 4-7pM

SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

1275 Folsom Street @ 9th Suite 100 415.556.9900 • fantasyclothingco.com editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

the qualified people who fit that description supported a candidate other than Ed Lee for mayor. 2. Don’t send the cops to roust OccupySF. The movement has support all over the city and is making an historic statement. It’s probably the most important political demonstration in San Francisco since the 1960s. A mayor who has any shred of a progressive soul should recognize that the most important issue facing this city and this nation is the wealth and income gap and help OccupySF make its voice even louder. 3. Present a plan for more than a “cuts only” budget. Yes, the sales tax measure lost, putting a hole in the city budget, and yes, it will be a year before a credible new revenue measure can go on the ballot. But now is the time to start bringing people together to look at what comprehensive tax reforms might be more appealing than a regressive sales tax. 4. Don’t give away the city to the One Percent. A developer wants to build 160 condos for the very, very rich on the waterfront at 8 Washington. Mayoral ally Rose Pak supports the project. It’s about as blatant an example as possible of something that only benefits multimillionaires, and it will be one of the first major land-use decisions Lee will have to grapple with. Making his opposition clear would demonstrate his independence. 5. Run an open administration. Both previous mayors, Gavin Newsom and Willie Brown, were openly hostile to the press, hostile to open government and supremely arrogant. Lee has a different personal style — and he ought to show that he respect the Sunshine Ordinance by directing his departments to abide by the rulings of the Sunshine Task Force. That’s what good government would look like. 2 occupy 101 CONT>>

with New York’s Occupy Wall Street. But at the Martin Luther King Library around the corner, a young rapper named Ookie is showing a photo essay on the impact of closing youth centers and libraries. It’s the image of a baggie stuck on a fence of a closed city community center that raises the most anger in the audience. They held an event called “Growing Up Poor” where music listings

stage listings

young people — through photo, video, spoken word — are sharing to a group of policy-makers, advocates, and media what their Silicon Valley looks like in a time when family poverty has climbed to unprecedented levels, and in a place with such a high cost of living, the impact is even more acute. In San Jose, the city that used to promote itself as the capitol of Silicon Valley, city budget cuts have either eliminated or dramatically slashed hours for youth sanctuaries like libraries and community centers. And for young people, libraries had been the only public spaces left where they could shelter themselves from the fall out of the economy — the escalating violence on the streets, cops, the cold — and as one young poet from a neighborhood in East San Jose that has seen multiple stabbings and shootings in the past few months shared, “A place where you can read James Baldwin before you die.” After Ookie’s photo display, the event becomes an amped up strategy session; everyone is ignited to save the libraries and centers. They shout about taking over library commission meetings, or marching on City Hall. But the truth is, City Hall is still part of the 99%, and is broke too. San Jose is different than all the other Occupy’s across the county. For us, the 1% are just up the street — the 101 to be precise. Those tech giants exist in the same Silicon Valley that cannot even keep its library doors open. Why have they not given? Why have we not demanded? In Silicon Valley, the 99% demanding from the 1% is not hypothetical; we can literally knock on their doors, or more in the spirit of the moment, occupy their space. Occupy Wall Street has inspired the world in what it started by lifting the veil on a corrupt economic setup. And the general strike at Occupy Oakland turned that protest into an action so real it literally disrupted the flow the economy when it shut down the ports. But an Occupy the 101 might be able to accomplish the most tangible result of all, even if it sounds less revolutionary. It could keep our library doors open. And what’s more radical then allowing kids to read Baldwin? 2 Raj Jayadev is director of Silicon Valley DeBug, (siliconvalleydebug. org) a multi-media platform for covering San Jose and the South Bay communities such as youth, immigrants and low-wage workers.

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM An independent, locally owned and edited newspaper “IT IS A NEWSPAPER’S DUTY TO PRINT THE NEWS AND RAISE HELL.” Wilbur Storey, statement of the aims of the Chicago Times, 1861

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER #36$& # #36(."// ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER +&"/ %*##-& VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS %"/*&- # #36(."//

VALENCIA CYCLERY sells more bikes than any other S.F. Dealer... there must be a reason!

EDITORIAL

EXECUTIVE EDITOR 5*. 3&%.0/% CITY EDITOR 45&7&/ 5 +0/&4 MANAGING EDITOR ."3,& # SENIOR EDITOR, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT $)&3:- &%%: CULTURE EDITOR $"*5-*/ %0/0)6& ASSOCIATE EDITOR, ARTS AND CULTURE &.*-: 4"7"(& REPORTER 3&#&$$" #08& COLUMNISTS +&44*$" -"/:"%00 - & -&0/& "/%3&" /&.&340/ CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ,*.#&3-: $)6/ 464"/ (&3)"3% +0)//: 3": )6450/ -:// 3"101035 1"6- 3&*%*/(&3 + ) 50.1,*/4 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS $)3*4 "-#0/ 30#&35 "7*-" %"7*% #"$0/ ("33&55 $"1-&4 .*$)&--& %&7&3&"69 $".1&3 &/(-*4) 3*5" '&-$*"/0 1&5&3 ("-7*/ /*$0-& (-6$,45&3/ ."9 (0-%#&3( ("3: )"/"6&3 %&//*4 )"37&: +645*/ +66- ."35*/ " -&& &3*$, -:-& 4&"/ .$$0635 % 4$05 .*--&3 7*3(*/*" .*--&3 &3*, .034& 1"53*$, 103("/4 + # 108&-- .04* 3&&7&4 #&/ 3*$)"3%40/ ".#&3 4$)"%&8"-% ."3$: 4)&*/&3 /03."/ 40-0.0/ ."55 4644."/ +6-*&55& 5"/( .*$)&--& 5&" "/%3&8 50-7& "/%3& 5033&; INTERNS '3"/$&4 $"1&-- -*4" $"3."$, :"&- $)"/0'' $)3*45*/& %&",&34 /&/" '"33&-- +".&4 ) .*--&3 1"*(& " 3*$,4 -6$: 4$)*--&3

SELECTION, PRICE, SERVICE!

ART

ART DIRECTOR .*3*44" /&'' CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS ,&&/&: "/% -"8 1)050(3"1): 1"5 .";;&3" 303: .$/"."3" ."55)&8 3&".&3 $)"3-&4 36440 -6,& 5)0."4 50. 50.03308

PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION MANAGER #*-- &7"/4 ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER %03"/ 4)&--&: LAYOUT DESIGNER 7"/)" -".

OPERATIONS

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER 7*3(*/*" .*--&3 SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR "%". .*$)0/

BUSINESS

CONTROLLER 4"/%3" -"/(& ACCOUNTING MANAGER .*$)&--& ."35*/&;

SALES AND MARKETING

SALES DIRECTOR +0/ 8"3% ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER .*/" #"+3",5"3&7*$ EVENT AND SPONSORSHIPS MANAGER %6-$*/&" (0/;"-&; MANAGER OF SPECIAL ACCOUNTS #&5)"// #*--*/(4 SENIOR/NATIONAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE +".&4 #&$,/&3 ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES &.*-: '0345&3 507") ,*/( +*..: " -: $)"3-&4 5*--."/ *** *4*%30 7"-&/;6&-" &-&"/03 :"&(&3 DIGITAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE #3*&/ ."-0/&: AD SERVICES COORDINATOR +"$,*& "/%3&84

We have San Francisco’s largest selection of Kid’s Bikes!

editorials

news

food + Drink

RENEWALS

WE MATCH COMPETITORS’ PRICES ALL RECOMMENDATIONS DONE BY A CA LICENSED MD

20% holds it ‘til

100% PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

Christmas!

VALENCIA CYCLERY 1065 & 1077 Valencia ( Btwn 21st & 22nd St. ) • SF SALES 415-550-6600 • REPAIRS 415-550-6601 MON-SAT 10-6, SuN 11-5

valenciacyclery.com picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

NEW PATIENTS

VALID WITH THIS AD ONLY.

Layaway Now!

THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN .*44*44*11* 45 4"/ '3"/$*4$0 $" EDITORIAL, CIRCULATION, BUSINESS FAX DISPLAY/NATIONAL ADVERTISING FAX CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING FAX

THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN (ISSN0036 4096) PUBLISHED WEEKLY EVERY WEDNESDAY BY BAY GUARDIAN CO. INC., THE BAY GUARDIAN BUILDING, 135 MISSISSIPPI ST., SF, CA 94107. COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN CO. INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRODUCTION OR USE WITHOUT PERMISSION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN WAS ADJUDICATED NOV. 5, 1975, AS A NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPTS OR ART. BACK ISSUES: CHECK OUR SEARCH ENGINE FOR ARCHIVES OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN 1995 OR LATER. A COMPLETE FILE OF BACK ISSUES CAN BE FOUND AT THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY, MAIN BRANCH. BACK ISSUES ARE AVAILABLE BY MAIL FOR $5 PER ISSUE. ADD $2 FOR ISSUES PRIOR TO 1985. CURRENT COPIES OF THE GUARDIAN ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE, LIMITED TO ONE COPY PER READER. ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE GUARDIAN ARE AVAILABLE FREE AT THE GUARDIAN OFFICE, OR FOR $5 BY MAIL. NO PERSON MAY, WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE GUARDIAN, TAKE MORE THAN ONE COPY OF EACH GUARDIAN WEEKLY ISSUE.

45 50 $

$

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION MANAGER 30..&- -";0 CIRCULATION ASSISTANT +61*5&3 )&/3:

on the cheap

HIGH QUALITY PHOTO ID CARDS AVAILABLE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR VERIFICATION

BEST CHOICE EVALUATIONS 2967 MISSION ST. (BETWEEN 25TH & 26TH) SF, CA 94110

(415) 529-4850 film listings

classifieds

MON - SAT: 11AM-7PM NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

news

We’ve got everyone here except the 1 percent!” — Sup. John Avalos

this week at

sfbg.com

Psychic Dream astrology, complete events, alerts, art, and music listings, Hotlist, comments, and so much more! Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/sfbg

on the blogs

Politics Occupy Oakland protesters react to Monday morning’s police raids on their camp Stay up on the UC students’ strike and the protests aimed at the university system’s Board of Regents Eyewitness coverage of all Bay Area Occupy encampments

Noise Localized Appreesh catches up with the Spyrals for their take on psych-rocking the Bay We review last week’s Holy Ghost show at Slim’s An interview with solo artist Mark Sultan, formerly of the King Khan & BBQ Show

Pixel Vision Style Paige revels in the lookbook of Peeko Apparel: tie-dyed tunic tanks and affordable price tags Period Piece: check out our local history blog feature for dusty wonders Historic Tenderloin hotel hosts a 127-year old Steinway – and a production of Porgy and Bess

SEX SF Don’t be shy, check our sex events column for the hottest happenings in town this week Madison Young launches a new feminist porn site SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

The great divide

The rich and powerful went for Mayor Ed Lee. Now what happens to the rest of us?

By Steven T. Jones, Rebecca Bowe and Tim Redmond steve@sfbg.com, rebeccab@sfbg.com, tredmond@sfbg.com

Of all the election night parties held in San Francisco Nov. 8, the two that most closely illustrated the city’s political divide were the ones hosted for the winner of the mayoral contest, Mayor Ed Lee, and for the progressive candidate who came in second, Sup. John Avalos. Lee’s campaign held its own event at Tres, but the really eyecatching bash was thrown in his honor by former Mayor Willie Brown and billionaire tech investor Ron Conway in the decadent, high-ceilinged Garden Court of the prestigious Sheraton Palace Hotel. It attracted high-profile businesspeople, political operatives, tech executives, and celebrities. Brown and influential Chinatown business consultant Rose Pak — both of whom played key roles in Lee’s appointment as interim mayor and his decision to run for office — attended the Palace event. Real-estate developers, public relations representatives, and others circulated around the room, sipping $17 martinis. MC Hammer, a legend of the 1990s who recently started his own search engine, hovered over his laptop onstage while a cluster of his fans tore up the dance floor. When Lee arrived, he appeared onstage with Brown, Hammer, and Conway, a Republican who spearheaded an independent expenditure committee (IE) to bolster Lee’s campaign. “He said San Franciscans have spoken,” Lee spokesperson Christine Falvey explained, summarizing the mayor’s comments, which were delivered before the Guardian arrived. “They like what they’ve seen in the last 10 months.” When we approached Conway, he said he supported the mayor because “Ed Lee’s going to bring jobs to San Francisco.” Asked to comment on the influence of the independent expenditure committee he funded to alter the outcome of the race, Conway dismissed the question and repeated, “Ed Lee’s going to bring jobs to San Francisco.” editorials

news

The Avalos event was at the jam-packed Roccapulco Supper Club in the Mission. The party drew a host of young, progressive supporters, many of whom are deeply engaged in social justice organizing, promoting workers’ rights, and protecting affordable housing. At least two bicycles were locked to every parking meter and street sign for more than a block in each direction, many sporting Avalos signs in the rims or attached to their frames. There were live musical performances by The Bayonics and a mariachi band, plus rousing speeches cheering Avalos on as

offered a long view of this struggle, a people’s movement battling for the city’s soul and future. If Ed Lee hangs on to win, she said, “We could be screwed unless we work together and organize...We have to stick together and we have to push from outside the system.” It was a theme and a feeling that would permeate the event, this sense that Avalos and the progressives enjoyed a resurgence in the last month thanks to what’s happening in the streets, both with this campaign and the OccupySF movement that Avalos has taken a lead role at City Hall in supporting.

Sup. John Avalos celebrates his second-place finish with his wife, Karen Zapata, and Sup. Jane Kim. photo by Luke Thomas/fogcityjournal.com

the peoples’ choice for mayor. Former Sup. Chris Daly was there, as was Sup. David Campos and a host of progressive movers and shakers. Twitter updates offered snapshots of what was happening in the different venues. “This is how I’m doing it tonight! The ‘Too Legit To Quit’ Party! Ed Lee, Willie Brown & MC Hammer,” tweeted DJ MindMotion, who performed at Lee’s event. Later, he offered a few more updates. “Rocking with SF politicians! Getting my parking tickets cleared!” And a few minutes later, “I have a lot of parking tickets.” At Roccapulco, Avalos’ wife Karen Zapata introduced her husband with a rallying cry for progressives to keep up the fight. She

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

“We’ve got everyone here,” Avalos said when he took the mic. “Except for the 1 percent!” They were at the Palace, celebrating with Ed Lee.

How Lee won Lee had the support of establishment politicians at every level. “He is my man. He’s genuine, he’s competent, he’s no flash in the pan,” Rep. Jackie Speier told us at district attorney candidate Sharmin Bock’s campaign party at Yoshi’s. “He’s going to put San Francisco first and check his ego at the door.” Yet other politicians — even moderates like Sup. Scott Wiener, who supported Dennis Herrera — felt the outcome of the election was skewed by the advantage Lee music listings

stage listings

enjoyed from incumbency that he attained under false pretenses and the huge spending on his behalf by outside groups. “When you have that big a curve ball thrown three months before the elections, those are the dynamics,” Wiener said. Part of Lee’s victory was due to turnout — heavy turnout in areas where he won, and low turnout in areas where he didn’t. There’s an important lesson for progressives here — Lee’s campaign (and the independent expenditure groups that supported him) spent considerable money and time on an absentee voter program and on GOTV. The result: Avalos actually got more votes than Lee on election day — but Lee still came in far ahead, thanks to absentees. Some of the absentee efforts created controversy and may have been illegal — videos taken by workers with Leland Yee’s campaign showed Lee backers helping voters in Chinatown fill out their ballots (using a stencil to make sure Lee’s name was properly marked) and collecting those ballots in a bag. And while District Attorney George Gascon has announced an investigation, it’s not likely much will come of it: The people caught on film were not senior campaign aides, and the effort was run by one of the Lee IEs. At any rate, whatever the Lee supporters were doing, legal or not, it worked. An analysis of voting results shows that in Lee strongholds, far more than half the ballots cast were absentees. For example, in Chinatown, where Lee beat Avalos by a margin of more than 4-1, 4,200 of the 7,161 ballots cast — that’s 60 percent of the total — were vote by mail (VBM). In Bayview/Hunters Point, where Lee (with the strong backing of former Mayor Willie Brown) topped Avalos by a 3-1 margin, 64 percent of the turnout was VBM. Avalos had almost twice as many votes as Lee in the Haight Ashbury, but turnout there was lower than usual — and only 34 percent was VBM. The same pattern appeared in the Mission and Bernal Heights. Overall, Lee’s support was strong in most parts of the city — of the 26 neighborhoods

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

news identified by the Department of Elections, Lee beat Avalos in 18. Leland Yee, who came in surprisingly low for an elected official who has held public office for more than 20 years and has been elected citywide several times, ran strongly only in the Sunset, the Richmond and the Excelsior. City Attorney Dennis Herrera demonstrated fairly broad-based (but more limited) support, running consistently in second or third place around the city and doing particularly well in the Marina and Upper Market/Castro. Board President David Chiu ran strongest in his district (Chinatown/ North Beach), the Marina and the Sunset and Richmond. And there’s no question that the Asian vote was critical to this race. For perhaps the first time in history, Asian voters turned out in heavy numbers and demonstrated that they are a major factor in San Francisco politics. Some of that was the presence of four major Asian candidates on the ballot, but a lot was due to the excitement of supporting the city’s first Chinese mayor. “There are really two elections going on in San Francisco,” one longtime activist told us. “There’s the election in the Chinese community, and then there’s everywhere else.” But Lee also won in the traditionally more conservative parts of town, beating out the other centrist candidates and even former Sup. (and conservative darling) Michela Alioto-Pier.

is still strong, and it established Avalos as a credible new leader of the progressive coalition, someone who was able to attract votes across the city and position himself for future runs for higher office. While Avalos didn’t win any districts outside of the traditional progressive strongholds on the east side of town, he did surprisingly well citywide. Even moderates like political consultant David Latterman praised the race Avalos ran. “Next to Ed Lee, Avalos had the most solid base in the city,” Latterman said at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s regular post-election wrap-up. “With John Avalos, it’s fair to say he maxed out his base. He ran a positive campaign.” Alex Clemens, the other politi-

The Avalos factor

Public Defender Jeff Adachi, whose pension reform was defeated, looks at results with Christopher Caen and Melissa Griffin. | photo by Luke Thomas/fogcityjournal.com

Six months ago, when John Avalos first decided to get in the race, a lot of people (including some of his supporters) figured he was running primarily to get his issues out and make sure the progressive perspective was represented. He was up against three people who had won citywide races (Herrera, Yee, and AssessorRecorder Phil Ting) as well as the president of the Board of Supervisors. Later, of course, the incumbent entered the contest. A first-term district supervisor didn’t seem that formidable. But the Avalos campaign worked wonders, pulling together hundreds of volunteers, working precincts, getting out the progressive vote and giving tens of thousands of people a candidate to believe in. His strong second-place showing did two things: It demonstrated that the left vote in the city editorials

news

food + Drink

cal analyst at the SPUR event, agreed: “John Avalos cemented his base and they turned out.” Election reform activist Steven Hill went even further, noting that Avalos picked up a significant number of second- and thirdplace votes to hang onto his solid second place standing throughout the ranked choice voting tabulations to finish with about 40 percent of the vote. “What this election showed is John Avalos had a strong core, and then he broadened his appeal,” Hill said. Contrary to characterizations that the outcome of this election represented a shift to the right, Latterman noted that voters sided with the endorsements of the Bay Guardian and other progrespicks

arts + culture

sive entities on more of the ballot measures than they did with the San Francisco Chronicle and others entities to the right of the progressives. Voters aligned with Guardian endorsements on six of the eight measures (almost seven, given that Prop. H, the neighborhood schools measure, won by a fraction of a percentage point).

What’s next? After Avalos spoke, Daly offered us some insights into a race whose outcome he predicted months ago, consistently telling skeptics that even though the power play that put Lee into office was all but assured of victory, he believed the progressive movement was still strong and that Avalos would place second, ahead of a large field of well-qualified candidates with high name

recognition. “We did as well as we could have,” Daly said, “because the whole thing was juiced from a year ago, with their dirty backroom deal at City Hall and all their dirty money.” Daly said he saw a new political narrative beginning to take shape, one with the potential to revive the progressive movement in San Francisco. Infused with energy from the campaign volunteers and the rise of the Occupy movement, Daly said it was notable that Avalos got more election day votes than Lee. “That momentum, we didn’t have it a month ago when the absentee ballots went out,” he said. So now what? “We just keep

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

going. We now have a leader of the progressives in San Francisco and his name in John Avalos,” Daly said. “John has a broad, active base of appeal.” Avalos echoed similar themes when we spoke on election night, emphasizing the importance of the long struggle of the progressive movement over whether he won the mayor’s race. When we asked him whether election night felt like a victory for him, Avalos replied, “I felt like it was a victory yesterday.” “All I wanted is for people to be turned out big time for this campaign, and they did that,” Avalos said. “So now, we’ll see what’s next.” Here’s what’s happening now: The Avalos campaign did, to a significant extent, what the mayoral campaigns for Tom Ammiano in 1999 and Matt Gonzalez in 2003 did — it got the progressives excited and brought a new generation of activists into the world of local electoral politics. As Avalos called up his key supporters to the stage at Roccapulco on election night, it was clear that a broader progressive coalition was forming, with new faces, young organizers, and people of color. The left in this town has a long history of winning by losing: The Ammiano campaign created the movement that took back the Board of Supervisors a year later, and the Gonzalez campaign drew more activists into the movement. Gonzalez, of course, left office a year later — but Avalos shows no signs whatsoever of backing down from the leadership role he has created. The other very good news for progressives is the victory of Ross Mirkarimi, who won the race for sheriff and became the first staunch progressive to win a citywide race in more than two decades. He is also positioned to take more of a leadership role, and possibly to run for the mayor’s office at some point down the road. Since there are no term limits for the sheriff, he doesn’t have to rush.

A divided city One of the key decisions Lee now faces — and one that will define his administration — is choosing a replacement for Mirkarimi. District Five is probably the most progressive district in the city, one that voted overwhelmingly for Avalos. And while Lee will CONTINUES ON PAGE 10 >>

film listings

classifieds

alerts By Christine Deakers and Yael Chanoff alert@sfbg.com

Wednesday, Nov. 16 Confront the UC Regents Editor’s Note: The UC canceled this meeting as we were going to press, citing public safety concerns, and protest organizers were figuring out how to respond. Check our Politics blog or www.makebankspaycalifornia.com for the latest. The UC Board of Regents will be meeting at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus at 10 am, and students have been organizing for months to make their voices heard. The message: stop tuition hikes, budget cuts, and privatization of public schools; tax the 1 percent. ReFund California and the Northern California Convergence will join up with OccupySF and Occupy encampments being set up on various college campuses this week to “Shut down the UC Regents meeting and take control of our education and our future.” ReFund California is also threatening to march on the Financial District to shut down banks if the Regents don’t support their five-point pledge of action (see “The growing 99 percent,” 11/9). OccupySF will be marching from their encampment at Justin Herman Plaza (Market and Embarcadero) to the Mission Bay Campus starting at 7 am. UC Berkeley students can board a ReFund California bus at 7 am at Bancroft and Telegraph in Berkeley. 10 am, free UCSF Mission Bay Campus 1675 Owens, SF www.occupyed.org makebankspaycalifornia.com occupyoureducation@gmail.com rose.goldman@gmail.com 650-238-4821

Thursday, Nov. 17 Changing Congress San Francisco Progressive Democrats of America hosts a discussion with Norman Solomon, a prolific progressive political writer who is running for Congress to replace retiring Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Marin), a member and former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The event opens the floor for questions and concerns regarding future legislation. 7-9 p.m., free Harry R. Bridges Memorial Building, ILWU, 4th Floor 1188 Franklin, SF sig4re@comcast.net www.pdamerica.org

Saturday, Nov. 19 Addiction & Society Our capitalist society may be to blame for our addictive tendencies and obsessive consumerism. Dr. Gabor Mate, an author and physician who focuses on mental illness, explains how our market economy drives us crazy and leads us down a path toward dependency. Speak Out Now’s colloquium event will help listeners connect the dots between two of our country’s most prevalent concerns. 5-7 p.m., $2 suggested donation South Berkeley Senior Center 2939 Ellis, Berk. contactspeakout@gmail.com www.speakout-now.org

Monday, Nov. 21 Gay Politics in Africa Beyond our own shores, homophobia persists to infiltrate government and subjugate people with leaders who use religion and law as instruments to thwart the freedom of sexual expression. Dr. Sylvia Tamale, renowned African feminist, analyzes the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill and opines on the roots of homosexual suppression in Africa and Western societies. 6- 7:30 p.m., free Berman Hall in the Fromm Building, USF Golden Gate and Parker, SF 510-663-2255 priorityafrica@priorityafrica.org www.priorityafrica.org 2

november 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

news

I thInk the system worked well In thIs electIon. — rcV adVocate steVe hIll

Rank complaintS $BMMT UP SFQFBM SBOLFE DIPJDF WPUJOH DPNF GSPN JUT SFHVMBS EPXOUPXO BMMJFE DSJUJDT Âą CVU QSPHSFTTJWFT BMTP IBWF DPODFSOT By Steven t. JoneS steve@sfbg.com

GUARDIAN DEALS ON THE FLY @ FORKFLY. COM

Even before all the votes had been cast on election day, the two most conservative members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors proposed a ballot measure to repeal the city’s ranked-choice voting (RCV) system, prompting all the usual critics of this voter-approved electoral reform to denounce it as confusing and undemocratic. Those same two supervisors, Sups. Sean Elsbernd and Mark Farrell, were also the ones who unsuccessfully pushed for a weakening of the public financing system last month, changes that will likely be wrapped into discussions in the coming weeks over how elections are conducted in the city. And progressive supporters of both systems warn that district supervisorial elections will probably be the next target of this concerted push to roll the clock back on electoral reforms in the city. “The [San Francisco] Chronicle and the [San Francisco] Chamber [of Commerce] have been at it from day one,� Steven Hill, who helped crafted both the RCV and public financing systems, told us. “They’re really clear about what they want to eliminate, so we should be clear about what we need to defend and we can’t get confused by this.� Indeed, the Chronicle ran an editorial Nov. 14 advocating the repeal of ranked-choice, calling it “a fundamentally flawed system that is fraught with unintended consequences.� The paper, as well as its allies at the Chamber and other downtown institutions, has been

equally vociferous in criticizing public financing and district elections. Hill said that’s because moneyed interests prefer systems that they can manipulate using the millions of dollars in unregulated independent expenditures they can summon — an ability they demonstrated again in his election on behalf of Mayor Ed Lee — such as low-turnout runoff elections, citywide supervisorial races, and elections without the countervailing force of public financing. “They’ve been doing this steadily and looking for ways to chip away at it,� Hill said. But conservatives aren’t the only ones raising questions about RCV; some progressives say the system needs adjustment, too. Although Farrell opposes all three of those electoral reforms, he insists that his concerns about RCV are about voter confusion and the perception that winners don’t have majority support and could be viewed as illegitimate. “There is just so much voter confusion out there,� Farrell said, citing comments from voters who don’t understand how their votes are tabulated to produce a winner. Hill counters that voters do have a clear understanding of how to rank their choices, downplaying the importance of whether they understand all the details of what happens next. But Farrell said that and the majority rule issue have undermined people’s faith in the elections. “People get very upset when they realize someone didn’t get a majority of the vote,� he told us, referring to how the majority threshold drops as voters’ top three candidates are eliminated. “To me,

the gReat divide CONT>>

want a loyalist in that job, most of the people who are likely to be able to win an election in 2012 supported another candidate. If Lee puts someone who will vote with the centrists on the board in that seat, he — and his anointed supervisor — will take a big loss in the fall. He will also have to deal with the city budget — and it won’t be easy. Nonprofits like the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, where he had strong support, are already clamoring for more money for raises for their underpaid staff who 10 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

it’s just simpler to go back to the runoff system.� Many moderate politicians agree. “I don’t like ranked choice voting and I never have,� City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who finished third in the mayor’s race, told us on election night. “I defended it all the way to the 9th Circuit [Court of Appeals in his role at City Attorney], but I think it’s bad policy.� Sup. Scott Wiener, a Herrera supporter we spoke to at the same election night party, also wants to see a change. “I supported rankedchoice voting and until recently I continued to support it, but this race changed by mind,� Wiener said, attributing the large mayoral candidate field and free-for-all debates to RCV. “There is no way most voters will be able to distinguish among the candidates.� But Hill says it’s a mistake to attribute the large field to RCV, or even to the public financing system that some are also trying to blame, a problem he said can be addressed in other ways, such as changing when and how candidates qualify for public matching funds. Wiener said he hasn’t made up his mind about repealing RCV, and he said that he absolutely opposes a return to the December runoff election. One alternative he suggested was a system like that in place in New York City, with the initial election in September and the runoff during the general election in November. But he does think some change is needed, and he’s glad Elsbernd and Farrell proposed an RCV repeal. “They’re starting a conversation with the repeal, but that’s not where it’s going to end,� Wiener said.

have effectively had pay freezes for the past four years. Prop. G, the sales tax measure that Lee was hoping would fill part of the revenue gap, went down in flames. And the big-money people who spent so much getting him elected are supporters of tax breaks for business, not tax increases on the wealthy. He’ll have to figure out whether to join Avalos and support OccupySF — or join with the more conservative law-and-order types who want the encampment evicted. At press time, as police erected barricades around the encampment, it seemed like that decision was imminent. picks

arts + culture

music listings

Indeed, the system still has the support of most progressives, even Sup. John Avalos, who finished second in the mayor’s race and would now be headed into a runoff election against Ed Lee under the old system. “I continue to support ranked choice voting,� Avalos told us. It takes six supervisors to play the charter amendment repealing RCV on the ballot. Sup. Ross Mirkarimi, who was narrowly elected sheriff in the ranked-choice runoff despite a 10-point lead in first place votes, said of the Farrell and Elsbernd proposal, “I do want to hear their criticisms.� “I understand the larger discussion, which was a bit of a misguided approach that some of our colleagues used to go after ranked choice voting on election day,� Mirkarimi said. “But they are good politicians and they seized an opportunity.� Mirkarimi did say he was open to “maybe some tweaks. I do think ranked choice works better when you have many choices.� Others, such as former Sup. Matt Gonzalez, have also recently advocated a ranked-choice system that allows more choices, which would address the majority-vote criticism because fewer ballots would be exhausted. Hill said the legislation that voters approved back in 2002 already calls for more choices, but the technology used in the city’s current system only allows three choices. Yet he said the city’s vendor, Dominion Voting Systems, has developed a system allowing up to 11 choices, for which it is currently seeking federal certification. Although he said various tweaks are possible, “I think the system worked well in this election,� Hill said, noting that few San Franciscans would have wanted to drag this long campaign out by another month or to pay for another election. 2

And Lee will have to face the fact that, for all his talk about unity and consensus, this is a city deeply divided. There is a huge political and economic gap between the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots, the 99 percent and the 1 percent, the folks at the Palace Hotel with their limousines and $17 cocktails and the folks in the Mission with their bicycles and beer. Their interests are often directly and unalterably opposed — and on Nov. 8, the powers-that-be made it very clear whose side they think Mayor Ed Lee is on. 2 Additional research by Nena Farrell

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

news

for more news content visit sfbg.com/politics

7 ÞÊ*>ÞÊ Ài¶

state of the occupations By ReBecca Bowe rebeccab@sfbg.com The police evictions of OccupyOakland and OccupyCal over the last week, and the looming threat of another attempt to evict OccupySF, presented challenges for the Bay Area protests just as similar police crackdowns targeted Occupy encampments in Portland, Denver, New York, and other cities nationwide. These fast-moving developments also come at a time when university students from around California will be descending on San Francisco for a Nov. 16-17 University of California Board of Regents meeting that was canceled this week because of public safety concerns. All of this adds up to a big and unpredictable moment for the widening movement (see “The growing 99 percent,” 11/9). So we’ve decided to start a regular feature to track the latest developments in an Occupy movement that seems adamant about standing its ground even as it’s forced to deal with threats from police, organizing challenges, and the coming of winter.

#occupycal gRows up fast Students at the University of California at Berkeley burst onto the Occupy scene Nov. 9 with the launch of OccupyCal, a student-led protest that made waves nationally after university police advanced on around 500 students in Sproul Plaza, the historic epicenter of the Free Speech Movement, and struck them with batons after they tried to set up camp. UCB police made 39 arrests in two separate actions against protesters, fueling student protesters’ resolve at a general assembly convened afterward that drew more than 1,000 people and lasted well into the night. At around 1:30 a.m., students voted to hold a student strike on Nov. 15 in solidarity with others throughout the UC system. The harsh police response prompted condemnation from the Free Speech Movement Archives (FSM-A). “It appears that the campus police are in need of remedial education concerning fundamental protections offered by the US Constitution — including First Amendment rights to Free Speech editorials

news

food + Drink

and Free Assembly that were clearly recognized and enshrined on the UCB campus 47 years ago on these very steps,” the group noted in an open letter. UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, who was out of the country during the violent police crackdown, issued a statement on Nov. 14 ordering a third-party investigation of the clash and granting amnesty under the Student Code of Conduct to all students who were arrested for blocking police from removing the encampment. “It was only yesterday that I was able to look at a number of the videos that were made of the protests on November 9. These videos are very disturbing. The events of last Wednesday are unworthy of us as a university community. Sadly, they point to the dilemma that we face in trying to prevent encampments and thereby mitigate long-term risks to the health and safety of our entire community,” he wrote. “Most certainly, we cannot condone any excessive use of force against any members of our community.”

#occupysf, the next BattlegRound At press time, student and labor groups that were planning to converge on the UC Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay on Nov. 16 by the thousands were deciding how to respond to the meeting cancellation, but protests are still planned for that day, with support from OccupySF. Meanwhile, Mayor Ed Lee continues to insist that OccupySF break camp, but instead it has only grown larger, with the tents spreading out from Justin Herman Plaza onto the nearby sidewalk along Market Street in front of the Federal Reserve. At press time, protesters feared what seemed an imminent police raid, particularly now that the election is over and busloads of student protesters were headed into town.

tRagedy stRikes #occupyoakland On Nov. 10, Kayode Ola Foster, 25, suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head following an argument, just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment in Frank Ogawa Plaza (Oscar Grant Plaza to the occupiers who’d camped there for a solid month). picks

arts + culture

/À>Ûi Ê- >ÀÌÊÜ Ì Ê ° °-°

TOKYO LONDON HONG KONG SHANGHAI BANGKOK SINGAPORE

from from from from from from

BUSINESS CLASS TO

TOKYO

$700.00 $345.00 $504.00 $500.00 $525.00 $550.00

from $3990.00

*All prices are subject to change without notice and do not include tax and fuel surcharge. Please ask our agents for other restrictions.

1-800-573-6447 870 Market St., Ste. 746, SF CSTL#2017288-40

A somber mood settled over the plaza in the hours following the shooting as the tent city dwellers absorbed the gravity of the situation, and occupy activists held a candlelight vigil. Although initial reports suggested Foster had no relationship to the camp, police later said they believed he and one of two shooting suspects had spent time there.

#occupyoakland gets the Boot Three days after the fatal shooting near the OccupyOakland encampment sparked a hard-line response from local government officials, the camp was dismantled in an early morning police raid Nov. 14, the second to befall the occupation since it began a month ago. That evening, thousands marched back to the plaza in response to the raid and held a general assembly. On the night of the raid, it took several hours for police to arrive at 14th and Broadway streets, where protesters began congregating in the intersection around 2 a.m. in anticipation of the forced eviction from camp. Law enforcement came en masse, with mutual aid support from seven different regional law enforcement agencies. While two lines of riot police formed an L-shaped formation blocking protesters’ access to the plaza and nearby streets, hundreds more poured into the plaza to dismantle tents, flatten structures, and make arrests. Police arrested 32, the majority of whom belonged to a group of clergy members from the occupation’s Interfaith Coalition tent who sat calmly together in the plaza and sang by candlelight as they waited for police. Occupiers who witnessed the dismantling of the camp from behind police barricades yelled out, “Shame! Shame! Shame!” 2 Steven T. Jones contributed to this report.

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

11

$

-JWF :PVS 'BOUBTZ herbwise

45 $50

Renewable FRom anY DoctoR (even

iF expiReD)

"-- '"/5"4*&4 "-- '&5*4)&4

/0 4&9

New PatieNts

a Champ heftS hiS tRophy at the patient’S ChoiCe aWaRDS. photo by luke thomas/ fog city journal

GBOUBTZNBLFST DPN

Some joy in muDville By Caitlin Donohue caitlin@sfbg.com

SAN FRANCISCO’S BEST CHOICE

A C A L M A R I J U N A E VA L U ATION I D E S M

45 50

$

$

RENEWALS

NEW PATIENTS

WE MATCH COMPETITORS’ PRICES (VALID WITH THIS AD ONLY)

ALL RECOMMENDATIONS DONE BY A CA LICENSED MD

100% PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL • TWENTY-FOUR HOUR VERIFICATION • HIGH QUALITY PHOTO ID CARDS AVAILABLE

BEST CHOICE EVALUATIONS (415)529-4850 MON - SAT: 11AM-7PM + 2967 MISSION ST. (BETWEEN 25TH & 26TH) SF, CA 94110

12 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

heRBWiSe “I like the way you trim it/I got to bag it/Bag it up.� A ganjafied version of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity� was playing over the speakers the night of Saturday, November 12 at 847 Lounge, an event space above the SoMa dispensary Green Door. The party’s mood was — yes — high as patients awaited the announcement of the winners in three categories of cannabis products at the Patient’s Choice awards ceremony. But conversation among the activists and patients assembled in the room veered towards the serious. Medical marijuana activist Mellody Gannon enjoyed the scene from a table in the center of the room: “As a patient, it’s really important right now that things like this are going on,� she said. Amid puzzling federal crackdowns, the future of her medicine is smoky. Recent pressure from the Department of Justice on landlords and banks has caused many dispensaries to consider shutting their doors (see “Feds crack down,� 10/12/11). Which is why she was heartened to see cannabis connoisseurs coming together to celebrate the best of what California cannabis producers have to offer. This year’s Patient’s Choice event was a much more intimate affair. Attendance was open to the public in 2010, but this year was limited to dispensary staff, activists, and the patients who had paid the $350 for a judge’s testing package. Judges had to sample over 30 strains (not to mention other products) in the 10 days leading up to Friday, when their votes were tallied and winners announced to stoned elation. The event, sponsored by many of the city’s best-known dispensaries, was a fundraiser for Americans for Safe Access (ASA), an organization that promotes secure and available ways for prescribed patients to access medical marijuana. Gannon, a patient since 1996, music listings

stage listings

said that ASA’s advocacy is important — many times her doctors have turned up their nose at the medical efficacy of her marijuana prescription. “They tell you that you’re crazy or just a pothead,� she said. After breaking a host of bones in a car accident, she relies on cannabis to mitigate chronic pain. “If they start closing these clubs, where are you going to go?� she asked. Lynette Shaw sat nearby, smoking a strain home-grown buds she’s named Bonanza Jellybean. Shaw founded the Marin Alliance dispensary in Fairfax in 1997 after working on the Proposition 215 campaign the year before. She obtained special zoning from the city for the dispensary and insisted “we’ve done everything they told us to, even when the rules changed. We’re completely regulated to the satisfaction of the community.� Nonetheless, one of the Department of Justice’s cease-anddesist letters landed in the mailbox of her landlord. Now unless something changes, Shaw’s dispensary — located in a county with one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the nation — will be out on the streets. Her landlord was threatened with 40 years in prison for renting to an illegal drug trafficker. While others have pegged the Obama administration’s about-face on the tolerance of medical cannabis to election year grandstanding, Shaw thinks the persecution of state-legal marijuana operations like her own is a harbinger of much more dire civil rights violations. “They’re trying to break the Constitution over marijuana. That’s why it’s important that we fight back now,� she said. It was clear from the crowd at the 847 Lounge that the medical marijuana movement wasn’t going to give up the fight for their meds so easy. And strangely, as the family producers proudly hoisted their glass, Stanley Cup-looking trophies for best strain and other products, they still looked like winners. 2

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

food + drink

From this year’s best openings and revamps, left to right: fried alligator at Boxing Room, chilled sour cherry soup at Bar Tartine, and Nojo’s tempura and chicken breast skewers | guardian photos by virginia miller

Contemplating Appetite

By Virginia Miller virginia@sfbg.com APPETITE My adventures in food and drink have been the subject of my SFBG Appetite column for nearly three years online at SFBG. com. As of last month, you now also find me in print every week. Many have asked where I am going with this column — some expecting a formal weekly review, others a mix of subjects and directions. The latter is true. I cannot replace former Guardian food critic Paul Reidinger’s eloquence and decades-long experience as a food writer (and I’m glad to say we will continue to hear from him in various articles). I take this opportunity to explain where I’ve come from and my philosophy in covering the edible world. First and foremost, I bring to the table passion. From mostly Italian and German stock, I’ve eaten heartily since early childhood in Oklahoma and Missouri, 16 total years of my youth in Southern California and New Jersey (just outside LA and NYC respectively), and travel over five continents. As an incessant reader and writer since girlhood, books first opened me up to the world, though I dreamed of having my own adventures to write about. Moving to San Francisco a decade ago, I was wowed not only by its unique, radiant beauty, but by the consistent quality of food, spending spare dollars eating out constantly. Though SF wasn’t the immediate love affair for me New York was, it is a love that has only increased each year, the home I would happily end up in. This city still takes my breath away. Patricia Unterman’s original San Francisco Food Lover’s Guide was my food bible in those early days. I connected with her quest for the authentic, no matter the cuisine. I ate my way through neighborhoods, marking up her book (and all my editorials

news

food + Drink

dining guides) until I had been to every single restaurant, market, and bar in its pages. Eventually, requests asking me where to go and what to eat reached a fever pitch, so my husband (and partner in taste and travel) helped create my own humble website, The Perfect Spot, to share my reviews and finds. I’ve been sending out a bi-weekly newsletter for nearly four years based on my writings for the site. I also write for an ever-increasing number of magazines and websites. “Diet,” “lowfat,” and “hold the cream” are words you’ll never hear me say. My hunger for food as adventure means I make it a goal to have no food prejudices. Many say, “I’ll try anything once,” but my philosophy is to keep trying anything I don’t like until I do. The food may not have been prepared properly; it was perhaps of poor quality; maybe the palate wasn’t quite ready for it — dishes still deserve to be known at their best. I spent years trying to overcome my aversion to uni (sea urchin), for example. Eating chef David Bazigran’s brilliant uni flan at Fifth Floor early this year was a revelation. I realized it was uni’s texture, not its of-the-sea flavor, turning me off. I’ve enjoyed uni ever since, though only when ultra-fresh. From personal experience, I know one can change one’s abhorrence of a food, and in so doing expand one’s horizons another inch, uncovering another of life’s simple delights. Sometimes fear arises around unfamiliar foods — and the unfamiliar in general. Without variety and a vast range of expression, the world loses it color — and its joy. While sameness can be comforting (and there’s a time for that), it is entirely boring. To go through any part of life bored or complacent is simply lazy. As with music or picks

arts + culture

books, one can discover unknown lands with a few new ingredients, enlivened by the hands of a gifted, caring chef. Whether food cart or fine dining, there’s no reason to settle for mediocrity, not with the unreal produce, vision, and talent surrounding us. Internationally, I’ve fallen in love with black pudding in Ireland, extreme spice in Thailand, Tyrolean food in the Italian Alps. I’ve explored wine chateaus in Bordeaux, agave fields in Mexico, gin distilleries and cocktail labs in London, whisk(e)y houses in Scotland and Ireland. I’ve frequented restaurants, coffee havens, bars, chocolate shops, farmers markets everywhere. I sample obsessively and comparatively. Rather than one single review, I prefer to cover a mixture of highlights in any given week. I’m opinionated, yes, but don’t care much for snark, flippancy, or jadedness. Though honest assessment is crucial, rather than rip apart the few not doing it well, I’d rather focus on the many having fun with or perfecting their craft. My “holy trinity” of US cities for food and culture, though, consists of New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Travel is one of life’s greatest gifts, yet when I cannot afford to go, I am able to travel in my own city. Authentic foods transport me back to the place in which that food was illuminated — anchovies on the coast of Italy, bastilla in Morocco, Creole cream cheese in New Orleans, or bahn mi in Vietnam. It helps to live in a place as international and cosmopolitan as SF. But even in nondescript towns, I uncover gems. The hunt is a key part of the thrill. Besides travel, you’ll notice I also write about drink... a lot. Whether coffee, spirits, and cocktails (my first

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

love), wine and beer (the ultimate food accompaniments), my knowledge of drink grows along with the culinary. Even at 21, I wanted a grown-up atmosphere in which to imbibe, detesting noisy, crowded “scenes.” Drink, for me, is similar to food: it’s about quality, artistry, and adventure, not buzz or quick consumption. A memorable meal isn’t complete without the right sip to begin, pair, or end with. As with food, Northern California was instrumental in furthering my taste for fine drink, though global explorations have shaped my standards of comparison. It started with cocktails years ago as SF (and, of course, NYC) lead the way in reviving classics, and creating experimental, culinary drinks. The artistry and history behind these drinks intrigued me, connecting to my Old World, retro, jazz-loving self. Delving into cocktails inevitably

led to my great love of craft spirits, many of our country’s trailblazers and innovators being based right here. (Thank you, St. George, Charbay, Germain-Robin, Anchor Distilling, et. al.) Our local Wine Country and craft beer pioneers like Fritz Maytag likewise have shaped the world, while local personalities such as Kermit Lynch and Rajat Parr in the wine realm are experts on global glories in drink. What makes a great meal? Service, setting, and, of course, food are crucial. Ultimately, I see eating as a communal ritual. A thoughtfully-prepared meal surprises and nourishes the body and spirit. We engage (or should — put those cell phones away!) over a meal, reflect on our day, truly taste, actually look at and listen to each other. Expect me to share with you the best tastes and backdrops from these moments. While I don’t expect our tastes to be the same, I do look forward to embarking on delicious adventures together throughout the food realm. 2

BEST NEW OPENINGS of 2011 In the spirit of ushering in my print column, I recap the year with my list of 2011’s best new openings, realizing we still have a few weeks worth of openings left:

CASUAL

Wise Sons Deli www.wisesonsdeli.com. Although not getting a brick and mortar location until 2012, this pop-up deli (every Tuesday at the Ferry Plaza) was one of the year’s great new delights, filling a gaping vacancy of quality Jewish food with excellent babka, bialy, and corned beef. Hot Sauce and Panko 1545 Clement, SF. (415) 387-1908, www.hotsauceandpanko.com. With an impressive array of hot sauces from around the world, addictive chicken wings in a crazy range of sauces (tequila-chipotle-raspberry jam!), this quirky take-out also has a hilarious blog. Mission Cheese 736 Valencia, SF. www.missioncheese.net. Mission Cheese serves not only lush cheeses and wines, but some of the best grilled cheese sandwiches around in a chic cafe setting.

MID-RANGE

Bar Tartine 561 Valencia, SF. (415) 487-1600, www.bartartine.com. Though not a new opening, I refer to the complete revamp and Eastern European-influenced menu under chef Nick Balla that happened this year. Unusual dishes, Hungarian and beyond, and Balla’s impeccable technique make this menu unlike any other. Boxing Room 399 Grove, SF. (415) 430-6590, www.boxingroomsf.com. It’s refreshing to get some New Orleans breezes in SF from a Louisiana chef making his own Creole cream cheese and frying up fresh alligator. Nojo 231 Franklin, SF. (415) 896-4587, www.nojosf.com. We’ve had a glut of izakayas open over the past few years, but this one stands above in warm, hip atmosphere and consistently delightful food. Park Tavern 1652 Stockton, SF. (415) 989-7300, www.parktavernsf.com. From the owners of Marlowe, this immediately feels like the buzzing destination restaurant of Washington Square Park for satisfying American food with gourmet edge. Jasper’s Corner Tap 401 Taylor, SF. (415) 775-7979, www.jasperscornertap.com. All things to all people: comfortable meet-up spot with perfect cocktails, craft beers and wines aplenty, and the food is consistently heartwarming.

film listings

classifieds

november 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

13

food + drink: cheap eaTs

Free beer or wine with your meal after 6pm Mon-Thurs.

SAGE

+BQBOFTF 3FTUBVSBOU

*$10 minimum - mention this ad

5SZ PVS

)0.&."%& 50'6

1601

1601 Howard St @ 12th St 415.552.7243 www.sage1601.com

4BODIF[ 4U ! UI 4BO 'SBODJTDP

serves only authentic, freshly made Mexican food at reasonable prices.

A resource guide for your vegetarian restaurant and shopping needs!

Japanese Diet.

Women on a traditional Japanese diet have a greatly reduced risk of breast cancer compared to American and Japanese women on an American diet. The Japanese diet contains about 3 times as much immune-boosting selenium as the diet in the US. Selenium is a mineral in many foods, including seafood and Brazil nuts. Rainbow Grocery carries a wide variety of Japanese foods, including what you need to make delicious vegetarian sushi. Find more information about the benefits of wholesome foods at our website www.rainbow.coop.

100% fresh ingredients! no Msg. no Lard. no Preservatives.

No Bull!

598 ValeNcia St. at 17th St. opeN Daily 10am-10pm

(415) 431-3351

Taqueria

6EGAN 2ESTAURANTS

EL CASTILLITO

BUY ONE BURRITO, GET hALf Off 2Nd! *One coupon per customer. This location only.

Fresh • Eggless • No MSG Authentic Vegan Vietnamese Cuisine Since 1996 Golden era 572 O’Farrell Street San Francisco 415.673.3136 Goldeneravegan.com

Golden lotus 1301 Franklin Street Oakland 510.893.0383 goldenlotusvege.com

merit veGetarian 548 Lawrence Expy Sunnyvale, CA 408.245.8988 meritvegetarian.com

Brought to you By rainBow grocery

2092 Mission St. @ 17th (415) 621-6971

a worker-owned cooperative 14 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

BOTTOMLESS ChIpS & SALSA EvERY dAY!

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

PEEPing TomATo By L.E. LEonE le.chicken.farmer@gmail.com CHEAP EATS The wind blew our giraffe over. Technically, it’s the neighbor’s giraffe: a fantastic yard sculpture made of tin and holes in tin. But we look out our bedroom window at it. At night, it casts a shadow on our shades. So we consider it ours, too. Another thing the neighbors have that I covet is a neglected cherry tomato plant, just exploding with clusters and clusters of perfectly ripe tomatoes. I spend a lot of time at our kitchen sink, my hands raisinating in warm, soapy water, just looking out the window at this plant and imagining salads and sauces. It’s Oakland! There are tomatoes in our yard, too, and our landlordladyperson has kindly welcomed us to them, so we have plenty. But I am a poacher by nature. I pretty much grew up in a state of constant trespass. No lie: as often as possible, I slept in the woods and ate lunch in trees. And while many of the acres that I habitated belonged to my grandparents, most did not. I love how Mountain Sam, my northerly kindred spirit, refers to certain walnut trees that he harvests as his walnut trees. He has apple trees, persimmon trees, and plum trees too — none of which are on his property. But they’re his. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a secret stash of cows somewhere. Of course, Mountain Sam is a Native American Injunperson, so he may have a more legitimate claim to his various steaks than I do. Nevertheless, I’d been threatening since we moved in here to go over the wall. Under cover of night — but only because it sounds good to say so. I rarely see my neighbors in their beautiful yard, or even looking out their windows at their beautiful yard. And — not that I keep a constant vigil — but I’ve never once seen them eat a tomato. Meanwhile, tomatoes and tomatoes just hang there, perfectly ripe. And the giraffe blows over in the wind. But if ever a person’s personality was defined by the air-freshener hanging from the rear-view mirror of their car, that person is Hedgehog. It’s lost its smell entirely. The picture is of a beautimusic listings

stage listings

ful woman holding a beautiful tomato next to her sweet, smiling face. The words are: YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY FUCK YOU. Point being that a couple weeks ago when I said “Fuck you, Just For You,� and this paper edited it to just “Just For You,� that pissed Hedgehog off. “Where the fuck did the fuck go?� she said when she read that particular work of art for the second time, this one in the paper. A couple days later she asked, out of the blue, “Hey, did you ever ask your editor about that fuck?� “Yeah,� I said. “He said to tell you, Tomato.� Right across the street from my new favorite restaurant (that I accidentally keep forgetting to write about) is my new favorite restaurant, Thai Time. I can’t tell you where it is, or you’ll know what’s across the street. Anyway, first time I went there was with Hedgehog, after having a balance test. Which is a story unto itself. Suffice to say: in order to try and figure out what’s making you dizzy, they make you very dizzy. So my appetite was less than healthy to begin with. To boot, the little shoe repair shop next door was just then having some kind of a glue explosion. The smell was everywhere — on the sidewalk, in the doorway, and (gasp) even inside my new favorite restaurant. I was in no condition for strong industrial-style smells. In fact, although they had duck noodle soup on the menu, I couldn’t imagine eating it with the door open. They were kind enough to close it for me, but still I only ordered a bowl of plain rice noodles, and Tom Yum minus mushrooms. It was fantastic. Hedgehog got a lunch combo. We were both happy, but my favorite thing was how happy the people working there were. Joking and laughing in the kitchen . . . a true cute little cozy little ma-and-pa-style joint. With good food. Including the duck soup, which I sneaked back for a few days later. 2 Thai Time Sun., Tue.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.Sat. 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. 315 8th Ave., SF. (415) 831-3663 AE/MC/V Beer and wine

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

6/*7&34""O BVUIFOUJD UBTUF PG 'SBODF

cafe

#3&",'"45 “ -6/$) “ %*//&3

"XBSE XJOOJOH HBSEFO ° PQFO TFBTPOBMMZ

#PPL ZPVS IPMJEBZ QBSUZ FBSMZ

Join us for Brunch on Friday November 25th 11:30am-2:15pm 2814 19th st./ Bryant 821-4608 universalcafe.net

E 7 I ? I 9 7 < ;

I ? D = B; 9 K F : H ? F 9E < < ; ; 8 ; ; H E D J7 F ( $ + &

GUARDIAN DEALS ON THE FLY @ FORKFLY. COM 1998 2006

4)"556$, "7& #&3,&-&: “ XXX MBOPUFSFTUBVSBOU DPN

<h[i^ IWdZm_Y^[i" fWijh_[i" `k_Y[i" iceej^_[i" [ifh[iie m_d[ ceh[ 901 DivisaDero st @ Mcallister 415.474.4900 open 7aM-11pM

TarTine Cafe

1998 2007

taqueria can-cun

(( 2009 ( ( best taqueria ( ( (

Bay guardian “Best of the Bay�

) #8EFFJ< *<;@K<II8E@8E 8=< /<JK8LI8EK

#I<<

!<C@M

<IP

/8D8;8E !<8C %8I@I8 JFLG 8E; 8 JF;8 + :?@:B<E D@JC@ FI :?@:B<E J?8N<ID8 GC8KK<I

• open everyday •

#I<< D@E@ =8C8=<C J8E;N@:? N@K? GLI:?8J< F= FI DFI<

2288 Mission st. @ 19th

-?FE< T #8O T

(415) 252-9560

1003 Market st. @ 6th 3211 Mission st. @ Valencia food + Drink

DNA PIZZA ¡ MORE THAN JUST PIZZA COFFEE ¡ PIZZA ¡ SANDWICHES ¡ VEGAN OPTIONS

371 ELEVENTH ST @ HARRISON

FREE DELIVERY 415-626-0166

%8@>?K 0KI<<K 08E #I8E:@J:F 8

(415) 864-6773

Come visit our newest location: news

HOURS

244 GouGh sTreeT @ oak sTreeT 415.553.4595 • www.TarTineCafesf.Com

1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

editorials

24

fresh • loCal • orGaniC

Coffee • pasTries • soup • sandwiChes

(

Best Veggie Burrito in san Francisco!

OPEN

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

WWW.DNAPIZZA.COM film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

15

picks

Are you going to get back on that unicorn?

for more visit sfbag.com

Friday 11/18

chameleonsvox see thurs/17

International Motorcycle Show Have you a loved one who insists on riding their motorcycle in illadvised conditions? Through light rain showers, perhaps, or after a solid Whiskey Wednesday at Bender’s? Make light of their foolhardy shenanigans with a trip to the International Motorcycle Show, where the two of you will drool over custom choppers — built-in gaping maws, anyone? — but also the tally-ho swaggadacio of “Around the World Doug” Wothke, who has ridden a 1948 Indian Chief around the world, and a Harley Sportster for completely unrecommended distances (the width of continents). Clutch post-ride Wothke quote: “I’m wore out like a two dollar whore on nickel night!”(Caitlin Donohue)

Thursday 11/17 ChameleonsVox

Wednesday 11/16 Kiran Ahluwalia

Tuareg rock band Tinariwen continues to hit it out of the park this year, releasing a hypnotically raw new album, collaborating with TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe — and now working with Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Awluwali on her engrossing new disc Aam Zameen: Common Ground. Not that Awluwali needed the help, exactly: her enticing voice holds its own in both her own Punjabi-inflected compositions and the throaty tribal blues of the Sahara. She has also seamlessly incorporated Celtic fiddling, Persian gazals, Portuguese fado, Sufi qawwali, and Afghan rhubab into her previous releases — her eclecticism comes without preciousness. Emblematic is her version, with Tinariwen, of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s “Mustt Mustt”: “a song from the South Asian Islamic tradition performed with Muslims from Mali, Tinariwen.” And a gorgeous Canadian! (Marke B.) 8 p.m., $20 Yoshi’s Oakland 510 Embarcadero West, Oakl. www.yoshis.com

16 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

Unlike some other bands that emerged out of Manchester, England in the 1980s (Joy Division, The Fall), The Chameleons have remained relatively obscure. Formed in 1981, the band’s exotic strain of postpunk was perfected on its breathtaking debut, Script of the Bridge (1983). Script was an atmospheric album that featured some of the most interesting guitar work of the post-punk era thanks to Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding. “Second Skin” and “View from a Hill” were two swirling, heavily delayed tracks that remain astonishing feats. Since the band separated in 2003, lead singer and bass player Mark Burgess has started ChamelonsVox, a run off band (and a blessing) that stays true to the original. (James H. Miller) With Black Swan Lane, James Oakes 9 p.m., $20 Cafe Du Nord 2170 Market, SF (415)861 5016 www.cafedunord.com

Thursday 11/17 “Block by Block” Forget hushed indoor voices and audio tours. At the de Young Museum this weekend, Campo Santo and Sean San José will activate the space with the work of artists including hip-hop theater collective Felonious, and writer Junot Díaz. The roving performance adventure editorials

news

composed of dance, mixed-media, live music-mixing, beatboxing, spoken word movement, and projected visuals by Favianna Rodriguez and Evan Bissell brings a San Francisco block party inside the museum. Drawing from recent short stories and other original writings rooted in the New Jersey Dominican family life of Junot Díaz, Block by Block: The Pura Principle is the third Camp Santo work created with the writer. (Julie Potter) Through Sat/19, 8 p.m., $15–$30 de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden, SF (415) 750-3600 www.deyoung.famsf.org

Thursday 11/17 “Love Streams” Yerba Buena screened John Cassavetes’s smoldering swan song four years ago, but it’s not likely you’ve seen it since. Love Streams remains unavailable on DVD, though it inspires strong allegiances: French impresario agnès b. named her production company after it, while Yerba Buena curator Joel Shepard simply calls it his favorite film. Cassavetes and his wife Gena Rowlands play brother and sister experiencing crises in different emotional registers. Their moment-bymoment performances earn every bit of wisdom and tenderness the hard way. (Max Goldberg) 7:30 p.m., $8 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission, SF

Trey McIntyre Project In the ballet world, Trey McIntyre is something of a phenomenon: a popularizer of an art that in some people’s eyes is weighted down by the cobwebs of history. But for this choreographer of over 80 works, ballet is just a language that can be augmented with anything from hip-hop to salsa, gymnastics to modern dance. Out of this twenty-first century lingo McIntyre very skillfully fashions dances that communicate with an easy physicality; quite simply, it’s lots of fun to watch, even when they tackle serious subjects. TMP is bringing three works: the ebulliently theatrical “Gravity Heroes,” “The Sweeter End,” which is dedicated to the people of New Orleans, and “Dreams” — set to the music of and as a tribute to Roy Orbison. (Rita Felciano) 8 p.m. $30-68 Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall, Berk. www.calperformances.org

www.ybca.org

picks

Friday 11/18

510-642-9988

(415) 978-2787

food + Drink

Fri/18, 4-9 p.m.; Sat/19, 9:30 a.m.-8 p. m.; Sun/20, 9:30 a.m.- 5 p.m., $10 one day/$24 three day pass San Mateo County Event Center 2495 South Delaware, San Mateo (650) 638-0745 www.motorcycleshows.com

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

Friday 11/18 DJ Harvey and Mike Simonetti Have you heard DJ Harvey before? He’s been around for more than two decades now, and released the LP Locussolus earlier this year, but his sound does have special requirements: “You can’t understand the blues until you’ve had your heart broken by a woman or whatever, and you can’t understand my music until you’ve had group sex on Ecstasy.” At least that’s what he told his 19-year-old son (and later a CMJ interviewer.) Well, a quasi-Luddite (spinning vinyl and sometimes analog tape edits) with tastes at the crossroads of disco, house, and punk, Harvey’s music is almost as provocative (and unsubtly sexual) as his bold statements. He’ll be joined by Mike Simonetti, the tastemaker behind Italians Do It Better, home of Glass Candy and

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

picks

ChameleonsVox photo by Sonya Niemeir; Trey McIntyre Dance Project Photo By Basil Childers; still from “Wizard Heist” courtesy of the SF Underground Short Film Festival; Lucinda Williams photo by James Minchin; Dirty Ghosts photo by Charlie Homo; Kimya Dawson Photo by Rhett Nelson.

Chromatics. (Ryan Prendiville) With Eug (Face) 9:30 p.m., $10-15

lucinda williams see sat/19

Public Works 161 Erie, SF (415) 932-0955 www.publicsf.com

Saturday 11/19 Lucinda Williams Proving that some things only get better with time, Lucinda Williams’ intoxicating blend of introspective songwriting and impassioned performing skills makes her one of the best musical acts out there. The 50something singer continues to weave her twangy, soulful voice with a background of country, rock, folk and blues on her latest album, this year’s Blessed (Lost Highway), featuring standout tracks “Copenhagen,” “Convince Me,” and “Seeing Black.” While her records are excellent, live on stage is really the place to hear Williams—her shows are pure musical marathons; somehow raucous, soothing, cathartic, and celebratory all at the same time. (Sean McCourt) With Blake Mills (Sat.) and Buick 6 (Sun.) Through Sun/20, 8 p.m., $40 Fillmore 1805 Geary, SF (415) 346-6000 www.thefillmore.com

able crammed into two programs, including the later “After Dark” segment featuring my personal favorite killer title of the group: Wizard Heist, from filmmaker Max Sylvester. And Peaches wouldn’t steer you wrong: the nine-minute film, about a quartet of sorcerers reuniting for one last score, is all that and a 12-sided die. “I need to know: are you going to get back on that unicorn with us, or are you going to let your beard fall off?” (Cheryl Eddy)

see the influential band had gone for good. After languishing in stasis for more than a decade, Kyuss Lives! (Ben Richardson) With the Sword, Black Cobra, Papa Wheelie 8 p.m., $30

with a direct warning — “They’re gonna be huge.” After listening to Dirty Ghosts’ single, “Shout It In,” I believe it. Heed the warning. Don’t sleep on this Dirty Ghosts. (Frances Capell) With Dante Vs. Zombies and Phil Manley’s Life Coach

Rickshaw Stop

1300 Van Ness, SF

9 p.m., $8

(415) 861-2011

(415) 673-5716

El Rio

www.rickshawstop.com

www.theregencyballroom.com

3158 Mission, SF (415) 282-3325

Laura Johnston Kohl

2961 16th St., SF store.peacheschrist.com

Saturday 11/19 Saturday 11/19 “Fall 2011 San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival” Sometimes, a killer title is your best weapon. Peaches Christ’s alter ego, Joshua Grannell, knows this (see: 2010’s All About Evil). Together with partner-in-crime and fellow local weird-movie champion Sam Sharkey (he’s pals with Tommy Wiseau!), Peaches returns to the scene of Evil (the Victoria) to roll out the Fall 2011 San Francisco Underground Film Festival. The fest features 33 films from every genre imagineditorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

155 Fell, SF

Tuesday 11/22

www.elriosf.com

Victoria Theatre

Back in its early 1990s heyday, Kyuss found success without the help of traditional venues. Instead, the band would rock the arid wilderness near its Palm Desert, Calif. home, turning on a gas-powered generator and playing its distinctive brand of swirling, down-tuned stoner rock until the juice ran out. Founding guitarist Josh Homme eventually departed to form Queens of the Stone Age, rubbishing talk of a reunion, but Kyuss has recently been resurrected without him. Rounded out by new guitarist Bruno Fevery, the fourpiece embarked on a worldwide headlining tour, playing (mostly) indoor venues and delighting fans who thought their opportunity to

With Your Heart Breaks, Dave End 8 p.m., $15

Regency Ballroom

7:30 and 10:30 p.m., $15 ($20 for both programs)

Kyuss

ing from addiction, “Walk Like Thunder.” Thunder Thighs even has some children’s songs, too. (Miller)

Saturday 11/19 Dirty Ghosts Dirty Ghosts is a grimy quartet rising up from the gutters of San Francisco. Allyson Baker provides vocals, gnarly guitar riffs, and a bad attitude. Erin McDermott handles the bass, Jason Slota’s on drums and Nick Andre tackles the keyboard and sampler. Originally an in-apartment recording project, the band formerly included Carson Binks (who’s now in the Saviours) and Baker’s husband Aesop Rock, but when the Dirty Ghosts decided to get serious in 2010 and start playing live shows, Baker enlisted McDermott and Andre — Slota joined this year. A link to the band’s website recently popped up in my inbox

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

Sunday 11/20 Kimya Dawson Kimya Dawson is much too candid of a songwriter to even think of separating her life as a new mother from her music. In 2008, the ex-Moldy Peach released an album of children’s songs, called Alphabutt. On her latest album, Thunder Thighs (released on her label, Great Crap Factory), Dawson returns in anti-folk mode to sing about the humbling experience of having a baby daughter, and looks back on her muddled past. “I walked with the sweats/I walked with the chills,” she sings on the 10 minute epic about recoverfilm listings

classifieds

In her self-published book Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look, Laura Johnston Kohl documents how, in 1970, she became a follower of Jim Jones, leader of the religious cult the Peoples Temple split between San Francisco and the South American country of Guyana. Jones became infamous in ‘78 when he ordered more than 900 of his Peoples Temple followers to commit suicide by ingesting cyanide-laced Kool Aid. Kohl was away from Jonestown when the suicide order came. She spent the next 20 years recovering from the deaths of her family and friends and her so-called survivors’ guilt. Now, Kohl is an avid public speaker willing to share her tragic, life-altering experience with the world. (Kevin Lee) 7 p.m., free Books Inc. 601 Van Ness (415)776-1111 www.jonestownsurvivor.com 2

november 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

17

arts + culture: dance

Shady ladies: Krissy Keefer (center) with (clockwise from bottom left) Leila Baradaran, Tina Banchero, Lena Gatchalian, Kimberly Valmore, Jill Hibbert, Sarah Bush, and Fredrika Keefer. | Guardian photo by Pat Mazzera

Her way

By Rita Felciano arts@sfbg.com

Krissy Keefer celebrates 35 years of rabble-rousing and dance-making

18 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

DANCE Early in the 20th century, Ezra Pound declared “the artist is the antenna of the race.” True or false? Do artists have the ability to predict the future, or are they stuck in the present? Krissy Keefer, artistic director of Dance Brigade and Dance Mission Theater, tends to side with Pound. While she wouldn’t go as far as writer-performer Guillermo GómezPeña, who considers the artist a shaman, she does think that “there is something about the artistic process that opens your brain to see into the future, to see things happening before they actually happen.” This weekend Keefer and her troupe are celebrating the 35th anniversary of Dance Brigade and its antecedents the Wallflower Order. The performances, all with free admission, include a retrospective of works spanning the last three decades, plus the 2009 Great Liberation Upon Hearing, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead; Keefer created the work after losing two close friends within the same year. Women taking charge of their own fate may not be news today, but in 1975, Wallflower’s five female warriors were pioneers. The turmoil of the post-Vietnam era and the rise of feminism had created a climate in which audiences hungered for dance that spoke to their lives. Many of them were women. The company was made up of contentious women, strong dancers, committed activists. They were not about to be stopped, much like their “grandmothers” Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham or, in terms of politics, the characters in 1964 Chinese ballet The Red Detachment of Women. Most remarkably, Keefer’s commitment to make art addressing issues that matter has not waned

music listings

stage listings

— she’s as ready as ever to mount the barricades and make her voice heard through art. In retrospect, it is surprising how much of her past work was highly prescient. She recently called my attention to my reservations about her having drenched one section of the 2002 Cave Women in images of extreme destruction and war. (At the time, the bloodiness seemed over the top). Almost immediately, all hell broke loose in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie, a huge success from 1987-1997, features one-percenters the McGreed family, an abused undocumented servant in Clara, and a homeless Sugar Plum Fairy. Issues that were under the radar at the time have become headlines. Appearing in Nutcracker — with an excellent, Tchaikovsky-based score by jazz composer Mary Watson — were then-little-known artists like Axis Dance Company and aerial dance pioneer Terry Sendgraff; Keith Hennessy played the McGreed’s renegade son. For all her predilection for “making art that includes themes of social responsibility and dealing with real situations with real people,” Keefer is also very much a creature of the theater. The work has to stand on its artistic feet, perhaps not surprising for a woman who trained as dancer at age six — long before she knew what she wanted to dance about. The 2005 Dry/Ice, a look at the effects of global warming, for instance, was a commission from the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Now who else, except someone who besotted by the stage, would lug a cast-iron bathtub, weighing over 300 pounds, into Theater Artaud for two performances? “I just wanted to do something about the environment,” she recalls. (Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

arts + culture: dance came out the next year.) In the 2004 Spell, a collaboration with Hennessy, Keefer became a raging goddess-witch figure doing an exorcism for peace and economic justice. It was a power performance that, given the lives many people have today, probably would play well in the suburbs. Keefer also takes her social activism outside the theater. In 2000, when she felt that the criteria for acceptance to the San Francisco Ballet School were unjustifiable — based on the experiences of her daughter, eight years old at the time — she complained loud and clear. It started discussions about the female dancer’s body at the time when academics had barely touched the subject. In 2006, she was so furious about the country’s priorities that she ran for Congress. Of course, she knew that she wouldn’t win — but she wanted to take a stand. Even her parents encouraged her to do so. “I can’t believe that I ran against Nancy Pelosi when she was poised to become Speaker of the House,� she laughs today. Meditation has helped Keefer step away from anger, what she called her “habitual response� to injustice. The resolve was shaken, however, this past summer, when — coming back from a successful East Coast and Caribbean tour with Liberation — all the costumes (transported via Greyhound, the only shipping the company could afford) were stolen. “What can you do?� she shrugs. This Mother Courage of dance will just put her shoulder to the wheel a little harder. 2 “From WallFloWer order to dance Brigade: a 35-Year retrospective celeBration� Fri/18-Sat/19, 8 p.m.; Sun/20, 2 p.m., free Novellus Theater Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 700 Howard, SF www.dancebrigade.org

$7

“more than the sum of its parts:� LocaL arts Luminaries toast dance brigade

dance 'SPN #SBEZ 4USFFU UP %BODF .JTTJPO BOE CFZPOE ,SJTTZ <,FFGFS> IBT CFFO POF PG UIF USVF DIBNQJPOT PG PVS EBODF DPNNVOJUZ JO OP TNBMM QBSU EVF UP IFS PXO BSUJTUSZ 5IF TQJSJU PG IFS XPSL JT WJTVBMMZ BOE NVTJDBMMZ SJDI GVOEBNFOUBMMZ EJWFSTF BOE EFFQMZ DPN NJUUFE UP TPDJBM SFMFWBODF ¹ BUUSJCVUFT TIF¾T NBOJGFTUFE PO TP NBOZ MFWFMT JO B MPOH BOE WJUBM DBSFFS Rob Bailis, Former Artistic Director, ODC Theater *O UIF EBODF FDPMPHZ PG UIF #BZ "SFB %BODF #SJHBEF BOE FTQFDJBMMZ ,SJTTZ ,FFGFS QMBZ TVDI WJUBM SPMF * DBO¾U UIJOL PG BOZPOF FMTF BT GJFSDF BCPVU XIBU TIF CFMJFWFT JO XIBU TIF DBSFT BCPVU BOE IPX TIF DSFBUFT XPSL UP SFGMFDU UIPTF CFMJFGT *O NBOZ XBZT TIF JT PVS DPOTDJFODF XIFO XF NJHIU XBWFS JO UIF GBDF PG CVEHFU DVUT BOE UIF FOEMFTT TUSVHHMF UP HFU NPOFZ UP EP XPSL #FDBVTF TIF JT TP TUSPOH BCPVU UIJT IFSTFMG * SFBMMZ DPVOU PO IFS UP LFFQ VT IPOFTU BSPVOE PVS WJTJPO BOE PVS JOUFHSJUZ PG QVSQPTF Kenneth J. Foster, Executive Director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ,SJTTZ ,FFGFS¾T MJGF FOFSHZ JT UPUBMMZ JOWFTUFE JO QSPGFTTJPOBM DPNNVOJUZ CBTFE JODMVTJWF BOE BGGPSEBCMF GFNJOJTU BSU 4IF IBT DPOTJTUFOUMZ TVQQPSUFE XPNFO BSUJTUT GPS PWFS ZFBST *U JT OP FBTZ UBTL UP NBJOUBJO BO BSUJTUJD WJTJPO BOE B GJOBODJBMMZ TFDVSF PSHB OJ[BUJPO BOE UP CF BCMF UP EFBM XJUI UIF IJHI WPMVNF PG USBGGJD UIBU JT SFRVJSFE UP SVO B TUV EJP BOZXIFSF NVDI MFTT JO UIF NPTU FYQFOTJWF DJUZ JO UIF 6 4 5IBU QJFDF PG SFBM FTUBUF BU UI BOE .JTTJPO IBT BMXBZT CFFO B QPSU JO UIF TUPSN GPS UIF EBODF DPNNVOJUZ Mary Alice Fry, Artistic Director, Footloose Dance Company and Shotwell Studios 8IBU NBLFT %BODF #SJHBEF¾T XPSL TQFDJBM BOE JNQPSUBOU JT IPX UIFZ UBLF PO UIF CJH JTTVFT GBDJOH UIF XPSME BOE UIFO GJOE B XBZ UP NBLF VT MBVHI ,SJTTZ ,FFGFS JT UIF +PO 4UFXBSU PG UIF EBODF XPSME ,SJTTZ¾T QFSTQFDUJWF QBTTJPO BOE UFOBDJUZ BSF UFTUBNFOU UP UIF DPNQBOZ¾T MPOHFWJUZ UIBU B %BODF #SJHBEF TIPX EFBMJOH XJUI XBS HSFFE PS FWFO BEESFTTJOH WJPMFODF UPXBSET XPNFO DBO CF FOUFSUBJOJOH JT QPXFSGVM ,SJTTZ JO IFS XPO EFSGVMMZ CSBTI BOE GPDVTFE NBOOFS IBT UIF BCJMJUZ UP SFNJOE VT UIBU XF BSF DJUJ[FO EBOD FST UIBU XF OFFE UP QBSUJDJQBUF BOE UIBU CJH NFTTBHFT BCTUSBDU EBODF BOE UIF IPQF GPS TPDJBM DIBOHF DBO IBQQJMZ DP FYJTU PO TUBHF. Wayne Hazzard, Executive Director, Dancers’ Group %BODF #SJHBEF¾T MFHBDZ JO UIF #BZ "SFB JT IVHF #Z OPU BMMPXJOH UIFJS DPNQBOZ UP CFDPNF NBJOTUSFBN UIFZ QBWFE UIF XBZ GPS BMUFSOBUF DPNQBOJFT UP TFF UIBU UIFSF JT B QMBDF BU UIF UBCMF GPS XPSL UIBU JT OPU TIJOZ TMJDL BOE JOGMVFODFE CZ JOTUJUVUJPOBM IPNPH FOJ[BUJPO %BODF #SJHBEF IBT EFNPOTUSBUFE CZ FYBNQMF UIBU DPOUFNQPSBSZ EBODF DBO CF NFTTZ QPMJUJDBM BOE VODPNGPSUBCMF #Z CMVSSJOH UIF MJOFT CFUXFFO QPMJUJDT BOE BSU B XIPMF OFX HFOFSBUJPO PG QPMJUJDJ[FE BSUJTUT IBWF CFFO HJWFO QFSNJTTJPO UP FNFSHF BOE UIBU IBT JOGVTFE #BZ "SFB EBODF XJUI B MPU PG OFX JEFBT BOE FOFSHZ Joe Landini, Director, The Garage ,SJTTZ BOE UIF %BODF #SJHBEF IBWF CFFO BU UIF GPSFGSPOU PG CSJOHJOH QPMJUJDBM DPO DFSOT JOUP UIF UIFBUFS 5IFZ IBWF QBWFE UIF XBZ CPUI BSUJTUJDBMMZ BOE QSBDUJDBMMZ GPS EP[FOT PG QPMJUJDBMMZ FOHBHFE BSUJTUT XIP NBZ PS NBZ OPU JEFOUJGZ XJUI UIFJS XPSL 5P NF %BODF .JTTJPO JT B QIZTJDBM FNCPEJNFOU PG UIF JNQPSUBODF PG UIF %BODF #SJHBEF¾T WBMVFT PG EFNPDSBDZ *U¾T OPU FBTZ UP TFQBSBUF UIF BSUJTUJD BOE UIF DPNNVOJUZ MFHBDZ PG %BODF #SJHBEF¾T XPSL JU¾T UIF DPNCJOBUJPO UIBU NBLFT UIFN TP QPXFSGVM Jessica Robinson Love Executive and Artistic Director, CounterPULSE 8IFO %BODF #SJHBEF FNFSHFE JO 4BO 'SBODJTDP JO UIF NJE ¾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ary Schulman, Director, Grants for the Arts. (compiled by rita felciano) 2

FRIDay Nov 18 @ bam/pFa

ELLEN FuLLmaN

TRaCINGS

NEw CompoSITIoN FoR ThE LoNG STRING INSTRumENT

5 pm * DJ 6:30 pm *DooRS 7:30 pm *pERFoRmaNCE *pRoGRammED by SaRah CahILL GaLLERIES opEN uNTIL 9 pm KuRT SChwITTERS

*SILKE oTTo-KNapp*RIChaRD mISRaCh

FRIDay NIGhT FILm @ pFa ThEaTER

$9.50, aDD’L FEaTuRE $4; FREE aDmISSIoN To L@TE wITh SamE-FRIDay pFa TICKET

behind The Scenes: The art and Craft of Cinema

ThE SEvENTh voyaGE oF SINbaD 7 pm NaThaN JuRaN (1958; 88 mINS)

INTRoDuCTIoN by SpECIaL EFFECTS maSTER phIL TIppETT! Southern (Dis)comfort: The american South in Cinema

ThE SToRy oF TEmpLE DRaKE

9:10 pm STEphEN RobERTS (1933; 71 mINS) pRESERvaTIoN pRINT!

GET moRE

* facebook.com/bampfa *

bampfa.berkeley.edu/late bam/pFa: 2626 baNCRoFT way

pFa ThEaTER: 2575 baNCRoFT way

ComING DECEmbER 2: oThERwoRLD (maChINE) DECEmbER 9: NEGaTIvwobbLyLaND & bRyaN boyCE

Looking back at a forward-thinking company (Left to right): waLLfLower order in 1976; dance brigade in 1984; dance brigade in 1988; and dance brigade in 1993. photos by susan Wilson, Jim orJala, bonnie Kamin, and david maung.

L@TE is made possible in part by the continued support of the BAM/PFA Trustees. Media Sponsor:

l@te FRIDay NIGhTS @

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

19

'035 ."40/ )&3#45 1"7*-*0/ Fort Mason-Herbst Pavilion

arts + culture: trash

pop culture news, notes, and reviews

(near the Golden Gate Bridge)

(near the Golden Gate Bridge)

£5BTUF )PMJEBZ 4FBTPOBM 4QFDJBMUZ $SBGU #FFST $JEFST GSPN BSPVOE UIF 8PSME¤

-JWF .VTJD (SFBU 'PPE £.BOZ PG UIFTF 4QFDJBM #SFXT BSF QSPEVDFE PODF B ZFBS JO WFSZ MJNJUFE RVBOUJUJFT DPNF UBTUF UIFN BMM¤

November 15th, 2009 ,-4#+ #0 2& 1pm to VIP TASTING 4:30 – 5:30PM •4pm MAIN EVENT 5:30 – 9PM

-JNJUFE 7*1 5JDLFUT "WBJMBCMF 'PS 5JDLFUT &WFOU *OGP XXX IPMJEBZCFFSGFTU DPN PS DBMM A limited amount of tickets will be sold for this special event. Ticket includes all your beer.

FATHER OF mInE: ART AlExAkIS WITH HIS DAugHTER, ARIzOnA.

DON’T WORRY: No goats are harmed in the production of our pizza. V I S I T U S O N L I N E AT

Photo courtesy of The OTher F WOrd

I DOn’T WAnT TO gROW up

goathill.com

300 CONNECTICUT ST.@ 18TH 641-1440 • DELIVERY: 974-1303

Maximo, our Hotel Rex pug, wants to party with you!

Follow Maximo on Facebook. facebook.com/maximo.abenoja

Book early for free event space.

562 s u t t e r s t r e e t 415.217.4 050 r e x s a l e s @j dv ho spi ta l i t y.c om t hehotelr e x.com Hotel Rex is Joie de Vivre Hotel.

20 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

TRASH The 1980s U.S. hardcore punk scene was one refreshing bastion of opposition in the Reagan era of militaristic, monetary, and quasi-�family values� conformism. But it was also increasingly a turn-off for folks who liked the music and the message but not the violence at shows. Rather than leaving the rest of us to pogo in peace, inevitably a few shirtless yobbos would turn the mosh pit into an everwidening demolition derby that typically devolved into punches. First girls left, then finally bands depressed by every gig turning into Fight Club. Sure, the perps wore mohawks, maybe even waxed pious about being straightedge. But the sentiment applied: frat bratz, go home. Still, it was a fairly harmless outlet (if also a factory) for all that excess testosterone. Boys will be boys, etc. Sooner or later they’d have to grow the fuck up. Right? Well, wrong. Punk became punk-pop, embraced by the musical product divisions of multinational corporations everywhere, and while the chords didn’t change much, the lyrics stopped being angry about political-economic injustice — now they were about the kind of dubious injustice one might summarize as “I know I was a jerk but I’m a rebel and anyway who does that bitch think she is leaving me without a girlfriend WHAAAAAAAAAH.� The Adolescents were one thing; permanent adolescence is another. How (let alone why) do you grow up when label execs and fans want you to stay the guy music listings

stage listings

who causes shoulder dislocations worldwide? Illustrating one gun-to-head route toward responsible adulthood is Andrea Nevins’ The Other F Word, a fun if superficial new documentary in which the missing unmentionable is (gasp) fatherhood. Punks become dads! Like whoa! Break out the swear jar! Much of this is cute. But the notion that getting older and more sedate is any more revelatory in a 45-year-old man from a 20-year-old band than it is for the rest of us seems questionable. Our principal guide is very likeable Pennywise leader Jim Lindberg, seen getting less and less happy with his road-to-family-time ratio, given an endless touring schedule and three daughters who miss daddy (and vice versa). Many lifers came to punk from broken homes; Art Alexakis from maybe-not-so-punk Everclear, who endured horrific childhood abuse, touchingly stresses “I’m raising my kids the way I wish I’d been raised.� Some other interviewees here — I won’t name names — look like parental recipes for future therapy. A deeper documentary might have probed that, while asking wives and kids for their two cents. But F Word seldom gets past the surface “shock� appeal of heavily tattooed, aging bad boys changing nappies and joining the PTA. It’s still stuck in a testosterone zone most of its subjects have at least learned to compartmentalize. (Dennis Harvey) 2 THE OTHER F WORD opens Fri/18 in Bay Area theaters.

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

arts + cuLture: music

for more music content visit sfbg.com/noise

WU lyF Takes To The sTreeTs.

ThoUghTFUl hoolIgans 5IF 8PSME 6OJUF -VDJGFS :PVUI 'PVOEBUJPO TQFBLT UP JUT XIJUF GMBHHFE DPOTUJUVFODZ By Frances capell arts@sfbg.com MUsIc A somber organ chord rings out on the opening track of WU LYF’s Go Tell Fire To The Mountain, “L Y F.� As the distant clash of cymbals grows louder, a wailing guitar lures you in like a siren song. Then Ellery Roberts unleashes a desperate, hellish growl, and you realize that WU LYF is unlike any band you’ve ever heard. Characterized by Roberts’ guttural snarl and a rich, grandiose sound the band refers to as heavy pop, Go Tell Fire To The Mountain is a cathartic masterpiece born from the restless adolescence of four young Mancunians. WU LYF (an acronym for World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation) came together through a firm resistance to a conventional transition into adulthood. “I didn’t want to go to university,� says Roberts. “I felt like it was kind of the only option I had.� On the phone, Roberts is a far cry from the gravel-throated animal on WU LYF’s debut. The 20-year-old is thoughtful, reserved, and exudes a remarkable intelligence. Roberts and bandmates Tom McClung, Joe Manning, and Evans Kati were in their mid teens when they began playing together in their native Manchester, England. “When we wrote [the single] ‘Heavy Pop,’ that was the moment,� Roberts says. “It didn’t editorials

news

food + Drink

feel like we were trying to sound like anyone else.� Sure, Roberts’ vocals easily draw comparisons to Tom Waits, and the band’s epic sound is reminiscent of Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Explosions In The Sky. In an era of rampant imitation and recycling, however, WU LYF has stumbled upon a sound that’s refreshingly unusual. Expecting “Heavy Pop� to reach only a handful of friends, the group posted the track online. Media outlets caught hold of the song and began speculating wildly about the mystery band from Manchester. Rather than sign a record deal, WU LYF set up a website with vague, anti-authoritarian musings where fans could join the Lucifer Youth Foundation. For a small entry fee, members received the band’s single and a white “bandit flag of allegiance.� This worldwide alignment of hoodlums funded WU LYF’s full length debut. If “Heavy Pop� marked the genesis of WU LYF, the abandoned church where Go Tell Fire To The Mountain was recorded is the mother that nurtured the beast. The group abstained from working in a studio, which Roberts says “seemed like a mathematic way of making music.� Instead, the foursome went out in search of big, empty spaces. “We were walking around this old, industrial part and we just came across this church in the picks

arts + culture

middle of a maze of factories,� he says. “It added so much to the record. None of us were really controlling the sound.� Though Roberts’ impassioned vocals render his words nearly incomprehensible, a quick look at his lyrics reveals a literary astuteness. Go Tell Fire To The Mountain’s narrative structure was inspired by a screenplay Roberts wrote at the age of 17, and the cinematic album explores themes of camaraderie, mortality, and ambiguous religion. “We put a lot of ourselves into it,� says Roberts. Although the record’s only been out for a few months, WU LYF has achieved a cult like following that Roberts calls “pretty amazing, but strange.� In the wake of the monstrous reaction to Go Tell Fire To The Mountain, WU LYF is embarking on its most extensive tour thus far. The band’s been in the US for a few days when we speak so I ask Roberts if he’s spotted any LYF members in the audience. “We’ve seen a couple,� he responds. “It’s always nice to see when you come on stage, [the] fans that have their white flags. You know you’ve got your friends out there.� 2 Wu Lyf With Crystal Antlers Mon/21, 8 p.m., $15 Independent 628 Divisadero, SF (415) 771-1421 www.theindependentsf.com

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

21

artS + culture: muSIc

miChEllE riordan of two minUtE tantrUm and whorEhoUSE of rEPrESEntativES in From the Back oF the room. | Courtesy of the film

PaSt and PrESEnt 'FNBMF QVOLT TUFQ PVU ´'SPN UIF #BDL PG UIF 3PPNµ

By Emily SavagE emilysavage@sfbg.com mUSiC When Blatz, a political punk band connected to all-ages Berkeley music venue 924 Gilman Street Project (the Gilman), was looking for a girl singer to join the act in 1990, it wound up with two new additions. Annie Lalania and Anna Joy Springer were separately asked to audition, but the band didn’t realize they were already friends. When the women arrived, they decided they didn’t want to leave, and so they both joined the band, which made for chaotic, memorable live shows with massive pits in crowd and sometimes double of every instrument on stage. It was like “a silly American version of Crass,” says Springer. Now a published author and professor of creative writing at U.C. San Diego, Springer recounts this story and other anecdotes, laced with humor and debauchery, about maneuvering through the ‘90s Bay Area punk scene as a feminist queer woman in the new documentary, From the Back of the Room. Directed by D.C.-based filmmaker Amy Oden, the documentary — which screens at the Center for Sex and Culture this week — follows the trail of women in punk, hardcore, riot grrrl, and other DIY music scenes beginning in the 1980s. Its clusters of interviews span generations, scenes, and states, with vintage and contemporary footage of live shows sprinkled throughout. Via phone, on an eight-hour road trip during a Southern tour with the film, Oden tells me she 22 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

hopes the documentary will start a dialogue on the issues faced by women, adding “My other big hope is that if younger women see it, they feel they can be a part of this community, or whatever community they want to be a part of.” Following initial introductions and clips, From the Back of the Room is segmented into sections discussing different aspects of sexual politics — categories such as violence in the scene, and later, motherhood, arise and are addressed by female musicians, roadies, bookers, graphic designers, and house show providers. “I started coming up with people whose bands I’d always admired, or listened to a lot,” explains Oden, also a musician. “It was bands I’d listened to growing up. [The film] was half that, and half people being like, ‘oh you should talk to this person’ or ‘have you met this person?’ The end result is a film that includes Leora from NYC hardcore act Thulsa Doom, Slade Bellum from San Francisco’s Tribe 8, Laura Pleasants from current sludge act Kylesa, hard-rocking twin sisters Janine Enriquez and Nicole Enriquez from Witch Hunt, Jen Thorpe from experimental Canadian punk band Submission Hold, and Allison Wolfe from seminal riot grrrl act Bratmobile, among dozens of other interviewees. Riot grrrl is likely the most consistently recognized form of female punkdom, thanks to the media frenzy in the early ‘90s surrounding Wolfe’s band and acts like Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney. “It was overwhelming,” Wolfe says of the hype during a phone

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

call from her home in Los Angeles. “At first you’re flattered...but what it ends up feeling like is that your community is being taken from you and served up in a really watereddown way. The message was heavily edited — declawed and defanged.” Wolfe, who now plays in the band Cool Moms, says riot grrrl was very much a part of third-wave feminism, adding, “I don’t feel riot grrl is super current, I think it does exist in a certain time and place, but it’s part of a [feminist] continuum.” And therein lies another issue Oden addresses in her documentary — while riot grrrl is no longer contemporary, or at least, no longer hounded by media, there are still plenty of females in the punk scene that deserve recognition — and many more that came before it. “I definitely think riot grrrl did some amazing things,” says Oden, “But I think that often times the other side of that story gets left out, the women that were active contributors to the punk scene before riot grrl, during riot grrrl, and since riot grrrl.” Clearly, women in punk did not die off in the ‘90s. This week, there’s a show in San Francisco at Public Works with T.I.T.S, Grass Widow, and experimental punk act Erase Errata — the continuing torch bearers of the DIY punk movement, the Bay Area band formed in 1999 that toured with electro post-Bikini Kill act, Le Tigre. From the Back of the Room explores longevity, but also contradictions — punk is not a cohesive scene, and it’s not void of the usual trappings of mainstream society. It’s a many-layered, impassioned,

music listings

stage listings

conflicting, world. Lyrics screamed about equality do not always match actions. Springer of Blatz and later, Gr’ups, knows well the disconnect. Just last year, on a reunion tour with Gr’ups, she played with anachro-punks Subhumans and the old power struggle with the audience was alive and well. She tells me, “We were on a stage and there were all these people shouting the words to old Subhumans songs, all these amazing lyrics about freedom and equanimity.” Then, some “no shirt-wearing pseudo skinhead looking guy” in the crowd yelled “shut up and show us your tits.” Says Thorpe from Submission Hold in the trailer for From the Back of the Room,”A lot of people come into the punk scene thinking it’s an ideal world where they’re not going to come across sexism, racism, homophobia — all the isms — but that’s not true, it exists there as well, and it needs to be addressed there as well.” 2 “From the Back oF the room” Sat/19, 8-11 p.m., $5–$7 sliding scale. Center for Sex and Culture 1349 Mission, SF (415) 902-2071 www.sexandculture.org

UnaffiliatEd yEt tangEntially rElatEd Show thiS wEEk: t.I.t.S, GraSS WIdoW, eraSe errata Thurs/17, 9pm, $8 Public Works 161 Eerie, SF (415) 932-0955 www.publicworks.com

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

ARTS + CULTURE: MUSIC PLAYLIST $BTT .D$PNCT 5IF .VTJDBM "SU 2VBSUFU "ZTIBZ "UMBT 4PVOE ± XIBU XFµSF MJTUFOJOH UP SJHIU OPX

Please Visit

cafedunord .com

CVU JOEFMJCMF USBDLT MJLF ².JMPOHB EF 4BO 'SBODJTDP³ BOE "GSPCFBU JOGMFDUFE ²'FMB 'FMJ[³ BSF TQJSJUFE USFBUT UIBU XJMM IBWF ZPV UXJSMJOH BDSPTT UIF GMPPS .VTJDBM "SU 2VJOUFU QFSGPSNT 'SJ Q N BU UIF $PMMJOT 5IFBUFS &MMJT 4' XXX NVTJDBMBSURVJOUFU DPN (Marke B.)

Available for Private Rental Dinner ‘til 11PM WeDNeSDAY NOVeMBeR 16th 8PM $10/$12 (jAzz)

the WiDe WORLD OF GReG StePheNS FeAtuRiNG: the AD hOc BRASS BAND tANGO NO.9 BiG LOu’S DANce PARtY

thuRSDAY NOVeMBeR 17th 9PM $20 (ROck)

(((FOLkYeAh!))) PReSeNtS:

chAMeLeONSVOx

With VeRY SPeciAL GueStS BLAck SWAN LANe & jAMeS OAkeS & the BeLLOWS FRiDAY NOVeMBeR 18th 9:30PM $10 (iNDie)

cAuGht iN MOtiON (cD ReLeASe) OONA the FAMiLY cReSt

AYSHAY 8"3/ 6 5SJBOHMF

CASS MCCOMBS )6.03 3*4, %PNJOP

$BTT .D$PNCTµ Wit’s End SFMFBTFE JO UIF TQSJOH XBT BT FMFHBOU BOE TPNCFS BT B DBOEMF MJU DIVSDI *U XBT DPOTJTUFOU UPP CPUI TPOJDBMMZ BOE UIFNBUJDBMMZ *O DPOUSBTU Humor Risk, UIF TJOHFS TPOHXSJUFSµT TFDPOE -1 UIJT ZFBS JT FDMFD UJD CSJHIUFS BOE MFTT SFTUSBJOFE ²3PCJO &HH #MVF³ JT B CSFF[Z OPE ZPVS IFBE TJEF UP TJEF OVNCFS BOE ².ZTUFSZ .BJM³ JT DSVODIZ IBSE SPDL )PXFWFS Humor Risk JT IBSEMZ BMM TNJMFT "GUFS BMM JUµT $BTT .D$PNCT ²5IF 4BNF 5IJOH³ JT VQCFBU CVU UIF MZSJDT BSF DIJMMJOH "OE ²5P &WFSZNBO )JT $IJNFSB³ B GFNBMF NPOTUFS UIBU CSFBUIFT GJSF TPVOET MJLF B TFRVFM UP Wit’s EndµT ²$PVOUZ -JOF³± JUµT TUSJQQFE EPXO BOE GSBVHIU XJUI UFOTJPO 0O UIF XIPMF Humor Risk JT BT JOGFDUJPVT BT QPQ CVU TP TVCTUBOUJWF UIBU JU SFTJTUT CFJOH DBMMFE JU (James H. Miller)

SAtuRDAY NOVeMBeR 19th 9:30PM $15 (ROck)

zOO StAtiON: the cOMPLete u2 exPeRieNce chRONic tOWN: A tRiBute tO R.e.M.

*UµT OJDF XIFO B SFDPSE CFHJOT BOE JNNF EJBUFMZ ZPV GFFM BT JG ZPV BSF CFJOH TVN NPOFE JOUP B TFDSFU DFSFNPOZ 3BJTFE JO ,VXBJU BOE CPSO JO 4FOFHBM "ZTIBZ 'BUJNJ "M 2VBEJSJ USBOTMBUFT USBEJUJPOBM *TMBNJD TPOHT JOUP IBVOUJOH BOE IZQOPUJD TQFMMT PO Warn-U 5IFTF USBDLT DSFFQ XBZ VOEFS ZPVS TLJO MBZFSFE BOE MPPQFE WPDBM DIBOUT BMPOHTJEF XJUDIZ FMFDUSPOJDT UIBU CSJEHF UIF HBQ CFUXFFO (SPVQFS ;PMB +FTVT %FBE $BO %BODF BOE 0GSB )B[B 5IFSF JT TPNFUIJOH SFGSFTIJOH BOE SFXBSE JOH BCPVU B EFCVU UIBU VOEFSTUBOET JUT TDPQF 5IFTF GPVS TPOHT DPNJOH JO BU NJOVUFT JMMVNJOBUF B TJOHVMBS WJTJPO BOE OFX WPJDF UIBU XFµSF TVSF UP IFBS B MPU GSPN JO ZFBST UP DPNF 4JNVMUBOFPVTMZ TFOTVBM BOE DSFFQZ (Irwin Swirnoff)

5IJT MJWFMZ MPDBM TUSJOH RVBSUFU GPSNFE BU 4VOEBZ KBN TFTTJPOT BU 3FWPMVUJPO $BGF IPNFCBTF PG JUT MBCFM XJUI UIF QVSQPTF PG GVTJOH DMBTTJDBM UP "SHFOUJOF $VCBO "GSJDBO BOE FMFDUSPOJD EBODF SIZUINT /PU B OPWFM DPODFQU CVU NBJO DPNQPTFS WJPMJOJTU 4BTDIB +BDPCTFOµT DPODPDUJPOT IPQ OJNCMZ UISPVHI B XPSME PG TUZMFT XIJMF JNQSFTTJOH XJUI FBS DBUDIJOH JOUSJDBDZ BOE IBOETPNF UFDIOJRVF ²5VSUMF *TMBOE 4USJOH 2VBSUFU IJHI PO ÇTUPS 1JB[[PMMB³ TQSJOHT UP NJOE 0DDBTJPOBMMZ UIF QSPKFDU FSST TMJHIUMZ JO JUT FBSOFTUOFTT ± UIF KB[[Z QPTJUJWJUZ PG ²-JGF JT #FBVUJGVM³ JT B CJU SFMFOUMFTT BMUIPVHI MJUUMF LJET XJMM EJH JU ± editorials

news

food + Drink

kAtYA SMiRNOFF-SkYY, MRS.tRAuMA FLiNStONe AND BiLL Wicht PReSeNt:

the 3RD ANNuAL cABARet ShOWcASe ShOWDOWN: the FiNAL cONteSt

FeAt: tOM ShAW tRiO AND SPeciAL PeRFORMANceS BY cARLY OzARD AND cARA BuRGOYNe MONDAY NOVeMBeR 21St 8PM $20 (ROck/FOLk)

SiMON & GARFuNkeL RetROSPectiVe:

PeRFORMeD BY A.j. SWeARiNGeN & jONAthAN BeeDLe tueSDAY NOVeMBeR 22ND 8PM $12 (ROck/jAM)

PLANet OF the ABtS FeAtuRiNG MAtt ABtS AND jORGeN cARLSSON OF GOV’t MuLe MOkShA

WeDNeSDAY NOVeMBeR 23RD 9:30PM $5 (GLAM/ROck/eLectRO)

DARk SPARkLe 12th ANNiVeRSARY FRiDAY NOVeMBeR 25th 8PM $13/$15 (cOuNtRY-BLueGRASS)

SheLBY ASh PReSeNtS:

tuRkeY tROt 2011: 9th ANNuAL AMeRicANA MuSic FeASt

FeAtuRiNG: the WhiSkY RichARDS WiNDY hiLL BLueGRASS BAND the B-StARS SNAP jAckSON & the kNOck ON WOOD PLAYeRS

ATLAS SOUND 1"3"--"9 "%

THE MUSICAL ART QUARTET /6&7" $)".#&3 $MBTTJDBM 3FWPMVUJPO 3FDPSET

SuNDAY NOVeMBeR 20th 8:30PM $15 (cABARet)

5IF JODPNQBSBCMF #SBEGPSE $PYµT HFOJVT MJFT JO IJT BCJMJUZ UP NBUF USBO TDFOEFOU MJHIUOFTT XJUI DVNCFSTPNF IVNBO WVMOFSBCJMJUZ )JT UIJSE SFMFBTF BT "UMBT 4PVOE Parallax JT UIF NPTU SFGJOFE FYBNQMF PG UIJT TLJMM UIVT GBS 4IJNNFSJOH IBSNPOJD UPOFT CMPTTPN UISPVHIPVU $PYµT DFMFTUJBM QPQ TPOHT CVU IJT TUSFBN PG DPOTDJPVTOFTT WPDBM NVTJOHT BSF GPSFWFS TUFFQFE JO NFMBO DIPMZ ²8IFO ZPVµSF EPXO ZPVµSF BMXBZT EPXO ³ $PY DSJFT PWFS UXJOLMJOH IBSQ TJDIPSE MPPQT PO ²5F "NP ³ ².Z "OHFM *T #SPLFO³ JT BO BOUIFN GPS UIF EPXO IFBSUFE ESJWFO CZ TVNNFSZ TVSG HVJUBS SJGGT 'FBUVSJOH QJBOP BOE CBDLJOH WPDBMT GSPN .(.5µT "OESFX 7BO8ZOHBSEFO ².POB -JTB³ JT B KBOHMZ DPTNJD KPZSJEF 5IF BMCVNµT DMPTJOH USBDL ²-JHIUXPSLT ³ GMPBUT PGG JOUP PCMJWJPO MJLF B MPTU CBMMPPO JO UIF OJHIU TLZ (Frances Capell) 2 picks

arts + culture

music listings

SAtuRDAY NOVeMBeR 26th 9:30PM $15 (BRAziLiAN)

thANkSGiViNG SAMBA PARtY! FeAtuRiNG:

BROtheRS cALAtAYuD & LittLe BRASiL With the SAMBA DA teRRA DANceRS jOSe RiVeRA OF FOGO NA ROuPA cOeLhO & RiDNeLL Dj ALDie1BAteRiA

tueSDAY NOVeMBeR 29th 8PM $10 (iNDie)

MetAL MOtheR

hORNS OF hAPPiNeSS MORtAR AND PeStLe BiRDSeYe WeDNeSDAY NOVeMBeR 30th 7:30PM $22 (ROck/POP/cOMeDY)

PAuL AND StORM

WeDNeSDAY NOVeMBeR 30th 8PM $25 (SiNGeR-SONGWRiteR) ALL AGeS

uPStAiRS At the SWeDiSh AMeRicAN hALL:

Rhett MiLLeR

2170 MARket StReet • 415.861.5016 Box Office Now Open for Phone Sales ONLY Mon-Fri, 2-6pm stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

23

ARTS + CULTURE: vISUAL ART get tickets at

yoshis.com

student discounts of 50% off are back! check yoshis.com/discounts for available shows!

san francisco 1 3 3 0 f i L L m o r e s t. 4 1 5 - 6 5 5 - 5 6 0 0

YOSHI’S LOCAL TALENT SERIES

Free music in the Lounge! Tues-sat 6:30pm-11pm New! Weekly Jazz Jam! Wed 9:30p-12am

.....................................................

Fri-Sun Nov 18-20

tank

Fri, Nov 18, 10:30pm in The Lounge

chali 2na of+ Jurassic Five

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .w/ . . .live . . . .Band . . . . . . . .Mthds ..................... Mon, Nov 21 Contemporary Blues

candye Kane

...................................................

Tues, Nov 22 John mcLaughlin/Billy cobham Alum:

Kai ecKhardt Band

................................................... Wed, Nov 23 First Lady of Flute

BoBBi huMphrey

Fri-Sat Nov 25-26

a 1911 poRtRaIt of MaHaRaja BHupIndER SIngH, LEft, and “tHE CouRt of RanjIt SIngH,” CEntER, a watERCoLoR CIRCa 1850 at “MaHaRaja.” RIgHt, at “tHE MattER wItHIn,” a pHotogRapH fRoM tEjaL SHaH’S 2010 SERIES “woMEn LIkE uS.”

BLIng and tHE kIngdoM By Matt SuSSMan arts@sfbg.com

10th Annual SF Funk Festival closing Party!

s.o.s. Band

Sun, Nov 27 Contemporary/Traditional Flamenco

yaelisa y caMinos FlaMencos ................................................... Mon, Nov 28 Groovin’ Double Bill:

sundra ManninG’s “HoLiDAY JAm” + russo alBert tri0 Tues-Wed, Nov 29-30

will downinG Birthday Celebration! coming soon: eddie palMieri dec 1-4

oakland

510 embarcadero west, 510-238-9200

Wed, Nov 16 Contemporary Indian Songstress

Kiran ahluwalia

Thurs-Sun, Nov 17-20 sold out!

goapeLe

Mon, Nov 21

Gaucho / ralph carney’s serious Jass proJect .................................................. Wed, Nov 23 Latin Rock & Reggae

rucKatan

Fri-Sat, Nov 25-26

avant

The voice of modern soul

Sun, Nov 27 Ellen Seeling, director

Montclair woMen’s BiG Band .................................................. Mon, Nov 28 Grateful Dead’s master drummer

MicKey hart Band

..................................................

Wed, Nov 30 Hip-hop lyricist & pianist

Kev choice enseMBle:

the art of composition .................................................. Thurs, Dec 1 Renowned guitarist & composer

niLs

Fri-Sun, Dec 2-4

LaLah hathaway Where It all begIns tour

coming soon: mike stern dec 9-11 All shows are all ages. Dinner Reservations Recommended.

24 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

HaIRy EyEBaLL “Why curate an exhibition focused on a single country in an age of disappearing boundaries?” is one of the questions posed by the curatorial text at the start of “The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art from India,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ survey of recent photography, sculpture, and video from the subcontinent. One obvious answer is, “Why not?” The recent historic record gives plenty of reason enough. Despite all those “disappearing boundaries” and the wider circulation of art and ideas and artists around the globe, there is the fact that, perhaps with the exception of Chinese art, comprehensive displays of contemporary art from nonWestern countries are proportionally much rarer in major Western institutions, especially those in the US. There is also the issue of timeliness. Although India’s transformation into a leading global economic player is not news, the impact that growth has had on the arts and the art market still is. An Artinfo.com headline asked only last week, “Is India Becoming the World’s Hub for Internet Art Commerce?” (with the related article on the blue chip, Internet-based art fair, India Art Collective, making a persuasive case for “yes”). But the most compelling reasons for The Matter Within are offered by the art itself. Alternately playful and reflective, packing visual pop and demanding of deeper consideration, the exhibit’s pieces are as densely-packed with ideas, portraits, and questions about what and who comprises as complex an entity as “India,” and also what India’s future editorials

news

might look like when reflected in its past and present, as YBCA’s galleries are chock-a-block with things to look at. This breadth is both “The Matter Within“‘s greatest curatorial strength and the source of some of its practical weak spots, particular in regards to how it is installed. There is simply more art here than YBCA can comfortably accommodate, as well as intriguing omissions (why no paintings?). Different series by the same artist are spread across the space’s two main galleries, something not explicitly stated in the wall didactics, which often address both bodies of work but are positioned alongside only one of them. This is all the more frustrating since not everything in the show necessarily deserves inclusion. Sunil Gupta’s photo-story Sun City, which recasts the heterosexual relationship at the center of Chris Marker’s 1962 science fiction film La Jetee as a trans-national homosexual one played out against the backdrop of AIDS rather than nuclear annihilation, is a moving engagement with both the film it references and the shifting valences of minoritarian sexuality and desirability across borders. His large-scale, multi-portrait narratives focusing on genderambiguous couples in the next room over, however, is less compelling and lacks the directness with which Tejal Shah documents the female masculinity of her transsexual and transgender subjects in the photo series and digital slide show, “I Am.” Shah’s portraits would’ve made for a smart counterpoint to Pushpamala N.’s “Native Types” series — in which the photographer appears as various Indian female archetypes culled from art history, pop culture,

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

and religion— that instead are hung across from Nikhil Chopra’s equally costume and prop-heavy, yet less conceptually tight, photos and video in the show’s entry gallery. Similarly, Rina Banerjee’s Frankensteinian sculptures of colonial-era antiquities and costly animal remnants, although rich with historical allusion, simply look busy compared to Siddartha Karawall’s giant send-up of a horse and rider statue Hangover Man, made from wax-covered T-shirts that had originally been donated to poor communities in India by an American charity but got re-routed to the open market. The rider in question is the former Maharaja after whom Karwall’s art school was named, who now appears as a Don Quixote-like wraith representative of the gulf between Western goodwill and the Indian “ground truth” of need and impoverishment it is supposedly addressing. A different sort of disconnect haunts the Asian Art Museum’s “Maharaja: The Splendor of India’s Royal Courts,” the other major exhibit in town currently devoted to India. Maharaja means “great king” or “high king” in Sanskrit, a status expressed in the breathtaking level of sumptuousness and luxury of the material items through which Indian rulers displayed their power. Light on historical context and heavy on the baubles, Maharaja offers up a seemingly endless parade of such items: extravagantly embroidered textiles, magnificent ceremonial accouterments, and enough serious bling to outshine the borrowed sparkles of any contemporary red carpet. The effect is strangely flattening. Monarchy is the golden goose that produces marvelous things rather than a larger institution, the spoils of which only tell one part of a more complex and usually bloody story. music listings

stage listings

Thus, what Maharaja leaves largely unaddressed are questions of power and history, as well as the politics of display. For example, what was the cost in human labor (and perhaps lives) to spin and weave the silk necessary to make the stunning 18th Century bridal gown in the second gallery? Or to mine the diamonds, rubies, and emeralds that emblazon so many of the items displayed? The fact that the majority of the artifacts come from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum –an official co-presenter of the exhibit— speaks more to the legacy of British colonial rule than the brief gloss the Raj and its aftermath receive in the show’s third gallery, which crams in most of Maharaja’s history lessons. And judging from the case of various Cartier commissions from the 1920s and ‘30s, and the gorgeous modern furniture commissioned by Yeshwant Rao Holkar II (a jazz age jetsetter and friend of Man Ray’s who is the exhibit’s breakout star), India’s deposed royals did pretty well for themselves, even as the times changed around them. But then again, that the already powerful would continue being high rollers is not really news. As Mel Brooks pointed out long ago, it’s good to be the king. 2 THE MATTER WITHIN : NEW CONTEMPORARY OF INDIA Through January 15 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission, SF. (415) 978-2787 www.ybca.org MAHARAJA : THE SPLENDOR OF INDIA’S ROYAL COURTS Through April 8 Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin, SF. (415) 581-3500 www.asianart.org

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

artS + culture: filM

The PacIFIc FILM archIVe screens The 7Th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) wITh a TaLk by PhIL TIPPeTT FrI/18.

# $ #

!

" #

"

$

%& ' $ ()* * * + ) !

!

" $

" '* * * + ) ! $

$

, ,

)

( $

#

" , ,

By Sean Mccourt arts@sfbg.com FILM Having brought life to a host of magical creatures and creations in movies including the original Star Wars trilogy, Jurassic Park (1993), RoboCop (1987), Starship Troopers (1997), and more, special effects legend Phil Tippett’s film credits span more than three decades and counting. Fans of his work and films are in for a special treat Thursday and Friday, when Tippett will be appearing at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley as part of its “Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema� series. Tippett, who was born and raised in Berkeley, will give an illustrated talk, screening film clips from a variety of films that influenced him, then move on to cover his career, showing more clips and behind-the-scenes photos, and sharing personal anecdotes about working on different projects. “King Kong came on television in 1955, when I was 4 years old, and my brain just couldn’t even comprehend what I was seeing. I guess parents didn’t care if kids watched stuff that freaked them out back then,� Tippett laughs. “Then when I was seven, in ‘58, I saw The 7th Voyage of Sinbad — it just totally knocked my socks editorials

news

food + Drink

off. I was never the same after that. It was like a lightning bolt had hit me, and over the years I just tried to figure out what that was that I was looking at, because it was just mesmerizing,� he remembers. “There weren’t really the trade periodicals and journals that they have today. The only thing we had was Forry Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland.� Tippett religiously read the magazine, and eventually befriended Ackerman, who in turn introduced the budding filmmaker to Ray Harryhausen, the legendary stop motion animation pioneer who had worked on The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Tippett went on to hone his stop-motion skills without the benefit of a formal education, gleaning what he could while offering to help out others already in the industry. “I never took any film or animation classes or anything like that, but found the people that did, and availed myself to them — you know, throw some hay down in the back room somewhere and I’ll sleep there and help you out,� recalls Tippett. “I was just lucky, being in the right place at the right time.� Although he remains humble, Tippett has created some of the most iconic images and scenes picks

arts + culture

"

,

" , ,

,

"

* $

"SFB MFHFOE 1IJM 5JQQFUU BZ # JUI T X DU GF FG JBM FD TQ 5BMLJOH in modern movie history. Some of his most recognizable work includes the Imperial AT-AT Walkers and Tauntauns from 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, the design of Jabba The Hutt in 1983’s Return of the Jedi, the ED-209 from Robocop, and several dinosaurs from Jurassic Park. Tippett has run his own studio based in Berkeley for the last 25 years, and is still very active in the movie business, with his company being involved with the production of current films such as Immortals, which came out last week. Although the industry has largely shifted from stop motion animation to computer animation, and Tippett Studios is at the top of the game in that realm, Tippett himself still prefers the classic, old-school method to movie magic making. “It’s the whole craft — it’s some kind of weird alchemy,� says Tippett. “You are just looking for this thing that’s always elusive and you always surprise yourself in what you find.� 2

VIsuaL wIzard

( -

, ,

! " # $! " %& ! ' $ ' ( ) ! ! "! * + ## , ) % -,% . & / 0 ( % ( % $ % ( % ! "#$"" %&&& ' # ! "#((" %)"% *+,- . / ((( $&& %!!0 1 2 + 3 # 2 1 % $ # $ 2 $

“Behind the SceneS: the art and craft of cineMa: Phil tiPPett, SPecial effectS MaSter� Thurs/17-Fri/18, 7 p.m., $5.50–$9.50 Pacific Film Archive 2757 Bancroft, Berk. (510) 642-5249 bampfa.berkeley.edu

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

25

arts + culture: film

wHere’s MiLo? sHaiLene wooDLey, GeorGe CLooney, aMara MiLLer, anD niCk krause in The DescenDanTs. | Photo by Merie Wallace

fridaY nights 18

nov.

at the de Young

Block by Block

From 5–8:45pm with free programs and live music. Enjoy cocktails and a dinner menu in the café.

BLue Hawaii

> VIEW the special exhibition Masters of Venice:

" EPXOCFBU (FPSHF $MPPOFZ TIJOFT JO "MFYBOEFS 1BZOFµT XSZ SFTUSBJOFE Descendants

Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

By Dennis Harvey arts@sfbg.com

> LISTEN to classical opera and Italian folk music by Claudio Santome and Litz Plummer.

> ENJoY the premiere theatrical performances of

Block by Block, presented by Artist Fellow Campo Santo and Felonious. Advance tickets are $20, Member tickets are $10 and day-of tickets are $25. Performances are Nov 17—19 in the Koret Auditorium at 7pm. Buy tickets at deyoungmuseum.org.

> CREATE your own piece of art inspired from the Masters of Venice exhibition.

Friday Nights at the de Young is part of FAMSF’s Cultural Encounters initiative generously funded by The James Irvine Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Columbia Foundation, and the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation.

Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive deyoungmuseum.org 415.750.3600

26 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

FiLM Alexander Payne turned 50 this year, and surely ranks somewhere on the list of American directors (and scenarists) whose efforts are counted on as a reliable plus. Yet he’s only been at it for 15 years, making just five features — a decent number till you realize it’s been seven years since the last one. By contrast, since 2004 Woody Allen has made eight features, a couple his best in some time. Still, not one of those is as good as Sideways. Like all Payne’s films save 1996 debut Citizen Ruth, The Descendants is an adaptation, this time from Kaui Hart Hemmings’ excellent 2007 novel. It’s the kind of book whose story scale is ideal for a movie — nothing important need be cut — even if its very literary pleasures of tone, style, and voice might resist translation. Matt King (George Clooney) is a Honolulu lawyer burdened by various things, mostly a) being a haole (i.e. white) person nonetheless descended from Hawaiian food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

royalty, rich in real estate most natives figure his kind stole from them; and b) being father to two children by a wife who’s been in a coma since a boating accident three weeks ago. Already having a hard time transitioning from workaholic to hands-on dad, Matt soon finds out this new role is permanent, like it or not — spouse Elizabeth (Patricia Hastie, just briefly seen animate) will not wake up, and her living will requires life support end should such a circumstance arise. The Descendants covers the few days in which Matt has to share this news with Elizabeth’s loved ones, mostly notably Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller as disparately rebellious teen and 10year-old daughters. (Also notable, for less poignant reasons, is Robert Forster as the wife’s obnoxious, bullying, blindsided father.) Meanwhile, there is the inconvenient and pressing business of 25,000 inherited Kauai acres — a last great chunk of unsullied “paradise” — which most of the extended King clan want sold to a big developer for a cool half bilmusic listings

stage listings

lion bucks. Matt’s reluctant status as primary trustee makes him appear like the very definition of haole greed, even if his family’s roots go back here 150 years. Last, there’s the unpleasant discovery that the glam, sporty, demanding wife he’d increasingly seemed “not enough” for had indeed been looking elsewhere and found it, in a casting surprise I’ll leave unspoiled. The novel’s sly, self-deprecating wit is posited as Matt’s own. Reading it, Paul Rudd seemed a perfect choice. When has George Clooney suggested insecurity enough to play a man afraid he’s too small in character for a largerthan-life spouse? But dressed here in oversized shorts and Hawaiian shirts, the usually suave performer looks shrunken and paunchy, like any middling h.s. athlete turned desk jockey; his hooded eyes convey the stung joke’s-on-me viewpoint of someone who figures acknowledging depression would be an undeserved indulgence. Clooney has only fairly recently become as much an actor as a movie star. He’ll probably never have great range. But if this is his Oscar turn, we could all do a lot worse. (Such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s J. Edger Hoover, the showy-miscasting antithesis to nuanced understatement.) Payne’s film can’t translate all the book’s rueful hilarity, fit in much marital backstory, or quite get across the evolving weirdness of Miller’s Scottie — though the young actors are fine, not least Nick Krause as Sid, the boorish yet useful teenaged tool Woodley’s Alex insists on bringing along as an ally. These are small quibbles, anyway. The Descendants is hardly The Tree of Life — yay — but its reined-in observations of odd yet relatable adult and family lives are all the more satisfying for lack of grandiose ambition. There are moments here when Payne’s restraint itself is a thing of beauty, like a discreet late cut to some landscape shots where shameless tearduct-milking would normally go. The oil-and-water seriocomedy of a well-intentioned recent movies like 50/50 reveals how tricky this director’s customary feat really is, of making the serious and the comic blend together seamlessly. 2 THe DesCenDanTs opens Fri/18 in San Francisco.

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

arts + culture: film

let’S Get loSt

4LBUFCPBSEJOH EPD Dragonslayer DPBTUT UP B QSFUUZ QJDUVSF PG XBTUFE ZPVUI By Max GoldBerG arts@sfbg.com FIlM Dragonslayer tags along with Josh “Skreech� Sandoval, a Fullerton, Calif. skater celebrated for shredding pools and living a vagabond’s life. First-time director Tristan Patterson fronts with the kind of side-winding portraiture that prizes sensory impressions instead of back-story, but whittle away Dragonslayer’s loose ends and you end up with an unremarkable lost generation romance, a Bonnie and Clyde with lower stakes. If

anything more than scenery). He takes a few earnest stabs at fatherhood and rehearses his principles of no principles to the soundtrack’s well-stocked bangs. There are a few genuinely poignant moments — Skreech’s taking a call from his estranged mother in a bus full of punks — but in general Dragonslayer is too caught up in its own glossy reverie to register emergent emotions. Patterson’s tendency to use editing as dramatic shorthand is evident in an early sequence of Skreech muffing a skate con-

fizz, and he’s also good for sweetly stoned bits of dropout philosophy. With all that said, it’s difficult to imagine Patterson pulling off the same frictionless portraiture with one of the punks squatting in Oscar Grant Plaza — someone, that is, who would necessitate difficult editorial decisions. I didn’t love Matthew Porterfield’s 2010 Putty Hill — another portrait of lost youth with plenty of other elements in common — but its canny diffusion of grief and formally inscribed layers of knowledge

! " !" ! # ! ! !# " $ " ! ! % " &

oakland music complex Monthly Music Rehearsal Studios

1255 21St St. Oakland, Ca (510) 406-9697 OaklandMusicComplex.com

oaklandmusiccomplex@gmail.com

Beer IN the headlIGhtS: Dragonslayer IS the SecoNd FIlM to Be releaSed By the draG cIty record laBel, aFter harMoNy KorINe’S 2009 Trash humpers. Dragonslayer’s Sundance awards and Christine Vachon executive producer credit are any indication, Patterson’s combination of familiar character packaging and cool reality effects has already been a lucrative one. The film meets Skreech at 23: he’s turned his back on sponsorship gigs and a romance that produced a son (no trace of the mother here). In an arbitrarily defined chapter structure, Skreech investigates freshly abandoned pools, squats in a friend’s backyard, shows off his medical marijuana license, and cracks tallboys in Southern California’s magic light. He’s stunned by a pretty girl’s red lipstick and fades into a relationship with her (it takes a while before the movie treats her as editorials

news

food + Drink

test abroad: repeated shots of Skreech wiping out are cut with the eventual winner’s triumphs and then back to our hero’s defeated expression. Arranged in the foregone style of reality television, the actual event is given no room to breathe. This kind of telescoping becomes even more calculating when Patterson treads into Skreech and Leslie’s garbled romance. Patterson seems eager to place the movie in the tradition arty wasted youth pics (take your pick), but Dragonslayer’s riskless form makes like Real Skaters of Orange County. Skreech’s interesting face is the only thing that counts. Like a punk Giacometti, he appears very differently from one angle to the next. His rotating hairstyles and t-shirts provide visual picks

arts + culture

make for an instructive comparison with Dragonslayer’s shallow depths. The filmmaker’s hand is both invisible and inescapable in Dragonslayer, its main purpose to score the artistic equivalent of a contact high. After inking Skreech with a tribute to his son, a tattooist speaks wistfully about how the young man’s wild style hearkens back to the days before skateboarding was another ESPN sport. For his own part, Skreech listens to the Germs when he’s cruising Fullerton with his infant son. There’s an interesting question of punk nostalgia lurking here, but Dragonslayer is too caught up banking a pretty picture to address it. 2 draGoNSlayer opens Fri/18 at the Roxie.

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

27

THU Nov 17 SPYRALS 9pm, $6 Michael Beach Hypatia Lake (Seattle) FRI Nov 18 SMOKESTACKS 9:30pm, $6 Browntown West Rosa Grande SAT Nov 19 Aquarius Records co-presents EARLY THE ATLAS MOTH 4pm, $6 Kowloon Walled City Pins of Light LATER MARK SULTAN 9:30pm (King Khan & BBQ Show) $10 King Lollipop Lovely Bad Things SUN Nov 20 KEY LOSERS (ex-Dear Nora) 9pm, $7 Lesbians (w/Jenny Hoyston from Erase Errata) Nora Roman and the Border Busters MON Nov 21 PUNK ROCK SIDESHOW 9:30PM, FREE TUE Nov 22 ONLY YOU 9pm, $6 (Rachel Fannan ex-Sleepy Sun) Them Hills Cannons and Clouds WED Nov 23 INDIAN (Relapse) 9pm, $7 Creepers UPCOMING: Cave (Drag City), Jealousy, PreLegendary and The Dreamers, Mist and Mast, Poor Bailey, Porchlight Open Door, Lady Lazarus, Weapons of the Future, Chasms, Tied To The Branches, Slick 46, Sydney Ducks, Yo! Majesty, Casy & Brian, Scout Niblett

KEEP YOUR BEER NEAR!

od d-a -ma tic.c om

WED Nov 16 GOLDEN VOID 9pm, $6 Feral Ohms (w/Ethan Miller from Comets on Fire and Howlin Rain)

arts + culture: nightlife

i ll u

tion stra

by

PLeaSe PUT OUT By Marke B.

marke@sfbg.com

CUSTOMIZED LEATHER BEER HOLSTERS

by Brew Holster Cult brewholstercult.com

'PMMPX VT UXJUUFS DPN TGCH

SUPer eGO Lately I’m loving, loving, loving all the undergrounds that have sprung up like little glowing polka-dot Mario mushrooms on the sodden Donkey Kong log of our 2 a.m. curfew — and those little glowing mushrooms have tiny ironic goldtipped canes and shimmery fauxsnakeskin dresses and kicky handbags with pictures of other kicky handbags on them and those totally fly winged Adidas hightops like in the Rocky A$AP video, but not worn like they’re trying far too hard to get a record deal. Because who needs a record deal? Not fluorescent afterhours Mario mushrooms, that’s who doesn’t. Alas though, I quit smoking cigarettes a year ago, just to live, and I’m finding it hard to dance my way through the nicotine clouds that populate many extralegal spots. And while nothing could equal the cancerous onslaught that was Europe earlier this year (remind me never to tell you about being trapped in a Berlin anteroom with 200 chaindraggers while the police raided the bar outside), our persistent intake still gives me a lung sad. I know “the ‘90s are back!� but here’s three things that retro can leave behind: meth, AIDS, and my hair smelling like the inside of Keith Richards’ mouth-hole every morning so I puke. Also, Stone Temple Pilots. Sorry! :(

POrTaBLe/BODyCODe Lisbon-via-South Africa’s Alan Abrahams splits his performing persona in twain. Portable is his more experimental techno half, rich in atmospherics and heady 28 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

SMOkIN’! JOHN aCQUaVIVa, LefT, aND POrTaBLe/BODyCODe

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

references to African rhythms, both native and contemporary. Bodycode, meanwhile, is more explicit in its references to soul, funk, and even ‘80s robot rock, with live vocal sampling and “a more body-moving aesthetic� as he terms it. Put them both together and the sum will transcend the whole at the warm and lively weekly Housepitality party. Wed/16, 9 p.m., $5 before 11 p.m., $10 after. Icon, 1192 Folsom, SF. Facebook: Housepitality

JONaH SHarP Amazingly crazy attire and behavior is always encouraged at the monthly Dial Up parties at Public Works — but wear something you can sweat through this time around as one of the best-known ambassadors of San Francisco’s dance music community takes to the tables. His SpaceTime Continuum guise was super-influential in the 1990s, marrying sharp tech intelligence to ambient cosmic funk. (The revived STC has been killing it at festivals this year.) I adore his ongoing abstract, jazzy electronic-instrumental project with Heidelberg’s Move D., called Reagenz, not quite as much as I adore his lovely wife, writer and longtime SF club muse Billee Sharp. Give it up for some real Bay underground. Thu/17, 9 p.m., $5 (bring a toy for the Dolores Street Community Services toy drive if you can). OddJob Loft at Public Works, 161 Erie, SF. ww.publicsf.com

LaZer SWOrD After a long absence — during which I’m sure they rescued Princess Zelda and slew a herd of 8-bit ostriches — the original local future bass duo of LL and Lando Kal (a.k.a. Antaeus Roy and Bryan Rutledge) is back music listings

stage listings

to warp the woofers in a psycho hip-hop from outerspace Gameboy way. They’ll be joined by the mesmerizing master of the MPC, Araabmuzik: seriously this dude is a powerhouse of filthy buttonpushing pleasure live. Plus Lunice, Satori, Bogl, and more for an insane all-night party called Witness. Fri/18, 10 p..m.-late, $20 advance. 103 Harriet, SF. www.1015.com

JOHN aCQUaVIVa Detroit gets all the OG techno press, but its Canadian sister across the river, Windsor, Ontario was a hotbed of electronic dance creativity. Lauded Plastikman Richie Hawtin hails from there, of course. (He just released a lavish Plastikman 16-CD retrospective accompanied by a coffee-table book called Arkives that recounts the early DetroitWindsor warehouse scene. Your crazy raver aunt will freaking go nuts for it, www.plastikman.com/ arkives.) Now Hawtin’s excellent partner in Canadian techcrime in those early days, John Acquaviva, is getting back into general circulation as well, with a string of well-regarded tunes released this year. He’s landing at Mighty with the “we.are.definitive� tour, which pays homage to his seminal Definitive Recordings label, launched in 1993 — look up “House For All� by Blunted Dummies and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Joining him for some good ol’ Windsor wigout is current Definitive partner Olivier Giaccomotto. We’ll miss original Definitive kid Karl Kowalski, but these two will surely hold it down for the W. Sat/19, 10 p.m.-late, $10 advance. Mighty, 119 Utah, SF. www.blasthaus.com 2

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

music listings

for more music content visit sfBg.com/noise Smokestacks, Browntown West, Rosa Grande )FNMPDL 5BWFSO QN “Snob Theaterâ€? %BSL 3PPN .JTTJPO 4' XXX TOPCUIFBUFS UVNCMS DPN QN $PNFEZ BOE NVTJD XJUI 4FB PG #FFT BOE 3JO 5JO 5JHFS Stephen Stills, Pegi Young & Survivors 3FHFODZ #BMMSPPN QN Tainted Love, Duran Duran Duran #JNCPÂľT QN Tank :PTIJÂľT BOE QN White Buffalo, Frank Fairfield 4MJNÂľT QN

jazz/new music yacht plays the independent thuRs/17 .VTJD MJTUJOHT BSF DPNQJMFE CZ &NJMZ 4BWBHF 4JODF DMVC MJGF JT VOQSFEJDUBCMF JUÂľT B HPPE JEFB UP DBMM BIFBE PS DIFDL UIF WFOVFÂľT XFCTJUF UP DPOGJSN CPPL JOHT BOE IPVST 1SJDFT BSF MJTUFE XIFO QSPWJEFE UP VT 4VCNJU JUFNT GPS UIF MJTUJOHT BU MJTUJOHT!TGCH DPN 'PS GVSUIFS JOGPSNBUJPO PO IPX UP TVCNJU JUFNT GPS UIF MJTUJOHT TFF 1JDLT

wednesday 16 Rock /Blues/hip-hop

Batillus, Prizehog, Sutekh Hexen &MCP 3PPN QN Enrique Bunbury, Zoe /PC )JMM .BTPOJD "VEJUPSJVN $BMJGPSOJB 4' XXX NBTPOJDBV EJUPSJVN DPN QN Freddie Gibbs 3JUDI 4' XXX SJUDI DPN QN 8JUI %BWJODJ Golden Void, Feral Ohms )FNMPDL 5BWFSO QN New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, Wonder Years, Man Overboard, This Time Next Year 3FHFODZ #BMMSPPN QN Rock on Broadway .BTPO 4PDJBM )PVTF 4' XXX NBTPOTPDJBMIPVTF DPN QN GSFF Terry Savastano +PIOOZ 'PMFZÂľT 0Âľ'BSSFMM 4' XXX KPIOOZGPMFZT DPN QN GSFF Nathan Temby vs. Rags Tuttle +PIOOZ 'PMFZÂľT 0Âľ'BSSFMM 4' XXX EVFMJOHQJBOPTBUGPMFZT DPN QN

jazz/new music

Blues organ party with Chris Siebert 3PZBM $VDLPP .JTTJPO 4' XXX SPZBMDVDLPP DPN QN GSFF Cosmo AlleyCats -F $PMPOJBM $PTNP 1MBDF 4' XXX MFDPMPOJBMTG DPN QN Dink Dink Dink, Gaucho, Michael Abraham "NOFTJB QN GSFF Greg Gotelli Quartet .FKPPM .JTTJPO 4' XXX NFEKPPMTG DPN QN GSFF Ricardo Scales 5PQ PG UIF .BSL $BMJGPSOJB 4' XXX UPQPGUIFNBSL DPN QN Diane Schuur 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN QN “Wild World of Greg Stephensâ€? $BGF %V /PSE QN 8JUI "E )PD #SBTT #BOE 5BOHP /P BOE #JH -PVÂľT %BODF 1BSUZ

dance cluBs

Booty Call 2 #BS $BTUSP 4' XXX CPPUZDBM MXFEOFTEBZT DPN QN +VBOJUB .PPSF IPTUT UIJT EBODF QBSUZ GFBUVSJOH %+ 3PCPU )VTUMF Mary Go Round -PPLPVU UI 4U 4' XXX MPPLPVUTG DPN QN %SBH XJUI 4VQQPTJUPSJ 4QFMMJOH .FSDFEF[ .VOSP BOE (JOHFS 4OBQ Megatallica 'JEEMFSÂľT (SFFO $PMVNCVT 4' XXX NFHBUBMMJDB DPN QN GSFF )FBWZ NFUBM IBOHPVU No Room For Squares 4PN UI 4U 4' QN GSFF %+ "GSPEJUF 4IBLF TQJOT KB[[ GPS IBQQZ IPVS Third Wednesdays 6OEFSHSPVOE 4' QN BN 8JUI .T +BDLTPO %+ -PSZO BOE #FDLZ ,OPY TQJOOJOH FMFDUSP UFDI IPVTF BOE CSFBLT Vespa Beat #MJTT #BS UI 4U 4' XXX CMJTTCBSTG DPN QN GSFF .4, GN TQJOT SBSF HSPPWFT FMFDUSPTXJOH BOE CPPHJF

thuRsday 17 Rock /Blues/hip-hop

Kyle Andrews, Rene Breton )PUFM 6UBI QN Patrizio Buanne (SFBU "NFSJDBO .VTJD )BMM QN Centro-Matic, Polica #PUUPN PG UIF )JMM QN ChameleonsVox, Black Swan Lake, James Oakes $BGF %V /PSE QN Civil Wars, Milo Greene 'JMMNPSF QN Cut Loose Band +PIOOZ 'PMFZÂľT 0Âľ'BSSFMM 4' XXX KPIOOZGPMFZT DPN QN GSFF Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, Enter Shikari, For Today 3FHFODZ #BMMSPPN QN

editorials

news

food + Drink

Generalissimo, Moggs, Moonbell &M 3JP QN Robyn Hitchcock, Dawn Mitschele 4MJN¾T QN Penguin Prison, FIGO DJ set 3JDLTIBX 4UPQ QN JC Rockit vs. Nathan Temby +PIOOZ 'PMFZ¾T 0¾'BSSFMM 4' XXX EVFMJOHQJBOPTBUGPMFZT DPN QN San Cha, Black Glitter .BTPO 4PDJBM )PVTF 4' XXX NBTPOTPDJBMIPVTF DPN QN GSFF San Francesca, Nightmare Fortress, Bad Bibles, Saturnas ,OPDLPVU QN Spyrals, Michael Beach, Hypatia Lake )FNMPDL 5BWFSO QN T.I.T.S., Erase Errata, Grass Widow 1VCMJD 8PSLT QN Tim Cohen’s Magic Trick, Devon Williams, Wet Illustrated "NOFTJB QN YACHT, Safe *OEFQFOEFOU QN

jazz/new music

Jazz organ party with Grahmm Connah 3PZBM $VDLPP .JTTJPO 4' XXX SPZBMDVDLPP DPN QN GSFF Tom Lander & Friends .FKPPM .JTTJPO 4' XXX NFEKPPMTG DPN QN GSFF. Diane Schuur 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN QN Stompy Jones 5PQ PG UIF .BSL $BMJGPSOJB 4' XXX UPQPGUIFNBSL DPN QN

folk / woRld/countRy

Twang! Honky Tonk 'JEEMFSÂľT (SFFO $PMVNCVT 4' XXX UXBOHIPOLZUPOL DPN QN -JWF DPVOUSZ NVTJD EBODJOH BOE HJWFBXBZT

dance cluBs

Afrolicious with Rex Riddem, DJ Mopo, Izzy Wize &MCP 3PPN QN "GSPMJDJPVT BOE 'VOLGFTU QSFTFOU 8JUI %+T 1MFBTVSFNBLFS BOE 4FOPS 0[ Arcade -PPLPVU QN GSFF *OEJF EBODF QBSUZ Dial Up 1VCMJD 8PSLT 0EEKPC -PGU QN 8JUI +POBI 4IBSQ Guilty Pleasures (FTUBMU UI 4U 4' QN GSFF %+ 5PQI;JMMB 3PC .FUBM %+ 4UFG BOE %JTDP % TQJO QVOL NFUBM FMFDUSP GVOL BOE T Thursday Special Tralala 3FWPMVUJPO $BGn OE 4U 4' QN GSFF %PXOUFNQP IJQ IPQ BOE GSFFTUZMF CFBUT CZ %S .VTDP BOE 6OCSPLFO $JSDMF .$T Thursdays at the Cat Club $BU $MVC QN GSFF CFGPSF QN 5XP EBODF GMPPST CVNQJOÂľ XJUI UIF CFTU PG T NBJOTUSFBN BOE VOEFSHSPVOE XJUI %BOHFSPVT %BO -PX -JGF BOE HVFTUT Tropicana .BESPOF "SU #BS QN GSFF 4BMTB DVNCJB SFHHBFUPO BOE NPSF XJUI %+T %PO #VTUBNBOUF "QPDPMZQUP 4S 4BFO 4BOUFSP BOE .S &

fRiday 18 Rock /Blues/hip-hop

Back Pages +PIOOZ 'PMFZÂľT 0Âľ'BSSFMM 4' XXX KPIOOZGPMFZT DPN QN GSFF Caught in Motion, Oona, Family Crest $BGF %V /PSE QN Eoto, Il Gates .F[[BOJOF QN Go-Going-Gone Girls, Meshugga Beach Party, Beachkrieg 5IFF 1BSLTJEF QN Good Old War, Me & LP, Silent Comedy #PUUPN PG UIF )JMM QN Infamous Stringdusters, Emmitt-Nershi Band *OEFQFOEFOU QN Jason Marion, Nathan Temby & JC Rockit +PIOOZ 'PMFZÂľT 0Âľ'BSSFMM 4' XXX EVFMJOHQJBOPTBU GPMFZT DPN QN Marketa Irglova, Sean Rowe (SFBU "NFSJDBO .VTJD )BMM QN Minor Kingdom "NOFTJB QN Murs, Tabi Bonney, Ski Beatz & Senseis, McKenzie Eddie, and more 'JMMNPSF QN John Nemeth #JTDVJUT #MVFT QN

picks

arts + culture

Black Market Jazz Orchestra 5PQ PG UIF .BSL $BMJGPSOJB 4' XXX UPQPGUIFNBSL DPN QN Chali 2NA, MTHDS :PTIJÂľT +B[[ -PVOHF QN Genna&Jesse :PTIJÂľT +B[[ -PVOHF QN GSFF Diane Schuur 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN QN

folk / woRld/countRy

Musical Art Quintet 4JTUFS $BSPMJOF $PMMJOT 5IFBUFS &MMJT 4' XXX TIDQ FEV QN Paul Anaya & Paul Nathan, Swindlefish .BTPO 4PDJBM )PVTF 4' XXX NBTPOTPDJBMIPVTF DPN QN GSFF The Social featuring Funk Revival Orchestra &MCP 3PPN QN 8JUI $BNJMP -BOEBV )FDUPS -VHP BOE "OESFT 4PUP

happy hour t-f 5-8pm $3 well/draft $5 bloody mary & fry bread w/ rocky tree m/w/f/sat

K/(- ,- "/ + K 7 - 9]ĂŠ "6 ,ĂŠÂŁĂˆ 7pm red hots burlesque 8pm omG! karaoke /0 '30/5 300.

9pm

Afro Bao -JUUMF #BPCBC UI 4U 4' QN "GSP BOE XPSME NVTJD XJUI SPUBUJOH %+T JODMVEJOH 4UFQXJTF 4UFWF $MBVEF 4BOUFSP BOE &MFNCF DJ Harvey and Mike Simonetti 1VCMJD 8PSLT QN DJ What’s His Fuck 3JQUJEF 5BWFSO 5BSBWBM 4' QN GSFF 4QJOOJOH PME TDIPPM QVOL DJ Willy Nice .FKPPM .JTTJPO 4' XXX NFEKPPMTG DPN QN KUSF In Exile DJs #FOEFSÂľT 4PVUI 7BO /FTT 4' XXX CFOEFSTCBS DPN QN 8JUI $BSPMZO &WZO 4UFWZO $SFFQ BOE +BZ “Medicine Showâ€? with Madlib and J Rocc .JHIUZ 6UBI 4' XXX NFEJDJOFTIPX FWFOU CSJUF DPN QN Oldies Night ,OPDLPVU QN %PP XBQ POF IJU XPOEFST BOE TPVM XJUI %+ 1SJNP %BOJFM BOE -PTU $BU Old School Dance Party &M 3JP QN %+T TQJOOJOH GSFFTUZMF OFX XBWF IJQ IPQ BOE PME TDIPPM KBNT Pledge: Fraternal -PPLPVU QN #FOFGJUJOH -(#5 BOE OPOQSPGJU PSHBOJ[BUJPOT #PUUPNMFTT LFHHFS DVQT BOE QBEEMJOH CPPUI XJUI %+ $ISJTUPQIFS # BOE %+ (SJOE Martin Solveig 3VCZ 4LZF .BTPO 4' XXX SVCZTLZF DPN -JWF %+ TFU QN Trannyshack: Morrissey vs. Annie Lennox %/" -PVOHF QN 1FSGPSNBODFT CZ )FLMJOB BOE NPSF XJUI %+ 0NBS Vintage 0STPO 'PVSUI 4U 4' QN GSFF %+ 5PQI0OF BOE HVFTU TQJO KB[[Z CFBUT GPS DPDLUBMJBOT

mia too much sex chanGe benefit

8pm

9pm

dante Vs. Zombies, dirty Ghosts, phil manley’s life coach

&-&$530 &91&3*.&/5"- -1 9]ĂŠ "6 ,ĂŠĂ“ä 3pm daytime realness - %3"( %"/$*/( "/% %*403%&3 8*5) heklina " 9]ĂŠ "6 ,ĂŠĂ“ÂŁ 1#3 8&-- %0--"3 %": "-- %":

9pm

the brass rinGs, the liZ o show, pulse 30$, radical Vinyl - %+Âľ4 41*/ '6/,

)*1)01 0-%*&4 16/, /0 /1 - 9]ĂŠ "6 ,ĂŠĂ“Ă“ ."3("3*5"4 "-- /*()5

5pm

two bulls in your china shop, feral cat

7pm

'0-, '3&& '30/5 300.

9pm

30$, 101 #"$, 300. 4)08 color humano - %+ ""30/ -*/%&-- -"5*/ 406- "'30 14:$) '3&&

dweller, Growwle, the memoirs

&@JJ@FE ,KI<<K , www.elriosf.com ~ 415-282-3325

DAVE “The BestE VComedy E R Y T UClub E S D Ain Y The 2 FUSA!� O R 1 –W I TCHAPPELLE H THIS AD EVERY SUNDAY! S F COMEDY S HOWCASE

SF COMEDY SHOWCASE - EVERY SUNDAY! O=<F=K<9Q ))'). % K9LMJ<9Q ))')1 FROM COMEDY CENTRAL SHOWDOWN AND WEEDS!

:J=L =JFKL

DANiEL KiNNO, KEviN MuNROE

EGF<9Q ))'*)

MF<=J?JGMF< ;=D=:JALA=K

Big T, CORY “SHOWTiME� ROBiNSON, BRYAN MOORE, g KiNg, REggiE MATTHEWS

LM=K<9Q ))'** % K9LMJ<9Q ))'*. FROM LAST COMiC STANDiNg!

<9L H@9F

pLuS SpECiAL guEST CRiSTELA ALONzO FROM STAND-up REvOLuTiON!

LM=K<9Q ))'*1

FA;C L@MF=2 J=MFAGF LGMJ KEviN CAMiA

>=DAH= =KH9JR9

LARRY “BuBBLES� BROWN, MARTiN RizO

HMF;@DAF=;GE=<Q;DM:&;GE >9;=:GGC&;GE'HMF;@DAF=K> LOALL=J&;GE'HMF;@DAF=K>

444 BATTERY STREET • 18 & OVER • 2 DRINK MINIMUM • ALL SHOWS ARE LIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE • 415-397-7573

! A-):; 7. ;<)6, =8 +75-,A

stage listings

on the cheap

for future event info looK @ toronADo.com

hAPPY hour every Day until 6:00 pm hours: Daily 11:30 am to 2:00 am

)"*()5 45 ! '*--.03& XXX UPSPOBEP DPN

Wed 11/16

the inspeCtor ClUZo thU 11/17

dUB trio fri 11/18

spindrift

hoWlin' rain 3 leafs sat 11/19 7pm early shoW

lUCKy tUBB and the modern day troUBadoUrs steVen grisWold and his California ConVoy sUn 11/20

freex

KiWi time aWaiting aBdUCtion

??? +7**;+75-,A +75 .7447? =; 76 <?1<<-: )6, .)+-*773

San Francisco’s Premiere Comedy Club! ;/<9:+(@ :(;<9+(@

40*/(,3 0(5 )3(*2

-YVT ¸:[LSSHš ¸4PJOHLS 4PJOHLS /H]L 0ZZ\LZš 5H[V .YLLU 1HUPUL )YP[V

:<5+(@

402, , >05-0,3+ -90,5+:

*VUVY 2LSSPJ\[[ 5H[V .YLLU 1HUPUL )YP[V

>,+5,:+(@ :<5+(@

1(2, 16/(55:,5 >P[O ZWLJPHS N\LZ[ 9`HU :[V\[ ,K^PU 3P

;/<9:+(@ :<5+(@

1,--9,@ 96::

-YVT [OL *VTLK` *LU[YHS 9VHZ[Z 2LSS` 7Y`JL 4PSLZ 2 ALL SHOWS: Cover charge plus two beverage minimum • 18 & older with valid ID 915 COLUMBUS AVENUE (@ LOMBARD), SAN FRANCISCO • SHOW INFO: 415-928-4320 Validated Parking @ Anchorage Garage, 500 Beach St.

WWW.COBBSCOMEDY.COM

Call the box office for no service charges! Limit 8 tickets per person. All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable service charges.

CONTINUES ON PAGE 30 >>

music listings

since 1987

41"$& 30$, 16/, , 9]Ê "6 ,Ê£n 5:30pm '3&& 0:45&34 0/ 5)& )"-' 4)&-- &7&3: '3*%": 6pm dJ’s carmen & miranda "5 5)& &- 3*0 '36*5 45"/% '6/, %*4$0 101 /0 7:30pm red hots burlesque 9pm old school JamZ - 0-% 4$)00- '6/, )*1 )01 0-%*&4 3 # /0 - /1, 9]Ê "6 ,Ê£™ 9pm 4&91*450-8)*1 -06% %*35: %"/(&3064 406/%4 /0

O=<F=K<9Q ))'+( % K9LMJ<9Q )*'+ WiNNER OF LAST COMiC STANDiNg!

Adios Amigo .BLF 0VU 3PPN QN Atlas Moth, Kowloon Walled City, Pins of Light )FNMPDL 5BWFSO QN Scott H. Biram, Joe Buck, Molly Gene One Whoaman Band #PUUPN PG UIF )JMM QN Budos Band, Afrolicious .F[[BOJOF QN Dante vs. Zombies, Dirty Ghosts, Phil Manley’s Life Coach &M 3JP QN Dirty Hand Family Band 3JQUJEF 5BWFSO 5BSBWBM 4' BOE QN Dreamdate, La Drugz, Croissants 5IFF 1BSLTJEF QN Five Fingers of Death, Machine Zero 5IFF 1BSLTJEF QN GSFF Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Hours 0SQIFVN 5IFBUSF .BSLFU 4' XXX TIOTG DPN QN Kyuss Lives!, Sword, Black Cobra, Papa Wheelie 3FHFODZ #BMMSPPN QN Mark Sultan, King Lollipop, Lovely Bad Things )FNMPDL 5BWFSO QN Mission Players 'PSU .BTPO 4' XXX OJHIU UIBUOFWFSFOET DPN QN #FW.P )PMJEBZ #FFSGFTU Tainted Love, Duran Duran Duran #JNCP¾T QN Top Secret Band +PIOOZ 'PMFZ¾T 0¾'BSSFMM 4' XXX KPIOOZGPMFZT DPN QN GSFF

A Beer Drinker’s PArADise!

Generalissimo, moGGs, moonbell

satuRday 19 Rock /Blues/hip-hop

over 100 different bottles, specializing in Belgians

/0 0/& 563/&% "8": '03 -"$, 0' '6/%4

/ 1,- 9]Ê "6 ,Ê£Ç

7pm

dance cluBs

50 KicK Ass Beers on DrAught

film listings

classifieds

Wed 11/16

ChameleonsVox (Chameleons UK) performing "sCript of the Bridge" BlaCK sWan lane thUr 11/17

sCarfaCe fri 11/18

midnite

sat 11/19 4pm

roCK-n-inK reBel toUr

15 liVe Bands, tattoo artist, Vendors, Contest, raffles and more. sUn 11/20

mirah

featUring the real VoCal string QUartet KaCey Johansing tUe 11/22

ZUmBi

With midnight sUn massiVe and dJ Ue

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

29

music listings SAT/19 CONT>>

Rags Tuttle, Jason Marion & Nathan Temby +PIOOZ 'PMFZÂľT 0Âľ'BSSFMM 4' XXX EVFMJOHQJB OPTBUGPMFZT DPN QN Elliot Randall & the Deadmen $POOFDUJDVU :BOLFF $POOFDUJDVU 4' QN Sounds, Funeral Party, Limousines, Kids at the Bar 8BSGJFME QN Tank :PTIJÂľT BOE QN we.are.definitive, John Acquaviva, Olivier Giacomotto .JHIUZ 6UBI 4' XXX CMBTUIBVT DPN QN Lucinda Williams 'JMMNPSF QN Zoo Station, Chronic Town $BGF %V /PSE QN

jazz/new music

Sonny Holland 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN QN

“Lost Cities: Scavenging the Cultural Landscapeâ€? -VHHBHF 4UPSF (BMMFSZ .BSLFU 4' XXX MVHHBHFTUPSFHBMMFSZ PSH QN GSFF 4PVOE BOE WJEFP JOTUBMMBUJPO “1+1â€? &MFDUSJD 8PSLT &JHIUI 4' XXX TGFMFD USJDXPSLT DPN QN 4PMP TBYPQIPOJTUT +PO 3BTLJO BOE 1IJMJQ (SFFOMJFG Regina Maria Pontillo and her Fantastic SwingTime Band :PTIJÂľT +B[[ -PVOHF QN Diane Schuur 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN BOE QN

folk / world/country

Saturday Night Salsa 3BNQ 'SBODPJT 4' XXX GBDFCPPL DPN UIFSBNQTG QN Holcombe Waller $ZQFSJBOÂľT 5VSL 4' XXX MJWFBUDZQFSJBOT CMPHTQPU DPN QN

dance clubs

Afro Bao -JUUMF #BPCBC UI 4U 4'

QN "GSP BOE XPSME NVTJD XJUI SPUBUJOH %+T JODMVEJOH 4UFQXJTF 4UFWF $MBVEF 4BOUFSP BOE &MFNCF Blowoff 4MJN¾T QN )PTUFE BOE %+¾E CZ #PC .PVME BOE 3JDI .PSFM Bootie SF: Bootie Amsterdam Preview %/" -PVOHF QN 8JUI 3VJO .Z 5VOF 4NBTI 6Q %FSCZ BOE SFTJEFOU #PPUJF 4' %+T "ESJBO .ZTUFSJPVT % %BEB Booty Bassment ,OPDLPVU QN #PPUZ TIBL JOH IJQ IPQ XJUI %+T 3ZBO 1PVMTFO BOE %JNJUSJ %JDLFOTPO DJ Momentum .FKPPM .JTTJPO 4' XXX NFEKPPMTG DPN QN Fringe .BESPOF "SU #BS QN *OEJF NVTJD WJEFP EBODF QBSUZ XJUI %+ #MPOEJF , BOE TVC0DUBWF Non Stop Bhangra 3JDLTIBX 4UPQ QN Saturday Night Soul Party &MCP 3PPN QN 8JUI %+T -VDLZ 1BVM 1BVM 1IFOHSFO 0TXBME TQJOOJOH ´ T TPVM T Smiths Night SF 3PDL *U 3PPN QN GSFF 3FWFM

JO T NVTJD GSPN UIF 4NJUIT +PZ %JWJTJPO /FX 0SEFS BOE NPSF Sunugal.CA #PMMZIPPE $BGn QN $FMFCSBUF 8FTU "GSJDB BOE UIF "GSJDBO %JBTQPSB XJUI 7+ %+ 4BCBS BOE %+ .JHBOF QMVT IPTU 7+ 0VNBS Tight Pants &EJOCVSHI $BTUMF (FBSZ 4' XXX DBTUMFOFXT DPN QN GSFF %+ +VMFT BOE 1FUFS /PCMF TQJOOJOH PME TDIPPM FMFDUSP BOE BHJOH IJQTUFS KBNT Wild Nights ,PL #BS4' 'PMTPN 4' XXX LPLCBSTG DPN QN 8JUI %+ 'SBOL 8JME

sunday 20

Kimya Dawson 3JDLTIBX 4UPQ QN Key Losers, Lesbians, Nora Roman and the Border Busters )FNMPDL 5BWFSO QN Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Champagne Champagne, Xperience 4MJNÂľT QN Obscura, Abysmal Dawn, Last Chance to Reason, Fallujah, Continuum %/" -PVOHF QN Tank :PTIJÂľT BOE QN Terry Savastano +PIOOZ 'PMFZÂľT 0Âľ'BSSFMM 4' XXX KPIOOZGPMFZT DPN QN GSFF Lucinda Williams 'JMMNPSF QN Y La Bamba, Death Songs "NOFTJB QN

jazz/new music

rock /blues/hip-hop

Blind Pilot (SFBU "NFSJDBO .VTJD )BMM QN “Cabaret Showcase Showdown� $BGF %V /PSE QN 'FBUVSJOH 5PN 4IBX 5SJP $BSMZ 0[BSE BOE $BSB #VSHPZOF

Blues organ party with Lavay Smith and Chris Siebert 3PZBM $VDLPP .JTTJPO 4' XXX SPZBMDVDLPP DPN QN GSFF Sonny Holland 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN QN Places of Note )FSCTU 5IFBUSF 7BO /FTT 4'

UIFF

'VMM #BS Â… EBZT

5IF GJOFTU PVUEPPS QBUJP 4PVUI PG .BSLFU

.POT 'SJ

New & Improved 2pm-8pm

)APPY )OUR

01&/ EVERYDAY "5 PM WWW ,*5$)&/ 01&/ %"*-:

'S J 5IF (P (PJOH (POF (JSMT

9pm $7

4B U

4pm free

LZY Cdk# &+ +eb"&%eb

76C< 76C< Âť++

9pm $5

I]gj Cdk# '+

Odc`iVaZh Hdad :m]^W^i^dc Wn BZg`aZn 444

.FTIVHHB #FBDI 1BSUZ #FBDILSJFH

Happy Hour SHow

'JWF 'JOHFST PG %FBUI .BDIJOF ;FSP %SFBNEBUF WJPMFOU DIBOHF - B E36(; .FN PG $MPSPY (JSMT

5IF $SPJTTBOUT

4V O

4pm free

=Veen =djg

.P O

:kZgn LZY ;g^ *",eb

8pm free

9g^c` heZX^Vah

( 9gV[i * LZaa + L^cZ

%JOOFS " .PWJF /JHIU 0MZÂľT %JOOFS 4QFDJBM

6QDPNJOH 4IPXT +'" 0QQSFTTFE -PHJD )JHI5PXFS 1TZDIPMPHZ PG (FOPDJEF %FBE UP .F 3FDPSE 3FMFBTF $PNBESF 8JUDIBWFO &YNPSUVT .JEOJHIU $IBTFS 5JOOJUVT -BSSZ BOE IJT 'MBTL UIF CFMUPOFT XPSLJOÂľ TUJGGT TZEOFZ EVDLT .BECBMM 3PUUJOH 0VU 5BLF 0GGFOTF -JWJOH &ZFT "EPMFTDFOUT :PVUI #SJHBEF -B 1MFCF TJPVY DJUZ LJE XIJTLFSNBO NJTJTJQJ NJLF

Eajh 7gj\Va Gjb 9g^c` HeZX^Vah

ADV TIX THROUGH WWW THEEPARKSIDE COM FOR MORE LISTINGS VISIT WWW MYSPACE COM THEEPARKSIDE WWW FACEBOOK COM PARKSIDEPOTHILL

&&& B^ccV <VaaZgn &&& B^ccV HigZZi 5 'cY Hi &&&B^ccV<VaaZgn#Xdb )&*#.,)#&,&. ™DkZg '& dcan#

30 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

TwaNg SuNday

1600 17th Street 252-1330

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

Music listings XXXX TGDIBNCFSPSDIFTUSB PSH QN Tom Lander & Friends .FKPPM .JTTJPO 4' XXX NFEKPPMTG DPN QN GSFF Diane Schuur 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN QN

DPN QN 3BJTF NPOFZ GPS -(#5 TQPSUT UFBNT XIJMF FOKPZJOH %+T BOE ESJOL TQFDJBMT La Pachanga #MVF .BDBX .JTTJPO 4' XXX UIFCMVFNBDBXTG DPN QN 4BMTB EBODF QBSUZ XJUI MJWF "GSP $VCBO TBMTB CBOET

folk / world/country

Monday 21

Sunday Night Salsa 3BNQ 'SBODPJT 4' XXX GBDFCPPL DPN UIFSBNQTG QN Twang Sundays 5IFF 1BSLTJEF QN GSFF 8JUI 4JMWFS 5ISFBET QN GSFF

dance clubs

Batcave $MVC UI 4U 4' QN %FBUI SPDL HPUI BOE QPTU QVOL XJUI 4UFFQMFSPU 9$ISJT5 /FDSPNPT BOE D@EFBUI Dub Mission &MCP 3PPN QN %VC SPPUT BOE DMBTTJD EBODFIBMM XJUI %+ 4FQ -VEJDISJT BOE 3&, Fresh 3VCZ 4LZF .BTPO 4' XXX SVCZTLZF DPN -JWF %+ TFU QN #FOFGJUJOH )3$ Jock -PPLPVU UI 4U 4' XXX MPPLPVUTG

rock /blues/hip-hop

Jason Bergey .BTPO 4PDJBM )PVTF 4' XXX NBTPOTPDJBMIPVTF DPN QN GSFF Damir +PIOOZ 'PMFZÂľT 0Âľ'BSSFMM 4' XXX KPIOOZGPMFZT DPN QN GSFF Noah & the Whale, Nikki Lane (SFBU "NFSJDBO .VTJD )BMM QN Of Nazareth, Monbon, Maddcaesar &MCP 3PPN QN “Simon and Garfunkel Retrospectiveâ€? $BGF %V /PSE QN 8JUI " + 4XFBSJOHFO BOE +POBUIBO #FFEMF

VNV Nation, Straftanz 4MJNÂľT QN Wu Lyf, Crystal Antlers *OEFQFOEFOU QN

jazz/new Music

Bossa Nova 5VOOFM 5PQ #VTI 4' QN GSFF -JWF BDPVTUJD #PTTB /PWB Candye Kane :PTIJÂľT QN Veronica Klaus 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN QN

dance clubs

Death Guild %/" -PVOHF QN (PUIJD JOEVTUSJBM BOE TZOUIQPQ XJUI +PF 3BEJP %FDBZ BOE .FMUJOH (JSM M.O.M. .BESPOF "SU #BS QN GSFF %+T 5JNPUFP (JHBOUF (PSEP $BCF[B BOE $ISJT 1IMFL QMBZJOH BMM .PUPXO FWFSZ .POEBZ Sausage Party 3PTBNVOEF 4BVTBHF (SJMM .JTTJPO 4' QN GSFF %+ %BOEZ %JYPO TQJOT WJOUBHF SPDL 3 # HMPCBM CFBUT GVOL BOE EJTDP BU UIJT IBQQZ IPVS TBVTBHF TIBDL HJH

tuesday 22 rock /blues/hip-hop

Cynic, 3, Scale the Summit 4MJN¾T QN Stan Erhart Band +PIOOZ 'PMFZ¾T 0¾'BSSFMM 4' XXX KPIOOZGPMFZT DPN QN GSFF Funker Vogt, Everything Goes Cold, DJ Decay &MCP 3PPN QN Growwler, Dweller, Memoirs &M 3JP QN Lusitania, American Tomahawk, Winter’s Fall #PUUPN PG UIF )JMM QN Neurovoltaic Orchestra #PPN #PPN 3PPN 'JMMNPSF 4' QN Only You, Them Hills, Zachary Blizzard )FNMPDL 5BWFSO QN Planet of the Abts, Moksha $BGF %V /PSE QN Retromeca (SBOU (SFFO (SBOU 4' QN Ruleta Rusa, Sydney Ducks, Synthetic ID ,OPDLPVU QN

Shwayze & Cisco Adler, Mod Sun, G-Eazy *OEFQFOEFOU QN Wale .F[[BOJOF QN

jazz/new Music

Audrey Moira Shimkas Trio :PTIJÂľT +B[[ -PVOHF QN Kai Eckhardt Band :PTIJÂľT QN Veronica Klaus 3SB[[ 3PPN .BTPO 4' XXX UIFSSB[[SPPN DPN QN

folk / world/country

“Scott Joplin Birthday Ragtime Concert� $JUZ $PMMFHF PG 4BO 'SBODJTDP 1IFMBO $SFBUJWF "SUT #VJMEJOH 4' B N GSFF Two Bulls in Your China Shop, Feral Cat &M 3JP GSPOU SPPN QN GSFF

dance clubs

Eclectic Company 4LZMBSL QN GSFF %+T 5POFT BOE +BZCFF TQJO PME TDIPPM IJQ IPQ CBTT EVC HMJUDI BOE FMFDUSP 2

DEAD NATION PRESENTS

KITCHEN OPEN MON-SAT

wED LuCIfEr’S hAmmEr prESENTS 11/16 9pm $7

THU

11/17

9:30pm $6

11/16

bATILLuS (NY),

prIZEhoG SuTEKh hEXEN

5)& $"/"%*&/ #",*/

11/18

Afro-TropI-ELECTrIC-SAmbA-fuNK

AfroLICIouS AND fuNKfEST prESENT wITh DJS/hoSTS:

pLEASurEmAKEr & SENor oZ FRI

11/18 10pm $10

EArShoT ENTErTAINmENT prESENTS

fuNK rEVIVAL orChESTrA DoING LATIN fuNK pLuS

DJ

SAT

11/19 10pm $10

LoCurA

#"55-& 50 4"7& 16#-*$ 3"%*0 */ 4'

11/19 Wed 11/16 9pm no CoVeR!

BuRn doWn The diSCo! 80S dAnCe pARTy dj 2Shy-Shy & dj melT W/u

WeB oF Sound!

SATurDAY NIGhT SouL pArTY

hAlSTed

11/22

CrACKwhorE prESENTS

fuNKEr VoGT

9pm $20 ADV (GErmANY) pErformING LIVE! pLuS $25 Door

EVErYThING GoES CoLD AND DJ DECAY (DEATh GuILD)

wED

11/23 10pm $5

SunBeAm Rd AdioS Amigo

eVeRy SATuRdAy nighT! 10pm $5

el SupeRRiTmo!

11/16 8pm $5

CumBiA, dAnCehAll, SAlSA, hip-hop

11/17 8pm $5

RogeR mAS y el kool kyle Sun 11/20 7:30pm $8

SeAWeed SWAy ShoWCASe! Collin ludloW-mATTSon & The FolkS

CASuAl dolphinS, WAiTing Room, Sleepy Todd mon 11/21 7:30pm FRee!

SAd BASTARd’S CluB

ELbo room prESENTS

helene RenAuT • jAmeS FinCh Sonny SmiTh • Tom heymAn 10pm no CoVeR!

CLub ShuTTEr wITh DJS NAKo,

omAr, JuSTIN

VinTAge CounTRy W/ dj TeeTS!

Tue 11/22

ELbo room IS LoCATED AT 647 VALENCIA NEAr 17Th

picks

arts + culture

music listings

SLFM, It Foot It EarS (SaLt LakE CIty), Jon PatCh, FuturE twInS hIPPo CaMPuS, PangEa ProJECt, Corbo, gyPSy trEaSurES warM LEathErEttE In thE MISSIon!! MInIMaL Synth, PoSt Punk, CoLd wavE and MorE. 9PM.

‡ ‡ +

‘not your MaMa’S CraFt FaIr’ ovEr 30 LoCaL artIStS warES, ChILdrEn aCtIvItIES, LIvE MuSIC by PEtEr buSbooM, rEbECCa and MarCEL, LISa MarIE JohnSton, thE PaPEr doLLS oCCuPy thE danCE FLoor!!

bEnEFIt For oCCuPySF

MuSIC and Fun For thE 99% 11/20 2pm $5

loST & Found

3225 22nd ST. @ miSSion SF CA 94110 415-647-2888 • www.makeoutroom.com

food + Drink

10pm

deep & SWeeT 60S Soul 45S

djS luCky & pRimo & FRiendS

news

)5, '(& 7+ ‡ 30 6+2: ‡

hECho LoCaL PrESEntS: 11/19 2-8pm FREE

9:30pm no CoVeR!

ADVANCE TICKETS

editorials

11/18 9pm $3

ChiCken Coop juke

upComING Thu 11/24 AfroLICIouS ThANXGIVING frI 11/25 bISCuITS & GrAVY SAT 11/26 4oNEfuNKTIoN 5Yr ANNIV SuN 11/27 Dub mISSIoN: DJ SEp, JAh YZEr

www.browNpApErTICKETS.Com

BENDERS BAR & GRILL 806 S. VAN NESS @ 19TH 415.824.1800 MON-THU 4PM-2AM FRI-SUN 2PM-2AM WWW.BENDERSBAR.COM

SAT 11/19 7:30-9:30pm $8

MON $2 DrINK SpECIALS

TUE

0$77 -(11,1*6

looSe joinTS!

rEK (AKA SouLSALAAm)

moNboN, mADDCAESAr

5&26*-" 5&$"5& 0/-:

4$3&&/*/( "-- :063 '"7 )03303 '*-.4

W/ djS Tom Thump, dAmon Bell & CenTipede RARe gRooVe/Funk/Soul/hip-hop & moRe!

DJ SEp, LuDIChrIS

ofNAZArETh,

5&26*-" 5&3303 56&4%":4

BomBino

eVeRy FRidAy 10pm $5

pLuS AN EXCLuSIVE SET of Dub & rEGGAE-INfuSED DubSTEp bY

11/21 9pm

11/22

All my pReTTy oneS

($5 DISCouNT IN SEmI-formAL ATTIrE)

DANCEhALL wITh

5)"/,4 50 $-"3&ÂŚ4 %&-* ! 5) (6&33&30

FRi 11/18 7:30-9:30pm $8

DJS LuCKY, pAuL pAuL, phENGrEN oSwALD

9pm $6

4$)-*5; #055-&4 4)054 0' #6--&*5 #063#0/ '&3/&5 #3"/$" 450-* 4)",: 4)054 '3&& -"5& /*()5 4/"$,4

W/dj jACkie SugARlumpS, dARRAgh SkelTon, ByRon Blum

SpINNING 60S SouL 45S

Dub mISSIoN prESENTS

11/20 1. 4$)-*5; */%6453: /*()5

The houSe oF WindSoR

pSyChAdeliC, kRAuT-RoCk, ShoegAze Vinyl 9:30pm FRee!

whooLIGAN

11/20 ThE bEST IN Dub, DubSTEp, rooTS &

1. #"% $01 #"% $01 8*5) 5)& #3&",4

580 0' 4'ÂŚ4 .045 7&5&3"/ 61 $0.*/( #"/%4 16/, 30$,

Thu 11/17 6pm no CoVeR!

wITh

SUN

1. 4-*%*/( 4$"-&

,64' %+ÂŚ4 */ &9*-& #&/&'*5

1-&"4& $0.& 4611035 5)& 0/ (0*/(

rEX rIDDEm (D.C.) (forT KNoX fIVE),

DJ mopo (SuNSET) pLuS IZZY wIZE

8)*4,&: 8&%/&4%":

1#3 4)05 "-- /*()5 -0/( 8*5) 5)& 7"/*--" (03*--"

11/22 7pm

PrESEntatIon oF thE book ‘PoEMS about thIS roLLEr CoaStEr CaLLEd LIFE’ by kaIra ESPInoza,

PoEtry rEadIng by E3 youth, art by robErt truJILLo, yadIra CazarES, PErForManCE by oMuLu CaPoEIra guanabara, dJ by tEao n’ oFFErIngS, PLuS vEndorS and InFo tabLES FroM CoMMunIty organIzatIonS

$%# 4( s 0- 3(/7 !,, !'%3 s /. 3!,% ./7

toPxnotCh, brEakIng ground, MorE

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

31

club list AMNESIA 853 Valencia (415) 970-0012 ARGUS LOUNGE 3187 Mission (415) 824-1447 ASIASF 201 Ninth St (415) 255-2742 ATLAS CAFE 3049 20th St (415) 648-1047 ATMOSPHERE 3 447 Broadway (415) 788-4623 BAMBUDDHA LOUNGE 601 Eddy (415) 885-5088 BAOBAB 3388 19th St (415) 643-3558 BEAUTY BAR 2299 Mission (415) 285-0323 BIMBO’S 365 CLUB 1025 Columbus (415) 474-0365 BISCUITS AND BLUES 401 Mason (415) 292-2583 BOLLYHOOD CAFé 3372 19th St (415) 970-0362 BOOM BOOM ROOM 1601 Fillmore (415) 673-8000 BOTTOM OF THE HILL 1233 17th St (415) 621-4455 BRICK AND MORTAR MUSIC HALL 1710 Mission www.brickandmortarmusic.com BROADWAY STUDIOS 435 Broadway (415) 291-0333 BRUNO’S 2389 Mission (415) 643-5200 CAFE COCOMO 650 Indiana (415) 824-6910 CAFé DU NORD 2170 Market (415) 861-5016 CASANOVA LOUNGE 527 Valencia (415) 863-9328 CAT CLUB 1190 Folsom (415) 431-3332 CLUB DELUXE 1509 Haight (415) 552-6949 CLUB 525 525 Howard (415) 339-8686 CLUB SIX 60 Sixth St (415) 863-1221 DALVA 3121 16th St (415) 252-7740 DELIRIUM 3139 16th St (415) 552-5525 DNA LOUNGE 375 11th St (415) 626-1409 DOLORES PARK CAFE 501 Dolores (414) 621-2936 DOUBLE DUTCH 3192 16th St (415) 503-1670

32 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

EDINBURGH CASTLE PUB 950 Geary (415) 885-4074 ELBO ROOM 647 Valencia (415) 552-7788. ELEMENT LOUNGE 1028 Geary (415) 571-1362 ENDUP 401 Sixth St (415) 357-0827 FILLMORE 1805 Geary (415) 346-6000 540 CLUB 540 Clement (415) 752-7276 FLUID ULTRA LOUNGE 662 Mission (415) 615-6888 GLAS KAT 520 Fourth St (415) 495-6626 GRANT AND GREEN 1371 Grant (415) 693-9565 GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL 859 O’Farrell (415) 885-0750 HEMLOCK TAVERN 1131 Polk (415) 923-0923 HIFI 2125 Lombard (415) 345-TONE HOTEL UTAH SALOON 500 Fourth St (415) 546-6300 ICON ULTRA LOUNGE 1192 Folsom (415) 626-4800 INDEPENDENT 628 Divisadero (415) 771-1421 INFUSION LOUNGE 124 Ellis (415) 421-8700 IRELAND’S 32 3920 Geary (415) 386-6173 JOHNNY FOLEY’S 243 O’Farrell (415) 954-0777 KIMO’S 1351 Polk (415) 885-4535 KNOCKOUT 3223 Mission (415) 550-6994 LASZLO 2526 Mission (415) 401-0810 LEXINGTON CLUB 3464 19th St (415) 863-2052 MADRONE ART BAR 500 Divisadero (415) 241-0202 MAKE-OUT ROOM 3225 22nd St (415) 647-2888 MEZZANINE 444 Jessie (415) 625-8880 MIGHTY 119 Utah (415) 626-7001 MILK 1840 Haight (415) 387-6455 MISSION ROCK CAFé 817 Terry Francois (415) 626-5355 MOJITO 1337 Grant (415) 398-1120 NICKIE’S 466 Haight (415) 255-0300

stage listings

111 MINNA GALLERY 111 Minna (415) 974-1719 PARADISE LOUNGE 1501 Folsom (415) 252-5018 PARKSIDE 1600 17th St (415) 252-1330 PIER 23 Pier 23 (415) 362-5125 PLOUGH AND STARS 116 Clement (415) 751-1122 POLENG LOUNGE 1751 Fulton (415) 441-1710 PUBLIC WORKS 161 Erie www.publicsf.com PURPLE ONION 140 Columbus (415) 217-8400 RASSELAS JAZZ 1534 Fillmore (415) 346-8696 RED DEVIL LOUNGE 1695 Polk (415) 921-1695 RED POPPY ART HOUSE 2698 Folsom (415) 826-2402 REGENCY BALLROOM 1300 Van Ness (415) 673-5716 RETOX LOUNGE 628 20th St (415) 626-7386 RICKSHAW STOP 155 Fell (415) 861-2011 EL RINCON 2700 16th St (415) 437-9240 EL RIO 3158 Mission (415) 282-3325 RIPTIDE BAR 3639 Taraval (415) 240-8360 ROCKIT ROOM 406 Clement (415) 387-6343 RRAZZ ROOM 222 Mason (415) 394-1189 RUBY SKYE 420 Mason (415) 693-0777 SAVANNA JAZZ 2937 Mission (415) 285-3369 SHANGHAI 1930 133 Steuart (415) 896-5600 SHINE DANCE LOUNGE 1337 Mission (415) 255-1337 SKYLARK 3089 16th St (415) 621-9294 SLIDE 430 Mason (415) 421-1916 SLIM’S 333 11th St (415) 255-0333 SOM. 2925 16th St (415) 558-8521 SPACE 550 550 Barneveld (415) 550-8286 STUD 399 Ninth St (415) 252-7883 SUB-MISSION 2183 Mission (415) 255-7227

on the cheap

SUPPERCLUB 657 Harrison (415) 348-0900 TEMPLE 540 Howard (415) 978-9942 1015 FOLSOM 1015 Folsom (415) 431-1200 330 RITCH 330 Ritch (415) 541-9574 TOP OF THE MARK Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel 1 Nob Hill (415) 616-6916 TUNNEL TOP 601 Bush (415) 986-8900 UNDERGROUND SF 424 Haight (415) 864-7386 VESSEL 85 Campton (415) 433-8585 WARFIELD 982 Market (415) 345-0900 YOSHI’S SAN FRANCISCO 1330 Fillmore (415) 655-5600

BAY AREA ANNA’S JAZZ ISLAND 2120 Allston Way, Berk (510) 841-JAZZ ASHKENAZ 1317 San Pablo, Berk (510) 525-5054 BECKETT’S 2271 Shattuck, Berk (510) 647-1790 FOX THEATER 1807 Telegraph, Oakl 1-800-745-3000 FREIGHT AND SALVAGE COFFEE HOUSE 1111 Addison, Berk (510) 548-1761 JUPITER 2181 Shattuck, Berk (510) THE-ROCK 924 GILMAN STREET PROJECT 924 Gilman, Berk (510) 525-9926 LA PEñA CULTURAL CENTER 3104 Shattuck, Berk (510) 849-2568 SHATTUCK DOWN LOW 2284 Shattuck, Berk (510) 548-1159 STARRY PLOUGH 3101 Shattuck, Berk (510) 841-2082 STORK CLUB 2330 Telegraph, Oakl (510) 444-6174 21 GRAND 416 25th St, Oakl (510) 444-7263 UPTOWN 1928 Telegraph, Oakl (510) 451-8100 YOSHI’S 510 Embarcadero West Jack London Square, Oakl (510) 2389200 2

film listings

classifieds

sTAGE lIsTINGs 4UBHF MJTUJOHT BSF DPNQJMFE CZ (VBSEJBO TUBGG 1FSGPSNBODF UJNFT NBZ DIBOHF DBMM WFOVFT UP DPO GJSN 3FWJFXFST BSF 3PCFSU "WJMB 3JUB 'FMDJBOP BOE /JDPMF (MVDLTUFSO 4VCNJU JUFNT GPS UIF MJTUJOHT BU MJTUJOHT!TGCH DPN 'PS GVSUIFS JOGPSNBUJPO PO IPX UP TVCNJU JUFNT GPS UIF MJTUJOHT TFF 1JDLT 'PS DPN QMFUF TUBHF MJTUJOHT TFF XXX TGCH DPN

THEATER oPENING

A Tale of Two Genres 4' 1MBZIPVTF 4VUUFS 4' XXX VO TDSJQUFE DPN 1SFWJFXT 5IVST QN 0QFOT 'SJ QN 3VOT 5IVST 4BU BOE %FD QN OP TIPX 4BU PS /PW BEEJUJPOBM TIPXT 4BU QN 5ISPVHI %FD 6O 4DSJQUFE 5IFBUFS $PNQBOZ QSFTFOUT BO JNQSP WJTFE NVTJDBM JOTQJSFE CZ $IBSMFT %JDLFOT

oNGoING

Absolutely San Francisco "MDPWF 5IFBUFS .BTPO 4UF 4' XXX UIFBM DPWFUIFBUFS DPN 4DIFEVMF WBSJFT UISPVHI %FD /PU 2VJUF 0QFSB 1SPEVDUJPOT QSFTFOUT "OOF /ZHSFO %PIFSUZµT NVTJDBM BCPVU 4BO 'SBODJTDP XJUI GJWF DIBSBDUFST BMM QPSUSBZFE CZ .BSZ (JCCPOFZ Almost Nothing, Day of Absence -PSSBJOF )BOTCFSSZ 5IFBUSF 1PTU 4' XXX MIUTG PSH 8FE 4BU QN BMTP 4BU QN 4VO QN 5IF -PSSBJOF )BOTCFSSZ 5IFBUSF DISJTUFOT JUT HSBOE OFX IPNF OFBS 6OJPO 4RVBSF XJUI UXP XFMM BDUFE POF BDU QMBZT VOEFS TIBSQ EJSFDUJPO CZ BSUJTUJD EJSFDUPS 4UFWFO "OUIPOZ +POFT "WJMB

Annapurna .BHJD 5IFBUSF #MEH % 'PSU .BTPO $FOUFS .BSJOB BU -BHVOB 4' XXX NBHJDUIFBUSF PSH 4IPXUJNFT WBSZ UISPVHI %FD .BHJD 5IFBUSF QFSGPSNT 4IBSS 8IJUFµT XPSME QSFNJFSF ESBNB BCPVU MPWFµT MPOHFWJUZ Fela! $VSSBO 5IFBUSF (FBSZ 4' XXX TIOTG DPN 8FE 4BU QN BMTP 8FE BOE 4BU QN OP TIPX /PW 4VO QN BMTP /PW QN 5ISPVHI %FD 5IF MJGF BOE NVTJD PG /JHFSJBO TVQFSTUBS 'FMB ,VUJ JT DBQUVSFE JO UIJT TIPX XJUI DIPSFPHSBQIZ CZ #JMM 5 +POFT Forgetting the Details #JOEMFTUJGG 4UVEJP 4JYUI 4U 4' XXX OJDPMFNBYBMJ DPN 5IVST 4BU QN /JDPMF .BYBMJ QFSGPSNT IFS TPMP XPSL BCPVU UIF FGGFDUT PG "M[IFJNFSµT How to Love (BSBHF )PXBSE 4' XXX QVTUIF BUSF DPN 'SJ 4BU QN 4VO QN 5ISFF EFNJHPE MJLF QFSTPOBMJUJFT BU UIF DFOUFS PG UIF FBSUI BSF DIBSHFE XJUI BOTXFSJOH MJGFµT NZTUFSJFT CJH BOE TNBMM CVU GJOE UIFNTFMWFT TUZNJFE CZ UIFJS MBUFTU UBTL OBNFMZ FYQMBJOJOH ²IPX UP MPWF ³ 5IFZ IBWF POMZ B XFFL UP EP JU GPS TPNF SFBTPO PS IVNBOJUZ XJMM CF DPOTJHOFE UP FWFSMBTUJOH DPOTUFSOBUJPO PS TPNFUIJOH MJLF UIBU ± DPIFSFODF JT OPU B QSJPSJUZ IFSF ± BOZXBZ TUBLFT BSF IJHI -PDBM QMBZXSJHIU .FHBO $PIFOµT NVNCMJOH DPNFEZ EJSFDUFE XJUI SPCVTU BUUFOUJPO UP CMPDLJOH BOE NPWFNFOU CZ 4DPUU #BLFS GPS 1FSGPSNFST 6OEFS 4USFTT JT GBS UPP TLJU MJLF B DPODFJU UP NFSJU JUT UXP QMPEEJOH BDUT .PSF UP UIF QPJOU JUT IVNPS JT WFSZ TJMMZ CVU HFOFSBMMZ EJN "WJMB

The Importance of Being Earnest /PUSF %BNF 4FOJPS 1MB[B $PNNVOJUZ 3PPN %PMPSFT 4' 'SFF 'SJ QN 4BU 4VO QN UI 4USFFU 1MBZFST QFSGPSN UIF 0TDBS 8JMEF DMBTTJD The Kipling Hotel: True Misadventures of the Electric Pink ‘80s .BSTI 4BO 'SBODJTDP 7BMFODJB 4' XXX UIFNBSTI PSH 4BU QN 4VO QN &YUFOEFE UISPVHI %FD 5IJT OFX BVUPCJPHSBQIJDBM TPMP TIPX CZ %PO 3FFE XSJUFS QFSGPSNFS PG UIF GJOF BOE MPOH SVOOJOH East 14th JT BOPUIFS TMJDF PG UIF BSUJTUµT KPVSOFZ GSPN T 0BLMBOE HIFUUP UP DPNFEZ DJSDVJU SFTQFDU BCJMJUZ ± IFSF WJB B QBSUJBM EFCBUF TDIPMBSTIJQ UP 6$-" 5IF UJUVMBS -PT "OHFMFT SFTJEFODZ IPUFM XBT XIFSF 3FFE MJWFE BOE XPSLFE GPS B UJNF JO UIF T XIJMF BUUFOEJOH VOJWFSTJUZ *UµT BMTP B SJDI NJOF PG NFNPSZ BOE NBUFSJBM GPS UIJT QIZTJDBMMZ QSPUFBO BOE DIBSJTNBUJD DPNJD BDUPS XIP TBJMT UISPVHI UXP BDUT PG PGUFO IJMBSJPVT TPNFUJNFT UPVDIJOH WJHOFUUFT MPPTFMZ TUSVDUVSFE BSPVOE IJT UJNF PO UIF IPUFMµT ZPVOH XBJU TUBGG XIJDI DBUFSFE UP UIF OFFET PG FMEFSMZ QBUSPOT XIP NJHIU OFFE DPOWFSTBUJPO BT NVDI BT CSFBLGBTU 0O PQFOJOH OJHIU UIF FQJTPEJD OBSSBUJWF TFFNFE UP QBTT UISPVHI TFWFSBM FOEJOHT CFGPSF TFUUMJOH PO POF XIPTF UJEZ NPSBM XBT EFMJWFSFE XJUI UPP IFBWZ B IBOE CVU JG UIF QJFDF SVOT B MJUUMF MPOH JUµT POMZ UIF MBTU NJOVUFT UIBU OPUJDFBCMZ NFBOEFST "OE FWFO XJUI TPNF BXLXBSE CVNQT BMPOH UIF XBZ JUµT OFWFS B EVMM UIJOH XBUDIJOH 3FFE XPSL "WJMB

Language Rooms 5IJDL )PVTF UI 4U 4' XXX CSPXOQBQFSUJDLFUT DPN 5IVST 4BU QN OP TIPX /PW 4VO QN 5ISPVHI %FD (PMEFO 5ISFBE 1SPEVDUJPOT BOE "TJBO "NFSJDBO 5IFBUFS $PNQBOZ QSFTFOU UIF 8FTU $PBTU QSFNJFSF PG :VTTFG &M (VJOEJµT EBSL DPNFEZ Making Porn #PY $BS 5IFBUSF 4UVEJPT " )ZEF 4' XXX CSPXOQBQFSUJDLFUT DPN 5IVST QN 5IVST QN 'SJ 4BU QN 4VO QN &YUFOEFE UISPVHI /PW 3POOJF -BSTFO CSJOHT CBDL IJT DSPXE QMFBTJOH DPNFEZ BCPVU UIF HBZ QPSO JOEVTUSZ

1

editorials

news

food + Drink

for more arts content visit sfbG.com/PIxEl_vIsIoN ”Master Harold” ... and the Boys 1IPFOJY 1 5IFBUFS .BTPO 4UF 4' XXX PGGCSPBEXBZXFTU PSH 5IVST 4BU QN #BTFE MPPTFMZ PO QFSTPOBM IJTUPSZ "UIPM 'VHBSEµT ESBNB FYQMPSFT JOTUJUVUJPOBM J[FE SBDJTN JO 4PVUI "GSJDBµT BQBSUIFJE FSB FOTDPODFE JO UIF TFFNJOHMZ JOOPDVPVT XPSME PG B 1PSU &MJ[BCFUI UFB SPPN 5IF QMBZ PQFOT EVSJOH B SBJOZ BGUFSOPPO XJUI OP DVTUPNFST MFBWJOH UIF #MBDL "GSJDBO IFMQ 8JMMJF "OUIPOZ 3PMMJOT .VMMFOT BOE 4BN -B.POU 3JEHFMM XJUI MJUUMF UP EP CVU SFIFBSTF CBMMSPPN EBODF TUFQT GPS B CJH DPNQFUJUJPO DPNJOH VQ JO B DPVQMF PG XFFLT 8IFO )BMMZ "EBN 4JNQTPO UIF PXOFSµT TPO BSSJWFT GSPN TDIPPM UIF BUNPTQIFSF SFNBJOT DPOWJWJBM BU GJSTU UIFO JODSFBTJOHMZ TUSBJOFE BT FWFOUT IBQQFOJOH PVUTJEF UIF UFB SPPN DPOTQJSF UP UFBS BQBSU UIFJS GSBHJMF DBNB SBEFSJF 5IF HSFBUFTU CVSEFOT PG UIF QMBZ BSF DBSSJFE CZ 4BN XIP GJMMT B SBOHF PG SPMFT GPS UIF JODSFBTJOHMZ QFTTJNJTUJD BOE FNPUJPOBMMZ TUVOUFE )BMMZ ± UFBDIFS TUVEFOU TVSSPHBUF GBUIFS DPOGJEBOUF BOE TFSWBOU ± BMM UIF XIJMF DPNQMFUFMZ BXBSF UIBU UIFJS NVUVBM MPWF JT BMNPTU DFSUBJOMZ EPPNFE UP OPU TVSWJWF QBTU )BMMZµT BEPMFTDFODF BOE QPTTJCMZ OPU QBTU UIF BGUFSOPPO 3JEHFMM SJTFT HSFBUMZ UP UIF DIBMMFOHFT PG IJT DIBSBDUFS BCMZ GMBOLFE CZ 3PMMJOT .VMMFOT BOE 4JNQTPO IF FNCPEJFT UIF EFQUI PG 4BNµT IVNBOJUZ GSPN IJT XJT EPN PG FYQFSJFODF UP IJT BENJSBUJPO GPS CFBVUZ UP IJT DBQBDJUZ UP CFBS BOE GJOBMMZ UP GPSHJWF )BMMZµT OFFE UP MBTI PVU BU IJN *U JT B NPWJOH BOE NFNPSBCMF SFOEFS JOH (MVDLTUFSO

More Human Than Human %BSL 3PPN 5IFBUFS .JTTJPO 4' XXX CSPXO QBQFSUJDLFUT DPN 5IVST 4BU QN # %VLFµT EZTUPQJBO ESBNB JT JOTQJSFE CZ 1IJMJQ , %JDL Not Getting Any Younger .BSTI 4BO 'SBODJTDP 4UVEJP 5IFBUFS 7BMFODJB 4' XXX UIFNBSTI PSH 5IVST 'SJ QN 4BU QN 4VO QN &YUFOEFE UISPVHI %FD .BSHB (PNF[ JT CBDL BU UIF .BSTI B DPVQMF PG UPP CSJFG EFDBEFT BGUFS JOBVHVSBUJOH UIF UIFBUFSµT OFX TUBHF XJUI IFS GJSTU TPMP TIPX ± BO BQU TFUUJOH JO PUIFS XPSET GPS UIF XSJUFS QFSGPSNFSµT MBUFTU NPOPMPHVF B SFGMFDUJPO PO UIF JOFWJUBCMF QSPDFTT PG BHJOH GPS B -BUJOB MFTCJBO DPNFEJBO BOE BSUJTU XIP TUJMM IBOHT BU 4UBSCVDLT BOE DBOµU CF USVTUFE XJUI UIF EFUBJMT PG IFS PXO 8JLJQFEJB FOUSZ *G UIF UIPVHIU PG TPNFPOF BT QFSFOOJBMMZ JSSFWFSFOU JOTPVDJBOU BOE BQQFBMJOHMZ JNNBUVSF BT (PNF[ NBLFT ZPV EFQSFTTFE UIF TIPX JT TUSBOHFMZ FOPVHI UIF CFTU BOUJEPUF "WJMB

The Odyssey "CPBSE Alma )ZEF 4USFFU 1JFS 4BO 'SBODJTDP .BSJUJNF /BUJPOBM )JTUPSJD 1BSL 4' XXX XFQMBZFST PSH 'SJ QN )FSBMEJOH UIFJS IVHFMZ BNCJUJPVT 4QSJOH QSPEVD UJPO PG The Odyssey XIJDI XJMM UBLF QMBDF BMM PWFS "OHFM *TMBOE UIF 8& 1MBZFST BSF UBDLMJOH UIF XPSL PO B TMJHIUMZ TNBMMFS TDBMF CZ TUBHJOH JU PO UIF IJTUPSJD TDPX TDIPPOFS Alma XIJDI JT QBSU PG UIF .BSJUJNF /BUJPOBM )JTUPSJDBM 1BSL GMFFU EPDLFE BU UIF FOE PG )ZEF 4USFFU 1JFS 6TJOH CPUI CPBU BOE #BZ BT TFUUJOH UIF FTTFOUJBM DIBQUFST PG UIF UFO ZFBS WPZBHF ± FODPVOUFST XJUI UIF $ZDMPQT $JSDF UIF 6OEFSXPSME UIF 4JSFOT "FPMVT UIF -BFTUSZHPOJBOT BOE $BMZQTP ± BSF FOBDUFE UISPVHI BO JOUSJHVJOH NBTI VQ PG OBSSBUJPO DIPSFPH SBQIZ TFB DIBOUFZT TBMUZ EPH TUPSJFT CSFBUIUBLJOH WJFXT BOE B GFX EFBUI EFGZJOH TUVOUT UIF MJLFT PG XIJDI ZPV XPOµU TFF PO NBOZ DPOWFOUJPOBM TUBHFT (MVDLTUFSO

Oh, Kay! &VSFLB 5IFBUSF +BDLTPO 4' XXX OETUNPPO PSH 8FE QN 5IVST 'SJ QN 4BU QN 4VO QN OE 4USFFU .PPO QFSGPSNT (FPSHF BOE *SB (FSTIXJOµT 1SPIJCJUJPO TFU DPNFEZ On the Air 1JFS PO UIF &NCBSDBEFSP BU #BUUFSZ 4' MPWF [JO[BOOJ PSH BOE VQ JODMVEFT EJOOFS 8FE 4BU QN 4VO QN 5ISPVHI %FD 5FBUSP ;JO;BOOJµT GJOBM QSP EVDUJPO BU JUT MPOHUJNF OFTU PO 1JFS JT B OPTUBMHJB JOGVTFE CBORVFU PG CJUT TUSVDUVSFE BSPVOE BO PME UJNF SBEJP WBSJFUZ TIPX GFBUVSJOH IFBEMJOFST (FPGG )PZMF (Geezer) BOE CMVFT TJOHFS %VGGZ #JTIPQ 4NPPUIMZ IFMNFE CZ ;JO;BOOJ DSFBUJWF EJSFDUPS /PSN -BOHJMM On the Air TJHOBMT PGG UIF BJS GPS UIF QPQVMBS EJOOFS DJSDVT ± VOUJM JU DBO TFDVSF B OFX QBUDI PG MPDBM SFBM FTUBUF GPS JUT BOUJRVF TQJFHFMUFOU ± TP UVOF JO XIJMF ZPV NBZ "WJMB

Pellas and Melisande $VUUJOH #BMM 5IFBUFS &YJU PO 5BZMPS 5BZMPS 4' XXX DVUUJOHCBMM DPN 5IVST 'SJ 4BU QN BMTP 4BU QN 4VO QN 5ISPVHI /PW 5IF 'SPH 1SJODF 3BQVO[FM UIF 4XBO .BJEFO TIJNNFSJOH TUSBOET PG FBDI UJNFMFTT UBMF UXJTU UISPVHI UIF NFMBO DIPMZ UBQFTUSZ PG UIF .BVSJDF .BFUFSMJODL QMBZ Pelleas and Melisande XIJDI PQFOT $VUUJOH #BMM 5IFBUFSµT UI TFBTPO 3FDFJWJOH B MVTIMZ BUNPTQIFSJD USFBU NFOU CZ EJSFDUPS BOE USBOTMBUPS 3PC .FMSPTF UIJT JMM GBUFE 4ZNCPMJTU ESBNB TUBST +PTIVB 4DIFMM BOE $BJUMZO -PVDIBSE BT UIF EPPNFE MPWFST 5IPVHI EFTDSJCFE CZ .FMSPTF BT B ²GBJSZ UBMF XPSME GPS BEVMUT ³ UIF ESFBNZ HBV[F PG Pelleas and Melisande QFFMT BXBZ RVJDLMZ FOPVHI UP SFWFBM B GMJOUZ BOE VOTFOUJNFOUBM IFBSU (MVDLTUFSO

Savage in Limbo "DUPST 5IFBUSF PG 4BO 'SBODJTDP #VTI 4' XXX BDUPSTUIF BUSFTG PSH 8FE 4BU QN 5ISPVHI %FD "DUPST 5IFBUSF PG 4BO 'SBODJTDP QFSGPSNT +PIO 1BUSJDL 4IBOMFZµT FEHZ DPNFEZ SexRev: The José Sarria Experience

1

$PVOUFS16-4& .JTTJPO 4' XXX UIFSIJOP PSH 1SFWJFXT 5IVST 'SJ QN 0QFOT 4BU QN 3VOT 5IVST 4BU QN BMTP 4BU QN OP TIPX /PW 4VO QN 5ISPVHI /PW 5IFBUSF 3IJOPDFSPT QFSGPSNT +PIO 'JTIFSµT NVTJDBM DFMFCSBUJPO PG "NFSJDBµT GJSTU RVFFS BDUJWJTU ± B IJU GPS UIF DPNQBOZ JO “Shocktoberfest 12: Fear Over Frisco” )ZQOPESPNF 5IFBUSF UI 4U 4' XXX UISJMMQFEEMFST DPN 5IVST 4BU QN *O JUT BOOVBM TFBTPO TDFOUFE IPSSPS CJE 5ISJMMQFEEMFST KPJOT GPSDFT XJUI 4'µT $[BS PG /PJS XSJUFS EJSFDUPS &EEJF .VMMFS GPS B TIBSQMZ QFOOFE USJQMFU PG QMBZT UIBU SFTVSSFDU MVSJE 4BO 'SBODJTDP MPSF BT GMFTI BOE CMPPE BDUJPO 5IF FWFOJOH BMTP PGGFST B CMBDLPVU TQPPL TIPX BOE TPNF TNPPUIMZ BUNP TQIFSJD NVTJDBM OVNCFST JODMVEJOH .VMMFSµT SPVTJOH ²'FBS 0WFS 'SJTDP³ NVTJD DPNQPTFE CZ 4DSVNCMZ ,PMEFXZO BDDPNQBOJNFOU CZ 4UFWF #PMJOHFS BOE #JSEJF #PC 8BUU BOE BO BQUMZ MPX EPXO *SWJOH #FSMJO OVNCFS ± CPUI XJOOJOHMZ QFSGPSNFE CZ UIF FOUJSF DPNQBOZ "WJMB

Sticky Time #SBWB 5IFBUFS UI 4U 4' XXX WBOHVBSEJBOQSPEVDUJPOT DPN 8FE 'SJ QN $SPXEFE 'JSF BOE 7BOHVBSEJBO 1SPEVDUJPOT QSFTFOU QMBZXSJHIU EJSFDUPS .BSJMFF 5BMLJOHUPOµT NVMUJNFEJB TDJFODF GJDUJPO BCPVU B XPNBO SVOOJOH PVU PG UJNF JO UIF XPSTU XBZ 5IF QSPMJY BOE IJTUSJPOJD TUPSZ JT UIF SFBM TUJDLJOH QPJOU IPXFWFS JO UIJT PUIFSXJTF JNBHJOBUJWFMZ TUBHFE QJFDF XIJDI QMBDFT JUT BVEJFODF PO TXJWFM DIBJST JO UIF DFOUFS PG #SBWBµT VQTUBJST TUVEJP UIFBUFS USBOTGPSNFE CZ EFTJHOFS "OESFX -VµT SBJTFE TUBHF BOE XIJUF WJEFP TDSFFOT SVOOJOH UIF MFOHUI PG UIF XBMMT JOUP BO FOWFM PQJOH BVSBM NPPEZ NJOJNBMJTUJD TDPSF CZ $IBP +BO $IBOH BOE WJTVBM MBOETDBQF " MJUUMF MJLF B GSFOFUJD TUBHZ WFSTJPO PG "OESFZ 5BSLPWTLZµT Solaris UIF TUPSZ HFUT DSFEJU GPS ESBNBUJ[JOH TPNF DPOGPVOEJOH GBDUT BCPVU UJNF BOE TQBDF BU UIF QBSUJDMF MFWFM CVU NJHIU IBWF CFOFGJUFE GSPN MFTT EJBMPHVF BOE NPSF NZTUFSZ "WJMB

Working for the Mouse &YJU 5IFBUSF &EEZ 4' XXX CSPXOQBQFSUJDLFUT DPN 5IVST 4BU QN OP QFSGPSNBODFT /PW 5ISPVHI %FD *U NJHIU OPU DPNF BT B TVSQSJTF UP IFBS UIBU FWFO ²UIF IBQQJFTU QMBDF PO FBSUI³ IBT B EBSL TJEF CVU IFBSJOH 5SFWPS "MMFO EFTDSJCF JU EVSJOH UIJT SFQSJTF PG µT Working for the Mouse XJMM QVU B TNJMF PO ZPVS GBDF BT CJH BT .JDLFZµT (Note: review from the show’s recent run at La Val’s Subterranean in Berkeley.) (MVDLTUFSO 2

.,/!9)! +!,%-#! .17 .0#%+

1

!2 .4 /, %++%0"!#( !++ #&! & '( & " & + ( ( ( #" ( # $ " #'/ #& ' '' ! (&#)$ # ' #)"(&-2' !#'( ! ! " # &( '(' & "#+" #& $ & #&! " ' ( ( & ( !#( #" * ( (- " "( "' (- "' ! & ()&"' + ( Gypsy Fire & ( #" # ( !#'( !#)' '(- # ( ' $ '' #" ( " #&! $ & #&! - #& " ' ! ! & #!$ "- (!-*1')4)-' %%*%-$

.,6 3"8-%* Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible 0) .4

/, /, !2 .4 /, /, !-$ 3- .4 /, %++%0"!#( +!5(.31%

1

*Half-Price matinee for ages 16 and under & ' "# #" %) ( #!. ) 0" #! " )' * &()#'# * ) * " " &#)" &! & ' ,) & "( #" ! " ' #+ + ( '$#"( " #)' + ( )$&# & #)' ')& (- " #)& #)' (' # "#"' "' ' * " ) " ' " )(( & - #-#)' " )" #& (( ,$ & " " '# #)( $ & #&! " ' #" &# + - " &#)" ( +#& & ( )" #& '

1

picks

arts + culture

music listings

(Please note: This performance is not suitable for children under 5.) ' ' %, %' ) () )(

Order Online calperformances.org Season Sponsor:

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

Season Media Sponsor:

classifieds

Charge by Phone 510.642.9988

)#*%2 &&)#% "" ' "" * ' $%%$ . &# ) *$ &# . &#

0.3/1 .& .0 ,.0% ! )( 1!4% %$ #%() + $)( ""

-)

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

33

on The cheap

for more arts content visit sFbg.com/pixel_vision

MiSS FURy, THe FiRST FeMALe SUPeRHeRO DRAWN By A LADy, COMeS TO THe CARTOON ART MUSeUM. See THURS/17. Summerlea KaShar and Trina robbinS

0O UIF $IFBQ MJTUJOHT BSF DPNQJMFE CZ -VDZ 4DIJMMFS 4VCNJU JUFNT GPS UIF MJTUJOHT BU MJTU JOHT!TGCH DPN 'PS GVSUIFS JOGPSNBUJPO PO IPX UP TVCNJU JUFNT GPS UIF MJTUJOHT TFF 1JDLT

GUARDIAN DEALS ON THE FLY @ FORKFLY. COM

wednesday 16 Lyrics and Dirges Reading 1FHBTVT %PXOUPXO 4IBUUVDL #FSL XXX QFHBTVTCPPLTUPSF DPN ° Q N GSFF 4QJSJU ZPVSTFMG BXBZ UP #FSLFMFZ GPS UIF NPOUIMZ SFBEJOH CZ MPDBM XSJUFST /FXMZ QVCMJTIFE BVUIPST MJLF 8JMMJBN 5BZMPS +S BOE PME IBOET BU UIF CVTJOFTT -ZOOF ,OJHIU VOJUF GPS UIF FWFOJOH UP TIBSF UIFJS XPSL

Thursday 17

TM

ur o y ake y to m n s a a c e We ite as d r s o b e W w a s a t i d t. e n n e m atio r g u e t ia In pment doc d e lM elo Call 408 501

v ia Soc n & De orms / g Blo Desig tion F t Web Genera lopmen e d Lea m Dev ication to if Cus e Mod m The .com

COOKING BACKYARD CLASSICS AND SECRET BBQ RECIPIES AT BAY AREA EVENTS

882 5

sx e l a .s ww

SOUND SYSTEM & DJS ON BOARD

w

34 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

Artist Trading Cards Open House 4BO 'SBODJTDP $FOUFS GPS UIF #PPL %F )BSP 4' XXX TGDC PSH ° Q N GSFF 'FX PG VT DBO CBU CVU UIBU TIPVME IBSEMZ QSFDMVEF PVS DIBODFT GPS HFUUJOH PXO USBEJOH DBSET "SUJTU $PVSUOFZ $FSSVUJ MFBET UIF DSFBUJPO PG XBMMFU TJ[FE BSUJTUJD FYQSFTTJPOT XIJDI BSF UP CF USBEFE BU UIF FOE PG UIF XPSLTIPQ Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury presentation and book signing $BSUPPO "SU .VTFVN .JTTJPO 4' XXX DBSUPPOBSU PSH ° Q N GSFF .JTT 'VSZ UIF TIF SP PG B T DPNJD SJWBMT -BSB $SPGU JO TWFMUFOFTT PG GPSN BOE UJHIUOFTT PG DPTUVNF #VU BT ²IFSTUPSJBO³ 5SJOB 3PCCJOT XJMM QSFTFOU BU UIJT SFBEJOH 'VSZ XBT UIF GJSTU GFNBMF TVQFSIFSP ESBXO CZ B XPNBO BOE TIF NBEF B MBTUJOH JNQBDU Under One Roof Annual Holiday Store Premiere 6OEFS 0OF 3PPG " $BTUSP 4' XXX VOEFS POFSPPG PSH ° Q N GSFF 5IBOLT UP UIF QSJ NPSEJBM VSHF JO BMM PG VT UP TUPDL VQ BOE IJCFSOBUF GPS UIF OFYU GFX NPOUIT HSFBTZ TUFBNJOH UIJOHT IBWF OFWFS MPPLFE CFUUFS )PU $PPLJF /JOLBTJ #SFXFSZ 4BVTBHF 'BDUPSZ BOE PUIFST UFBN VQ BU 6OEFS 0OF 3PPG UP PGGJDJBMMZ MBVODI UIF TUBSU PG UIF IPMJEBZ TFBTPO BOE UP DFMFCSBUF UIF PWFS NJMMJPO UIFZ IBWF SBJTFE TP GBS GPS MPDBM )*7 BOE "*%4 DIBSJ UJFT $IFG (BSSFUU "EBJS PGGJDJBUFT PWFS UIF LJUDIFO Newspepper US website launch party 4XJH #BS (FBSZ 4' 'BDFCPPL /FXTQFQQFS MBVODI QBSUZ 64" Q N GSFF 5IF UFDIJFT BOE OFX NFEJB UZQFT XJMM CF GMPDL JOH GPS UIJT EFCVU PG 6, XFC NFEJB DPOTVMUJOH HVSVT /FXTQFQQFSµT TQSFBE UP UIF 6OJUFE 4UBUFT /FFE B IVOHSZ BQQ EFWFMPQFS JO ZPVS MJGF :PVµMM GJOE UIFN BNJE UIF GSFF DVQDBLFT BOE DPNQMJNFOUBSZ NBT TBHFT BU UIJT TMFFL 5- DPDLUBJM CBS

Friday 18 Holiday Artisan Fair EF:PVOH .VTFVN )BHJXBSB 5FB (BSEFO %SJWF 4' XXX EFZPVOH GBNTG PSH "MTP 4BU B N ° Q N 4BU B N ° Q N GSFF /P NFSF CBVCMFT IFSF 8FMM SFQVUFE MPDBM BSUJTUT TFMM KFXFMSZ TUBUJPOFSZ IPNF EnDPS BOE UFYUJMFT B QMFOUZ VOEFS UIF RVBMJUZ HVBSBOUFF UIBU BO BSU NVTFVNµT DSBGU GBJS BGGPSET *G ZPVµSF PG UIF TDBSG HJGUJOH TDIPPM ZPV NBZ XBOU UP TUPQ CZ Dark Circle Screening #FSLFMFZ 'FMMPXTIJQ PG 6OJUBSJBO 6OJWFSTBMJTUTµ )BMM $FEBS #FSL XXX CGVV PSH TVHHFTUFE EPOBUJPO Dark Circle BO PNJOPVTMZ UJUMFE GJMN PO BO PNJOPVT UPQJD QMVUP OJVNµT KPVSOFZ BSPVOE UIF XPSME XPO UIF 4VOEBODF (SBOE 1SJ[F GPS IJHIMJHIUJOH UIF MJOL CFUXFFO CVS

music listings

stage listings

HFPOJOH OVDMFBS QPXFS BOE NBTTJWF EFTUSVDUJPO Playland at the Conservatory Opening $POTFSWBUPSZ PG 'MPXFST +', 4' XXX DPOTFSWBUPSZPGGMPXFST PSH B N ° Q N 4BOE DPWFSFE *UµT *UT BOE XPPM CBUIJOH TVJUT NBZ CF UIJOHT PG UIF QBTU CVU (PMEFO (BUF 1BSLµT OFX HBSEFO SBJMXBZ XJMM SFTVSSFDU UIFN BOE UIF SPMMJDL JOH IFZEBZ PG 4BO 'SBODJTDPµT 8FTUFSO OFJHICPS IPPET 5PPU UISPVHI UIF 4VUSP #BUIT $MJGG )PVTF BOE 1MBZMBOE BU UIF #FBDI JO B IJHIMZ JOUFSBDUJWF FYIJCJU UIBU XJMM CF BSPVOE VOUJM OFYU "QSJM

saTurday 19 “Addiction and Society” Presentation by Dr. Gabor Mate 4PVUI #FSLFMFZ 4FOJPS $FOUFS &MMJT #FSL XXX TQFBLPVU OPX PSH 'SFF Q N %S .BUF JT B MPU PG UIJOHT BDUJWJTU QIZTJDJBO BVUIPS BOE IJT NBJO TQFDJBMUZ MJFT JO FYQMPSJOH UIF MJOLT CFUXFFO TPDJFUZ BOE BEEJD UJPO 5POJHIU UIF $BOBEJBO BDUJWJTU EJTDVTTFT DBQJUBMJTNµT SPMF JO NFOUBM JMMOFTT BOE BEEJDUJPO Holiday Design Bazaar )BSWFZ .JML $JWJM 3JHIUT "DBEFNZ UI 4U 4' XXX IBSWFZNJML DPN /PPO ° Q N GSFF ´5JT UIF TFBTPO PG CB[BBS B XPSE UIBU JOTQJSFT WJTJPOT PG FOEMFTT IBHHMJOH BOE UISPOHT PG QFPQMF &WFO XJUI MPDBM EFTJHOFST GMBVOUJOH UIFJS XBSFT %+T BOE GPPE UIF $BTUSPµT WFSTJPO QSPNJTFT UP CF GBJSMZ HFOUMF BOE QBSU PG UIF QSPDFFET CFOFGJU ).$3"µT BSUT FEVDBUJPO QSPHSBNT

sunday 20 Snacks and Crafts Art Show and Fundraiser 6SCBO #B[BBS UI "WF 4' XXX VSCBOCB [BBSTG DPN ° Q N GSFF 6SCBO #B[BBS UIF *OOFS 4VOTFUµT TPVSDF GPS TVDDVMFOUT BOE MPDBM IBOENBEF HJGUT BMJLF DFMFCSBUFT UIF XPSL PG JUT UXP BSUJTU JOUFSOT GSPN $JUZ "SUT BOE 5FDIOPMPHZ )JHI 4DIPPM XJUI B GVOESBJTFS GPS UIF TDIPPMµT BSU QSPHSBN “The Politics of Homosexuality in Africa” #FSNBO )BMM 'SPNN #VJMEJOH 6OJWFSTJUZ PG 4BO 'SBODJTDP (PMEFO (BUF BOE 1BSLFS "WFOVFT 4' XXX QSJPSJUZBGSJDB PSH ° Q N GSFF 4ZMWJB 5BNBMF UIF GJSTU GFNBMF EFBO BU 6HBOEBµT .BLFSFSF 6OJWFSTJUZ -BX 4DIPPM TQFBLT PO UIF VHMZ 6HBOEBO BOUJ IPNPTFYVBMJUZ CJMM BOE TFYVBMJUZ BT B UPPM XJUIJO "GSJDBO BOE 8FTUFSO QPMJUJDT BMJLF

monday 21 Dinner and a Movie 5IFF 1BSLTJEF UI 4U 4' XXX UIFFQBSLTJEF DPN Q N GSFF FOUSZ 8JUI UXP .VQQFU BEWFOUVSFT TDSFFOFE CBDL UP CBDL The Muppet Movie BOE The Great Muppet Caper JU XPVME CF IBSE UP QBTT VQ UIJT .POEBZ CPPTU PG NPSBMF #VU EPMMBS CFFST BOE B CVDL EJOOFS "MM TJHOT QPJOU UP QBTTJOH PVU VOEFS B UBCMF XJUI DPOUFOUFEOFTT

Tuesday 22 West Coast Songwriter’s Competition $BGn 3PZBMF 1PTU 4' XXX DBGFSPZBMF TG DPN Q N GSFF 5IPTF XIP NFMU BU UIF TPVOE BOE TJHIU PG MPOH IBJSFE HVJUBS TUSVNNJOH DSPPOFST BSF JO USPVCMF ° GJGUFFO PS TP FBSOFTUMZ UXBOHJOH TQFDJNFOT EP CBUUMF GPS UIJT NPOUIµT TPOHXSJUJOH QSJ[F (VBSE ZPVS IFBSU 2

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

our celebration of The 23 rd Annual

Goldies

Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Awards thursday november 10, 2011 • 111 minna guardian photos by ariel soto-suver the winners

lifetime achievement winner david meltzer and his wife julie rogers

dj carnita of hard french

dance winner micaya and her son yeshuah bell music winners dirty cupcakes

lifetime achievement winner ingrid eggers with bruce b. brugmann

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

performance winner philip huang with theo knox and victor ng

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

november 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

35

film listinGs

for more arts content visit sfbG.cOm/pixel_visiOn

KrISTIn SCOTT THOMAS STArS In THe THrILLer The heir AppArenT: LArgo Winch, OuT FrI/18 AT THe BALBOA. | COUrTESy mUSIC bOx fIlmS 'JMN MJTUJOHT BSF FEJUFE CZ $IFSZM &EEZ 3FWJFXFST BSF ,JNCFSMZ $IVO .BY (PMECFSH %FOOJT )BSWFZ -ZOO 3BQPQPSU BOE .BUU 4VTTNBO 'PS SFQ IPVTF TIPXUJNFT TFF 3FQ $MPDL 'PS DPNQMFUF GJMN MJTU JOHT TFF XXX TGCH DPN

OpeninG

California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown *UµT BSHVBCMZ TUJMM UIF MBUF 1BU #SPXOµT $BMJGPSOJB ± XFµSF KVTU MJWJOH JO JU 5IJT VQ DMPTF EPDVNFOUBSZ ± QVU UPHFUIFS XJUI DBSF BOE QBT TJPO CZ IJT HSBOEEBVHIUFST 4BTDIB 3JDF BOE )JMBSZ "SNTUSPOH ± MPPLT BU IJTUPSZ UIBU PGUFO HFUT OFHMFDU FE GPS JUT DMPTF QSPYJNJUZ UP UIF QSFTFOU 5IF NPWJF NBLFST HP CBDL UP UIF QPMJUJDJBOµT CFHJOOJOHT PO UIF IFFMT PG UIF FBSUIRVBLF BNJE UIF TVCTFRVFOU SFCVJMEJOH PG 4BO 'SBODJTDP BOE UIF HSPXJOH TFOTF PG PQUJNJTN 7JFXFE UISPVHI UIF MFOT PG OFXT GPPUBHF QIPUPHSBQIT BOE JOUFSWJFXT XJUI DMPTF PCTFSWFST JODMVEJOH %JBOOF 'FJOTUFJO 5PN )BZEFO BOE +FSSZ #SPXO 1BUµT TPO 1BU #SPXO XBT UIFSF QVUUJOH IJT XFJHIU CFIJOE TPNF PG UIF TUBUFµT NPTU TJHOJGJDBOU MFHJTMBUJPO GSPN UIF QBTTJOH PG UIF GBJS IPVTJOH BDU UP UIF CVJMEJOH PG UIF $BMJGPSOJB "RVFEVDU %FTQJUF UIFJS FWJEFOU MPWF BOE SFTQFDU GPS UIFJS TVCKFDU ± UIF GJMN NBLFST SFGFS UP UIFJS TVCKFDU BT ²HSBOEQB³ ± 3JDF BOE "SNTUSPOH EPOµU EVDL GSPN UIF EJTBQQPJOUNFOUT 1BU #SPXO NBZ IBWF TVGGFSFE JO IJT GBJMVSF UP FOUFS B OBUJPOBM QPMJUJDBM TUBHF BOE UIF QSFTTVSFT PG MJWJOH JO B DMBO UIBU BT EBVHIUFS #BSCBSB #SPXO $BTFZ TBZT DPOTJEFSFE QPMJUJDT ²UIF GBNJMZ CVTJOFTT ³ SFFS New People Cinema. $IVO

Curling 5IJT TQBSF ESBNB GSPN 2VFCFD XSJUFS EJSFD UPS %FOJT $yUn DFOUFST PO +FBO 'SBODPJT &NNBOVFM #JMPEFBV B JTI TNBMM UPXOFS XIP XPSLT BT KBOJ UPS IBOEZNBO BU CPUI UIF MPDBM CPXMJOH BMMFZ BOE NPUFM )F LFFQT ZFBS PME EBVHIUFS +VMZWPOOF 1IJMPNoOF #JMPEFBV BU IPNF OPU MFUUJOH IFS BUUFOE TDIPPM BOE SBSFMZ MFUUJOH IFS TFF PUIFS QFPQMF PVU PG B NJTHVJEFE PWFS QSPUFDUJWFOFTT UIBU $yUn DIPPTFT UP MFBWF VOFYQMBJOFE +VTU MJLF IF MFBWFT VOFYQMBJOFE UIF EFBE CPEJFT +VMZWPOOF GJOET JO B OFBSCZ GPSFTU UIF EZJOH CPZ +FBO 'SBODPJT GJOET PO B SPBETJEF POF OJHIU PS UIF CMPPEZ NPUFM SPPN IFµT JOTUSVDUFE UP DMFBO VQ XJUIPVU DBMMJOH QPMJDF :PV NJHIU UIJOL GSPN UIF BCPWF UIBU Curling JT BO FMMJQUJDBM UISJMMFS CVU OP ± JUµT KVTU FMMJQUJDBM BOE JOEVDFT B CJH ²4P XIBU ³ PODF XF SFBMJ[F UIJT JT TJNQMZ B UBMF BCPVU B GBUIFS BOE EBVHIUFS FOEVSJOH NPEFTU TUSBJO UIFO HFUUJOH QBTU JU 8IZ UIFSF BSF TP NBOZ SFE IFSSJOHT TDBUUFSFE BSPVOE B OBSSBUJWF PUIFSXJTF BT DIJMMZ GMBU BOE CMFBL BT UIF XJOUSZ MBOETDBQFT IFSF JT BOZPOFµT HVFTT SFFS New People Cinema. )BSWFZ

The Descendants 4FF ²#MVF )BXBJJ ³

Dragonslayer 4FF ²-FUµT (FU -PTU ³ Roxie. Happy Feet Two 5IF EBODJOH QFOHVJOT BSF CBDL XJUI &MJKBI 8PPE 3PCJO 8JMMJBNT BOE )BOL "[BSJB BNPOH UIF DFMFCSJUZ WPDBMJTUT Four Star, Presidio. The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch 5IF UJUMF JT B NPVUIGVM UIF CJMMJPOBJSF IFJS GJHIUT UP TBWF IJT DPSQPSBUJPO QMPU B MJUUMF PVU PG TUFQ XJUI UIF UJNFT #VU The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch — CBTFE PO B XJMEMZ QPQVMBS #FMHJBO DPNJD CPPL TFSJFT UIBUµT BMSFBEZ TQBXOFE B 57 TFSJFT B WJEFP HBNF BOE B TFRVFM UP UIJT GJMN ± JT B TFSWJDFBCMF NVMUJMJOHVBM UISJMMFS JO UIF +BNFT #POE NPEF XJUI B MJUUMF CJU PG .S %FFET "EBN 4BOEMFS WFSTJPO UPTTFE JO 8IFO NFHBSJDI CVTJOFTTNBO /FSJP 8JODI .JLJ .BOPKMPWJD EJFT PO IJT )POH ,POH ZBDIU IJT TFDPOE JO DPNNBOE ,SJTUJO 4DPUU 5IPNBT SPDL JOH BO JDF RVFFO "OOB 8JOUPVS ´EP UBLFT DPOUSPM ± VOUJM XPSE HFUT PVU BCPVU -BSHP 8JODI TFDSFUMZ BEPQUFE BT BO JOGBOU BOE HSPPNFE TJODF ZPVUI UP JOIFSJU /FSJPµT XFBMUI BOE QPTJUJPO " QPXFS TUSVHHMF FOTVFT BOE TJODF -BSHP 5PNFS 4JTMFZ JT B SBLJTIMZ IBOETPNF OFµFS EP XFMM BEWFOUVSFS UZQF UIF BDUJPO JODMVEFT DIBTF TDFOFT JO NVMUJQMF DPVOUSJFT CBE HVZT TIPPUJOH PVU PG IFMJDPQUFST EPDVNFOUT TUBTIFE JO TFDSFU MPDBUJPOT B GFNNF GBUBMF EJTHVJT FT CBDL TUBCCJOH TPNFUJNFT MJUFSBMMZ FUD 8IZ OP

1

36 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

QBSU IFSF GPS +FBO $MBVEF 7BO %BNNF )FµT #FMHJBO ± BOE IF QFSGFDUFE UIJT JOUFSOBUJPOBM # NPWJF GPS NVMB EFDBEFT BHP Balboa. &EEZ

The Other F Word 4FF ²* %POµU 8BOU UP (SPX 6Q ³ Lumiere, Shattuck. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview *T UIJT B RVJDLJF DBTI JO GPMMPXJOH UIF UJEBM XBWF PG BQQSFDJBUJPO GPM MPXJOH UIF EFBUI PG 4UFWF +PCT *OUFSWJFXFS 3PCFSU $SJOHFMZ NBEF Triumph of the Nerds B 1#4 NJOJTFSJFT BCPVU UIF CJSUI PG UIF QFSTPOBM DPNQVUFS JOEVTUSZ JO BOE NVDI PG UIJT MFOHUIZ UBML XJUI +PCT IJT GPSNFS FNQMPZFS EJEOµU VMUJNBUFMZ NBLF UIF DVU BMUIPVHI UIF "QQMF DP GPVOEFSµT DSJUJRVF PG .JDSPTPGU BT MBDLJOH UBTUF XFOU EPXO JO IJTUPSZ 5IF NBTUFS UBQFT PG UIJT EJTDVTTJPO XFSF UIPVHIU UP CF MPTU VOUJM UIF TFSJFT FEJUPS VOFBSUIFE BO VOFEJUFE DPQZ PG UIF FOUJSF JOUFSWJFX JO IJT -POEPO HBSBHF 5IJT SVTI QSPEVDUJPO JTOµU RVJUF VOFEJUFE BU QPJOUT $SJOHFMZ TUFQT JO UP DPOUFYUVBMJ[F ± BOE JU XBT EPOF NPSF UIBO ZFBST BHP CFGPSF +PCT TPME /F95 UP "QQMF BOE SFUVSOFE UP UIF GJSN UP TIBLF UIF GJSNBNFOU XJUI UIF J1PE J1IPOF BOE J1BE ± CVU UIF JOUFSWJFX BOE UIF BOTXFST $SJOHFMZ GJFMET BSF OFWFSUIFMFTT GBTDJOBUJOH GSPN UIF QPUFOUJBMMZ TJMMZ RVFTUJPO ²BSF ZPV B IJQQJF PS B OFSE ³ ²*G * IBE UP QJDL POF PG UIPTF UXP *µN DMFBSMZ B IJQQJF ³ +PCT SFTQPOET XJUI B TMZ MPPL JO IJT FZF ²BOE BMM UIF QFPQMF * XPSLFE XJUI XFSF DMFBSMZ JO UIBU DBUFHPSZ UPP³ UP +PCTµ QSPQIFTJFT BCPVU UIF JNQBDU PG UIF 8FC UP NVTJOHT MJLF ²* UIJOL FWFSZCPEZ JO UIJT DPVOUSZ TIPVME MFBSO UP QSPHSBN B DPNQVUFS MFBSO B DPNQVUFS MBOHVBHF CFDBVTF JU UFBDIFT ZPV IPX UP UIJOL ³ Opera Plaza. $IVO

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part One 5IF POF XJUI UIF XFEEJOH Marina, SF Center. Tyrannosaur "QQBSFOUMZ VOFNQMPZFE BOE FTUSBOHFE GSPN BOZ GBNJMZ NJEEMF DMBTT -FFET +PTFQI 1FUFS .VMMBO JT GVFMFE CZ FOPVHI SBHFBIPM )PNFS 4JNQTPO ²*µN B SBHFBIPMJD "EEJDUFE UP SBHFBIPM ³ UP DPNNJU UISFF WJPMFOU BDUT JO UIF GJSTU UISFF TDFOFT PG BDUPS 1BEEZ $POTJEJOFµT EFCVU GFBUVSF BT XSJUFS EJSFDUPS 7PMVOUFFSJOH BU B $ISJTUJBO DIBSJUZ UISJGU TIPQ JO IJT CMFBL IPPE CZ EBZ PVS PUIFS QSPUBHPOJTU )BOOBI 0MJWJB $PMNBO TQFOET OJHIUT JO UIF ²OJDF³ QBSU PG UPXO #FIJOE POF PG JUT EPPST TIF FOEVSFT DPOTJEFSBCMF BCVTF BT QVODIJOH CBH BOE PDDBTJPOBM VSJOBM GPS WJPMFOUMZ NPPE TXJOHJOH TQPVTF +BNFT &EEJF .BSTBO NBLJOH POF QJOF GPS UIF DPNQBSBUJWF IBSNMFTTOFTT PG IJT IPSSJCMF ESJWFSµT FE UFBDIFS JO µT Happy-Go-Lucky " TMJDF PG #SJUJTI NJTFSBCJMJTU QJF XJUI B SB[PS JO JU Tyrannosaur UISPXT UIFTF DIBSBDUFST JO WBSJPVT FYUSFNJT UPHFUIFS XJUI BMNPTU OP CBDLTUPSZ CVU B SFBM [FBM UP SVC PVS OPTFT JO JU ± XIBUFWFS ²JU³ JT 4USPOH DPOUFOU BOE TUSPOH QFSGPSNBODFT NBLF UIJT BT IBSE UP UVSO BXBZ GSPN BT JU JT TPNFUJNFT IBSE UP XBUDI :FU UIFSFµT TPNFUIJOH B MJUUMF VOEFS EFWFMPQFE BOE DPOUSJWFE BCPVU UIF MPBE PG BOHSZ BOHTU $POTJEJOF NBLFT IJT TUPSZ CFBS 5IF SFTVMU JT XPSUIZ CVU OPU BT HFOVJOFMZ TIPDLJOH BT TBZ 5JN 3PUIµT The War Zone OPS BT JOTJHIUGVM BCPVU EPMF GVM MPXFS DMBTT &OHMJTI MJGF BT µT Fish Tank UP OBNF B DPVQMF DPNQBSBCMF GFBUVSFT Sundance Kabuki. )BSWFZ

The Woodmans 'SBODFTDB 8PPENBO KVNQFE PGG B CVJMEJOH JO XIFO TIF XBT EFTQPOEFOU PWFS UIF GBDU UIBU IFS QIPUPHSBQIT IBEOµU GPVOE B OJDIF JO /FX :PSLµT DPNQFUJUJWF BSU XPSME 4IF XBT OP TUSBOHFS UP DPNQFUJUJPO ± TIFµE HSPXO VQ XJUI B QBSFOUT XIP QMBDFE BSU NBLJOH BCPWF BMM PUIFS PCMJHBUJPOT 'BTU GPSXBSE UP UIF TU DFOUVSZ BOE 'SBODFTDB SFNBJOT UIF NPTU BDDMBJNFE 8PPENBO IFS IBVOUJOH CMBDL BOE XIJUF QIPUPT PGUFO GFBUVSJOH UIF BSUJTUµT OVEF GJHVSF IBWF QSPWFO IVHFMZ JOGMVFOUJBM JO UIF SFBMNT PG CPUI GJOF BSU BOE GBTIJPO 4IF XBT BT UIF 4BO 'SBODJTDP .VTFVN PG .PEFSO "SU XFCTJUF TBZT BO FYIJCJU PG IFS XPSL PQFOT /PW ²BIFBE PG IFS UJNF ³ 4DPUU 8JMMJTµ EPDVNFOUBSZ GFBUVSFT FYUFOTJWF JOUFSWJFXT XJUI IFS QBSFOUT (FPSHF BOE #FUUZ BOE UP B MFTTFS FYUFOU 'SBODFTDBµT CSPUIFS $IBSMFT BMTP BO BSUJTU UIF GJMN JT CPUI 8PPENBO CJP BOE JODJTJWF FYQMPSB UJPO PG UIF GBNJMZµT DPNQMFY EZOBNJDT .PTU GBT DJOBUJOH JT $IBSMFT XIP SFNBSLT PG IJT EBVHIUFSµT QPTUIVNPVT TVDDFTT ²*UµT GSVTUSBUJOH XIFO USBHFEZ PWFSTIBEPXT XPSL ³ #VU BGUFS IFS EFBUI IF UPPL VQ QIPUPHSBQIZ NBLJOH JNBHFT UIBU SFTFNCMF UIPTF 'SBODFTDB MFGU CFIJOE Roxie. &EEZ

Young Goethe in Love :PV NJHIU CF TVTQFDU North Face EJSFDUPS 1IJMJQQ 4UzM[MµT UBLF PO (FSNBOZµT NPTU SFOPXOFE XSJUFS JT CJUJOH PGG PG µT Shakespeare in Love CVU UIF GJMNNBLFS NBOBHFT UP SJTF BCPWF GBDJMF DPNQBSJTPOT UP EFMJWFS IJT PXO VOJRVF TUBC BU SF DSFBUJOH UIF MJGF BOE MPWF PG UIF ZFBS PME QPMZNBUI MPOH CFGPSF IF CFDBNF BO JOGMVFOUJBM QPFU BOE DVMUVSBM GPSDF 4UzM[M BOE DP XSJUFST $ISJTUPQI . MMFS BOE "MFYBOEFS %ZEZOB TQJO PGG UIF BVUPCJPHSBQIJDBM OBUVSF PG XIBU TPNF DPOTJEFS UIF XPSMEµT GJSTU CFTU TFMMFS µT The Sorrows of Young Werther UIPVHI UIFSF XFSF GFX TPSSPXT BU GJSTU GPS UIF ZPVOH +PIBOO 8PMGHBOH WPO (PFUIF "MFYBOEFS 'FIMJOH ± B QFSQFUVBMMZ SBHJOH QMBZGVM QBSUZ BOJNBM SBUIFS UIBO UIF CSPPEJOH GPSFSVOOFS PG SPNBOUJDJTN 6OBCMF UP NPWF GPSXBSE

1

CONTINUES ON PAGE 38 >>

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

eDItORIAlS

NewS

FOOD + DRINk

pICkS

ARtS + CUltURe

mUSIC lIStINGS

StAGe lIStINGS

ON the CheAp

FIlm lIStINGS

ClASSIFIeDS

NOVemBeR 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.COm

37

film listings

GUARDIAN DEALS POWERED BY FORKFLY.COM

oPEnInG CONT>>

JO IJT MBX TUVEJFT BOE CFMJFWFE B XSFUDIFE GBJMVSF CZ IJT GBUIFS )FOSZ ) CDIFO (PFUIF JT FYJMFE UP B KPC JO B TNBMM UPXO DPVSU CFOFBUI UIF UIVNC PG UIF GJFSDFMZ CPVSHFPJT DPVSU DPVODJMPS ,FTUOFS .PSJU[ #MFJCUSFV &NCPEZJOH UIF DIBSNT PG QSPWJODJBM MJGF -PUUF #VGG .JSJBN 4UFJO UIF CSJHIU FZFE BSUJTUJD FMEFTU EBVHIUFS PG B TUSVHHMJOH XJEPXFS /BUVSBMMZ (PFUIF BOE -PUUF FOE VQ DBVHIU JO FBDI PUIFSµT PSCJUT BMUIPVHI SJWBMT GPS BGGFDUJPO BOE BUUFOUJPO MJF BSPVOE FBDI DPSOFS BT EPFT B DFSUBJO JOFWJUBCMF TFOTF PG EFTQBJS $IBSJTNBUJD MFBE BDUPST BOE BUUFO UJPO UP QFSJPE EFUBJMT ± BT XFMM BT BO JOGFDUJPVT KPJF EF WJWSF ± BSF DFSUBJO UP BOJNBUF GBOT PG IJTUPSJDBM SPNBODF Embarcadero, Shattuck. $IVO

OngOing

Anonymous 1000 Van Ness, Sundance Kabuki. El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Opera Plaza. Drive Lumiere. 50/50 1000 Van Ness. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Roxie. Gainsbourg: The Man Who Loved Women Roxie. Le Havre Clay, Shattuck. The Ides of March California, 1000 Van Ness, Piedmont, Sundance Kabuki. Immortals "SSPX UJNF DPNJOµ BU ZB JO % CMPPE MVTU GBTDJOBUJOH GBTDJOBUPST BOE FOEMFTT TFFN JOHMZ $(* DIJTFMFE DIFTUT NBSL UIJT SFXPSL PG UIF 5IFTFVT NZUI 5BSTFN 4JOHI GMBUUFOT PVU UIF PSJHJ OBM UBMF PG DSB[Z CVTZ IFSP XIP GPVOEFE "UIFOT ZFU TFFNT EFUFSNJOFE UP PVUEP UIF Lord of the Rings TFSJFT XJUI IJT TUSJLJOH BSU EJSFDUJPO TP DIJD UIBU BU UJNFT ZPV GFFM MJLF ZPVµSF JO B QFSGVNF BE SBUIFS UIBO ,JOH )ZQFSJPOµT UPSUVSF DIBNCFS "T ZPV NJHIU FYQFDU GSPN UIF NBO XIP NBEF UIF ESFBNZ IPSTF TMJDJOH Cell Immortals JT BMM TFOTB UJPO SBUIFS UIBO TFOTF 5IF QSPUP TVQFSIFSP IFSF JT B QFBTBOU )FOSZ $BWJMM USBJOFE JO TFDSFU CZ ;FVT +PIO )VSU BOE -VLF &WBOT BOE UPUJOH B UJUBOJD DIJQ PO IJT TIPVMEFS XIFO IF SVOT JOUP UIF QPXFS NBE $SFUBO ,JOH )ZQFSJPO .JDLFZ 3PVSLF TUSVHHMJOH UP HOBTI UIF TMFFL TDFOFSZ CFOFBUI GMFTIZ CVML BOE 3FE -PCTUFS IFBEHFBS )ZQFSJPO BJNT UP PCUBJO UIF &QJSVT #PX ± B CJU MJLF B NBHJDBM QSFJOEVTUSJBM SPDLFU MBVODIFS ± UP GSFF UIF 5JUBOT TFU PGG B XBS CFUXFFO UIF HPET BOE EFTUSPZ IVNBOJUZ DPOUSBSZ UP NZUIPMPHZ )ZQFSJPO JT OPU B 5JUBO ± KVTU BOPUIFS IFBWZXFJHIU HSVEHF IPMEFS 5P DBQUVSF UIF CPX IF NVTU GJOE UIF WJSHJO PSBDMF 1IBFESB 'SFJEB 1JOUP NBTTBDSJOH IJT XBZ UISPVHI 5IFTFVTµ WJMMBHF BOE TFUUJOH IJT XPSTU XFBQPO UIF #FBTU B L B UIF .JOPUBVS PO UIF IFSP 4BWJOH HSBDFT BNJE UIF HPSZ CMVTUFS XIJDI TUJMM QBZT DMFBS USJCVUF UP µT Jason and the Argonauts JT UIF WFJO CVMHJOH QBT TJPO UIBU 4JOHI JOWFTUT JO UIF PSEJOBSJMZ QFSGVODUPSZ LJMM TDFOFT UIF BWBOU HBSEF IFBEESFTTFT BOE DPT UVNFT CZ &JLP *TIJPLB BOE UIF PDDBTJPOBM FEJUT UIBU UVSO PO WJTVBM SIZNFT TVDI BT UIF NPNFOU XIFO UIF JOUSJDBUF NBTL PG B GFMMFE NJOJPO NFMUT JOUP B TFBHP JOH WFTTFM XIJDI BSF MJBCMF UP NBLF UIF BVEJFODF HBTQ PS MBVHI PVU MPVE 1000 Van Ness, Presidio. $IVO

In Time California, 1000 Van Ness. Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life Embarcadero, Shattuck. J. Edgar Marina, 1000 Van Ness, SF Center, Shattuck, Sundance Kabuki. Jack and Jill 1000 Van Ness, Presidio, Shattuck. Like Crazy California, Sundance Kabuki. Love Crime Lumiere. Margin Call Shattuck, Sundance Kabuki. Martha Marcy May Marlene Bridge, Piedmont, Sundance Kabuki. Melancholia Albany, Embarcadero, Smith Rafael. Midnight in Paris Opera Plaza, Shattuck. Moneyball Sundance Kabuki. Paranormal Activity 3 1000 Van Ness. Puss in Boots 1000 Van Ness, Presidio. The Rum Diary California, 1000 Van Ness, Piedmont, Sundance Kabuki. The Skin I Live In Embarcadero, Shattuck, Sundance Kabuki. Sutro’s: The Palace at Land’s End Balboa. Tower Heist 1000 Van Ness, Shattuck. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas 1000 Van Ness. Weekend Lumiere. The Woman on the Sixth Floor Albany, Opera Plaza. 2

1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1

GET GUARDIAN DEALS ON FORKFLY.COM NOW!

1 1 1

38 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

film listings rep clock 4DIFEVMFT BSF GPS 8FE 5VFT FYDFQU XIFSF OPUFE %JSFDUPS BOE ZFBS BSF HJWFO XIFO BWBJMBCMF %PVCMF BOE USJQMF GFBUVSFT BSF NBSLFE XJUI B Â… "MM UJNFT Q N VOMFTT PUIFSXJTF TQFDJGJFE ARTISTS’ TELEVISION ACCESS 7BMFODJB 4' XXX BUBTJUF PSH ²1FSJXJOLMF 2VFFS $JOFNB 'PPE ³ BEVMUT POMZ TIPSUT QSPHSBN 8FE ²#FBVUJGVM .PWJOH *NBHFT ³ TIPSUT QSPHSBN 5IVST 4' $JOFNBUIFRVF QSFTFOUT ²0ODF *U 4UBSUFE *U $PVME /PU &OE $VU 6QT BOE $PMMBHF CZ 4FBST $PY ,FOOFEZ BOE 3PTFOUSBUFS ³ 'SJ ²0UIFS $JOFNB ³ XPSLT BCPVU QMBDF BOE UIF TFOTJCJMJUZ JU JOGPSNT CZ "OHFMB 3FHJOBUP (SFH #FSHFS BOE PUIFST 4BU BALBOA #BMCPB 4' XXX CSPXOQBQFSUJDLFUT DPN ²0QFSB BOE #BMMFU BU UIF #BMCPB 5IFBUSF ³ Adriana Lecouvreur QFSGPSNFE CZ UIF 3PZBM 0QFSB )PVTF -POEPO 8FE Esmeralda QFSGPSNFE CZ UIF #PMTIPJ #BMMFU 4BU 4VO BN 5VFT CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS 5JNLFO -FDUVSF )BMM &JHIUI 4U 4' XXX DDB FEV 'SFF ²$JOFNB 7JTJPOBSJFT "O &WFOJOH XJUI #BSSZ +FOLJOT ³ TIPSU GJMN TDSFFOJOH BOE EJTDVTTJPO 5VFT CASTRO $BTUSP 4' XXX DBTUSPUIFBUSF DPN ²8PPEZ 8FEOFTEBZT ³ Â…Crimes and Misdemeanors "MMFO 8FE BOE Deconstructing Harry "MMFO 8FE ²(SFUB (BSCP %PVCMF 'FBUVSF ³ Â…Ninotchka -VCJUTDI 5IVST BOE Grand Hotel (PVMEJOH 5IVST Dark Country in 3D +BOF 'SJ 8JUI EJSFDUPS TUBS 5IPNBT +BOF JO QFSTPO ²)BSSZ 1PUUFS .BSBUIPO ³ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone $PMVNCVT 4BU OPPO Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $PMVNCVT 4BU Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban $VBSwO 4BU Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire /FXFMM 4BU Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix :BUFT 4VO OPPO Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince :BUFT 4VO Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 :BUFT 4VO Part 2 4VO 5IJSUZ NJOVUF CSFBL CFUXFFO Secrets BOE Prisoner PO 4BU BOE Prince BOE Hallows — Part 1 PO 4VO FBDI EBZ GPS BMM GPVS GJMNT CHRISTOPHER B. SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER 'PVSUI 4U 4BO 3BGBFM XXX DBGJMN PSH Le Havre ,BVSJTNkLJ 8FE 5IVST DBMM GPS UJNFT The Help 5BZMPS 5IVST 8JUI GJMNNBLFST BOE TUBST 7JPMB %BWJT BOE 0DUBWJB 4QFODFS JO QFSTPO UJDLFUT Melancholia WPO 5SJFS /PW DBMM GPS UJNFT M*A*S*H* "MUNBO 4VO 8JUI &MMJPU (PVME JO DPOWFSTBUJPO XJUI /PSNBO 4PMPNPO ²5IF 'JMNT PG +PIO ,PSUZ ³ Funnyman ,PSUZ 4VO ²" $FOUVSZ "HP 5IF 'JMNT PG ³ IPTUFE CZ 3BOEZ )BCFSLBNQ XJUI QJBOP BDDPNQBOJNFOU CZ .JDIBFM .PSUJMMB .PO EMBARCADERO CENTER CINEMA 0OF &NCBSDBEFSP $FOUFS 4' XXX TGGT PSH ²/FX *UBMJBO $JOFNB ³ The Jewel .PMBJPMJ 8FE BOE 'SJ This World Is for You 'BMBTDIJ 8FE BOE 4VO The Father and the Foreigner 5PHOB[[J 5IVST BOE 4VO Some Say No "WFMMJOP 5IVST BOE 4BU A Quiet Life $VQFMMJOJ 'SJ 20 Cigarettes "NBEFJ 'SJ One Life, Maybe Two "SPOBEJP 4BU The First Assignment $FDFSF 4BU Habemus Papam .PSFUUJ 4VO FOUR STAR $MFNFOU 4' MOUTG DPN DIJ OFTF@BNFSJDBO@GJMN@GFTUJWBM@ ²$IJOFTF "NFSJDBO 'JMN 'FTUJWBM ³ OFX GJMNT GSPN $IJOB BOE )POH ,POH /PW PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE #BODSPGU #FSL CBNQGB CFSLFMFZ FEV ²"MUFSOBUJWF 7JTJPOT ³ ²4QBDF JT UIF 1MBDF 3FDFOU "WBOU (BSEF 4IPSUT ³ 8FE ²#FIJOE UIF 4DFOFT 5IF "SU BOE $SBGU PG $JOFNB 1IJM 5JQQFUU 4QFDJBM &GGFDUT .BTUFS ³ Starship Troopers 7FSIPFWFO 5IVST The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad +VSBE 'SJ 8JUI 5JQQFUU JO QFS TPO ²4PVUIFSO %JT $PNGPSU 5IF "NFSJDBO 4PVUI JO 'JMN ³ The Story of Temple Drake 3PCFSUT 'SJ Suddenly, Last Summer .BOLJFXJD[ 4BU ²"CCBT ,JBSPTUBNJ 5IF 'SBHJMJUZ PG -JGF ³ Through the Olive Trees 4BU A Taste of Cherry 4VO ²,JOP &ZF 5IF 3FWPMVUJPOBSZ $JOFNB PG %[JHB 7FSUPW ³ Three Songs of Lenin 4VO ROXIE BOE UI 4U 4' XXX SPYJF DPN N.A.S.A.: The Spirit of Apollo (BSPO BOE 4QJFHFM 8FE X: The Unheard Music .PSHBO 5IVST Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life 4UBS 8FE 5IVST Gainsbourg: The Man Who Loved Women 'PSOFSJ 8FE 5IVST Dragonslayer 1BUUFSTPO /PW DBMM GPS UJNFT The Woodmans 8JMMJT /PW BMTP 4BU 4VO SFFS | NEW PEOPLE CINEMA 1PTU 4' Pipe Dreams *XFSLT 8FE #FOFGJU GPS UIF 4BO 'SBODJTDP (SFFO 'JMN 'FTUJWBM $POUBDU JOGP GPS UIJT FWFOU XXX TGHSFFOGJMNGFTU PSH UJDLFUT California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat

eDItORIAlS

NewS

FOOD + DRINk

Kf X[m\ik`j\ `e fli Ôcd j\Zk`fe ZXcc +(,$,/,$0'0/% Brown 3JDF BOE "SNTUSPOH 5IVST $POUBDU JOGP GPS UIJT FWFOU XXX TGGT PSH UJDLFUT VICTORIA UI 4U 4' Yogawoman $MFSF 5IVST $POUBDU JOGP GPS UIJT FWFOU ZPHB XPNBO FWFOUCSJUF DPN UJDLFUT ²'BMM 4BO 'SBODJTDP 6OEFSHSPVOE 4IPSU 'JMN 'FTUJWBM ³ ²"DU 0OF ³ 4BU ²"DU 5XP "GUFS %BSL ³ 4BU $POUBDU JOGP GPS UIJT FWFOU XXX QFBDIFTDISJTU DPN UJDLFUT YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS .JTTJPO 4' XXX ZCDB PSH Love Streams $BTTBWFUFT 5IVST 4VO 2

first run venues 5IF GPMMPXJOH JT DPOUBDU JOGPSNBUJPO GPS #BZ "SFB GJSTU SVO UIFBUFST Balboa UI "WF #BMCPB XXX CBM CPBNPWJFT DPN Bridge (FBSZ #MBLF Century Plaza /PPS PGG &M $BNJOP 4PVUI 4'

pICkS

ARtS + CUltURe

Century 20 +VOJQFSP 4FSSB +PIO %BMZ %BMZ $JUZ Clay 'JMMNPSF $MBZ Embarcadero Center Cinema &NCBSDBEFSP $FOUFS QSPNFOBEF MFWFM Empire 8FTU 1PSUBM 7JDFOUF Four Star $MFNFOU SE "WF Kabuki Cinema 1PTU 'JMMNPSF Lumiere $BMJGPSOJB 1PML Marina Theatre $IFTUOVU XXX MOUTG DPN NBSJOB@UIFBUSF Metreon 'PVSUI 4U .JTTJPO '"/%"/(0 Metro 6OJPO 8FCTUFS 1000 Van Ness 7BO /FTT Opera Plaza 7BO /FTT (PMEFO (BUF Presidio $IFTUOVU San Francisco Film Society ] New People Cinema 1PTU XXX TGGT PSH SF Centre .JTTJPO CFUXFFO 'PVSUI BOE 'JGUI TUT Stonestown UI "WF 8JOTUPO Vogue 4BDSBNFOUP 1SFTJEJP 2

mUSIC lIStINGS

StAGe lIStINGS

ON the CheAp

FIlm lIStINGS

ClASSIFIeDS

NOVemBeR 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.COm

39

classifieds DONATE VEHICLE: RECEIVE $1000 Grocery Coupons. National Animal Welfare Foundation. Support No Kill Shelters, Help Homeless Pets. Free Towing, Tax Deductible, Non-Runners Accepted. 1-888-333-0477. DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR BOAT TO HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of. 888-902-6851. (Cal-SCAN)

DONATE YOUR CAR:

Children’s Cancer Fund! Help Save A Child’s Life Through Research & Support! Free Vacation Package. Fast, Easy & Tax Deductible. Call 1-800-252-0615. (Cal-SCAN)

VIAGRA 100MG and CIALIS 20mg!! 40 pills 4 FREE only $99.00. #1 Male Enhancement, Discreet Shipping. Only $2.70/pill. Buy The Blue Pill Now!! 1-888-904-6658 (AAN CAN)

to place an ad call 415-255-7600 or email us at classifieds@sfbg.com TRUCK DRIVERS: Will provide CDL training. Part-time driving job with full-time benefits. Get paid to train in the California Army National Guard. www.NationaIGuard.com/Truck or 1-800-Go-Guard. (Cal-SCAN)

ADVERTISE a display BUSINESS CARD sized ad in 140 California newspapers for one low cost of $1,550. Your display 3.75x2� ad reaches over 3 million+ Californians. Free brochure call Ekizabeth (916)288-6010. (Cal-SCAN)

$$$HELP WANTED$$$

Extra income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience necessary! Call our Live Operators NOW! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 http://www.easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN)

PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? ATTN: COMPUTER WORK.

Work from anywhere 24/7. Up to $1,500 Part Time to $7,500/mo. Full Time. Training provided. www.WorkServices4.com (Cal-SCAN) REACH CALIFORNIANS WITH A CLASSIFIED IN ALMOST EVERY COUNTY! Experience the power of classifieds! Combo~California Daily and Weekly Networks. One order. One payment. Free Brochures. maria@cnpa.com or (916)288-6010. (Cal-SCAN)

ADVERTISE YOUR AUCTION in 240 California newspapers for one low cost of $550. Your 25 word classified ad reaches over 6 million+ Californians. Free brochure call Elizabeth (916)288-6010. (Cal-SCAN)

CASH FOR CARS: Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)

ALLIED HEALTH CAREER training - Attend college 100% online. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified. SCHEV certified. Call 800-4819409. www.CenturaOnline.com (Cal-SCAN) EARN COLLEGE DEGREE ONLINE. *Medical, *Business, *Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified. SCHEV certified. Call 888-210-5162 www.CenturaOnline.com (Cal-SCAN)

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA!

Graduate in 4 weeks! FREE Brochure. Call NOW! 1-866-562-3650 ext. 60 www.SouthEasternHS.com (Cal-SCAN)

A Few PRO DRIVERS NEEDED. Top Pay & 401K. 2 Months CDL Class A Driving Experience. 1-877-258-8782. www.MeltonTruck. com (Cal-SCAN)

ADVERTISE Your Truck DRIVER JOBS in 240 California newspapers for one low cost of $550. Your 25 word classified ad reaches over 6 million+ Californians. Free brochure call Elizabeth (916)288-6010. (Cal-SCAN) DRIVER - STABLE CAREER, No Experience Needed! Sign On Bonuses Available! Top Industry pay & quality training. 100% Paid CDL Training. 1-800-326-2778. www. JoinCRST.com (Cal-scan) Drivers/CDL Training - CAREER CENTRAL. No MONEY Down. CDL Training. Work for us or let us work for you! Unbeatable Career Opportunities. *Trainee *Company Driver *Lease Operator Earn up to $51k *Lease Trainers Earn up to $80k 1-877-369-7126. www.CentralDrivingJobs.net (Cal-SCAN) Movie Extras People needed now to stand in the background for a major film Earn up to $300 per day. Exp not REQ. CALL NOW AND SPEAK TO A LIVE PERSON 877-4268310 (AAN CAN) Paid In Advance! Make $1000 a Week mailing brochures from home! Guaranteed Income! FREE Supplies! No experience required. Start Immediately! www.homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN)

40 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866413-6293 (Void in Illinois) (AAN CAN)

SOCIAL SECURITY Disability Benefits. You Win or Pay Us Nothing. Contact Disability Group, Inc. Today! BBB Accredited. Call For Your FREE Book & Consultation. 877-4906596. (Cal-SCAN)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0338803-00 The following person is doing business as Clyde Properties, LLC 14 Mint Plaza, 5th floor, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by limited liability company. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date October 13, 2011. Signed by Patrick McNerney, President. This statement was filed by Melissa Ortiz on October 13, 2011. L#113477, November 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0338589-00 The following person is doing business as Delis Janitorial 86 Reddy Street San Francisco, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date October 3, 2011. Signed by Delis A. Reyes. This statement was filed by Susanna Chin, Deputy County Clerk on October 3, 2011. L#113478, November 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0338601-00 The following person is doing business as Mapleton Hill Design & Build 1261 30th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date October 1, 2011. Signed by William Johnson. This statement was filed by Melissa Ortiz on October 1, 2011. L#113476, November 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0338910-00 The following person is doing business as Roxie Market & Delicatessen 500 Kirkham Street San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by limited liability company. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date October 17, 2011. Signed by Zhang Lily- Sui, Manager. This statement was filed by Maribel Jaldon, Deputy County Clerk on October 18, 2011. L#113482, November 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0339051-00 The following person is doing business as Dear Mom 2700 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by limited liability company. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date October 1, 2001. Signed by Paul Bavaro, Managing Member. This statement was filed by Mariedyne L. Argente on October 24, 2011. L#113475, October 26, November 2, 9, and 16, 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0339371-00 The following person is doing business as 4 Corners 1875 Union Street, San Francisco, CA 94123. This business is conducted by limited liability company. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date N/A. Signed by David Vance, CEO + President. This statement was filed by Susanna Chin, Deputy County Clerk on November 8, 2011. L#113485, November 16, 23, 30 and December 7, 2011

editorials

for more visit sfbg.com/classfieds

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0339395-00 The following person is doing business as ABL Restaurant 2052 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date November 9, 2011. Signed by Alfredo Bello. This statement was filed by Mariedyne L. Argente, Deputy County Clerk on November 9, 2011. L#113486, November 16, 23, 30 and December 7, 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0339412-00 The following person is doing business as Cheap Eats Media 1426 12th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant commenced business under the abovelisted fictitious business name on the date November 9, 2011. Signed by Tom James. This statement was filed by Jennifer Wong, Deputy County Clerk on November 9, 2011. L#113487, November 16, 23, 30 and December 7, 2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Date of Filing Application: October 28, 2011. To Whom It May Concern: The name of the applicant is: ANDRE BOUDIN BAKERIES INC . The applicant listed above is applying to The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 2890 TAYLOR ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133-1012. Type of License Applied for: 47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE. Publication dates: November 9, 16 and 23, 2011 L#113481 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Sophia D. Vonczyk aka Deborah Zamorski. CASE NUMBER: PES-11-295165.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Sophia D. Vonczyk aka Deborah Zamorski. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Ernest Russell in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN FRANCISCO. The Petition for Probate of a lost Will requests that Ernest Russell be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 400 McAllister St. San Francisco, CA 94102 as follows: November 29, 2011,Probate Department, Time: 9:00 AM room - 204.. Endorsed Filed, San Francisco County Superior Court of California on November 14, 2011 by Leslie Gomez, Clerk of the Corut. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months of the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: Anne-Leith Matlock 1485 Treat Blvd, Suite 200, Walnut Creek, CA 94597. TELE: 925-944-7131. #113484 November 16, 23, and 30, 2011

20 Acres-Live On Land NOW!! Only $99/mo. $0 Down, Owner Financing, NO CREDIT CHECKS! Near El Paso, Texas, Beautiful Mountain Views! Free Color Brochure. 1-800-755-8953. www.SunsetRanches.com (Cal-SCAN) ADVERTISE Your VACATION PROPERTY in 240 California newspapers for one low cost of $550. Your 25 word classified ad reaches over 6 million+ Californians. Free brochure call Elizabeth (916)288-6010. (Cal-SCAN)

ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM.

Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www. Roommates.com. (AAN CAN)

Rocker Rehearsal

60 New Studios! 24 Hour Lockout. Safe. Affordable. Onsite security. Two SF Locations. (415) 518-3357

news

food + Drink

picks

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²QMBJOUJGGT³ IBWF NPWFE GPS BO PSEFS HSBOUJOH QSFMJNJOBSZ BQ QSPWBM PG UIF DMBTT BDUJPO 4FUUMFNFOU "HSFFNFOU UIF ²"HSFFNFOU³ FOUFSFE JOUP CZ UIF QBSUJFT )BWJOH SFWJFXFE UIF "HSFFNFOU BMM FWJEFODF BSHVNFOU BOE PUIFS EPDVNFOUT TVCNJUUFE JO TVQQPSU PG TBJE NPUJPO BOE CFJOH GVMMZ BEWJTFE UIF $PVSU žOET BOE PSEFST BT GPMMPXT 5IF "HSFFNFOU BOE UIF TFUUMFNFOU TFU GPSUI UIFSFJO BSF QSFMJNJOBSJMZ BQQSPWFE BT CFJOH WXJUIJO UIF SBOHF PG QPUFOUJBM žOBM BQQSPWBM "T EFžOFE JO UIJT $PVSU¾T 0SEFS (SBOU JOH $MBTT $FSUJžDBUJPO UIF DMBTT DPOTJTUT PG ²BMM FNQMPZFFT XIP XPSLFE GPS UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM BU 4VUUFS 4USFFU 4BO 'SBODJTDP $BMJGPSOJB PUIFS UIBO JO BO BENJOJTUSBUJWF DBQBDJUZ BT UIPTF UFSNT BSF EFžOFE CZ *8$ 8BHF 0SEFS /0 BOE SFDFJWFE SPPN BOE PS CPBSE BT GVMM PS QBSUJBM DPNQFOTB UJPO GPS UIFJS FNQMPZNFOU CFUXFFO .BZ BOE /PWFNCFS ³ 8IJMF UIJT $PVSU BMTP DFSUJžFE B TVC DMBTT PG BMM QBSU UJNF MJWF JO XPSLFST BU UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM GSPN 'FCSVBSZ UP /PWFNCFS UIF DMBTT BOE UIF TVCDMBTT BSF JOEJTUJOHVJTIBCMF GPS QVSQPTFT PG UIF TFUUMFNFOU 5IF $PVSU žOET UIBU UIF /PUJDF PG 1SPQPTFE $MBTT "DUJPO 4FUUMFNFOU BOE )FBSJOH 5IFSFPO IFSFBGUFS UIF ²/PUJDF³ BUUBDIFE IFSFUP BT &YIJCJU " BEWJTFT UIF DMBTT PG * UIF CFOFžUT BWBJMBCMF VOEFS UIF "HSFFNFOU UIFJS SJHIU UP PQU PVU PS PCKFDU UP UIF TFUUMFNFOU BOE UIFJS SJHIU UP CF IFBSE BU UIF žOBM BQQSPWBM IFBSJOH "DDPSEJOHMZ UIF GPSN PG UIF /PUJDF JT BQQSPWFE 5IF $PVSU HJWFT BQQSPWBM UP DMBTT DPVOTFM 1BVM 8BSUFMMF BOE + 4DPUU 8FBWFS PG 8BSUFMMF 8FBWFS 4DISFJCFS UP BENJOJTUFS UIF /PUJDF $MBTT DPVOTFM TIBMM NBJM UIF /PUJDF UP UIF MJTU PG QBTU BOE QSFTFOU FNQMPZFFT PG (SBOBEB *OD XIJDI XBT VTFE FBSMJFS UP OPUJGZ UIF DMBTT PG UIF QFOEFODZ PG UIJT DMBTT BDUJPO QVSTVBOU UP UIF $PVSU¾T 0SEFS PG %FDFNCFS 5IF GSPOU PG FBDI FOWFMPQF NBJMFE UP DMBTT NFNCFST TIBMM QSPNJOFOUMZ EJTQMBZ UIF GPMMPXJOH MBOHVBHF ²1MFBTF PQFO JNNFEJBUFMZ 5IJT MFUUFS DPODFSOT BO POHPJOH MBXTVJU JO XIJDI ZPVS SJHIUT NBZ CF BGGFDUFE ³ $MBTT DPVOTFM TIBMM BMTP DBVTF UIF /PUJDF UP CF QVCMJTIFE JO UIF 4BO 'SBODJTDP #BZ (VBSEJBO B OFXTQBQFS PG HFOFSBM DJSDVMBUJPO GPS B QFSJPE PG OPU MFTT UIBO POF EBZ QFS XFFL EVSJOH UXP DPOTFDVUJWF XFFLT 5IF $PVSU žOET UIF NBOOFS PG OPUJDF BT TQFDJžFE BCPWF JT SFBTPOBCMZ DBMDVMBUFE UP QSPWJEF BDUVBM OPUJDF UP DMBTT NBOOFST BOE UIF CFTU NFBOT QSBDUJDBCMF CZ XIJDI UP SFBDI DMBTT NFNCFST TBUJTGZJOH UIF SFRVJSFNFOUT PG EVF QSPDFTT BOE BQQMJDBCMF MBX 1MBJOUJGGT TIBMM QBZ GPS UIF DPTUT PG NBJMJOH BOE QVCMJTIJOH UIF /PUJDF BOE DMBTT DPVOTFM TIBMM žMF BOE TFSWF B EFDMBSBUJPO TUBUJOH JUT DPNQMJBODF XJUI UIFTF OPUJDF SFRVJSFNFOUT OP MBUFS UIBO %FDFNCFS 5IF NPUJPO GPS žOBM BQQSPWBM PG TFUUMFNFOU TIBMM CF žMFE PO PS CFGPSF .BSDI 1MBJOUJGGT¾ NPUJPO GPS BUUPSOFZT¾ GFFT DPTUT PG MJUJHBUJPO BOE DPTUT PG BENJOJTUSBUJPO TIBMM CF žMFE BOE TFSWFE OP MBUFS UIBO /PWFNCFS %FGFOEBOUT¾ PQQPTJUJPO UP QMBJOUJGGT¾ NPUJPO GPS BUUPSOFZT¾ GFFT TIBMM CF žMFE BOE TFSWFE OP MBUFS UIBO %FDFNCFS 1MBJOUJGGT¾ SFQMZ TIBMM CF žMFE BOE TFSWFE OP MBUFS UIBO +BOVBSZ 5IF žOBM BQQSPWBM IFBSJOH TIBMM CF IFME PO "QSJM BU B N $MBTT NFNCFST NBZ BQQFBS BU UIF ž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žMFE UIJT $MBTT "D UJPO $PNQMBJOU JO UIF 4BO 'SBODJTDP $PVOUZ 4VQFSJPS $PVSU PO .BZ 5IF $MBTT "DUJPO $PNQMBJOU XBT žMFE BHBJOTU %FGFOEBOU 5)& (3"/"%" */$ IFSFJOBGUFS UIF ²%FGFOEBOU³ 0O /PWFNCFS +VEHF +PIO & .VOUFS DFSUJžFE UIF DBTF BT B DMBTT BDUJPO 5IF DMBTT XBT EFžOFE BT GPMMPXT ²"MM QFSTPOT XIP CPUI MJWFE BOE XPSLFE BU UIF (3"/"%" )05&- 4VUUFS 4USFFU 4BO 'SBODJTDP $BMJGPSOJB BU BOZ UJNF EVSJOH UIF QFSJPE PG .BZ UP /PWFNCFS BOE SFDFJWFE SPPN BOE PS CPBSE BT GVMM PS QBSUJBM DPNQFOTBUJPO GPS UIFJS FNQMPZNFOU ³ 1-"*/5*''4 "/% %&'&/%"/5 )"7& /08 3&"$)&% " 130104&% 4&55-&.&/5 1MBJOUJGGT DMBJN UIBU %FGFOEBOU GBJMFE UP QBZ JUT FNQMPZFFT UIF MFHBMMZ SFRVJSFE NJOJNVN XBHF 1MBJOUJGGT DMBJN UIBU %FGFOEBOU JNQSPQFSMZ DSFEJUFE SPPN BOE PS CPBSE UPXBSET JUT PCMJHBUJPO UP QBZ B NJOJNVN XBHF 1MBJOUJGGT GVSUIFS DMBJN UIBU UIFZ BOE DMBTT NFNCFST BSF FOUJUMFE UP NPOFUBSZ DPNQFOTBUJPO BT B SFTVMU PG UIFTF JNQSPQFSMZ DMBJNFE DSFEJUT %FGFOEBOU IBT EFOJFE UIFTF DMBJNT /P EFDJTJPO PO UIF NFSJUT PG 1MBJOUJGGT¾ DMBJNT IBT ZFU CFFO NBEF CZ UIF $PVSU ** %&'*/*5*0/ 0' 5)& $-"44 5IF DMBTT DFSUJžFE CZ UIF $PVSU DPOTJTUT PG BMM QBTU BOE QSFTFOU FNQMPZFFT PG UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM 4VUUFS 4USFFU 4BO 'SBODJTDP $BMJGPSOJB XIP IBWF BU BOZ UJNF EVSJOH UIF QFSJPE GSPN .BZ UP /PWFNCFS MJWFE BU UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM BOE XIP IBWF SFDFJWFE SPPN BOE PS CPBSE BT XIPMF PS QBSUJBM DPNQFOTBUJPO GPS UIFJS FNQMPZNFOU 5IF DMBTT JODMVEFT B TVCDMBTT PG BMM QFSTPOT XIP CPUI MJWFE BOE XPSLFE BU UIF (3"/"%" )05&- 4VUMFS 4USFFU 4BO 'SBODJTDP $BMJGPSOJB PO B QBSU UJNF CBTJT BOE XIP IBE EFEVDUJPOT GSPN UIFJS QBZ GPS NFBMT CFUXFFO 'FCSVBSZ BOE /PWFNCFS BT GVMM PS QBSUJBM DPNQFOTBUJPO GPS UIFJS FNQMPZNFOU *G ZPV QSFWJPVTMZ PQUFE PVU PG UIJT DMBTT BDUJPO ZPV BSF OP MPOHFS B NFNCFS PG UIF DMBTT PS TVCDMBTT BOE UIFSFGPSF UIJT OPUJDF EPFT OPU BQQMZ UP ZPV *** /05*$& 0' 4&55-&.&/5 )&"3*/( "/% :063 3*()5 50 0#+&$5 :PV BSF IFSFCZ OPUJžFE UIBU UIF $PVSU XJMM IPME B žOBM TFUUMFNFOU BQQSPWBM IFBSJOH

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

PO "QSJM BU B N CFGPSF UIF )PO +PIO & .VOUFS JO %FQBSU NFOU PG UIF 4BO 'SBODJTDP $PVOUZ 4VQFSJPS $PVSU MPDBUFE BU .D"MMJTUFS 4USFFU 4BO 'SBODJTDP $" 5IF QVSQPTF PG UIF IFBSJOH JT UP EFUFSNJOF XIFUIFS UIF $PVSU TIPVME BQQSPWF UIF QSPQPTFE TFUUMFNFOU CFDBVTF JU JT GBJS SFBTPOBCMF BOE BEFRVBUF "U UIF UJNF PG UIF IFBSJOH UIF $PVSU XJMM BMTP DPOTJEFS DMBTT DPVOTFM¾T BQQMJDBUJPO GPS BUUPSOFZT¾ GFFT BOE DPTUT 5IF IFBSJOH NBZ CF BEKPVSOFE CZ UIF $PVSU GSPN UJNF UP UJNF CZ BO BOOPVODFNFOU BU UIF IFBSJOH "OZ BEKPVSONFOU PG TVDI IFBSJOH NBZ CF NBEF XJUIPVU GVSUIFS OPUJDF "OZ DMBTT NFNCFS XIP PCKFDUT UP UIF QSPQPTFE TFUUMFNFOU NBZ BQQFBS BU UIF žOBM BQQSPWBM IFBSJOH UP TIPX DBVTF XIZ UIF TFUUMFNFOU BOE PS DMBTT DPVOTFM¾T BQQMJDBUJPO GPS BUUPSOFZT¾ GFFT BOE DPTUT TIPVME PS TIPVME OPU CF BQQSPWFE CZ UIF $PVSU 5IF GVMM UFYU PG UIF $MBTT "DUJPO 4FUUMFNFOU "HSFFNFOU BOE DMBTT DPVOTFM¾T BQQMJDBUJPO GPS BUUPSOFZT¾ GFFT MJUJHBUJPO DPTUT BOE TFUUMFNFOU BENJOJTUSBUJPOT DPTUT BSF PO žMF BOE BWBJMBCMF GPS SFWJFX BU UIF PGžDF PG UIF $MFSL PG UIF 4VQFSJPS $PVSU .D"MJTUFS 4USFFU 3PPN 4BO 'SBODJTDP $BMJGPSOJB *G ZPV BSF B DMBTT NFNCFS BOE ZPV PCKFDU UP UIF QSPQPTFE TFUUMFNFOU ZPV NBZ žMF B XSJUUFO PCKFDUJPO XJUI UIF 4BO 'SBODJTDP $PVOUZ 4VQFSJPS $PVSU BOE NBJM B DPQZ PG UIF PCKFDUJPO UP DMBTT DPVOTFM XIPTF BEESFTT JT MJTUFE CFMPX PO PS CFGPSF .BSDI :PV NBZ BMTP BQQFBS BU UIF žOBM BQQSPWBM IFBSJOH UP PCKFDU UP UIF TFUUMFNFOU XIFUIFS PS OPU ZPV IBWF žMFE B XSJUUFO PCKFDUJPO &BDI $MBTT .FNCFS IBT UIF SJHIU UP PCUBJO IJT PS IFS PXO DPVOTFM 5IPTF XIP EP OPU PCUBJO UIFJS PXO DPVOTFM XJMM CF SFQSF TFOUFE CZ DMBTT DPVOTFM°5IF MBX žSN PG 8BSUFMMF 8FBWFS BOE 4DISFJCFS BOE 5IF -BX 0GžDF PG +BZ # ,PTMPGTLZ *7 5)& 130104&% 4&55-&.&/5 5IF DMBTT 3FQSFTFOUBUJWF 1MBJOUJGGT BOE UIF %FGFOEBOU IBWF BHSFFE UP B TFUUMFNFOU PG UIFJS EJTQVUF 0O +BOVBSZ UIF %FGFOEBOU BOE $MBTT 3FQSFTFOUBUJWF 1MBJOUJGGT BHSFFE UP B žOBM TFUUMFNFOU 6OEFS UIF UFSNT PG UIF TFUUMFNFOU BHSFFNFOU %FGFOEBOU IBT BHSFFE UP QBZ DMBTT NFNCFST 5IJT BNPVOU XJMM CF BQQPSUJPOFE BNPOH UIF $MBTT .FNCFST XIP žMF DMBJNT VOEFS UIF QSPDFEVSF TFU GPSUI CFMPX 5IF TFUUMFNFOU BHSFFNFOU QSPWJEFT UIBU #FOKBNJO $BCBOCBO BOE +PTFQI "VCSFZ XJMM FBDI SFDFJWF VQ UP BT DPNQFOTBUJPO GPS UIFJS JOEJWJEVBM DMBJNT BOE SFTQPOTJCJMJUJFT UIFZ VOEFSUPPL JO SFQSFTFOUJOH UIF DMBTT %FGFOEBOU IBT BHSFFE UP NBLF UIFTF QBZNFOUT JO BEEJUJPO UP UIF BWBJMBCMF UP UIF DMBTT 6OEFS UIF 4FUUMFNFOU "HSFFNFOU DMBTT DPVOTFM XJMM SFRVFTU UIBU UIF $PVSU BXBSE SFBTPOBCMF BUUPSOFZT¾ GFFT MJUJHBUJPO DPTUT BOE DPTUT PG BENJOJTUSBUJPO %FGFOEBOU XJMM žMF JUT PXO NPUJPO PQQPTJOH DMBTT DPVOTFM¾T BQQMJDBUJPO GPS BUUPSOFZT¾ GFFT BOE DPTUT 5IF FYBDU BNPVOU UP CF QBJE JO BUUPSOFZ¾T GFFT BOE DPTUT XJMM CF EFUFSNJOFE CZ UIF $PVSU BU UIF žOBM BQQSPWBM IFBSJOH CVU UIBU BNPVOU DBOOPU FYDFFE "T GVSUIFS QBSU PG UIF $MBTT "DUJPO 4FUUMFNFOU %FGFOEBOU IBT BHSFFE UIBU GPS B QFSJPE PG TJY NPOUIT JU XJMM OPU EFEVDU DIBSHFT GPS NFBMT GSPN NJOJNVN XBHF QBZNFOUT GPS UIPTF DMBTT NFNCFST XIP BSF DVSSFOU FNQMPZFFT PG UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM 5IF TJY NPOUI QFSJPE XJMM DPNNFODF GPVSUFFO EBZT GPMMPXJOH UIF EBUF PG UIF $PVSU¾T 0SEFS "QQSPWJOH UIF $MBTT "DUJPO 4FUUMFNFOU "T GVSUIFS QBSU PG UIF $MBTT "DUJPO 4FUUMFNFOU %FGFOEBOU BHSFFT UIBU QBSU UJNF FNQMPZFFT XJMM IBWF UIF DIPJDF PG MJWJOH JO PS PVUTJEF UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM 'PS BT MPOH BT EFGFOEBOU QSPWJEFT NFBMT UP JUT FNQMPZFFT GVMM UJNF BOE QBSU UJNF FNQMPZFFT XJMM BMTP IBWF B DIPJDF PO XIFUIFS PS OPU UIFZ XJTI UP IBWF NFBMT°SFHBSEMFTT PG XIFUIFS UIFZ MJWF JO UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM 5IFZ NBZ DIPPTF B NFBM QMBO DPOTJTUJOH PG NFBMT QFS XFFL PS EFDMJOF UIF QMBO FOUJSFMZ 0ODF UIFZ IBWF EFDJEFE XIFUIFS UIFZ EFTJSF UIF NFBM QMBO FNQMPZFFT NBZ MBUFS DIBOHF UIFJS TFMFDUJPO CZ QSPWJEJOH EBZT¾ OPUJDF UP UIF NBOBHFS PG UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM 6OEFS UIF UFSNT PG UIF TFUUMFNFOU BHSFFNFOU FWFSZ $MBTT .FNCFS XIP IBT OPU QSFWJPVTMZ PQUFE PVU PG UIF DMBTT BDUJPO PS XIP EPFT OPU FMFDU UP PQU PVU PG UIF TFUUMFNFOU JT FOUJUMFE UP TVCNJU B DMBJN GPSN BUUBDIFE UP UIJT OPUJDF 5IF TFUUMFNFOU QSPDFFET EFTJHOBUFE UP DMBTT NFNCFST XJMM CF EJWJEFE VQ BNPOH UIPTF $MBTT .FNCFST XIP TVCNJU B DMBJN GPSN CBTFE PO UIF OVNCFS PG XFFLT IF PS TIF XPSLFE BU UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM EVSJOH UIF QFSJPE CFHJOOJOH .BZ BOE DPOUJOVJOH UP /PWFNCFS BT DPNQBSFE UP UIF OVNCFS PG XFFLT DMBJNFE CZ BMM UIF PUIFS $MBTT .FNCFST XIP TVCNJU B DMBJN GPSN $MBTT $PVOTFM FTUJNBUFT UIBU FBDI $MBTT .FNCFS XIP TVCNJUT B DMBJN XJMM SFDFJWF CFUXFFO BOE QFS XFFL GPS FBDI XFFL UIF $MBTT .FNCFS XPSLFE BU UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM CFUXFFO .BZ BOE /PWFNCFS 5IF QFS XFFL žHVSF JT BO BQQSPYJNBUJPOCBTFE PO DVSSFOU JOGPSNBUJPO BCPVU UIF OVNCFS PG $MBTT .FNCFST XIP XPSLFE BU UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM 5IF BDUVBM žHVSFT NBZ CF MBSHFS PS TNBMMFS CBTFE PO UIF OVNCFS PG DMBJNT žMFE 6QPO PG UIFTF TFUUMFNFOU QSPDFFET FBDI $MBTT .FNCFS XIP IBT OPU PQUFE PVU PG UIF DMBTT PS XIP EPFT OPU PQU PVU PG UIJT TFUUMFNFOU XJMM IBWF SFMFBTFE JUT DMBJNT BHBJOTU UIF (SBOBEB )PUFM XJUI SFTQFDU UP IJT PS IFS FNQMPZNFOU UIFSF EVSJOH UIF DMBTT QFSJPE 7 130$&%63& '03 46#.*55*/( $-"*.4 '03 4&55-&.&/5 '6/%4 #FOFž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²PQU PVU³ GSPN UIF TFUUMFNFOU XIJDI NFBOT ZPV XJMM /05 TIBSF JO UIF CFOFžUT PG BOZ TFUUMFNFOU *OTUFBE ZPV NBZ JOEJWJEVBMMZ QVSTVF BOZ DMBJNT ZPV NBZ IBWF BHBJOTU UIF %FGFOEBOU GPS UIF QFSJPE GSPN .BZ UP /PWFNCFS *G ZPV EP OPUIJOH BOE SFNBJO B DMBTT NFNCFS ZPV XJMM CF B QBSUZ UP BOE CPVOE CZ UIF TFUUMFNFOU EFTDSJCFE BCPWF *G ZPV 8*4) 50 #& &9$-6%&% '30. 5)& 4&55-&.&/5 ZPV NBZ TFOE B MFUUFS PS QPTUDBSE BTLJOH UP CF FYDMVEFE " UFBS PVU JT BUUBDIFE BU UIF FOE PG UIJT /PUJDF XIJDI DBO BMTP CF VTFE UP PQU PVU 5IF MFUUFS QPTUDBSE PS UFBS PVU NVTU CF QPTUNBSLFE OP MBUFS UIBO 'FCSVBSZ BOE TFOU UP 015 065 D P 8BSUFMMF 8FBWFS 4DISFJCFS 1JOF 4USFFU 4VJUF 4BO 'SBODJTDP $B :PV NBZ NBJM PS IBOE EFMJWFS UIF MFUUFS QPTUDBSE PS UFBS PVU :PV NVTU DMFBSMZ TUBUF ZPVS GBMM OBNF BOE UIBU ZPV XJTI UP CF FYDMVEFE PQU PVU GSPN UIF $BIBOCBO W -JFIFSNBO FU BM DMBTT BDUJPO MBXTVJU "MUFSOBUJWFMZ ZPV NBZ BQQFBS BU UIF žOBM BQQSPWBM IFBSJOH PO "QSJM BU B N BOE TUTUF UP UIF $PVSU ZPVS FMFDUJPO UP CF FYDMVEFE GSPN UIF TFUUMFNFOU 7** &9".*/"5*0/ 0' 1-&"%*/(4 "/% 1"1&34 $PQJFT P EPDVNFOUT QSPEVDFE EVSJOH EJTDPWFSZ QSPDFFEJOHT BSF OPU PO žMF XJUI UIF $MFSL PG UIF $PVSU CVU XJMM CF BWBJMBCMF GPS JOTQFDUJPO CZ BOZ DMBTT NFNCFS OPU FYDMVEFE GSPN UIJT BDUJPO BOE IJT IFS BUUPSOFZ BU DMBTT DPVOTFMT¾ PGžDF EVSJOH OPSNBM CVTJOFTT IPVST 8BSUFMMF 8FBWFS 4DISFJCFS 1JOF 4USFFU 4VJUF 4BO 'SBODJTDP $BMJGPSOJB 5FMFQIPOF $PQJFT PG OVNFSPVT NPUJPOT BOE PUIFS QMFBE JOHT BSF PO žMF XJUI UIF $PVSU MPDBUFE BU .D"MMJTUFS 4USFFU 3PPN 4BO 'SBODJTDP $B 7*** "%%*5*0/"- */'03."5*0/ "/% 46#4&26&/5 )&"3*/(4 5IF $MBTT 3FQSFTFOUBUJWF 1MBJOUJGG¾T .PUJPO GPS 'JOBM "QQSPWBM PG UIF 1SPQPTFE 4FUUMFNFOU XJMM CF žMFE CZ .BSDI "U UIF žOBM BQQSPWBM IFBSJOH TFU GPS "QSJM BU B N BT TFU GPSUI JO 4FDUJPO *** BCPWF UIF $PVSU NBZ TDIFEVMF TVDI GVSUIFS IFBSJOHT BT UIF $PVSU NBZ EFFN OFDFTTBSZ XJUIPVU UIF OFDFTTJUZ PG HJWJOH GVSUIFS OPUJDF UP UIF DMBTT *G ZPV XJTI BEEJUJPOBM JOGPSNBUJPO BCPVU UIJT /PUJDF PS BCPVU UIF TFUUMFNFOU ZPV NBZ DPOUBDU DMBTT DPVOTFM BU UIF BEESFTT BOE QIPOF OVNCFS MJTUFE JO TFDUJPO 7** #FOFžUT BSF BWBJMBCMF POMZ UP $MBTT .FNCFST XIP UJNFMZ TVCNJU B DPNQMFUFE BOE TJHOFE DMBJN GPSN TFF JOGPSNBUJPO BCPWF *' :06 "3& " .&.#&3 0' 5)& $-"44 "/% )"7& /05 015&% 065 0' 5)& $-"44 "$5*0/ 03 )"7& /05 015&% 065 0' 5)& 4&55-& .&/5 "/% :06 %0 /05 $0.1-&5& 4*(/ "/% 5*.&-: 46#.*5 " $-"*. '03. :06 8*-- #& '03&7&3 #"33&% '30. 16346*/( "/: */%*7*%6"- $-"*. '03 */+63*&4 -044&4 03 %"."(&4 3"*4&% */ 5)& $*7*- "$5*0/ 5*5-&% $BCBOCBO W -JFCFSNBO 4BO 'SBODJTDP 4VQFSJPS $PVSU $BTF /P $($

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

connections LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON

THE ONE FOR ME?

SF, 40s, very friendly, outgoing, caring, intelligent with good values. Enjoys shopping, dancing, long drives, reading, the beach, biking, and more. Looking for man, 40-59, for long-term relationship. 332975

STERN BLACK NUNS

Sisters of the order of St. Dominadora. Seeks submissive repair man as boy toys, cross-dressers can work in drag. Surrender to a higher Female Power. 809149

LET’S LAUGH TOGETHER!

Adorable SF, 40s, enjoys coffee shops, dining out, traveling. Seeking similar male, 40s to 50s, for friendship first leading to possible LTR. 332833

YOU FOUND ME!

SF, 40s, feminine, artistic, health-minded, enjoys music, the outdoors, the beach, dining out and trying new foods, hiking. Seeking similar male, for dating and maybe more. 332834

EUROPEAN WOMAN

SF, 50s, N/S, tri-lingual, classy, healthy, personable, I like to grow orchids, sailing, boating, traveling, long drives, the beach. Seeking a similar male, 40-59, for friendship leading to possible LTR. 332835

LET’S MEET

SF, 40s, adaptable, ambitious, friendly, caring, honest, feminine, optimistic, hardworking and compassionate. Enjoys music, dancing, traveling, reading, hiking, long drives and more. Seeking SM, 40-59, for possible LTR. 332973

EXOTIC, EROTIC LATINA

Sexy Latin woman, blonde, busty, long legs, former dancer from New Orleans, would like to meet open-minded gentlemen who are interested in intimate companionship and good times. If you are serious-minded and on the same page, get in touch with me. 332832

DOMINANT ATTITUDE

Full-figured black lady with huge butt, in wheelchair, seeks hungry, submissive W/AM, 25-70, for female worship, mutually beneficial arrangement, fantasy fulfillment, adult toy play. 851838

SEEKS ONE SPECIAL GUY

Attractive female, 47, 5’6”, N/S, dark skinned Puerto rican roots, down-toearth, does missionary work, likes bowling, dancing, cooking, jazz, dominoes, seeks WM, 53-67, N/S, for possible LTR. I believe we are living in the last days. 336995

SEEKING A FRIEND

Hispanic American lady, 64, attractive, educated and stable seeking Irisih Catholic gentleman, 75+, with education, for friendship. 861416

LOVELY LADY

SWF, 100% organically grown bohemian in mid 50s, long dark wild curly hair, grey-green eyes, attractive, fit, kind, honest, sincere and secure. Searching for male soulmate. Fremont area. 339569

LET’S CELEBRATE SUMMER!

SWF, 55+, petite, brown hair, big, brown eyes, would like to meet a nice, handsome man. I’m into music, metaphysics, big smiles and spiritual values. Nonsmokers, please. 298476

GOOD TIMES TOGETHER

Friendly mature female, compassionate, has good values, likes music, dancing, dining out. Seeking a SM, 70+, for friendship and companionship. 332829

WF, 43, professional single Mom, few tattoos, loving, caring, spontaneous, romantic, likes art, music, walks, good food, bookstores. Seeking old fashioned gentleman, prefers tall, 43-55, who’s independent, healthy self-esteem, good hygeine, outgoing, sociable, for friendship, romance, adventures, leading monogamous relationship. 336284

SEEKING MY BASHERT

Attractive, articulate, financially independent, observant DJF, 65, with open heart seeks same qualities in available, single/divorced/widowed Jewish man. 336110

LET’S GET TOGETHER

Very caring, mischievous and personal single woman in the Petaluma area looking for a single man with similar interests, 40-60. I enjoy music, camping, shopping, dining out, walking, exercise and much more. 332976

LOOKING FOR A SPRING THING

Classy woman, 5’3”, average build, blonde hair, hazel eyes, N/S, very smart and business-oriented, into biotech, biophysics and architecture. Looking for similar brainiac male, 40-60, for friendship first leading to possible LTR. SF Bay area. 337699

CARING & COMPASSIONATE

SF, 50s, honest, healthy, motivated and hardworking. Interests: music, camping, dancing, traveling, hiking, walks, the beach, and coffee shops. Looking for a man 40-70 for friendship, dating or possible LTR. 332978

VINTAGE EYEGLASSES

Attractive SWM, 56, has a fetish for single, never-married, non-smoking women who wear vintage eyeglasses, super winged jeweled cat eyed, similar to those from the late 60s-early 70s, or spectacles. 333345

TIRED OF SOAP OPERAS?

Want your own fantasy man? good-looking DWM, 46, seeks female, 55+, for fun and new adventures. 334056

LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE

Adventurous SWM, 50, tall, dark hair, handsome, intelligent with green eyes, outdoorsman with a romantic side looking for single woman to enjoy all that life has to offer and enlighten our horizons together. I love the outdoors and travel ( beach, mountains, etc.) lets have some fun! Sausalito. 334401

LET’S MEET AND TALK

SHM, 21, would like to meet a female, 19-28, for friendship possibly leading to more if we hit it off! 334467

LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE

SWM, 43, N/S, tall, blonde, blue eyes, athletic, very fun, outgoing, working professional, seeks a sweet AF, 18-55, for fun, good times, companionship and maybe more. 340947

FIT MARTIAL ARTS MAN

Dominant male, 51, 5' 10", seeks submissive woman, 30-50, who is not a democrat or republican, N/S, to enjoy conversations and to help you discover and explore your submissive side. Race is not important. 341069

SEEKS SWEET ASIAN

SWM, 69, N/S, retired, slim, intelligent, extremely good-looking, seeks slender AF, 18-35, N/S, to go dating, leading to serious LTR. 339556

YOU FOUND ME!

Caring SWM, 40s, 5’8”, 140lbs, N/S, with mild case cerebral palsy, seeks single female in her 30s, to share outdoor activities, dining out, long walks, running. I have run two half-marathons. Friendship first leading to possible LTR. 331626

LET’S MEET SOON!

I am a very good-looking, 26-year-old fun loving male. I live in SF. I work as a software programmer. I would like to date women between 20-40. I like sports, music and other outdoor activities. 335231

SEEKS A KIND WOMAN

DWM, 52, brown hair, brown eyes, single dad, has one young daughter, seeks a SF, who would be my best friend to share time with me and my daughter, go to family events, museums, parks, leading to a serious relationship. 336412

Respond to ads by calling 1-900-226-7086 $2.29/min 18+ oR Respond by cRedit caRd, call 1-877-337-3292 place youR own ad 1-877-895-7996 check us out online sfbgconnections.com LET’S GO OUT AND HAVE FUN!

Ambitious single man, 50s, motivated, intelligent, seeks similar woman, 4060, for dating leading to possible LTR. 332828

SEEKS SF W/NICE PERSONALITY

Kind-hearted 43-year-old man seeks woman for friendship, possibly leading to LTR. Prefer 25-40 years-old, but physical appearance, weight is unimportant. Personality is. 338860

ATHLETIC YOUNG GUY

SWM, 20, smoker, 6’2”, 200lbs, blond/ blue, seeks WF, 18-22, to hang out, chill, friendship and more. 338205

LET’S HAVE FUN

SM, 32, Filipino, smoker, 5’7”, 160lbs, seeks woman, 19-40, to have fun and maybe more. 338781

SEEKING MY SUGAR PLUM

Find Your Summer Romance

BI MALE SEEKS SAME

Bi married male, 45, health conscious, well built, seeks same, 30-50 for intimacy, passion and fun. 322889

Join now, and your first 2 weeks are FREE! Call: 888.218.8055

18+

SWM, 36, 6’2”, 200lbs, smoker, seeks woman, 21-50, race does not matter, for casual relationship first and maybe leading to LTR. 339134

LET’S ENJOY LIFE

Iím a 31 year year old Black male that is very athletic and great looking. I am 5í10 180 pounds, awesome smile and personality. I want to meet an older woman that can appreciate a handsome young man. Union City. 339604

LET’S ENJOY LIFE

Chinese female, 34, 5’2”, 120lbs, black hairi, N/S, seeks a single woman, to share fun, romance and more. 339124

LET’S ENJOY LIFE!

Single professional, 47, enjoys outdoors, working out, dancing, and traveling taking time to enjoy life and have fun. I look for the good in others and try to make a positive difference. Seeks woman, with same interests, being spontaneous, healthy and fit, loves to travel and has good SOH. 336765

RUSSIAN SWM

SM , mid 30s, professional, tall, athletic, outgoing, I love outdoors, anything from camping to mountain biking, long distance swimming, meeting new people. My ideal female companion is someone who is athletic and outgoing. I am marriage-minded but of corse we will start out as friends. 339842

SEEKS ONE SPECIAL LADY

WM, 54, monogamous, hiker, ballroom dance, writer, singer, graduate degree, no church, giver, prolonged kissing, meditation, kind thoughts-words-actions, with 9-year--old son. Walnut Creek. 334892

SHARE HER I’M HUGE!

Endowed, 10+, nicknamed “Eveready”, experienced swinger. Strictly straight male, fulfills couples fantasies. I’m 53, 5’11”, 165lbs, Caucasian, black hair, discreet, reliable, non-pushy. Large BBW women encouraged. Host or travel. Flexible schedule. Female must leave first mesage in my box. No single males. 337120

Call (800) 229-6118!

LET’S HOOK UP!

Latin male, 43, 5’11”, N/S, light-drinker, seeking a TV or TS, 30-40, for friendship and companionship or having fun. Race not important. 335082

CIRCLE THIS AD

SWM, 50s, very caring, healthy, honest, ISO nice woman, 50-59, to enjoy outdoor activities, long walks, traveling, exercise, leading to possible LTR. 332831

SANTA ROSA AREA

SM, 40s, optimistic, health-minded, artistic and compassionate. Interests include music, traveling, reading, kayaking, museums, exercising, the beach, and biking. Seeking SF in her 30s for casual dating. 332974

Live 1- on -1 Phone Fantasy

SCRABLE PARTNER NEEDED

with Sexy Ladies

“Do you love to play Scrabble?” I do. I really could care less what you look like but intelligence and wit counts in my book. SWF, 53, N/S seeks male partner for Scrabble games. . 337056

SEEKING MISS RIGHT

Good-looking SM, 21, I’m a Marine and I’m looking for a nice woman that is fun, has alot of energy to enjoy fun together, maybe possible LTR. 336939

ISO GOOD WOMAN

SBPM, 58, 5’10’’, 180lbs, looking for a good, caring, honest, attractive, romantic, career-minded woman, 48+, to share cuddling and quality time. Sometimes cool, sometimes cute, always adventurous. 336749

LET’S MEET SOON!

Tall, mature W/M to share companionship with slender, 5’8”+ fun, outgoing 30-60--year-old female, possible LTR. Shared intimacy, health, fitness, music, dancing and hiking. 334348

SEEKS ANOTHER WOMAN...

to play with toys and having some hot fun! SHF, 41, N/S, seeks HF, 25-50, smoker. 337883

ISO ENDOWED BM, 18+

Talk Dirty to me!!!

Looking for a kinky BM, 18+, 6’+, very adventurous, who loves dancing. I’m 26 and looking to share some fantastic times. 333986

EROTIC COMPUTER

Female dominant, BBW, computer virgin, in wheelchair, seeks sci-fi geek, techno angel and submissive computer teacher, 21-60, for adult computer entertainment and programming. 802472

For customer service go to www.People2People.com/help

18+

or call 1-800-252-0920

Visit www.sfbgconnections.com foR thousands moRe singles Free Ads: Free ads placed in this section are not guaranteed to run every week. Be sure to renew your ad frequently to keep it fresh. Guidelines: Personals are for adults 18 or over seeking monogamous relationships. To ensure your safety, carefully screen all responses and have first meetings occur in a public place. This publication reserves the right to edit, revise, or reject any advertisement at any time at it’s sole discretion and assumes no responsibility for the content of or replies to any ad. Not all ads have corresponding voice messages. To review our complete guidelines, call 617.425.2636

0930 Delman

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.com

41

TO PLACE AN AD CALL 415-255-7600 OR EMAIL US AT CLASSIFIEDS@SFBG.COM

CLASSIFIEDS

Bkqjp]ej Ol] GFE Sweetheart

•

Marin incall/SF Hotel outcall (415) 331-6775

•

I like to relax and enjoy myself Maybe you would too? 415-4357526

I WANT TO TOUCH YOUR BODY! Very Sexy Girl with Blue Eyes & Red Hair ~ Sensual Healing at it’s BEST ~

Ocean Acupressure

Ocean Health Care

Deep Tissue, Acupressure & Massage Therapy

Pretty Asian Masseuses

Luxury Rooms Table Shower • Body Shampoo • Relaxing Massage by Beautiful Asian Girls - Many to Choose From • Walk-Ins Welcome

10am-11:30pm • 415-456-1780 817 B 4th St, San Rafael

FOR MORE VISIT SFBG.COM/CLASSFIEDS

Non-rush Massage Session

Open 7 days a week, 11am - 11pm.

(Cross street : Bush)

Orchid Spa

$40 massage with this ad!

(415) 576-1888

www.lovings.com/ocean-health-care

Love

GRAND OPENING

Anniversary Special $45 HR

Downtown Financial District 260 Kearny Street 2nd Floor

Kourtney

Enchanting. Captivating. Classy.

Private rooms, shower and jacuzzi

415-239-8928

415-458-1664 2232 4th St San Rafael

1959 Ocean Ave. - SF

36B-28-36 5’ 4� 120 lbs.

** MELT THE STRESS AWAY ** Beautiful Young Massage Therapist Expert Deep Tissue, Accupressure & Swedish Massage. $40 per hour. Incalls Grant Avenue in San Francisco. Call for appointment:

*82-415-265-8961

It's Time... to Feel Good Again!

May’s Beauty Salon

Chinese Power Massage

>iXe[ ^ Fg\e`e

SENSUAL TOUCHTALK THERAPY

3085 24th St. Suite 203 (@ Folsom)

Experience non-judgmental Sex Education, so you can express your sexual self with knowledge, joy & pride.

415.793.9878

Carmen, Sexologist Ph.D. (415) 613-2964

jasminebeautyspa.com

www.sacredcarmen.com

Shiny Boots of Leather Mistresses/ Female subs needed on the Peninsula. Good money, NO SEX, will train. (650) 465-0700.

10am-9pm 7 Days Credit/Debit Cards OK Walk-Ins Welcome

+'

Hair, Nail, Men’s & Woman’s Waxing *SPECIAL MASSAGE*

$40 when you mention this ad

PHOENIXXX! I’m so WET & READY for you.

0WFS #FBVUJGVM "TJBO .BTTFVTFT

Ocean Spa

+Jacuzzi +Body Wash +-Private +-Beautiful Girls

T. BS

1ST ST.

1113 2nd St. San Rafael

New Sauna Spa

BEAUTIFUL Asian & Latina to choose from PRIVATE ROOM w/ private shower & jacuzzi 50/HR WITH AD

www.backdrop.net.

42 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

sfbg.com/classifieds

415-885-8020 866 SUTTER ST & LEAVENWORTH | SAN FRANCISCO | CA 94109

EDITORIALS

NEWS

FOOD + DRINK

PICKS

ARTS + CULTURE

441 STOCKTON ST. @ SUTTER UNION SQ. SF CA. • 415-397-4181 PARKING GARAGE

). 4(% '5!2$)!.

415-457-7666

(650) 965-4499

Mature Dominatrix with pretty feet. All fantasies welcome. East Bay Incall. 650-284-6436

Quality beautiful Asian girls

2ND ST.

Beautiful, Exotic, Hot & Horny!

Mistress in Charge

Visa and Mastercard

10AM-10PM

...are powerfully erotic. BackDrop Club. For over 35 years. Instruction, events, private play sessions & more.

5IF OFX (3&&/ %003

1912 Lombard St. (415) 441-5884

* * SEXY KENDRA * *

Domination And Surrender

4115B Judah St. @ 46th Ave., SF • Tel. 415-681-9809

7!.4 4/ !$6%24)3%

Call *Phoenix* 509.315.6912

* * 510.575.6232 * * see you soon

Massage-Deep Tissue Reduce Stress Relaxation Steam Clean & New Environment

HMRHCD OQHU@SD O@QJHMF @MC DMSQ@MBD

TABLE SHOWER

get a date

0TQ #D@TSHETK "RH@M (HQKR VHKK L@JD XNT EDDK 40 FNNC

• • • •

5DKDFQ@OG "UD 0@JK@MC ADSVDDM 4S )@VSGNQMD

SWEDISH DEEP TISSUE

For the best PU$$Y in the Bay Area

Expert Massage, Sensual Play, Passionate Touch and more

'QDD 5@AKD 4GNVDQ GNTQ

OPEN: 10 AM-10 PM

Hello HORNY guys

call me and let me take care of you

1HMDSQDD .@RR@FD

0ÂŚ'BSSFMM 4' $"

Golden Gate Massage

FREE BODY WASH

1429 Polk St. San Francisco CA, 94104 10am-10pm | 415-205-9080

/FX &NQJSF .BTTBHF

Open 10am - 10pm See you soon!

* Huge BOOBS * *Small Waist *

510.812.9521 • ask for Candy *

209-676-1218

call: 415-567-7886

SPECIAL

24 HR Outcalls

I’m here whenever you need me! San Francisco Incalls & Outcalls

#OME FOR THE BEST IN RELAXATION +EARNY !LL CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

2324 Lombard st @Pierce

Theraputic Massage & Brazilian Wax

San Leandro / SFO Incalls

H&B Day Spa

!TTRACTIVE -ASSEUSES (OT 4UBS

%FWJF TQB

45F-24-36 BLACK & PUERTO RICAN NASTY GIRL!

4HAILAND 3PA -ASSAGE

T.

Sara (415) 370-2470

AS

Incalls & Outcalls

MUSIC LISTINGS

#/.4!#4 #(!2,%3 3&"' #/)&*#)-,#'*%' $%!$,).% )3 -/.$!9 "%&/2% 0STAGE LISTINGS

ON THE CHEAP

Beautiful Asian Girls 145 Waverly Place SF, CA In Chinatown (Between Clay & Washington) 2hr Free Parking (on Kearny)

415-781-7777 FILM LISTINGS

CLASSIFIEDS

TO PLACE AN AD CALL 415-255-7600 OR EMAIL US AT CLASSIFIEDS@SFBG.COM

CLASSIFIEDS

FOR MORE VISIT SFBG.COM/CLASSFIEDS

Where Hot Men Hook Up! Try FREE! Call 415-402-1009 or 800-777-8000 www.interactivemale.com

More Choice! More Sexy Connections!

H8 AJ

TRY FREE Call 415-772-9944 or 800-210-1010 www.livelinks.com

HOT ASIAN MUSCLED MASSAGE

> DJ H

9Vg` HlZZi 8]dXdaViZ HVc ;gVcX^hXd >cXVaah DjiXVaah

,%,#+**#+.)( Vh` VWdji di]Zg \^gah idd XVaa bZ

ASIAN MASTER STUD Get your best massage in town by a CMT / ACE of 19 yrs exp. Pro therapist in Bodywork & Personal Training ďŹ eld. Sensual, Nurturing, Caring & Healing Touch. In/Out SF Masao 415-777-1882 or www.massageM4M.com / HandsonaMasterTouch

Bi - Black & Masculine First Timers Welcome

CALL HOT SEXY SINGLES ON NIGHT EXCHANGE!

TS *ENNIFER

Live Local Chat. Try us FREE! 18+ 415-288-2999 510-817-8800 408-777-2999 1-877-839-1110

YO Âł Âą DD Âą SURPRISE

C5- 'ET )T

CALL QUEST & MEET SOMEONE TONIGHT!

Very discreet, friendly, clean. Well-endowed, with a Nice Round Butt! Incalls/Outcalls. call Cedric (510) 776-5945

Experience Ecstasy in the hands of CertiďŹ ed Master Touch ERIC S.F. IN/OUT CALLS 415-902-7264 www.massageM4M.com/ HandsonaMasterTouch

... FULL BODY MASSAGE by Roger... boyish build. Eastbay Incalls / Outcalls to anywhere Sensual Touch to make you feel so GOOD! call me: 650.346.7510

4PNFUIJOH GPS &WFSZPOF

Connect with more than 5,000 local women and men FREE! 18+ 415-829-1111 510-343-1111 408-514-0099 1-888-257-5757

2 G i r l s AMAZING SPECIAL!

Layla & Juicy

:"3"TRANSSEXUAL N OW OR N EVER • B EGINNERS A RE W ELCOME

We’re ready to make it a night you won’t forget.

CALL US Eastbay Incalls / Outcalls to SF

(415) 573.5915 (510) 439.7436

STARVING MEN, I AM 100% FUNCTIONAL! *82 (415) 621-7406

get him on the line FREE TRIAL

415.402.1009

Find your local number: 1.800.777.8000 18+ www.interactivemale.com Ahora en EspaĂąol

EDITORIALS

NEWS

FOOD + DRINK

PICKS

ARTS + CULTURE

MUSIC LISTINGS

STAGE LISTINGS

ON THE CHEAP

FILM LISTINGS

CLASSIFIEDS

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2011 / SFBG.COM

43

3" or larger, dark background use this one:

,FFQ /BUVSBM 3FTPVSDFT JO :PVS $PNNVOJUZ

Cooperative DELIVERING ALL OVER SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND & BERKELEY Home of the Strawberry Diesel PurpleElephantCoop.Com

EXkliXc I\jfliZ\j _Xj Y\\e j\im`e^ gXi\ekj f] Xcc nXcbj f] c`]\# ]ifd gi\^eXeZp k_ifl^_ \Xicp gXi\ek`e^# ]fi Xcdfjk ), p\Xij% N\Ă‹m\ j_Xi\[ dXep afpj n`k_ fli Zljkfd\ij# Ă” ijk jd`c\j# Ă” ijk cXl^_j# Ă” ijk jk\gj# Ă” ijk nfi[j% Fm\i k_\ p\Xij# n\Ă‹m\ Y\\e gXik f] jf dXep _\XiknXid`e^ Xe[ d\dfiXYc\ \og\i`\eZ\j%

BANKRUPTCY ATTORNEY CALL DEAN L. WOERNER 415-550-8799

EXkliXc I\jfliZ\j _Xj Y\\e ]\\c`e^ k_\ \]]\Zkj f] fli Z_Xcc\e^`e^ \Zfefd`Z k`d\j n`k_ k_\ cXjk Zflgc\ dfek_j gifm`e^ \jg\Z`Xccp [`]Ă” Zlck% 8cc \]]fikj kf i\m`kXc`q\ EXkliXc I\jfliZ\j# n_\k_\i Yp j\cc`e^ k_\ Ylj`e\jj# Ă” e[`e^ X gXike\i# fi aljk j`dgcp Yp Yi`e^`e^ `e ]le[`e^# _Xm\ Y\\e lejlZZ\jj]lc% 8k k_`j gf`ek# `ejk\X[ f] Zcfj`e^ fli [ffij# n\ Xi\ klie`e^ kf Xcc f] pfl kf _\cg b\\g lj ^f`e^%

WWW.SANFRANBK.COM

HAIR MODELS NEEDED! Cutting and Color at DiPietro Todd Salon. Call (415) 693-5549. www.dipietrotodd.com.

@] pfl fi Xepfe\ pfl befn _Xj Y\e\Ă” k\[ ]ifd fli fi^Xe`qXk`fe# gc\Xj\ Zfej`[\i _\cg`e^ lj% Pfli Zfeki`Ylk`fej n`cc Y\ k_\ ]fle[Xk`fe ]fi EXkliXc I\jfliZ\j kf Zfek`el\ kf jlggfik ]Xd`c`\j ]fi dXep p\Xij kf Zfd\%

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible

Gc\Xj\ m`j`k nnn%`e[`\^f^f%Zfd&eXkliXci\jfliZ\j kf c\Xie dfi\ XYflk fli ]le[iXj`e^ \]]fikj Xe[ kf Zfeki`Ylk\ kf fli ZXdgX`^e%

will make violent revolution inevitable.� – John F. Kennedy

N`k_ _fg\ Xe[ ^iXk`kl[\# :XiX M`[Xef Xe[ k_\ EXkliXc I\jfliZ\j =Xd`cp

COMPASSIONATE HEALTH OPTIONS Mental and Physical Wellness Counseling

MEDICAL MARIJUANA EVALUATIONS 65806 7 2/14/8 1 7/14/1 2 7/14/1

Jesus

Rivera

M.D. Barth, Hanya #A031974 Ca lic.

• DR. HANYA BARTH • 24/7 VERIFICATION • QUALITY ID CARDS • CONFIDENTIAL • MATCH ANY LOCAL PRICE • WALK-INS WELCOME

X[ gX`[ ]fi Yp [feXk`fe

(415) 255-1200 | www.Green215.com SAN FRANCISCO OAKLAND 1200 HOWARD ST (CORNER OF 8TH) 1322 WEBSTER ST, STE 308

$200 off Chapter 7 & 13

,6 0(7+ $ 352%/(0#

Bankruptcy free Consultation

Join a research study. Get help.

also specializes in Social Security & Workers’ compensation Law

Law Offices of Eric T. Johnson

CPMC’s Addiction & Pharmacology Research Laboratory is conducting research on the usefulness of a medication to help people stop using methamphetamine.

870 Market St. Suite 543 San Francisco, CA 94102 P: (415) 402-0355 • bankruptcy.lawoffice@yahoo.com ENGLISH/TAGALOG/SPANISH/RUSSIAN TRANSLATORS AVAILABLE! Meet Mary, Asia, Christina, Tiana, Danielle and Darlene, friends and American Apparel store employees, modeling the Cotton Spandex Jersey Long Sleeve Turtleneck and Opaque Pantyhose, available in a wide variety of color options.

James rowland shop

Eligible participants receive counseling.

To learn more about our company, to shop online, and to find all store locations, visit our web site: americanapparel.net

48,7

2447 dwight, Berkeley . Jamesrowlandshop.com

MY GEMS / MYTREASURES PART II A DIGITAL PRINT EXHIBITION BY NORTH Y PLA DIS ON OUGH R H T BER EM NOV

(510-817-4858)

OAKLAND SENIOR CENTER ARTISTS

EmploymEnt AttornEys

"EWPDBUFT GPS FNQMPZFF SJHIUT 'SFF DBTF BTTFTTNFOU

Â… 6OQBJE 0WFSUJNF Â… 3FTU .FBM #SFBLT Â… )BSBTTNFOU Â… %JTDSJNJOBUJPO Â… 8SPOHGVM UFSNJOBUJPO

Business Attorney for San

²#FTU PG UIF #BZ³ 4NBMM #VTJOFTT "UUPSOFZ GPS 4BO 'SBODJTDP $PVOUZ ,30/ 5FMFWJTJPO

CAFÉ MADRID • 2001 BROADWAY • OAKLAND

415-434-4500 w w w. k u m i n s o m m e r s . c o m

AT THE CORNER OF BROADWAY AND 20TH • RIGHT OFF 19TH ST BART

$

45 50 $

Renewable FRom anY DoctoR (even

iF expiReD)

44 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

New PatieNts

editorials

news

food + Drink

picks

arts + culture

music listings

stage listings

on the cheap

film listings

classifieds

Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.