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From left: SNOOPY!!! photo by David Allen; The Velveteen Rabbit photo by Margo Moritz; Red Fang photo by Tim Tronckoe; Seth Troxler photo by Stephanie Smith; Family Hanukkah Celebratioh photo by Sasha Gulish; Jesse Hewit photo by Gia Goodrich
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Saturday 11/30 Red Fang
Portland, Ore., quartet Red Fang made its name on riff-heavy bangers, clever videos, and constant touring. On Whales and Leeches, the band’s second album for Relapse Records, the hard-
reimagines the history of English poetry, transforming the words of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Emerson, and
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other celebrated writers into works that throb with fresh vitality. (Haruta) 7pm, free City Lights Books 261 Columbus, SF www.citylights.com
charging fuzz is back, and there’s a video featuring “beer zombies” already in the works. Thanks to that hectic touring schedule, though, Red Fang had only two months to write the record, which resulted in a welcome embrace of some of its more idiosyncratic sonic tendencies, glimpsed only briefly in the past. This approach also extends to song titles — listen for hard-charging single “Blood Like Cream” when the band returns to SF, site of some of its earliest successes. (Ben Richardson) With Shrine, Indian Handicrafts 8:30pm, $18 Slim’s 333 11th St, SF
Project Homeless Connect. (Baker)
With Felix Dickinson, Galen, Solar, Anthony Mansfield, Rich Korach, Jason Kendig, Dax Lee, Josh Vincent
3200 California, SF
9pm, $18
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161 Erie, SF www.publicsf.com
Seth Troxler
For the last few years this clown prince of Detroit has reigned like a king. Well, at least concerning Resident Advisor’s annual poll, going from No. 3 to No. 2 to No. 1, consecutively. Depending on what you think of RA’s readership (and popularity contests), this could roughly translate to “Best DJ in the World.” Either way, in the same amount of time Troxler’s releases have reduced to a trickle, likely a
result of co-managing a label (Visionquest), starting a restaurant, and, uh yeah, keeping up a news
busy touring schedule. So catch the charismatically irreverent DJ firsthand, or hold your comments until the next poll comes out. (Ryan Prendiville)
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Sunday 12/1 Family Hanukkah Celebration There’s one more thing to be grateful about this Thanksgiving: Hanukkah’s already begun! This year the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is throwing a party, with wine and deliciously hot, oil-fried nosh catered by La Mediterranee. Get Bubbie bopping on the dance floor to live music performed by Octopretzel, the five-member kid-friendly genre-hopping Jewish group, and clap your hands to Isaac Zones on the guitar. All are welcome, even the goyim out there, and all are encouraged to bring your hanukkiyah lit with candles to add to the light of the grand menorah, as well as an old favorite book as a donation to JCCSF’s fundraiser for
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4pm, $20 Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Fisher Family Hall www.jccsf.org
Iconic Hair Movie Night presents Edward Scissorhands That old shampoo can’t be doing much to flatten your do, especially in this humid weather. Why not play it up then, and roll on down to Morphic Salon for this month’s Iconic Hair Movie Night, where you can curl up for a showing of Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990). Starring
then-couple Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder, this dark and tender cinematic music
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tale of star-crossed and finger-bladed romance in an unjustly square world might be just the thing to inspire dripping dreads, a bit of ginger fringe, or a frizzy beehive bonnet. The only damage done will be to your heart, which this film will pierce, through the deadly combination of compassion and extremely pointy scissors. (Kaylen Baker)
Head over to the SOMArts Cultural Center the first Tuesday of every month to celebrate new, experimental, and in-progress works culled from the considerable talent lurking among the Bay Area’s queer artists. This month, it’s a showcase of contemporary dance and movement art curated by performer Jesse Hewit: the inimitable Mica Sigourney; drag duo Bellows; “anti-dance” maker Abby Crain; Detour Dance duo Kat Cole and Eric Garcia; Kathleen Hermesdorf,
7pm, free (RSVP requested to info@ morphicbeauty.com) Morphic Salon 660 Market, Suite 210, SF www.houseofmorphic.com
Tuesday 12/3 Dodie Bellamy reads Cunt Norton Patriarchal voices of classic literature getting you down? San Francisco author Dodie Bellamy felt the same way, so she did something about it. In the same vein as her book Cunt-Ups, Bellamy has taken the 1975 Norton Anthology of Poetry and “cunted” it in her own new collection of poetry, Cunt Norton, published by Les Figues. In 33 unabashedly erotic love poems, Bellamy film
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director of La Alternativa/Alternative Conservatory; dancer and explorer of social issues Phoebe Osborne; SALTA members Mara Poliak and Maryanna Lachman; body/age/sex-positive dance troupe Sexitude; and community-building women’s dance group Viv. (Haruta) 7:30pm, $5 SOMArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan, SF www.somarts.org
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