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Cloud Cult, Kid Dakota, Love Is Chemicals Bottom of the Hill	Tue., May 13, 9:00pm	Potrero Hill
Much like fellow indie chamber-rock groups the Arcade Fire and Polyphonic Spree, Minnesota-based Cloud Cult delivers cathartic, emotional climaxes and transcendent orchestrations. Principal songwriter Craig Minowa has unleashed a flood of intricate miniature symphonies as a form of creative therapy since... More>>

Turkish Writing Today 111 Minna Gallery	Tue., May 13, 12:00pm	Union Square/Financial District	Literary Events, Galleries, Free Events
The Center for the Art of Translation's monthly Lit & Lunch series provides downtowners with brain refreshments at the noon hour; we wish we worked near the swanky gallery so we could go to amazing literary events with our brown bags. This month, the theme is Turkish Writing Today, and the invitees are... More>>

"Women of '68" Film Series Goethe-Institut	Every week Tuesday from Tue., May 13 until Tue., June 10	North Beach/Chinatown	Politics/Activism, Film - Art House
After four decades of historical reductivism and revisionism, the incendiary student protests of 1968, here and in Europe, have been neatly placed in a box labeled "the antiwar movement." Vietnam was just the flashpoint, however, of a roaring clamor for a new society stripped of the venal old-boy power... More>>

"She Put a Spell on Me: Kim Nalley Sings Nina Simone" Jazz at Pearl's	Every week Tuesday from Tue., May 6 until Sat., May 31, 8:00pm (more dates/times)	North Beach/Chinatown	Politics/Activism, Music
Rarely does the bad news suddenly turn to good, and then get even better. So let's savor it: Kim Nalley's sweet jazz boite went belly up, we were told, but then made a miraculous recovery. Even better, we missed what we thought was the last chance to see Nalley's tribute "She Put a Spell on Me: Kim Nalley... More>>

Speed Racer Bridge Theatre	Daily from Mon., May 12 until Thu., May 22	Richmond (Inner)	Film & Video
Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series into a prospective franchise, the Matrix masters, Larry and Andy Wachowski, have taken another step toward the total cyborganization of the cinema. Gaudier than a Hindu-temple roof, louder than the Las Vegas night, Speed Racer is a cathedral of glitz. The... More>>

Son of Rambow Embarcadero Center Cinema	Daily from Sat., May 10 until Thu., May 15	Embarcadero	Film & Video
In the 1980s, three Mississippi 12-year-olds famously spent six years filming a shot-for-shot VHS remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark . The misfit heroes of writer-director Garth Jennings's whimsical comedy Son of Rambow — two enterprising British schoolkids inspired by the early Sylvester Stallone... More>>

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Ashford & Simpson The Rrazz Room	Daily from Tue., May 6 until Sat., May 10, 8:00pm (more dates/times)	Union Square/Financial District	Music

The Better Half The Hypnodrome	Daily from Fri., March 21 until Wed., May 21, 8:00pm	South of Market	Theater, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered

"Bonus Map" CELLspace	Daily from Thu., May 8 until Sun., May 25	Mission/Bernal Heights	Galleries, Free Events

"The Butterfly Zone" Conservatory of Flowers	Daily from Sun., March 23 until Sun., November 2	Sunset (Outer)	Walking Tours, Kids/Family Outings, Home & Garden

"Fairfax and Haight" VASF Gallery	Daily from Thu., March 20 until Wed., May 28	Haight/Fillmore	Galleries, Free Events

"The Invisible Nation" Galería de la Raza	Daily from Fri., March 7 until Fri., May 16	Mission/Bernal Heights	Galleries, Free Events

"Kick Out the Jams" The Luggage Store	Daily from Fri., May 9 until Sat., June 14	South of Market	Galleries, Free Events

Veronica Klaus Enrico's	Every week Tuesday, 7:00pm	North Beach/Chinatown	Music, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered

"Make You Notice" San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery	Daily from Thu., March 27 until Sat., May 24	Hayes Valley/Tenderloin	Galleries, Free Events

"The Master's Tools (Decay Goes Both Ways)" Little Tree Gallery	Daily from Sat., May 3 until Sat., May 31	Mission/Bernal Heights	Galleries, Free Events

"The Question Is Known: (W)here Is Latin American/Latino Art?" Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts	Daily from Fri., April 18 until Sat., May 24	Mission/Bernal Heights	Galleries

"American Symbols: From Lady Liberty to the Stars and Stripes" Museum of Craft & Folk Art	Daily from Thu., May 8 until Sun., August 3	South of Market	Museums

"No Vanishing Point" Patricia Sweetow Gallery	Daily from Thu., May 1 until Sat., June 14	North Beach/Chinatown	Galleries - First Thursday, Free Events

WorldWide Pinhole Photography Day RayKo Photo Center	Daily from Thu., April 24 until Tue., June 3	Potrero Hill	Galleries, Free Events

"Quarter Century" Creativity Explored	Daily from Thu., May 1 until Wed., June 18	South of Market	Galleries - First Thursday, Free Events

"Riprap in Bronze" Haines Gallery	Daily from Fri., April 11 until Sat., May 17	North Beach/Chinatown	Galleries, Free Events

Off the Grid Roxie New College Film Center	Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 3 until Wed., May 7, 3:00pm (more dates/times)	Mission/Bernal Heights	Film - Art House

San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2820 Scott (at Green)	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., April 26 until Mon., May 26	Marina/Cow Hollow	Walking Tours, Home & Garden, Benefits/Charity

San Francisco Gay Basketball's Open Court Play Eureka Valley Recreation Center	Daily, 5:00pm	Castro/Noe Valley	Sports & Outdoors, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered