http://thebolditalic.com/events The Bold Italic is an experiment in local discovery. Just when you thought you were a pretty savvy local, along came The Bold Italic. Our mission is to help people become better locals, equipping our members with rare local intel, backstory and potential adventures. en-us <p>February 04 2012, Noon - 5:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4171-our-house-records-presents-beats-and-bloodys">Our House Records presents: Beats and Bloody's</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/1052-noise-pop">Noise Pop</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4171-our-house-records-presents-beats-and-bloodys"><img alt="Ourhouse_poster" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4171/images/main/ourhouse_poster.jpg?1328316261" /></a></p><p></p><p>Now that Noise Pop's annual festivities are up and running, there's going to be a slew of exciting events and shows throughout the city that you won't want to miss. The Noise Pop-Up Shop has taken claim of the most awesome new event space in town (we're not biased, we swear) at The Bold Italic headquarters for the next few weeks, and they're kicking off their upcoming events with a bang in the form of Bloody Mary's and beats a-plenty. Show up to see live music, dance, get a daytime buzz, grab some eats and donate to charity - funds from admission will be donated to CMAC. Musical acts will include Niteppl, Realboy, Nisus, and Nanosaur, and Noise Pop is suggesting a $5 donation.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4171-our-house-records-presents-beats-and-bloodys">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/lWdy9h2dblo" height="1" width="1"/> Noise Pop Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:42:58 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/lWdy9h2dblo/4171-our-house-records-presents-beats-and-bloodys http://thebolditalic.com/events/4171-our-house-records-presents-beats-and-bloodys http://thebolditalic.com/events/4171-our-house-records-presents-beats-and-bloodys <p>February 04 2012, 4:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 10:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3976-the-love-of-all-above">The Love of All Above</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2435-queens-nails-projects">Queen's Nails Projects</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3976-the-love-of-all-above"><img alt="Conversation_with_john_coltrane_final" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/3976/images/main/Conversation_with_John_Coltrane_Final.jpg?1326139888" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>John Felix Arnold III introduces the new installment to his exhibition series, "Unstoppable Tomorrow : The World of Future Antiquity", entitled "The Love of All Above". One part solo art show, one part performance showcase, and one part audience participation, Arnold has created a recipe for gratitude in his exhibition. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the installation is intended to make the audience reflect on their own lives, struggles, and thankfulness. Arnold's multimedia project will open with a provocative live performance showcase and an artist reception, complete with complimentary refreshments and h'ors d'oeuvres galore. The installment will be moved to Art Now SF (3075 17th St.) on February 6th-21st, and will be on view by appointment only. So check it out before it's gone! You can also contact John Felix Arnold III for viewing appointments at 917-543-5261, or email at felixthethird@gmail.com. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3976-the-love-of-all-above">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/MgEJ0KLNHHU" height="1" width="1"/> Queen's Nails Projects Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:06:46 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/MgEJ0KLNHHU/3976-the-love-of-all-above http://thebolditalic.com/events/3976-the-love-of-all-above http://thebolditalic.com/events/3976-the-love-of-all-above <p>February 04 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4073-radicle-papyrus-showcase-by-julia-goodman">Radicle Papyrus Showcase by Julia Goodman</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/87-18-reasons">18 Reasons</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4073-radicle-papyrus-showcase-by-julia-goodman"><img alt="Image-1" src="http://images0.thebolditalic.com/clips/4073/images/main/image-1.png?1327192282" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>Julia Goodman's workshop last year, Radicle Papyrus, was an artistic success, and totally proved papermaking an underrated art form. This time, she's presenting her own work to the public, which takes normally average, boring paper to the next level. Goodman makes artisan paper out of beets through an ancient practice of papermaking that results in colorful brilliance. Local sound artist Scott Cazan will accompany the installation, and audience members will get to see Goodman's vibrant handiwork up close and personal. The exhibition is (amazingly) free, so there are no excuses for missing out. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4073-radicle-papyrus-showcase-by-julia-goodman">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/VBTDanjU8qE" height="1" width="1"/> 18 Reasons Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:29:08 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/VBTDanjU8qE/4073-radicle-papyrus-showcase-by-julia-goodman http://thebolditalic.com/events/4073-radicle-papyrus-showcase-by-julia-goodman http://thebolditalic.com/events/4073-radicle-papyrus-showcase-by-julia-goodman <p>February 04 2012, 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4047-hot-mess-sf-%E2%80%93-you-never-forget-your-first">Hot Mess SF – You Never Forget Your First</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3184-stage-werx-theatre">Stage Werx Theatre</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4047-hot-mess-sf-%E2%80%93-you-never-forget-your-first"><img alt="409487_332119196817253_332118913483948_1278502_292847144_n" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4047/images/main/409487_332119196817253_332118913483948_1278502_292847144_n.jpg?1326912868" /></a></p><p>$15.00</p><p>Hot Mess SF is a local sketch comedy collective of talented local writers and actors. If improv-y comedy shows tickle your fancy, Hot Mess SF is guaranteed to up the hilarity with their February show, You Never Forget Your First. The show is a celebration of springtime in the City with all the raunch and provocative humor that Hot Mess SF has perfected. Score your tix in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/221141 for $10 - they're $15 at the door. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4047-hot-mess-sf-%E2%80%93-you-never-forget-your-first">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/NAEG9hhlts0" height="1" width="1"/> Stage Werx Theatre Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:49:58 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/NAEG9hhlts0/4047-hot-mess-sf-%E2%80%93-you-never-forget-your-first http://thebolditalic.com/events/4047-hot-mess-sf-%E2%80%93-you-never-forget-your-first http://thebolditalic.com/events/4047-hot-mess-sf-%E2%80%93-you-never-forget-your-first <p>February 05 2012, 2:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4035-food-stories-kitchen-table-talk-with-susan-oconnell-and-jerome-waag">Food Stories: Kitchen Table Talk with Susan O'Connell and Jerome Waag</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3275-z-space-">Z Space </a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4035-food-stories-kitchen-table-talk-with-susan-oconnell-and-jerome-waag"><img alt="Foodlogo" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4035/images/main/foodlogo.jpg?1326740702" /></a></p><p>$75.00</p><p>For foodies and theater enthusiasts alike, 18 Reasons and Z Space presents some food and food for thought, in a combination of on-stage entertainment and delicious culinary offering. Food Stories introduces a discussion of food, literature, and the ways they are interconnected - all while promoting its tagline, "Pleasure is pleasure", in T. C. Boyle's "Sorry Fugu" and Alice McDermott's play, "Enough". The former puts Boyle's satirist reputation to work in a witty analysis of restaurants and critics, and the latter chronicles a woman's life and relationship with food. The event gives its audience what the City knows best - good food and great literature - in a collection of plays, director Q&A, talks from local gourmet experts, art, and a mouthwatering meal, of course. 18 Reasons is asking $65 for members, and $75 for the general public, and admission includes theater tickets and dinner. Buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/220577 . </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4035-food-stories-kitchen-table-talk-with-susan-oconnell-and-jerome-waag">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/yRc_5hw7GJ8" height="1" width="1"/> Z Space Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:59:39 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/yRc_5hw7GJ8/4035-food-stories-kitchen-table-talk-with-susan-oconnell-and-jerome-waag http://thebolditalic.com/events/4035-food-stories-kitchen-table-talk-with-susan-oconnell-and-jerome-waag http://thebolditalic.com/events/4035-food-stories-kitchen-table-talk-with-susan-oconnell-and-jerome-waag <p>February 05 2012, 3:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 4:00<span class='ampm'>am</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4107-apocalypse-cakes-reading-and-eating">Apocalypse Cakes: Reading + Eating</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/824-omnivore-books">Omnivore Books</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4107-apocalypse-cakes-reading-and-eating"><img alt="Jihaddatecake" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4107/images/main/jihaddatecake.jpg?1327534084" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>Shannon O'Malley's blog, Apocalypse Cakes, presents an incredibly witty outlook on the impending end of the world. Each of her cakes gives a satiric nod to the crumbling state of the planet without putting a damper on her deliciously hilarious cakes. Omnivore Books is hosting a reading/tasting event on February 5th, featuring passages from O'Malley's new cookbook, Apocalypse Cakes: Recipes for the End (including recipes for her Black Deforestation Cake, Pharma Nation Nut Cake, Gay Wedding Cake, and more) and some apocalyptic delicacies that you'd better try before we all go up in flames at the end of this ominous 2012. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4107-apocalypse-cakes-reading-and-eating">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/dkpRgLvTQEA" height="1" width="1"/> Omnivore Books Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:25:08 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/dkpRgLvTQEA/4107-apocalypse-cakes-reading-and-eating http://thebolditalic.com/events/4107-apocalypse-cakes-reading-and-eating http://thebolditalic.com/events/4107-apocalypse-cakes-reading-and-eating <p>February 05 2012, 3:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 6:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4048-super-bowl-xlvi-%E2%80%93-men-in-tights">Super Bowl XLVI – Men In Tights</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/1426-roxie-cinema">Roxie Cinema</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4048-super-bowl-xlvi-%E2%80%93-men-in-tights"><img alt="Superbowl" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4048/images/main/SuperBowl.jpg?1326918303" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>SF Indiefest kicks off this year with a smart-alecky Super Bowl. Watch the game (but only if the Niners make it, of course) while the guys from SportsSweaters give their always-snarky commentary and sarcastic two-cents. Witty, smart-ass personalities like David Cairns, OJ Patterson, and David Gborie are the commentators for the night, and they are bound to induce some gridiron revelry. The event is a benefit for SF Indiefest and The Roxie Theater, so admission is free but donations are encouraged. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4048-super-bowl-xlvi-%E2%80%93-men-in-tights">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/EwNLvUsNGnw" height="1" width="1"/> Roxie Cinema Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:23:20 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/EwNLvUsNGnw/4048-super-bowl-xlvi-%E2%80%93-men-in-tights http://thebolditalic.com/events/4048-super-bowl-xlvi-%E2%80%93-men-in-tights http://thebolditalic.com/events/4048-super-bowl-xlvi-%E2%80%93-men-in-tights <p>February 06 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4141-will-browns-comedy-drawing-school">Will Brown's Comedy Drawing School</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/4138-we-are-will-brown">We Are Will Brown</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4141-will-browns-comedy-drawing-school"><img alt="12_comedy" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4141/images/main/12_comedy.jpg?1327955113" /></a></p><p></p><p>You've probably never been to a drawing class run by a lineup of San Francisco's most gut-busting comedians. Good thing Mission art space newcomer, We Are Will Brown, is taking the initiative in hosting such an event, where participants will figure draw local stand-up artists (including George Chen, Rajeev Dhar, Jesse Elias, Chris Garcia, Andrew Holmgren, Sean Keane, Duat Mai, Jessica Sele, Chris Thayer, and Alex White) in the midst of their craft. Quick comedy sketches mean super-speedy art sketches, so you'll have to crank out some masterpieces in record time. We Are Will Brown will provide the chairs, easels, paper, pencils, and booze, so all you need is your artistic ambition (or not, amateurs are encouraged) and a comedic spirit. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4141-will-browns-comedy-drawing-school">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/GuxAUQFwzKk" height="1" width="1"/> We Are Will Brown Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:23:27 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/GuxAUQFwzKk/4141-will-browns-comedy-drawing-school http://thebolditalic.com/events/4141-will-browns-comedy-drawing-school http://thebolditalic.com/events/4141-will-browns-comedy-drawing-school <p>February 07 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4013-chai-traditions-history-and-taste">Chai Traditions: History and Taste</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/87-18-reasons">18 Reasons</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4013-chai-traditions-history-and-taste"><img alt="84406-250" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4013/images/main/84406-250.gif?1326336151" /></a></p><p>$35.00</p><p>There's a good chance that amount of time accumulated living in San Francisco is directly proportional to one's level of addiction to chai. Anything warm and caffeinated is worshipped in this city, if the amount of coffee and tea shops per square block is any inclination -- and chai is certainly no exception. This explains 18 Reasons' upcoming workshop, Chai Traditions: History and Taste -- part history lesson, part chai-making tutorial, part tasting session. Complete with Indian street food. Tickets are $25 for 18 Reasons members and $35 for the general public. You can get them here: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218026</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4013-chai-traditions-history-and-taste">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/1Pr5EuPbYWo" height="1" width="1"/> 18 Reasons Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:40:13 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/1Pr5EuPbYWo/4013-chai-traditions-history-and-taste http://thebolditalic.com/events/4013-chai-traditions-history-and-taste http://thebolditalic.com/events/4013-chai-traditions-history-and-taste <p>February 07 2012, 8:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4004-the-news-at-somarts-cultural-center">The News at SOMArts Cultural Center</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/777-somarts">SOMArts</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4004-the-news-at-somarts-cultural-center"><img alt="Thenewsfeb" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4004/images/main/THENEWSfeb.jpg?1326325838" /></a></p><p>$5.00</p><p>The News is a brand new monthly outlet for queer performance in the City, featuring artists of all backgrounds, skill levels, and trades. This diverse artistic offering debuts on February 7th, and continues as a collection of queer creative expression every first Tuesday. The first installation to the curated selection of performance will feature performers like Rotimi Agbabiaka, DIAmanda Kallas II Dia Dear, La Chica Boom, Peter Max Lawrence, and Marissa Majickbe -- and will be followed by an informal Q&A session to broaden the scope of performance and inspiration within San Francisco's fabulously thriving queer community. SOMArts recommends getting advanced tickets, as space is limited. Purchase tickets here: http://www.thenewsperformance.eventbrite.com.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4004-the-news-at-somarts-cultural-center">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/p2jHGhrvCEE" height="1" width="1"/> SOMArts Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:47:22 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/p2jHGhrvCEE/4004-the-news-at-somarts-cultural-center http://thebolditalic.com/events/4004-the-news-at-somarts-cultural-center http://thebolditalic.com/events/4004-the-news-at-somarts-cultural-center <p>February 08 2012, 5:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4144-seeing-double---the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine">Seeing Double - The Best of DOUBLEtruck Magazine</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/226-san-francisco-arts-commission">San Francisco Arts Commission</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4144-seeing-double---the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine"><img alt="Smaller_20110311_dlp_p67_07-595x395-1" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4144/images/main/Smaller_20110311_dlp_p67_07-595x395-1.jpg?1327958191" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>SFAC will be celebrating the first five years of the critically-acclaimed quarterly magazine, DOUBLEtruck, and will present a collection of 60 of their most iconic, evocative photographs. The gallery will showcase a time capsule of the most notable moments in recent history, from war-torn Iraq to images of Indonesian floods and wreckage. The magazine's focus on photography that "illuminate[s] the human condition", says gallery director Meg Shiffler, makes for a pretty diverse (and sometimes gruesome) account of global suffering, and ups the social justice ante in order to make a positive change. Sounds good to us! This exhibition featuring world-renowned photojournalists is free and open to the public, and the installment will run until May 18th. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4144-seeing-double---the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/dbFQgH75egk" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Arts Commission Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:13:01 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/dbFQgH75egk/4144-seeing-double---the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine http://thebolditalic.com/events/4144-seeing-double---the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine http://thebolditalic.com/events/4144-seeing-double---the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine <p>February 08 2012, 5:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3962-seeing-double-the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine">Seeing Double: The Best of DOUBLEtruck Magazine</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/933-city-hall">City Hall</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3962-seeing-double-the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine"><img alt="Doubletruck" src="http://images0.thebolditalic.com/clips/3962/images/main/DOUBLEtruck.jpg?1325887140" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>"Seeing Double" is a virtual time capsule of some of the most memorable moments in recent history captured by world-renowned photojournalists. A traveling exhibition organized by KONA Gallery and the Photojournalism Center of San Clemente, the show offers a chance to see more than 60 of the best photographs featured in the first five years of the award-winning quarterly magazine DOUBLEtruck. Part of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery's Art at City Hall program, the exhibition will be displayed on the ground floor of City Hall. It runs from February 8 - May 18, 2012.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3962-seeing-double-the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/6eZ1VIqd0mM" height="1" width="1"/> City Hall Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:54:45 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/6eZ1VIqd0mM/3962-seeing-double-the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine http://thebolditalic.com/events/3962-seeing-double-the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine http://thebolditalic.com/events/3962-seeing-double-the-best-of-doubletruck-magazine <p>February 08 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 10:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4101-aphrodesia-after-hours">Aphrodesia After Hours</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/92-conservatory-of-flowers">Conservatory of Flowers</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4101-aphrodesia-after-hours"><img alt="Zoltar" src="http://images0.thebolditalic.com/clips/4101/images/main/zoltar.jpg?1327519505" /></a></p><p></p><p>Chocolate, flowers, love potions -- it's a recipe for romance and you can experience it all at the Conservatory of Flowers this February 8 during a special, sense-ational Valentine's Day after hours event for the 21+ crowd. Sip an intoxicating elixir by Cocktail Lab or enjoy a hand crafted brew by the Richmond District's own Comrades Brewing, enjoy live music by Le Quartet de Jazz, stroll through our lush jungle of dazzling orchids and other tropical beauties, and snuggle up in a vintage Playland-by-the-Beach era photo booth. Then learn about the dark art of chocolate making with TCHO's chief chocolate wizard Brad Kintzer, who will take you on a journey from the cacao tree to the candy bar, exploring the key variables that influence chocolate quality. Kintzer's talk will include a guided tasting of chocolate flavors and diverse origins. 6-10 PM TCHO chocolate talks at 7 PM and 8:30 PM COST: $10 per person, $7 COF Members, $5 Drink Tix To get more details or advance tickets, visit: conservatoryofflowers.org/events/specialevents </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4101-aphrodesia-after-hours">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/LzjC6Oa4ZNc" height="1" width="1"/> Conservatory of Flowers Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:18:38 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/LzjC6Oa4ZNc/4101-aphrodesia-after-hours http://thebolditalic.com/events/4101-aphrodesia-after-hours http://thebolditalic.com/events/4101-aphrodesia-after-hours <p>February 08 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4149-love-on-wheels-dating-game">Love on Wheels Dating Game</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2306-public-works">Public Works</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4149-love-on-wheels-dating-game"><img alt="2010_love_on_wheels_banner_500" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4149/images/main/2010_love_On_Wheels_Banner_500.jpg?1328128790" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>With Singles Awareness Day (or Valentine's Day, for the spoken-for) rapidly approaching, some of us will be in need of some lovin' to fend of V-Day-induced depression. That's why the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition will be hosting a very bike-friendly dating game, Love on Wheels, to try to hook you up with a like-minded lover. Bike-enthused contestants will quiz each other and the winners will score a date paid for by the Coalition, so bring your bicycle know-how and it may be love at first sight. For the chance to find true love (or just to get some, if that's what you're into), email love@sfbike.org and tell them which way you roll (there's girl-girl, dude-dude, and guy-gal categories). It's 21+, and if you become an SF Bicycle Coalition member at the door you get in free! $5 for members, and $10 for non-members. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4149-love-on-wheels-dating-game">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/Wc8iRmjlwGc" height="1" width="1"/> Public Works Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:37:30 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/Wc8iRmjlwGc/4149-love-on-wheels-dating-game http://thebolditalic.com/events/4149-love-on-wheels-dating-game http://thebolditalic.com/events/4149-love-on-wheels-dating-game <p>February 08 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4172-noise-pop-happy-hour-party">Noise Pop Happy Hour Party</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/1052-noise-pop">Noise Pop</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4172-noise-pop-happy-hour-party"><img alt="Earsofthebeholder_poster" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4172/images/main/earsofthebeholder_poster.jpeg?1328317009" /></a></p><p>$5.00</p><p>The folks at Noise Pop want to get your Wasted Wednesday started off right, with some happy hour libations and live musical performances over at TBI's badass new event space. Shortcircles and Giraffage - loyal SF locals - will hit the stage, in addition to the debut of Some Ember, a new project from Dylan Travis (Man/Miracle). Musical selections from EOTB and live visuals will get the party rollin' at the Noise Pop-Up Shop. $5, 21+.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4172-noise-pop-happy-hour-party">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/J2rX6DuOBmU" height="1" width="1"/> Noise Pop Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:55:18 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/J2rX6DuOBmU/4172-noise-pop-happy-hour-party http://thebolditalic.com/events/4172-noise-pop-happy-hour-party http://thebolditalic.com/events/4172-noise-pop-happy-hour-party <p>February 08 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3938-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nina-katchadourian">Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Nina Katchadourian</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video, and sound, and often involves whimsical insertions into everyday scenarios, interacting with nature or maps. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as MoMA PS1, New York; the Serpentine Gallery, London; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Artists Space, New York; SculptureCenter, New York; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. In 2006, the Turku Art Museum in Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and later that year the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled All Forms of Attraction. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of her recent video installation works in July 2008. In February 2010, she was the artist-in-residence at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in Dunedin, New Zealand, where she had a solo show entitled Seat Assignment. She is currently at work on a permanent public piece, commissioned by the General Services Administration (GSA), for a border crossing station between the U.S. and Canada. Katchadourian is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. www.ninakatchadourian.com </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3938-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nina-katchadourian">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/XVSb-CO-RQY" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:57:38 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/XVSb-CO-RQY/3938-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nina-katchadourian http://thebolditalic.com/events/3938-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nina-katchadourian http://thebolditalic.com/events/3938-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nina-katchadourian <p>February 09 2012, 5:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4126-selections-works-from-hospitality-house%E2%80%99s-permanent-collection">Selections: Works from Hospitality House’s Permanent Collection</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/4043-hospitality-house-community-arts-program">Hospitality House Community Arts Program</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4126-selections-works-from-hospitality-house%E2%80%99s-permanent-collection"><img alt="Selections_poster_web" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4126/images/main/Selections_Poster_WEB.jpg?1327702438" /></a></p><p></p><p>Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program (CAP) is pleased to invite you to the group exhibition Selections: Works from Hospitality House’s Permanent Collection, featuring works created by Tenderloin community artists utilizing the free-of-charge fine arts studio and gallery temporarily housed at the Luggage Store Gallery, 1009 Market Street at 6th Street. Since 1969, CAP has been providing resources and exhibition space to artists who might not otherwise have access to them. This exhibition showcases a range of works produced at the CAP throughout our history. “One of the remarkable things I witness on a daily basis is how the artists that use the studio are able to temporarily overcome the hardship they endure to produce outstanding works,” said Ivan Vera, CAP Program Manager. “What I find curious is how when the brain and the hand are focused on the task-at-hand the emphasis shifts from the artist’s day-to-day struggles to a personal appreciation of his or her creative achievements.” Through creativity, adversity dissipates, self-esteem is built, and self-sufficiency is strengthened, key components to Hospitality House’s mission. This special retrospective spans more than 43 years, featuring works by notable artists throughout the history of the program, including: James Scoville, Jeff Roysdon, Stephen McQueen, Gabriella Bardellini, Pepe, Angel Florentino, Harry Driggs, Rose Linda, Charlotte Redor, Milo Harkness-Smith, Charlene L. Godard, James Irvine Taylor/Jolene Spencer, David Brannam, E. Kolker, Ronnie Goodman, Donald Becerra, Pancho, Esteban Diaz, Charles Blackwell, Sean Desmond, Dedan Bryant, Cadillac Red, Midori Meissen, randalljohn, Elisha Brown, Marsha Campbell, Patti Walker, Janet Williams, Steven Harris, Ronald Barnett, Athena Landmeier, Roya Bozeman, Ruth Altman, and others. Selections runs from February 9 through April 13 with an artist reception on Thursday, February 9, from 5 to 8 PM. The reception is free and open to the public. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4126-selections-works-from-hospitality-house%E2%80%99s-permanent-collection">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/FH0le3wQAoA" height="1" width="1"/> Hospitality House Community Arts Program Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:13:37 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/FH0le3wQAoA/4126-selections-works-from-hospitality-house%E2%80%99s-permanent-collection http://thebolditalic.com/events/4126-selections-works-from-hospitality-house%E2%80%99s-permanent-collection http://thebolditalic.com/events/4126-selections-works-from-hospitality-house%E2%80%99s-permanent-collection <p>February 09 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 11:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4146-so-you-think-you-can-paint---the-collectors-edition">So You Think You Can Paint? - The Collectors Edition</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/4145-club-six">Club Six</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4146-so-you-think-you-can-paint---the-collectors-edition"><img alt="373047_261083403963479_1356172498_n" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4146/images/main/373047_261083403963479_1356172498_n.jpg?1327968386" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>Local creative-types' favorite happy hour happening, So You Think You Can Paint?, presents a night of highlights from featured So You Think You Can Paint? veterans. Seasoned painters will display and sell some of their best work, and you'll have a chance to paint a masterpiece, as always. It's also a chance to score some cheap cocktails - and TBI fave, Ike's Place, is bringing free grub for the masses. In case the prospect of free (and beyond delicious) sandwiches doesn't persuade you, Bay Area local bands Capkins, NorthFolk, and Blackout Makeout are also playing to get your creative juices flowing. Should be a good time!</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4146-so-you-think-you-can-paint---the-collectors-edition">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/d0wo3L_pe2U" height="1" width="1"/> Club Six Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:01:55 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/d0wo3L_pe2U/4146-so-you-think-you-can-paint---the-collectors-edition http://thebolditalic.com/events/4146-so-you-think-you-can-paint---the-collectors-edition http://thebolditalic.com/events/4146-so-you-think-you-can-paint---the-collectors-edition <p>February 09 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4151-valentines-day-art-opening-at-urban-oasis">Valentine's Day Art Opening at Urban Oasis</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/4150-urban-oasis">Urban Oasis</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4151-valentines-day-art-opening-at-urban-oasis"><img alt="Your_love_is_just_so_cool" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4151/images/main/Your_love_is_just_so_cool.jpg?1328130085" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>Found Local and massage therapy master, Sya Warfield, is the head honcho over at Mission massage and spa destination, Urban Oasis. And in honor of Valentine's Day, Sya and Urban Oasis are hosting an art opening and V-Day party at the spa, complete with music, work by local artist Trina Spiller, and Valentine's treats to keep you relaxed and happy. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4151-valentines-day-art-opening-at-urban-oasis">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/H_UNuHaUyxA" height="1" width="1"/> Urban Oasis Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:00:29 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/H_UNuHaUyxA/4151-valentines-day-art-opening-at-urban-oasis http://thebolditalic.com/events/4151-valentines-day-art-opening-at-urban-oasis http://thebolditalic.com/events/4151-valentines-day-art-opening-at-urban-oasis <p>February 09 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4153-everywhere-man">Everywhere Man</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/187-mechanics-institute-library-and-chess-room">Mechanics' Institute Library & Chess Room</a></p><p></p><p>Whether you've boarded the San Francisco cable cars a hundred times or brushed them off as a mere tourist trap, you're now invited to learn about a modern mystery story experienced while riding one up Nob Hill. Member author Jim Nelson has penned Everywhere Man, a high-tech mystery story and audio tour about San Francisco's cable cars. Readers and tour participants will learn about a stranger haunting millions of tourist photographs that are taken around San Francisco and posted on the Internet, a man whose image quietly frustrates the fabric of the city's digital history. His presence is detected inside a virtual cable car ride funded by an entrepreneur who fancies himself a modern Andrew Hallidie. Portions of the audio tour will be presented and the author will discuss the process of writing a book designed to be synchronized with a self-guided audio tour. Everywhere Man was published in October 2011. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4153-everywhere-man">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/L-78xxcFCB4" height="1" width="1"/> Mechanics' Institute Library & Chess Room Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:44:41 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/L-78xxcFCB4/4153-everywhere-man http://thebolditalic.com/events/4153-everywhere-man http://thebolditalic.com/events/4153-everywhere-man <p>February 09 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4042-meet-a-microhood-mid-riff">Meet a Microhood: Mid Riff</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3-the-bold-italic">The Bold Italic</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4042-meet-a-microhood-mid-riff"><img alt="Mid-riff_rev" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4042/images/main/mid-riff_rev.jpg?1327001238" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>The Bold Italic has made a habit of noticing little pocket neighborhood all over the city worthy of individual celebration. We named them “microhoods” without realizing the parties we throw on their behalf would become a new SF tradition. To date, thousands of you have came out to celebrate FolSoMa, Mint Slope, Valencia Bottoms, 3rd Base, ClemenTime and other microhoods with us. Mid Riff is our latest microhood party. It's happening Thursday, February 9th from 6 pm to 8 pm and is devoted to Market Street between 6th and 7th Street, a part of the city that is home to impressive art spaces, one of the best loved music venues on the West Coat, great restaurants, bars, and shops. A number of inspired businesses and organizations call the intersection of the Tenderloin, Downtown, and SoMa home - building a new 'hood identity and creating a distinctive community known for cutting edge art, music, delicious bites and lovingly crafted cocktails. Co-presented by The Luggage Store, Hospitality House, Camera Works and the San Francisco Arts Commission, Mid Riff is an evening of discounted eats, complimentary libations, special deals, art openings, and live performances. We hope you'll come out to for our first microhood of the new year and enjoy special elements courtesy of Satellite 66 Gallery, Show Dogs, Small Potatoes Catering, Huckleberry Bicycles and other great Mid Riff merchants. In addition, the IIDA and SF Arts Commisions reveal event for The Windows, "a collection of over-the-top, creative, retail window displays created by the San Francisco Bay Area design community" is also happening along Market Street starting at 5:30. Check out our event listing for a rundown of everything that will be happening and don't forget to RSVP.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4042-meet-a-microhood-mid-riff">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/Kd1lrMjAlHc" height="1" width="1"/> The Bold Italic Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:42:35 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/Kd1lrMjAlHc/4042-meet-a-microhood-mid-riff http://thebolditalic.com/events/4042-meet-a-microhood-mid-riff http://thebolditalic.com/events/4042-meet-a-microhood-mid-riff <p>February 10 2012, 6:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - Midnight</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4163-the-truck-show-sf-a-charity-event-benefiting-oaklands-visual-element">The Truck Show SF, a charity event benefiting Oakland's Visual Element</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2544-1-am-">1:AM </a></p><p></p><p>1AM, in collaboration with artists, Optimist and Plantrees, are proud to present “The Truck Show SF”. The exhibit pays homage to the modern box-style delivery truck as an icon of graffiti and also is a charity event to benefit Visual Element, the public arts component of Oakland’s EastSide Art Alliance. Optimist and Plantrees have put together a killer line-up of artists, including infamous Bay Area graffiti writers like Satyr, Jurne and Pemex that have agreed to donate 100% of their proceeds to Visual Element. The organizers of “The Truck Show SF” hope to show that the graffiti writer’s love and respect for the art form is a powerful tool to help fuel and positively influence the next generation by giving back to their community even in a time of financial struggle. The opening reception is on Friday, February 10th, 2012 from 6:30 to 9:30pm and will run through March 4th, 2012. The organizers of “The Truck Show SF” are excited to partner with Visual Element. We both believe that murals educate, motivate to action, and inspire more creations of beauty. With a wide price range of artwork for sale, everyone interested will be able to take home a piece of graffiti history and support an important cause. For more information, follow “The Truck Show SF” at www.thetruckshowsf.com or visit www.1AMSF.com.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4163-the-truck-show-sf-a-charity-event-benefiting-oaklands-visual-element">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/Ml1iYKmvAzk" height="1" width="1"/> 1:AM Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:10:23 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/Ml1iYKmvAzk/4163-the-truck-show-sf-a-charity-event-benefiting-oaklands-visual-element http://thebolditalic.com/events/4163-the-truck-show-sf-a-charity-event-benefiting-oaklands-visual-element http://thebolditalic.com/events/4163-the-truck-show-sf-a-charity-event-benefiting-oaklands-visual-element <p>February 10 2012, 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4103-hotel-in-a-bottle">Hotel in a Bottle</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/423-counterpulse">CounterPULSE</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4103-hotel-in-a-bottle"><img alt="Hotel" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4103/images/main/hotel.jpg?1327521346" /></a></p><p>$20.00</p><p>Not a strict adaptation but a collage-like modern dance performance based on the imagery, music, and character of Haruki Murakami's books. Inspirational imagery includes a man dressed as a sheep, a tank of jellyfish, and a woman lost inside a television set. The director chose the music based on Murakami's references to sound scatted throughout the pages of his works, so you'll hear everything from Secret Agent Man to the sounds of cicadas. This should be interesting. Black tie attire is requested! Buy tix here: http://counterpulse.org/?tribe_events=hotel-in-a-bottle </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4103-hotel-in-a-bottle">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/TUvLz338Sas" height="1" width="1"/> CounterPULSE Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:48:20 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/TUvLz338Sas/4103-hotel-in-a-bottle http://thebolditalic.com/events/4103-hotel-in-a-bottle http://thebolditalic.com/events/4103-hotel-in-a-bottle <p>February 11 2012, Noon</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4147-valentines-day-trunk-show-and-moving-sale-at-rare-device">Valentine's Day Trunk Show + Moving Sale at Rare Device</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/519-rare-device">Rare Device</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4147-valentines-day-trunk-show-and-moving-sale-at-rare-device"><img alt="Storeshot" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4147/images/main/storeshot.jpg?1327971459" /></a></p><p></p><p>With Valentine's Day around the corner, you'd better start searching for the goods to make your V-Day memorable for your significant other. Or if your single, no worries, because Rare Device's upcoming trunk show-gone-moving sale is perfect for picking up a gift or treating yourself to some local treasures. A few Bay Area vendors are offering up goodies for the occasion: Kelly from Elizabeth Street Cosmetics will have lipgloss and lipstick on hand, Samantha from Noteify is selling artisan cards and paper goods, and Laura from Sidesaddle Kitchen's raw, vegan, and gluten-free indulgences will be a must-try. In addition to these lovely local offerings, the goods at Rare Device will be a steal -- they'll put out $5, $10, and $20 sale bins in order to make room for their move to Divisadero. We're in!</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4147-valentines-day-trunk-show-and-moving-sale-at-rare-device">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/Yojletc1qnY" height="1" width="1"/> Rare Device Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:51:56 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/Yojletc1qnY/4147-valentines-day-trunk-show-and-moving-sale-at-rare-device http://thebolditalic.com/events/4147-valentines-day-trunk-show-and-moving-sale-at-rare-device http://thebolditalic.com/events/4147-valentines-day-trunk-show-and-moving-sale-at-rare-device <p>February 11 2012, Noon - 4:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4155-sf-beer-week-2nd-annual-small-batch-big-thirst-beer-tasting">SF Beer Week: 2nd Annual Small Batch/Big Thirst Beer Tasting</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/4059-brewtruc">brewtruc</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4155-sf-beer-week-2nd-annual-small-batch-big-thirst-beer-tasting"><img alt="Beerweek2012_logo" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4155/images/main/beerweek2012_logo.jpg?1328140341" /></a></p><p>$20.00</p><p>The happenings during SF Beer Week are among the most anticipated all year, and Brewtruc's annual beer tasting event is no exception. For 20 bucks, you will get your beer-thirsty hands on 10 drink tickets that grant access to a selection of local breweries' specialty suds. There will be plenty of brews to try, food trucks a-plenty, and live performances to accompany the imbibing. The beer garden event is a benefit for charities endorsed by Night Train Swimmers, so you can help out some locals in need while getting your drink on. See the rest of SF Beer Week's upcoming escapades here: http://sfbeerweek.org/schedule</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4155-sf-beer-week-2nd-annual-small-batch-big-thirst-beer-tasting">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/_FQYvxNDplE" height="1" width="1"/> brewtruc Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:48:29 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/_FQYvxNDplE/4155-sf-beer-week-2nd-annual-small-batch-big-thirst-beer-tasting http://thebolditalic.com/events/4155-sf-beer-week-2nd-annual-small-batch-big-thirst-beer-tasting http://thebolditalic.com/events/4155-sf-beer-week-2nd-annual-small-batch-big-thirst-beer-tasting <p>February 11 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 10:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4156-mission-map-release-party">Mission Map Release Party</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2650-pretty-pretty-collective">Pretty Pretty Collective</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4156-mission-map-release-party"><img alt="Timthumb" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4156/images/main/timthumb.php.jpeg?1328142834" /></a></p><p></p><p>The upcoming release of the Mission's very own map of highlights makes us wonder why such a map wasn't thought of before. The collaborative effort of The Pretty Pretty Collective, Fabric8, and Benny Gold has resulted in a useful and localized guide to exploring the Mission, featuring 122 of their favorite dwellings - including 500 Club, Skull & Swords tattoo shop, Lost Weekend Video, Boogaloo’s, Dolores Park, and Mira Mira. The map will also debut as an interactive iPhone app, so you can hit up the most happening haunts on-the-go. Be among the first to check out the map at its release party at 111 Minna Gallery. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4156-mission-map-release-party">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/fQjOXYk_WPk" height="1" width="1"/> Pretty Pretty Collective Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:29:10 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/fQjOXYk_WPk/4156-mission-map-release-party http://thebolditalic.com/events/4156-mission-map-release-party http://thebolditalic.com/events/4156-mission-map-release-party <p>February 11 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4112-kelly-ordings-paths-and-ways-reading-at-needles-and-pens">Kelly Ording's Paths and Ways: Reading at Needles and Pens</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/1084-needles-and-pens">Needles and Pens</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4112-kelly-ordings-paths-and-ways-reading-at-needles-and-pens"><img alt="402772_215781755175042_105198432900042_465388_1261901725_n" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4112/images/main/402772_215781755175042_105198432900042_465388_1261901725_n.jpg?1327537105" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>Adorable 16th St. shop Needles and Pens is always filled to the brim with the D.I.Y. goodies, badass zines, and quirky artwork that make the SF art scene so unique. Same goes for Kelly Ording's new book, Paths and Ways, which is a 75 page monograph printed in an edition of 50 by SF local publishing house, Land and Sea. Her new book gig will get some love via a reading by Ording herself, and will include an exhibition of Ording's latest drawings. You'll be able to support local art and purchase her book at the reading, too. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4112-kelly-ordings-paths-and-ways-reading-at-needles-and-pens">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/9ryK-ccwR_E" height="1" width="1"/> Needles and Pens Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:14:12 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/9ryK-ccwR_E/4112-kelly-ordings-paths-and-ways-reading-at-needles-and-pens http://thebolditalic.com/events/4112-kelly-ordings-paths-and-ways-reading-at-needles-and-pens http://thebolditalic.com/events/4112-kelly-ordings-paths-and-ways-reading-at-needles-and-pens <p>February 11 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4039-the-bold-italic-and-stag-dining-group-present-mid-riff-microhood-dinner">The Bold Italic + Stag Dining Group Present: Mid Riff Microhood Dinner</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3-the-bold-italic">The Bold Italic</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4039-the-bold-italic-and-stag-dining-group-present-mid-riff-microhood-dinner"><img alt="Mid-riff_dinner_" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4039/images/main/mid-riff_dinner_.jpg?1326844408" /></a></p><p>$80.00</p><p>The Bold Italic is excited to announce the Mid Riff Microhood Dinner, our latest clandestine neighborhood feast with our good friends at Stag Dining Group. For this special gathering, we’re focusing on the 6th and Market area, which we’ve playfully tagged Mid Riff, and the art and architecture that surrounds it. Our featured artist will be Hugh Leeman, who lives at that intersection and whose amazing portraits of his neighbors on the street have been wheatpasted around the city. We’ll also be highlighting some of the musical and cultural history associated with the unique space hosting the dinner, a private residence rarely open to the public. Menu I Walu tartare/ sea urchin bottarga, pickled black radish, charred avocado, yuzu kosho II Pig ear terrine/ hot mustard, caper-cornichon gastrique, mizuna III Spicy lentil soup/ charcoal grilled tripe, kale, fennel IV Veal loin larded with bacon/ cardoon-potato gratin, rapini, black olive jus V Carrot cake/ sesame sablé, miso ice cream </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4039-the-bold-italic-and-stag-dining-group-present-mid-riff-microhood-dinner">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/zxXgxF8Ii3I" height="1" width="1"/> The Bold Italic Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:35:57 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/zxXgxF8Ii3I/4039-the-bold-italic-and-stag-dining-group-present-mid-riff-microhood-dinner http://thebolditalic.com/events/4039-the-bold-italic-and-stag-dining-group-present-mid-riff-microhood-dinner http://thebolditalic.com/events/4039-the-bold-italic-and-stag-dining-group-present-mid-riff-microhood-dinner <p>February 13 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4017-fear-and-hope-in-zimbabwe">Fear &amp; Hope in Zimbabwe</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4017-fear-and-hope-in-zimbabwe"><img alt="Mn-zimbabwe23_ph_0499586323" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4017/images/main/mn-zimbabwe23_ph_0499586323.jpg?1326393529" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>With Peter Orner & Peter Godwin Peter Godwin’s The Fear chronicles the violence, suffering and chaos of his native Zimbabwe under the rule of Robert Mugabe. In Peter Orner’s Hope Deferred, Zimbabweans recount their experiences of losing their homes, land, livelihoods and families as a direct result of political violence. Godwin and Orner join in a discussion about the astonishing courage and resilience of a people who challenged a violent dictatorship, and the power of story telling to fight tyranny. “[The Fear is] a document that should be read by anyone interested in the sacrifices that people are willing to make for the sake of democracy.” – The New York Times “Hope Deferred might be the most important publication to have come out of Zimbabwe in the past thirty years.” – Alexandra Fuller, Harper’s Magazine tickets: http://bit.ly/orner_godwin </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4017-fear-and-hope-in-zimbabwe">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/2v-DLjM-Gn0" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:32:43 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/2v-DLjM-Gn0/4017-fear-and-hope-in-zimbabwe http://thebolditalic.com/events/4017-fear-and-hope-in-zimbabwe http://thebolditalic.com/events/4017-fear-and-hope-in-zimbabwe <p>February 13 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3944-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-dora-garc%C3%ADa">Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Dora García</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>The central motif of renowned Spanish artist Dora García's work is the analysis of the paradigms and conventions of art. She often uses texts and stories as a basis for scenarios that, while witty and entertaining, raise complex ethical and moral questions. Her projects invoke problematic sources such as Abbie Hoffman’s 1970 Steal this Book, Lenny Bruce’s incendiary stand up comedy, and the films of legendary underground filmmaker Jack Smith. García studied at the University of Salamanca and at the Rijksakademie of Amsterdam, and has had solo exhibitions in Spain and abroad at MACBA, Barcelona; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; MUSAC, León, Spain; SMAK, Gante, Belgium; GfZK, Leipzig, Germany; CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Galeria Civica di Trento, Italy; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; and Index Stockholm. She has participated in prestigious international exhibitions including Manifesta 2, the 8th Istanbul Biennial, 17th Biennale of Sydney; Xe Biennale of Lyon; 2nd Athens Biennale; 29th Bienal de São Paulo; and the 2011 Venice Biennale, where she represented her home country of Spain. Her work will be included in Descriptive Acts, a media arts exhibition at SFMOMA, which runs from February through June of this year. http://www.doragarcia.net/ </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3944-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-dora-garc%C3%ADa">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/kD1Mx0nPKQs" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:13:26 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/kD1Mx0nPKQs/3944-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-dora-garc%C3%ADa http://thebolditalic.com/events/3944-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-dora-garc%C3%ADa http://thebolditalic.com/events/3944-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-dora-garc%C3%ADa <p>February 14 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4165-dinner-and-a-flick-noise-pop-up-shop">Dinner and a Flick @ Noise Pop-Up Shop</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3-the-bold-italic">The Bold Italic</a></p><p>$85.00</p><p>Noise Pop, graffEats and Disposable Film Festival unite on Valentine’s Day for food, drinks, music and movies. Tickets for this five-course meal are $85 per seat.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4165-dinner-and-a-flick-noise-pop-up-shop">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/iTPBHb5cERo" height="1" width="1"/> The Bold Italic Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:49:37 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/iTPBHb5cERo/4165-dinner-and-a-flick-noise-pop-up-shop http://thebolditalic.com/events/4165-dinner-and-a-flick-noise-pop-up-shop http://thebolditalic.com/events/4165-dinner-and-a-flick-noise-pop-up-shop <p>February 14 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4018-nathan-englander">Nathan Englander</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4018-nathan-englander"><img alt="Anne-frank-nathan-englander" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4018/images/main/anne-frank-nathan-englander.jpg?1326394571" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank A regular contributor to the New Yorker, Nathan Englander won the PEN/Malamud award for his first collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an international bestseller. Of his first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, the New York Times wrote, “one reads this novel in awe of Englander's talent.” His play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, based on a story from his first book, will premiere at New York’s The Public Theater this year. He joins us to discuss his new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, eight short stories that grapple with the great questions of modern life. The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. tickets: http://bit.ly/englander </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4018-nathan-englander">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/lBwCjDVM19E" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:54:55 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/lBwCjDVM19E/4018-nathan-englander http://thebolditalic.com/events/4018-nathan-englander http://thebolditalic.com/events/4018-nathan-englander <p>February 14 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4033-sf-beer-week-film-screenings-with-directors-in-conversation">SF Beer Week: Film Screenings with Directors in Conversation</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/87-18-reasons">18 Reasons</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4033-sf-beer-week-film-screenings-with-directors-in-conversation"><img alt="18_reasons" src="http://images0.thebolditalic.com/clips/4033/images/main/18_reasons.jpeg?1326500169" /></a></p><p>$20.00</p><p>If you're looking for the perfect Valentine's Day date night, search no further than a celebration of beer and film - you can't get much more San Francisco with this match made in heaven. SF Beer Week features Bay Area beers and breweries throughout the City from February 10th to 19th, and this film screening at 18 Reasons is a definite brewfest highlight for the most romantic day of the year. You'll see the Pacific NW documentary The Love of Beer, and a short about the experts at the local Almanac Brewery. 18 Reasons are also doling out an Almanac seasonal beer selection and TCHO chocolate, to stay true to the Valentine's Day occasion. Grab a date (or don't - beer, movies, and chocolate still rule when you're single. Probably even more so) and purchase tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/216793. Tickets are $15 for 18 Reasons members and $20 for the general public. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4033-sf-beer-week-film-screenings-with-directors-in-conversation">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/xk4LHWRE7HQ" height="1" width="1"/> 18 Reasons Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:10:16 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/xk4LHWRE7HQ/4033-sf-beer-week-film-screenings-with-directors-in-conversation http://thebolditalic.com/events/4033-sf-beer-week-film-screenings-with-directors-in-conversation http://thebolditalic.com/events/4033-sf-beer-week-film-screenings-with-directors-in-conversation <p>February 15 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3946-radical-directing-lecture-series-shari-frilot">Radical Directing Lecture Series: Shari Frilot</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Shari Frilot is curator of the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program, an exhibition and commissioning initiative that focuses on cinematic work being created at the intersections of art, film, and new media technology. As the programmer and curator, Frilot reviews work from new artists, decides which innovative projects she wants to put in front of the Sundance audience, and works to answer the question: How to show film art in an art film context? Previously, Frilot was the Festival Director of the MIX festival in New York and Co-Director of Programming for OUTFEST. She is also a filmmaker, of works including Strange & Charmed, A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, and the feature documentary Black Nations/Queer Nations?. She is the recipient of multiple grants, including from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3946-radical-directing-lecture-series-shari-frilot">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/5Kbo2Zut-BE" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:16:00 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/5Kbo2Zut-BE/3946-radical-directing-lecture-series-shari-frilot http://thebolditalic.com/events/3946-radical-directing-lecture-series-shari-frilot http://thebolditalic.com/events/3946-radical-directing-lecture-series-shari-frilot <p>February 16 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 10:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4075-beer-week-nightlife-with-noise-pop">Beer Week NightLife with Noise Pop</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/495-california-academy-of-sciences">California Academy of Sciences</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4075-beer-week-nightlife-with-noise-pop"><img alt="Screen_shot_2012-01-21_at_5" src="http://images0.thebolditalic.com/clips/4075/images/main/Screen_shot_2012-01-21_at_5.09.25_PM.png?1327194597" /></a></p><p>$12.00</p><p>SF Beer Week always brings the imbibed enthusiasm. Local SF brewing masters – Speakeasy Brewing, Trumer Pilsner, 21st Amendment, Anchor Steam, Mad River Brewing Company, Drake's Brewing, Bear Republic Brewing, Santa Cruz Ale Works, Lagunitas Brewing, and Marin Brewing Co – prepare to school you in the art of beer making and will offer some sample brews at the California Academy of Sciences' Nightlife event. In collaboration with Noise Pop's 20th anniversary this year, the event will round up some 'class acts' to accompany the local libations: SF-based musicians of Class Actress and epicsauce DJs, as well as poster artists Lil Tuffy, Alan Hynes, Small Stakes (Jason Munn), GigArt (Gregg Gordon), Alan Forbes, and Monkey Ink (John Howard), will all make an appearance. It's $12 per person ($10 for Academy members), and you can score tickets at the door or via the interwebs at www.calacademy.org/event_tickets/.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4075-beer-week-nightlife-with-noise-pop">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/51_i1cWllZc" height="1" width="1"/> California Academy of Sciences Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:00:58 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/51_i1cWllZc/4075-beer-week-nightlife-with-noise-pop http://thebolditalic.com/events/4075-beer-week-nightlife-with-noise-pop http://thebolditalic.com/events/4075-beer-week-nightlife-with-noise-pop <p>February 16 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4029-super-chef-gabrielle-hamilton">Super Chef Gabrielle Hamilton</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4029-super-chef-gabrielle-hamilton"><img alt="Hamilton" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4029/images/main/hamilton.jpg?1326413839" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>In Blood, Butter and Bones, Gabrielle Hamilton charts her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a top chef and owner of the renowned Prune restaurant in Manhattan. She provokes us to consider how we approach our meals and our families—the ones we’re born into, the ones we make with our partners and children, and the ones that are born of work and sweat. “Magnificent. Simply the best memoir by a chef ever.” —Anthony Bourdain “Hamilton has changed the potential and raised the bar for all books about eating and cooking.” —Mario Batali tickets: http://bit.ly/blood_butter_bones </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4029-super-chef-gabrielle-hamilton">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/Bh3yMQHL70U" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:09:06 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/Bh3yMQHL70U/4029-super-chef-gabrielle-hamilton http://thebolditalic.com/events/4029-super-chef-gabrielle-hamilton http://thebolditalic.com/events/4029-super-chef-gabrielle-hamilton <p>February 18 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4122-the-dark-wave-release-party">The Dark Wave Release Party</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/383-fecal-face-dot-gallery">Fecal Face Dot Gallery</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4122-the-dark-wave-release-party"><img alt="Darkwave_flyer" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4122/images/main/darkwave_flyer.jpg?1327698657" /></a></p><p></p><p>Release party for local artist and illustrator Jay Howell's new zine, The Dark Wave, a beautiful 50-page limited edition of an original narrative featuring immensely captivating black and white illustrations. The release of the zine coincides with the opening of a show of new works from Jay Howell and Mark Whalen (Kill Pixie) at Fecal Face Dot Gallery. In case you miss the opening party, you can check out show through March 12.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4122-the-dark-wave-release-party">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/-WdRF4zJL5M" height="1" width="1"/> Fecal Face Dot Gallery Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:06:33 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/-WdRF4zJL5M/4122-the-dark-wave-release-party http://thebolditalic.com/events/4122-the-dark-wave-release-party http://thebolditalic.com/events/4122-the-dark-wave-release-party <p>February 18 2012, 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4024-howlin-rains-cd-release-show-for-the-russian-wilds-">Howlin Rain's CD Release Show for The Russian Wilds </a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2323-the-independent">The Independent</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4024-howlin-rains-cd-release-show-for-the-russian-wilds-"><img alt="Howlin_rain_1_pc_hilary_hulteen" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4024/images/main/Howlin_Rain_1_pc_Hilary_Hulteen.JPG?1326407686" /></a></p><p></p><p>San Francisco Bay Area-based power quintet Howlin Rain’s third album The Russian Wilds passionately protests the currently popular notion that heroically conceived and executed rock music is a thing of golden ages passed. Having been formed by bandleader-singer-guitarist Ethan Miller in 2004, as a melodic offshoot of blazing new-psych innovators Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain soon caught the attention of uber-producer Rick Rubin, who signed them to his American Recordings label and involved himself deeply in their subsequent musical evolution thereafter. Rubin worked closely with Ethan for over a year and a half as he shaped and perfected the material being written for The Russian Wilds. Finally, the band entered the studio with producer-engineer Tim Green (The Fucking Champs, Nation of Ulysses), tracking at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, as well as at Trilogy Studios and Hyde Street in San Francisco, recording most of the overdubs at Green’s Louder Studios in SF, where Tim mixed the album with crucial input from Rick. Tickets are $12adv., $14 at the door</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4024-howlin-rains-cd-release-show-for-the-russian-wilds-">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/NrhNENT0KvI" height="1" width="1"/> The Independent Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:49:23 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/NrhNENT0KvI/4024-howlin-rains-cd-release-show-for-the-russian-wilds- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4024-howlin-rains-cd-release-show-for-the-russian-wilds- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4024-howlin-rains-cd-release-show-for-the-russian-wilds- <p>February 22 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4167-noise-pop-2012-young-prisms-at-cafe-du-nord">Noise Pop 2012: Young Prisms at Cafe Du Nord</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3-the-bold-italic">The Bold Italic</a></p><p>$12.00</p><p>Local indie band Young Prisms will bring their sounds noted as “passionate poetry part My Bloody Valentine, part Sonic Youth, part Charles Bukowski” to the stage.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4167-noise-pop-2012-young-prisms-at-cafe-du-nord">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/SKx_us03gEo" height="1" width="1"/> The Bold Italic Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:58:51 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/SKx_us03gEo/4167-noise-pop-2012-young-prisms-at-cafe-du-nord http://thebolditalic.com/events/4167-noise-pop-2012-young-prisms-at-cafe-du-nord http://thebolditalic.com/events/4167-noise-pop-2012-young-prisms-at-cafe-du-nord <p>February 22 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4007-litquake-presents-way-behind-the-music-from-ozzy-to-jewel">Litquake presents Way Behind the Music: From Ozzy to Jewel</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/1749-litquake">Litquake</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4007-litquake-presents-way-behind-the-music-from-ozzy-to-jewel"><img alt="Way_behind_music_covers" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4007/images/main/way_behind_music_covers.jpg?1326327587" /></a></p><p></p><p>What happens when you mix laughably odd music autobiographies from the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Sammy Hagar, Jewel, and Slash -- with a selection of awesome local musicians and writers? The result is an evening of ridiculous, hilarious, yet completely biographical tales of glamorous rock 'n' roll lifestyle as the artists see it. Our very own The Bold Italic Producer and Found Local, Jennifer Maerz, will be reading at the event -- as well as readings performed by the talented Bob Calhoun, Parker Gibbs, Jon Ginoli, Penelope Houston, Carletta Sue Kay, Erin McDermott, Joshua Mohr, and Joel Selvin. Advance tickets are available at http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/88057?utm_medium=bks.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4007-litquake-presents-way-behind-the-music-from-ozzy-to-jewel">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/-qvKazdBbUw" height="1" width="1"/> Litquake Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:57 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/-qvKazdBbUw/4007-litquake-presents-way-behind-the-music-from-ozzy-to-jewel http://thebolditalic.com/events/4007-litquake-presents-way-behind-the-music-from-ozzy-to-jewel http://thebolditalic.com/events/4007-litquake-presents-way-behind-the-music-from-ozzy-to-jewel <p>February 22 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4097-jim-richardson-heirlooms-saving-humanitys-10-000-year-legacy-of-food">Jim Richardson, Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000 Year Legacy of Food</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/81-the-long-now-foundation">The Long Now Foundation</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4097-jim-richardson-heirlooms-saving-humanitys-10-000-year-legacy-of-food"><img alt="Salt-02012222-richardson-hlarge" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4097/images/main/salt-02012222-Richardson-Hlarge.jpg?1327433104" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>Agricultural biodiversity is as much in need of defending as the world's wildlife. Countless varieties of plants and animals were bred by the world's peoples for talents specific to every soil, climate, and human culture. Most of them have been lost---their hard-won genetic sophistication extinguished. But many have survived, thanks to professional and amateur devotion, and they are wondrous---living embodiments of humanity's deepest traditions. Photojournalist Jim Richardson has been covering the agricultural beat for National Geographic since 1984. His spectacular photographs, and the stories he tells with them, are renowned. Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/ Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $10 http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/feb/22/heirlooms-saving-humanitys-10000-year-legacy-food/ Long Now Members get complimentary tickets https://longnow.org/membership/ Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members http://longnow.org/live/ There will be a reception at The Long Now Museum & Store following the Seminar http://www.longnow.org/contact/ About the Series: The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4097-jim-richardson-heirlooms-saving-humanitys-10-000-year-legacy-of-food">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/yk4rmPLUFgE" height="1" width="1"/> The Long Now Foundation Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:22:54 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/yk4rmPLUFgE/4097-jim-richardson-heirlooms-saving-humanitys-10-000-year-legacy-of-food http://thebolditalic.com/events/4097-jim-richardson-heirlooms-saving-humanitys-10-000-year-legacy-of-food http://thebolditalic.com/events/4097-jim-richardson-heirlooms-saving-humanitys-10-000-year-legacy-of-food <p>February 23 2012, 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4154-mnemosyne-slumber-party">Mnemosyne Slumber Party</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/187-mechanics-institute-library-and-chess-room">Mechanics' Institute Library & Chess Room</a></p><p></p><p>Mnemosyne, a free online journal created by MI member Andy Haskins, features art, fiction and nonfiction pieces about science, dreams, memory and the mind. Come to the launch party for the forthcoming Sleep & Dreams issue and meet the authors and artists – many of whom are Mechanics’ members - hear live readings, and have a chance to win prints, t-shirts, and tote bags featuring the art of Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne magazine was created in 2011 by Mechanic's Institute members Andrew Haskins and Helen Noakes in order to promote emerging artists, writers and scientists who share an interest in consciousness. Admission: Members Free / Public $12 Location: Mechanics' Institute Contact: Taryn Edwards - tedwards@milibrary.org / (415) 393 - 0103 </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4154-mnemosyne-slumber-party">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/fnS9JeOL4Sg" height="1" width="1"/> Mechanics' Institute Library & Chess Room Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:45:28 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/fnS9JeOL4Sg/4154-mnemosyne-slumber-party http://thebolditalic.com/events/4154-mnemosyne-slumber-party http://thebolditalic.com/events/4154-mnemosyne-slumber-party <p>February 23 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4166-noise-pop-2012-mac-mccaughan-at-swedish-american-hall">Noise Pop 2012: Mac McCaughan at Swedish American Hall</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3-the-bold-italic">The Bold Italic</a></p><p>$15.00</p><p>Founding frontman of the rock band Superchunk and a co-founder of North Carolina's Merge Records, Mac McCaughan will be performing at the Swedish American Music Hall. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4166-noise-pop-2012-mac-mccaughan-at-swedish-american-hall">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/CS6_ZoSZbH4" height="1" width="1"/> The Bold Italic Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:54:29 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/CS6_ZoSZbH4/4166-noise-pop-2012-mac-mccaughan-at-swedish-american-hall http://thebolditalic.com/events/4166-noise-pop-2012-mac-mccaughan-at-swedish-american-hall http://thebolditalic.com/events/4166-noise-pop-2012-mac-mccaughan-at-swedish-american-hall <p>February 23 2012, 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4019-up-from-the-stacks-">Up From the Stacks </a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4019-up-from-the-stacks-"><img alt="Up_from_the_stacks_scholar_with_michaelangelo" src="http://images0.thebolditalic.com/clips/4019/images/main/Up_From_the_Stacks_scholar_with_michaelangelo.jpg?1326401312" /></a></p><p>$35.00</p><p>New Music-Theater from Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy with Ken Maiuri and Dave Trenholm Cartoonist Ben Katchor and composer Mark Mulcahy return with a new multimedia pop opera blending animation and big-screen projection with live vocalists and musicians. Set in the 1970s, Up from the Stacks is the story of Lincoln Cabinee, a part-time page who retrieves books from the New York Public Library’s vast collection. This mundane job unwittingly embroils him in the treacherous business of amusement and vice flourishing in Times Square. Newly commissioned by the New York Public Library and Lincoln Center. tickets: http://bit.ly/the_stacks </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4019-up-from-the-stacks-">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/gAOznW4nZhM" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:46:30 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/gAOznW4nZhM/4019-up-from-the-stacks- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4019-up-from-the-stacks- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4019-up-from-the-stacks- <p>February 23 2012, 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 10:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4023-bookfest-2012">Bookfest 2012</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4023-bookfest-2012"><img alt="Bookfest2012_coverart_v1" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4023/images/main/BookFest2012_CoverArt_v1.jpg?1326404251" /></a></p><p></p><p>This year Bookfest is bigger and better than ever, giving you more chances to rub elbows with today's hottest, most hilarious and revered authors, artists and entertainers. The best way to ensure access to these must-see events is to purchase a Festival Pass. Attend each and every BookFest event – saving 15% off of the single ticket prices. Tickets: http://bit.ly/bookfest_2012 </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4023-bookfest-2012">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/VaUT9D3xzXU" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:36:49 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/VaUT9D3xzXU/4023-bookfest-2012 http://thebolditalic.com/events/4023-bookfest-2012 http://thebolditalic.com/events/4023-bookfest-2012 <p>February 24 2012, 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4121-clift-sessions-with-unknown-mortal-orchestra">CLIFT sessions with Unknown Mortal Orchestra</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/142-clift-hotel">Clift Hotel</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4121-clift-sessions-with-unknown-mortal-orchestra"><img alt="Picture_7" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4121/images/main/Picture_7.png?1327697749" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>Another awesome night of free music with a great band in a historic hotel. Unknown Mortal Orchestra was initially conceived by New Zealand native, Ruban Neilson, who pieced the band together with skilled producer, Jake, on bass and a brilliant teenage drummer named Julien to fill out the band. They bring break-beats together with 60’s/70’s Beatles sounding pop harmonies and a minimal Krautrock rhythm section. Pioneers in San Francisco for offering free musical performances from some of the most talked about new names on the music circuit in non-traditional music venues, CLIFT Hotel and IAMSOUND Records will continue to host CLIFT Sessions through the new year in the iconic Redwood Room and Velvet Room. RSVP is required: http://www.morganshotelgroup.com/rsvp/clift-sessions.html </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4121-clift-sessions-with-unknown-mortal-orchestra">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/H4IT09ayDeo" height="1" width="1"/> Clift Hotel Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:17:25 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/H4IT09ayDeo/4121-clift-sessions-with-unknown-mortal-orchestra http://thebolditalic.com/events/4121-clift-sessions-with-unknown-mortal-orchestra http://thebolditalic.com/events/4121-clift-sessions-with-unknown-mortal-orchestra <p>February 25 2012, 4:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4108-ron-garrigues-from-beginning-to-end-a-retrospective-of-the-last-quarter-century-">Ron Garrigues From Beginning to End: A Retrospective of the Last Quarter Century </a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3481-varnish-fine-art">Varnish Fine Art</a></p><p></p><p>FEBRUARY 25 - MARCH 31, 2012 Artist Reception Saturday, February 25th from 4pm to 7pm 50 years after his groundbreaking solo exhibit at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Ron Garrigues honors Varnish Fine Art with a retrospective spanning the last quarter century of creative endeavor. Varnish Fine Art presents a retrospective solo exhibition of the past 33 years of artwork by Ron Garrigues. “From Beginning to End” features 33 bronze sculptures (Man and Beast Series), 33 etchings on clayboard (the Big Bang Series) and 33 sumi ink paintings mounted on silk (the Next One Billion Humans 2025 AD Series). Ron Garrigues resonates with the concerns of 21st Century Mankind, using his art as a vehicle to bear witness to the beginning (the Big Bang) and as a foretelling of a possible end for Man and Nature. Ron Garrigues first gained critical acclaim in the art world with his 1961 solo exhibit of sculpture at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Referencing sculptural skills gained under the tutelage of Richard Whalen, Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris and influenced by the poetics of late 1950’s Beat culture in North Beach, Garrigues explored what he describes as “the lyric purity of form and line.” He trekked around the world, exploring rainforests, climbing the Andes, Himalayas, Alps and the Sierra Nevada, all the while recording the impact of “Man” on “Nature.” His observations on extinction, overpopulation and greed in the new millenium form the basis of his art while retaining a commitment to the beauty of form. Sublime tension, particularly in Garrigues’ series of bronze skulls, engages the viewer on a visceral level, driving his message home. Since 2007, Garrigues has turned his attention to the second dimension, using clayboard and traditional sumi ink materials to address concerns about the number of humans occupying the planet Earth and the sustainability, or lack thereof, of this unmitigated population explosion. “Beauty works for Garrigues… It serves him, and serves his message, and he has got something very serious to say. We can only hope that he is heard.” – Thomas Berry (1914-2009) </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4108-ron-garrigues-from-beginning-to-end-a-retrospective-of-the-last-quarter-century-">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/ys96QzkuIYo" height="1" width="1"/> Varnish Fine Art Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:37:45 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/ys96QzkuIYo/4108-ron-garrigues-from-beginning-to-end-a-retrospective-of-the-last-quarter-century- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4108-ron-garrigues-from-beginning-to-end-a-retrospective-of-the-last-quarter-century- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4108-ron-garrigues-from-beginning-to-end-a-retrospective-of-the-last-quarter-century- <p>February 25 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4168-noise-pop-2012-archers-of-loaf-at-swedish-american-hall">Noise Pop 2012: Archers of Loaf at Swedish American Hall</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/3-the-bold-italic">The Bold Italic</a></p><p>$26.00</p><p>Archers of Loaf return to the stage playing classics from Icky Mettle and their string of EPs. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4168-noise-pop-2012-archers-of-loaf-at-swedish-american-hall">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/xV9EgYHPabk" height="1" width="1"/> The Bold Italic Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:03:32 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/xV9EgYHPabk/4168-noise-pop-2012-archers-of-loaf-at-swedish-american-hall http://thebolditalic.com/events/4168-noise-pop-2012-archers-of-loaf-at-swedish-american-hall http://thebolditalic.com/events/4168-noise-pop-2012-archers-of-loaf-at-swedish-american-hall <p>February 25 2012, 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4020-miranda-july">Miranda July</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4020-miranda-july"><img alt="Mj_web_shot_by_rj_shaughnessy" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4020/images/main/mj_web_shot_by_RJ_Shaughnessy.jpg?1326403314" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>An Evening of Performance Art & Conversation With Peter Stein The idiosyncratic writer, filmmaker and performance artist is best known for her quirky films Me and You and Everyone We Know and most recently The Future. In her interactive performance piece “The Auction,” July draws on her latest book It Chooses You, in which personal items become the vehicle for exploring the richness of people's lives. “[July’s] work is desperate to bring people together, forcing them into a kind of fellow feeling. She’s unrelentingly sincere...It also might make her culturally essential.” – New York Times tickets: http://bit.ly/it_chooses_you </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4020-miranda-july">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/4Dz08cfmnLQ" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:55:23 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/4Dz08cfmnLQ/4020-miranda-july http://thebolditalic.com/events/4020-miranda-july http://thebolditalic.com/events/4020-miranda-july <p>February 26 2012, 11:00<span class='ampm'>am</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4022-nicole-krauss">Nicole Krauss</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4022-nicole-krauss"><img alt="Krauss" src="http://images0.thebolditalic.com/clips/4022/images/main/Krauss.jpg?1326403827" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>In conversation with Elizabeth Rosner The characters Nicole Krauss creates, and the emotional journeys we experience with them, live on in the reader's imagination long after the last page is turned. Named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 best writers under 40, as well as receiving international acclaim and numerous awards, Krauss emerged as one of the most intriguing novelists of the last decade with the international bestseller, The History of Love. Her latest novel, Great House, charts the journey of one tremendous desk as it travels through decades, exposing the memories of its many owners, and their struggles to create meaning in the face of inevitable loss. tickets: http://bit.ly/great_house</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4022-nicole-krauss">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/PTEKsMcAoLY" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:27:08 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/PTEKsMcAoLY/4022-nicole-krauss http://thebolditalic.com/events/4022-nicole-krauss http://thebolditalic.com/events/4022-nicole-krauss <p>February 26 2012, 11:00<span class='ampm'>am</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4025-bookfest-sunday">Bookfest Sunday</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4025-bookfest-sunday"><img alt="Bookfestlogo" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4025/images/main/BookfestLogo.png?1326405500" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>Saul Bellow in Life & Letters Joyce Carol Oates & Benjamin Taylor With Peter Orner Gain insights into the lasting legacy of Saul Bellow, whose works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King and Herzog. Author Benjamin Taylor has edited Bellow’s prolific collection of personal letters into Saul Bellow: Letters. He joins acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates in a discussion of this brilliant and complex artist. Peter Orner (Love and Shame and Love) moderates. Literature as a Way of Life Harold Bloom, Angus Fletcher & Sam Tanenhaus With Susannah Carson Join three literary greats as they elucidate the role of the book critic. Via live video, renowned literary critic Harold Bloom joins Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review and Angus Fletcher, professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of CUNY, to discuss literary criticism and its influence. Susannah Carson (A Truth Universally Acknowledged) moderates. Innovation & the Writer Adam Levin & Ben Marcus With Dan Schifrin Join this provocative panel discussion exploring the terrain of contemporary literature. Adam Levin is the author of The Instructions and the short story collection, Hot Pink. Ben Marcus authored three works of fiction, including The Flame Alphabet. The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s Dan Schifrin moderates. Philip Levine A reading with The U.S. Poet Laureate The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, 83-year old Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine was born and raised in industrial Detroit, a city that inspires the urban perspective and depictions of blue collar life in his work. Join Levine as he discusses his writing career and his new role as U.S. Poet Laureate. A Tribute to Cynthia Ozick With Dara Horn & Joshua Lambert Share an afternoon with Dara Horn, author of In the Image and The World to Come and Tablet’s Joshua Lambert, author of American Jewish Fiction, as they honor literary treasure Cynthia Ozick. Ozick, author of six novels, including Foreign Bodies, The Shawl and The Puttermesser Papers, joins the panelists via live video for a discussion about Jewish American literature and a reading from her latest book, Foreign Bodies. The Spinoza Problem – Dr. Irvin Yalom Why did the Nazis save a trove of books from seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s personal library? What did they want with the books of a Jewish thinker whom they reviled? Acclaimed psychotherapist and bestselling author Dr. Irvin Yalom (When Nietzsche Wept) unravels the origins and meaning of this mystery in his new novel, The Spinoza Problem. The Iconoclast: Yoram Kaniuk With Joshua Cohen In a rare U.S. appearance, Israeli novelist, painter and journalist Yoram Kaniuk recounts his times with Billie holiday, James dean, Charlie “Bird” Parker and Marlon Brando in 1950s bohemian New York. his memoir, Life on Sandpaper, takes place during the years between the Israeli war of independence and Kaniuk’s return to the fledgling state in the early 1960s. Joshua Cohen, author of Witz, hosts. tickets: http://bit.ly/bookfest2012_sunday </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4025-bookfest-sunday">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/hIJbiZ7XXOQ" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:53:38 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/hIJbiZ7XXOQ/4025-bookfest-sunday http://thebolditalic.com/events/4025-bookfest-sunday http://thebolditalic.com/events/4025-bookfest-sunday <p>February 27 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4026-word-for-words-off-the-page-series">Word for Word's Off the Page Series</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4026-word-for-words-off-the-page-series"><img alt="Peter_orner" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4026/images/main/Peter_Orner.jpg?1326408674" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>Selections from Peter Orner's Esther Stories The New York Times praises local author Peter Orner as a writer who “doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls.” Word for Word, San Francisco’s premiere producer of short stories on stage, performs selections from Orner’s collection Esther Stories. Come enjoy Word for Word’s inimitable style as they animate these souls in a staged reading not to be missed. tickets: http://bit.ly/peter_orner </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4026-word-for-words-off-the-page-series">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/Fj_kxTY4mRU" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:50:01 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/Fj_kxTY4mRU/4026-word-for-words-off-the-page-series http://thebolditalic.com/events/4026-word-for-words-off-the-page-series http://thebolditalic.com/events/4026-word-for-words-off-the-page-series <p>February 29 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 9:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4036-dinner-conversation---novella-carpenter-and-willow-rosenthal">Dinner Conversation - Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/87-18-reasons">18 Reasons</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4036-dinner-conversation---novella-carpenter-and-willow-rosenthal"><img alt="83094-250" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4036/images/main/83094-250.gif?1326746677" /></a></p><p>$35.00</p><p>Willow Rosenthal and Novella Carpenter - writers and Urban farmer extraordinaires - will appear at the latest installation of 18 Reasons' Dinner Conversation series to promote and read from their new book, The Essential Urban Farmer. But the foodie appeal doesn't stop there - 18 Reasons will also provide a delish dinner and wine pairing to accompany Rosenthal and Carpenter's staring of stories and expertise. The reading beforehand is free (suggested $2 donation to help pay for the space) from 5:30-6:30PM at the Women's Building (on 18th between Guerrero and Valencia). The dinner takes place at 18 Reasons, one block down the street at 3674 18th St. 18 Reasons requests $15 for students,$25 for 18 Reasons members, and $35 for the general public. Grab your tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/216871. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4036-dinner-conversation---novella-carpenter-and-willow-rosenthal">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/TluDwiJbLUQ" height="1" width="1"/> 18 Reasons Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:37:54 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/TluDwiJbLUQ/4036-dinner-conversation---novella-carpenter-and-willow-rosenthal http://thebolditalic.com/events/4036-dinner-conversation---novella-carpenter-and-willow-rosenthal http://thebolditalic.com/events/4036-dinner-conversation---novella-carpenter-and-willow-rosenthal <p>February 29 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3954-radical-directing-lecture-series-terry-zwigoff">Radical Directing Lecture Series: Terry Zwigoff</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker best know for two popular small budget films, both arising out of the world of underground or alternative comics: the documentary Crumb (1994), about underground comics figure Robert Crumb, and the feature Ghost World (2001), based on the comic book by Daniel Clowes. Zwigoff won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary with Crumb and was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of Ghost World. His most recent film was Art School Confidential. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3954-radical-directing-lecture-series-terry-zwigoff">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/8l-v2Nlp7jg" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:26:01 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/8l-v2Nlp7jg/3954-radical-directing-lecture-series-terry-zwigoff http://thebolditalic.com/events/3954-radical-directing-lecture-series-terry-zwigoff http://thebolditalic.com/events/3954-radical-directing-lecture-series-terry-zwigoff <p>March 01 2012, 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 10:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4028-the-whole-megillah-2-uncut">The Whole Megillah 2: Uncut</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4028-the-whole-megillah-2-uncut"><img alt="Whole_megillah" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4028/images/main/whole_megillah.jpg?1326411616" /></a></p><p>$15.00</p><p>Comedy troupe Killing My Lobster and The Hub at the JCCSF return with their popular treif Purim Sketch Comedy Show. This year they are bringing back old favorites (Seinfeld, Drag Queens and Interventions, anyone?) and returning to the writing room to see what other trouble they can get into. One thing is for certain: the Book of Esther will never be the same. tickets: http://bit.ly/whole_megillah </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4028-the-whole-megillah-2-uncut">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/PcKBVPrgm8U" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:38:26 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/PcKBVPrgm8U/4028-the-whole-megillah-2-uncut http://thebolditalic.com/events/4028-the-whole-megillah-2-uncut http://thebolditalic.com/events/4028-the-whole-megillah-2-uncut <p>March 07 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4069-changing-lives-through-design">Changing Lives Through Design</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4069-changing-lives-through-design"><img alt="Ideo0005" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4069/images/main/ideo0005.jpg?1327009018" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>With IDEO’s Fred Dust Design is everywhere these days. It has gone beyond simply creating attractive objects to propelling social innovation and redefining the human experience. Now hospitals and governments are looking to design firms for help. As senior partner at IDEO, one of the top design and innovation firms in the world, Fred Dust works on the forefront of design innovation, consulting with the president of Greece, advising the Transportation Security Administration and collaborating with a family doctor to redesign his health care delivery system. Discover the difference design is making in our world today, with an inside look at the firm leading the revolution. tickets: http://bit.ly/IDEO_fred_dust </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4069-changing-lives-through-design">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/qFw-b9vMxCA" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:25:53 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/qFw-b9vMxCA/4069-changing-lives-through-design http://thebolditalic.com/events/4069-changing-lives-through-design http://thebolditalic.com/events/4069-changing-lives-through-design <p>March 07 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3955-radical-directing-lecture-series-dan-geller-and-dayna-goldfine">Radical Directing Lecture Series: Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>For over twenty years, Emmy award-winning directors/producers Dan Geller and Danya Goldfine have jointly created critically-acclaimed multi-character documentary narratives that braid their character’s individual personal stories to form a larger portrait of the human experience. Their most recent film, the award-winning Something Ventured (2011), premiered at SXSW in March, and is slated for broadcast as well as educational distribution worldwide. Geller and Goldfine’s work also includes Ballets Russes (2005), which appeared on a dozen critical “10 Best Films” lists, including those of Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times; Now and Then: From Frosh to Seniors (1999), which aired on PBS as the lead program of the Independent Lens series; Kids of Survival: The Art and Life of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (1996), which received two national Emmy Awards; FROSH: Nine Months in a Freshman Dorm (1994); and Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul (1988). Geller and Goldfine are currently in post-production on Satan Came to Eden: The Galapagos Affair, a murder mystery documentary set in the Galapagos Islands circa the 1930s.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3955-radical-directing-lecture-series-dan-geller-and-dayna-goldfine">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/vgu68FBe8_s" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:26:42 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/vgu68FBe8_s/3955-radical-directing-lecture-series-dan-geller-and-dayna-goldfine http://thebolditalic.com/events/3955-radical-directing-lecture-series-dan-geller-and-dayna-goldfine http://thebolditalic.com/events/3955-radical-directing-lecture-series-dan-geller-and-dayna-goldfine <p>March 08 2012, 5:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - 6:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4161-living-in-studio-kuchar">Living in Studio Kuchar</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Living in Studio Kuchar highlights the inimitable genius of independent film legend and SFAI faculty member George Kuchar, who died in September 2011. Coinciding with the exhibition, a campus-wide special event, SFAI Celebrates the Life and Work of George Kuchar, will follow the opening reception on March 8. Kuchar’s wildly original vision—tawdry yet tender, perversely humorous, and deeply personal—fueled a body of work spanning more than 200 films and videos, as well as paintings, drawings, comics, and writing. Beloved by generations of students, Kuchar had taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1971, where he and his students in “AC/DC Psychotronic Teleplays” and the sequel course “Electro-graphic Sinema” made melodrama parodies with minuscule budgets and remarkable spirit. This exhibition will situate Kuchar’s work in the specific locale and community of SFAI, which for four decades served not just as a workplace, but as a site of experimentation and collaboration; a network of students, filmmakers, and friends; and his emotional home. With a gallery design featuring props from films as well as personal memorabilia, the exhibition will highlight seminal films such as Hold Me While I'm Naked, class films made with SFAI students, selections from the long-running project “Weather Diaries” (including his last, rarely seen, video Hot Spell), and drawings and comics. Born in New York in 1942, Kuchar began making 8mm movies in the 1950s with his twin brother, Mike. They soon became central to the underground, avant-garde film scene, screening work alongside Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage. Notable films include Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965); Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966), ranked as one of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century by the Village Voice; and the notorious Thundercrack! (1975), which George made with longtime collaborator Curt McDowell. Called “legends in the world of experimental film” by Roger Ebert, the Kuchars have influenced filmmakers including Todd Solondz, Gus Van Sant, David Lynch, Brian De Palma, and John Waters, and theorist Gene Youngblood named George one of the great artists in the history of the moving image. Kuchar's film and video work has screened around the globe in cinemas, festivals, and major museums. Recent honors include the exhibition George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies at MoMA PS1 in New York; the addition of his 1977 short film I, An Actress to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry; and his selection for the 2012 Whitney Biennial, to be held March 1 though May 27, 2012 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4161-living-in-studio-kuchar">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/CzOotFRw80s" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:48:21 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/CzOotFRw80s/4161-living-in-studio-kuchar http://thebolditalic.com/events/4161-living-in-studio-kuchar http://thebolditalic.com/events/4161-living-in-studio-kuchar <p>March 08 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span> - Midnight</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4162-sfai-celebrates-the-life-and-work-of-george-kuchar">SFAI Celebrates the Life and Work of George Kuchar</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Coinciding with the opening of the Walter and McBean Galleries' exhibition Living in Studio Kuchar (March 9 – April 21, 2012), this event celebrates the life and work of independent film legend and longtime SFAI faculty member George Kuchar, who died in September 2011. The program will feature film screenings, discussions, and other events throughout the SFAI campus from 7:30 pm-midnight. Check back soon for more detailed information about the evening's activities. George’s wildly original vision—tawdry yet tender, perversely humorous, and deeply personal—fueled a body of work spanning more than 200 films and videos, as well as paintings, drawings, comics, and writing. Beloved by generations of students, George began teaching at SFAI in 1971, where with minuscule budgets he and his students in “AC/DC Psychotronic Teleplays” and the sequel course “Electro-graphic Sinema” made such melodrama parodies as Creeping Crimson; Hush, Hush, Sweet Harlot; and Dialog of the Devil Dolls. George's film and video work—which comprises 8mm and 16mm films such as Hold Me While I'm Naked; the SFAI-made “class pictures”; the long-running project “Weather Diaries”; and a series of video diaries—have screened around the globe in cinemas, festivals, and major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Pompidou Center in Paris. Recent honors include the addition of his 1977 short film I, An Actress to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry, and his selection for the 2012 Whitney Biennial, to be held March 1 through May 27, 2012.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4162-sfai-celebrates-the-life-and-work-of-george-kuchar">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/Ys-zmm11YF0" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:49:46 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/Ys-zmm11YF0/4162-sfai-celebrates-the-life-and-work-of-george-kuchar http://thebolditalic.com/events/4162-sfai-celebrates-the-life-and-work-of-george-kuchar http://thebolditalic.com/events/4162-sfai-celebrates-the-life-and-work-of-george-kuchar <p>March 15 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4080-alain-de-botton-religion-for-atheists">Alain de Botton: Religion for Atheists</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4080-alain-de-botton-religion-for-atheists"><img alt="Alain_de_botton1" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4080/images/main/alain_de_botton1.jpg?1327349348" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>The popular philosopher and bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy and How Proust Can Change Your Life presents a deeply provocative argument for benefiting from the wisdom and power of religion -- without having to “believe” in any of it. De Botton, a non-believer himself, offers a surprisingly useful look at religion for atheists as the source of best practices for living and arranging our societies, building communities and sustaining relationships. “He writes with an elegance philosophers might envy...We're painlessly instructed while we read for fun.” – San Francisco Chronicle tickets: http://bit.ly/alain_de_botton </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4080-alain-de-botton-religion-for-atheists">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/GyM7plzniWY" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:03:56 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/GyM7plzniWY/4080-alain-de-botton-religion-for-atheists http://thebolditalic.com/events/4080-alain-de-botton-religion-for-atheists http://thebolditalic.com/events/4080-alain-de-botton-religion-for-atheists <p>March 19 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3945-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-rh-quaytman">Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: R.H. Quaytman</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Over the last decade Quaytman’s practice has encompassed various roles, including artist, writer, and curator. Quaytman’s recent projects include the artist’s book Spine, published in 2011, and directorship of the New York gallery Orchard, a collective of artists, filmmakers, and art historians widely admired for its innovative efforts to “put the diversity of its members’ practices into discursive motion.” The artist received a BA in painting from Bard College in 1983, and attended postgraduate programs at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland and the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris. In 2009, Quaytman’s first solo museum exhibition was mounted at the ICA Boston, and in 2010 her first survey opened at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York, and then traveled to the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland. Quaytman has had solo exhibitions at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Vilma Gold, London; Silberküppe, Berlin; and Daniel Buchholz, Cologne. Her collection of paintings, I Modi, Chapter 22, was included in the 2011 Venice Biennale. Forthcoming shows include Point de Gaze, Chapter 23 at Gladstone Gallery in Brussels and an exhibition at Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3945-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-rh-quaytman">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/eux2u1bPiA0" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:14:35 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/eux2u1bPiA0/3945-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-rh-quaytman http://thebolditalic.com/events/3945-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-rh-quaytman http://thebolditalic.com/events/3945-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-rh-quaytman <p>March 26 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4158-glee-executive-producer-dante-di-loreto">Glee Executive Producer Dante Di Loreto</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4158-glee-executive-producer-dante-di-loreto"><img alt="20101126221931_glee" src="http://images0.thebolditalic.com/clips/4158/images/main/20101126221931_Glee.jpg?1328143393" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>With San Francisco Chronicle’s David Wiegand Calling all Gleeks! Since its debut, Glee has become a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Now in its third season, the award-winning musical comedy has broken the music record for the most single entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Get the inside scoop on Glee’s astounding success. Stay for the show! Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company (Nicola Bosco-Aklvarez, director) will perform a mash up from Cabaret in the JCCSF atrium following the onstage conversation with Dante DiLoreto. tickets: http://bit.ly/dante_di_loreto </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4158-glee-executive-producer-dante-di-loreto">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/Cv0Tg56prDU" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:41:17 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/Cv0Tg56prDU/4158-glee-executive-producer-dante-di-loreto http://thebolditalic.com/events/4158-glee-executive-producer-dante-di-loreto http://thebolditalic.com/events/4158-glee-executive-producer-dante-di-loreto <p>March 26 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3947-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-radhika-subramaniam">Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Radhika Subramaniam</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Radhika Subramaniam is the Director and Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design, where she is also an assistant professor of art and design history and theory. Her research interests lie in everyday sensory urbanisms and cultures of catastrophe. Her curatorial practice is cross-disciplinary and dialogic, committed to public pedagogy, critical urbanism, and political and social justice. She previously served as director of cultural programs at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), where she commissioned several public art projects in downtown Manhattan and oversaw a program of art and ideas. Recent projects include Living Concrete/Carrot City, co-curated with Nevin Cohen; Art in Odd Places: Sign; Abecedarium for Our Times; Rods and Cones: Seeing from the Back of One’s Head; and Cities, Art and Recovery, a major two-year international initiative focused on art and culture in the aftermath of catastrophe. Subramaniam was also the founding and executive editor of Connect: art.politics.theory.practice, an interdisciplinary art journal published by Arts International. She has a PhD in Performance Studies and a master’s degree in Anthropology. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3947-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-radhika-subramaniam">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/j5RlSShFcX0" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:17:00 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/j5RlSShFcX0/3947-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-radhika-subramaniam http://thebolditalic.com/events/3947-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-radhika-subramaniam http://thebolditalic.com/events/3947-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-radhika-subramaniam <p>March 28 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3948-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-jim-isermann">Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Jim Isermann</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Jim Isermann is an artist based in Palm Springs, California. Since receiving his MFA from the California Institute of Arts in 1980, Isermann's artistic output has chronicled the conflation of post-war industrial design and fine art through popular culture. His functional installations reclaim a utopian view of the future while revealing the pathos of that failed project, and have maintained an unflagging belief in the beauty of utilitarian design. Throughout the 1990s Isermann explored traditional handicraft techniques (e.g stained glass, weaving), producing works that are unashamedly beautiful; a beauty that is integral to the limitations and specific characteristics of fabrication. In 1998, following a 15-year survey exhibition at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute of Visual Arts, Isermann began to use a computer to design manufactured elements. Since then, his realized installations and commissions have employed mass-produced thermal die-cut vinyl decals, plotter-cut Mylar, ContraVision© ink jet printed vinyl, and vacuum-formed ABS plastic panels. In 2003, a 35-foot chandelier, custom carpeting, and furniture were permanently installed in the atrium of Genentech Hall at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco. Currently, Isermann divides his practice between producing labor-intensive studio work for gallery and museum exhibitions, and designing and overseeing commissioned projects that involve industrial manufacturing processes. Most recently Isermann has mounted solo exhibitions at Deitch Projects, New York; Corvi-Mora, London; and Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. He has completed commissioned projects for the Hammer Museum at UCLA, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Yale University Art Museum, Princeton University, Stanford University, and University of California, Riverside, where he is a Professor in the Department of Art. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3948-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-jim-isermann">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/pdH_7HxEs08" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:18:06 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/pdH_7HxEs08/3948-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-jim-isermann http://thebolditalic.com/events/3948-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-jim-isermann http://thebolditalic.com/events/3948-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-jim-isermann <p>April 02 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3949-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nato-thompson">Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Nato Thompson</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>In this talk, curator Nato Thompson pulls from his recently published book, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production (Melville House, 2012), to discuss the work of some of the most interesting artists and activists working today. He evaluates sites and institutions that empower their communities to see power and re-imagine it. From cooperative housing to anarchist infoshops to alternative art venues, Thompson shows that many of today’s most innovative spaces operate as sites of dramatic personal transformation. Since January 2007, Nato Thompson has been chief curator at Creative Time, organizing projects such as Democracy in America: The National Campaign (2008), Paul Chan’s acclaimed Waiting for Godot in New Orleans (2007), and Mike Nelson’s A Psychic Vacuum. Prior to Creative Time, he worked as Curator at MASS MoCA where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions such as The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere (2004), a survey of political art of the 1990s with a catalogue distributed by MIT Press. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including BookForum, Art Journal, tema celeste, Parkett, Cabinet, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. In 2004, the College Art Association honored him for distinguished writing in Art Journal. http://mhpbooks.com/books/seeing-power/ </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3949-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nato-thompson">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/pnRcUMw7EcU" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:19:04 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/pnRcUMw7EcU/3949-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nato-thompson http://thebolditalic.com/events/3949-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nato-thompson http://thebolditalic.com/events/3949-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-nato-thompson <p>April 03 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4152-kasher-in-the-rye-with-moshe-kasher-">Kasher in the Rye with Moshe Kasher </a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4152-kasher-in-the-rye-with-moshe-kasher-"><img alt="Moshe-kasher-new" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4152/images/main/moshe-kasher-new.jpg?1328132587" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>In conversation with Nato Green In Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16, Moshe Kasher finds humor in very strange places. A standup comedian and regular guest on Chelsea Lately, Kasher tells of the surreal experience of being raised by deaf parents, life as a Jewish boy in predominantly African-American Oakland, and his whirlwind tour of drug addiction, gangs and lockdown. The result is a hilarious childhood memoir that’s part Augusten Burroughs, part David Sedaris and a dash of Jim Carroll. “Out of all the hip-hop Jewish kids I know with deaf Orthodox parents, Kasher is the funniest. This book is thoughtful, touching, a bit harrowing and hilarious.” – Marc Maron, comedian and host of the WTF podcast tickets: http://bit.ly/moshe_kasher </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4152-kasher-in-the-rye-with-moshe-kasher-">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/nUM7SZW-71Y" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:41:00 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/nUM7SZW-71Y/4152-kasher-in-the-rye-with-moshe-kasher- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4152-kasher-in-the-rye-with-moshe-kasher- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4152-kasher-in-the-rye-with-moshe-kasher- <p>April 05 2012, 9:00<span class='ampm'>am</span> - 11:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4003-typo-international-design-talks">TYPO International Design Talks</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/136-yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4003-typo-international-design-talks"><img alt="Picture_1" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4003/images/main/Picture_1.png?1326324367" /></a></p><p></p><p>We think about good design 24/7 at The Bold Italic, and in a creative city like this one, we're certainly not alone. According to TYPO, one of Europe's most successful design conferences, good design is fun and easy, but bad design ruins the experience. TYPO San Francisco brings together incredible speakers from both European and American design communities to share their work and insights on what it means to connect. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4003-typo-international-design-talks">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/SPzmiSw8ZFY" height="1" width="1"/> Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:18:13 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/SPzmiSw8ZFY/4003-typo-international-design-talks http://thebolditalic.com/events/4003-typo-international-design-talks http://thebolditalic.com/events/4003-typo-international-design-talks <p>April 11 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4157-anthony-shadids-middle-east">Anthony Shadid's Middle East</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4157-anthony-shadids-middle-east"><img alt="Libya-1-articlelarge" src="http://images2.thebolditalic.com/clips/4157/images/main/libya-1-articleLarge.jpg?1328142863" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>During four days of captivity in Libya, New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid was bound, blindfolded and beaten by Gadhafi forces. Shadid joins us to share his views on the Arab Spring and other uprisings around the world, and to discuss his memoir House of Stone. Anthony Shadid is based in Baghdad and Beirut and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, in 2004 and 2010, for his coverage of the Iraq War. tickets: http://bit.ly/house_of_stone </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4157-anthony-shadids-middle-east">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/1bNct06jAiA" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:29:50 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/1bNct06jAiA/4157-anthony-shadids-middle-east http://thebolditalic.com/events/4157-anthony-shadids-middle-east http://thebolditalic.com/events/4157-anthony-shadids-middle-east <p>April 11 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3950-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-wayne-koestenbaum">Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Wayne Koestenbaum</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum consistently filters cultural icons through an incisively quirky, highly personal filter. His latest book, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (UC Press, 2012), is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. In the book, Koestenbaum addresses the thirteen Marx Brothers films, from The Cocoanuts in 1929 to Love Happy in 1950, to focus on Harpo's chief and yet heretofore unexplored attribute—his profound and contradictory corporeality. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpo's body—its kinks, sexual multiplicities, somnolence, Jewishness, "cute" pathos, and more. Koestenbaum's text moves gracefully from insightful analysis to cultural critique to autobiographical musing, and provides Harpo with a host of odd bedfellows, including Walter Benjamin and Barbra Streisand. Wayne Koestenbaum has published numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including Humiliation (Picador, 2011); Hotel Theory (Soft Skull Press, 2007); Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films (Turtle Point Press, 2006); and The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire (Poseidon, 1993). A graduate of Harvard and Princeton, he is a distinguished professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and also a visiting professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art. This lecture will be followed by a book signing. </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3950-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-wayne-koestenbaum">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/m7hdMngV5wQ" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:20:22 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/m7hdMngV5wQ/3950-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-wayne-koestenbaum http://thebolditalic.com/events/3950-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-wayne-koestenbaum http://thebolditalic.com/events/3950-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-wayne-koestenbaum <p>April 18 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4081-museums-and-the-remaking-of-holocaust-memory-">Museums &amp; the Remaking of Holocaust Memory </a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4081-museums-and-the-remaking-of-holocaust-memory-"><img alt="Building102-550w" src="http://images1.thebolditalic.com/clips/4081/images/main/Building102-550w.jpg?1327350971" /></a></p><p>free</p><p>The Stanford University Charles Michael Lecture Edward Rothstein, Cultural Critic-at-Large, New York Times With Stephen Smith, Shoah Foundation Moderated by Connie Wolf, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University How are newly constructed Holocaust museums, especially in Europe, shaping the memory and meaning of the Holocaust? New York Times Cultural Critic-At-Large Edward Rothstein joins USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Executive Director Stephen Smith for a conversation on the ways in which these buildings – their forms and contents – are shaping the historical perception and present-day relevance of the Holocaust. Free. Call 415-292-1233 or e-mail arts@jccsf.org to reserve. More information: http://bit.ly/museums_memory </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4081-museums-and-the-remaking-of-holocaust-memory-">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/RtrDxSvD4w0" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:32:17 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/RtrDxSvD4w0/4081-museums-and-the-remaking-of-holocaust-memory- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4081-museums-and-the-remaking-of-holocaust-memory- http://thebolditalic.com/events/4081-museums-and-the-remaking-of-holocaust-memory- <p>April 18 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3956-radical-directing-lecture-series-carroll-ballard">Radical Directing Lecture Series: Carroll Ballard</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Carroll Ballard’s feature directorial debut was The Black Stallion (1979), an adaptation from the novel of the same name by Walter Farley. He went on to direct Never Cry Wolf (1983) and Fly Away Home (1996), which was nominated for an Academy Award for best cinematography. His most recent film is Duma (2005), about a young South African boy’s friendship with an orphaned cheetah.</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3956-radical-directing-lecture-series-carroll-ballard">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/1ZUXhnCORVo" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:27:22 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/1ZUXhnCORVo/3956-radical-directing-lecture-series-carroll-ballard http://thebolditalic.com/events/3956-radical-directing-lecture-series-carroll-ballard http://thebolditalic.com/events/3956-radical-directing-lecture-series-carroll-ballard <p>April 20 2012, 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3952-graduate-lecture-series-bevin-kelley-blevin-blectum-">Graduate Lecture Series: Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum)</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Bevin Kelley is an electronic music/multimedia composer-performer. She is half of the e-music duo Blectum from Blechdom (Prix Ars Electronica, Digital Musics Distinction, 2001) with Kristin Erickson, and was one quarter of the audio-video band Sagan (with Wobbly, Lesser, and Ryan Junell). Over the past decade, she has released four critically acclaimed solo albums under the Blevin Blectum nom de guerre, and many more in collaboration. A new solo release is slated for 2012, titled EMBLEM ALBUM. She continues to perform extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Her sound has been applied to: FurReal toys, the Welsh variant of MTV’s Jackass, videos for Omar Salazar Nike Skateboarding, and theater productions of Providence-based playwright Theo Goodell. Bevin lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is a third-year PhD student in Brown University’s Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments (MEME) program. Blevin Blectum will also be performing at SFAI on April 21, at 8:00 pm, as part of Activating the Medium XV</p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3952-graduate-lecture-series-bevin-kelley-blevin-blectum-">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/NEU17jhnK_8" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:24:39 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/NEU17jhnK_8/3952-graduate-lecture-series-bevin-kelley-blevin-blectum- http://thebolditalic.com/events/3952-graduate-lecture-series-bevin-kelley-blevin-blectum- http://thebolditalic.com/events/3952-graduate-lecture-series-bevin-kelley-blevin-blectum- <p>April 21 2012, 8:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3953-activating-the-medium-xv">Activating the Medium XV</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>23five Incorporated’s fifteenth Activating the Medium festival centers on the theme of Dark Ecology, presenting sound works to engage the specter of noise pollution, the melancholy of eco-acoustic blight, the horror of technological chimeras, and/or the altered states that may emerge from such meditations through sound-based composition and performance. Blevin Blectum, Pod Blotz, and Andrea Williams will be performing in the Lecture Hall at the San Francisco Art Institute. $8.00 general admission; free for SFAI students, staff, and faculty. www.23five.org </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3953-activating-the-medium-xv">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/avvHxJCo3DI" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:25:08 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/avvHxJCo3DI/3953-activating-the-medium-xv http://thebolditalic.com/events/3953-activating-the-medium-xv http://thebolditalic.com/events/3953-activating-the-medium-xv <p>April 23 2012, 7:00<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4082-an-evening-with-etgar-keret-and-michael-chabon">An Evening with Etgar Keret and Michael Chabon</a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/160-jewish-community-center">Jewish Community Center</a></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4082-an-evening-with-etgar-keret-and-michael-chabon"><img alt="Etgar-keret-656x492" src="http://images3.thebolditalic.com/clips/4082/images/main/etgar-keret-656x492.jpg?1327351731" /></a></p><p>$10.00</p><p>Suddenly, A Knock on the Door The short stories of Israeli writer Etgar Keret (The Nimrod Flipout, Girl on the Fridge) are among the more unusual pleasures in contemporary fiction. They really are short, rarely longer than two or three pages, and while writers from Keret's land are supposed always to be dealing with Serious Things, Keret's characters are more likely to be found playing cards with dwarfs, getting stuck onto ceilings with Superglue, or finding miniature zippers in their lover’s mouths. Michael Chabon hosts. tickets: http://bit.ly/edgar_keret </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/4082-an-evening-with-etgar-keret-and-michael-chabon">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/3_Ogbk2k29A" height="1" width="1"/> Jewish Community Center Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:47:36 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/3_Ogbk2k29A/4082-an-evening-with-etgar-keret-and-michael-chabon http://thebolditalic.com/events/4082-an-evening-with-etgar-keret-and-michael-chabon http://thebolditalic.com/events/4082-an-evening-with-etgar-keret-and-michael-chabon <p>April 23 2012, 7:30<span class='ampm'>pm</span></p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3951-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-thomas-eggerer-">Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Thomas Eggerer </a> hosted by <a href="http://thebolditalic.com/merchants/2030-san-francisco-art-institute">San Francisco Art Institute</a></p><p></p><p>Thomas Eggerer was born in Munich, Germany and studied painting at the Art Academy in Munich. As critic Morgan Falconer describes, “Eggerer fuses abstraction and figuration in paintings, drawings and collages which frequently feature strong architectural elements and groups of figures. These figures appear to happily inhabit very sunny, modern times; yet his broadly applied, often candied palette tends to wrench them from their moorings, leaving them floating, as if disembodies, across screens of colour.” In the mid-1990s, he collaborated with classmate Jochen Klein on a series of conceptually oriented projects dealing with questions of identity and public space. After moving to New York, Eggerer joined the artists’ collective Group Material. One-person exhibitions of Eggerer’s work have been mounted at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany; Richard Telles, Los Angeles; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; and at the Frans Hals Museum in the Netherlands. His work has been selected for numerous thematic exhibitions, including Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection at MoMA in New York; The Undiscovered Country at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; Baja to Vancouver ­ The West Coast and Contemporary Art, which traveled from the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego to the Vancouver Art Gallery and to the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco; Eggerer/Klein at Printed Matter in New York; and Oh Boy, It’s a Girl ­ Feminismen in der Kunst and Die Utopie des Designs, both at the Kunstverein Munich. Eggerer’s work is featured in the catalogues Thomas Eggerer Atrium, published in 2003 by the Kunstverein Braunschweig, and O Pioneers, published by the Galerie Daniel Buchholz in 2007. http://www.petzel.com/artists/thomas-eggerer/ </p><p><a href="http://thebolditalic.com/events/3951-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-thomas-eggerer-">View Details</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~4/jEamLAVLkJg" height="1" width="1"/> San Francisco Art Institute Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:21:22 -0800 http://feeds.thebolditalic.com/~r/TheBoldItalic-SanFrancisco-Events/~3/jEamLAVLkJg/3951-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-thomas-eggerer- http://thebolditalic.com/events/3951-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-thomas-eggerer- http://thebolditalic.com/events/3951-visiting-artists-and-scholars-lecture-series-thomas-eggerer-