Singer-songwriter Lila Downs’ music is inspired by native Meso-American music, opera, jazz, ranchera and rock. She performs Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore, 1805 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. Tickets are $27.50. Call (415) 346-6000 or visit www.thefillmore.com.
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Indie singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, aka Damon Gough, performs. Known for his effectively melodic songs, he’s back in the States promoting his latest album, "Born in the U.K.," which has been described as one of his most personal works. He appears at 9 p.m. Friday at the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell St., San Francisco. Tickets are $20. Call (415) 885-0750 or visit www.gamh.com.
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The San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, today through Sunday at Cow Palace, is not your average home and garden show.
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Today: Agent Orange, one of the first bands to pioneer what would become known as the skate-punk or skatecore scene, performs. WHEN: 8 p.m.WHERE: Red Devil Lounge, 1695 Polk St., San FranciscoPRICE: Tickets are $12 to $15INFO: Call (415) 839-8619 or visit www.reddevillounge.comTHURSDAYAnti-FlagAnti-Flag, the political punk band from Pittsburgh, performs.WHEN: 7 p.m.WHERE: Fillmore, 1805 Geary Blvd., San Francisco
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As album art goes, it’s quite arresting. The cover photo of "Soft Machine," the Stateside debut of Sweden’s dance-pop trio Teddybears, features a slip-and-thigh-high-clad model crawling on all fours, her face obscured by a giant papier-mache fangs-baring grizzly. And if you think that’s something, says bandleader Joakim "Jocke" Ahlund, wait’ll you get a load of his kooky combo in concert. (The band plays San Francisco’s Popscene on April 5.)
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Looks like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have kissed and made up. As Scoop! reported last week, the scowling newlyweds were not speaking to each other at a recent outing. But at Cruise’s son Connor’s basketball game Saturday, a source told Star, "They were looking much happier — laughing and joking with one another." We can all sleep now.Five quick takes- Actress-singer Vanessa Williams received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday.- Angelina Jolie will visit the U.S. embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, to apply for son Pax’s visa today.
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Bay Area bands stormed through town to play the first official "San Francisco X South by Southwest: San Francisco Comes to Austin" showcase, gaining new fans, promoting their music and attracting a wider audience.
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Not many up-and-coming actresses can boast that their debut role was in a blockbuster movie and with an A-list Hollywood actor. But Cassandra Freeman can. The 23-year-old from West Palm Beach, Fla., received her first big break playing Denzel Washington’s girlfriend in Spike Lee’s crime thriller "Inside Man." For her second big film role, she appears with Chris Rock in the new dramedy "I Think I Love My Wife."
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While the horror spoof has become its own successful movie genre, it’s really a treat to see similar antics onstage at the theater. There’s nothing like live actors, gushing, gloriously red fake blood and real laughs to make for an evening of exhilarating entertainment.Such is the case with "Chemical Imbalance," an inventive, original comedy of horrors by Lauren Wilson presented by Precarious Theatre. Directed with panache by Matthew Graham Smith, the show is at the cozy Exit Theatre on Eddy Street through April 7.
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If you see Dores Andre’s name on top of the San Francisco corps de ballet, that’s only because the list is in alphabetical order. But if you saw the Spanish dancer in a prominent solo role (usually performed by a principal dancer or soloist) Saturday afternoon, you’d consider her on top of the War Memorial hit parade, even if her name started with a Z.Christopher Wheeldon’s "Carousel (A Dance)" is among the extraordinary set of four pieces that constitutes the San Francisco Ballet’s fifth offering of the season, as entertaining and satisfying a program as anyone could wish for.
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