Los Angeles underground electro mogul Steve Aoki supercharges the lineup at the I Love This City music festival this weekend at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. Hosting more than 40 DJs and producers — including Afrojack, Sebastian Ingrosso, Tiësto, David Guetta and Laidback Luke — appearing over two days on three stages, I Love This City producers LiveNation and Skills were smart to feature Aoki, head of the widely influential dance label Dim Mak.
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It’s hard to beat The Temptations when it comes to chart-topping hits. “My Girl,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “The Way You Do The Things You Do” and “Get Ready” are just a few tunes planted in pop music’s canon, but the list goes on — almost too long.“We play a lot of the hits, but we can’t do them all. We’ve been together too long!” says Dennis Edwards, an on-again-off-again Temptation since 1968 who leads “The Temptations Review,” appearing at Yoshi’s this week.
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The Parisian avant-garde hits the San Francisco stage this week in a one-of-a-kind, three-day event featuring three freshly translated, contemporary French plays.
“Des Voix … Found in Translation” opens Friday at Z Space with a whirlwind kickoff show called “Bal Littéraire” — a popular French entertainment that includes a no-host bar, club dancing and “flash” play performances.
“It’s nightclub theater,” says Amy Mueller, artistic director of the Playwrights Foundation, a “Des Voix” co-presenter.
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A look at this summer's hottest Indie, Old School, and Headbanging concerts.
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Darth Vader doesn’t have the best reputation as a dad, but “Darth Vader and Son,” a new book by cartoonist Jeffrey Brown, sets out to change that.
In it, dad Darth Vader trains little Luke Skywalker in lightsaber baseball, gives him a timeout and bandages a tiny scrape on his son’s arm. He is visibly disturbed when Luke pretends to be a Jedi and wants C-3P0 cereal, not eggs, for breakfast.
An amusing 18-piece show featuring illustrations from the book is on view at the Cartoon Art Museum through Aug. 5. Chicago-based Brown will be in town Thursday to sign copies.
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Despite its PG-13 rating, Academy Award-winning director Jessica Yu’s “Last Call at the Oasis” is not for the squeamish.The thought-provoking documentary, an unflinching portrait of life’s most basic necessity, water, rolls out unnerving statistics: Less than 1 percent of the world’s water is actually available to drink; by 2025, more than half of the world will not have adequate access to water; America has the largest water footprint in the world.
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The affair between mannequins and photographers goes back to photography’s early pioneers and stretches into the 21st century — including a new series by photography giant Lee Friedlander.
Friedlander, 77, flaunts his compositional sorcery in “Mannequin,” on view through June 23 at San Francisco’s Fraenkel Gallery.
Taken in the past three years in locales as varied as New York City; Tucson, Ariz.; and San Francisco, the images reveal the complexity of storefront photography.
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Even when he isn’t dancing, Mikhail Baryshnikov is a graceful stage presence. As the leading man of “In Paris,” the acclaimed dancer — one of the ballet world’s most celebrated stars — is currently making his Bay Area debut as an actor at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. But even his command of movement doesn’t carry this slight, and often static, theater piece.
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Smuin Ballet is known for spice and sass, but this spring, it’s very serious and very Balanchine.
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The San Francisco resident is the latest winner of the Rodelle International Contest, a baking and cooking contest celebrating the best, worst and funniest moments in the kitchen. For more information, visit www.rodellekitchen.com.
What were you making for the baking challenge and how did you find the recipe?
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Tracy and Hepburn excluded, it takes more than chemistry between actors to make a Hollywood romantic comedy work. There needs to be some genuine human emotion and believable dynamics between the meet-cute openings and ridiculously sunny closures.
Despite workable ideas and winning performances, “The Five-Year Engagement” — about a wedding that can’t quite seem to happen — doesn’t work.
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Who was the cutie canoodling with Katy Perry at Coachella? (Try saying that 10 times fast.) The presently purple-haired pop star was loving up on Robert Ackroyd, the guitarist for critically lauded Brit band Florence and the Machine, this past weekend at the California music festival. While watching her pal Rihanna’s performance, they kissed, hugged, and swayed to the rhythm together.The “I Kissed a Girl” singer is reportedly already using the B-word, as in “boyfriend.”
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In 1851, a 17-year-old William Morris vomited outside London’s Crystal Palace. Having seen “The Great Exhibition,” a showcase of inventions furthering the cause of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, he wanted none of it. Instead, Morris would propel another revolution, in zealous pursuit of craft and beauty.Morris’ work features prominently in “The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860-1900,” a sprawling exhibit on view through June at the Legion of Honor.
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The 2012 lineup for the fifth Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival is yet another whimsically diverse bill: Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, Jack White and Beck share headlining spots in the Aug. 10-12 festival in Golden Gate Park.More than 60 artists are slated to appear. While specific schedules for each day will be announced in coming months, three-day and VIP tickets go on sale online at noon Thursday.Genre-wise, Outside Lands has every base covered.
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