Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 11/18/2010-11/24/2010

Noomi Rapace, err, Carrie Browstein and Janet Weiss with their new supergroup, WILD FLAG, at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland earlier this week. Photo by Inger Klekacz.

Check out the concerts around the Bay Area this week — after the jump.

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Show Review: Delorean, Lemonade at Great American Music Hall, 11/10/10

Photo by Jimmy Kim

“You need to be dancing harder.”

I stared into the face of the woman who’d just punched me in the arm to get my attention and tell me this. She continued, “You need to be dancing more, like this, up and down, having fun.” I ignored a passing instinct to punch her in the face, and smiled instead. “Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay!” she shrieked in closing.

A moment later, she punched me again. “Are you from Barcelona?” she inquired.

“No. I’m from Pittsburgh.” She stopped talking to me after that.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 11/11/2010-11/17/2010

Old queen extraordinaire Rufus Wainwright brings her latest extravagant musical project to San Francisco for its world premiere this weekend. Photo by Michael Forester.

Check out the concerts happening around the Bay Area this week — after the jump.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 10/28/2010-11/3/2010

Eat'n Park cookie FTW.

Check out the spooky array of shows happening around the Bay Area as pumpkin month gives way to turkey month.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 10/21/2010-10/27/2010

Angelic manty-dropper Sufjan Stevens makes his long-awaited return to the Bay Area this week.

Treasure Island has come and gone, but the Bay Area concert schedule isn’t slowing down for anyone! This week features shows by everyone from Aziz Ansari to Joey McIntyre (not on the same stage, sadly), as well as the annual return of the A-list Bridge School Benefit concerts. Look after the jump for more.

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In Theaters Today: “RED” / “Tamara Drewe”

Helen Mirren and John Malkovich preparing to bust a few caps in RED

After the jump, check out reviews of two films based on graphic novels that are opening in Bay Area theaters today: RED (from the graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner) and Tamara Drewe (based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds).

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