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Due to Friday's PG&E underground fire in the Tenderloin, street closures are still in place for the blocks surrounding the intersection at Polk St. & O'Farrell Street.
The Great American Music Hall is OPEN and the Handsome Furs are performing as scheduled.
Foot traffic to the Great American Music Hall, however, is only allowed from Larkin St. onto O'Farrell. Please plan your parking strategy accordingly. Officials are not allowing pedestrians onto O'Farrell from Polk St. or Van Ness due to the intersection closure.
In the alternative, we are encouraging everyone to take public transportation to the show. Just remember, you have to enter onto O'Farrell from the Larkin St. side.
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The juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic beats, courtesy of Alexei Perry, with the jagged, dissonant and frail, broken or breaking, guitars of Dan Boeckner portray what it is to be a human being at the bottom of the 21st century. It underlines the confusion you feel as your best friends are conveyed to you via a series of ones and zeros passing through lines and cables and microwaves; the same confusion felt witnessing the pure, wholesome thrill of a band of musicians pouring their hearts out on stage, through someone's cell phone as pixelated streaming video; the profound and bitter frustration of your long-distance relationship with the world up against a burning, alcohol-soaked sunrise as you admit some things you never thought you would; your constant feelings of inadequacy intertwined with the omnipotence modern technology grants us all. You are there, yet somehow you never are. As we all are and are not. You are left with a rhythmic and empowering programmed beat interrupted by the warm, reverberating fuzz tone of vibrating strings on wood hit hard enough to shatter skyscrapers. Over it all a perfectly imperfect voice roars images of landscapes, maps of forgotten continents ripe with history, and you are left feeling as human and alive and wide-eyed as you should be every single morning. 
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