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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003cem>note\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>This story is part of KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">Youth Takeover\u003c/a>. Throughout the week of April 24-28, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or most of human history, art was a skill that took years to perfect. Now, it only takes a few words and a click to create a masterpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m talking, of course, about AI-generated art — a topic that has been the subject of endless debate on social media over the past few months. 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One portrait had such cinematic lighting, it looked like it could have been from an animated film. Another was more stylized, similar to a still image from a fantasy RPG video game cutscene. Yet another was a more realistic portrait, reminiscent of the kind of illustration you might find on the cover of a novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AI-generated images were all surprisingly detailed. Looking closely, you could see the veins of the leaves, the reflection in the characters’ eyes and the definition on their neck and collarbone. The AI showed a skilled knowledge of light, shadow and proportions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single one of these images might take a human artist hours to draw, color and render. The Midjourney AI, on the other hand, completed multiple images in less than two minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ease and speed of AI image generators have led many companies to use them instead of hiring human artists. 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According to Favilla, AI image generators use “a complex system of matrices and mathematical equations,” known as a neural network, which figures out the relationships between the billions of images and captions that it contains in its dataset. After this, the AI model fuses this knowledge together to generate an image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the AI datasets pull from images online, they also learn from the work of real human artists and become capable of accurately replicating their styles. This has caused quite a backlash. Many artists consider it theft when AI image generators can copy their art style without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Favilla, however, it’s an oversimplification to say that AI image generators are stealing images from artists. Since the AI dataset contains billions of images, any single individual’s artwork might make up just a minuscule fraction of that dataset. As of now, Favilla says, it is virtually impossible to use an AI generator to trace and retrieve a specific image. And most AI generators are not fully able to replicate a specific artist’s style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928284\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies.jpg\" alt=\"A faun and a character with a stylized mushroom cap head dance in the forest.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-800x733.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-1020x935.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-768x704.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-1536x1408.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Mo Koelle’s digital art pieces depicts a faun and a mushroom-head character dancing in the forest. \u003ccite>(Mo Koelle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Koelle, the aforementioned student artist, is one of those who worry about protecting the rights of artists. And though they are not completely against the technology, they ultimately feel that AI generators are “not so much a tool for inspiration as it is a tool for making a product.” While AI has the potential to help artists, Koelle says, “There’s a line between using AI to assist you and to do all the work for you.” And while these AI generators are able to create beautiful pieces, they still rely on humans to input an idea. They aren’t fully capable of coming up with their own unique ideas with personal meaning behind them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI image generators have other limitations as well. For instance, they struggle with drawing hands and complex human anatomy and with writing coherent text. Sometimes the results create an uncanny valley effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misha Chaturabul, a Milpitas High School student with a passion for drawing, painting and digital art, says she would like to do art as a side job in the future. According to Chaturabul, “Real artists’ work is made with a genuine passion and love that cannot be replicated by a computer or a type of technology.” She believes that the time and effort that a human artist puts into each piece gives it a special quality — a human spirit or essence that’s able to evoke emotions — which AI cannot reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928296\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13928296 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1.jpg\" alt=\"Color sketches of five young women showing various emotions — annoyed, dozing off, etc.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Digital sketches by Misha Chaturabul, who believes that human-created art has a special ‘spirit or essence’ — and an emotional resonance — that AI cannot emulate. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Misha Chaturabul)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tran also believes art is a uniquely human way of communicating and expressing feelings. “While AI art can have a vague sense of this, there’s something about the personal way that individual artists give a piece of themselves whenever they’re making art,” he explains. “I think we’re kind of jumping from the process, because the process is just as important as the end product.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, the idea of having to compete with AI in addition to other artists feels especially brutal. “We’re really approaching this very modernized, ‘oh, everything must be efficient’ route,” he says. “And I think that’s so terrible, because it’s really just cutting corners. It’s only profiting big companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran’s hope is that AI doesn’t completely take over the art industry in the future. “I think there is a point where AI art has its limits, and I hope its limits stay there,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928285\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13928285 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1.jpg\" alt=\"Digital illustration of a boy lying down, surrounded by whimsical doodles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Another Day, by Tyler Tran, depicts the sense of burnout that the artist feels when he thinks about making a career out of art — but also the joy he felt when creating doodles for fun as a kid. \u003ccite>(Tyler Tran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People like Favilla, on the other hand, have a more optimistic view of the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have more ideas than I do time,” the professor says. AI art allows him to realize his ideas more quickly than he would be able to do using traditional illustration methods. The technology can generate ideas that artists can use as inspiration for their own pieces. Moreover, because the AI tools are so accessible, they allow people who don’t have a lot of artistic talent or physical strength to still be able to create beautiful artwork. All you need is a good imagination and creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, maybe AI software is just another medium that artists can use to express themselves.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13927996,arts_13927982']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have my own concerns about how AI might affect my future. Since I was young, I’ve always wanted to pursue some sort of creative career, such as art or design. Right now I’m thinking of becoming a UX designer. But recently, I saw how the artificial intelligence program GPT-4 was able to turn even just a rudimentary napkin sketch into a fully operational website. That made me feel very worried about whether I’ll still be able to have a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence will continue to be part of our lives. I believe that these image generators do have the potential to help people as long as some restrictions are set to protect artists. And, like so many of the aspiring artists that I spoke to, I think there is still something special about being human that AI will never replace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be hopeful,” Tran says. “Don’t feel defeated because AI art simply exists.” After all, he says, the human mind and body are always taking in experiences from actually living in the real world. “That’s something that will always set you apart from AI art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Kaitlyn Nguyen is a junior at Milpitas High School who enjoys art, design and everything creative. When she isn’t contemplating life, the universe and existence, she’s reading her favorite novels or making jewelry and designs for The Starlit Shoppe.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003cem>note\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>This story is part of KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">Youth Takeover\u003c/a>. Throughout the week of April 24-28, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>or most of human history, art was a skill that took years to perfect. Now, it only takes a few words and a click to create a masterpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m talking, of course, about AI-generated art — a topic that has been the subject of endless debate on social media over the past few months. Every day when I scroll through my phone, I see some people sharing their beautiful creations, while others protest against the ethics of this technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13928155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/KaitlynNguyen.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"160\">For high school students, like me, who are interested in pursuing a career in art, the idea of AI art can be especially frightening. As it becomes easier to create high-quality artwork using this technology, what will happen to the artists who were once hired for these tasks? Why would companies commission an artist when they can create a beautiful illustration or design with just a few clicks? What will happen if the future of art gets completely taken over by technology?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mo Koelle is an artist and student at Milpitas High School who does digital illustration and hand-drawn art. They feel that AI art generators steal from human artists. “It’s theft,” they say, “using the art that someone has spent hours of their life to make in order to spit something out in a matter of seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tyler Tran, a Milpitas High School senior who’s planning to major in digital art and animation, is concerned that the popularity of AI art might make his entire career path obsolete, especially when factoring in how expensive an art education tends to be. He worries, “Commissions, digital work — suddenly, of all that could be done with just AI. What am I supposed to do? [I need to] pay for expenses, pay for my loans, pay for life, pay for my college, and stuff like that. So that’s definitely a fear that I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see for myself what these AI generators are capable of, I decided to try creating my own AI art. The first time I did, I was blown away by how powerful the technology was. To create an image using the most popular AI image generator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.midjourney.com/\">Midjourney\u003c/a>, all you have to do is type in a text prompt — my prompt was “anime-style portrait of girl with brown hair and gray eyes against a forest backdrop.”Just a few minutes later, the AI generated four different portraits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/midjourney-ai-art.jpg\" alt=\"Four AI-generated digital images of an anime-style young girl against a forest backdrop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/midjourney-ai-art.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/midjourney-ai-art-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/midjourney-ai-art-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/midjourney-ai-art-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/midjourney-ai-art-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/midjourney-ai-art-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midjourney created four detailed portraits in less than two minutes. \u003ccite>(Kaitlyn Nguyen/Midjourney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was stunned at how good the art was. One portrait had such cinematic lighting, it looked like it could have been from an animated film. Another was more stylized, similar to a still image from a fantasy RPG video game cutscene. Yet another was a more realistic portrait, reminiscent of the kind of illustration you might find on the cover of a novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AI-generated images were all surprisingly detailed. Looking closely, you could see the veins of the leaves, the reflection in the characters’ eyes and the definition on their neck and collarbone. The AI showed a skilled knowledge of light, shadow and proportions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single one of these images might take a human artist hours to draw, color and render. The Midjourney AI, on the other hand, completed multiple images in less than two minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ease and speed of AI image generators have led many companies to use them instead of hiring human artists. AI art is being used to create book covers, album art and even music videos. For example, both the novel cover for \u003ci>Fractal Noise\u003c/i> by Christopher Paolini and the music video for “Make Me Feel” by The Chainsmokers were made using AI. As a result, artists — and young people who aspire to become artists — are becoming more and more worried about the future of their profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand the controversy, it’s helpful to first understand how AI technology works. Most AI image generators function by “learning” from a dataset compiled of countless images across the internet. Vincent Favilla is a psychology professor at Skyline College who is also an artist and AI developer knowledgeable in ChatGPT, GPT-4 and other AI technologies. According to Favilla, AI image generators use “a complex system of matrices and mathematical equations,” known as a neural network, which figures out the relationships between the billions of images and captions that it contains in its dataset. After this, the AI model fuses this knowledge together to generate an image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the AI datasets pull from images online, they also learn from the work of real human artists and become capable of accurately replicating their styles. This has caused quite a backlash. Many artists consider it theft when AI image generators can copy their art style without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Favilla, however, it’s an oversimplification to say that AI image generators are stealing images from artists. Since the AI dataset contains billions of images, any single individual’s artwork might make up just a minuscule fraction of that dataset. As of now, Favilla says, it is virtually impossible to use an AI generator to trace and retrieve a specific image. And most AI generators are not fully able to replicate a specific artist’s style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928284\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies.jpg\" alt=\"A faun and a character with a stylized mushroom cap head dance in the forest.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-800x733.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-1020x935.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-768x704.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Mo-Koelle-Forest-Folies-1536x1408.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Mo Koelle’s digital art pieces depicts a faun and a mushroom-head character dancing in the forest. \u003ccite>(Mo Koelle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Koelle, the aforementioned student artist, is one of those who worry about protecting the rights of artists. And though they are not completely against the technology, they ultimately feel that AI generators are “not so much a tool for inspiration as it is a tool for making a product.” While AI has the potential to help artists, Koelle says, “There’s a line between using AI to assist you and to do all the work for you.” And while these AI generators are able to create beautiful pieces, they still rely on humans to input an idea. They aren’t fully capable of coming up with their own unique ideas with personal meaning behind them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI image generators have other limitations as well. For instance, they struggle with drawing hands and complex human anatomy and with writing coherent text. Sometimes the results create an uncanny valley effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misha Chaturabul, a Milpitas High School student with a passion for drawing, painting and digital art, says she would like to do art as a side job in the future. According to Chaturabul, “Real artists’ work is made with a genuine passion and love that cannot be replicated by a computer or a type of technology.” She believes that the time and effort that a human artist puts into each piece gives it a special quality — a human spirit or essence that’s able to evoke emotions — which AI cannot reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928296\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13928296 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1.jpg\" alt=\"Color sketches of five young women showing various emotions — annoyed, dozing off, etc.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Misha-Chaturabul1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Digital sketches by Misha Chaturabul, who believes that human-created art has a special ‘spirit or essence’ — and an emotional resonance — that AI cannot emulate. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Misha Chaturabul)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tran also believes art is a uniquely human way of communicating and expressing feelings. “While AI art can have a vague sense of this, there’s something about the personal way that individual artists give a piece of themselves whenever they’re making art,” he explains. “I think we’re kind of jumping from the process, because the process is just as important as the end product.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, the idea of having to compete with AI in addition to other artists feels especially brutal. “We’re really approaching this very modernized, ‘oh, everything must be efficient’ route,” he says. “And I think that’s so terrible, because it’s really just cutting corners. It’s only profiting big companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran’s hope is that AI doesn’t completely take over the art industry in the future. “I think there is a point where AI art has its limits, and I hope its limits stay there,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928285\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13928285 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1.jpg\" alt=\"Digital illustration of a boy lying down, surrounded by whimsical doodles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Tyler-Tran1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Another Day, by Tyler Tran, depicts the sense of burnout that the artist feels when he thinks about making a career out of art — but also the joy he felt when creating doodles for fun as a kid. \u003ccite>(Tyler Tran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People like Favilla, on the other hand, have a more optimistic view of the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have more ideas than I do time,” the professor says. AI art allows him to realize his ideas more quickly than he would be able to do using traditional illustration methods. The technology can generate ideas that artists can use as inspiration for their own pieces. Moreover, because the AI tools are so accessible, they allow people who don’t have a lot of artistic talent or physical strength to still be able to create beautiful artwork. All you need is a good imagination and creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, maybe AI software is just another medium that artists can use to express themselves.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">R\u003c/span>ight from the start of Game 1 of a highly anticipated NBA game between my Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings, I immediately noticed something was off. And it had nothing to do with basketball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\">As the son of Mexican immigrants and a lifelong hoop head, I’ve always felt at home among Bay Area sports fans. In particular, Warriors fans reflect California’s cultural pluralisms more than just about any other team in the nation — not only in race but in age, gender, and economic class. So when I flipped on the TV on Saturday evening and saw the monolithic crowd, my instincts churned. There were \u003cem>hella\u003c/em> white people at the game in Sacramento — a city \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2021/11/19/new-figures-show-sacramento-maintains-its-coveted-most-diverse-city-title/\">recently celebrated for being the most diverse in the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later, the internet blew up in response to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/incarceratedbob/status/1647723610092568578\">footage of Vallejo-raised rapper Earl “E-40” Stevens being ejected from the game\u003c/a>, after what he alleged to be an incident of “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1647618790900006913\">racial bias\u003c/a>.” I was not as shocked as others may have been. Nor was I surprised when Sacramento fans posted comments like “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Moburner314/status/1647738823667859457\">he claimed racism lol\u003c/a>,” and “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mr_zachparker/status/1647695912557334530\">If he had kept his cool, he probably wouldn’t have gotten kicked out\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, NBA sources are claiming E-40 was removed from the game due to “standing excessively.” A smattering of fans online have also chimed in, stating he should’ve stayed seated during the game. But that’s like kicking Stephen Curry out of a basketball gym for making an excessive amount of three-pointers. What else are you supposed to do at a high-octane sporting event? Sit down, stay seated and politely clap with a bourgeoisie delicacy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Kings organization have also issued \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/3953777-rapper-e-40-ejected-from-warriors-kings-game-citing-racial-bias/\">an official statement\u003c/a>, promising to investigate the matter. But if E-40’s account is accurate, and he was unfairly targeted by a white woman in a crowd where he was clearly othered — whether by race, fanship, or other factors — then Sacramento had better get ready for an arena-sized apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/linebackrschool/status/1647434178395541504\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve visited NBA arenas around the nation — from Denver and Oklahoma City to Boston and New Orleans — and I know what it feels like to be away from the comfort of a Bay Area crowd. I’ve sat in sections where not only was I wearing the wrong colors, but where no one around me was visibly Latino. No one ever attacked me directly, in part because I made sure not to attract too much attention. But it’s definitely unsettling to be the sole representative of a different group among a large audience, especially as a person of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never been in that situation, then you probably don’t know how strangely hostile and tense it can feel, and how quickly civil decorum can dissolve into a mobbish clamor against your presence. For most white Americans, it’s simply an environment they’ve rarely experienced, and as a result, whenever a person of color brings it up, it usually gets dismissed as an exaggeration or irrelevant complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13907726']Even worse, if you’ve never been pulled over, physically searched, temporarily detained or threatened to be taken to jail — due to nothing more than your physical traits, the clothes you’re wearing or for looking out of place in a certain environment, something I have personally experienced — then you might not fully grasp the levels of anxiety and anger that ensue when a security guard or enforcement officer approaches. Now put that in the context of Saturday night’s game. Race can never be separated from an outcome in this situation, in this country, in a certain body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident also exposed underlying economic and class disparities in California. When the “We Believe” Warriors made it to the playoffs in 2007, I made sure to drop everything and attend two games. Back then, the Bay Area was only beginning its exorbitant cost of living increases, so a first-generation teenager like me was able to hit up games in East Oakland with my single-parent dad and older brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case. Going to this year’s playoff games at the Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento means \u003ca href=\"https://www.basketballnews.com/stories/kingswarriors-breaks-record-for-most-expensive-firstround-tickets\">paying prices that’ve never been seen for a first-round playoff match in the league’s history\u003c/a>. The average cost is $688 per seat; in lower-level seats, where E-40 was sitting, fans typically pay thousands of dollars, effectively making them hyper-exclusionary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where race, as always, is a factor. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsacramento.org/Economic-Development/Why-Sacramento/Demographics-and-Market-Information/Key-Demographics\">according to the City of Sacramento\u003c/a>, non-Latino white residents accounted for 29%, or less than one-third, of the city’s population. Yet in \u003ca href=\"https://statisticalatlas.com/place/California/Sacramento/Household-Income#figure/household-income-distribution-by-race\">data showing average household incomes by race\u003c/a>, most incomes higher than $100,000 per year are made by white residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13927880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM-800x784.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM-800x784.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM-160x157.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM-768x753.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM.png 892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translation: despite being in the minority, white Sacramento residents maintain a major economic advantage, and have a significantly higher chance of being able to afford a high-cost, high-demand event like Saturday night’s playoff game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a saying in basketball: “ball don’t lie.” Well, after I took one look at the playoff-adrenalized masses in Sacramento, I couldn’t help but think: “crowd demographics don’t lie.” Factually speaking, the arena lacked any visible segments of people of color. In this scenario, E-40, despite being a hugely successful Black entertainer and entrepreneur, was vastly outnumbered — and then thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1647618790900006913\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">E\u003c/span>-40 has attended countless NBA games for both the Warriors and Kings throughout his years as a superfan, often sitting near the teams’ players — something his business empire’s success allows him to do at this stage in his career. He has regularly appeared on national television during such games, including the NBA Finals. But this is the first time he has been tossed out. It’s out of the ordinary, to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, when he found out about E-40 being jettisoned out of the arena, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nba/2023/04/16/nba-playoffs-kings-e40-ejected-racial-bias/2c5a54b8-dc8c-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html\">Warriors star Klay Thompson defended the rapper\u003c/a>, saying “In my time knowing him, he’s always been respectful. He’s always been considerate of those around him. Very weird to see, and I hope it’s resolved.” (E-40 has announced that he will not be attending Game 2.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad alignright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It worries me that fans in a city like Sacramento can deny access for others. If a mixed crowd can’t gather for a sporting event in California’s capital — a state that most Americans would point to as being inclusive — then what does that say about our country’s deceptive failings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond sports, it reminds me that, for centuries, privileges for certain Americans have historically been leveraged against other groups of Americans. And that those calls for removal often have real consequences for those who are targeted, and told where and how they can exist — whether that means being kicked out of a basketball arena, or something much worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, that’s something that will never sit comfortably.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]D[/dropcap]uring Pride last summer, I was having lunch with a friend of mine, a trans man who’s been living his truth for decades. The Proud Boys’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916918/sheriffs-investigating-hate-crime-after-alleged-proud-boys-disrupt-drag-queen-story-hour-with-homophobic-slurs\">attack on the San Lorenzo library’s Drag Queen Story Hour\u003c/a> had just happened earlier that day, and he was telling me how frightened it made him. I was honestly taken aback: My friend, a very sizable man most people don’t read as trans, had never said anything like this to me in all our years of friendship. It was telling that, even in the Bay Area, he no longer felt safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point I wouldn’t have imagined that, less than a year later, a high-profile speaker at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference would call for what amounts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-08/transgender-cpac-michael-knowles-rolling-stone-ron-desantis\">the eradication of trans people\u003c/a>. It’s clear that my friend was not afraid because of an isolated incident, but rather because of a pattern of bullying and abuse that has been directed at trans people for years, and is reaching a fever pitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the pages of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-glaad-100-organizations-advocates-call-out-biased-harmful-new-york-times-coverage-of-transgender-people-in-joint-letter\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and comments on TikTok, anti-trans rhetoric has become a full-blown moral panic, spreading complete falsehoods about trans people and the lifesaving medicine we use to be our true selves. And on top of the cruel cultural backlash, to date, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights\">nearly 400 bills have been introduced in state legislatures in 2023\u003c/a> seeking to criminalize or otherwise restrict the lives of transgender and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people. This represents a significant increase over 2021 and 2022, years that set records for legislation aimed at the trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, these unprecedented attacks on transgender medical care, rights and culture have had enormous impacts on trans and GNC people, as well as the mental health providers who serve them. Reported rates of depression, anxiety and suicidality among trans people have sharply increased, and advocates say this is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/16/us-trans-non-binary-youth-suicide-mental-health\">direct result of recent hateful legislation\u003c/a>. The mental health clinicians who serve these communities in red states are experiencing increased burnout, and personal attacks against these professionals have led them to fear for their own safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same is happening here. As a transgender therapist dedicated to serving my community (in addition to my many cisgender clients), I have seen myself and many of my colleagues struggle to cope with the new onslaughts against trans people. Although the Bay Area — an ultra-liberal bubble within a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\">sanctuary state for trans medical care\u003c/a> — is often thought of as insulated from these assaults, the fact is that these laws are already having real and detrimental impacts on trans people here, and the therapists who support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trans March makes its way along Market Street to a rally on Turk and Taylor in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]usanna Moore, a Bay Area clinical psychologist who began serving trans people in 2009, has seen the enormous good that therapy can do for her young clients. “It’s a real privilege to empathize with someone who is trying to feel at home in a self that is not well held by the wider society,” Moore said. “Therapy is also a place where the parents can see their kids really cherished for who they are. That helps the parents stay with their best selves and keep protecting, supporting and nurturing their kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the climate around trans people has deteriorated, Moore has seen it restrict futures and take away hope from her clients. For instance, a couple of years ago, when the legislative assault against trans people was just beginning, Moore had a teenage client tell her that they chose not to “look into any colleges back East because they’re trying to kill me there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another teenage client had decreased their social anxiety due to gender-affirming medical care, but is now struggling again. “I tried to reassure him about California laws, but he just looked at me like, ‘Yeah, what if they change?’” Moore revealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s good reason for trans people to be anxious about the legal landscape. Legislation targeting trans people has been varied and extreme: The Florida State Senate recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-anti-trans-bill-court-custody-kids-gender-affirming-care-2023-3\">proposed a new law that would take transgender children away from parents\u003c/a> who validate their identity. Virginia introduced a policy to essentially force educators to \u003ca href=\"https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/10/04/youngkin-attorney-general-expect-schools-to-follow-transgender-policies/\">misgender and deadname their trans students\u003c/a>. Multiple states are again \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/08/arkansas-senate-transgender-bathroom-bill/11431418002/\">proposing bathroom bans\u003c/a>, for the first time since the disastrous failure of North Carolina’s bathroom ban in 2016. States are \u003ca href=\"https://www.citybeat.com/news/trans-ohioans-are-still-being-denied-gender-marker-corrections-to-their-birth-certificates-14722104\">eroding\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wkrg.com/state-regional/florida/florida-lawmakers-want-to-ban-transgender-residents-from-changing-birth-certificates/\">attempting to eliminate\u003c/a> the ability of trans people to get proper identity documentation. The list goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this era of anti-trans panic, even constitutionally protected freedoms of expression are fair game: The nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161452175/anti-drag-show-bill-tennessee-trans-rights-minor-care-anti-lgbtq-laws\">first anti-drag law is now on the books\u003c/a> in Tennessee. Although most drag performers do not identify as transgender, many see drag as an integral part of trans culture, and many of the anti-drag statutes are written so broadly that they may be construed as criminalizing the existence of trans people. [pullquote size='large']Although the Bay Area is often thought of as insulated from these assaults, the fact is that these laws are already having real and detrimental impacts on trans people here.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack on the San Lorenzo Drag Queen Story Hour that so shook up my friend is becoming normalized, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/07/13/proud-boys-aid-right-wing-assault-lgbtq-community-and-reproductive-justice\">paramilitary thugs\u003c/a> across America now \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-club-q-attack-lgbt-venues-grapple-with-safety-concerns-2022-11-23/\">routinely brandish weapons\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/12/idaho-patriot-front-arrested/\">threaten the lives of individuals\u003c/a> who are simply wearing some flamboyant dresses and makeup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]herapeutic placement specialist Shayna Abraham, who specializes in connecting high-risk minors throughout Northern California with residential care for severe cases of suicidality, depression and eating disorders, said the legislative and cultural attacks have had a very concrete, detrimental impact on her work. Abraham told me that before Utah enacted its recent anti-trans legislation — including an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1156306026/utahs-new-law-bans-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-youth\">outright ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors\u003c/a> earlier this year — she would frequently refer trans kids for residential treatment in the state’s many high-quality clinics. Now that option is unsafe for her trans clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Utah is the best example because there are so many programs,” said Abraham. “My clients and their families will say, ‘I know I need help but I can’t go to Utah.’ It limits a lot of the parents’ options when they have to rule out certain states because they aren’t safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abraham also drew parallels between the legislative assault on women’s rights and that against trans people, fearing for cisgender women whom she might have once referred to clinics in certain states. “I’m also concerned for my families who have girls. I’m thinking, ‘Where is it safe to be a woman in this country?’” [aside postid='arts_13915237,news_11937191']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trisha Wallis, a licensed clinical social worker and clinical psychologist who has served trans clients throughout the Bay Area since 2014, similarly drew parallels between the current legislative assault on trans people and what she witnessed as an abortion rights activist in the early 2000s. “I watched many doctors get targeted, watched clinic staff be harassed, myself included,” she said. “This has a similar type of feeling to it. It’s that same sort of ‘I’m going to protect the children,’ but it’s not coming from a very principled place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wallis has seen some California medical providers double down on their support of trans minors, others have stepped back amid the growing backlash — she’s gotten hate mail herself. She feels growing concern that trans kids in California will face restricted access to necessary medical care. Moore has also seen increased fear among medical doctors providing gender-affirming care to minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me worry for the ability of people to have a choice and have access to care,” Wallis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender medicine is considered essential, evidence-based medical care by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.endocrine.org/advocacy/position-statements/transgender-health\">Endocrine Society\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2018/aap-policy-statement-urges-support-and-care-of-transgender-and-gender-diverse-children-and-adolescents/\">American Academy of Pediatrics\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/gender-affirmative-care\">American Psychological Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-states-stop-interfering-health-care-transgender-children\">American Medical Association\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/About-APA/Organization-Documents-Policies/Policies/Position-Transgender-Gender-Diverse-Youth.pdf\">American Psychiatric Association\u003c/a> among dozens of other organizations. Thousands of pages of high-quality research going back decades have documented significant, positive impacts on the lives of transgender people who access this medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/map-gender-affirming-care-targeted-us/story?id=97443087\">At least eight states\u003c/a> have banned lifesaving medical care for trans minors, with more bans likely coming. Several other states are currently debating bans on such medical care that could extend to the ages of 21 or even 26, or eliminate such medicine entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of my role as I see it is helping people to have hope again, and for me a lot of this landscape feels hopeless,” said Abraham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]rans activists are widely in agreement that the assault on the trans community is likely to get much worse in 2024, as transgender people will be enormously demonized during the congressional and presidential elections. In spite of the dire outlook for trans rights, Bay Area therapists and their clients strive to remain resilient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It comes back down to my values of love and equity and justice. That keeps me going because it’s just the right thing to do,” Wallis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Moore remains inspired by her work, knowing what she does is invaluable for both trans people and their families. “Despite everything, there is still magic there, and there is joy, and I do believe that helps us get through the hard times.” [aside postid='arts_13881725']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have seen firsthand the difference that good therapists can make in the lives of trans people. Our work has always been crucial in lifting up this extremely marginalized community, and right now it is sorely needed. Our calling to serve people with empathy, kindness and hope has been politicized and turned into a dangerous pursuit by opportunists with hate in their hearts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I simply want the opportunity to live in safety and help improve the lives of other people — whether trans or cis — free from the bullying, stigmatization and abuse that has been a constant in my life since childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, in America, that really shouldn’t be too much to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Veronica Esposito is a writer, transgender advocate and associate marriage and family therapist specializing in supporting transgender clients. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was telling that, even in the Bay Area, he no longer felt safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point I wouldn’t have imagined that, less than a year later, a high-profile speaker at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference would call for what amounts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-08/transgender-cpac-michael-knowles-rolling-stone-ron-desantis\">the eradication of trans people\u003c/a>. It’s clear that my friend was not afraid because of an isolated incident, but rather because of a pattern of bullying and abuse that has been directed at trans people for years, and is reaching a fever pitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the pages of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-glaad-100-organizations-advocates-call-out-biased-harmful-new-york-times-coverage-of-transgender-people-in-joint-letter\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and comments on TikTok, anti-trans rhetoric has become a full-blown moral panic, spreading complete falsehoods about trans people and the lifesaving medicine we use to be our true selves. And on top of the cruel cultural backlash, to date, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights\">nearly 400 bills have been introduced in state legislatures in 2023\u003c/a> seeking to criminalize or otherwise restrict the lives of transgender and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people. This represents a significant increase over 2021 and 2022, years that set records for legislation aimed at the trans community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, these unprecedented attacks on transgender medical care, rights and culture have had enormous impacts on trans and GNC people, as well as the mental health providers who serve them. Reported rates of depression, anxiety and suicidality among trans people have sharply increased, and advocates say this is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/16/us-trans-non-binary-youth-suicide-mental-health\">direct result of recent hateful legislation\u003c/a>. The mental health clinicians who serve these communities in red states are experiencing increased burnout, and personal attacks against these professionals have led them to fear for their own safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same is happening here. As a transgender therapist dedicated to serving my community (in addition to my many cisgender clients), I have seen myself and many of my colleagues struggle to cope with the new onslaughts against trans people. Although the Bay Area — an ultra-liberal bubble within a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\">sanctuary state for trans medical care\u003c/a> — is often thought of as insulated from these assaults, the fact is that these laws are already having real and detrimental impacts on trans people here, and the therapists who support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56915_014_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trans March makes its way along Market Street to a rally on Turk and Taylor in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>usanna Moore, a Bay Area clinical psychologist who began serving trans people in 2009, has seen the enormous good that therapy can do for her young clients. “It’s a real privilege to empathize with someone who is trying to feel at home in a self that is not well held by the wider society,” Moore said. “Therapy is also a place where the parents can see their kids really cherished for who they are. 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Instead, I received only a curt, indirect message about self-care and — what hurt me the most — an overwhelming silence.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13824351\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past few years, the concept of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.vogue.com/article/practical-ways-to-set-boundaries-and-stick-to-them-in-2022\">drawing boundaries\u003c/a>” has exploded in the pop psychology lexicon. Discussions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@ms.maryanndd/video/7138738319621491994?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7138738319621491994\">cutting people off\u003c/a>, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@robothighway/video/7170905834518514986?q=protect%20your%20energy%20cut%20people%20off&t=1675906929458\">protecting your energy\u003c/a>” and even \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/J5GoCrazy/status/1513548873456881667?s=20&t=_n3cdh8CfP6Vl2PUxGznHw\">ghosting\u003c/a> as forms of self-care consistently dominate social media. And after nearly three years in isolation, the ways the pandemic has spurred many of us to reevaluate our relationships with others — and reclaim time for ourselves — show up everywhere in pop culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.everydayhealth.com/self-care/\">benefits of self-care\u003c/a> are fairly obvious: by prioritizing our own well-being, we’re able to engage in emotional healing, build confidence, reduce anxiety and simply rest. But at the same time, an extreme focus on self-care can lead to a distorted perspective of the world in which we always put ourselves first — even when we’re in the wrong. This narcissistic interpretation of self-care doesn’t just hurt us — it can have real, painful consequences for the people around us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s interesting about the popularization of terms [like ‘boundaries’] that have always been used in therapy is that they actually become a way to use unhelpful coping skills,” explains Elizabeth Earnshaw, a licensed marriage and family therapist who runs the popular Instagram page \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lizlistens/\">@LizListens\u003c/a>. “Boundaries are actually about understanding yourself: what you’re OK with and not OK with. Knowing when you can be flexible and when you can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I think that people who are hyper-independent and avoidant will sometimes use the term as a way to describe how they’re keeping people out,” says Earnshaw. “It promotes this idea that it’s OK for me to stay really distant, and to maybe not be as vulnerable with people I care about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CobDc4tMhty/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building self-awareness is undeniably crucial to improving our relationships, but in many cases, it’s just the first step: We also need to be able to address our unhealthy patterns and engage in uncomfortable conversations in order to take action. For relationship coach \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hotlinefab/\">Fabiola Wong\u003c/a>, communication and action are key to her practice. She structures her courses around covering mindset, letting go of past baggage and building confidence. Wong also offers a special hotline for existing clients where they can text her at any time Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., asking for advice, a pep talk or even help responding to or analyzing a text.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I help my clients understand what their toxic patterns and weaknesses are, and help them understand who they are and feel grounded,” Wong explains. A lot of her work revolves around the importance of setting boundaries in a healthy, flexible manner, and having the kindness and compassion to communicate them with your partner. “Boundaries are like the promises you make to yourself. When you break your own boundary, that’s when you start to feel resentful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, she says, navigating the balance between your own boundaries and the needs of others comes down to communication — especially in moments of conflict. While conflict and compromise might have negative connotations in our extreme self-care world, they’re also inevitable: “Research has shown that, in our relationships, the majority of our problems are actually not solvable. There’s going to be continued perpetual conflict around specific areas,” Earnshaw explains. For example, if one person in a relationship is always a busy go-getter by nature, but the other likes to relax and decompress, that couple would need to find a middle ground that works for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think conflict is normal and natural. But what really makes conflict difficult for people is when we’re unwilling to let go of being right. It’s like, you can either be right or you can be loved,” says Wong. “But what actually will define whether a relationship will thrive is how quickly you can resolve conflict and whether or not it’s actually resolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it can sometimes feel easier for us to remove ourselves from conflict or discomfort under the guise of self-care, walking away from these relationships without a real conversation — in situations where it’s safe to do so — actually robs us and our loved ones of an opportunity for growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, I still think of my college best friend, wondering what exactly went wrong and whether or not I could’ve fixed the situation if given the chance. Earnshaw puts it best: “I think that if we want to be people who are in relationships with other people, we have a responsibility towards them. It’s the kindest, maybe most emotionally vulnerable or mature thing to do to let someone know — even if very briefly — that we’re not going to be in contact anymore. And I think we’ve been convinced in this hyper-individualized world that we don’t owe anyone an explanation for anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Twitter raised a collective eyebrow earlier this week when photos emerged of 48-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DrProudman/status/1622537376160423936\">Leonardo DiCaprio hanging out with a 19-year-old French model named Eden Polani.\u003c/a> No one was surprised, of course, but assumptions about what was happening quickly spread online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13923161']The age gap between DiCaprio and Polani is similar to the one between Pedro Pascal (47) and Bella Ramsey (19) from \u003cem>The Last of Us\u003c/em>, people pointed out. It’s also similar to the one between David Harbour (47) and Millie Bobby Brown (18) from \u003cem>Stranger Things\u003c/em>, others chimed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wouldn’t we all be uncomfortable if either of these duos became couples? The short answer is, hell yes, we would. And not just because the women in question are still young enough to play underage people on television, or that those men play their guardians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jodieegrace/status/1623032506164613126\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, per TMZ, “a source close to DiCaprio” denied that he’s dating Polani. As if to prove this, TMZ noted that DiCaprio has also recently been linked with 23-year-old model \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/victoriaalamas/?hl=en\">Victoria Lamas\u003c/a> and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/03/leonardo-dicaprio-vacation-yacht-women-st-barts-caribbean-photos/\">photographed on a yacht with a group of young models\u003c/a>. It’s not terribly surprising that the public jumped to conclusions about DiCaprio and Polani, given how he’s been behaving for literally decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world has known about DiCaprio’s dating preferences for a very, very long time — namely, that he appears interested almost exclusively in young models, and that he doesn’t date women past the age of 25. DiCaprio’s compulsion to date and then dump women under 25 has been the topic of too many jokes to list here, and it would be boring for me to do so — you’ve already heard them. We all have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone on Reddit even made a handy graph in 2021:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924887\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TrustLittleBrotherReddit-800x800.png\" alt=\"A graph showing, on one line, Leonardo DiCaprio's age, and on another beneath it, the fluctuating ages of his girlfriends, none of whom are with him past 25.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TrustLittleBrotherReddit-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TrustLittleBrotherReddit-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TrustLittleBrotherReddit-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TrustLittleBrotherReddit-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TrustLittleBrotherReddit.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stark, isn’t it? \u003ccite>(TrustLittleBrother on Reddit)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What the graph doesn’t include are the many flings he had with models in the ‘90s (everyone was the same age, it’s fine) or, more recently, the end of DiCaprio’s relationship with Camila Morrone. The couple lasted four years and came to an end three months after the model turned — you’ve guessed it! — 25. Incidentally, DiCaprio and Nina Agdal broke up two months after her 25th birthday. He and Kelly Rohrbach split a month after she hit that milestone too. Bar Refaeli made it four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, age gaps, in and of themselves, aren’t the problem. We’re all going to fall in love with who we fall in love with, and sometimes that person just wasn’t born in the same era — love is love is love. When \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13869451/keanu-reeves-dennis-quaid-and-our-national-obsession-with-womens-age\">we pass judgement on younger women who date older men\u003c/a>, we often strip them of their agency and reduce them to trophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13869451']But the issue with DiCaprio is not love with an age gap. The longer this all goes on, the less his situation looks even vaguely love-related. It looks like a pattern of swiftly replacing one model for the next once they hit a specific age milestone. Not all of them even make it that far — Blake Lively was 23 when the couple split (he was 36), Erin Heatherton was 22 (he was 37), Toni Garrn was 21 (he was 39).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the outside, it would appear these young women are interchangeable to him — disposable, like cars he’s done driving or suits he’s sick of wearing. They are reduced to trophies by the very circumstance of getting involved with DiCaprio in the first place, because we all know they’ll be discarded before they have time to develop a single, solitary wrinkle. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/leonardo-dicaprios-girlfriend-turned-25-27265735\">The end of his relationship with Morrone was widely predicted\u003c/a> when her 25th birthday rolled around.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when we take into account that these relationships are clearly consensual, it’s still surprising that, throughout all of the post-#MeToo conversations about the negative effects of power imbalances in relationships and sexual situations, DiCaprio hasn’t really come up. If we now recognize that Monica Lewinsky was in a seriously vulnerable position during her affair with Bill Clinton, shouldn’t we also be thinking about the welfare of these women?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d argue that one of the reasons we haven’t is because these very young women are some of the most beautiful in the world. As such, there is an assumption that, since they could probably have anyone they wanted, if they end up choosing DiCaprio, he must be a good choice. The reality is, being exceptionally beautiful doesn’t make you worldly before your time, or necessarily equipped to deal with a man who is twice your age, world famous and who has been playing the same game with legions of women since before you were even born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons we’ve traditionally processed DiCaprio’s love life via jokes rather than actual judgment is because the actor has not broken any laws that we know of. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a30359722/leonardo-dicaprio-camila-morrone-relationship-timeline-age-gap/\">DiCaprio first met Camila Morrone when he was 35 and she was 12\u003c/a> doesn’t come up nearly as often as it should. (They were introduced by Morrone’s stepfather, Al Pacino.) That many of the women DiCaprio dates aren’t old enough to legally drink when he first meets them has also been under-discussed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13918217']Another major factor that’s been keeping DiCaprio off the hook is that he was a kid himself when he first came to prominence. His roles playing troubled teens in 1993’s \u003cem>What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?\u003c/em> and 1996’s \u003cem>Romeo & Juliet\u003c/em> are seared into the culture. He was just 22 when he made \u003cem>Titanic\u003c/em>. Because of this, even as he ages — dad bod and all — we still see a very young man when we look at him. If he looked more like Pedro Pascal or David Harbour, or if he’d only become famous in his thirties, we’d have noticed the depth of his dating life’s ick factor way sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth remembering that DiCaprio’s penchant for chasing young models wasn’t immediately obvious. In his younger years, he had two longterm relationships. The first was with Gisele Bundchen (six years his junior) for five years, and Bar Refaeli (10 years his junior) for five and a half. Perfectly normal dating behavior for a man in his twenties and thirties. Was it weird that the two women so closely resembled each other? A little. But it’s significantly stranger now that \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of the women who have followed Bunchen and Refaeli have also looked like Bundchen and Refaeli. 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This is, of course, because he’s a man — no famous man, regardless of individual circumstances, is ever presented that way. But in DiCaprio’s case, there is also an assumption that he’s not really taking any of these women seriously in the first place. Collectively, we have accepted that this man is going to discard the young women he surrounds himself with, then quickly replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s about time we start examining how much we want to continue to turn a blind eye, laugh at the jokes and move on. Because when we as a nation regularly laugh at women being treated as disposable objects, we’re normalizing it. And that keeps archetypes about rich men as playboys and beautiful women as playthings in the culture. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another major factor that’s been keeping DiCaprio off the hook is that he was a kid himself when he first came to prominence. His roles playing troubled teens in 1993’s \u003cem>What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?\u003c/em> and 1996’s \u003cem>Romeo & Juliet\u003c/em> are seared into the culture. He was just 22 when he made \u003cem>Titanic\u003c/em>. Because of this, even as he ages — dad bod and all — we still see a very young man when we look at him. If he looked more like Pedro Pascal or David Harbour, or if he’d only become famous in his thirties, we’d have noticed the depth of his dating life’s ick factor way sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth remembering that DiCaprio’s penchant for chasing young models wasn’t immediately obvious. In his younger years, he had two longterm relationships. The first was with Gisele Bundchen (six years his junior) for five years, and Bar Refaeli (10 years his junior) for five and a half. Perfectly normal dating behavior for a man in his twenties and thirties. Was it weird that the two women so closely resembled each other? A little. But it’s significantly stranger now that \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of the women who have followed Bunchen and Refaeli have also looked like Bundchen and Refaeli. (Morrone was a brunette — that’s the closest DiCaprio has come to broadening his field of vision.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gis-and-bar-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a white, fair-haired man in a suit embracing a tall slender woman with long blond hair, next to a photo of a different tall slender woman with long blond hair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gis-and-bar-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gis-and-bar-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gis-and-bar-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gis-and-bar-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gis-and-bar-1536x1426.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gis-and-bar-2048x1901.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gis-and-bar-1920x1782.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L) DiCaprio with Gisele Bundchen in 2005, (R) Bar Refaeli in 2007. \u003ccite>((L) Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage (R) FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite his well-known status as a serial dater, DiCaprio has never been portrayed as unlucky in love. This is, of course, because he’s a man — no famous man, regardless of individual circumstances, is ever presented that way. But in DiCaprio’s case, there is also an assumption that he’s not really taking any of these women seriously in the first place. Collectively, we have accepted that this man is going to discard the young women he surrounds himself with, then quickly replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s about time we start examining how much we want to continue to turn a blind eye, laugh at the jokes and move on. Because when we as a nation regularly laugh at women being treated as disposable objects, we’re normalizing it. And that keeps archetypes about rich men as playboys and beautiful women as playthings in the culture. Do we really want those grossly outdated constructs still hanging around in 2023?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s the last week of 2022, and we’ve already compiled the best \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13922511/the-20-best-bay-area-albums-of-2022\">albums\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13922385/best-visual-art-bay-area-2022\">art\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921917/best-dishes-bay-area-2022\">food\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/one-beautiful-thing\">other beautiful things\u003c/a>. It’s time for some good ol’ grousing about the worst stuff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, we know there were legitimately worse things this year. Those we leave to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1593437785884590080\">the experts\u003c/a>. Here, instead, are our pet peeves, minor inconveniences and other petty grievances from 2022. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13923075\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-1020x599.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-768x451.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-1536x902.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-1920x1128.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The End of the Choco Taco, a Perfect Ice Cream Novelty\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m still holding out hope that this is a Taco Bell-Mexican Pizza situation, where manufactured scarcity eventually results in a joyous reunion in 2023 of Choco Taco and my mouth — plus millions in profit. But frankly, I don’t know if Klondike is that savvy. We might be burying Choco Tacos in the food graveyard next to Halfsies and Waffle Crisp. \u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bipping\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In case you’re new to the Bay Area or are blissfully ignorant, this year has seen a rise in bipping: when a car window gets smashed in order to steal goods from inside. It’s an epidemic that has led to cities like San Francisco earning the nickname “Bip City” — a slogan you can buy on shirts and hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, getting bipped feels as inevitable as Elon Musk’s destruction of Twitter. Bipping has become a sport for window smashers. In one case, my homie from East Oakland who works as a public educator had his windows bipped — and the culprit didn’t even take his new Jordans from the vehicle’s exposed trunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m tired of it. Seeing shattered glass on the street where a helpless car was parked the night before. Observing a vehicle on the freeway with a flapping piece of plastic covering the gap where a window once happily existed. And though it’s a reflection of the harsh economic disparity in our society — the result of having folks who make billions of dollars parking their Teslas in neighborhoods where others are forced to live on the streets — it needs to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s time for the bippers to bip off in 2023. \u003cem>—Alan Chazaro\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"a white woman in a rhinestone dress with red lipstick on a red carpet\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-800x465.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-1020x593.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Being a Grown-Ass Woman Who Can’t Afford to See Taylor Swift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When I was in my teens in the early-’90s, I could afford to go and see big artists like Tina Turner and Michael Jackson when they came through town because it cost about $30 per ticket. According to the online inflation calculator, that means tickets today for similarly big shows should cost about $75. Instead, we’ve got Bruce Springsteen tickets over here going for $5,000 and Taylor Swift tickets going for $20,000. With a part-time job and pocket money I used to be able to see the greatest pop stars of the day, but now a night out would put me in credit card debt. Ticketmaster is the devil. \u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>John Fisher\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Please, man. Just sell the A’s to the City of Oakland. \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>QR-Code Parking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In order to validate my parking during a recent trip to the local multiplex (at the East Bay shopping plaza whose name rhymes with “Stray Feet”), I: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Scanned a QR code while inside the parking garage in order to download an app onto my phone — an app whose sole purpose is to allow people to park at this one shopping plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Created an account on said app, setting a unique eight-character alphanumeric password.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Learned that I already had an existing account on the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Entered my cell phone number so that the app could text me a one-time password since I had of course long ago forgotten the one I’d originally picked. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Finally logged onto the app so that I could enter my parking spot, license plate and credit card number — all in a desperate scramble while holding up the line to enter the movie theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Found out that in order to receive the discounted parking rate I had to scan yet another QR code that had now popped up on my phone, using a special QR scanner at some undisclosed location. Sent my child to circle the movie theater looking for said scanner (while I waited in line to buy popcorn).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Finally scanned the code. Received a $2 discount on my parking fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, I get it: QR codes are one of the new realities of these pandemic times, and I’m not even usually that much of a hater. But it does take a special kind of arrogance to install a (completely unnecessary) QR parking system so confusing and convoluted that it requires four different signs explaining it, all located within a few feet of each other. At least in this case, the codes aren’t taking away all of the human jobs: During a separate visit, so many would-be shoppers were bewildered by the new parking setup that the mall had posted an employee in the garage to field everyone’s questions and complaints. \u003cem>—Luke Tsai\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-800x460.png\" alt=\"Three women in colorful, stylist outfits stand together in a line, one shocked, one smiling, one distracted.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-800x460.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-1020x587.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-160x92.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-768x442.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-1536x884.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-2048x1178.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-1920x1105.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Everything About ‘And Just Like That…’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was like watching a ten-episode satire about a group of wealthy white idiots who don’t understand Gen Z, POC, or anything LGBTQ+. They also don’t understand comedy. Or podcasts. Or cell phones. Or grief. Or hearing loss. Or \u003ci>Sex and the City\u003c/i>, the show that this dumpster fire was based on. Astoundingly, there will be a Season 2 of \u003cem>And Just Like That…\u003c/em> in 2023 and I — along with everyone else who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908472/and-just-like-that-sex-and-the-city-che-miranda-carrie-charlotte-nyc\">despised the first season\u003c/a> — will inevitably hate-watch the whole thing. It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me. \u003cem>—RA\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Box Elder Bugs Crawling Inside Your Ear\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m not saying this is common, or specific to 2022. But it happened to my wife a few months ago and lemme tell you, it’s just as horrifying as you think. (Since you’re wondering: it turns out the way to get an insect out of one’s ear is to fill it with vegetable oil. The more you know!) \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13923076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-768x493.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Voice Prompts on Hinge \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To hate something, you kind of have to love it too. When Hinge introduced the voice prompt feature in October, it was an exciting time. Suddenly, you could hear someone answer a question, like a real-life conversation! Sometimes it presented a dealbreaker situation: you’d scroll through someone’s profile, slowly becoming intrigued, only to be completely put off by their voice. Or, in a less common scenario, their voice pulled you in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve heard countless terrible jokes, unhinged vocalizations and just … off-putting sounds. Worst of all (or best) are the men who try to deepen their voices to a slow, sexy drawl but end up unintelligibly croaking. Of course, the best-worst ones are often shared amongst friends, leading to late-night sessions where we recount the terrible and hilarious things we’ve heard and then laugh until our sides ache. The voice prompts can be awful, but I hope they never go away — they’re quite vulnerable, really. They reveal how someone hopes to be perceived in the world. And isn’t that what dating’s all about? \u003cem>—Kristie Song\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>That Whole Julia Fox and Kanye West Thing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just gross on every single conceivable level. \u003cem>—RA\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Refusing to Provide Paper Menus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I hate this new ritual with the fire of a thousand suns: the struggle to get your phone’s camera to lock onto a low-res QR code taped to a dimly lit table, only to be taken to ONE GIANT PAGE of available items (starters to desserts, an endless scroll; also here’s our lengthy brunch menu at 8 p.m. — just in case!) and no means of comparing said items with any ease. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant and bar people, I have found you a handy laminator that you can purchase on the internet for just $33! Working printers \u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/zip?query=printer#search=1~gallery~0~0\">show up as free stuff on Craigslist\u003c/a> every gosh darn day! Want to upcharge me for the cost of paper? I WILL PAY FOR THAT. Just please, please, let me peruse an unmediated menu with friends, order some of your delicious things and leave a nice big tip. \u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Using the Term ‘Exclusive’ in a Headline for an Article Which is in No Way Exclusive \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You know who you are. This is just embarrassing for all involved. \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13923072\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Double Play Fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You might think we public media types at KQED sit quietly in our cubicles sipping organic fair trade green tea, but we love a double shot of bourbon with branch water at our neighborhood bar as much as the next shoe-leather reporter. We’ve lost a few of ’em over the past few years (RIP Mission Hill), but seeing the Double Play in cinders hurt like a fastball to the elbow. The last vestige of Seals Stadium, which once stood grandly across the street, the no-nonsense joint with A-1 bartenders made a mean burger \u003cem>and\u003c/em> a stiff vodka tonic. To paraphrase the journalist Pete Hammill, we had a million laughs there, and we have forgotten them all. \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Teslas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before 2022, Tesla cars felt largely theoretical. They operated outside of regular people’s field of vision, like scabies. This was the year, however, that Tesla unleashed itself on the mainstream; a shiny tsunami of self-satisfaction whose very existence reminds us that Elon Musk is real. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not in the habit of badmouthing electric vehicles, but the smugness inherent in Tesla design is impossible to ignore. Those giant computer screens! Those stupid pop-out door handles! The means of exiting a Tesla is even worse: a single small button inside the car door that’s easily confused with a window opener. It’s a button you must hold down to get it to work; a button that screams: “In an emergency, you won’t be able to get out of here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month ago, I started paying attention to who exactly was driving Teslas in the Bay Area. It took me three whole weeks to see a woman driving one — a reflection of how the opposite sex views Tesla’s CEO, I suppose. And that’s part of the problem. I try extremely hard in my daily life to not think about Elon Musk. This new plethora of Teslas is making that goal nearly impossible. \u003cem>—RA\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Telling Women They ‘Still’ Look Good\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On multiple occasions when I went out this year, I revealed during small talk with strangers that I’m not a recent college graduate. “You \u003cem>still\u003c/em> look so good for your age!” they’d respond. Are women in their 30s supposed to be shriveled husks? The recent viral tweet about Hillary Duff — the one that marveled at how she ‘still’ looks good at 35 — solidified for me that this is an assumption we need to break up with, stat. \u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ZiplocBrownSugar-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13923074\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ZiplocBrownSugar-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ZiplocBrownSugar-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ZiplocBrownSugar-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ZiplocBrownSugar-768x538.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ZiplocBrownSugar-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ZiplocBrownSugar.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ziploc-Top Packaging in General but Especially for Brown Sugar\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I don’t know what’s wrong with rubber bands and clothespins as bag-closing tools, but the world seems intent on killing them off. Ziploc-top packaging got more prevalent in 2022, but it’s gotta go. If you do your job as a consumer and rip the sealed top off correctly, then both sides are equal and it’s impossible to dip your thumb in there and open the thing again without employing a SWAT team to separate the two sides. I always have to get some scissors afterward and cut one side lower than the other, so I can grasp each side properly. On top of that, if you’re dealing with a Ziploc opening on a bag of brown sugar, forget it — the sugar chunks gum up the ziploc grooves, so it never seals anyway! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!?!?! \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The New Margarita Situation at Zeitgeist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I have spent the last 20 years sending people to Zeitgeist with a single purpose: Go and drink the greatest margaritas in the whole wide world. I’ve told new and old friends, far and wide. I have told non-drinking friends on the off-chance they one day start drinking again. Refreshing, tart and strong enough to knock down a bear, these margs were everything I ever wanted from an alcoholic beverage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I say “were” because midway through 2022, Zeitgeist stopped making their margaritas to order and started serving them from (*sobs*) a keg. I tried to make the best of it, as I have with all of Zeitgeist’s recent changes. But the keg margaritas are the thing that have finally put me at my limit. Overly sweet and practically alcohol-free, these new margaritas are an affront to the perfect ones Zeitgeist used to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been informed by one of the bartenders that this new keg margarita is “the same recipe” they’ve always served. Okay, cool, but it doesn’t taste like it. The problem with keg cocktails is that all the alcohol sinks to the bottom. The ratios get thrown off. Whatever comes out of the tap is a crapshoot and in all likelihood the crapshoot is going to taste like, well, crap. \u003cem>—RA\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s the last week of 2022, and we’ve already compiled the best \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13922511/the-20-best-bay-area-albums-of-2022\">albums\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13922385/best-visual-art-bay-area-2022\">art\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921917/best-dishes-bay-area-2022\">food\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/one-beautiful-thing\">other beautiful things\u003c/a>. It’s time for some good ol’ grousing about the worst stuff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, we know there were legitimately worse things this year. Those we leave to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1593437785884590080\">the experts\u003c/a>. Here, instead, are our pet peeves, minor inconveniences and other petty grievances from 2022. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13923075\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-1020x599.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-768x451.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-1536x902.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco-1920x1128.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/ChocoTaco.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The End of the Choco Taco, a Perfect Ice Cream Novelty\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m still holding out hope that this is a Taco Bell-Mexican Pizza situation, where manufactured scarcity eventually results in a joyous reunion in 2023 of Choco Taco and my mouth — plus millions in profit. But frankly, I don’t know if Klondike is that savvy. We might be burying Choco Tacos in the food graveyard next to Halfsies and Waffle Crisp. \u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bipping\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In case you’re new to the Bay Area or are blissfully ignorant, this year has seen a rise in bipping: when a car window gets smashed in order to steal goods from inside. It’s an epidemic that has led to cities like San Francisco earning the nickname “Bip City” — a slogan you can buy on shirts and hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, getting bipped feels as inevitable as Elon Musk’s destruction of Twitter. Bipping has become a sport for window smashers. In one case, my homie from East Oakland who works as a public educator had his windows bipped — and the culprit didn’t even take his new Jordans from the vehicle’s exposed trunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m tired of it. Seeing shattered glass on the street where a helpless car was parked the night before. Observing a vehicle on the freeway with a flapping piece of plastic covering the gap where a window once happily existed. And though it’s a reflection of the harsh economic disparity in our society — the result of having folks who make billions of dollars parking their Teslas in neighborhoods where others are forced to live on the streets — it needs to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s time for the bippers to bip off in 2023. \u003cem>—Alan Chazaro\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"a white woman in a rhinestone dress with red lipstick on a red carpet\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-800x465.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-1020x593.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/gettyimages-1418888016-5b267ae0a0c5d51a36064448b03c65d4a6703dd4-s1200-c85.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Being a Grown-Ass Woman Who Can’t Afford to See Taylor Swift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When I was in my teens in the early-’90s, I could afford to go and see big artists like Tina Turner and Michael Jackson when they came through town because it cost about $30 per ticket. According to the online inflation calculator, that means tickets today for similarly big shows should cost about $75. Instead, we’ve got Bruce Springsteen tickets over here going for $5,000 and Taylor Swift tickets going for $20,000. With a part-time job and pocket money I used to be able to see the greatest pop stars of the day, but now a night out would put me in credit card debt. Ticketmaster is the devil. \u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>John Fisher\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Please, man. Just sell the A’s to the City of Oakland. \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>QR-Code Parking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In order to validate my parking during a recent trip to the local multiplex (at the East Bay shopping plaza whose name rhymes with “Stray Feet”), I: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Scanned a QR code while inside the parking garage in order to download an app onto my phone — an app whose sole purpose is to allow people to park at this one shopping plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Created an account on said app, setting a unique eight-character alphanumeric password.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Learned that I already had an existing account on the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Entered my cell phone number so that the app could text me a one-time password since I had of course long ago forgotten the one I’d originally picked. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Finally logged onto the app so that I could enter my parking spot, license plate and credit card number — all in a desperate scramble while holding up the line to enter the movie theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Found out that in order to receive the discounted parking rate I had to scan yet another QR code that had now popped up on my phone, using a special QR scanner at some undisclosed location. Sent my child to circle the movie theater looking for said scanner (while I waited in line to buy popcorn).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Finally scanned the code. Received a $2 discount on my parking fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, I get it: QR codes are one of the new realities of these pandemic times, and I’m not even usually that much of a hater. But it does take a special kind of arrogance to install a (completely unnecessary) QR parking system so confusing and convoluted that it requires four different signs explaining it, all located within a few feet of each other. At least in this case, the codes aren’t taking away all of the human jobs: During a separate visit, so many would-be shoppers were bewildered by the new parking setup that the mall had posted an employee in the garage to field everyone’s questions and complaints. \u003cem>—Luke Tsai\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-800x460.png\" alt=\"Three women in colorful, stylist outfits stand together in a line, one shocked, one smiling, one distracted.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-800x460.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-1020x587.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-160x92.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-768x442.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-1536x884.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-2048x1178.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-2.28.49-PM-1920x1105.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Everything About ‘And Just Like That…’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was like watching a ten-episode satire about a group of wealthy white idiots who don’t understand Gen Z, POC, or anything LGBTQ+. They also don’t understand comedy. Or podcasts. Or cell phones. Or grief. Or hearing loss. Or \u003ci>Sex and the City\u003c/i>, the show that this dumpster fire was based on. Astoundingly, there will be a Season 2 of \u003cem>And Just Like That…\u003c/em> in 2023 and I — along with everyone else who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908472/and-just-like-that-sex-and-the-city-che-miranda-carrie-charlotte-nyc\">despised the first season\u003c/a> — will inevitably hate-watch the whole thing. It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me. \u003cem>—RA\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Box Elder Bugs Crawling Inside Your Ear\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m not saying this is common, or specific to 2022. But it happened to my wife a few months ago and lemme tell you, it’s just as horrifying as you think. (Since you’re wondering: it turns out the way to get an insect out of one’s ear is to fill it with vegetable oil. The more you know!) \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13923076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_-768x493.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Hinge.VP_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Voice Prompts on Hinge \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To hate something, you kind of have to love it too. When Hinge introduced the voice prompt feature in October, it was an exciting time. Suddenly, you could hear someone answer a question, like a real-life conversation! Sometimes it presented a dealbreaker situation: you’d scroll through someone’s profile, slowly becoming intrigued, only to be completely put off by their voice. Or, in a less common scenario, their voice pulled you in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve heard countless terrible jokes, unhinged vocalizations and just … off-putting sounds. Worst of all (or best) are the men who try to deepen their voices to a slow, sexy drawl but end up unintelligibly croaking. Of course, the best-worst ones are often shared amongst friends, leading to late-night sessions where we recount the terrible and hilarious things we’ve heard and then laugh until our sides ache. The voice prompts can be awful, but I hope they never go away — they’re quite vulnerable, really. They reveal how someone hopes to be perceived in the world. And isn’t that what dating’s all about? \u003cem>—Kristie Song\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/GettyImages-1366703272-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>That Whole Julia Fox and Kanye West Thing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just gross on every single conceivable level. \u003cem>—RA\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Refusing to Provide Paper Menus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I hate this new ritual with the fire of a thousand suns: the struggle to get your phone’s camera to lock onto a low-res QR code taped to a dimly lit table, only to be taken to ONE GIANT PAGE of available items (starters to desserts, an endless scroll; also here’s our lengthy brunch menu at 8 p.m. — just in case!) and no means of comparing said items with any ease. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant and bar people, I have found you a handy laminator that you can purchase on the internet for just $33! Working printers \u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/zip?query=printer#search=1~gallery~0~0\">show up as free stuff on Craigslist\u003c/a> every gosh darn day! Want to upcharge me for the cost of paper? I WILL PAY FOR THAT. Just please, please, let me peruse an unmediated menu with friends, order some of your delicious things and leave a nice big tip. \u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Using the Term ‘Exclusive’ in a Headline for an Article Which is in No Way Exclusive \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You know who you are. This is just embarrassing for all involved. \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13923072\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/DoublePlay.courtesy.FB_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Double Play Fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You might think we public media types at KQED sit quietly in our cubicles sipping organic fair trade green tea, but we love a double shot of bourbon with branch water at our neighborhood bar as much as the next shoe-leather reporter. We’ve lost a few of ’em over the past few years (RIP Mission Hill), but seeing the Double Play in cinders hurt like a fastball to the elbow. The last vestige of Seals Stadium, which once stood grandly across the street, the no-nonsense joint with A-1 bartenders made a mean burger \u003cem>and\u003c/em> a stiff vodka tonic. To paraphrase the journalist Pete Hammill, we had a million laughs there, and we have forgotten them all. \u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Teslas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before 2022, Tesla cars felt largely theoretical. They operated outside of regular people’s field of vision, like scabies. This was the year, however, that Tesla unleashed itself on the mainstream; a shiny tsunami of self-satisfaction whose very existence reminds us that Elon Musk is real. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not in the habit of badmouthing electric vehicles, but the smugness inherent in Tesla design is impossible to ignore. Those giant computer screens! Those stupid pop-out door handles! The means of exiting a Tesla is even worse: a single small button inside the car door that’s easily confused with a window opener. It’s a button you must hold down to get it to work; a button that screams: “In an emergency, you won’t be able to get out of here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month ago, I started paying attention to who exactly was driving Teslas in the Bay Area. It took me three whole weeks to see a woman driving one — a reflection of how the opposite sex views Tesla’s CEO, I suppose. And that’s part of the problem. I try extremely hard in my daily life to not think about Elon Musk. This new plethora of Teslas is making that goal nearly impossible. \u003cem>—RA\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Telling Women They ‘Still’ Look Good\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On multiple occasions when I went out this year, I revealed during small talk with strangers that I’m not a recent college graduate. “You \u003cem>still\u003c/em> look so good for your age!” they’d respond. Are women in their 30s supposed to be shriveled husks? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’re going to use Bay Area slang, use it right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slap” is a term used in this region since the early 2000s to describe the sound of music laden with hard-hitting 808 drum machine beats and heavy bass lines. It’s not a word to describe a quality sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While language, especially slang, is full of words with multiple meanings, many folks from the soil have been on a mission to set the record straight on how the lingo should be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish, we’re diving deep into the etymology of the term and clarifying how it’s best applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7779286777\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This piece was originally published as a written article in January 2022, you can find that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908052/food-doesnt-slap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or click the play button at the top of this page and subscribe to the show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Rightnowish-p1258245/\">TuneIn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish\">Stitcher\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week, as we near the end of 2022, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/one-beautiful-thing\">One Beautiful Thing\u003c/a> from the year. Here, in a year of endless freeway commutes and big-city gridlock, correspondent Pendarvis Harshaw honors the spiritual regeneration of a well-timed sunset.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>omeone asks you the best place to watch a sunset in Northern California, what do you say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving down I-80 after leaving Tahoe? Sitting on a beach in Monterey? Pulled over somewhere on Hwy. 1, watching that big burning ball in the sky skinny dip into the Pacific?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">This year alone, I’ve seen the sunset from the fishing pier in Benicia, and Lone Tree Point in Rodeo. Have you ever been to San Jose’s Alviso Marina? With its wetlands, wide array of birds and murky waves, it’s like another world during the evening hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my personal top five favorite spots is the east side of Lake Merritt; I love watching the pelicans dive into the water as the sun dips behind the Alameda County Courthouse. And quiet as it’s kept, another personal favorite is the McDonalds parking lot on the hillside of Vallejo’s Magazine Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This place we call home has so many large bodies of water, changes in elevation, amazing displays of architecture, and evenings of pleasant weather that you really can’t go wrong when it comes to a Northern California sunset. You could literally pull over at the intersection of Road 104 and Road 35 in Davis, among the cows, and fall in love with the colors of the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Davis.Sunset-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"The sun disappears behind the plains of Central California, the sky a burnt amber and blue\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Davis.Sunset-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Davis.Sunset-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Davis.Sunset-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Davis.Sunset-768x563.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Davis.Sunset-1536x1127.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Davis.Sunset.jpg 1885w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view after pulling over at Road 104 and Road 35 in Davis, among the cows. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he most memorable sunset of my year, though, involves an unfortunate carjacking on the Bay Bridge, a much-needed conversation about the under-recognized legacy of San Francisco gangsta rap, and getting blasted by sand on Ocean Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story starts in a boutique hip-hop clothing shop in San Francisco’s Lakeview neighborhood. Varsity jackets and colorful hoodies line one wall, while the other bears a mural painted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916721/sucka-free-history-with-dregs-one\">Dregs One\u003c/a>. It’s a collage of Bay Area rappers who’ve transitioned to ancestor-hood. I’m in the middle of the store chopping it up with the shop owner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cellski415/?hl=en\">Cellski\u003c/a>, a San Francisco rap icon whose career spans four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s telling me about the history of rappers and dope dealers in the City. That leads to a conversation about Chemical Baby, Cellski’s clothing line, a name inspired by the toxic dirt and water found in his community, as well as the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco hip-hop legend Cellski, at his boutique clothing store in Lakeview.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13922284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco hip-hop legend Cellski at his boutique clothing store in Lakeview. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We talk about some of his upcoming plans, and then I shake his hand and head toward the door, ready to drive back to Sacramento. He warns me about traffic. On top of the usual 5 p.m. gridlock, apparently there’d been\u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/chp-looks-for-armed-carjacking-suspect-on-bay-bridge/\"> a carjacking on the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> earlier that day, and The City was a shitshow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I decide to kill time by grabbing a slice from Northgate Pizza and hitting Ocean Beach. That’s where I messed up. The wind and sand combined to drop a diss track that my car still hasn’t recovered from. The song goes: “Sand in my beard and in my Thermos / Sand all over my clothes and my epidermis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beach trip truncated and traffic still a mess, I decide on an alternate route: across the Golden Gate Bridge, up 101 and over Hwy. 37 from Novato to Vallejo. From there, I figure, I can catch 80 and bypass the gridlock as I head back to Sac — and I get more than I bargained for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"The sun sets behind the skyline of Oakland's downtown with Lake Merritt in the foreground\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-768x566.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-1536x1133.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-2048x1510.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-1920x1416.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Merritt, Oakland’s jewel. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he afternoon conversation with the Lakeview lyricist inspired my evening playlist. I slap a couple tracks from Cellski, then 11/5, Cougnut, and an RBL Posse track or two. With early- to mid-’90s Frisco gangsta rap blasting through the speakers of my midsize hybrid, I hit Hwy. 37 right at golden hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving east, the sunset in my rearview, I watch as the spring sky turns beaming, brilliant shades of Baskin-Robbins Rainbow Sherbet and Starburst Passion Fruit purple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Route 37 is low-lying, two-lane highway that runs along the northern edge of San Pablo Bay. It’s surrounded by marshy wetlands and a series of sloughs, as well as the Napa River. The water ripples up right next to the road. The cautious mind wonders \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/highway-37-could-be-under-water-decades-from-now-heres-caltrans-solution/\">how long this infrastructure will hold against rising tides\u003c/a>. The imaginative mind feels like it’s riding atop the waves of the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the present mind enjoys the classic SF gangsta rap reverberating through the stock sound system as the sun sets in my rearview mirror. \u003cem>There’s a bluebird on my shoulder, should I kill it?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all the photos I’ve taken of sunsets this year, that’s the one I didn’t take. Probably safer to take a pass on getting a pixelated image of a gigantic star burning 91 million miles away, while driving 70 miles per hour on a giant rotating rock. (It would’ve been really, really pretty tho.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on this year and all the sunsets I’ve seen, so many of them were background visuals for my lengthy commute. Every once in a while, I’d get to a specific spot, face toward the west, and watch nature’s daily magic happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet my most memorable sunset of the year, I watched as I drove in the opposite direction. How lucky are we? 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Varsity jackets and colorful hoodies line one wall, while the other bears a mural painted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916721/sucka-free-history-with-dregs-one\">Dregs One\u003c/a>. It’s a collage of Bay Area rappers who’ve transitioned to ancestor-hood. I’m in the middle of the store chopping it up with the shop owner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cellski415/?hl=en\">Cellski\u003c/a>, a San Francisco rap icon whose career spans four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s telling me about the history of rappers and dope dealers in the City. That leads to a conversation about Chemical Baby, Cellski’s clothing line, a name inspired by the toxic dirt and water found in his community, as well as the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco hip-hop legend Cellski, at his boutique clothing store in Lakeview.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13922284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IMG_8555-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco hip-hop legend Cellski at his boutique clothing store in Lakeview. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We talk about some of his upcoming plans, and then I shake his hand and head toward the door, ready to drive back to Sacramento. He warns me about traffic. On top of the usual 5 p.m. gridlock, apparently there’d been\u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/chp-looks-for-armed-carjacking-suspect-on-bay-bridge/\"> a carjacking on the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> earlier that day, and The City was a shitshow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I decide to kill time by grabbing a slice from Northgate Pizza and hitting Ocean Beach. That’s where I messed up. The wind and sand combined to drop a diss track that my car still hasn’t recovered from. The song goes: “Sand in my beard and in my Thermos / Sand all over my clothes and my epidermis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beach trip truncated and traffic still a mess, I decide on an alternate route: across the Golden Gate Bridge, up 101 and over Hwy. 37 from Novato to Vallejo. From there, I figure, I can catch 80 and bypass the gridlock as I head back to Sac — and I get more than I bargained for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"The sun sets behind the skyline of Oakland's downtown with Lake Merritt in the foreground\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-768x566.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-1536x1133.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-2048x1510.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/LakeMerrit.Sunset.1-1920x1416.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Merritt, Oakland’s jewel. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he afternoon conversation with the Lakeview lyricist inspired my evening playlist. I slap a couple tracks from Cellski, then 11/5, Cougnut, and an RBL Posse track or two. With early- to mid-’90s Frisco gangsta rap blasting through the speakers of my midsize hybrid, I hit Hwy. 37 right at golden hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving east, the sunset in my rearview, I watch as the spring sky turns beaming, brilliant shades of Baskin-Robbins Rainbow Sherbet and Starburst Passion Fruit purple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Route 37 is low-lying, two-lane highway that runs along the northern edge of San Pablo Bay. It’s surrounded by marshy wetlands and a series of sloughs, as well as the Napa River. The water ripples up right next to the road. The cautious mind wonders \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/highway-37-could-be-under-water-decades-from-now-heres-caltrans-solution/\">how long this infrastructure will hold against rising tides\u003c/a>. The imaginative mind feels like it’s riding atop the waves of the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the present mind enjoys the classic SF gangsta rap reverberating through the stock sound system as the sun sets in my rearview mirror. \u003cem>There’s a bluebird on my shoulder, should I kill it?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all the photos I’ve taken of sunsets this year, that’s the one I didn’t take. Probably safer to take a pass on getting a pixelated image of a gigantic star burning 91 million miles away, while driving 70 miles per hour on a giant rotating rock. (It would’ve been really, really pretty tho.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on this year and all the sunsets I’ve seen, so many of them were background visuals for my lengthy commute. Every once in a while, I’d get to a specific spot, face toward the west, and watch nature’s daily magic happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet my most memorable sunset of the year, I watched as I drove in the opposite direction. How lucky are we? There are so many beautiful places to watch the sunset here in the Bay Area that we can literally turn our back, and it’s still one of the prettiest sights in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week, as we near the end of 2022, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/one-beautiful-thing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One Beautiful Thing\u003c/a> from the year. Here, recounting a seemingly hopeless quest to retrieve a lost bag in New York City, editor Gabe Meline remains in awe at the kindness of strangers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here I was, in a city of 8 million people, after 12 hours of travel, standing on Lexington Avenue and hoping for a New York miracle. I’d only been in Manhattan for an hour, and already I was flagging down a taxi late at night and shouting “Follow that cab!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13881659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_-160x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_-160x181.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Well, more accurately: “Follow that little dot on this tiny map.” Meaning the GPS-enabled dot moving around a screen as part of the Find My iPhone feature. The dot indicating that somewhere out there, in one of New York City’s other 13,000 taxi cabs, sat my daughter’s blue bag that she’d left behind, containing her diary, school laptop, notebooks, iPhone and AirPods she’d bought with her saved-up allowance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter who at that very moment was curled up on the hotel bed, regretting her thoughtlessness, in tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a small-town dad in a huge, unfamiliar metropolis, with maybe half an idea of what I was doing, at best. But I couldn’t stand to see her crying. I had to get that bag back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An explanation is in order: at the airport terminal, we’d had to switch to another taxicab to get a ride into Manhattan. Our first taxi driver quoted us a fare higher than what dispatch told us it should cost, and when I asked why, he promptly threw us out of his cab. He and I exchanged some four-letter words, and we piled into the next waiting taxi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until getting to our hotel, an hour later, that we realized the first taxi driver had sped away with the bag inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13922261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/taxi.nyc_.bag_.jpg\" alt=\"a blue handbag, sitting against a white linen background\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/taxi.nyc_.bag_.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/taxi.nyc_.bag_-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called Central Taxi Hold at JFK for help. “You got the medallion number?” the director asked. I didn’t. “Well, tell us the credit card number you used for your fare, and we can trace the medallion number,” he said. No dice: we hadn’t ridden in the taxi, let alone paid any fare. “Oh, well then… you may be waitin’ for it to turn up in lost and found. \u003cem>If\u003c/em> he turns it in, that is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I called 311, my wife remembered she’d set up tracking on our daughter’s phone in case of emergencies, and pulled up its map, excited to discover a little dot that refreshed every 15 seconds or so, traveling around the streets of midtown. Talking to the woman working 311, after we’d exhausted all possible options, I offhandedly remarked, “I’m half-tempted to get another cab and have them chase after this dot on the map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well,” she said, “that’s probably what a New Yorker would do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Challenge accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13922258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/NYC.taxi_.map_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/NYC.taxi_.map_.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/NYC.taxi_.map_-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he first taxi driver that pulled over laughed at my wild goose chase, but the second said, “Yeah. Get in.” His name was Gani. And so began our three-hour hunt for the missing bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a couple rounds in Manhattan, we followed the dot across the Queensboro Bridge into Queens. All the way back to JFK. We scanned the traffic around us and closely trailed the dot as our getaway taxi driver bypassed Central Taxi Hold, went straight to a terminal, picked up a fare, and — to my despair — quickly got on the freeway and headed again into Manhattan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was carsick from staring at a phone, and operating on three hours of sleep the night before. I texted my wife and daughter: “If we can’t catch him in Manhattan I may have to give up for the night. I can’t go all the way out to JFK again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13922256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Texts.nyc_.taxi_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Texts.nyc_.taxi_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Texts.nyc_.taxi_-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Texts.nyc_.taxi_-768x471.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gani had other plans. Up to that point, our conversation had been about how to intercept the cab. I learned all about New York’s taxicab regulations, many of which our getaway cab driver was brazenly ignoring, which didn’t fill me with hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while driving around Manhattan for the second time, Gani asked about my daughter. “She’s 13,” I said. Old enough that she doesn’t cry anymore, I said. Except for tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I looked up and noticed that the fare meter wasn’t running anymore. The dot on the map headed across the Queensboro Bridge yet again, and Gani followed. I assured him that it was OK to call it a night and drop me off at the hotel, but he wasn’t having it. “We will get your bag back,” he said confidently, pulling onto the bridge onramp. “We should be able to stop him at the airport this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We did not stop him at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ut we did happen to spot a good luck omen when we returned to JFK, outside an airport terminal: the woman who’d been working dispatch two hours earlier. Gani jerked the steering wheel to pull over while I quickly hopped out, pen and notebook in hand, to barrage her with questions. Did she remember us, having to switch cabs? Did she know the driver? Could she tell us anything to help get our bag back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short order, we had the cab driver’s phone number and medallion number. Central Taxi Hold ran the number, and discovered that he wasn’t even supposed to be on the clock that night. Probably working side jobs and illegally pocketing the fares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With renewed vigor, Gani again followed the dot as it moved along the freeway, back toward Manhattan for the second time since our chase began. We called the phone number repeatedly — no answer. This rogue taxi driver was clearly avoiding us; he’d had our bag for five hours, and seemed to have no intention of turning it in to lost and found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gani tried another tact via text: “We have your medallion number and we know where you are.” He picked up our next call. And so, just when I had lost all faith, it was over in a flash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around midnight on 34th and 1st, the runaway cab driver pulled over, handed us the bag, and drove off. I checked the contents; all there. Incredible. Out of all the far-fetched, improbable plans, ours had actually worked. “I … I can’t believe that really happened,” I muttered from the passenger seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gani just laughed — and, slapping his palm on the steering wheel, announced: “Welcome to New York!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13922257\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Nyc.Taxi_.finale.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a teenage girl, holding a small blue bag, pose together outside a yellow taxicab on the busy streets on New York City\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Nyc.Taxi_.finale.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Nyc.Taxi_.finale-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gani and the author’s daughter, reunited at last with her lost bag. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This week, as we near the end of 2022, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/one-beautiful-thing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One Beautiful Thing\u003c/a> from the year. Here, recounting a seemingly hopeless quest to retrieve a lost bag in New York City, editor Gabe Meline remains in awe at the kindness of strangers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here I was, in a city of 8 million people, after 12 hours of travel, standing on Lexington Avenue and hoping for a New York miracle. I’d only been in Manhattan for an hour, and already I was flagging down a taxi late at night and shouting “Follow that cab!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13881659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_-160x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_-160x181.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Well, more accurately: “Follow that little dot on this tiny map.” Meaning the GPS-enabled dot moving around a screen as part of the Find My iPhone feature. The dot indicating that somewhere out there, in one of New York City’s other 13,000 taxi cabs, sat my daughter’s blue bag that she’d left behind, containing her diary, school laptop, notebooks, iPhone and AirPods she’d bought with her saved-up allowance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter who at that very moment was curled up on the hotel bed, regretting her thoughtlessness, in tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a small-town dad in a huge, unfamiliar metropolis, with maybe half an idea of what I was doing, at best. But I couldn’t stand to see her crying. I had to get that bag back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An explanation is in order: at the airport terminal, we’d had to switch to another taxicab to get a ride into Manhattan. Our first taxi driver quoted us a fare higher than what dispatch told us it should cost, and when I asked why, he promptly threw us out of his cab. He and I exchanged some four-letter words, and we piled into the next waiting taxi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until getting to our hotel, an hour later, that we realized the first taxi driver had sped away with the bag inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13922261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/taxi.nyc_.bag_.jpg\" alt=\"a blue handbag, sitting against a white linen background\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/taxi.nyc_.bag_.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/taxi.nyc_.bag_-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called Central Taxi Hold at JFK for help. “You got the medallion number?” the director asked. I didn’t. “Well, tell us the credit card number you used for your fare, and we can trace the medallion number,” he said. No dice: we hadn’t ridden in the taxi, let alone paid any fare. “Oh, well then… you may be waitin’ for it to turn up in lost and found. \u003cem>If\u003c/em> he turns it in, that is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I called 311, my wife remembered she’d set up tracking on our daughter’s phone in case of emergencies, and pulled up its map, excited to discover a little dot that refreshed every 15 seconds or so, traveling around the streets of midtown. 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I can’t go all the way out to JFK again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13922256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Texts.nyc_.taxi_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Texts.nyc_.taxi_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Texts.nyc_.taxi_-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Texts.nyc_.taxi_-768x471.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gani had other plans. Up to that point, our conversation had been about how to intercept the cab. I learned all about New York’s taxicab regulations, many of which our getaway cab driver was brazenly ignoring, which didn’t fill me with hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while driving around Manhattan for the second time, Gani asked about my daughter. “She’s 13,” I said. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GettyImages-1322401462.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GettyImages-1322401462-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd of people examine used objects\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GettyImages-1322401462-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GettyImages-1322401462-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GettyImages-1322401462-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GettyImages-1322401462-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GettyImages-1322401462.jpg 1502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoppers at the Alemany flea market look over a table in 1997. \u003ccite>(Photo by Lea Suzuki / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>At we near the end of 2022, each of us writers and editors at KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/one-beautiful-thing\">one beautiful thing\u003c/a> from the year. Here, in a year where our work lives and personal lives became ever more intertwined, our editor Sarah Hotchkiss explains how visiting flea markets helped her retain the concept of free time. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap] am very bad at weekends. I do not relax, I do not go on local hikes or drink mimosas at brunch or do any of the million things the Bay Area has to offer its more sane residents. I know I’m doing this wrong. While other people replenish their work-addled minds by taking in vistas, eating delicious food (leisurely) or simply enjoying the year-round comfort of our Bay Area weather, I spend my weekends alone in a frigid concrete-lined studio, hunched under fluorescent lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostensibly, I am doing the thing I love, which is making art. But my body does not thank me for these extra hours of work and isolation. It’s lonely and sometimes painful (neck aches, finger cramps, eye twitches). Periodically, I remember to move around a bit and shove some snacks in my face. I listen to hours of tinny podcasts and audiobooks on my phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13922215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Sarah.bio_.headshot.thumb_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"177\">When I look back at a 2022 of un-weekends, the highlights were the moments when I portioned off something that might resemble a more ordinary understanding of what those days are for. For three hours each Sunday, I go to the flea market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a very specific, not-for-everyone ritual. Because I live with a flea market aficionado and meet a select group of friends there nearly weekly, I sometimes forget that. I have recommended the flea market to people who cruise through in 15 minutes or less and never return. Family members who seem to like old, interesting things have humored me, then touched nothing and bought nothing, confused by my dedication to this activity and place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to remind myself that even though there is something for everyone at the flea market, the flea market is not \u003ci>for\u003c/i> everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the flea market’s polarizing effect, I have found my people. My boyfriend, a total fiend for used books, odd objects and anything that might be described as a “deal” or a “find,” has been known to visit foreign cities and feel satisfied only when he has attended the local flea market. Kassel, Germany? Pretty good. Mexico City? Amazing. Turin, Italy? We ran out of room in our luggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1256176605.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922224\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1256176605-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Three African-American family members laughing and gesturing at items on a table during a flea market\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1256176605-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1256176605-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1256176605-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1256176605-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1256176605.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family sells items at a flea market in San Francisco, 1984. \u003ccite>(Clarence Gatson Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our home is filled with things picked up off the streets of San Francisco. Our shelves are lined with used books like \u003ci>Flim-Flam!\u003c/i> (because exclamation marks are delightful), pulp paperbacks stacked two-deep, and even (in a meta-moment) a photo book of ’70s and ’80s California flea markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The joy of the flea market is the browse, not necessarily the find. Meander past sellers with their wares spread across folding tables or moving blankets with a concrete goal and you’ll likely never find the object you’re looking for, especially if you’ve seen it every week prior. You have to let the flea market come to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if you’re never going to purchase a plaster rooster or a pair of silver shoes or a crated sculpture made from spray foam and corrugated aluminum, seeing these things, knowing they were once loved or worn or made, is enough. It’s enough to remember that the people who owned them are strange and not like you — a great thing. They had different tastes and needs. They wore silver shoes! And kept a plaster rooster in their dinette! And made a weird-ass sculpture that might actually be good!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1321749318.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1321749318-800x634.jpg\" alt=\"a pile of baseball cards and money among other antique on a table\" width=\"800\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1321749318-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1321749318-1020x808.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1321749318-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1321749318-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1321749318.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stamp books, money from around the world and baseball cards at the Alemany Flea Market in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In these moments, the flea market is a reminder that different lives (expressed through objects) can coexist. Such reminders don’t happen that often anymore: jury duty, public transit, the library. But we are usually here to seek out joy and small pleasures, not just metaphors for a healthy society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you find a thing at the flea market that is so wonderful you don’t even bother to haggle over the price, that you must have for some deeply felt reason despite the accumulation of stuff on your shelves, that is an even more wonderful connection. You now share a relationship to that object with someone else. And you are not different. 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To understand the weight of this, you must first understand my life as a loyal, non-bandwagon member of Dub Nation, through decades of ridicule and shame when the team would regularly finish as the cellar dwellers of the league. Back when they played at Oracle Arena. Back when the Bay Area felt like a different home, and my teenage self had yet to discover what home really meant to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13922121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Alan.Chazaro.bio_.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"181\">But this particular Thursday in June was different. The Warriors were gearing up to claim their fourth Larry O’Brien trophy amid a dynastic run of championship grandeur. It was jolting. It was surreal. 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