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And the Bay Area’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928345/mishmish-vegan-palestinian-pop-up\">vegan Palestinian pop-up, Mishmish\u003c/a>, will be on hand to serve diasporic plates throughout the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928355\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1366px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/5HOA9KqO.jpg-large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/5HOA9KqO.jpg-large.jpeg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/5HOA9KqO.jpg-large-800x1199.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/5HOA9KqO.jpg-large-1020x1529.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/5HOA9KqO.jpg-large-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/5HOA9KqO.jpg-large-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/5HOA9KqO.jpg-large-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bazella, a carrot and green pea stew, served at Mishmish. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The screening will be hosted at a private location with a suggestion donation of $10, and the option to lend additional aid to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.palestinercs.org/en\">Palestine Red Crescent Society\u003c/a>, a member of the International Red Cross. In order to attend, audience members must show proof of having reached out to their representatives \u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/call-congress-support-ceasefire/\">calling for a ceasefire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coincidentally, the East Bay surf club \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queersurf/?hl=en\">Queer Surf\u003c/a>, in conjunction with Cinema Iran, will screen the film in Berkeley that same night. El-Hage says the events weren’t coordinated, but are a reflection of a “collective consciousness in this heavy moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El-Hage, who is in the process of applying to medical school, notes that 2.2 million people in Gaza currently don’t have access to food, water, fuel, electricity, medicine and other basic needs. “Why are we calling for a ceasefire? 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We can all approach this with that love and learn about a group of amazing people who just happen to speak another language, and that can lead to taking more action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone 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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://gazasurfclub.com/\">‘Gaza Surf Club’\u003c/a> screens in San Francisco on Friday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. For more details, \u003ca href=\"mailto:sfsurfingpals@gmail.com\">email the organizers\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queersurf/?hl=en\">Queer Surf\u003c/a> will screen the film Friday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. at \u003ca href=\"https://www.2727.today/\">2727 Gallery\u003c/a> (2727 California St., Berkeley). $10 donation suggested. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Quick: What’s a good adjective for Nicolas Cage’s screen presence? Mercurial, perhaps? Volcanic? Volatile?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How about mundane, schlubby, average? Not the page we’d think to turn to in our Roget’s Thesaurus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13937140']Yet here Cage is, channeling his inner drabness to chillingly comic effect in Kristoffer Borgli’s \u003cem>Dream Scenario\u003c/em>. As Paul Matthews (heck, even the name is drab), a college professor at nowhere famous, he performs his job with perfect mediocrity, and seems a fairly mediocre husband and dad, too. With his graying beard, wire-rimmed specs and shiny bald spot, Cage’s Paul is the guy in the room you ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until, suddenly, you can’t. Because something weird starts happening. Paul starts appearing in people’s dreams. Everyone’s dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The premise is delicious — and precarious. It recalled for me the setup in a very different movie, \u003cem>Yesterday\u003c/em>, where only one guy on Earth remembers the Beatles. It makes for a fantastic beginning, but you immediately worry how they’ll manage to keep it going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Borgli, the Norwegian writer-director making his English-language debut here (Ari Aster co-produces), is aiming for a broader statement about the nature of fame. And while the topic, which he’s broached before, may not be original, it’s ripe for exploration in the right hands — especially with an actor as inventive and unpredictable as Cage. Fame can be intoxicating, this film is saying, but it can and probably will turn on you in an instant, unless you’re Taylor Swift (OK, we added that last part).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We begin on an autumn day by a suburban swimming pool, where Paul is raking leaves near his teen daughter. Scary things start dropping from the heavens, and suddenly the girl is grabbed by an unknown force and lifted, screaming, into the sky. Dad? He does nothing to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only the girl’s dream. But then there are more. Paul and his patient wife, Janet (Julianne Nicholson, reliably excellent) run into someone at the theater, and she too has dreamed about Paul. At a dinner party, several guests discover to their shock that they’ve been dreaming about the same person. Yep, Paul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3x9iUL-74w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s happening? On campus, Paul’s students, who mostly chat among themselves during his unremarkable lectures on evolutionary biology, start listening — they’re dreaming about him, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many of these dreams, Paul stands by, inexplicably, as others experience peril — slithering alligators, for example. But in real life, for once, Paul has the floor — a man who until now seethed with frustration over his unrealized ambitions as others succeeded. Now, everyone is interested in him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13937708']Borgli never stops to analyze the science of this bizarre development, and frankly, Paul doesn’t either. He takes a meeting with a snarky group of branding experts (led by Michael Cera, perfectly cast) who want to market him up the wazoo. They can get him a Sprite commercial! Well, Paul doesn’t want that — he just wants a book deal for his biology research. But his ears perk up at the idea of an endorsement from Barack Obama. (“I know Malia,” one of these young professionals says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One young woman even lets on to Paul that in her dreams, the two have great sex. This is too stunning for the schlubby Paul to ignore, especially when she invites him home to recreate the dream. Needless to say, it doesn’t go as well in real life. In fact, the dénoument is utterly, agonizingly humiliating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, everyone’s dreams change. Suddenly Paul is the one causing harm. His students, terrified, don’t want to see him anymore. He gets sent home from a dinner with friends. He can’t even sit in a coffee shop and read a book without a fellow diner spitting on his food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the branding consultants, well, they inform Paul that Obama is off the table — but hey, they could get him time with Joe Rogan or maybe Tucker Carlson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1834px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-11.07.05-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1834\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-11.07.05-AM.png 1834w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-11.07.05-AM-800x481.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-11.07.05-AM-1020x613.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-11.07.05-AM-160x96.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-11.07.05-AM-768x461.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-11.07.05-AM-1536x923.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1834px) 100vw, 1834px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dylan Gelula, Michael Cera and Kate Berlant in ‘Dream Scenario.’ \u003ccite>(A24 via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13937525']We won’t spoil the ending, but let’s just make the obvious point that Borgli is not making a rom-com — is there a word for “horror-com”? We walk away from this funny, sad, scary film acutely reminded that if fame has two sides, one of them is pretty darned horrible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And perhaps, as you walk home from the multiplex this time, you might even revel in the fact that nobody’s paying attention. Obscurity can be underrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Dream Scenario’ is released nationwide on Nov. 10.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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There was the time Streisand jumped in to offer a blocking cue to Robert Redford on the set of \u003cem>The Way We Were\u003c/em>. And of \u003cem>course\u003c/em> she informed the director of the best way to block herself for her Broadway debut at the tender age of 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, when everyone from her agent to dozens of producers suggested \u003cem>Yentl\u003c/em> was “too Jewish” to connect with mainstream audiences, she pressed on, eventually garnering five Academy Award nominations and one win for the film. The film took over 15 years to make, but ultimately Streisand’s resolve won out. “I became what I wanted to be … I don’t want somebody telling me what I can’t be,” she told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13937207']Across the book’s 59 chapters and many decades, Streisand is careful to uplift the names of those who encouraged, impressed, or even challenged her. Her detractors tend to be aired out or paid dust. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Everything here is tantalizingly close to calculated perfection that it comes almost as a surprise how \u003cem>The Killer\u003c/em> ends up missing its mark. You could call it a feature of the film’s existentialism, but \u003cem>The Killer\u003c/em> increasingly is working, albeit proficiently, in a vacuum. Our hitman travels from place to place — always with fake passports with the names of TV characters like Felix Unger, Lou Grant or Sam Malone — but we don’t get anywhere deeper with him or anything else. Meaningless may be the point in \u003cem>The Killer\u003c/em>, but at a certain point in this stylishly composed but empty vessel, you feel like pleading as another Fincher protagonist once did: What’s in the box?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Killer’ begins streaming on Netflix on Nov. 10.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of the earliest shots in the documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://sffilm.org/event/the-mission/\">The Mission\u003c/a>\u003c/em> hangs from a distance on North Sentinel Island, a remote speck of Indian jungle located along the southeast edge of the Bay of Bengal. Thick, gray clouds clog the sky overhead. Trees, nearly black in the gloom, crowd so close to the water that you can hardly make out a sliver of sandy shore. The island is far away, and it is alone. Its inhabitants, we will soon learn, intend to keep it that way. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the island at such a remove engenders a complicated yearning — \u003cem>why can’t we just push a little bit closer, see a little more clearly\u003c/em>, one wonders. But this complication is quickly smoothed over by suspenseful music thrumming underneath: This is adventure, not meditation, the soundtrack says. The incongruity concisely foreshadows the jumbled film to come, in which San Francisco filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss search for nuance in a sensational news event while struggling to resist its convenient thrills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Mission\u003c/em> retells the viral story of American missionary John Chau, who in November 2018 disappeared off the coast of North Sentinel Island while trying to convert the island’s Indigenous people to Christianity. The island is home to what may be the last uncontacted Indigenous group on Earth: a Stone Age people who have consistently refused interaction with the outside world by shooting — and several times killing — visitors with arrows. Chau, 26 at the time, eluded Indian naval ships charged with guarding the island by hitching a ride on a small wooden fishing boat. It is believed that after twice rebuffing his entreaties, tribesmen killed Chau and buried him on their shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a yellow kayak holds a pink fish above his head as people walk from beach into water\" width=\"2000\" height=\"832\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-800x333.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-1020x424.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-768x319.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-1536x639.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-1920x799.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of John showing gifts he brought as he approaches the Sentinelese. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Geographic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chau’s death drew breathless media coverage from across the globe, and a logline for \u003cem>The Mission\u003c/em> reads that the documentary “uncovers the gripping story behind the headlines.” But it’s difficult to discern what in the film, if anything, needed uncovering. The movie contributes little information that wasn’t previously reported in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/03/john-chau-christian-missionary-death-sentinelese\">newspaper features\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/john-allen-chau-life-death-north-sentinel/\">magazine narratives\u003c/a>, revolving loosely, instead, around widely reported entries from Chau’s journal and a publicly shared letter from his father, who declined to otherwise participate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resultant portrait is less vivid than what emerges in written narratives. McBain and Moss hire voice actors to read from Chau’s diary entries and his father’s letter, and play the readings over animated reenactments drawn in a hazy oil-paint style. The animation proves a creative solution to the filmmakers’ lack of access, but like all documentary reenactment, the performances wind up constrained by reality. Likewise, the written words are constrained by the actors’ specific dramatic choices. Where the diary entries take on a certain symbolic weight when presented unadorned on a written page, they become itchy and over-dramatized in the readings, leaving an impersonation of Chau rather than any sense of his true self. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Older man sits at table covered with books and gestures with open hand\" width=\"2000\" height=\"834\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-800x334.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-1020x425.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-768x320.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-1536x641.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-1920x801.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Everett, a professor of linguistics and a former missionary, has both a profound respect for John Chau and a disdain for his actions in ‘The Mission.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Geographic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McBain and Moss add to this source material a host of original interviews with anthropologists, historians and religious experts, as well as archival footage of Chau as a young boy. Ostensibly, the clips are meant to reflect the larger context in which Chau planned and executed his fatal journey, and thus bring him into sharper focus. The clips succeed in this endeavor, to an extent. Histories of the Christian mission movement, for example, give Chau’s conviction mooring and his hubris scale. More often, though, the supplementary materials introduce ideas and subjects that scream out for deeper attention, rendering Chau a distraction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is Chau has always been the least interesting character in his own story. It is hard to imagine that this documentary would have been made had Chau been killed by a less isolated Indigenous tribe. The intrigue lies instead with the Sentinelese, with their unknown language and their unknown culture. \u003cem>The Mission\u003c/em> shines most brightly when McBain and Moss probe the ethics of this fascination. It is our loss, as viewers, that they keep these ideas at a distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" 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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘\u003ca href=\"https://sffilm.org/event/the-mission/\">The Mission\u003c/a>’ screens Nov. 3, 8 p.m. at Premier Theater (1 Letterman Dr. #B, San Francisco) as part of SFFILM’s \u003ca href=\"https://sffilm.org/2023-festival-program/\">Doc Stories festival\u003c/a>. It opens Nov. 10 at the Landmark Opera Plaza and the Smith Rafael Film Center.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It is believed that after twice rebuffing his entreaties, tribesmen killed Chau and buried him on their shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a yellow kayak holds a pink fish above his head as people walk from beach into water\" width=\"2000\" height=\"832\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-800x333.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-1020x424.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-768x319.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-1536x639.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_39_2000-1920x799.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of John showing gifts he brought as he approaches the Sentinelese. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Geographic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chau’s death drew breathless media coverage from across the globe, and a logline for \u003cem>The Mission\u003c/em> reads that the documentary “uncovers the gripping story behind the headlines.” But it’s difficult to discern what in the film, if anything, needed uncovering. The movie contributes little information that wasn’t previously reported in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/03/john-chau-christian-missionary-death-sentinelese\">newspaper features\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/john-allen-chau-life-death-north-sentinel/\">magazine narratives\u003c/a>, revolving loosely, instead, around widely reported entries from Chau’s journal and a publicly shared letter from his father, who declined to otherwise participate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resultant portrait is less vivid than what emerges in written narratives. McBain and Moss hire voice actors to read from Chau’s diary entries and his father’s letter, and play the readings over animated reenactments drawn in a hazy oil-paint style. The animation proves a creative solution to the filmmakers’ lack of access, but like all documentary reenactment, the performances wind up constrained by reality. 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Where the diary entries take on a certain symbolic weight when presented unadorned on a written page, they become itchy and over-dramatized in the readings, leaving an impersonation of Chau rather than any sense of his true self. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Older man sits at table covered with books and gestures with open hand\" width=\"2000\" height=\"834\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-800x334.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-1020x425.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-768x320.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-1536x641.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/TheMission_UHD_21_2000-1920x801.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Everett, a professor of linguistics and a former missionary, has both a profound respect for John Chau and a disdain for his actions in ‘The Mission.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Geographic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McBain and Moss add to this source material a host of original interviews with anthropologists, historians and religious experts, as well as archival footage of Chau as a young boy. 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"content": "\u003cp>The great unsung virtue of historical documentaries such as \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/brotheroutsider/\">Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin\u003c/a>\u003c/em> (2003), which premiered at Sundance 20 years ago and aired nationally on PBS,\u003cbr>\nis rescuing and preserving forgotten legacies. Rustin, the civil rights activist who masterminded the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom but was pushed to the margins because of his homosexuality, belatedly received his close-up in East Bay filmmaker Nancy Kates’ bittersweet portrait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biopics are most moviegoers’ preferred mode of visual history, though: epic yet intimate dramas with an emotional climax, driven by a larger-than-life performance by a charismatic star. This is not a recent development, of course — \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Muni\">Paul Muni\u003c/a> did successive turns as Louis Pasteur, Emile Zola and Benito Juárez in the late 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not incidentally, biopics certify heroes. I can’t imagine that Kates, or anyone else in 2003, would have predicted that Hollywood would ever make a feature film about Bayard Rustin. (Certainly not one with a budget to cover a small fleet of 1960s NYC buses, taxis and automobiles.) So let us celebrate George C. Wolfe’s rousing \u003cem>Rustin\u003c/em> (opening Nov. 3 in theaters and debuting Nov. 17 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81111528\">Netflix\u003c/a>), which positions — or should I say mainstreams — Bayard Rustin as one of the boosters who rocketed the Civil Rights Movement to national influence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men march arm in arm with posters for civil rights and integration\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Michael Potts as Cleve Robinson, Aml Ameen as Martin Luther King Jr., Chris Rock as NAACP Exec. Dir. Roy Wilkins, Glynn Turman as A. Philip Randolph and Kevin Mambo as Whitney Young in ‘Rustin.’ \u003ccite>(David Lee/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wolfe’s pitch, presumably, invoked the 60th anniversary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/march-on-washington.htm\">the massive protest\u003c/a> on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that is best remembered today as Martin Luther King Jr.’s coming-out party. King (Ami Ameen) has a small role in \u003cem>Rustin\u003c/em> — this is the activist’s show, after all, and it wouldn’t do for him to be upstaged, even by the event’s headliner — that paradoxically comprises the film’s weaker moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporting cast is highlighted by Jeffrey Wright’s deliciously villainous rendition of the silver-tongued, self-serving congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Rustin’s prime antagonist, however, is cautious NAACP leader Roy Wilkins (a too-recognizable Chris Rock), perpetually concerned that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (via the media) will use Rustin’s gay identity to discredit the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13909135']These powerful men play second fiddle to a sometimes manic, sometimes melancholy, always charming Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin. Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black’s screenplay gives Domingo a steady stream of galvanizing speeches and punchy one-liners that put us squarely onboard with Rustin’s hard-won wisdom and daring, seize-the-moment crusade. (The preview audience at the AMC Kabuki was moved to applause and cheers more than once.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A man crouches in front of seated people in a living room, gesturing and talking excitedly\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin, Jakeem Dante Powell as Norm, Ayana Workman as Eleanor and Lilli Kay as Rachelle in ‘Rustin.’ \u003ccite>(David Lee/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The film’s structure is generally inspired by Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland (“let’s put on a show”), with a bigger operation and higher stakes. The movie squeezes Rustin’s life into the eight or so weeks in which he enlisted and supervised a corps of volunteers to raise funds, enroll attendees and organize the logistics from buses to bag lunches to cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cresting on the National Mall, \u003cem>Rustin\u003c/em> is a triumphant film, a vindication and validation of Rustin’s personality and strategy. In the same moment, it wants us to take inspiration from the idealism of the Civil Rights Movement that nonviolence and mass participation can transform our society for the better. That’s a big lift in the current climate, admittedly, and the movie’s final slip into sentimentality feels like an admission that escapism is the flip side of activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rustin encounters devastating setbacks, of course. At the outset of the film, King’s failure to back his mentor resulted in Rustin’s ouster from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Much later, Rustin is brutally beaten by a cop for refusing to sit in the rear of a Greyhound bus. (He is en route to forgive and make up with King, who he needs to convince to join the D.C. rally he’s planning.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211014_04612_R_f_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Two Black men lean towards each other while seated at bar\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211014_04612_R_f_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211014_04612_R_f_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211014_04612_R_f_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211014_04612_R_f_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211014_04612_R_f_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211014_04612_R_f_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211014_04612_R_f_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin and Johnny Ramey as Elias in ‘Rustin.’ \u003ccite>(David Lee/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His gay relationships provide comfort and pleasure, but also frustration. The movie evokes through vignettes (police raids on gay bars, the risk of public exposure) the fraught, pre-Stonewall lives of gay people, as well as the 50-something Rustin’s difficulty in integrating his personal and public lives. But Wolfe is careful — too careful, I submit — about limiting the intimacy we are allowed to witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homosexuality is not the taboo in the Black community that it once was, but the film is far more comfortable talking about it than depicting it. Rustin shares one chaste kiss with his younger white lover, and has one evocative love scene with a married Black minister. Consequently, we don’t get a full measure of Rustin’s softness, vulnerability and need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rustin recorded a couple albums of spirituals — he had a lovely singing voice — that Kates used to fine effect on the soundtrack of \u003cem>Brother Outsider\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Rustin\u003c/em>, in contrast, includes a clumsy scene in which a character thrusts an instrument into the protagonist’s hands and impels him to play and sing a few bars. That moment encapsulates the limitations of biopics, which compress and shoehorn events and character development into a grand narrative tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man in a black suit stands on the Lincoln Memorial steps, small against the architecture and memorial\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin in ‘Rustin.’ \u003ccite>(Parrish Lewis/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first half of the movie, in particular, skips at a dynamic clip, and it’s easy to slip into its enjoyable, entertaining flow. Colman Domingo carries it the rest of the way, give or take a superfluous, poorly conceived shot that confirms King and Rustin’s reconciliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we had long been convinced of Rustin’s contribution to that day, and beyond. And we also know he will always be an outsider. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" 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>\u003ci>‘Rustin’ opens in select Bay Area theaters Nov. 3 and begins streaming on \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81111528\">Netflix\u003c/a> Nov. 17.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The great unsung virtue of historical documentaries such as \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/brotheroutsider/\">Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin\u003c/a>\u003c/em> (2003), which premiered at Sundance 20 years ago and aired nationally on PBS,\u003cbr>\nis rescuing and preserving forgotten legacies. Rustin, the civil rights activist who masterminded the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom but was pushed to the margins because of his homosexuality, belatedly received his close-up in East Bay filmmaker Nancy Kates’ bittersweet portrait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biopics are most moviegoers’ preferred mode of visual history, though: epic yet intimate dramas with an emotional climax, driven by a larger-than-life performance by a charismatic star. This is not a recent development, of course — \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Muni\">Paul Muni\u003c/a> did successive turns as Louis Pasteur, Emile Zola and Benito Juárez in the late 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not incidentally, biopics certify heroes. I can’t imagine that Kates, or anyone else in 2003, would have predicted that Hollywood would ever make a feature film about Bayard Rustin. (Certainly not one with a budget to cover a small fleet of 1960s NYC buses, taxis and automobiles.) So let us celebrate George C. Wolfe’s rousing \u003cem>Rustin\u003c/em> (opening Nov. 3 in theaters and debuting Nov. 17 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81111528\">Netflix\u003c/a>), which positions — or should I say mainstreams — Bayard Rustin as one of the boosters who rocketed the Civil Rights Movement to national influence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men march arm in arm with posters for civil rights and integration\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211007_00843_R_f_2000-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Michael Potts as Cleve Robinson, Aml Ameen as Martin Luther King Jr., Chris Rock as NAACP Exec. Dir. Roy Wilkins, Glynn Turman as A. Philip Randolph and Kevin Mambo as Whitney Young in ‘Rustin.’ \u003ccite>(David Lee/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wolfe’s pitch, presumably, invoked the 60th anniversary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/march-on-washington.htm\">the massive protest\u003c/a> on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that is best remembered today as Martin Luther King Jr.’s coming-out party. King (Ami Ameen) has a small role in \u003cem>Rustin\u003c/em> — this is the activist’s show, after all, and it wouldn’t do for him to be upstaged, even by the event’s headliner — that paradoxically comprises the film’s weaker moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporting cast is highlighted by Jeffrey Wright’s deliciously villainous rendition of the silver-tongued, self-serving congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Rustin’s prime antagonist, however, is cautious NAACP leader Roy Wilkins (a too-recognizable Chris Rock), perpetually concerned that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (via the media) will use Rustin’s gay identity to discredit the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>These powerful men play second fiddle to a sometimes manic, sometimes melancholy, always charming Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin. Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black’s screenplay gives Domingo a steady stream of galvanizing speeches and punchy one-liners that put us squarely onboard with Rustin’s hard-won wisdom and daring, seize-the-moment crusade. (The preview audience at the AMC Kabuki was moved to applause and cheers more than once.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A man crouches in front of seated people in a living room, gesturing and talking excitedly\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20211112_16090_R_f_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin, Jakeem Dante Powell as Norm, Ayana Workman as Eleanor and Lilli Kay as Rachelle in ‘Rustin.’ \u003ccite>(David Lee/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The film’s structure is generally inspired by Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland (“let’s put on a show”), with a bigger operation and higher stakes. The movie squeezes Rustin’s life into the eight or so weeks in which he enlisted and supervised a corps of volunteers to raise funds, enroll attendees and organize the logistics from buses to bag lunches to cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cresting on the National Mall, \u003cem>Rustin\u003c/em> is a triumphant film, a vindication and validation of Rustin’s personality and strategy. In the same moment, it wants us to take inspiration from the idealism of the Civil Rights Movement that nonviolence and mass participation can transform our society for the better. That’s a big lift in the current climate, admittedly, and the movie’s final slip into sentimentality feels like an admission that escapism is the flip side of activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rustin encounters devastating setbacks, of course. At the outset of the film, King’s failure to back his mentor resulted in Rustin’s ouster from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Much later, Rustin is brutally beaten by a cop for refusing to sit in the rear of a Greyhound bus. 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The movie evokes through vignettes (police raids on gay bars, the risk of public exposure) the fraught, pre-Stonewall lives of gay people, as well as the 50-something Rustin’s difficulty in integrating his personal and public lives. But Wolfe is careful — too careful, I submit — about limiting the intimacy we are allowed to witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homosexuality is not the taboo in the Black community that it once was, but the film is far more comfortable talking about it than depicting it. Rustin shares one chaste kiss with his younger white lover, and has one evocative love scene with a married Black minister. Consequently, we don’t get a full measure of Rustin’s softness, vulnerability and need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rustin recorded a couple albums of spirituals — he had a lovely singing voice — that Kates used to fine effect on the soundtrack of \u003cem>Brother Outsider\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Rustin\u003c/em>, in contrast, includes a clumsy scene in which a character thrusts an instrument into the protagonist’s hands and impels him to play and sing a few bars. That moment encapsulates the limitations of biopics, which compress and shoehorn events and character development into a grand narrative tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man in a black suit stands on the Lincoln Memorial steps, small against the architecture and memorial\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/RSTN_20220808_29393_R_f_2000-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin in ‘Rustin.’ \u003ccite>(Parrish Lewis/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first half of the movie, in particular, skips at a dynamic clip, and it’s easy to slip into its enjoyable, entertaining flow. Colman Domingo carries it the rest of the way, give or take a superfluous, poorly conceived shot that confirms King and Rustin’s reconciliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we had long been convinced of Rustin’s contribution to that day, and beyond. And we also know he will always be an outsider. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s thoughtful and precise and also lets you more fully enjoy the moments where those human-made sounds take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This might be a lot of talk about sound design to start, but it’s also a bit of a primer on what to expect from \u003cem>All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt\u003c/em>, which counts \u003cem>Moonlight\u003c/em> filmmaker Barry Jenkins among its producers. Like sitting in a field for hours without a phone or a book or a companion to chat with, just the world around you, Jackson’s film requires a level of conscious, almost meditative submission. The dialogue is sparse, the narrative is also. It is probably not an accident that some of the first words uttered, minutes in, are “not too quick … slow, take your time.” It applies to the fishing lesson between father and daughter that we’re witnessing, yes, but it works on another level too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQvFKfpCi4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt\u003c/em> is a collection of moments in the life of Mack (Charleen McClure as an adult, Kaylee Nicole Johnson as a child), sometimes skipping back and forth in time. There are long stretches where the camera lingers on a hug, or the red painted toes of a mother at a party, the back of our heroine’s head, a fish on a table, a crying infant getting their first bath in a kitchen sink, or two sisters sitting on a porch, in silence, until one breaks into laughter. And there are many, many hands. It’s possible the camera spends more or at least equal time on hands — preparing a fish, digging in the dirt, holding — or not holding — another, swirling muddy water in a pond. Within this tapestry there are glimpses of great loss, of solitude, of new life and of transitions that feel familiar even if they’re not your own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For as stubbornly minimalist as it is, the imagery is always vibrant, aided by the rich, primary colors of the costumes, and thoughtfully composed shots, whether of a worm wriggling or a classic silhouette looking outside a darkened door. 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Sometimes it feels like you’re wandering through a gallery of moving moments that you understand on an intellectual level are connected but maybe don’t add up to a completely satisfying whole — especially at a trim, but standard, feature length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That it works as well as it does is quite a feat, though. 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"content": "\u003cp>Matthew Perry, who starred as sarcastic-but-sweet Chandler Bing in the hit series \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em>, has died. He was 54.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emmy-nominated actor was found dead of an apparent drowning at his Los Angeles home Saturday, according to the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> and celebrity website TMZ, which was the first to report the news. Both outlets cited unnamed sources confirming Perry’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108851']His publicists and other representatives did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press seeking comment. Asked to confirm police response to what was listed as Perry’s home address, LAPD Officer Drake Madison told AP that officers had gone to that block “for a death investigation of a male in his 50s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry’s 10 seasons on \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> made him one of Hollywood’s most recognizable actors, starring opposite Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer as a friend group in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Chandler, he played the quick-witted, insecure and neurotic roommate of LeBlanc’s Joey and a close friend of Schwimmer’s Ross. During the show’s hijinks, he could be counted on to chime in with a line like, “Could this BE any more awkward?” or another well-timed quip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the series’ end, Chandler is married to Cox’s Monica and they have a family, reflecting the journey of the core cast from single New Yorkers trying to figure their lives out to several of them married and starting families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series was one of television’s biggest hits and has taken on a new life — and found surprising popularity with younger fans — in recent years on streaming services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1476px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-51535873.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde white woman in a black gown clutches an award. Standing on one side of her is a white man in a tuxedo. To the left, another blonde woman and a man in a suit. All are smiling.\" width=\"1476\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-51535873.jpg 1476w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-51535873-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-51535873-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-51535873-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-51535873-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1476px) 100vw, 1476px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry with his ‘Friends’ costars: Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer at the 26th People’s Choice Awards. \u003ccite>(LUCY NICHOLSON/ AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> ran from 1994 until 2004, winning one best comedy series Emmy Award in 2002. The cast notably banded together for later seasons to obtain a salary of $1 million per episode for each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unknown at the time was the struggle Perry had with addiction and an intense desire to please audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> was huge. I couldn’t jeopardize that. I loved my co-actors. I loved the scripts. I loved everything about the show but I was struggling with my addictions which only added to my sense of shame,” he wrote in his memoir, \u003cem>Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing\u003c/em>. “I had a secret and no one could know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was gonna die if the live audience didn’t laugh, and that’s not healthy for sure. But I could sometimes say a line and the audience wouldn’t laugh and I would sweat and sometimes go into convulsions,” Perry wrote. “If I didn’t get the laugh I was supposed to get I would freak out. I felt that every single night. This pressure left me in a bad place. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n a Thursday night in rapper-producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aft.fng/\">Afterthought\u003c/a>’s home studio in the Fillmore, he, fellow musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/baghead.fng/\">Baghead\u003c/a> and comedian \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/everybodylovezmike/\">Mike Evans Jr.\u003c/a> are plotting out the weekend’s itinerary. It’s the two-year anniversary of their 17-member artist collective, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/familynotagroup__/\">Family Not a Group\u003c/a> (FNG), and there are Costco trips to be made (they’re cooking jambalaya for 100 people for their anniversary party at El Rio) and a half-dozen friends’ DJ gigs to hit up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterthought is still jet-lagged from his tour in Europe, and Baghead hasn’t even had the chance to take off his nametag from the school where he and Evans work by day. The three are tired and hungry, yet fueled by the excitement of dreams within reach — it’s all in a day’s work for up-and-coming creatives who were born, raised and working hard to stay rooted in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sense of hope and precarity is the backdrop of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrtmArB3wmUWthlTLmCihg0YHisf4UU3K\">\u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, a new web series starring Evans as a fictional version of himself — a relatable, tie-dye-wearing striver trying to make it in San Francisco. Evans started writing it in 2019, and the project catalyzed the formation of FNG, who came together during the recording of the accompanying \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> album in 2021. In the two years since, FNG’s momentum seems to have grown exponentially: the crew’s many endeavors have had a lift-all-boats effect for young, diverse artists from the City, and the energy is contagious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who are around us think about us as having elevated to a level or whatever,” says Afterthought, who executive produced the \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> album with Evans and Baghead. “But we still have no money, and most of us work regular jobs in addition to being artists. It’s the hardest position where it’s like, ‘Do I quit and be so uncertain?’ — which is basically what \u003cem>Rent Check\u003c/em> is dealing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/amSk_NUZUn0?si=-t55CtKinvdIWaI8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community-funded web series was a huge, collective effort. Evans co-directed \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> with Jules Retzlaff, and the small, independent \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/surgemediacollective/\">Surge Media Collective\u003c/a>’s Jill Hill and Annie Aguirre came on as producers. The cast includes many FNG members and standout Bay Area musicians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900085/stunnaman02-and-the-big-steppin-energy-in-the-room\">Stunnaman02\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913890/la-dona-ybca-san-francisco-guaranteed-income-pilot-artists\">La Doña\u003c/a>. After its YouTube release in May, the show will get a proper celebration Nov. 4 at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brava.org/all-events/rent-check\">Brava Theater\u003c/a> with a screening and live performance of the \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> album, which hits streaming platforms on Nov. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s very Bay Area and of us to have been like, ‘We’re gonna do this shit grassroots and do this shit on our own,’” Evans says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-012-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a baseball cap holds a basketball covered in signatures.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-012-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-012-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-012-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-012-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-012-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-012-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-012-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Evans Jr. holds a basketball signed by everyone who collaborated on his web series, ‘Rent Check,’ in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i>’s surreal vignettes, as the fictional Evans communes with a hyphy ghost and battles bullies on the basketball court, the 12 episodes coalesce into an absurd, hilarious and at-times poignant story about a young man’s search for meaning and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid gross-out gags and raunchy jokes, \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> is sophisticated in how it blends social and political commentary with humor, building on Bay Area shows and films like Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837271/what-the-complicated-friendship-in-blindspotting-reveals-about-race\">\u003ci>Blindspotting\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, Boots Riley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930923/tune-yards-boots-riley-im-a-virgo\">\u003ci>I’m a Virgo\u003c/i>\u003c/a> and Joe Talbot’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858829/the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco-hits-home-in-oakland\">\u003ci>Last Black Man of San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/a> (whose star, Jimmie Fails, plays a fitness coach in \u003cem>Rent Check\u003c/em>). Race, gentrification and inequality are the focal points of those works, but \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> doesn’t strain to overly explain itself. Instead, social injustices are the backdrop of Evans’ misadventures, and, by trusting the viewer to \u003ci>get it\u003c/i>, the show is able to take the conversation to interesting places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/aJy_-GNJysQ?si=jBCAXG9c6RzEPf5S\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A particularly hard-hitting episode called \u003ci>Pimp of the Year\u003c/i> explores a viewpoint often heard on the street level of Bay Area activism, about the limitations of electoral politics. While smoking weed dressed as Spiderman on Halloween, days before the 2020 election, the fictional Evans argues the importance of voting blue to two friends (in cheesy zebra-print coats and dollar-sign necklaces) who insist that all politicians are pimps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A president never change shit in the hood, bro,” says a character played by rapper-activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936224/hyphy-kids-got-trauma-pt-4-my-generations-report-card\">Rich Iyala\u003c/a>. “Never! As far as I’m concerned, it’s just another white man in power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Evans, the encounter hasn’t lost its relevance in 2023. “In all reality, it’s like no matter who the president is, they’re still a part of the same fucked up machine that’s literally killing babies across across the world right now,” Evans says. “In that episode I play the character of the typical person that believes in the two-party system, that believes all Democrats are our saviors.” [aside label='More on San Francisco Artists' postid='arts_13934125,arts_13928057,arts_13932870']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hese political conversations aren’t just happening on screen. Evans met Iyala on a trip to Sacramento to protest statewide police brutality, and many of the \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> collaborators have a history of boots-on-the-ground social justice activism. Evans connected with \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> series co-director Jules Retzlaff while campaigning for justice for Mario Woods, who was killed by the San Francisco Police Department in 2015. And in 2016, Retzlaff and \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> album executive producer Baghead were two of the four \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10944195/s-f-state-students-go-on-hunger-strike-for-raise-in-ethnic-studies-budget\">San Francisco State University students who participated in a hunger strike\u003c/a> in response to cuts to the ethnic studies department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew’s politics come across poignantly on the \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> album track “Cut the Stimmy” by EaSWay, Frak, Afterthought and Kaly Jay (who plays the aforementioned hyphy ghost), where a chorus of “fuck Joe Biden” is rambunctious enough to incite a mosh pit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/i_TJpYcz2lc?si=8P1M6jraAnHGDDEq\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way we’re pushing the song now is trying to express that politics is about who has right to food and water, who has a right to shelter, who doesn’t,” says Baghead. “Whether it’s gentrification in San Francisco or what’s happening in Palestine, we see the establishment as people who continue to support the structures that are in place now that will put profit — put wealth, capital — over people’s lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> crew and FNG might look like they’re all about having a good time on the surface, but there’s a deeper purpose to bringing people together through laughter. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community-funded web series was a huge, collective effort. Evans co-directed \u003ci>Rent Check\u003c/i> with Jules Retzlaff, and the small, independent \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/surgemediacollective/\">Surge Media Collective\u003c/a>’s Jill Hill and Annie Aguirre came on as producers. The cast includes many FNG members and standout Bay Area musicians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900085/stunnaman02-and-the-big-steppin-energy-in-the-room\">Stunnaman02\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913890/la-dona-ybca-san-francisco-guaranteed-income-pilot-artists\">La Doña\u003c/a>. 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After so many working class people and artists have been pushed out, Baghead calls what they’re doing the “San Francisco renaissance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-013-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of polaroid-type photos of people hand on a wall indoors.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-013-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-013-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-013-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-013-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-013-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-013-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231019-RentCheck-013-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polaroid photos of ‘Rent Check’ collaborators hang on the door of Afterthought’s home studio in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Really what I want for us is more stability in our artistic careers and in San Francisco — that’s the constant fight that we’re battling,” says Afterthought, noting the album and many FNG projects wouldn’t have happened without his parents generously opening their home to their huge crew of 20-somethings. “I get a parking ticket now and it’s like, all right, well, I gotta pay for the parking ticket, or I pay for this music video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have hella fun, but we’re still creating music in spaces where we’re critically thinking about what’s happening and what our role is as a people,” Baghead adds, “What can we do, you know? 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