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The people who did that to me should not be able to walk away so easily. I’ll recap: I was on tour in 2018 I was forced to do. My management said if I don’t do this tour I will have to find an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny: \u003c/strong>Ms. Spears, Ms. Spears. I hate to interrupt you, but my court reporter is taking down what you’re saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spears: \u003c/strong>OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Penny: \u003c/strong>And so you have to speak a little more slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spears:\u003c/strong> Oh, of course. Yes. OK. I apologize. Great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Penny: \u003c/strong>So we hear and make a record of everything you’re saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spears:\u003c/strong> The people who did this to me should not get away and be able to walk away so easily. Recap: I was on tour in 2018. I was forced to do. My management said if I don’t do this tour, I will have to find an attorney and by contract my own management could sue me if I didn’t follow through with the tour. He handed me a sheet of paper as I got off the stage in Vegas and said I had to sign it. It was very threatening and scary and with the conservatorship, I couldn’t even get my own attorney. So out of fear, I went ahead and I did the tour. When I came off that tour, a new show in Las Vegas was supposed to take place. I started rehearsing early, but it was hard cause I’d been doing Vegas for four years and I needed a break in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no, I was told this is the timeline and this is how it’s gonna go. I rehearsed four to four days a week, half of the time in the studio and a half of the other time in a Westlake studio. I was basically directing most of the show with my whereabouts, where I preferred to rehearse and actually did most of the choreography, meaning I taught my dancers my new choreography myself. I take everything I do very seriously. There’s tons of video with me at rehearsals. I wasn’t good. I was great. I led a room of sixteen new dancers in rehearsals. It’s funny to hear my manager’s side of the story. They all said I wasn’t participating in rehearsals and I never agreed to take my medication, which my medication is only taken in the mornings, never at rehearsal. They don’t even see me. So why are they even claiming that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13899215']When I said no to one dance move into rehearsals, it was as if I planted a huge bomb somewhere and I said, no, I don’t want to do it this way. After that, my management, my dancers and my assistant of the new people that were supposed to do the new show all went into a room, shut the door and didn’t come out for at least forty five minutes. Ma’am, I’m not here to be anyone’s slave. I can say no to a dance move. I was told by my—at the time—therapist, Dr. Benson, who died, that my manager called him and then that moment and told him I wasn’t cooperating or following the guidelines in rehearsals. And he also said I wasn’t taking my medication, which is so dumb because I’ve had the same lady every morning for the past eight years give me my same medication and I’m nowhere near these stupid people. It made no sense at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a week period where they were nice to me and they said, “I don’t want to do…” And I told them, “I don’t want to do the…” They wait, no. They were nice to me. They said if I don’t want to do the new Vegas show, I don’t have to ’cause I was getting really nervous. I said “I can wait.” It was like, they told me I could wait. It was like lifting literally two hundred pounds off of me when they said I don’t have to do the show anymore cause it was… I was really, really hard on myself and it was too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t take it anymore. So I remember telling my assistant, “But you know what, I feel weird if I say no. I feel like they’re going to come back and be mean to me or punish me or something.” Three days later, after I said no to Vegas, my therapist sat me down in a room and said he had a million phone calls about how I was not cooperating in rehearsals and I haven’t been taking my medication. All of this was a false. He immediately the next day put me on lithium out of nowhere. He took me off my normal meds I’d been on for five years. And lithium is a very, very strong and completely different medication compared to what I was used to. You can go mentally impaired if you take too much, if you stay on it longer than five months. But he put me on that and I felt drunk. I really couldn’t even take up for myself. I couldn’t even have a conversation with my mom or dad really about anything. I told them I was scared and my doctor had me on… Six different nurses with this new medication come to my home, stay with me to monitor me on this new medication, which I never wanted to be on to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were six different nurses in my homes and they wouldn’t let me get in my car to go anywhere for a month. Not only did my family not do a goddamn thing, my dad was all for it. Anything that happened to me had to be approved by my dad. And my dad only… He acted like he didn’t know that I was told I had to be tested over the Christmas holidays before they sent me away when my kids went home to Louisiana. He was the one who approved all of it. My whole family did nothing. Over the two-week holiday, a lady came into my home for four hours a day, sat me down and did a psych test on me. It took forever, but I was told I had to then. After that I got off… wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was told I had to then, after I got a phone call from my dad saying after I did the psych test with this lady, basically saying I had failed the test or whatever. Whatever. “I’m sorry, Britney, you have to listen to your doctors. They are planning to send you to a small home in Beverly Hills to do a small rehab program that we’re going to make up for you. You’re gonna pay sixty thousand dollars a month for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I cried on the phone for an hour and he loved every minute of it. The control he had over someone as powerful as me, as he loved the control to hurt his own daughter. One hundred thousand percent. He loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I packed my bags and went to that place. I worked seven days a week, no days off—which in California, the only similar thing to this is called sex trafficking, making anyone work—work against their will. Taking all their possessions away—credit card, cash, phone, passport card—and placing them in a home where they work with the people who live with them. They all lived in the house with me, the nurses, the 24/7 security. There was one chef that came there and cooked for me daily during the weekdays. They watched me change every day, naked. Morning, noon and night. My body… I had no privacy door for my room. I gave eight gallons of blood a week. If I didn’t do any of my meetings and work from eight to six at night—which is ten hours a day, seven days a week, no days off—I wouldn’t be able to see my kids or my boyfriend. I never had a say in my schedule. They always told me I had to do this. And ma’am, I will tell you, sitting in a chair ten hours a day, seven days a week, it ain’t fun. And especially when you can’t walk out the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why I’m telling you this again two years later, after I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m OK and I’m happy. It’s a lie. I thought I just… Maybe I said that enough, maybe I might become happy because I’ve been in denial. I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized, you know? Fake it ’til you make it. But now I’m telling you the truth, OK? I’m not happy. I can’t sleep. I’m so angry, it’s insane. And I’m depressed. I cry every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the reason I’m telling you this is because I don’t think how the state of California can have all this written in the court documents from the time I showed up, and do absolutely nothing. Just hire, with my money, another person to keep, and keep my dad on board. Ma’am, my dad and anyone involved in this conservatorship, and my management who played a huge role in punishing me when I said, “No, ma’am, they should be in jail.” Their cruel tactics working for Miley Cyrus. If she smokes on joints and stage at the VMAs, nothing is ever done to this generation for doing wrong things. But my precious body, whose work for my dad for the past fucking thirteen years, trying to be so good and pretty. So perfect when he works me so hard, when I do everything I’m told, and the state of California allowed my ignorant father to take his own daughter, who only has a role with me if I work with him. They set back the whole course and allowed him to do that to me? That’s given these people I’ve worked for way too much control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also threatened me and said if I don’t go, then I have to go to court and it will be more embarrassing me if the judge publicly makes you go, “The evidence we have, you have to go.” I was advised for my image. I need to go ahead and just go and get it over with. They said that to me. I don’t even drink alcohol. I should drink alcohol, considering what they put my heart through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_105661']Also, the Bridges Facility, they sent me to none of the kids. I was doing this program for four months. So the last two months I went to a Bridges Facility. None of the kids there did the program. They never showed up for any of them. You didn’t have to do anything if you didn’t want to. How come they always made me go? How come I was always threatened by my dad and anybody that persisted in this conservatorship? If I don’t do this, what they tell me—enslave me to do—they’re going to punish me. The last time I spoke to you about just keeping the conservatorship going and also keeping my dad in the loop made me feel like I was dead. Like I didn’t matter. Like nothing had been done to to me. Like you thought I was lying or something. I’m telling you again, because I’m not lying. I want to feel heard and I’m telling you this again so maybe you can understand the depth and the degree and the damage that they did to me back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want changes and I want changes going forward. I deserve changes. I was told I have to sit down and be evaluated again if I want to end the conservatorship. Ma’am, I didn’t know I could petition the conservatorship to end it. I’m sorry for my ignorance, but I honestly didn’t know that. But honestly, which I don’t think I really want to be evaluated. I’ve done more than enough. I don’t feel like I should even be in a room with anyone to offend me by trying to question my capacity of intelligence, whether I need to be in this stupid conservatorship or not. I’ve done more than enough. I don’t owe these people anything. Especially me, the one that has roofed and fed tons of people on tour, on the road. It’s embarrassing and demoralizing what I’ve been through. And that’s the main reason I’ve never said it openly. And mainly I didn’t want to say it openly because I honestly don’t think anyone would believe me. To be honest with you, the Paris Hilton story on what they did to her, at that school, I didn’t believe any of it. I’m sorry, I’m an outsider. And I’ll just be honest, I didn’t believe it. And maybe I’m wrong. And that’s why I didn’t want to say any of this to anybody, to the public, because people would make fun of me or laugh at me and say, “She’s lying. She’s got everything. She’s Britney Spears.” I’m not lying. I just want my life back. And it’s been 13 years and it’s enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a long time since I’ve owned my money, and it’s my wish and my dream for all of this to end without being tested. Again, it makes no sense whatsoever for the state of California to sit back and literally watch me with their own two eyes, make a living for so many people and pay so many people—trucks and buses on tour, on the road with me—and be told I’m not good enough. But I’m great at what I do. And I allow these people to control what I do, ma’am, and it’s enough. It makes no sense at all. Now, going forward, I’m not willing to meet or see anyone. I’ve met with enough people against my will. I’m done. All I want is to own my money, for this to end, and my boyfriend to drive me in his fucking car. And I would honestly like to sue my family, to be totally honest with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also would like to be able to share my story with the world and what they did to me instead of it being a hush-hush secret to benefit all of them. I want to be able to be heard on what they did to me. By making me keep this in for so long is not good for my heart. I’ve been so angry and I cry every day. It concerns me. I’m told I’m not allowed to expose the people who did this to me. For my sanity, I need you to the judge to prove me to do an interview where I can be heard and what they did to me. And actually, I have the right to use my voice and take out for myself. My attorney says I can’t. It’s not good. I can’t let the public know anything they did to me. And by not saying anything is saying it’s OK. I don’t know what I said here. It’s not OK. I would actually… I don’t want to interview. I’d much rather just have an open call to you for the press to hear, which I didn’t know today we’re doing, so thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of having an interview, honestly, I need that to get it off my heart. The anger and all of it. That’s happening. It’s not fair. They’re telling me lies about me openly. Even my family. They do interviews to anyone they want on news stations. My own family doing interviews and talking about the situation and making me feel so stupid. And I can’t say one thing. And my own people say I can’t say anything. It’s been two years. I want a recorded call to you—actually, we’re doing this now, which I didn’t know that we were doing this—until the public knows what they did me. I told my… I know my lawyer Sam has been very scared for me to go forward because he’s saying if I speak up, I’m being overworked in that facility, that rehab place, that the rehab place will see me. He told me I should keep it to myself. I would personally like to… Actually, I know I’ve had grown with a personal relationship with Sam, my lawyer. I’ve been talking to him like three times a week now. We’ve kind of built a relationship, but I haven’t really had the opportunity by my own self to actually handpick my own lawyer by myself. And I would like to be able to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would like to also… The main reason why I’m here is because I want to end the conservatorship without having to be evaluated. I’ve done a lot of research, ma’am, and there is a lot of judges who do end conservatorships for people without them having to be evaluated all the time. The only times they don’t is if a concerned family member says something’s wrong with this person and consider an other- otherwise. And considering my family has lived off of my conservatorship for thirteen years, I won’t be surprised if one of them has something to say. Go forward and say, “We don’t think this should end. We have to help her.” Especially if I get my fair serve and turn in exposing what they did to me. Also I want to speak to you about at the moment my obligations, which I personally don’t think at the very moment, I owe anybody anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have three meetings a week I have to attend no matter what. I just don’t like feeling like I work for the people whom I pay. I don’t like being told I have to, no matter what, even if I’m sick. Jodi, the conservator says I have to see my coach, Ken, even when I’m sick. I would like to do one meeting a week with a therapist. I’ve never, even before they sent me to that place, had two therapy sessions. A therapy session and one therapy session with my… I have a doctor and then a therapy person. What I’ve been forced to do illegal in my life, I shouldn’t be told I have to be available three times a week to these people I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_111253']I’m talking to you today because I feel again, yes, even Jodi is starting to kind of take it too far with me. They have me going to therapy twice a week and a psychiatrist. I’ve never in the past had… They had me going, yeah, twice a week and my doctor goal. So that’s three times a week. I’ve never in the past went to see a therapist more than once a week. It takes too much out of me going to this man I don’t know. Number one, I’m scared of people. I don’t trust people with what I’ve been through. And the clever set up of being in what’s like, one of the most exposed places in Westlake, which today—yesterday—paparazzi showed me coming out of the place, literally crying in there. It’s embarrassing and it’s demoralizing. I deserve privacy when I go. I deserve privacy when I go and have therapy either at my home, like I’ve done for eight years—they’ve always come to my home—or when the Dr. Benson, the guy—the man that died—I went to a place similar to what I went to in Westlake, which was very exposed and really bad. OK, so wait, where was I? It was like, it was identical to Dr. Benson who died. The one who illegally—yes, one hundred percent—abused me by the treatment he gave me to. And to be totally honest with you, I was so…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Penny: \u003c/strong>Ms. Spears, excuse me for interrupting you. But my reporter says if you could just slow down a little bit because she’s trying to make sure she gets everything that you’re saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spears: \u003c/strong>OK, cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Penny: \u003c/strong>And so if you just…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spears: \u003c/strong>OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Penny: \u003c/strong>So that would be great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spears: \u003c/strong>I have been through—and the clever set up in Westlake is identical to Dr. Benson who died, the one who illegally—yes, one hundred percent—abused me by the treatment he gave me. And to be totally honest with you, when he passed away, I got on my knees and thanked God. In other words, my team is pushing it with me again. I have trapped phobias being in small rooms because the trauma locked me up for four months in that place is not OK for them to send me—sorry, I’m going fast—to that small room like that twice a week with another new therapist I pay that I never even approved. I don’t like it. I don’t want to do that. And I haven’t done anything wrong to deserve this treatment. It’s not OK to force me to do anything I don’t want to do. By law, Jodi and this so-called team should honestly… I should be able to sue them for threatening me and saying if I don’t go and do these meetings twice a week, we can’t let you have your money and go to Maui on your vacations. You have to do what you’re told for this program and then you will be able to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was very clever. They picked one of the most exposed places in Westlake knowing I have the hot topic of the conservatorship, that over five paparazzi are going to show up and get me crying coming out of that place. I begged them to make sure that they did this at my home so I would have privacy. I deserve privacy. The whole conservatorship from the beginning, once you see someone, whoever it is in the conservatorship, making money, making them money and myself money, and working. That whole statement right there, the conservatorship should end. There should be no… I shouldn’t be in a conservatorship if I can work and provide money and work for myself and pay other people. It makes no sense. The laws need to change. What state allows people to own another person’s money and account and threaten them and saying, “You can’t spend your money unless you do what we want you to do.” And I’m paying them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma’am, I’ve worked since I was 17 years old. You have to understand how thin that is for me. Every morning I get up to know, I can’t go on somewhere unless I meet people I don’t know every week in an office identical to the one where the therapist was very abusive to me. I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive. And now we can sit here all day and say, “Oh, conservatorships are here to help people.” But ma’am, there’s a thousand conservatorships that are abusive as well. I don’t feel like I can live a full life. I don’t owe them to go see a man I don’t know and share him my problems. I don’t even believe in therapy. I always think you take it to God.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to end the conservatorship without being evaluated. In the meantime, I want this therapist once a week. He can either come to my home… No, I just want him to come to my home. I’m not willing to go to Westlake and be embarrassed by all these paparazzi; these scummy paparazzi laughing at my faces while I’m crying. Coming out and taking my pictures as all these white, nice dinners where people drinking wine at restaurants, watching me from these places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They set me up by sending me to the most exposed places. And I told them I didn’t want to go there because I knew paparazzi would show up there. They only gave me two options for therapist, and I’m not sure how you make your decisions, ma’am, but this is the only chance for me to talk to you for a while. I need your help. So if you can just kind of let me know where your head is. I don’t really honestly know what to say, but my requests just are to end the conservatorship without being evaluated. I want to petition, basically, to end the conservatorship, but I want it to be petitioned. And if I don’t want to be evaluated, to be sat in a room with people for hours a day like they did me before—and they made it even worse for me after that happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I just, I’m honestly new at this and I’m doing research on all these things. I do know common sense and the method that things can end it. For people, it has ended without them being evaluated. So I just want you to take that into consideration. I’ve also done research and wait… Also took a year during COVID to get me any self care methods during COVID. She said there were no services available. She’s lying, ma’am. My mom went to the spa twice in Louisiana during COVID. For a year, I didn’t have my nails done. No hair styling and no massages, no acupuncture, nothing. For a year. I saw the maids in my home each week with their nails done different each time. She made me feel like my dad does—very similar, her behavior. And my dad, but just a different dynamic. Team wants me to work and stay home instead of having longer vacations. They are used to me sort of doing a weekly routine for them and I’m over it. I don’t feel like I owe them anything at this point. They need to be reminded they actually work for me. They trick me by sending me to the… OK, I repeated myself there. OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, I was supposed to be able to have a friend that I used to do AA meetings with. I did AA for two years, I have like, you know, I did three meetings a week and met a bunch of women there. And I’m not able to see my friends that live eight minutes away from me, which I find extremely strange. I feel like they’re making me feel like I live in a rehab program. This is my home. I’d like for my boyfriend to be able to drive me in his car. And I want to meet with the therapist once a week, not twice a week. And I want him to come to my home because I actually know I do need a little therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was told, hold on. I think that’s… Oh, and I would like to progressively move forward and I want to have the real deal. I want to be able to get married and have a baby. I was told right now in the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby. I have an IUD inside of myself right now, so I don’t get pregnant. I wanted to take the IUD out so I could start trying to have another baby. But this so-called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don’t want me to have children… any more children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So basically this conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good. I deserve to have a life. I’ve worked my whole life. I deserve to have a two- to three-year break and just, you know, do what I want to do. But I do feel like there is a crutch here, and I feel like I feel open, and I’m OK to talk to you today about it. But I wish I could stay with you on the phone forever, because when I get off the phone with you, all of a sudden, I hear all these no’s. “No, no, no.” And then all of a sudden I get… I feel ganged up on and I feel bullied and I feel left out and alone. And I’m tired of feeling alone. I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does by having a child, a family, any of those things. And more so. And that’s all I wanted to say to you. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When I said no to one dance move into rehearsals, it was as if I planted a huge bomb somewhere and I said, no, I don’t want to do it this way. After that, my management, my dancers and my assistant of the new people that were supposed to do the new show all went into a room, shut the door and didn’t come out for at least forty five minutes. Ma’am, I’m not here to be anyone’s slave. I can say no to a dance move. I was told by my—at the time—therapist, Dr. Benson, who died, that my manager called him and then that moment and told him I wasn’t cooperating or following the guidelines in rehearsals. And he also said I wasn’t taking my medication, which is so dumb because I’ve had the same lady every morning for the past eight years give me my same medication and I’m nowhere near these stupid people. It made no sense at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a week period where they were nice to me and they said, “I don’t want to do…” And I told them, “I don’t want to do the…” They wait, no. They were nice to me. They said if I don’t want to do the new Vegas show, I don’t have to ’cause I was getting really nervous. I said “I can wait.” It was like, they told me I could wait. It was like lifting literally two hundred pounds off of me when they said I don’t have to do the show anymore cause it was… I was really, really hard on myself and it was too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t take it anymore. So I remember telling my assistant, “But you know what, I feel weird if I say no. I feel like they’re going to come back and be mean to me or punish me or something.” Three days later, after I said no to Vegas, my therapist sat me down in a room and said he had a million phone calls about how I was not cooperating in rehearsals and I haven’t been taking my medication. All of this was a false. He immediately the next day put me on lithium out of nowhere. He took me off my normal meds I’d been on for five years. And lithium is a very, very strong and completely different medication compared to what I was used to. You can go mentally impaired if you take too much, if you stay on it longer than five months. But he put me on that and I felt drunk. I really couldn’t even take up for myself. I couldn’t even have a conversation with my mom or dad really about anything. I told them I was scared and my doctor had me on… Six different nurses with this new medication come to my home, stay with me to monitor me on this new medication, which I never wanted to be on to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were six different nurses in my homes and they wouldn’t let me get in my car to go anywhere for a month. Not only did my family not do a goddamn thing, my dad was all for it. Anything that happened to me had to be approved by my dad. And my dad only… He acted like he didn’t know that I was told I had to be tested over the Christmas holidays before they sent me away when my kids went home to Louisiana. He was the one who approved all of it. My whole family did nothing. Over the two-week holiday, a lady came into my home for four hours a day, sat me down and did a psych test on me. It took forever, but I was told I had to then. After that I got off… wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was told I had to then, after I got a phone call from my dad saying after I did the psych test with this lady, basically saying I had failed the test or whatever. Whatever. “I’m sorry, Britney, you have to listen to your doctors. They are planning to send you to a small home in Beverly Hills to do a small rehab program that we’re going to make up for you. You’re gonna pay sixty thousand dollars a month for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I cried on the phone for an hour and he loved every minute of it. The control he had over someone as powerful as me, as he loved the control to hurt his own daughter. One hundred thousand percent. He loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I packed my bags and went to that place. I worked seven days a week, no days off—which in California, the only similar thing to this is called sex trafficking, making anyone work—work against their will. Taking all their possessions away—credit card, cash, phone, passport card—and placing them in a home where they work with the people who live with them. They all lived in the house with me, the nurses, the 24/7 security. There was one chef that came there and cooked for me daily during the weekdays. They watched me change every day, naked. Morning, noon and night. My body… I had no privacy door for my room. I gave eight gallons of blood a week. If I didn’t do any of my meetings and work from eight to six at night—which is ten hours a day, seven days a week, no days off—I wouldn’t be able to see my kids or my boyfriend. I never had a say in my schedule. They always told me I had to do this. And ma’am, I will tell you, sitting in a chair ten hours a day, seven days a week, it ain’t fun. And especially when you can’t walk out the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why I’m telling you this again two years later, after I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m OK and I’m happy. It’s a lie. I thought I just… Maybe I said that enough, maybe I might become happy because I’ve been in denial. I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized, you know? Fake it ’til you make it. But now I’m telling you the truth, OK? I’m not happy. I can’t sleep. I’m so angry, it’s insane. And I’m depressed. I cry every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the reason I’m telling you this is because I don’t think how the state of California can have all this written in the court documents from the time I showed up, and do absolutely nothing. Just hire, with my money, another person to keep, and keep my dad on board. Ma’am, my dad and anyone involved in this conservatorship, and my management who played a huge role in punishing me when I said, “No, ma’am, they should be in jail.” Their cruel tactics working for Miley Cyrus. If she smokes on joints and stage at the VMAs, nothing is ever done to this generation for doing wrong things. But my precious body, whose work for my dad for the past fucking thirteen years, trying to be so good and pretty. So perfect when he works me so hard, when I do everything I’m told, and the state of California allowed my ignorant father to take his own daughter, who only has a role with me if I work with him. They set back the whole course and allowed him to do that to me? That’s given these people I’ve worked for way too much control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also threatened me and said if I don’t go, then I have to go to court and it will be more embarrassing me if the judge publicly makes you go, “The evidence we have, you have to go.” I was advised for my image. I need to go ahead and just go and get it over with. They said that to me. I don’t even drink alcohol. I should drink alcohol, considering what they put my heart through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I want to feel heard and I’m telling you this again so maybe you can understand the depth and the degree and the damage that they did to me back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want changes and I want changes going forward. I deserve changes. I was told I have to sit down and be evaluated again if I want to end the conservatorship. Ma’am, I didn’t know I could petition the conservatorship to end it. I’m sorry for my ignorance, but I honestly didn’t know that. But honestly, which I don’t think I really want to be evaluated. I’ve done more than enough. I don’t feel like I should even be in a room with anyone to offend me by trying to question my capacity of intelligence, whether I need to be in this stupid conservatorship or not. I’ve done more than enough. I don’t owe these people anything. Especially me, the one that has roofed and fed tons of people on tour, on the road. It’s embarrassing and demoralizing what I’ve been through. And that’s the main reason I’ve never said it openly. And mainly I didn’t want to say it openly because I honestly don’t think anyone would believe me. To be honest with you, the Paris Hilton story on what they did to her, at that school, I didn’t believe any of it. I’m sorry, I’m an outsider. And I’ll just be honest, I didn’t believe it. And maybe I’m wrong. And that’s why I didn’t want to say any of this to anybody, to the public, because people would make fun of me or laugh at me and say, “She’s lying. She’s got everything. She’s Britney Spears.” I’m not lying. I just want my life back. And it’s been 13 years and it’s enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a long time since I’ve owned my money, and it’s my wish and my dream for all of this to end without being tested. Again, it makes no sense whatsoever for the state of California to sit back and literally watch me with their own two eyes, make a living for so many people and pay so many people—trucks and buses on tour, on the road with me—and be told I’m not good enough. But I’m great at what I do. And I allow these people to control what I do, ma’am, and it’s enough. It makes no sense at all. Now, going forward, I’m not willing to meet or see anyone. I’ve met with enough people against my will. I’m done. All I want is to own my money, for this to end, and my boyfriend to drive me in his fucking car. And I would honestly like to sue my family, to be totally honest with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also would like to be able to share my story with the world and what they did to me instead of it being a hush-hush secret to benefit all of them. I want to be able to be heard on what they did to me. By making me keep this in for so long is not good for my heart. I’ve been so angry and I cry every day. It concerns me. I’m told I’m not allowed to expose the people who did this to me. For my sanity, I need you to the judge to prove me to do an interview where I can be heard and what they did to me. And actually, I have the right to use my voice and take out for myself. My attorney says I can’t. It’s not good. I can’t let the public know anything they did to me. And by not saying anything is saying it’s OK. I don’t know what I said here. It’s not OK. I would actually… I don’t want to interview. I’d much rather just have an open call to you for the press to hear, which I didn’t know today we’re doing, so thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of having an interview, honestly, I need that to get it off my heart. The anger and all of it. That’s happening. It’s not fair. They’re telling me lies about me openly. Even my family. They do interviews to anyone they want on news stations. My own family doing interviews and talking about the situation and making me feel so stupid. And I can’t say one thing. And my own people say I can’t say anything. It’s been two years. I want a recorded call to you—actually, we’re doing this now, which I didn’t know that we were doing this—until the public knows what they did me. I told my… I know my lawyer Sam has been very scared for me to go forward because he’s saying if I speak up, I’m being overworked in that facility, that rehab place, that the rehab place will see me. He told me I should keep it to myself. I would personally like to… Actually, I know I’ve had grown with a personal relationship with Sam, my lawyer. I’ve been talking to him like three times a week now. We’ve kind of built a relationship, but I haven’t really had the opportunity by my own self to actually handpick my own lawyer by myself. And I would like to be able to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would like to also… The main reason why I’m here is because I want to end the conservatorship without having to be evaluated. I’ve done a lot of research, ma’am, and there is a lot of judges who do end conservatorships for people without them having to be evaluated all the time. The only times they don’t is if a concerned family member says something’s wrong with this person and consider an other- otherwise. And considering my family has lived off of my conservatorship for thirteen years, I won’t be surprised if one of them has something to say. Go forward and say, “We don’t think this should end. We have to help her.” Especially if I get my fair serve and turn in exposing what they did to me. Also I want to speak to you about at the moment my obligations, which I personally don’t think at the very moment, I owe anybody anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have three meetings a week I have to attend no matter what. I just don’t like feeling like I work for the people whom I pay. I don’t like being told I have to, no matter what, even if I’m sick. Jodi, the conservator says I have to see my coach, Ken, even when I’m sick. I would like to do one meeting a week with a therapist. I’ve never, even before they sent me to that place, had two therapy sessions. A therapy session and one therapy session with my… I have a doctor and then a therapy person. What I’ve been forced to do illegal in my life, I shouldn’t be told I have to be available three times a week to these people I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I’m talking to you today because I feel again, yes, even Jodi is starting to kind of take it too far with me. They have me going to therapy twice a week and a psychiatrist. I’ve never in the past had… They had me going, yeah, twice a week and my doctor goal. So that’s three times a week. I’ve never in the past went to see a therapist more than once a week. It takes too much out of me going to this man I don’t know. Number one, I’m scared of people. I don’t trust people with what I’ve been through. And the clever set up of being in what’s like, one of the most exposed places in Westlake, which today—yesterday—paparazzi showed me coming out of the place, literally crying in there. It’s embarrassing and it’s demoralizing. I deserve privacy when I go. I deserve privacy when I go and have therapy either at my home, like I’ve done for eight years—they’ve always come to my home—or when the Dr. Benson, the guy—the man that died—I went to a place similar to what I went to in Westlake, which was very exposed and really bad. OK, so wait, where was I? It was like, it was identical to Dr. Benson who died. The one who illegally—yes, one hundred percent—abused me by the treatment he gave me to. And to be totally honest with you, I was so…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Penny: \u003c/strong>Ms. Spears, excuse me for interrupting you. 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I have trapped phobias being in small rooms because the trauma locked me up for four months in that place is not OK for them to send me—sorry, I’m going fast—to that small room like that twice a week with another new therapist I pay that I never even approved. I don’t like it. I don’t want to do that. And I haven’t done anything wrong to deserve this treatment. It’s not OK to force me to do anything I don’t want to do. By law, Jodi and this so-called team should honestly… I should be able to sue them for threatening me and saying if I don’t go and do these meetings twice a week, we can’t let you have your money and go to Maui on your vacations. You have to do what you’re told for this program and then you will be able to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was very clever. They picked one of the most exposed places in Westlake knowing I have the hot topic of the conservatorship, that over five paparazzi are going to show up and get me crying coming out of that place. I begged them to make sure that they did this at my home so I would have privacy. I deserve privacy. The whole conservatorship from the beginning, once you see someone, whoever it is in the conservatorship, making money, making them money and myself money, and working. That whole statement right there, the conservatorship should end. There should be no… I shouldn’t be in a conservatorship if I can work and provide money and work for myself and pay other people. It makes no sense. The laws need to change. What state allows people to own another person’s money and account and threaten them and saying, “You can’t spend your money unless you do what we want you to do.” And I’m paying them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma’am, I’ve worked since I was 17 years old. You have to understand how thin that is for me. Every morning I get up to know, I can’t go on somewhere unless I meet people I don’t know every week in an office identical to the one where the therapist was very abusive to me. I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive. And now we can sit here all day and say, “Oh, conservatorships are here to help people.” But ma’am, there’s a thousand conservatorships that are abusive as well. I don’t feel like I can live a full life. I don’t owe them to go see a man I don’t know and share him my problems. I don’t even believe in therapy. I always think you take it to God.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to end the conservatorship without being evaluated. In the meantime, I want this therapist once a week. He can either come to my home… No, I just want him to come to my home. I’m not willing to go to Westlake and be embarrassed by all these paparazzi; these scummy paparazzi laughing at my faces while I’m crying. Coming out and taking my pictures as all these white, nice dinners where people drinking wine at restaurants, watching me from these places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They set me up by sending me to the most exposed places. And I told them I didn’t want to go there because I knew paparazzi would show up there. They only gave me two options for therapist, and I’m not sure how you make your decisions, ma’am, but this is the only chance for me to talk to you for a while. I need your help. So if you can just kind of let me know where your head is. I don’t really honestly know what to say, but my requests just are to end the conservatorship without being evaluated. I want to petition, basically, to end the conservatorship, but I want it to be petitioned. And if I don’t want to be evaluated, to be sat in a room with people for hours a day like they did me before—and they made it even worse for me after that happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I just, I’m honestly new at this and I’m doing research on all these things. I do know common sense and the method that things can end it. For people, it has ended without them being evaluated. So I just want you to take that into consideration. I’ve also done research and wait… Also took a year during COVID to get me any self care methods during COVID. She said there were no services available. She’s lying, ma’am. My mom went to the spa twice in Louisiana during COVID. For a year, I didn’t have my nails done. No hair styling and no massages, no acupuncture, nothing. For a year. I saw the maids in my home each week with their nails done different each time. She made me feel like my dad does—very similar, her behavior. And my dad, but just a different dynamic. Team wants me to work and stay home instead of having longer vacations. They are used to me sort of doing a weekly routine for them and I’m over it. I don’t feel like I owe them anything at this point. They need to be reminded they actually work for me. They trick me by sending me to the… OK, I repeated myself there. OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, I was supposed to be able to have a friend that I used to do AA meetings with. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pop star \u003ca href=\"https://www.britneyspears.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britney Spears\u003c/a> hasn’t been in charge of her personal life or her finances for 13 years—that’s how long she has been in a court-dictated legal arrangement called a conservatorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Wednesday, the artist will be speaking directly, albeit from a remote location, to a Los Angeles Superior Court judge about her situation. What exactly she intends to say in her appearance and what her goals might be are anyone’s guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before then, here’s a quick look at what conservatorships are and why they exist, the specifics of Spears’ arrangements, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/freebritney?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FreeBritney\u003c/a> movement and what Spears and others have said publicly—and privately—about her conservatorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is a conservatorship, and why does one get put in place?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, legal and financial conservatorships are arranged for people who are unable to make their own decisions in their own best self-interest, such as in the case of an elderly person or someone with some kind of cognitive impairment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does Britney Spears have one?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact reasons that the 39-year-old Spears is under a conservatorship have not been publicly disclosed. She lost her autonomy 13 years ago, in 2008, after apparently suffering a mental health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the time that Spears has lived under this arrangement, though, she has released four albums (two of which, 2008’s \u003cem>Circus\u003c/em> and 2011’s \u003cem>Femme Fatale,\u003c/em> achieved platinum sales); appeared as a judge on both \u003cem>The X Factor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>; and had a four-year residency in Las Vegas that reportedly grossed close to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8491648/highest-grossing-las-vegas-residencies\">$138 million\u003c/a>. Those accomplishments don’t exactly line up with the typical profile of someone unable to look after themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does Spears’ conservatorship cover?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, it controls all the major aspects of Spears’ life, including decisions regarding her financial, medical and personal well-being. The conservators also oversee visitation arrangements with her two teenage sons, who are under the full custody of her ex-husband, Kevin Federline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Forbes,\u003c/em> Spears’ current net worth is around \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2021/02/17/britney-spears-net-worth-revealed--and-its-shockingly-low-compared-to-her-pop-peers/?sh=245268a518ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$60 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who controls Spears’ conservatorship?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until recently, both the financial and personal arms of the conservatorship were controlled by Spears’ father, Jamie Spears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_111253']In 2020, her lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, stated in a filing that Spears “strongly opposed” her father as conservator and that she refused to perform if he remained in charge of her career. Spears asked the court for her father to be suspended from his role as conservator. (He had temporarily stepped away in 2019 for health reasons.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/11/967176455/judge-rules-against-britney-spears-father-in-conservatorship-dispute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overruled\u003c/a> an objection from Jamie Spears to having a third party help look after his daughter’s financial affairs. A wealth-management company, Bessemer Trust, is now a co-conservator for the financial side of Spears’ situation. But Jamie Spears is still the main conservator for all other aspects of Spears’ arrangement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is Spears planning to talk to the court now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in April, Spears’ legal team \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-los-angeles-britney-spears-arts-and-entertainment-73a26ccdfe9cb244aa7d894e0d585c4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked\u003c/a> Penny to allow her to speak to the court directly about the conservatorship, and they agreed that June 23 would be the date for this to happen. At the time, Ingham did not disclose why Spears wants to speak or what she intends to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has Spears ever asked for the conservatorship to end?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until now, Spears has never voiced a desire for the conservatorship to be removed completely—at least not publicly. In a court filing, she has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/explaining-britney-spears-court-conservatorship-hearing-48451f0cb51d7c646a51f2e10e97fb61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated\u003c/a> that the conservatorship “rescued her from a collapse, exploitation by predatory individuals and financial ruin” and allowed her to “regain her position as a world class entertainer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/arts/music/britney-spears-conservatorship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported that it had obtained confidential court records that purport to show that Spears has opposed the conservatorship privately for years. The \u003cem>Times \u003c/em>quoted a 2016 report from a court investigator assigned to Spears’ case, in which the investigator wrote that Spears told her that the conservatorship had “become an oppressive and controlling tool against her” and that she wanted the arrangement to end quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>, Spears told the court in 2019 that the conservatorship had forced her into a stay at a mental health facility, as well as into making public performances against her will. The article further reported that the conservatorship had dictated Spears’ friendships, her dating life and her spending habits, even preventing her from refinishing kitchen cabinets according to her taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as 2014, the article states, Spears wanted to consider removing her father from his prime role in the conservatorship, citing his reportedly heavy drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does Spears herself support the #FreeBritney movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain Spears fans have organized themselves into a grassroots movement—#FreeBritney—to help Spears regain autonomy over her life. The dynamics between Spears and her dedicated #FreeBritney fans are murky, as are her various declarations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a court filing last September, her lawyer, Ingham, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54024740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>: “At this point in her life when she is trying to regain some measure of personal autonomy, Britney welcomes and appreciates the informed support of her many fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Spears to date has never publicly asked to be released from the conservatorship and regain her autonomy—which is the main goal of #FreeBritney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892744']A very sympathetic \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> television documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/article/framing-britney-spears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, debuted on FX in February. The project reckons with the way the media, comedians and the music industry itself characterized Spears during her ascent to global fame and during her later, very public struggles—and it also profiles some #FreeBritney activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After it aired, Spears wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CND5B1RArtK/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=f6fd8fa1-2de5-406e-a0e1-75ff7b683d26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Instagram\u003c/a>: “My life has always been very speculated [\u003cem>sic\u003c/em>] … watched … and judged really my whole life !!! … I didn’t watch the documentary but from what I did see of it I was embarrassed by the light they put me in … I cried for two weeks and well …. I still cry sometimes !!!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some #FreeBritney supporters don’t believe Spears writes her own Instagram messages, leaving them to speculate about the pop star’s true feelings. But Spears reportedly told \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2021/04/02/britney-spears-writes-social-media-posts-instagram-framing-documentary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ\u003c/a> in April that she writes her own captions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next for Britney Spears?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unclear. In an\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CQPB1hmg6xV/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Instagram video\u003c/a> posted last week, a visibly jittery Spears professed to be answering fans’ most burning questions, including her shoe size and her favorite business trip (answer: “a trip to Italy [to] Donatella Versace. … She fined [\u003cem>sic\u003c/em>] and dined us”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last question Spears put forward to herself was a crucial one: Would she ever return to the stage again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no idea,” she said. “I’m having fun right now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does Britney Spears have one?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact reasons that the 39-year-old Spears is under a conservatorship have not been publicly disclosed. She lost her autonomy 13 years ago, in 2008, after apparently suffering a mental health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the time that Spears has lived under this arrangement, though, she has released four albums (two of which, 2008’s \u003cem>Circus\u003c/em> and 2011’s \u003cem>Femme Fatale,\u003c/em> achieved platinum sales); appeared as a judge on both \u003cem>The X Factor\u003c/em> and \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>; and had a four-year residency in Las Vegas that reportedly grossed close to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8491648/highest-grossing-las-vegas-residencies\">$138 million\u003c/a>. Those accomplishments don’t exactly line up with the typical profile of someone unable to look after themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does Spears’ conservatorship cover?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, it controls all the major aspects of Spears’ life, including decisions regarding her financial, medical and personal well-being. The conservators also oversee visitation arrangements with her two teenage sons, who are under the full custody of her ex-husband, Kevin Federline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Forbes,\u003c/em> Spears’ current net worth is around \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2021/02/17/britney-spears-net-worth-revealed--and-its-shockingly-low-compared-to-her-pop-peers/?sh=245268a518ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$60 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who controls Spears’ conservatorship?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until recently, both the financial and personal arms of the conservatorship were controlled by Spears’ father, Jamie Spears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2020, her lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, stated in a filing that Spears “strongly opposed” her father as conservator and that she refused to perform if he remained in charge of her career. Spears asked the court for her father to be suspended from his role as conservator. (He had temporarily stepped away in 2019 for health reasons.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/11/967176455/judge-rules-against-britney-spears-father-in-conservatorship-dispute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overruled\u003c/a> an objection from Jamie Spears to having a third party help look after his daughter’s financial affairs. A wealth-management company, Bessemer Trust, is now a co-conservator for the financial side of Spears’ situation. But Jamie Spears is still the main conservator for all other aspects of Spears’ arrangement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is Spears planning to talk to the court now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in April, Spears’ legal team \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-los-angeles-britney-spears-arts-and-entertainment-73a26ccdfe9cb244aa7d894e0d585c4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked\u003c/a> Penny to allow her to speak to the court directly about the conservatorship, and they agreed that June 23 would be the date for this to happen. At the time, Ingham did not disclose why Spears wants to speak or what she intends to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has Spears ever asked for the conservatorship to end?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until now, Spears has never voiced a desire for the conservatorship to be removed completely—at least not publicly. In a court filing, she has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/explaining-britney-spears-court-conservatorship-hearing-48451f0cb51d7c646a51f2e10e97fb61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated\u003c/a> that the conservatorship “rescued her from a collapse, exploitation by predatory individuals and financial ruin” and allowed her to “regain her position as a world class entertainer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/arts/music/britney-spears-conservatorship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported that it had obtained confidential court records that purport to show that Spears has opposed the conservatorship privately for years. The \u003cem>Times \u003c/em>quoted a 2016 report from a court investigator assigned to Spears’ case, in which the investigator wrote that Spears told her that the conservatorship had “become an oppressive and controlling tool against her” and that she wanted the arrangement to end quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>, Spears told the court in 2019 that the conservatorship had forced her into a stay at a mental health facility, as well as into making public performances against her will. The article further reported that the conservatorship had dictated Spears’ friendships, her dating life and her spending habits, even preventing her from refinishing kitchen cabinets according to her taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as 2014, the article states, Spears wanted to consider removing her father from his prime role in the conservatorship, citing his reportedly heavy drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does Spears herself support the #FreeBritney movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain Spears fans have organized themselves into a grassroots movement—#FreeBritney—to help Spears regain autonomy over her life. The dynamics between Spears and her dedicated #FreeBritney fans are murky, as are her various declarations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a court filing last September, her lawyer, Ingham, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54024740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>: “At this point in her life when she is trying to regain some measure of personal autonomy, Britney welcomes and appreciates the informed support of her many fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Spears to date has never publicly asked to be released from the conservatorship and regain her autonomy—which is the main goal of #FreeBritney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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With the Stud collective still venue-less, it’s a symbolic melding of two beloved nightlife staples to usher in a new era of what Drollinger is calling “Oasis 2.0.” After a pandemic-induced realization that Oasis’ past programming (and ticket prices) might have attracted a somewhat insular group of regulars, Drollinger’s new vision includes more accessible pricing structures, a wider range of parties and producers, and the idea that Oasis could be—should be—a “clubhouse” for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel a responsibility,” he elaborates. “Because we’re coming out of this pandemic where I feel like certain people don’t really have a home… as performers and audience members are gone. 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These include in-house technicians to run the shows, and a sturdy, theater-quality stage that, as Drollinger terms, “elevates” the experience for performers, who may be more accustomed to the glare of bare bulbs and makeshift platforms. While audiences stayed at home this past year, Drollinger added the equipment necessary to stream live performances from the space—a practice he intends to keep once live audiences return. Streaming is partly to keep the “clubhouse” accessible to a larger audience, and partly because Drollinger leaned hard into broadcasting during the shutdown, founding a subscriber-based streaming platform called Oasis TV. In addition to airing archival video of his signature staged parodies, Drollinger tapped a talent pool of local queens to create or guest star in a variety of talk shows, drag shows, makeup shows, cooking shows, and other original content created with a playful, queer emphasis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that there are other gay TV networks like Logo,” Drollinger says about the experiment. “(But) I feel like there isn’t really a drag-centered television network.” By filling that niche, Drollinger hopes that Oasis TV will outlive its pandemic origins and remain a home for the drag community both at home and further afield. “I’d like to expand it into a full network,” he enthuses. “I feel like it’s a great asset and it really does have a lot of possibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite Drollinger’s creativity in creating platforms and income streams—such as the bespoke drag queen dinner delivery service, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoasis.com/meals-on-heels\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Meals on Heels\u003c/a>—Oasis was by no means spared the financial stresses that the pandemic wrought across San Francisco nightlife. Even the unanticipated windfall of their 11th hour telethon in early March, during which they raised over $268,000, has already mostly been spent on debts incurred during the pandemic, and on reopening costs. As Drollinger points out, there are government programs at the federal and the local level designed to help small businesses and entertainment venues to survive, but most of the money earmarked for them has yet to be distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13898639']“It’s crazy…we’re going to reopen before we get any money that was supposed to be here to help us get through this,” comments Drollinger. “I know there’s lots of red tape and so many people involved, but I feel like nobody really understands how hand-to-mouth we are in this business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial and operational struggles aside, Drollinger is thrilled to be able to open Oasis to a full capacity Pride crowd this weekend and beyond. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’re gonna go out on the first weekend after California’s COVID restrictions are lifted, you might as well go hard. That was my idea, anyway, when I drove two hours to San Jose on Saturday. My destination: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRL-WkAfwi/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">REAL BAY SHIT\u003c/a>, a DIY show with seven bands, in the city that’s quickly become the epicenter of the country’s hardcore scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture your typical industrial park: faceless concrete buildings, loading bays, on the outskirts of town. Then picture a long line of people waiting to pay their $5, and, around a corner in a roped-off, hidden parking lot, upwards up 1,500 people. The location was announced at 3pm, just two hours prior, and people have been so eager to get together again that, when I arrive, the place is already full. Some of them are already crowdsurfing before even one band has played a note. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd in San Jose. \" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899179\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd before the start of Real Bay Shit in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an electricity in the air, along with the occasional hurled items: a beer can, a drum head, a giant stuffed animal, a discarded bra, and a human body soaring across the sky. And that’s just during the opening bands. During Xiobalba’s set, I scan the crowd: maybe 60% white, with a mix of Latino, Asian and Black fans—a reflection of the South Bay. I see a couple of typical mohawked drunk punks almost get into an all-out brawl with some dudes in matching “10 Years of Smashing Nazis” T-shirts and then, two minutes later, I see them working it out and hugging in the pit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13894169']I’m here for Sunami, San Jose’s most talked-about hardcore band at the moment, who specialize in a heavy, in-your-face assault. This is their second-ever show; the only other one they’ve played was in October of 2019, pre-COVID. In the past year and a half, two things happened: that show attained legendary status due to \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/wP-1Fdktbrk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">widely-watched footage\u003c/a> of crowd mayhem while the band debuted in a living room, and also, everyone who watched it sat at home for a year, waiting for the chance to finally allow the bottled-up powder keg of shelter-in-place to explode in every direction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So… yeah. That’s \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/A7k9tuPFsf8?t=30\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">basically what happens\u003c/a> when Sunami starts playing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From where I am, at the front of the stage, it’s just a churn of bodies—flailing, falling, swarming. Entire sections of the crowd crash down hard on the asphalt, resurfacing with bloodied knees and palms. One guy has a bloody eye. During one song, four different stagedivers land right on my head. There are screams and sweat and gnashing of teeth all around me. There are men and women alike just straight-up kicking and throwing swings at anybody within striking distance, over and over; I wind up getting punched a couple times in the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you know what? It is \u003cem>beautiful\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPv3DVola_Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what I missed most in the pandemic: not just being in a pit specifically, but moving in close quarters with other humans, with their movements impacting yours, and doing so in such a random and hectic way as to feel illicit or dangerous. Think crowded BART cars, or sideshows, or even wave pools. After a year of quarantine, I wanted chaos and tension with other people. I wanted the \u003cem>extreme opposite\u003c/em> of social distancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, as I realized at some point on Saturday, I don’t want any more manufactured “experiences,” or festivals put on by huge promoters. This show was $5, it was completely DIY, probably illegal on a number of different levels, bands played on a plywood stage, powered by a generator, BYOB with cheap tacos being sold, no Live Nation, no Goldenvoice, by the scene, for the scene. The stacked lineup—Drain, Gulch, Sunami, Xiobalba, Skeletal Remains, Maya Over Eyes, and Scowl—could have easily sold out the Warfield. It wouldn’t have been nearly the same. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus it was just \u003cem>fun\u003c/em>. Being cooped up inside has made everyone I know take themselves too seriously. Give me more of the inane, the over-the-top, the unexplainable, the alive. Give me more of the band that, as I went to my car for more ibuprofen (I am 45), pulled up in a van, opened the side doors, and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ndyegYYWGAE\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">played one song before insulting the crowd and driving off\u003c/a>, all in under a minute. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndyegYYWGAE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, I know it isn’t for everybody. But to me, there’s a church-like ritual to the best hardcore shows that I’ve missed: the processional of the pit, the unwritten rules of lifting each other up, the moments of rising and singing along to hymns, the sin of beating the hell out of everyone around you and the redemption of hugging it out. People of all races and backgrounds and pronouns in a communal testimony. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, especially after a year in quarantine, it’s the concentrated version of society itself, that thing we’re all going to have to re-enter: messy, unexpected, joyful and scary, and completely unmediated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium 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>\u003cem>Sunami plays again with Connoisseur, Lead Dream, Extinguish, and Fentanyl at the Punk Rock Flea Market on Sunday, June 27, at LVL UP in San Jose. Bring aspirin. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HARDTIMESSHOWS/status/1404162886360915968\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’re gonna go out on the first weekend after California’s COVID restrictions are lifted, you might as well go hard. That was my idea, anyway, when I drove two hours to San Jose on Saturday. My destination: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRL-WkAfwi/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">REAL BAY SHIT\u003c/a>, a DIY show with seven bands, in the city that’s quickly become the epicenter of the country’s hardcore scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture your typical industrial park: faceless concrete buildings, loading bays, on the outskirts of town. Then picture a long line of people waiting to pay their $5, and, around a corner in a roped-off, hidden parking lot, upwards up 1,500 people. The location was announced at 3pm, just two hours prior, and people have been so eager to get together again that, when I arrive, the place is already full. Some of them are already crowdsurfing before even one band has played a note. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd in San Jose. \" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899179\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.crowd_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd before the start of Real Bay Shit in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an electricity in the air, along with the occasional hurled items: a beer can, a drum head, a giant stuffed animal, a discarded bra, and a human body soaring across the sky. And that’s just during the opening bands. During Xiobalba’s set, I scan the crowd: maybe 60% white, with a mix of Latino, Asian and Black fans—a reflection of the South Bay. I see a couple of typical mohawked drunk punks almost get into an all-out brawl with some dudes in matching “10 Years of Smashing Nazis” T-shirts and then, two minutes later, I see them working it out and hugging in the pit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Though it opened just this past weekend, people have been upset about new San Francisco nightclub \u003ca href=\"https://www.yolonightclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YOLO\u003c/a> for months now. (Broke Ass Stuart referred to the club as a “\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/08/13/slims-to-be-replaced-by-yolo-nightclub-douchefest/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">douchefest\u003c/a>” all the way back in August 2020.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13877225']For live music fans, the reality of YOLO’s opening was reason enough to be upset. Slim’s, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877225/slims-a-storied-sf-concert-hall-permanently-closes-after-30-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">live music institution in the city for over 30 years\u003c/a>, was being replaced by a dance club featuring DJs only. Then, it was discovered that the new owners were Peter Lin and Michael Hu, who own Sunnyvale’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.purenightclub408.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pure Nightclub\u003c/a>. And Pure is the kind of place where “\u003ca href=\"https://www.purenightclub408.com/dress-code-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sports, recreation [and] athletic attire\u003c/a>” are prohibited for club-goers, but female waitresses are required to wear\u003ca href=\"https://www.purenightclub408.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> lingerie\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, adding insult to injury was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yolonightclub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YOLO’s social media\u003c/a>. It didn’t start out great: a series of images focused mostly on objectifying women—\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNxwHyjDCQQ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disembodied legs\u003c/a> in stockings, faceless \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/COjGgKtDaZ6/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bunny girls\u003c/a>, faceless \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CPR2gnlD1tN/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">space girls\u003c/a>, faceless \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CN21Pg9DpH2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">side boob\u003c/a>. But then the club ramped things up with a motivational meme that told people to “Speak English” and “Spend Arab.” (One KQED Arts reader was alarmed enough to take a screenshot and send it to us.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 716px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-1.30.18-PM.png\" alt=\"YOLO posted this mess back in April, then deleted it a month later.\" width=\"716\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-1.30.18-PM.png 716w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-1.30.18-PM-160x205.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YOLO posted this mess back in April, then deleted it a month later. \u003ccite>(Debbie Doom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With all this in mind, I was fairly stunned on Friday night to drive past 333 11th Street at 10:45pm and see pandemonium outside the club. It was a lot, even for the first weekend after California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifting of COVID restrictions\u003c/a>. There was a throng under the awning, and roped-off lines to both the left and right of the front door. People weren’t just casually trying out YOLO, I realized—they were willing to stand in very long lines to get in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a fit of masochistic madness, and after seeing a sea of YOLO hate on my Facebook feed, I decided to go the following night. I did so knowing full well that I’d have to go it alone (no one I know would agree to step foot in there), and that the experience might be a little emotionally wrenching. Slim’s wasn’t just a place where I saw a lot of great shows; it was a place where I had in fact worked for a couple of years, over a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of my general aversion to standing in lines, I got to YOLO two minutes after it opened. To the right of the door was the line for VIPs—people who had paid in advance for tables. I joined the line on the left for RSVPs and guest list. (All future events at YOLO will be ticketed; July 9 tickets to see \u003cem>Jersey Shore\u003c/em>‘s Pauly D, for example, will cost you $35-45, plus booking fee.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It only took me a few minutes to get inside. Once in, I was immediately greeted by the sight of multiple female employees dressed in bras, high-waisted underwear and stockings, and the sound of Justin Bieber’s “Sorry.” I had been expecting EDM, but the music for the rest of the night was decidedly and surprisingly… well… \u003cem>basic\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907442 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the decor, the Slim’s bar that once took up most of the far wall has been ripped out and replaced by two rows of plush blue seats. That fenced-in area is where groups of up to eight people can now pay $800 for the privilege of sitting. (Woo?) These tables are guarded by the women in lingerie who move bottles from the bar to the tables, and occasionally hold up props. At one point, I witnessed them waving a “Happy Birthday” placard and a white UV seagull on a stick, the symbolism of which escaped me entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I managed to sneak a look at a drinks menu from a VIP table and it was fairly jaw-dropping. $1,400 for a magnum of Don Julio 1942 tequila; $900 for a bottle of Dom Pérignon Rosé; $675 for a handle of Grey Goose; and—my personal favorite—$375 for a bottle of Jameson that costs $24.99 in Trader Joe’s. Also, curiously, at the bottom of the UV-lit menu are three options for something called the “Bottle Parade Packages (With Presentation).” These range from $5,500-$6,000. I did not witness one of these presentations during my time at YOLO, but I can only assume they involve more UV animals on sticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The stage where your favorite bands used to play.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stage where your favorite bands used to play. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A much smaller version of the old bar still stands at the back of the room under what used to be the Slim’s dinner balcony, which now houses the more “exclusive” VIP tables. I can only suspect that the bar has been reduced to this minimal size to cause long lines, further incentivizing patrons to throw down for table service. For those willing to wait, though, prices at the bar were reasonable by club standards. I paid $11 for a vodka soda, and it was a heavy pour served by a very efficient bartender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the front of the club, the Slim’s stage is now dominated by a DJ booth with garish projections both in front of and behind the DJ. These screens never stop telling you where you are, lest you forget how embarrassing the name of this club is. More bizarrely, in front of the stage, taking up a deeply impractical amount of space, is an undulating light fixture. It is roped off and inaccessible, and prevents nightclub patrons from getting within 20 feet of the DJ booth. It also takes out an enormous amount of the club’s floor space. Of all of the endless barriers installed in YOLO, the disco jellyfish is by far the most elaborate and stupid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221607-scaled-e1624314653428-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The undulating jellyfish of DJ protection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221607-scaled-e1624314653428-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221607-scaled-e1624314653428-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221607-scaled-e1624314653428-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221607-scaled-e1624314653428-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221607-scaled-e1624314653428-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221607-scaled-e1624314653428-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221607-scaled-e1624314653428.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The undulating jellyfish of DJ protection. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The door to the right of the stage, where bands used to load in, now leads to the smoking area, which comes with its very own security guard. (He was talking about Lamborghinis with another employee when I got there.) To the left of the stage, down the stairs, is the only part of YOLO that still bears a real resemblance to Slim’s. The coatcheck room is still there, but (practicality be damned!) was closed. And the bathrooms look exactly the same, even down to the leaky toilets in the ladies room. (The upstairs bathrooms were—alas—also roped off.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more unfathomable than the closed coatcheck is the fact that no one bothered to throw down a couple of hundred bucks to paint the basement walls. The remaining grubby pattern of vertical rectangles is a sad reminder that these halls used to be lined with decades of show posters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"YOLO's painting budget didn't extend to the basement, apparently.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YOLO’s painting budget hasn’t yet extended to the basement, apparently. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing that I will say for YOLO is that its staff was, across the board, remarkably warm and friendly—even the be-suited security guys. I took some consolation in that after an evening spent thinking about \u003ca href=\"http://santamonicainjurylawyer.com/the-skinny-on-san-franciscos-ban-on-size-discrimination/#:~:text=Section%203303%20of%20the%20San,the%20recruitment%2C%20engagement%2C%20use%2C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Section 3303\u003c/a> of the San Francisco police code. You know—that thing where you’re legally prohibited from hiring and firing people based on their weight. (Look it up, YOLO.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing that I was most surprised about, however, were the patrons. These clubbers weren’t the obnoxious, over-privileged d-bags I had been expecting. They were regular people, mostly in their early-to-mid-twenties, wearing smart-casual shirts and camisoles. They were, in the majority, grown men and women dancing in gender-separated circles, like it was a school dance. I watched one group of twenty-somethings on that top balcony, staring longingly at the dance floor, seemingly having the realization that they’d paid a ton of money to not dance or meet anyone new. I was left with the distinct impression that all of these people were forking over too much of their hard-earned cash for, I presume, aspirational reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_231902-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"YOLO—the nightclub that replaced Slim's—during opening weekend. June 19, 2021.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YOLO—the nightclub that replaced Slim’s—during opening weekend. June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On my way home from the club, my mother—who lives in a timezone eight hours ahead—happened to call me. I told her about YOLO in some depth and sent her some photos. “To each their own,” she said. “But gosh, vanity is expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For live music fans, the reality of YOLO’s opening was reason enough to be upset. Slim’s, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877225/slims-a-storied-sf-concert-hall-permanently-closes-after-30-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">live music institution in the city for over 30 years\u003c/a>, was being replaced by a dance club featuring DJs only. Then, it was discovered that the new owners were Peter Lin and Michael Hu, who own Sunnyvale’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.purenightclub408.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pure Nightclub\u003c/a>. And Pure is the kind of place where “\u003ca href=\"https://www.purenightclub408.com/dress-code-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sports, recreation [and] athletic attire\u003c/a>” are prohibited for club-goers, but female waitresses are required to wear\u003ca href=\"https://www.purenightclub408.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> lingerie\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, adding insult to injury was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yolonightclub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YOLO’s social media\u003c/a>. It didn’t start out great: a series of images focused mostly on objectifying women—\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNxwHyjDCQQ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disembodied legs\u003c/a> in stockings, faceless \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/COjGgKtDaZ6/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bunny girls\u003c/a>, faceless \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CPR2gnlD1tN/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">space girls\u003c/a>, faceless \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CN21Pg9DpH2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">side boob\u003c/a>. But then the club ramped things up with a motivational meme that told people to “Speak English” and “Spend Arab.” (One KQED Arts reader was alarmed enough to take a screenshot and send it to us.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 716px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-1.30.18-PM.png\" alt=\"YOLO posted this mess back in April, then deleted it a month later.\" width=\"716\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-1.30.18-PM.png 716w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-1.30.18-PM-160x205.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YOLO posted this mess back in April, then deleted it a month later. \u003ccite>(Debbie Doom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With all this in mind, I was fairly stunned on Friday night to drive past 333 11th Street at 10:45pm and see pandemonium outside the club. It was a lot, even for the first weekend after California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifting of COVID restrictions\u003c/a>. There was a throng under the awning, and roped-off lines to both the left and right of the front door. People weren’t just casually trying out YOLO, I realized—they were willing to stand in very long lines to get in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a fit of masochistic madness, and after seeing a sea of YOLO hate on my Facebook feed, I decided to go the following night. I did so knowing full well that I’d have to go it alone (no one I know would agree to step foot in there), and that the experience might be a little emotionally wrenching. Slim’s wasn’t just a place where I saw a lot of great shows; it was a place where I had in fact worked for a couple of years, over a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of my general aversion to standing in lines, I got to YOLO two minutes after it opened. To the right of the door was the line for VIPs—people who had paid in advance for tables. I joined the line on the left for RSVPs and guest list. (All future events at YOLO will be ticketed; July 9 tickets to see \u003cem>Jersey Shore\u003c/em>‘s Pauly D, for example, will cost you $35-45, plus booking fee.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It only took me a few minutes to get inside. Once in, I was immediately greeted by the sight of multiple female employees dressed in bras, high-waisted underwear and stockings, and the sound of Justin Bieber’s “Sorry.” I had been expecting EDM, but the music for the rest of the night was decidedly and surprisingly… well… \u003cem>basic\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907442 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/267156295_2129049133914372_3518268310006300516_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the decor, the Slim’s bar that once took up most of the far wall has been ripped out and replaced by two rows of plush blue seats. That fenced-in area is where groups of up to eight people can now pay $800 for the privilege of sitting. (Woo?) These tables are guarded by the women in lingerie who move bottles from the bar to the tables, and occasionally hold up props. At one point, I witnessed them waving a “Happy Birthday” placard and a white UV seagull on a stick, the symbolism of which escaped me entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I managed to sneak a look at a drinks menu from a VIP table and it was fairly jaw-dropping. $1,400 for a magnum of Don Julio 1942 tequila; $900 for a bottle of Dom Pérignon Rosé; $675 for a handle of Grey Goose; and—my personal favorite—$375 for a bottle of Jameson that costs $24.99 in Trader Joe’s. Also, curiously, at the bottom of the UV-lit menu are three options for something called the “Bottle Parade Packages (With Presentation).” These range from $5,500-$6,000. I did not witness one of these presentations during my time at YOLO, but I can only assume they involve more UV animals on sticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The stage where your favorite bands used to play.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_225503-scaled-e1624314303718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stage where your favorite bands used to play. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A much smaller version of the old bar still stands at the back of the room under what used to be the Slim’s dinner balcony, which now houses the more “exclusive” VIP tables. I can only suspect that the bar has been reduced to this minimal size to cause long lines, further incentivizing patrons to throw down for table service. For those willing to wait, though, prices at the bar were reasonable by club standards. I paid $11 for a vodka soda, and it was a heavy pour served by a very efficient bartender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the front of the club, the Slim’s stage is now dominated by a DJ booth with garish projections both in front of and behind the DJ. These screens never stop telling you where you are, lest you forget how embarrassing the name of this club is. More bizarrely, in front of the stage, taking up a deeply impractical amount of space, is an undulating light fixture. It is roped off and inaccessible, and prevents nightclub patrons from getting within 20 feet of the DJ booth. It also takes out an enormous amount of the club’s floor space. 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(He was talking about Lamborghinis with another employee when I got there.) To the left of the stage, down the stairs, is the only part of YOLO that still bears a real resemblance to Slim’s. The coatcheck room is still there, but (practicality be damned!) was closed. And the bathrooms look exactly the same, even down to the leaky toilets in the ladies room. (The upstairs bathrooms were—alas—also roped off.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more unfathomable than the closed coatcheck is the fact that no one bothered to throw down a couple of hundred bucks to paint the basement walls. The remaining grubby pattern of vertical rectangles is a sad reminder that these halls used to be lined with decades of show posters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"YOLO's painting budget didn't extend to the basement, apparently.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_221708-scaled-e1624315282890.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YOLO’s painting budget hasn’t yet extended to the basement, apparently. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing that I will say for YOLO is that its staff was, across the board, remarkably warm and friendly—even the be-suited security guys. I took some consolation in that after an evening spent thinking about \u003ca href=\"http://santamonicainjurylawyer.com/the-skinny-on-san-franciscos-ban-on-size-discrimination/#:~:text=Section%203303%20of%20the%20San,the%20recruitment%2C%20engagement%2C%20use%2C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Section 3303\u003c/a> of the San Francisco police code. You know—that thing where you’re legally prohibited from hiring and firing people based on their weight. (Look it up, YOLO.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing that I was most surprised about, however, were the patrons. These clubbers weren’t the obnoxious, over-privileged d-bags I had been expecting. They were regular people, mostly in their early-to-mid-twenties, wearing smart-casual shirts and camisoles. They were, in the majority, grown men and women dancing in gender-separated circles, like it was a school dance. I watched one group of twenty-somethings on that top balcony, staring longingly at the dance floor, seemingly having the realization that they’d paid a ton of money to not dance or meet anyone new. I was left with the distinct impression that all of these people were forking over too much of their hard-earned cash for, I presume, aspirational reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/20210619_231902-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"YOLO—the nightclub that replaced Slim's—during opening weekend. June 19, 2021.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YOLO—the nightclub that replaced Slim’s—during opening weekend. June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He is remembered for the generosity he showed others; frequently housing bands himself, and sharing mementos with loved ones and friends in the final year of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He hugged and thanked everybody,” San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/terrible-tuesdays-with-dj-naked-rob-naked-rob-F5mSzaPIOUA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Robert Góngora\u003c/a> recalls. “He didn’t have to do that. Not many promoters do that. 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Exploring the civil rights movement, the Great Migration, and contemporary Black liberation movements, the self-guided tour spans 100 years of history in West Oakland. June 19, 11am-4pm. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/572413663743456\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juneteenth With MoAD\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora presents a day of virtual workshops and roundtable talks. The day’s conversations explore the legacies of Black women in rock music, the role of dance in the Black social experience, and the history of the Juneteenth holiday. June 19, 11am-5pm. \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/blog/celebrate-juneteenth-with-moad/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Monumental Reckoning’ Unveiling with Dana King\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe day before Juneteenth, world-renowned sculptor Dana King unveils a new work at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park of 350 ancestral sculptures. Replacing the recently removed Francis Scott Key monument, the new four-foot statues depict the African ancestors that would become America’s first enslaved people. June 18, 5-6:30pm. \u003ca href=\"https://www.monumentalreckoning.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juneteenth at the Bayview Opera House\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA free afternoon of live music, poetry, dance, and more on the outdoor stage at the Bayview Opera House in its first in-person event since the beginning of the pandemic. June 19, 1-3pm. \u003ca href=\"https://bvoh.org/juneteenth-2021-art-culture-solidarity/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grace Cathedral Presents Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco’s majestic Grace Cathedral is the setting for this Juneteenth celebration of Black music, including R&B, gospel and jazz. Led by Oakland-based DJ Nina Sol, the event streams online to kick off the day. June 19, 10am–11:30am, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://gracecathedral.org/calendar-events/music-at-grace-presents-juneteeth-a-celebration-of-freedom/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Outdoor Afro and East Bay Regional Parks Juneteenth Free Parks Day \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe East Bay Regional Park District joins forces with Outdoor Afro to waive park entry fees to its regional parks. With the goal of getting 50,000 people out in nature nationwide, Outdoor Afro encourages Americans to reflect on what freedom means by spending time in nature. June 19. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/civica/press/display.asp?layout=11&Entry=671\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County Juneteenth\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nVirtual event with presentations and a performance by Zakiya Hooker, daughter of blues legend John Lee Hooker. June 19, 1pm–3pm. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomacountyjuneteenth.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Black Neighborhood Juneteenth Hike\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nJoin the Black Neighborhood for a five-mile hike at Wildcat Canyon in El Cerrito, CA. June 19, 9am. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CQHriZdMCpJ/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Mural Program Art Clash\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCelebrate Juneteenth with an afternoon mural contest complete with a $1,000 prize; audience decides the winner. Auction of murals to follow. June 19, noon-4pm. Seventh West, Oakland. \u003ca href=\"http://@7thwestoakland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juneteenth on the Waterfront \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCUESA and MegaBlack SF celebrate Juneteenth with a farmer’s market on the waterfront, featuring a range of local Black-owned businesses at the Embarcadero Ferry Terminal Plaza. 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