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Lincoln always seems less crowded than Fulton, so try walking up to Judah to take the N, or if you’re lucky, score an Uber or Lyft (but watch out for ridiculous surge pricing). \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DON'T Expect Perfection \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Like most things in San Francisco, Outside Lands is far from perfect. But that’s okay, as long as you go in with the right expectations. In 2008, a train of fog nearly derailed Radiohead’s headlining set. And it’s pretty much a given that a few bands will arrive late, play truncated sets, or in some cases, \u003ca href=\"http://www.stereogum.com/1697598/chvrches-cancel-outside-lands-set-due-to-border-crossing-trouble/news/\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">not show up at all\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. The sound isn’t always great either, especially when you watch from the sides. But, if you plant yourself near a speaker, things should be alright. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DO Bring Water \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">You’re allowed to bring two factory-sealed water bottles (up to 1 liter each) through the gates. Save your money and spend it on better things, like… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>Craft Beer! \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Charging $10 for a Bud Light at a baseball game is larceny. Downing a nice craft beer while listening to great music is far more enjoyable. Over two dozen local breweries are represented at this year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/beer-lands\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">Beer Lands\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. You’ll pay as much for one beer as you would a six-pack from the store, but at least it’ll taste good. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DON’T\u003c/b> \u003cb>Go With A Big Group \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">You will get lost. Hell, if you go with more than four people, you’ll likely get split up at some point during the day, only to realize your cellphones don’t really work, it’s suddenly 55 degrees out, and you left your jacket in Sarah’s backpack. It’s way more practical to go with a small group of close friends and meet up with people once you’re there, that way you can have a blast and not feel obligated to keep up with the pack. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DO Stumble Through McLaren Pass\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Sort of in the middle of everything but also incredibly easy to miss, McLaren Pass is home to carnies, chocolate, and GastroMagic. The latter is an underrated stage where chefs and audience members interact in a bizarre medley of sights, smells, and food demos. Last year, Brenda’s French Soul Food offered free beignets to anyone who twerked. You can check out this year’s lineup \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/gastromagic\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DON’T Bring A Selfie Stick \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Just don’t. Technically \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/festival-info/entry\">they’re allowed\u003c/a>, but that doesn’t mean you should have one. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DO Find The Shortest Porta Potty Lines \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">There are a lot of Porta Pottys at Outside Lands. There are also a lot of Porta Potty lines. Less trafficked bathroom spots include: The tree-covered Porta Pottys on your right, if you’re walking toward Twin Peaks Stage from Lands End Stage, and the ones tucked behind McLaren Pass if you’re headed toward Sutro Stage. Memorize all the tiny blue squares on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/sites/default/files/content-files/files/OL14_FestivalMap.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">this map\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. Your bladder will thank you later. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DON’T Endlessly Hop Between Stages \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The dilemma: Two bands you’re dying to see are playing at the same time. Do you watch one for 20 minutes then walk over to the other stage to see the second artist finish? No, because walking between stages takes a while, and if Cara suddenly has to pee, or your best friend from middle school appears out of nowhere and starts petting you, it could take even longer. Outside Lands isn’t a contest. You’re not on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvOb6dO7G0\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">Supermarket Sweep\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. 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Lincoln always seems less crowded than Fulton, so try walking up to Judah to take the N, or if you’re lucky, score an Uber or Lyft (but watch out for ridiculous surge pricing). \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DON'T Expect Perfection \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Like most things in San Francisco, Outside Lands is far from perfect. But that’s okay, as long as you go in with the right expectations. In 2008, a train of fog nearly derailed Radiohead’s headlining set. And it’s pretty much a given that a few bands will arrive late, play truncated sets, or in some cases, \u003ca href=\"http://www.stereogum.com/1697598/chvrches-cancel-outside-lands-set-due-to-border-crossing-trouble/news/\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">not show up at all\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. The sound isn’t always great either, especially when you watch from the sides. But, if you plant yourself near a speaker, things should be alright. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DO Bring Water \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">You’re allowed to bring two factory-sealed water bottles (up to 1 liter each) through the gates. Save your money and spend it on better things, like… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>Craft Beer! \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Charging $10 for a Bud Light at a baseball game is larceny. Downing a nice craft beer while listening to great music is far more enjoyable. Over two dozen local breweries are represented at this year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/beer-lands\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">Beer Lands\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. You’ll pay as much for one beer as you would a six-pack from the store, but at least it’ll taste good. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DON’T\u003c/b> \u003cb>Go With A Big Group \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">You will get lost. Hell, if you go with more than four people, you’ll likely get split up at some point during the day, only to realize your cellphones don’t really work, it’s suddenly 55 degrees out, and you left your jacket in Sarah’s backpack. It’s way more practical to go with a small group of close friends and meet up with people once you’re there, that way you can have a blast and not feel obligated to keep up with the pack. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DO Stumble Through McLaren Pass\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Sort of in the middle of everything but also incredibly easy to miss, McLaren Pass is home to carnies, chocolate, and GastroMagic. The latter is an underrated stage where chefs and audience members interact in a bizarre medley of sights, smells, and food demos. Last year, Brenda’s French Soul Food offered free beignets to anyone who twerked. You can check out this year’s lineup \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/gastromagic\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DON’T Bring A Selfie Stick \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Just don’t. Technically \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/festival-info/entry\">they’re allowed\u003c/a>, but that doesn’t mean you should have one. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DO Find The Shortest Porta Potty Lines \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">There are a lot of Porta Pottys at Outside Lands. There are also a lot of Porta Potty lines. Less trafficked bathroom spots include: The tree-covered Porta Pottys on your right, if you’re walking toward Twin Peaks Stage from Lands End Stage, and the ones tucked behind McLaren Pass if you’re headed toward Sutro Stage. Memorize all the tiny blue squares on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/sites/default/files/content-files/files/OL14_FestivalMap.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">this map\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. Your bladder will thank you later. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>DON’T Endlessly Hop Between Stages \u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The dilemma: Two bands you’re dying to see are playing at the same time. Do you watch one for 20 minutes then walk over to the other stage to see the second artist finish? No, because walking between stages takes a while, and if Cara suddenly has to pee, or your best friend from middle school appears out of nowhere and starts petting you, it could take even longer. Outside Lands isn’t a contest. You’re not on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvOb6dO7G0\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">Supermarket Sweep\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Yes, yes, we know we’re all supposed to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/24/make-it-rain-a-playlist-for-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praying for rain\u003c/a>. But can you blame us if we’re excited about this week’s miniature heat wave? We normally spend the months of June through August staring dumbly at friends’ Instagram pictures of beach days and lake houses, counting the days until October, when we burst out of our homes and haul ass toward Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, our pale San Franciscan bodies burning to a crisp at the first hint of sun exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration. But still: Warm weather in these parts, during these months, is a special thing indeed. With this in mind, here are a few suggestions for events that will get you out of doors while it lasts. (And don’t forget to pack the sunscreen.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, July 30: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/quinn-deveaux-and-the-blue-beat-review/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quinn DeVeaux and the Blue Beat Revue at the UC Botanical Garden.\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>If you’re already making a trek to check out the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/07/21/berkeley-corpse-flower-blooming-soon-in-all-its-disgusting-glory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grossest flower ever\u003c/a>, you could do a lot worse than to spend the rest of your evening spent in a beautiful redwood grove in the Berkeley hills, in the shade of 100-year-old trees — with one of the Bay Area’s hottest R&B crooners, no less. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/quinn-deveaux-and-the-blue-beat-review/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr4X7B9-5kI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, July 30: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/921989757865209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The First Annual Ginger Pride\u003cb> Festival\u003c/b>\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>at Dolores Park. Nuff said. Grab your redheaded stepsister and head on over at 6 pm for a photo booth (complete with ginger wigs), a specialty cocktail (Jameson and ginger ale, naturally), a silent disco, and an afterparty at Monarch at 10 pm. It’s all open to gingers and ginger-allies alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, July 31: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/art-trauma-through-the-riot-grrl-movement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film Screening & Panel: Art & Trauma Through the Riot Grrrl Movement\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>This one isn’t \u003cem>technically\u003c/em> outdoors — but the Luggage Store, the gallery where this screening and discussion will take place, is flanked by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/tnf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tenderloin National Forest\u003c/a>, one of the most beautifully unexpected outdoor spaces in the city. Join punks, activists, and public health workers for a short sneak preview of \u003cem>My Rock n Roll Fantasy\u003c/em>, a forthcoming documentary about Molly 16, who was a seminal figure in the riot grrrl scene of the ’90s in the Pacific Northwest. If we’re willing to sit through a dozen documentaries and biographies about Kurt Cobain each year, it’s time to make space for a conversation about this too. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/art-trauma-through-the-riot-grrl-movement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/128028330\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, July 31: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/wang-chung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wang Chung\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>Complete this lyric: \u003cem>“Everybody have fun tonight / everybody _______.” \u003c/em>Don’t lie, you know the words to Wang Chung’s biggest synth-speckled hit, the 1986 song whose music video quickly became infamous for triggering seizures in some viewers. (See below, unless you have epilepsy!) You probably know “Dance Hall Days,” too. 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At this 15th annual fest, catch Kev Choice (an Oakland pianist/MC who’s shared stages with Lauryn Hill, Too $hort, and the Coup) and members of the Family Stone. Then take a break to check out the super-talented teams participating in the National Poetry Slam, and some aerialists and acrobats from the Kinetic Arts Center. Wrap up the evening by making your way back to the concert area in time for a set from the legendary Sheila E., followed by the dynamic Zakiya Harris (check her out below), who’ll be opening for Talib Kweli to close out Stern Grove on Aug. 16. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/art-soul-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1JUejW7-ZQ\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It wouldn’t be ours anymore.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Jessica Grose, a cohost of the \u003cem>Slate \u003c/em>podcast, the \u003cem>DoubleX Gabfest, \u003c/em>echoed this sentiment on \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/07/23/425608745/from-upspeak-to-vocal-fry-are-we-policing-young-womens-voices\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, when discussing how she employed a vocal coach to change her voice after receiving similar criticism:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I felt like it was blunting my emotional range. I felt when I was self-conscious about my voice it lost that expressive, connective quality ... There was something lost when I wasn't being myself, whatever that is.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Like Friedman and Grose, I've also received this same kind of feedback about a podcast project I've been working on. \u003cem>Say \"like\" less. Get rid of the uptick. 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The operas are all unusual choices performed in unconventional locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly known as Berkeley Opera, the company moved to El Cerrito in 2009 and subsequently changed names after being squeezed out of the Julia Morgan Theater because of scheduling conflicts. Emblematic of the Bay Area’s current rental crisis, West Edge was then priced out of a permanent venue in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is evidently making the most of its nomadic state, presenting three fine productions in three different Oakland venues that succeed because of — rather than in spite of — the awkward spaces in which the works are staged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival began with Alban Berg’s \u003cem>Lulu\u003c/em> at a decaying Beaux-Arts train station in West Oakland on Saturday night.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The 1935 opera centers on a predatory but charismatic woman who uses people for her own gain but ends up spiraling into prostitution herself. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s never any telling for sure who becomes famous in this crazy world, but if Vegas were taking bets, the wagers would be stacked in Kehlani’s favor. And after a stellar hour-and-a-half set at Slim’s on Sunday night to a sold-out crowd, fame for the East Bay native seems even more of a foregone conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Kehlani’s fans, who presented bouquets of flowers at her arrival to the stage, and who sang along, loudly, to every word of her songs. Consider Kehlani herself, with the wardrobe of Aaliyah, the choreography of Beyoncé and the heart of Lauryn Hill. Consider the club’s bartenders and other staff at the show, and the look on their faces that asked: \u003cem>Who is this girl?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kehlani Parrish is a 20-year-old R&B singer and songwriter whose Oakland upbringing wasn’t always easy. 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(Even at a young age, Kehlani’s stage presence was irresistible; after their performance at Oakland’s Malcolm X Festival in 2009, \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2009/06/01/live-review-abraham-burton-at-the-malcolm-x-jazz-arts-festival/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this reviewer stated\u003c/a> that she was “destined to be a household name someday.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10864415\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 457px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniINLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Kehlani performs at Slim's, July 26, 2015. 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When \u003cem>America’s Got Talent\u003c/em> host Nick Cannon called to see what she was up to, he offered studio time, resulting in her free mixtape \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.datpiff.com/Kehlani-Cloud-19-mixtape.642820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloud 19\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in 2014, followed by \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/you-should-be-here/id978841647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Should Be Here\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insert a move to L.A., a \u003ca href=\"http://www.rap-up.com/2015/06/01/jay-z-tidal-playlist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jay-Z co-sign\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/5N6mxJvDyL/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selena Gomez shout-out\u003c/a>, an Atlantic Records deal and \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/5N0_B3vD4h/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sold-out national tour\u003c/a>, and that’s the basic story so far. What doesn’t get captured in dates and names, though, is Kehlani’s confident-yet-relatable personality. Born a mix of black, white, Native American, Latino and Filipino, and having dated both boys and girls, Kehlani’s ace in the hole is an instantly universal honesty that never feels forced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Slim’s, though she commanded the crowd with party rockers befitting a hometown show, the set’s highlight was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAm7P7g1iOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Letter\u003c/a>,” a piano ballad dedicated to her largely absent mother that asks, plainly, why she was even born: “If you weren’t gonna guide me, why bring me into the light?” Kehlani sang, to hushed silence, “Must have done something to make you want to run and hide / Why oh why didn’t you just live your life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After musical director Jahaan Sweet finished the final chords, and the crowd erupted, Kehlani held a fist to her chest. “I need you to understand how positive that is!” she said. “That we’re all a group of young people, being positive in the Bay Area, singing those words!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10864416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS.jpg\" alt=\"Kehlani performs at Slim's, July 26, 2015. (Photo: Gabe Meline/KQED)\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10864416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kehlani performs at Slim’s, July 26, 2015. (Photo: Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 26-song set included a guest turn by Ambré Perkins on a cover of Drake “Preach,” as well as a 10-minute intermission taken over by Shmoplife hitmaker Kool John and a crew of nine stage-crashers. But the stage belonged largely to Kehlani, her two backup dancers, and her emotive songs. Unlike Keyshia Cole, another Oakland-raised R&B singer with a hood-to-Hollywood story but whose musical output has grown more formulaic over time, Kehlani has an arsenal of personal, heartfelt material: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEnXFLsoBxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright\u003c/a>,” a laid-back, swinging you-are-beautiful affirmation; “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhp2GHaq2CY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Position\u003c/a>,” which guides an unsure female lover into the sheets; “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxHK6Irgt1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FWU\u003c/a>,” a lively celebration of monogamy; and current hit “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1xYcXsGp0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Way\u003c/a>,” a slow-burning, Chance-the-Rapper-featuring earworm that at Slim’s elicited a sustained eruption of adoring screams. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In time, Kehlani will put out a formal debut album. She’ll tour without prerecorded backing tracks, the only drawback of her set Sunday night. She’ll surely play larger theaters. But she’s already got what all the industry training in the world can’t provide — an indomitable spirit, the type that was on display while her squirtgun-toting road crew doused the crowd during the show’s jubilant four-on-the-floor closer, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMOJkqeSrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alive\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you know my story, you know you can come from one thing, and turn it into something beautiful,” Kehlani said before leaving the stage. “And it’s a blessing to come back here and share this with y’all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniSETLIST.jpg\" alt=\"KehlaniSETLIST\" width=\"457\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10864422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniSETLIST.jpg 457w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniSETLIST-400x560.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniSETLIST-428x600.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s never any telling for sure who becomes famous in this crazy world, but if Vegas were taking bets, the wagers would be stacked in Kehlani’s favor. And after a stellar hour-and-a-half set at Slim’s on Sunday night to a sold-out crowd, fame for the East Bay native seems even more of a foregone conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Kehlani’s fans, who presented bouquets of flowers at her arrival to the stage, and who sang along, loudly, to every word of her songs. Consider Kehlani herself, with the wardrobe of Aaliyah, the choreography of Beyoncé and the heart of Lauryn Hill. Consider the club’s bartenders and other staff at the show, and the look on their faces that asked: \u003cem>Who is this girl?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kehlani Parrish is a 20-year-old R&B singer and songwriter whose Oakland upbringing wasn’t always easy. At a young age, \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/5nU1B-vD19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her father\u003c/a> was murdered, and later, her mother bounced in and out of jail with drug problems. Singing gave her an escape, and in her early teens she fronted a group assembled by Dwayne Wiggins from Tony Toni Toné called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X03wPJpQG4U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PopLyfe\u003c/a>. (Even at a young age, Kehlani’s stage presence was irresistible; after their performance at Oakland’s Malcolm X Festival in 2009, \u003ca href=\"http://citysound.bohemian.com/2009/06/01/live-review-abraham-burton-at-the-malcolm-x-jazz-arts-festival/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this reviewer stated\u003c/a> that she was “destined to be a household name someday.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10864415\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 457px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniINLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Kehlani performs at Slim's, July 26, 2015. (Photo: Gabe Meline/KQED)\" width=\"457\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10864415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniINLINE.jpg 457w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniINLINE-400x560.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniINLINE-428x600.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kehlani performs at Slim’s, July 26, 2015. (Photo: Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PopLyfe enjoyed national TV exposure in 2011 on \u003cem>America’s Got Talent\u003c/em>, eventually finishing in fourth place. Later, locked into a contractural obligation, Kehlani worked lousy jobs and couch-surfed, eventually hooking up with Richmond’s hip-hop collective \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/03/24/a-day-in-the-life-with-breakout-bay-area-rappers-hbk-gang/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HBK Gang\u003c/a>. When \u003cem>America’s Got Talent\u003c/em> host Nick Cannon called to see what she was up to, he offered studio time, resulting in her free mixtape \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.datpiff.com/Kehlani-Cloud-19-mixtape.642820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloud 19\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in 2014, followed by \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/you-should-be-here/id978841647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Should Be Here\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insert a move to L.A., a \u003ca href=\"http://www.rap-up.com/2015/06/01/jay-z-tidal-playlist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jay-Z co-sign\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/5N6mxJvDyL/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selena Gomez shout-out\u003c/a>, an Atlantic Records deal and \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/5N0_B3vD4h/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sold-out national tour\u003c/a>, and that’s the basic story so far. What doesn’t get captured in dates and names, though, is Kehlani’s confident-yet-relatable personality. Born a mix of black, white, Native American, Latino and Filipino, and having dated both boys and girls, Kehlani’s ace in the hole is an instantly universal honesty that never feels forced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Slim’s, though she commanded the crowd with party rockers befitting a hometown show, the set’s highlight was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAm7P7g1iOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Letter\u003c/a>,” a piano ballad dedicated to her largely absent mother that asks, plainly, why she was even born: “If you weren’t gonna guide me, why bring me into the light?” Kehlani sang, to hushed silence, “Must have done something to make you want to run and hide / Why oh why didn’t you just live your life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After musical director Jahaan Sweet finished the final chords, and the crowd erupted, Kehlani held a fist to her chest. “I need you to understand how positive that is!” she said. “That we’re all a group of young people, being positive in the Bay Area, singing those words!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10864416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS.jpg\" alt=\"Kehlani performs at Slim's, July 26, 2015. (Photo: Gabe Meline/KQED)\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10864416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniDANCERS-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kehlani performs at Slim’s, July 26, 2015. (Photo: Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 26-song set included a guest turn by Ambré Perkins on a cover of Drake “Preach,” as well as a 10-minute intermission taken over by Shmoplife hitmaker Kool John and a crew of nine stage-crashers. But the stage belonged largely to Kehlani, her two backup dancers, and her emotive songs. Unlike Keyshia Cole, another Oakland-raised R&B singer with a hood-to-Hollywood story but whose musical output has grown more formulaic over time, Kehlani has an arsenal of personal, heartfelt material: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEnXFLsoBxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright\u003c/a>,” a laid-back, swinging you-are-beautiful affirmation; “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhp2GHaq2CY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Position\u003c/a>,” which guides an unsure female lover into the sheets; “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxHK6Irgt1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FWU\u003c/a>,” a lively celebration of monogamy; and current hit “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1xYcXsGp0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Way\u003c/a>,” a slow-burning, Chance-the-Rapper-featuring earworm that at Slim’s elicited a sustained eruption of adoring screams. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In time, Kehlani will put out a formal debut album. She’ll tour without prerecorded backing tracks, the only drawback of her set Sunday night. She’ll surely play larger theaters. But she’s already got what all the industry training in the world can’t provide — an indomitable spirit, the type that was on display while her squirtgun-toting road crew doused the crowd during the show’s jubilant four-on-the-floor closer, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMOJkqeSrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alive\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you know my story, you know you can come from one thing, and turn it into something beautiful,” Kehlani said before leaving the stage. “And it’s a blessing to come back here and share this with y’all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniSETLIST.jpg\" alt=\"KehlaniSETLIST\" width=\"457\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10864422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniSETLIST.jpg 457w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniSETLIST-400x560.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/KehlaniSETLIST-428x600.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: ‘Backstage Heroes’ spotlights the many movers and shakers working behind the arts scenes to make magic happen in the Bay Area. Guiding us is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/hswanhuyser/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hiya Swanhuyser\u003c/a>, a veteran fan and all-around culture vulture who for nearly a decade helmed calendar duties for the \u003c/em>SF Weekly\u003cem>, giving her rare personal insight into those toiling in the wings, but rarely in the spotlight.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see drag mariachi, and then two hours later you can listen to vintage reggae. An hour later you can listen to Balkan music,” laughs Ms. Momo, describing the San Francisco she loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More accurately, it’s the whole Bay Area she admires: “The next day you can go to early music in the East Bay. You can go to Alameda to listen to swing. You can go to Sebastopol and listen to jazz. You can go to Oakland and listen to alternative music, accordion music, classical music, hybrid music, experimental music. There’s just a wide range of opportunities!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not exaggerating in the least. The rich cultural landscape here is important to a lot of people, of course, but in the case of Momo, a DIY producer/curator based in the Mission District, the independent music and performance scene is something she doesn’t merely enjoy — over the past decade, she’s helped create it as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day, Momo is the event and membership coordinator at a national nonprofit, a job she loves. But Momo — activist, singer, visual and performance artist — is perhaps best known for her ongoing production outfit the \u003ca href=\"http://www.songbirdfestival.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Songbird Festival\u003c/a>, booking shows at the Milk Bar, the Red Poppy Art House, the Make-Out Room, Amnesia, Viracocha, the San Francisco Community Music Center, Revolution Cafe and El Valenciano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The normally kinetic and chirpy 44-year-old becomes preternaturally calm and focused when describing her motivations, her priorities, and why she does what she does. She was, she says, “super-inspired” by (current owner of the Rite Spot) Annie Southworth, whose independent music booking at small Mission District venues resonated with Momo, at the time a young transplant from Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Momo mentions memorable shows at music-friendly places like 12 Galaxies, the Attic (now the \u003ca href=\"http://uptownalmanac.com/2015/06/24th-street-bar-now-open-and-it-looks-nothing-attic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sterile\u003c/a> 24th Street Bar) and Balancoire, the still-dynamic home of the aforementioned drag mariachi shenanigans. Like Southworth, Momo’s focus veers even further away from mainstream than you might think possible: The music she likes is, for the most part, “Outside of the normal rock ’n’ roll grid. I curate shows where it’s trying to mix genres, to mix age ranges, to bring different communities together.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10861592\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 349px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Jin-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"Ms. Momo.\" width=\"349\" height=\"489\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10861592\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms. Momo.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To give an idea of the typical Songbird show, consider Aug. 22, 2010, at Amnesia. That night, the music was in two parts: An early show with “Americana Roots, Jazz, and Blues Songbirds,” including Emily Anne’s Delights, featuring Emily Anne Reed, who would go on to appear on \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>. Reed is more successful and polished since that experience, but even back in ’10, the Amnesia stage found her bouncily singing standards, flirting with the audience, and, frankly, killing it. So that was part one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part two, the late show, was called “Guitar Heyday: Funk, Soul, and Rock Rock Rock,” and had a young Con Brio opening up for a supergroup of sorts called Shake Well. Made up of twin attention-getters Robin Coomer and Eric McFadden, the band was baldly aiming to get everyone horny. Coomer’s Farrah Fawcett hairdo and McFadden’s swaggering look-at-my-big-talent attitude had the room — including Momo, found that night as usual dancing right in front — in their thrall. This was a typical Songbird Presents show: Many things to many people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Momo’s approach, this combination of musical styles — it could be called “not-rock.” Collectively, the genres are so marginalized that most venues won’t accept any type of music mentioned in this article. Brass bands, for example, are party music in other parts of the world, but you won’t find them in many U.S. venues. Same goes for choirs. Happily, you can find both of those in the Mission District, thanks to Momo and a small army of like-minded backstage types. Of course, she loves to rock, too. And across the board, acts she promoted or booked years ago are continually growing, like the Ray-Charles-inspired R&B of Quinn Deveaux, national touring funk-soul band Con Brio, or potential not-rock poster girl, Ethiopian-American folk-jazz chanteuse and TED fellow Meklit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Momo’s most frequent co-conspirators is the owner of Amnesia, Shawn Magee, who enthusiastically books not-rock. He pays for it, literally, via lower attendance, but he wouldn’t have it any other way. In the sweaty basement “green room” of his bar, I find him getting ready to star in and direct an all-male strip revue; it’s a benefit for the rebuilding of an elementary school in Mexico. He seems relaxed, and he’s glad I’m writing about Momo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is the most pumped and enthusiastic supporter of live music and performance that this neighborhood knows,” he says. “Hands down, there is nobody who loves it more than she does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re frequently interrupted by extremely nervous young men filing into the basement while he reiterates the importance of Momo’s offbeat choices. “It’s easy to book a popular band, and have them come down and fill a room. I think she’s more interested in people’s projects,” he continues, “and she pulls from all kinds of weird performance.” He observes that before social media, place-based cultural communities had an easier time forming, that people tended to trust a place and its offerings, rather than counting “likes” beforehand. Of Momo particularly, he says, “I used to give her just carte blanche, because I trust her taste and we agree about performance… and people would just come.” But his larger point is slightly different — as both bookers and bar owners know, “The best shows that happen here are sometimes the least attended.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magee, it turns out, is leaving the business. He’s recently sold Amnesia and plans to move to Mexico, with no word on whether the new owners are into not-rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I ask how she got started, Momo says one major push came from another Amnesia stalwart: former bartender, booker, janitor, performer and jack-of-all-trades Sol Crawford, since transplanted to Portland. He pointed out that she was already doing the job — “connecting bands, handing out fliers, promoting them online and verbally” — and she should put her name on it, get credit. She took him at his word. And although Crawford has lived in Oregon since 2009, he remembers exactly where Momo sits in the local culture’s family tree when I get in touch with him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there were a grand equation,” Crawford says, “to express all the variables that went into creating the vibrant music community of San Francisco for the past 10-plus years — not a music ‘scene,’ but a gathering of people who truly love and live music, making it, sharing it, enjoying it, breathing it — then Momo would be a constant in that formula.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: ‘Backstage Heroes’ spotlights the many movers and shakers working behind the arts scenes to make magic happen in the Bay Area. Guiding us is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/hswanhuyser/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hiya Swanhuyser\u003c/a>, a veteran fan and all-around culture vulture who for nearly a decade helmed calendar duties for the \u003c/em>SF Weekly\u003cem>, giving her rare personal insight into those toiling in the wings, but rarely in the spotlight.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see drag mariachi, and then two hours later you can listen to vintage reggae. An hour later you can listen to Balkan music,” laughs Ms. Momo, describing the San Francisco she loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More accurately, it’s the whole Bay Area she admires: “The next day you can go to early music in the East Bay. You can go to Alameda to listen to swing. You can go to Sebastopol and listen to jazz. You can go to Oakland and listen to alternative music, accordion music, classical music, hybrid music, experimental music. There’s just a wide range of opportunities!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not exaggerating in the least. The rich cultural landscape here is important to a lot of people, of course, but in the case of Momo, a DIY producer/curator based in the Mission District, the independent music and performance scene is something she doesn’t merely enjoy — over the past decade, she’s helped create it as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day, Momo is the event and membership coordinator at a national nonprofit, a job she loves. But Momo — activist, singer, visual and performance artist — is perhaps best known for her ongoing production outfit the \u003ca href=\"http://www.songbirdfestival.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Songbird Festival\u003c/a>, booking shows at the Milk Bar, the Red Poppy Art House, the Make-Out Room, Amnesia, Viracocha, the San Francisco Community Music Center, Revolution Cafe and El Valenciano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The normally kinetic and chirpy 44-year-old becomes preternaturally calm and focused when describing her motivations, her priorities, and why she does what she does. She was, she says, “super-inspired” by (current owner of the Rite Spot) Annie Southworth, whose independent music booking at small Mission District venues resonated with Momo, at the time a young transplant from Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Momo mentions memorable shows at music-friendly places like 12 Galaxies, the Attic (now the \u003ca href=\"http://uptownalmanac.com/2015/06/24th-street-bar-now-open-and-it-looks-nothing-attic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sterile\u003c/a> 24th Street Bar) and Balancoire, the still-dynamic home of the aforementioned drag mariachi shenanigans. Like Southworth, Momo’s focus veers even further away from mainstream than you might think possible: The music she likes is, for the most part, “Outside of the normal rock ’n’ roll grid. I curate shows where it’s trying to mix genres, to mix age ranges, to bring different communities together.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10861592\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 349px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/Jin-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"Ms. Momo.\" width=\"349\" height=\"489\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10861592\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms. Momo.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To give an idea of the typical Songbird show, consider Aug. 22, 2010, at Amnesia. That night, the music was in two parts: An early show with “Americana Roots, Jazz, and Blues Songbirds,” including Emily Anne’s Delights, featuring Emily Anne Reed, who would go on to appear on \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>. Reed is more successful and polished since that experience, but even back in ’10, the Amnesia stage found her bouncily singing standards, flirting with the audience, and, frankly, killing it. So that was part one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part two, the late show, was called “Guitar Heyday: Funk, Soul, and Rock Rock Rock,” and had a young Con Brio opening up for a supergroup of sorts called Shake Well. Made up of twin attention-getters Robin Coomer and Eric McFadden, the band was baldly aiming to get everyone horny. Coomer’s Farrah Fawcett hairdo and McFadden’s swaggering look-at-my-big-talent attitude had the room — including Momo, found that night as usual dancing right in front — in their thrall. This was a typical Songbird Presents show: Many things to many people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Momo’s approach, this combination of musical styles — it could be called “not-rock.” Collectively, the genres are so marginalized that most venues won’t accept any type of music mentioned in this article. Brass bands, for example, are party music in other parts of the world, but you won’t find them in many U.S. venues. Same goes for choirs. Happily, you can find both of those in the Mission District, thanks to Momo and a small army of like-minded backstage types. Of course, she loves to rock, too. And across the board, acts she promoted or booked years ago are continually growing, like the Ray-Charles-inspired R&B of Quinn Deveaux, national touring funk-soul band Con Brio, or potential not-rock poster girl, Ethiopian-American folk-jazz chanteuse and TED fellow Meklit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Momo’s most frequent co-conspirators is the owner of Amnesia, Shawn Magee, who enthusiastically books not-rock. He pays for it, literally, via lower attendance, but he wouldn’t have it any other way. In the sweaty basement “green room” of his bar, I find him getting ready to star in and direct an all-male strip revue; it’s a benefit for the rebuilding of an elementary school in Mexico. He seems relaxed, and he’s glad I’m writing about Momo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is the most pumped and enthusiastic supporter of live music and performance that this neighborhood knows,” he says. “Hands down, there is nobody who loves it more than she does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re frequently interrupted by extremely nervous young men filing into the basement while he reiterates the importance of Momo’s offbeat choices. “It’s easy to book a popular band, and have them come down and fill a room. I think she’s more interested in people’s projects,” he continues, “and she pulls from all kinds of weird performance.” He observes that before social media, place-based cultural communities had an easier time forming, that people tended to trust a place and its offerings, rather than counting “likes” beforehand. Of Momo particularly, he says, “I used to give her just carte blanche, because I trust her taste and we agree about performance… and people would just come.” But his larger point is slightly different — as both bookers and bar owners know, “The best shows that happen here are sometimes the least attended.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magee, it turns out, is leaving the business. He’s recently sold Amnesia and plans to move to Mexico, with no word on whether the new owners are into not-rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I ask how she got started, Momo says one major push came from another Amnesia stalwart: former bartender, booker, janitor, performer and jack-of-all-trades Sol Crawford, since transplanted to Portland. He pointed out that she was already doing the job — “connecting bands, handing out fliers, promoting them online and verbally” — and she should put her name on it, get credit. She took him at his word. And although Crawford has lived in Oregon since 2009, he remembers exactly where Momo sits in the local culture’s family tree when I get in touch with him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In Orange County, California, there’s no shortage of restaurants selling bánh mì, that delicious Vietnamese sandwich featuring a crunchy baguette filled with grilled meat, pate, and fresh and pickled vegetables. The county's Little Saigon is home to the largest Vietnamese population outside Vietnam. But go to the town of Westminster and you can see a pop star behind the counter, a woman known as the \"Vietnamese Madonna.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216225838\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Trang Dai is the most glamorous proprietor of a sandwich shop I’ve ever seen. She sports stiletto heels, a short skirt and perfect makeup -- including false eyelashes. She’s also a bit of a diva. She makes me wait two hours to interview her! Yet in between text messages and phone calls, \u003cem>she’s\u003c/em> the one running to the kitchen -- checking an industrial mixer as it churns a special sauce for the sandwiches. She’s the only one who knows the recipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her shop, Lynda Sandwich, sit in the middle of a parking lot in a strip mall. Inside, though, it feels like a posh living room, with lush plants, brightly painted murals of her idols like Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe, and a wide-screen TV playing the Food Network. There’s also a wall of fame, with framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but Lynda Trang Dai might be more famous than any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"The storefront of Lynda Sandwich in Westminster, Orange County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614788\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-400x301.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1440x1085.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1400x1054.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-1180x889.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront-960x723.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaStorefront.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The storefront of Lynda Sandwich in Westminster, Orange County. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I used to watch her in videos with my parents when I was a kid growing up. So, she's pretty famous among the Vietnamese community,” says customer Patrick Pham, adding sheepishly, “I never met her, personally,” even though she’s actually at a table just a few feet away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s clearly star-struck, but he insists he comes for the bánh mì. “They have really good food here. Yeah, it's really simple, you know what I mean?\" he says. \"I think the whole baguette came from like France, when they colonized us for 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another customer, Javier Alcala, works at the local community college. He’s eating his favorite \u003cem>cha tom\u003c/em>, a slightly unconventional bánh mì with shrimp cake. Alcala first came in out of curiosity. For years he’d seen posters around town, announcing the singer’s concerts, so he wanted to come in and try the food made by the Madonna of Little Saigon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Trang Dai’s journey to Orange County was pretty arduous, but as she talks even about her earliest days, in the ‘70s in central Vietnam, it’s clear that food has always been a driving force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614792\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-800x805.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Trang Dai's shop features framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but she might be more famous than any of them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"805\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614792\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-800x805.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-400x403.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1440x1450.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1400x1409.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1180x1188.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-960x967.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynda Trang Dai's shop features framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but she might be more famous than any of them. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember sitting on this wooden table. My grandmother taught me how to make \u003cem>bánh bèo\u003c/em>, dough with shrimp on it,” a dish she still loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, her family went from well-off to poor, and she remembers, “I would buy fruit, a whole big watermelon, cut it up, and sell it and make money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 1979, her father got tipped off that the government was going to investigate him on suspicion of aiding the CIA during the war. They escaped at 2:00 in the morning, family members split between tiny boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to be quiet, so quiet,” Lynda remembers. “It was scary. If we got caught, we'd go to jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went through storms and ran out of food, and finally found some refuge on a Chinese island, where she says they were fed rice with sugar. “It’s strange to eat rice with sugar, but it was so good at the time,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got back on the water, headed for Hong Kong, and then saw the large British ship that would save them. They all started waving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could never forget. It was just unbelievable, the most amazing moment,” Lynda remembers, choking up. “When we got up for them to rescue us into land, they gave us croissants. That was like going from hell to heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614790\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"One of Lynda's signature bánh mì.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614790\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1400x931.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Lynda's signature bánh mì. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when her family got to the United States, she developed another passion, and found her first career. She always loved to sing, the first to volunteer in elementary school, she says. As a high school student she started performing in tiny venues around Little Saigon, putting up her own fliers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then one night she was discovered singing at a club. She was invited to film her first spot in a variety show called \"Paris By Night\" -- a hugely popular video series -- so she missed her high school graduation and flew to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She became a star, dressing provocatively, singing in both English and Vietnamese, a draw for young Vietnamese-Americans. In the '90s in any home throughout the Vietnamese diaspora, you’d probably find a VHS tape featuring Lynda Trang Dai. The videos even made it back to Vietnam in a kind of gray market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Sometimes when I travel to sing on a tour, I would be up all night making sauce, and just sleep on the plane.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Back then, it's illegal to watch,” Lynda explains, adding that if people got caught they could go to jail. But an estimated 72 million people in Vietnam did watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda started touring Vietnamese communities around the U.S. and the world, but her obsession with Vietnamese food remained constant. She says the first time she went to Australia, she brought food on the plane with her, including \u003cem>bánh bèo \u003c/em>and a noodle soup that she asked the flight attendant to heat up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the other Vietnamese singers would look at me, like, ‘You are so weird,’ ” she says. But she found good Vietnamese food all over the world, and started a kind of ritual wherever she touched down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In any city I'd go to, I'd just check in on the hotel, throw all my luggage down and go and find a Vietnamese restaurant, that’s it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614785\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Trang Dai at a recent performance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614785\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1440x1012.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1400x984.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynda Trang Dai at a recent performance. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She still tours a lot, but when I visit she’s performing in Westminster with her contemporaries in a banquet hall, just a few hundred feet away from her bánh mì shop. People in the crowd are dressed to the nines, including sisters Hang and Juliette Nguyen. They came from L.A. to see this show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they were younger, the sisters say, these were the big Vietnamese stars. They used to watch them on videos, and go to their concerts whenever they came to the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sisters say there weren’t a lot of Vietnamese people in Alabama in the '80s. Tonight the singer is dressed in a barely-there strappy outfit. It fits the image the sisters remember: the sex symbol among Vietnamese singers. She was the \"Vietnamese Madonna,” they say in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comparison thrills Lynda, who is in her late 40s, but she says she worked hard to communicate to the larger community that it was just her onstage persona. “When I’m off stage I’m like 100 percent completely different, a total Vietnamese traditional girl who takes care of their family, food on the table, everything,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: She started her sandwich shop as a business with her family, and though a small staff does most of the food prep and sales, Lynda Trang Dai is still is the only one to make the special Lynda Sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes when I travel to Australia to sing on a tour, or to Europe, I would be up all night here making sauce, and just sleep on the plane if I have to.” Anything, she says, for a great meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally produced for KCRW’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/independent-producer-project\">Independent Producers Project\u003c/a> while Morehouse was at a residency at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>. The series \u003ca href=\"http://californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\">Cal Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published on July 25, 2015.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s clearly star-struck, but he insists he comes for the bánh mì. “They have really good food here. Yeah, it's really simple, you know what I mean?\" he says. \"I think the whole baguette came from like France, when they colonized us for 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another customer, Javier Alcala, works at the local community college. He’s eating his favorite \u003cem>cha tom\u003c/em>, a slightly unconventional bánh mì with shrimp cake. Alcala first came in out of curiosity. For years he’d seen posters around town, announcing the singer’s concerts, so he wanted to come in and try the food made by the Madonna of Little Saigon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Trang Dai’s journey to Orange County was pretty arduous, but as she talks even about her earliest days, in the ‘70s in central Vietnam, it’s clear that food has always been a driving force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614792\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-800x805.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Trang Dai's shop features framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but she might be more famous than any of them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"805\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614792\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-800x805.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-400x403.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1440x1450.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1400x1409.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-1180x1188.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-960x967.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaInside.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynda Trang Dai's shop features framed images of Vietnamese-American singers, but she might be more famous than any of them. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember sitting on this wooden table. My grandmother taught me how to make \u003cem>bánh bèo\u003c/em>, dough with shrimp on it,” a dish she still loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, her family went from well-off to poor, and she remembers, “I would buy fruit, a whole big watermelon, cut it up, and sell it and make money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 1979, her father got tipped off that the government was going to investigate him on suspicion of aiding the CIA during the war. They escaped at 2:00 in the morning, family members split between tiny boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to be quiet, so quiet,” Lynda remembers. “It was scary. If we got caught, we'd go to jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went through storms and ran out of food, and finally found some refuge on a Chinese island, where she says they were fed rice with sugar. “It’s strange to eat rice with sugar, but it was so good at the time,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got back on the water, headed for Hong Kong, and then saw the large British ship that would save them. They all started waving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could never forget. It was just unbelievable, the most amazing moment,” Lynda remembers, choking up. “When we got up for them to rescue us into land, they gave us croissants. That was like going from hell to heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614790\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"One of Lynda's signature bánh mì.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614790\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1400x931.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/BanhMi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Lynda's signature bánh mì. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when her family got to the United States, she developed another passion, and found her first career. She always loved to sing, the first to volunteer in elementary school, she says. As a high school student she started performing in tiny venues around Little Saigon, putting up her own fliers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then one night she was discovered singing at a club. She was invited to film her first spot in a variety show called \"Paris By Night\" -- a hugely popular video series -- so she missed her high school graduation and flew to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She became a star, dressing provocatively, singing in both English and Vietnamese, a draw for young Vietnamese-Americans. In the '90s in any home throughout the Vietnamese diaspora, you’d probably find a VHS tape featuring Lynda Trang Dai. The videos even made it back to Vietnam in a kind of gray market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Sometimes when I travel to sing on a tour, I would be up all night making sauce, and just sleep on the plane.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Back then, it's illegal to watch,” Lynda explains, adding that if people got caught they could go to jail. But an estimated 72 million people in Vietnam did watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda started touring Vietnamese communities around the U.S. and the world, but her obsession with Vietnamese food remained constant. She says the first time she went to Australia, she brought food on the plane with her, including \u003cem>bánh bèo \u003c/em>and a noodle soup that she asked the flight attendant to heat up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the other Vietnamese singers would look at me, like, ‘You are so weird,’ ” she says. But she found good Vietnamese food all over the world, and started a kind of ritual wherever she touched down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In any city I'd go to, I'd just check in on the hotel, throw all my luggage down and go and find a Vietnamese restaurant, that’s it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614785\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Lynda Trang Dai at a recent performance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10614785\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1440x1012.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1400x984.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LyndaPerforming.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynda Trang Dai at a recent performance. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She still tours a lot, but when I visit she’s performing in Westminster with her contemporaries in a banquet hall, just a few hundred feet away from her bánh mì shop. People in the crowd are dressed to the nines, including sisters Hang and Juliette Nguyen. They came from L.A. to see this show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they were younger, the sisters say, these were the big Vietnamese stars. They used to watch them on videos, and go to their concerts whenever they came to the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sisters say there weren’t a lot of Vietnamese people in Alabama in the '80s. Tonight the singer is dressed in a barely-there strappy outfit. It fits the image the sisters remember: the sex symbol among Vietnamese singers. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dawn Oberg’s combo of tuneful wit and sharply literate observations evokes the old Algonquin. The Bird and the Bee draws on bubbly pop from more than 30 years ago. And Miguel pays homage to some heroes of his youth more than two decades ago. And yet, with their richly creative new albums, all three make statements very much in, and of, the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216226221\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dawn Oberg,\u003cem> Bring\u003c/em> (Blossom Theory)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10613067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn Oberg's "Bring"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-1400x1400.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dawnoberg.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn Oberg \u003c/a>has a bunch of wry songs, and on her last album at least one \"Rye\" song. “Martini Geometry” from her new album, \"Bring,\" is a gin-and-vermouth song. And it’s just the tip of the designer ice cube of saloon culture chronicled. Heck, on “Bartender,” she declares the ’keep as “my partner in crime, in killing all my time” and no less than “my best remedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, and there’s the distinction and the context. She’s not just killing time, she’s looking for a cure for … well, listen to the songs. But mostly she seeks ways out of aimlessness and uncertainty as she navigates life both inside and, more so, outside the barroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the stool is her vantage point and clearly she’s doing more than drinking, but also a lot of honing her literary skills in observations of her fellow ’flies. In the past that’s earned her comparisons to such fine fellows as Randy Newman (including from this writer). But now the San Franciscan brings to mind a line of tuneful cultural anthropologists, from Van Dyke Parks to New York jazz wit \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/arts/music/09dear.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Blossom Dearie\u003c/a> (and Oberg’s voice, while very different from Dearie’s coo, is equally distinct for its conversational naturalism). And through Dearie, we may as well draw a line right back to the heart of the Algonquin, Dorothy Parker herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with Parker, it’s not all tipsy witticisms. There are at least two references on this short album to upchucking (at least one of those directly related to drinking), and other consequences are there both explicitly and implicitly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where in solo shows she has that intellectual piano bar thing going, the album expands the picture with some colorful instrumental support and range of arrangements, from the sax and vibes on “Martini Geometry” to the California rock of the title song to the dreamy lilt of “Gwen” (looking back on an old friendship lost to time) and the exhilarating rush of “Incantation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She does look up and outside at least once, with the sarcastic closer “Republican Jesus,” mocking the seemed-ownership of the figure by certain sociopolitical sectors. It’s as smartly done as the rest, but frankly she’s at her best when her flights start from a more finely focused place, even if just a conical glass in front of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>, Wildheart \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>(RCA)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10613129\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Miguel, 'Wildheart' (RCA)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-1400x1400.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>What a year so far in what, for wont and dire need of a better term, we must call the new L.A. urban music scene. First \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/magazine/kendrick-lamar-hip-hops-newest-old-school-star.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kendrick Lamar\u003c/a>’s groundbreaking, ear-opening \"To Pimp a Butterfly,\" then Kamasi Washington’s 3-CD jazz epic, \"\u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20557-the-epic/\" target=\"_blank\">Epic\u003c/a>.\" And now comes an album of deep, personal imagination and emotional resonance from San Pedro’s \u003ca href=\"http://wildheart.officialmiguel.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a total surprise. He has not only made two impressive and chart-hit albums before this, but he’s also become one of the most in-demand writer-producers for a range of artists, Usher and Asher Roth among them -- not to mention taking the 2013 best R&B song Grammy Award for “Adorn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this feels like a major artistic statement, kicking off with the pulsating beacon “a beautiful exit” (yes, lower case, as are most of the titles), the title contrasted with the sense of something new being entered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half African-American, half Mexican-American, Miguel Jontel Pimentel draws strongly from both heritages here, but goes so much farther, fully encompassing the scope of the L.A. region with rock, R&B, jazz, hip-hop -- all at his command in a blend that transcends any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s very much an album of time and place, or places, literally, with the finely painted portraits of “the valley” and “Hollywood Dreams” sharing complementary viewpoints, each at once full of unbridled hope and jaded cynicism. The latter in particular throws away the notion of format and genre and invites all comers to his comprehensive, engaging vision. Not to mention that it's all pretty, well, sexy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s “NWA,” a tribute to the essential Compton troupe of the ’90s hip-hop explosion. Rather than try to sound like NWA (featuring rapper Kurupt) even in the least, he fashions whatever inspiration he took from them into something new, something his own, an atmosphere and sound as true to him and to today as that group was to itself and its time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which really is what a great artist is supposed to do. And bringing it all back around at the end is “face the sun,” with guest Lenny Kravitz, setting up a whole new beginning for next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Bird and The Bee\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>, Recreational Love \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>(Rostrum)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10613126\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt='The Bird and The Bee \"Recreational Love\"' width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16122_rlcover1500x1500-qut.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\"Recreational Love,\" the new album from \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebirdandthebee.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Bird and The Bee\u003c/a>, is a perfect summer soundtrack — for the summer of ’82. In London. If this music doesn’t make you think of \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/uPudE8nDog0\" target=\"_blank\">Human League\u003c/a>, the Thompson Twins and Bananarama, well, you probably weren’t born then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, with the song “Los Angeles,” the duo of Inara George and Greg Kurstin put their (and our) attention very much on today. In, well, Los Angeles. It’s personal, a song inspired by an ex-boyfriend of George’s who wouldn’t accept the fact that she is really, truly from L.A. And it’s that in-the-moment quality that keeps The Bird and The Bee from seeming retro, whatever era the rounds may evoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a nice trick, worked not just through the words, but through George’s very-present voice and Kurstin’s clear production, devoid of any nostalgia haze or time-displacement irony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/80uk7B-h_R0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply finding moments to be in together is tricky enough for these two. George keeps herself pretty busy as part of the Living Sisters, in collaborations with Van Dyke Parks and on her own solo projects. Last year she also put together a series of all-star shows at Largo, paying tribute to L.A. songwriters she thought deserved more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kurstin, meanwhile, has become an elite, Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter on the global pop scene, working of late with Sia, Lykke Li and Charli XCX, among others. Oh, then there’s parenthood. Their respective broods have grown (three young kids for her, two for him) in the five years since the last The Bird and The Bee release. That one also glanced back, being a dance-y tribute to Hall Oates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album was made in bursts of brief get-togethers, mostly on Friday mornings, so it’s understandable that there is some sense of an oasis escape in the sounds, and at times in the lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s hard not to be swept up in it, whether in the frothy “Will You Dance?” (accompanied by a fun video featuring “The Big Bang Theory” star Simon Helberg and comedian Patton Oswalt). Or as George dreams in “Doctor,” of finding relief in “pills and love,” all over shiny beats that Kurstin makes sound as fresh as they did way back then, in some summer when these two 40-somethings were mere tykes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/flbce8yaBao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dawn Oberg’s combo of tuneful wit and sharply literate observations evokes the old Algonquin. The Bird and the Bee draws on bubbly pop from more than 30 years ago. And Miguel pays homage to some heroes of his youth more than two decades ago. And yet, with their richly creative new albums, all three make statements very much in, and of, the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216226221&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216226221'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dawn Oberg,\u003cem> Bring\u003c/em> (Blossom Theory)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10613067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn Oberg's "Bring"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-1400x1400.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16120_Bring_package-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dawnoberg.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn Oberg \u003c/a>has a bunch of wry songs, and on her last album at least one \"Rye\" song. “Martini Geometry” from her new album, \"Bring,\" is a gin-and-vermouth song. And it’s just the tip of the designer ice cube of saloon culture chronicled. Heck, on “Bartender,” she declares the ’keep as “my partner in crime, in killing all my time” and no less than “my best remedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, and there’s the distinction and the context. She’s not just killing time, she’s looking for a cure for … well, listen to the songs. But mostly she seeks ways out of aimlessness and uncertainty as she navigates life both inside and, more so, outside the barroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the stool is her vantage point and clearly she’s doing more than drinking, but also a lot of honing her literary skills in observations of her fellow ’flies. In the past that’s earned her comparisons to such fine fellows as Randy Newman (including from this writer). But now the San Franciscan brings to mind a line of tuneful cultural anthropologists, from Van Dyke Parks to New York jazz wit \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/arts/music/09dear.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Blossom Dearie\u003c/a> (and Oberg’s voice, while very different from Dearie’s coo, is equally distinct for its conversational naturalism). And through Dearie, we may as well draw a line right back to the heart of the Algonquin, Dorothy Parker herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with Parker, it’s not all tipsy witticisms. There are at least two references on this short album to upchucking (at least one of those directly related to drinking), and other consequences are there both explicitly and implicitly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where in solo shows she has that intellectual piano bar thing going, the album expands the picture with some colorful instrumental support and range of arrangements, from the sax and vibes on “Martini Geometry” to the California rock of the title song to the dreamy lilt of “Gwen” (looking back on an old friendship lost to time) and the exhilarating rush of “Incantation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She does look up and outside at least once, with the sarcastic closer “Republican Jesus,” mocking the seemed-ownership of the figure by certain sociopolitical sectors. It’s as smartly done as the rest, but frankly she’s at her best when her flights start from a more finely focused place, even if just a conical glass in front of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>, Wildheart \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>(RCA)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10613129\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Miguel, 'Wildheart' (RCA)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-1400x1400.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16123_Miguel_wildheart_CD-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>What a year so far in what, for wont and dire need of a better term, we must call the new L.A. urban music scene. First \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/magazine/kendrick-lamar-hip-hops-newest-old-school-star.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kendrick Lamar\u003c/a>’s groundbreaking, ear-opening \"To Pimp a Butterfly,\" then Kamasi Washington’s 3-CD jazz epic, \"\u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20557-the-epic/\" target=\"_blank\">Epic\u003c/a>.\" And now comes an album of deep, personal imagination and emotional resonance from San Pedro’s \u003ca href=\"http://wildheart.officialmiguel.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a total surprise. He has not only made two impressive and chart-hit albums before this, but he’s also become one of the most in-demand writer-producers for a range of artists, Usher and Asher Roth among them -- not to mention taking the 2013 best R&B song Grammy Award for “Adorn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this feels like a major artistic statement, kicking off with the pulsating beacon “a beautiful exit” (yes, lower case, as are most of the titles), the title contrasted with the sense of something new being entered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half African-American, half Mexican-American, Miguel Jontel Pimentel draws strongly from both heritages here, but goes so much farther, fully encompassing the scope of the L.A. region with rock, R&B, jazz, hip-hop -- all at his command in a blend that transcends any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s very much an album of time and place, or places, literally, with the finely painted portraits of “the valley” and “Hollywood Dreams” sharing complementary viewpoints, each at once full of unbridled hope and jaded cynicism. The latter in particular throws away the notion of format and genre and invites all comers to his comprehensive, engaging vision. Not to mention that it's all pretty, well, sexy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s “NWA,” a tribute to the essential Compton troupe of the ’90s hip-hop explosion. Rather than try to sound like NWA (featuring rapper Kurupt) even in the least, he fashions whatever inspiration he took from them into something new, something his own, an atmosphere and sound as true to him and to today as that group was to itself and its time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which really is what a great artist is supposed to do. 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In London. If this music doesn’t make you think of \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/uPudE8nDog0\" target=\"_blank\">Human League\u003c/a>, the Thompson Twins and Bananarama, well, you probably weren’t born then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, with the song “Los Angeles,” the duo of Inara George and Greg Kurstin put their (and our) attention very much on today. In, well, Los Angeles. It’s personal, a song inspired by an ex-boyfriend of George’s who wouldn’t accept the fact that she is really, truly from L.A. And it’s that in-the-moment quality that keeps The Bird and The Bee from seeming retro, whatever era the rounds may evoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a nice trick, worked not just through the words, but through George’s very-present voice and Kurstin’s clear production, devoid of any nostalgia haze or time-displacement irony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/80uk7B-h_R0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply finding moments to be in together is tricky enough for these two. George keeps herself pretty busy as part of the Living Sisters, in collaborations with Van Dyke Parks and on her own solo projects. Last year she also put together a series of all-star shows at Largo, paying tribute to L.A. songwriters she thought deserved more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kurstin, meanwhile, has become an elite, Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter on the global pop scene, working of late with Sia, Lykke Li and Charli XCX, among others. Oh, then there’s parenthood. Their respective broods have grown (three young kids for her, two for him) in the five years since the last The Bird and The Bee release. That one also glanced back, being a dance-y tribute to Hall Oates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album was made in bursts of brief get-togethers, mostly on Friday mornings, so it’s understandable that there is some sense of an oasis escape in the sounds, and at times in the lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s hard not to be swept up in it, whether in the frothy “Will You Dance?” (accompanied by a fun video featuring “The Big Bang Theory” star Simon Helberg and comedian Patton Oswalt). 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s pop-music cup has historically runneth over with odes to sunny weather and hot beaches. But songs begging for dark skies and downpours of rain? Those are as rare as kids playing on \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_%27N_Slide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slip ‘n’ Slides\u003c/a> these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may well change, with the California drought grinding along and with little relief in sight. In fact, a handful of the state’s songwriters have already \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/drought-sessions-mixtape-drying-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">penned new music\u003c/a> inspired by our dried-up rivers and evaporating lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, a lack of water is nothing new. While the riverbanks dry and crack, we at KQED Arts tapped our memory banks to bring you a compilation of 12 drought-related songs from over the years. (Scroll down for individual songs and descriptions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://open.spotify.com/user/siouxbabyblue/playlist/0cQnN2XWJBTfb6KScm5SRk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Cool Water” – Sons of the Pioneers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDo-KqUjpA\u003cbr>\nThe first song that came to our minds, this 1948 tale of two cowboys traversing the desert in constant search for water kicks off this mix. “I face the barren waste without the taste of water, cool water” reads like a photo caption for Lake Shasta’s \u003ca href=\"http://sciencevibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/140119_ShastaLake_BridgeBay_pano4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current water level\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“I Wish it Would Rain” – The Temptations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-es4Q8AJaU\u003cbr>\nThe story of a lovelorn soul who pleads for rain because “raindrops’ll hide my teardrops,” this soul ballad reached No. 1 on the R&B charts in 1967. One of David Ruffin’s best vocal performances, and yes, that’s the Funk Brothers (\u003cem>Standing in the Shadows of Motown\u003c/em>) as the backup band.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Brown Grass” – Gregory Porter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoIHOnkisuw\u003cbr>\nAnother sad R&B song — hey, who said the drought was happy? — comes courtesy of Gregory Porter, who knows plenty about brown grass, having been raised in Bakersfield. Released in 2014, this finds Porter’s Bill Withers-style baritone singing about imagery we know all too well this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Water” – The Who\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6r_uTIlJSg\u003cbr>\nA nearly forgotten B-side from the Who’s greatest era, “Water” was recorded in 1971, between the albums \u003cem>Tommy\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Who’s Next\u003c/em>. The chorus says it all: “We need waaaa-ter!” (A thundering 10-minute version from the Isle of Wight Festival can be seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvQ3bWLQBo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Make It Rain” – Tom Waits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS-B1Afc1c\u003cbr>\nOne of the standout tracks from Waits’ 2004 album \u003cem>Real Gone\u003c/em>, “Make it Rain” finds Waits mingling his ragged-junkyard blues with a modern-day rain dance rhythm. Incidentally, Waits lives in west Sonoma County near the Russian River, where levels this year are \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3962171-181/drought-looms-over-summer-russian?page=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsurprisingly low\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“You Don’t Miss Your Water (‘Til The Well’s Run Dry)” – William Bell\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibceLWcN0Jo\u003cbr>\nWater as a metaphor for love is a running theme in these songs. This 1961 breakup hit falls into the you-don’t-know-what-you’ve got-’til-it’s-gone category, and was later recorded by Otis Redding and the Byrds. And updated version might be titled “You Don’t Miss Your Water (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/05/04/state-passes-historic-water-conservation-rules/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">‘Til Jerry Brown Rations It\u003c/a>).”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Dry River” – Dave Alvin\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTUK2nggLc\u003cbr>\nThis song by Dave Alvin is quintessentially Los Angeles, referencing the L.A. river, which you know from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsYC-hVEpQM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that drag-racing scene in Grease\u003c/a>. Optimistically, Alvin sings, “Someday it’s gonna rain, someday it’s gonna pour / Someday this old dry river, it won’t be dry anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Thirsty” – Mariah Carey\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BYNma9wxxw\u003cbr>\nSure, this is more \u003ca href=\"http://popglitz.com/mariah-carey-releases-new-single-thirsty-directed-at-husband-nick-cannon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a kiss-off\u003c/a> to ex-husband Nick Cannon than a plea for rain in a drought year. But we haven’t had a good dance song on this mix yet, and the hook might as well be sung by every reservoir in the state: “Oh, you’re thirsty / Oh, you’re thirsty / Oh, you’re thirsty…”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“The Well’s Gone Dry” – The Crusaders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6F8yUdg6ls\u003cbr>\nDuring a drought, we talk about rainfall, rivers, lakes and reservoirs, but we don’t talk enough about groundwater aquifers — probably because they’ve been largely unregulated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/08/29/landmark-groundwater-reform-headed-to-governors-desk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until last year\u003c/a>. Imagine the \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/s_hFTR6qyEo?t=1m30s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“I drink your milkshake” scene\u003c/a> from \u003cem>There Will Be Blood\u003c/em>, relevant to water as much as oil, while getting down to this funk instrumental.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“A Year Without Rain” – Selena Gomez\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uPvX2te0I\u003cbr>\nIf you lasted past the Mariah Carey track, you’ll probably remember this Selena Gomez song, which hit No. 1 on the Dance Club charts in 2010. With a video shot in the Lucerne Valley desert, the song begs: “So let this drought come to an end / And make this desert flower again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“I Wish It Would Rain Down” – Phil Collins\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M340eIpF7-E\u003cbr>\nNo, this isn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwAvW1CIJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Collins’ track with that drum fill\u003c/a>, but it does feature Eric Clapton — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcY3FH208l8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an official video\u003c/a> that sees Collins dressed as a depression-era newsboy, an antebellum gentleman, a Broadway tap dancer and badly superimposed into classic films. If you haven’t figured it out already, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dOx510kyOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">’80s videos were weird\u003c/a>, kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Paris,Texas” – Ry Cooder\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YMCWR8jzpU\u003cbr>\nThis playlist’s coda is an instrumental from the Wim Wenders film of the same name. No words, but few pieces of music \u003cem>sound\u003c/em> as barren as this. Let it be a harbinger of things to come if California’s climate doesn’t turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s pop-music cup has historically runneth over with odes to sunny weather and hot beaches. But songs begging for dark skies and downpours of rain? Those are as rare as kids playing on \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_%27N_Slide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slip ‘n’ Slides\u003c/a> these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may well change, with the California drought grinding along and with little relief in sight. In fact, a handful of the state’s songwriters have already \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/drought-sessions-mixtape-drying-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">penned new music\u003c/a> inspired by our dried-up rivers and evaporating lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, a lack of water is nothing new. While the riverbanks dry and crack, we at KQED Arts tapped our memory banks to bring you a compilation of 12 drought-related songs from over the years. (Scroll down for individual songs and descriptions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://open.spotify.com/user/siouxbabyblue/playlist/0cQnN2XWJBTfb6KScm5SRk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Cool Water” – Sons of the Pioneers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDo-KqUjpA\u003cbr>\nThe first song that came to our minds, this 1948 tale of two cowboys traversing the desert in constant search for water kicks off this mix. “I face the barren waste without the taste of water, cool water” reads like a photo caption for Lake Shasta’s \u003ca href=\"http://sciencevibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/140119_ShastaLake_BridgeBay_pano4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current water level\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“I Wish it Would Rain” – The Temptations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-es4Q8AJaU\u003cbr>\nThe story of a lovelorn soul who pleads for rain because “raindrops’ll hide my teardrops,” this soul ballad reached No. 1 on the R&B charts in 1967. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-800x807.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Winehouse chilling in her flat. Photo: Mark Okoh / Camera Press London\" width=\"800\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-800x807.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-400x404.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-1440x1453.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-1400x1412.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-1180x1190.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-960x968.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/5_Amy_Winehouse_-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Winehouse chilling in her flat. Photo: Mark Okoh / Camera Press London\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four years ago today, Amy Winehouse died. But her impact on music lives on, in the form of \u003cem>Amy\u003c/em>, a new documentary about her life in theaters now, as well as a traveling museum exhibit called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thecjm.org/on-view/upcoming/amy-winehouse-a-family-portrait/about\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which has made its way from London to San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was apprehensive about the exhibit at first because it feels weird for us, complete strangers, to go rifling through her belongings so soon after her death. There comes a point where we must draw the line between our adoration for a celebrity and letting them have the dignity of resting in peace (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/04/09/why-the-selena-hologram-is-a-really-bad-idea/\" target=\"_blank\">Selena's hologram comes to mind\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the show does its best to navigate this tricky space, by working with Amy's immediate family to move the spotlight off of the tragedy and spectacle of her life and onto mementos that project a simple truth: Amy Winehouse was just a girl. Yes, a very talented, famous girl, but ultimately a human being just like you or me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some humanizing details about Amy that surprised me:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17238\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/1_Amy_Winehouse.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17238\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/1_Amy_Winehouse-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"A young Amy outside her Grandma’s flat in Southgate. Photo: The Winehouse family\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/1_Amy_Winehouse-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/1_Amy_Winehouse-400x601.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/1_Amy_Winehouse-1440x2164.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/1_Amy_Winehouse-1400x2104.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/1_Amy_Winehouse-1180x1773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/1_Amy_Winehouse-960x1443.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Amy outside her Grandma’s flat in Southgate. Photo: The Winehouse family\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>1. Amy is so defined by London, but she was almost an American! Her ancestor, Harris Winehouse, emigrated from Minsk, Belarus to London in 1890, and was soon followed by his family. The only problem? He meant to go to New York. Oops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Amy's grandmother, Cynthia, was a bad ass. She believed herself to be a medium and taught Amy how to read tarot cards. \"Nan\" also held a grudge (\u003cem>broyges\u003c/em> in Yiddish) against Amy's brother for not saying hello to her when he was eight. That's one way to teach the youth to respect their elders!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Amy loved \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/16/the-smiths-and-charlie-brown-a-match-made-in-miserable-heaven/\" target=\"_blank\">Snoopy\u003c/a> growing up and well into adulthood. She collected any books featuring the cartoon pup that she could get her hands on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Amy always wanted to live in Camden, a hip neighborhood in London. When she was old enough, she got a job selling candles at the market there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Amy was an OK cook, but made a mean meatball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. She was essentially expelled from two different schools. During a class at Sylvia Young Theatre School, she decided it was a good time as any to pierce her ears with a drawing pin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Her music collection was wide-ranging. There are artists you would expect: Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Louis Armstrong. And some you might not: Adam Sandler, Mickey Mouse Club, Marilyn Monroe, Beck and George Michael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. Her brother says that Amy was insecure about how intelligent she was. She would leave Jackie Collins novels out, while hiding books by Dostoyevsky. She was also obsessed with word puzzles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17237\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ian Lillicrapp / Jewish Museum London\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-400x255.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-1440x919.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-1400x893.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-960x613.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ian Lillicrapp / Jewish Museum London\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>9. Don't let the omnipresent ballet flats fool you. Amy loved shoes in a Carrie Bradshaw kind of way. The exhibit showcases heels by the high-fashion likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Louboutin, Fendi, Ferragamo, and Miu Miu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. Speaking of Ms. Bradshaw, Amy loved \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>, if her DVD/VHS collection (seen in this close-up below) is any indication. Other favorite shows and movies include \u003cem>Will & Grace\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Jackass The Movie\u003c/em>, \u003cem>MTV Yoga\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Beaches\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Dirty Dancing\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Tootsie\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Ghost World\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Craft\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Birdcage\u003c/em>, and all the Audrey Hepburn movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/amy-winehouse-dvd-collection.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17241\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/amy-winehouse-dvd-collection.jpg\" alt=\"amy-winehouse-dvd-collection\" width=\"621\" height=\"1485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/amy-winehouse-dvd-collection.jpg 621w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/amy-winehouse-dvd-collection-400x957.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. The most interesting part of the exhibit for me was the tracklist from Amy's \"Songs on my Chill-Out Tape.\" Anyone who has made a mix for a crush knows how soul-revealing the medium can be. Seeing the school uniform she wore, the records she touched and her collection of designer shoes is all personal, but this artifact, written in \u003ca href=\"http://i3.cdnds.net/12/29/amy_list.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">her own bubbly handwriting\u003c/a> really projects Amy's humanity and personal taste. Give her mix a listen:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://open.spotify.com/user/excusemybeauty/playlist/4VRREKznKDWikJyRDr65Jx\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. Carole King's \"So Far Away,\" a favorite song of Amy's which makes an appearance as the penultimate track on her mix, was played at her funeral. *fights to hold in sob*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thecjm.org/on-view/upcoming/amy-winehouse-a-family-portrait/about\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait\u003c/a>\u003c/em> opens today and runs through November 1, 2015 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. To read more about the exhibit, check out my colleague \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/22/why-cant-we-leave-amy-winehouse-alone/\" target=\"_blank\">Gabe Meline's take\u003c/a> on why we can't leave Amy Winehouse alone.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Amy's grandmother, Cynthia, was a bad ass. She believed herself to be a medium and taught Amy how to read tarot cards. \"Nan\" also held a grudge (\u003cem>broyges\u003c/em> in Yiddish) against Amy's brother for not saying hello to her when he was eight. That's one way to teach the youth to respect their elders!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Amy loved \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/16/the-smiths-and-charlie-brown-a-match-made-in-miserable-heaven/\" target=\"_blank\">Snoopy\u003c/a> growing up and well into adulthood. She collected any books featuring the cartoon pup that she could get her hands on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Amy always wanted to live in Camden, a hip neighborhood in London. When she was old enough, she got a job selling candles at the market there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Amy was an OK cook, but made a mean meatball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. She was essentially expelled from two different schools. During a class at Sylvia Young Theatre School, she decided it was a good time as any to pierce her ears with a drawing pin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Her music collection was wide-ranging. There are artists you would expect: Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Louis Armstrong. And some you might not: Adam Sandler, Mickey Mouse Club, Marilyn Monroe, Beck and George Michael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. Her brother says that Amy was insecure about how intelligent she was. She would leave Jackie Collins novels out, while hiding books by Dostoyevsky. She was also obsessed with word puzzles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17237\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ian Lillicrapp / Jewish Museum London\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-400x255.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-1440x919.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-1400x893.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/4_JML_Install_shot-960x613.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ian Lillicrapp / Jewish Museum London\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>9. Don't let the omnipresent ballet flats fool you. Amy loved shoes in a Carrie Bradshaw kind of way. The exhibit showcases heels by the high-fashion likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Louboutin, Fendi, Ferragamo, and Miu Miu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. Speaking of Ms. Bradshaw, Amy loved \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>, if her DVD/VHS collection (seen in this close-up below) is any indication. Other favorite shows and movies include \u003cem>Will & Grace\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Jackass The Movie\u003c/em>, \u003cem>MTV Yoga\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Beaches\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Dirty Dancing\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Tootsie\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Ghost World\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Craft\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Birdcage\u003c/em>, and all the Audrey Hepburn movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/amy-winehouse-dvd-collection.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17241\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/amy-winehouse-dvd-collection.jpg\" alt=\"amy-winehouse-dvd-collection\" width=\"621\" height=\"1485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/amy-winehouse-dvd-collection.jpg 621w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/amy-winehouse-dvd-collection-400x957.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. The most interesting part of the exhibit for me was the tracklist from Amy's \"Songs on my Chill-Out Tape.\" Anyone who has made a mix for a crush knows how soul-revealing the medium can be. Seeing the school uniform she wore, the records she touched and her collection of designer shoes is all personal, but this artifact, written in \u003ca href=\"http://i3.cdnds.net/12/29/amy_list.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">her own bubbly handwriting\u003c/a> really projects Amy's humanity and personal taste. Give her mix a listen:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://open.spotify.com/user/excusemybeauty/playlist/4VRREKznKDWikJyRDr65Jx\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. Carole King's \"So Far Away,\" a favorite song of Amy's which makes an appearance as the penultimate track on her mix, was played at her funeral. *fights to hold in sob*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thecjm.org/on-view/upcoming/amy-winehouse-a-family-portrait/about\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait\u003c/a>\u003c/em> opens today and runs through November 1, 2015 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. To read more about the exhibit, check out my colleague \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/22/why-cant-we-leave-amy-winehouse-alone/\" target=\"_blank\">Gabe Meline's take\u003c/a> on why we can't leave Amy Winehouse alone.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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