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"content": "\u003cp>French film director Agnès Varda, who was a pioneer during the New Wave revolution of the 1950s and 60s and who kept making important films for the next five decades, has died at age 90.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of Varda’s family confirmed the news of her death to NPR Friday. In a statement, her film company says the filmmaker and artist “died from a cancer at her home in the night of March 29, 2019, surrounded by her family and friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13816567,arts_13825978,arts_13812731' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a director, Varda had a photographer’s eye for capturing striking images—a skill she often used to accomplish the feat of allowing her stories to seem as if they told themselves. But behind the camera, a master was at work. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varda released her first film, \u003cem>La Pointe Courte\u003c/em>, in 1955, on a shoestring budget and with no formal training. She even claimed not to have seen very many films before writing and directing what is now seen as a classic of cinema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varda may have lacked experience, but as she started out in her 20s, she believed that while other arts had progressed to new heights, films were still telling stories the way they always had. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Literature had changed, painting had changed, culture. 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Shot in black and white, two main narratives emerge, much as in William Faulkner’s \u003cem>The Wild Palms\u003c/em>, Varda’s inspiration for the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Varda’s authorial control over both scriptwriting and directing, the exclusive use of location shooting, the mixing of professional and nonprofessional actors—all of this was groundbreaking in early 1950s France,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.criterion.com/current/author/191-ginette-vincendeau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ginette Vincendeau\u003c/a> wrote for Criterion in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To form her unorthodox approach, Varda instructed her actors to mute their emotions; she spurned artificial lighting; she also allowed off-camera sounds to buzz in and out of dialogue—stylistic touches that became mainstays for the New Wave, a movement that includes esteemed directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Alain Resnais. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Varda is sometimes referred to as the godmother of the French New Wave,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-cleo-from-5-to-7-1962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Ebert wrote about Varda\u003c/a> in 2012. “I have been guilty of that myself. Nothing could be more unfair. Varda is its very soul, and only the fact that she is a woman, I fear, prevented her from being routinely included with Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Chabrol, Rivette, Rohmer and for that matter her husband Jacques Demy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, appreciation for Varda’s work has only grown. In 2017, she was awarded an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. That followed her Palme d’honneur, a lifetime award from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she explored her art, Varda kept a steady eye on important social themes, particularly the role of women. And she frequently turned her lens onto revolutionary ideas, filming in Cuba in 1963 (for 1971’s \u003cem>Salut les Cubans\u003c/em>) and making a short documentary about the Black Panthers in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All life is about borders. Language borders, ethnic borders, et cetera,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLArLHK4yc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Varda said in 2015\u003c/a>. “And in the cinema, I tried to erase borders, or make them smooth: between documentary and fiction; black and white and color; cinema and art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varda’s well-respected films range over decades, from 1962’s \u003cem>Cleo from 5 to 7\u003c/em> and 1965’s \u003cem>Bonheur\u003c/em> to 1985’s \u003cem>Vagabond \u003c/em>—the story of a young woman living alone, constantly on the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cleo\u003c/em> is seen as an icon of the New Wave, telling the story of a young pop star who meditates on beauty, femininity and objectification—all while rushing through Paris and awaiting the results of a biopsy that could tell her whether she will die from cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Varda co-directed \u003cem>Faces Places\u003c/em>—a project that paired her with the installation artist JR, as the unlikely pair (with a 55-year age difference) traveled to small towns and villages in France and treated the locals like larger-than-life personalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose normal people that we met, I would say, people with no power,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/08/555730013/agnes-varda-and-jr-the-cinematic-odd-couple-behind-faces-places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Varda told NPR\u003c/a>. “That was the point. The thing was, can we be person-to-person, and can we put the meeting as the main action? Meeting, listening, enjoying to meet.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varda turned the camera on herself for several projects, including the autobiographical \u003cem>The Beaches of Agnès\u003c/em> of 2008 and \u003cem>Varda by Agnès\u003c/em>, which came out this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born Arlettte Varda in Brussels in 1928, Varda changed her name as she embarked on her career in art. While she is often associated with the Parisian arts scene, she also spent time in Los Angeles, where she moved in the late 1960s along with her husband, the late director Jacques Demy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became in love with that strange city,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLArLHK4yc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she later said\u003c/a>. “And right away, it smelled so much [of] cinema, that I had to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in Varda’s autobiographical film, she turned the camera on others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Varda teaches us how to understand our lives,” the critic John Powers\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106690189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> said on NPR in 2009\u003c/a>. “We start not with our inner feelings, but with the people and places that matter to us. That’s why the film brims with generous portraits of the people who matter to her—the bakers next door, filmmaker Chris Marker, even her Hollywood pal Zalman King, the softcore impresario behind the cringeful \u003cem>Red Shoe Diaries\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powers concluded, “Looking back over the 55 years of Varda’s film career, it’s tempting to say that she’s the most distinguished living woman filmmaker. But that would be to insult her with faint praise. She’s one of the most distinguished filmmakers, period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Elizabeth Blair contributed to this report.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sting.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sting\u003c/a>, the 17-time Grammy-winning rock star who jet-sets between his five residences around the globe, probably isn’t the first person who comes to mind when one thinks of famous anti-capitalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an interview today at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=the-last-ship&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=&menu_id=D8B581C0-D57E-44FF-A27B-4336DDA81A9D&sToken=1%2C153ea741%2C5c9d60e0%2CB872C158-08F7-4BEF-A961-EC4EC9132424%2CyvJpHZ%2FtRUxY9Kd%2FGbBCAQ%2For9Y%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHN Golden Gate Theatre\u003c/a> in San Francisco, he lets me in on a little-known fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I’m a critic of capitalism. I think when you take out the value of community from the economic equation, you end up with something, in the long-term, that is untenable,” he says. “I studied economics; it’s based on community. You can’t have it without community. Otherwise we’re being run by an algorithm that has no feeling for human dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Sting the, uh… socialist?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t give it a name,” he says of his belief system. “I just think it’s basic human decency to look after people more than looking after money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853899\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sting speaks from his working class roots in 'The Last Ship,' a play about a shipbuilding community in decline.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sting speaks from his working class roots in ‘The Last Ship,’ a play about a shipbuilding community in decline. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sting is in town to talk about his 2014 Broadway musical,\u003ca href=\"https://www.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=the-last-ship&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=&menu_id=D8B581C0-D57E-44FF-A27B-4336DDA81A9D&sToken=1%2C153ea741%2C5c9d60e0%2CB872C158-08F7-4BEF-A961-EC4EC9132424%2CyvJpHZ%2FtRUxY9Kd%2FGbBCAQ%2For9Y%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem> The Last Ship\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which will come to the Golden Gate Theatre—with Sting in the starring role—in February 2020. Set in the ’80s in his hometown of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England, the musical is a love story set to the backdrop of a shipbuilding community in decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, its subject matter might seem niche. But \u003cem>The Last Ship\u003c/em>‘s central theme, of market forces disenfranchising the working class, has a deep resonance with today’s political moment. One could say it echoes the plight of Rust Belt steelworkers, Detroiters feeling the loss of the automotive industry and even low-income Bay Area residents pushed out by big tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is happening everywhere,” he says. “We were just in Toronto where a GM plant was about to close because they could move it to Mexico and pay workers $2 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sting then describes how he and the cast visited the plant workers, and performed an intimate, private show for them of songs from \u003cem>The Last Ship\u003c/em>. “The workers recognized the story we were telling,” he says. “And my actors were exposed to the reality of what they were portraying on stage. It was an electric moment, and it galvanized the whole thing. Then GM came back to the table to start renegotiating after that event, so we thought we were doing something useful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Sting']‘I just think it’s basic human decency to look after people more than looking after money.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking with Sting, it’s clear that \u003cem>The Last Ship\u003c/em> is his way of both reconnecting to and speaking from his working-class roots, using personal insight to illuminate broader issues of economic inequality. Sting’s father and grandfather both worked in the Wallsend shipyards—where “the biggest ships on Earth were built at the end of my street,” he says—and he was expected to follow their footsteps and take up the family trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the young boy then known as Gordon Sumner had a different dream: to become a rock star who got paid “big piles of money.” He especially wanted nothing to do with Wallsend and its ships. Fast-forward to now, over a dozen Platinum albums and hundreds of sold-out arenas later, and the Sting who sings of shipyards and labor organizing finally sees the value of those humble beginnings he once yearned to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sting's musical 'The Last Ship' has parallels to the plight of steel workers in the Rust Belt, as well as low-income Bay Area residents pushed out by big tech.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sting’s musical ‘The Last Ship’ has parallels to the plight of steel workers in the Rust Belt, as well as low-income Bay Area residents pushed out by big tech. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Let’s be real: Sting is widely seen as a self-serious, Bono-esque mega-star (critics often bring up his well-publicized interest in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/25/interview-the-thing-about-sting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tantric sex\u003c/a> and his passionate dabbling in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvF6SI0A8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lute\u003c/a>). But in person, he’s welcoming and friendly, with a loud laugh and a gift for putting people at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone in Sting’s position could easily rest on his laurels, enjoy Malibu’s beaches and Tuscany’s vineyards, and count his millions without much need to take creative risk. But Sting continues to push his own limits, undaunted by critical reception, and his fans love him for it. His last album, \u003cem>44/876,\u003c/em> a pop-reggae collaboration with Shaggy, peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard charts, even though it received lukewarm press (Pitchfork called it “\u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sting-shaggy-44876/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helplessly uncool\u003c/a>“). And though \u003cem>The Last Ship \u003c/em>also received \u003ca href=\"https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-Sting-In-THE-LAST-SHIP-In-Toronto-20190221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mixed reviews\u003c/a> from theater critics during its latest run in Canada, Sting’s passion for the storyline was apparent as he performed songs on the Golden Gate stage Thursday from the perspective of a union organizer and a shipyard manager fighting for his workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does success mean to Sting at this stage in his career, when he’s accomplished nearly everything a rock star can?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it’s about surprise,” he says. “I want people to be surprised by the choices I make, and this play is very surprising. People are kind of gobsmacked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, laughing, “\u003cem>I’m\u003c/em> surprised that I can act! It was never an ambition of mine to be an actor. But I can see the value of my name in the marquee to bring people in, and I believe in this play enough to take that risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Last Ship’ runs Feb. 20, 2020–March 22, 2020 at the SHN Golden Gate Theatre. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=the-last-ship&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=&menu_id=D8B581C0-D57E-44FF-A27B-4336DDA81A9D&sToken=1%2C153ea741%2C5c9d60e0%2CB872C158-08F7-4BEF-A961-EC4EC9132424%2CyvJpHZ%2FtRUxY9Kd%2FGbBCAQ%2For9Y%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sting.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sting\u003c/a>, the 17-time Grammy-winning rock star who jet-sets between his five residences around the globe, probably isn’t the first person who comes to mind when one thinks of famous anti-capitalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an interview today at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=the-last-ship&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=&menu_id=D8B581C0-D57E-44FF-A27B-4336DDA81A9D&sToken=1%2C153ea741%2C5c9d60e0%2CB872C158-08F7-4BEF-A961-EC4EC9132424%2CyvJpHZ%2FtRUxY9Kd%2FGbBCAQ%2For9Y%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHN Golden Gate Theatre\u003c/a> in San Francisco, he lets me in on a little-known fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I’m a critic of capitalism. I think when you take out the value of community from the economic equation, you end up with something, in the long-term, that is untenable,” he says. “I studied economics; it’s based on community. You can’t have it without community. Otherwise we’re being run by an algorithm that has no feeling for human dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Sting the, uh… socialist?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t give it a name,” he says of his belief system. “I just think it’s basic human decency to look after people more than looking after money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853899\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sting speaks from his working class roots in 'The Last Ship,' a play about a shipbuilding community in decline.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sting speaks from his working class roots in ‘The Last Ship,’ a play about a shipbuilding community in decline. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sting is in town to talk about his 2014 Broadway musical,\u003ca href=\"https://www.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=the-last-ship&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=&menu_id=D8B581C0-D57E-44FF-A27B-4336DDA81A9D&sToken=1%2C153ea741%2C5c9d60e0%2CB872C158-08F7-4BEF-A961-EC4EC9132424%2CyvJpHZ%2FtRUxY9Kd%2FGbBCAQ%2For9Y%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem> The Last Ship\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which will come to the Golden Gate Theatre—with Sting in the starring role—in February 2020. Set in the ’80s in his hometown of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England, the musical is a love story set to the backdrop of a shipbuilding community in decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking with Sting, it’s clear that \u003cem>The Last Ship\u003c/em> is his way of both reconnecting to and speaking from his working-class roots, using personal insight to illuminate broader issues of economic inequality. Sting’s father and grandfather both worked in the Wallsend shipyards—where “the biggest ships on Earth were built at the end of my street,” he says—and he was expected to follow their footsteps and take up the family trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the young boy then known as Gordon Sumner had a different dream: to become a rock star who got paid “big piles of money.” He especially wanted nothing to do with Wallsend and its ships. Fast-forward to now, over a dozen Platinum albums and hundreds of sold-out arenas later, and the Sting who sings of shipyards and labor organizing finally sees the value of those humble beginnings he once yearned to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sting's musical 'The Last Ship' has parallels to the plight of steel workers in the Rust Belt, as well as low-income Bay Area residents pushed out by big tech.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/sting-shn.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sting’s musical ‘The Last Ship’ has parallels to the plight of steel workers in the Rust Belt, as well as low-income Bay Area residents pushed out by big tech. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Let’s be real: Sting is widely seen as a self-serious, Bono-esque mega-star (critics often bring up his well-publicized interest in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/25/interview-the-thing-about-sting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tantric sex\u003c/a> and his passionate dabbling in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvF6SI0A8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lute\u003c/a>). But in person, he’s welcoming and friendly, with a loud laugh and a gift for putting people at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone in Sting’s position could easily rest on his laurels, enjoy Malibu’s beaches and Tuscany’s vineyards, and count his millions without much need to take creative risk. But Sting continues to push his own limits, undaunted by critical reception, and his fans love him for it. His last album, \u003cem>44/876,\u003c/em> a pop-reggae collaboration with Shaggy, peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard charts, even though it received lukewarm press (Pitchfork called it “\u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sting-shaggy-44876/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helplessly uncool\u003c/a>“). And though \u003cem>The Last Ship \u003c/em>also received \u003ca href=\"https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-Sting-In-THE-LAST-SHIP-In-Toronto-20190221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mixed reviews\u003c/a> from theater critics during its latest run in Canada, Sting’s passion for the storyline was apparent as he performed songs on the Golden Gate stage Thursday from the perspective of a union organizer and a shipyard manager fighting for his workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does success mean to Sting at this stage in his career, when he’s accomplished nearly everything a rock star can?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it’s about surprise,” he says. “I want people to be surprised by the choices I make, and this play is very surprising. People are kind of gobsmacked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, laughing, “\u003cem>I’m\u003c/em> surprised that I can act! It was never an ambition of mine to be an actor. But I can see the value of my name in the marquee to bring people in, and I believe in this play enough to take that risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Last Ship’ runs Feb. 20, 2020–March 22, 2020 at the SHN Golden Gate Theatre. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=the-last-ship&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=&menu_id=D8B581C0-D57E-44FF-A27B-4336DDA81A9D&sToken=1%2C153ea741%2C5c9d60e0%2CB872C158-08F7-4BEF-A961-EC4EC9132424%2CyvJpHZ%2FtRUxY9Kd%2FGbBCAQ%2For9Y%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Bay Area nightclub owner who increased service fees on tickets in order to pay for a large bonus for himself has been defeated in a pair of costly breach-of-contract lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For music fans, including thousands who purchased online tickets to the nightclubs involved, the lawsuits illustrate little-known details of the online ticketing industry—including signing bonuses and advances for small club owners, and how they can increase the dreaded “convenience” fee paid by ordinary ticket buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits go back to 2014, when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenewparish.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Parish\u003c/a> in Oakland and the \u003ca href=\"https://brickandmortarmusic.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brick & Mortar Music Hall\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission District began using a different company to sell advance online tickets for shows. Fans had previously bought tickets through San Francisco-based online ticket provider Ticketfly, but the clubs’ co-owner Jason Perkins dropped the company after a competing ticket provider, Crowdtorch, offered a signing bonus and advance totaling $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the change in providers and the large signing bonus for himself, Perkins effectively increased the service fees paid by ticket buyers by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that decision is about to cost greatly for Perkins, a controversial figure in the local music community. Perkins for years has made headlines across Bay Area media for sparring with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Brick-amp-Mortar-Music-Hall-sounds-off-4744795.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city officials\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/25/oakland-music-venue-claims-illegal-shut-down-after-alleged-police-raid/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police and fire departments\u003c/a> and, in one case, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcritic.com/2017/04/19/mixing-business-with-poison-why-readers-cant-trust-sf-sounds/29467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a popular local band\u003c/a>. (Last year, in a widely publicized incident, he was shown on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/nightclub-owner-accused-threats-attack-homeless-man-surveillance-video-surfaces/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaked security footage\u003c/a> in a physical altercation with a homeless man.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ticketfly and Crowdtorch sued Perkins and his business partner Michael O’Connor for breach of contract. In its filing, Crowdtorch alleged a pattern by Perkins of “taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in signing bonuses from an online ticketing provider and then abandoning the provider without paying back any of the bonuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowdtorch won judgment in 2017 for $323,000. And last month, after the court admonished Perkins for withholding evidence, a ruling favoring Ticketfly opened the door to another six-figure judgment. Should a judge award full damages claimed, Perkins and O’Connor will be on the hook for over $738,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"The New Parish in Oakland is one of the clubs involved in the Ticketfly and Crowdtorch lawsuits. Jason Perkins has reportedly since sold his stake in the popular club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Parish in Oakland is one of the clubs involved in the Ticketfly and Crowdtorch lawsuits. Jason Perkins has since sold his stake in the popular club. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Passing Along Large Bonuses to Fans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits stem from a 2014 agreement between Perkins and Ticketfly, now owned by Eventbrite, to provide ticketing services for Parish Entertainment Group venues, including the Brick & Mortar and New Parish through 2019. The five-year contract included a perk more commonly associated with professional sports: a $110,000 signing bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketing companies are widely reviled for their high “convenience” fees tacked on to the face value of a ticket. But the contract also outlined one of the industry’s secrets: the practice of venue owners receiving a cut of each ticket’s service fees. In the agreement, Ticketfly established a split: for a $10 ticket, for example, the service charge would be $2, of which the venue owners would receive $.25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins signed the five-year Ticketfly agreement on April 7, 2014. But nine days later, on April 16, according to court filings, Perkins told a Crowdtorch representative that he was “entertaining offers,” and began bargaining with the company weeks after contracting with Ticketfly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the sales process, Mr. Perkins made reference to other vendors he was considering for ticketing services, and even rejected our first offer as not competitive ‘with the vendors we have whittled down to consider,’” the Crowdtorch employee wrote in a sworn declaration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2014, Perkins signed a four-year agreement with Crowdtorch, court filings show, with highly favorable terms: a $150,000 signing bonus, plus a $350,000 advance on ticket sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help pay for Perkins’ large bonus and advance, the contract included an increased service charge on tickets, passed along to fans at checkout. The $2 surcharge on a $10 ticket rose by 50 percent, to $3, costing fans a total of $13 before an additional 3 percent credit card fee. The club’s cut of the surcharge, meanwhile, rose by 500 percent to $1.50. (Service fees varied by face value, but their increase did not: a $50 ticket, for example, came with a Ticketfly service fee of $6, which with Crowdfire rose 50 percent to $9.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this time, Perkins remained under contract to Ticketfly, who had paid him its own signing bonus. In December 2014, as emails surfaced in litigation show, Crowdtorch agreed to wire $250,000 earlier than previously arranged if Perkins confirmed that his Ticketfly contract was “null and void.” “I agree with all points below,” Perkins responded. “I appreciate the timely release of funds[.]” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketfly sued Perkins and O’Connor three months later. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False and Evasive’ Responses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the San Francisco judge granted Ticketfly legal fees and “terminating sanctions,” effectively ending the case in the company’s favor. The dollar amount of damages to be paid by Perkins and O’Connor will be determined at a future date, but Ticketfly claims it’s owed more than $400,000. Combined with the Crowdtorch judgment, that would bring the total in damages to be paid by Perkins and O’Connor to more than $723,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by email, Perkins did not provide comment on the ruling. The attorney representing Perkins and O’Connor did not respond to multiple requests for comment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the four-year lawsuit, Ticketfly’s attorney Nitoj Singh accused Perkins of strategically “keep[ing] this case barely alive” by “avoiding default time and time again…in an apparent effort to delay a resolution,” a charge with which the judge agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants’ repeated failures to provide timely discovery responses and to comply with the Court’s orders constitute willful, repeated, and egregious misuse of the discovery process,” wrote San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman in the order filed Feb. 28, 2019. Schulman also criticized Perkins and O’Connor for “false and evasive discovery responses [and] their admitted spoliation or loss of relevant documents.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re pleased that this has finally come to resolution with the court dismissing the case in our favor, awarding Ticketfly terminating and monetary sanctions,” the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Ticketfly was granted "terminating sanctions" in a judge's decision in February. \" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ticketfly was granted “terminating sanctions” in a judge’s decision in February. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘A Pattern and Practice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Evidently, Ticketfly’s lawsuit did not deter Perkins from signing with yet another ticketing company while under contract to Crowdtorch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowdtorch, now a part of San Francisco company Vendini, filed its suit in 2016 alleging the same type of contract breach, saying Perkins collected the bonus it paid to him before signing with a third ticketing company. “Defendants’ conduct was malicious and intentional, and consistent with a pattern and practice,” Crowdtorch’s attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2017 judgement in favor of Crowdtorch, for $323,000, was later sustained in appellate court. It is unclear in the lawsuit which ticketing company Perkins signed with while under contract to Crowdtorch, or if he received yet another large signing bonus when he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brick & Mortar’s current online ticketing provider is Ticketmaster subsidiary Ticketweb.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A History of Conflict\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perkins, whose ventures have also included Leo’s Music Club in Oakland and the Crafty Fox alehouse in San Francisco, has a well-documented history of conflict with city officials in various departments. In addition to media coverage in several Bay Area outlets, he published the defunct tabloid \u003cem>SF Sounds\u003c/em>, using unsigned editorials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10973414/entertainment-commission-nightlife-heroes-or-instrument-of-destruction\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticize the San Francisco Entertainment Commission\u003c/a> and, in one article, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcritic.com/2017/04/19/mixing-business-with-poison-why-readers-cant-trust-sf-sounds/29467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appearing to fabricate quotes disparaging Brothers Comatose\u003c/a>, a local bluegrass group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s kept a low profile since Twitter users dubbed him “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23valenciavigilante&src=typd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ValenciaVigilante\u003c/a>,” mimicking the viral hashtags used last year to describe filmed incidents of street harassment around Lake Merritt by “#JoggerJoe” and “#BBQBecky.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23valenciavigilante&src=typd\">hashtag\u003c/a> spread last year after leaked security footage showed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/06/14/jason-perkins-of-parish-entertainment-group-dubbed-valenciavigilante-accused-of-accosting-homeless-man\">altercation\u003c/a> between Perkins and a homeless man outside his Mission District venue. A former employee, David Palmer, then \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/ex-employee-comes-forward-id-club-owner-threats-burn-homeless-encampment/\">provided screenshots\u003c/a> of text exchanges that he said showed Perkins taking credit for \u003ca href=\"https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/the-sana-g-morning-show/content/2018-06-19-bay-area-club-owner-exposed-for-threatening-homeless-valenciavigilante/#.WywSt6kJOKw.twitter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving threatening notes\u003c/a>, specific language of which echoed Perkins’ social media posts, on nearby tents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(At the time, Perkins denied leaving the notes, and said the video showed self-defense.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following public outcry, O’Connor \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/parish-entertainment-group-dissolves-amid-allegations-against-jason-perkins/Content?oid=17480110\">dissolved\u003c/a> the Parish Entertainment Group, the moniker for his partnership with Perkins, although he and Perkins remained co-owners of Brick & Mortar, he said. It was then reported that Allen Scott of Another Planet Entertainment had \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8473757/new-parish-oakland-sold-allen-scott-another-planet-entertainment\">bought out\u003c/a> Perkins’ stake in the New Parish. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a declaration in the Ticketfly case, Perkins wrote that he now lives with his family in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A Bay Area nightclub owner who increased service fees on tickets in order to pay for a large bonus for himself has been defeated in a pair of costly breach-of-contract lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For music fans, including thousands who purchased online tickets to the nightclubs involved, the lawsuits illustrate little-known details of the online ticketing industry—including signing bonuses and advances for small club owners, and how they can increase the dreaded “convenience” fee paid by ordinary ticket buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits go back to 2014, when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenewparish.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Parish\u003c/a> in Oakland and the \u003ca href=\"https://brickandmortarmusic.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brick & Mortar Music Hall\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission District began using a different company to sell advance online tickets for shows. Fans had previously bought tickets through San Francisco-based online ticket provider Ticketfly, but the clubs’ co-owner Jason Perkins dropped the company after a competing ticket provider, Crowdtorch, offered a signing bonus and advance totaling $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the change in providers and the large signing bonus for himself, Perkins effectively increased the service fees paid by ticket buyers by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that decision is about to cost greatly for Perkins, a controversial figure in the local music community. Perkins for years has made headlines across Bay Area media for sparring with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Brick-amp-Mortar-Music-Hall-sounds-off-4744795.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city officials\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/25/oakland-music-venue-claims-illegal-shut-down-after-alleged-police-raid/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police and fire departments\u003c/a> and, in one case, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcritic.com/2017/04/19/mixing-business-with-poison-why-readers-cant-trust-sf-sounds/29467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a popular local band\u003c/a>. (Last year, in a widely publicized incident, he was shown on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/nightclub-owner-accused-threats-attack-homeless-man-surveillance-video-surfaces/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaked security footage\u003c/a> in a physical altercation with a homeless man.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ticketfly and Crowdtorch sued Perkins and his business partner Michael O’Connor for breach of contract. In its filing, Crowdtorch alleged a pattern by Perkins of “taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in signing bonuses from an online ticketing provider and then abandoning the provider without paying back any of the bonuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowdtorch won judgment in 2017 for $323,000. And last month, after the court admonished Perkins for withholding evidence, a ruling favoring Ticketfly opened the door to another six-figure judgment. Should a judge award full damages claimed, Perkins and O’Connor will be on the hook for over $738,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"The New Parish in Oakland is one of the clubs involved in the Ticketfly and Crowdtorch lawsuits. Jason Perkins has reportedly since sold his stake in the popular club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Parish in Oakland is one of the clubs involved in the Ticketfly and Crowdtorch lawsuits. Jason Perkins has since sold his stake in the popular club. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Passing Along Large Bonuses to Fans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits stem from a 2014 agreement between Perkins and Ticketfly, now owned by Eventbrite, to provide ticketing services for Parish Entertainment Group venues, including the Brick & Mortar and New Parish through 2019. The five-year contract included a perk more commonly associated with professional sports: a $110,000 signing bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketing companies are widely reviled for their high “convenience” fees tacked on to the face value of a ticket. But the contract also outlined one of the industry’s secrets: the practice of venue owners receiving a cut of each ticket’s service fees. In the agreement, Ticketfly established a split: for a $10 ticket, for example, the service charge would be $2, of which the venue owners would receive $.25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins signed the five-year Ticketfly agreement on April 7, 2014. But nine days later, on April 16, according to court filings, Perkins told a Crowdtorch representative that he was “entertaining offers,” and began bargaining with the company weeks after contracting with Ticketfly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the sales process, Mr. Perkins made reference to other vendors he was considering for ticketing services, and even rejected our first offer as not competitive ‘with the vendors we have whittled down to consider,’” the Crowdtorch employee wrote in a sworn declaration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2014, Perkins signed a four-year agreement with Crowdtorch, court filings show, with highly favorable terms: a $150,000 signing bonus, plus a $350,000 advance on ticket sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help pay for Perkins’ large bonus and advance, the contract included an increased service charge on tickets, passed along to fans at checkout. The $2 surcharge on a $10 ticket rose by 50 percent, to $3, costing fans a total of $13 before an additional 3 percent credit card fee. The club’s cut of the surcharge, meanwhile, rose by 500 percent to $1.50. (Service fees varied by face value, but their increase did not: a $50 ticket, for example, came with a Ticketfly service fee of $6, which with Crowdfire rose 50 percent to $9.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this time, Perkins remained under contract to Ticketfly, who had paid him its own signing bonus. In December 2014, as emails surfaced in litigation show, Crowdtorch agreed to wire $250,000 earlier than previously arranged if Perkins confirmed that his Ticketfly contract was “null and void.” “I agree with all points below,” Perkins responded. “I appreciate the timely release of funds[.]” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketfly sued Perkins and O’Connor three months later. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False and Evasive’ Responses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the San Francisco judge granted Ticketfly legal fees and “terminating sanctions,” effectively ending the case in the company’s favor. The dollar amount of damages to be paid by Perkins and O’Connor will be determined at a future date, but Ticketfly claims it’s owed more than $400,000. Combined with the Crowdtorch judgment, that would bring the total in damages to be paid by Perkins and O’Connor to more than $723,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by email, Perkins did not provide comment on the ruling. The attorney representing Perkins and O’Connor did not respond to multiple requests for comment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the four-year lawsuit, Ticketfly’s attorney Nitoj Singh accused Perkins of strategically “keep[ing] this case barely alive” by “avoiding default time and time again…in an apparent effort to delay a resolution,” a charge with which the judge agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants’ repeated failures to provide timely discovery responses and to comply with the Court’s orders constitute willful, repeated, and egregious misuse of the discovery process,” wrote San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman in the order filed Feb. 28, 2019. Schulman also criticized Perkins and O’Connor for “false and evasive discovery responses [and] their admitted spoliation or loss of relevant documents.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re pleased that this has finally come to resolution with the court dismissing the case in our favor, awarding Ticketfly terminating and monetary sanctions,” the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Ticketfly was granted "terminating sanctions" in a judge's decision in February. \" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ticketfly was granted “terminating sanctions” in a judge’s decision in February. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘A Pattern and Practice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Evidently, Ticketfly’s lawsuit did not deter Perkins from signing with yet another ticketing company while under contract to Crowdtorch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowdtorch, now a part of San Francisco company Vendini, filed its suit in 2016 alleging the same type of contract breach, saying Perkins collected the bonus it paid to him before signing with a third ticketing company. “Defendants’ conduct was malicious and intentional, and consistent with a pattern and practice,” Crowdtorch’s attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2017 judgement in favor of Crowdtorch, for $323,000, was later sustained in appellate court. It is unclear in the lawsuit which ticketing company Perkins signed with while under contract to Crowdtorch, or if he received yet another large signing bonus when he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brick & Mortar’s current online ticketing provider is Ticketmaster subsidiary Ticketweb.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A History of Conflict\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perkins, whose ventures have also included Leo’s Music Club in Oakland and the Crafty Fox alehouse in San Francisco, has a well-documented history of conflict with city officials in various departments. In addition to media coverage in several Bay Area outlets, he published the defunct tabloid \u003cem>SF Sounds\u003c/em>, using unsigned editorials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10973414/entertainment-commission-nightlife-heroes-or-instrument-of-destruction\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticize the San Francisco Entertainment Commission\u003c/a> and, in one article, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcritic.com/2017/04/19/mixing-business-with-poison-why-readers-cant-trust-sf-sounds/29467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appearing to fabricate quotes disparaging Brothers Comatose\u003c/a>, a local bluegrass group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s kept a low profile since Twitter users dubbed him “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23valenciavigilante&src=typd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ValenciaVigilante\u003c/a>,” mimicking the viral hashtags used last year to describe filmed incidents of street harassment around Lake Merritt by “#JoggerJoe” and “#BBQBecky.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23valenciavigilante&src=typd\">hashtag\u003c/a> spread last year after leaked security footage showed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/06/14/jason-perkins-of-parish-entertainment-group-dubbed-valenciavigilante-accused-of-accosting-homeless-man\">altercation\u003c/a> between Perkins and a homeless man outside his Mission District venue. A former employee, David Palmer, then \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/ex-employee-comes-forward-id-club-owner-threats-burn-homeless-encampment/\">provided screenshots\u003c/a> of text exchanges that he said showed Perkins taking credit for \u003ca href=\"https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/the-sana-g-morning-show/content/2018-06-19-bay-area-club-owner-exposed-for-threatening-homeless-valenciavigilante/#.WywSt6kJOKw.twitter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving threatening notes\u003c/a>, specific language of which echoed Perkins’ social media posts, on nearby tents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(At the time, Perkins denied leaving the notes, and said the video showed self-defense.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following public outcry, O’Connor \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/parish-entertainment-group-dissolves-amid-allegations-against-jason-perkins/Content?oid=17480110\">dissolved\u003c/a> the Parish Entertainment Group, the moniker for his partnership with Perkins, although he and Perkins remained co-owners of Brick & Mortar, he said. 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"content": "\u003cp>How do you perform a play in English and American Sign Language simultaneously? Can that work? Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always felt American Sign Language is not only a beautiful language, but it’s inherently theatrical,” said Lisa Mallette, executive artistic director for\u003ca href=\"https://cltc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> City Lights Theater Company\u003c/a> in San Jose. “I’m one of those people that, if I’m at a conference and they have an interpreter off to the side, I can’t take my eyes off of the interpreter.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13827545,arts_13851676,arts_13808400' label='Related Coverage']She says she first came up with the idea of bilingual theater in English and ASL. Then she had to find the right play to serve as a vehicle. “It was harder than I thought it was going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallette finally fixed on playwright Sarah Ruhl’s \u003ci>Eurydice,\u003c/i> a modern retelling of the classic Greek myth. You’ll recall the basic construct: Orpheus is a talented musician whose bride Eurydice is stolen away by the Lord of the Underworld. Can Orpheus get her back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruhl’s 90-minute take on the story centers on Eurydice’s love for her dead father and her fear of forgetting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once she’s among the dead, the threatening Lord of the Underworld more or less becomes a comic caricature, and the story instead focuses on whether Eurydice will regain her memory, lost in the river of forgetfulness (the river Styx in the original Greek myth), whose waters erase the passions that hold the dead to the living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13853576 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_BrianHerndon_LaurenRhodes-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"In City Lights' production of Sarah Ruhl's 'Eurydice,' Eurydice (Lauren Rhodes) signs 'father' to her lost father (Brian Rhodes).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_BrianHerndon_LaurenRhodes-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_BrianHerndon_LaurenRhodes-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_BrianHerndon_LaurenRhodes-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_BrianHerndon_LaurenRhodes-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_BrianHerndon_LaurenRhodes-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_BrianHerndon_LaurenRhodes-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_BrianHerndon_LaurenRhodes.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In City Lights’ production of Sarah Ruhl’s ‘Eurydice,’ Eurydice (Lauren Rhodes) signs ‘father’ to her lost father (Brian Rhodes). \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Taylor Sanders)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Somehow, Eurydice’s father has retained his memory of and love for her, but will she remember her love for him? When Orpheus appears at the gates, singing her name, it’s not clear whether Eurydice will follow her husband or stay below with her dad, even if it means marrying that annoying lord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallette got Ruhl’s permission to experiment with the play. “Sarah Ruhl’s beautiful play works perfectly. It’s has a lovely, poetic language already. It’s almost fantastical in its presentation. There aren’t a lot of props, so people’s hands aren’t busy. It’s also not very long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallette cast two actors for every major role: one to speak, one to sign. “If you see them side by side, some of the signs are lovely and kind of obvious. Of course that’s someone falling from the sky onto a fluffy cloud. It makes perfect sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for instance, actor Lauren Rhodes plays Eurydice — and so does Leah Cohen. “We are actually performing simultaneously onstage while [Rhodes] is speaking,” Cohen explained. “I’m signing, but I’m not just standing there looking at her, or looking out at the audience. I’m actually incorporated into the show. I interact with the speaking characters, as well as some of the other signing roles onstage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13853577 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"In City Lights' production of Sarah Ruhl's 'Eurydice,' the Eurydices are menaced by the Lords of the Underworld. Pictured, from left: Lauren Rhodes (English), Erik Gandolfi (English), Leah Cohen (ASL) and Dane K. Lentz (ASL).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In City Lights’ production of Sarah Ruhl’s ‘Eurydice,’ the Eurydices are menaced by the Lords of the Underworld. Pictured, from left: Lauren Rhodes (English), Erik Gandolfi (English), Leah Cohen (ASL) and Dane K. Lentz (ASL). \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Taylor Sanders)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Foisy plays the signing Orpheus. “As a professional sign language interpreter, I’ve been interpreting for theater for years, but I’ve always been the supplement to what’s happening onstage. Getting a chance to be part of the action has been really fun,” Foisy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A portion of the ticket sales from \u003cem>Eurydice\u003c/em> goes to support the American Sign Language and Deaf Studies Program at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohlone.edu/deafstudies/asl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohlone College\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, not a single person in the production is deaf. Those who sign came to it out of curiosity. Cohen took an “Interpreting for Musical Theater” course at the New School in Manhattan. “I just fell in love with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Eurydice\u003c/em> gives the audience the opportunity to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Eurydice\u003c/strong> runs through April 14, 2019 at City Lights Theater Company in San Jose. For more information, click \u003ca href=\"http://cltc.org/eurydice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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When Orpheus appears at the gates, singing her name, it’s not clear whether Eurydice will follow her husband or stay below with her dad, even if it means marrying that annoying lord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallette got Ruhl’s permission to experiment with the play. “Sarah Ruhl’s beautiful play works perfectly. It’s has a lovely, poetic language already. It’s almost fantastical in its presentation. There aren’t a lot of props, so people’s hands aren’t busy. It’s also not very long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallette cast two actors for every major role: one to speak, one to sign. “If you see them side by side, some of the signs are lovely and kind of obvious. Of course that’s someone falling from the sky onto a fluffy cloud. It makes perfect sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for instance, actor Lauren Rhodes plays Eurydice — and so does Leah Cohen. “We are actually performing simultaneously onstage while [Rhodes] is speaking,” Cohen explained. “I’m signing, but I’m not just standing there looking at her, or looking out at the audience. I’m actually incorporated into the show. I interact with the speaking characters, as well as some of the other signing roles onstage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13853577 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"In City Lights' production of Sarah Ruhl's 'Eurydice,' the Eurydices are menaced by the Lords of the Underworld. Pictured, from left: Lauren Rhodes (English), Erik Gandolfi (English), Leah Cohen (ASL) and Dane K. Lentz (ASL).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/CityLights_Eurydice_Lauren_Erik_Leah_Dane.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In City Lights’ production of Sarah Ruhl’s ‘Eurydice,’ the Eurydices are menaced by the Lords of the Underworld. Pictured, from left: Lauren Rhodes (English), Erik Gandolfi (English), Leah Cohen (ASL) and Dane K. Lentz (ASL). \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Taylor Sanders)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Foisy plays the signing Orpheus. “As a professional sign language interpreter, I’ve been interpreting for theater for years, but I’ve always been the supplement to what’s happening onstage. Getting a chance to be part of the action has been really fun,” Foisy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A portion of the ticket sales from \u003cem>Eurydice\u003c/em> goes to support the American Sign Language and Deaf Studies Program at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohlone.edu/deafstudies/asl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohlone College\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, not a single person in the production is deaf. Those who sign came to it out of curiosity. Cohen took an “Interpreting for Musical Theater” course at the New School in Manhattan. “I just fell in love with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Eurydice\u003c/em> gives the audience the opportunity to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Eurydice\u003c/strong> runs through April 14, 2019 at City Lights Theater Company in San Jose. 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Inspired by the audience response, he brought it to KMEL, and radio nationally followed suit. 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Some local artists felt they were effectively blacklisted; in one incident, Ali said an officer insisted he drop a rapper because of the artist’s lyrics about police harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous reporting has shown that hip-hop venue owners in Oakland, including Ali, are required to seek special-event permits entailing thousands of dollars in police fees. Meanwhile, clubs associated with other styles of music are spared the expense under otherwise identical circumstances. The costs have led Ali and other promoters to pass on booking prominent touring artists in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest conflicts are part of a long history. Oakland police and the local hip-hop community have been at odds practically since the inception of hip-hop. The city imposed a year-long moratorium on live rap in 1989, right at the time local artists such as Too $hort and MC Hammer were building national profiles. 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Today, women make up only 30% of gamers on YouTube, 22% of esports team members, and 19.5% of gamers on Twitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, it’s a question of continuing evidence of toxicity in the culture (recent news that \u003ca href=\"https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1808664240304050758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the game \u003cem>Rape Day\u003c/em> will not ship on Steam\u003c/a> notwithstanding).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also a question of representation. It was literally days ago that Chiquita Evans (a.k.a. Chiquitae126) became the first woman ever drafted into the \u003ca href=\"https://2kleague.nba.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA 2K League\u003c/a>. It’s a milestone, but one that leaves people wondering why progress is coming so slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4SvZW8fYU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Columbo of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubisoft\u003c/a> would like to see a change-up in the story lines. “This rugged-dude-going-on-an-adventure kind of thing is the main image you see in the industry. So while it’s moving in the right direction, I feel that’s what needs to change: the stories we’re seeing,” Columbo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Maria Ramos, who runs the YouTube channel \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJQxPvs-Xsy-chtX9KdCuvw/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grown Women Gaming\u003c/a>, more and better female avatars would help change gaming culture. 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So while it’s moving in the right direction, I feel that’s what needs to change: the stories we’re seeing,” Columbo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Maria Ramos, who runs the YouTube channel \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJQxPvs-Xsy-chtX9KdCuvw/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grown Women Gaming\u003c/a>, more and better female avatars would help change gaming culture. Ramos plays everything: \u003ca href=\"https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Cyperpunk 2077\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Tom Clancy’s \u003ca href=\"https://tomclancy-thedivision.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/the-division-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Division 2\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.guerrilla-games.com/play/horizon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Horizon Zero Dawn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, you name it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s how I decompress. That’s my glass of beer, you know, at the end of the day,” Ramos said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Homer Simpson probably won’t become the newest member of the Avengers, but anything’s possible now that Disney owns 21st Century Fox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year after the Walt Disney Co. announced the $71.3 billion merger, it’s official. The deal, which closed Wednesday at 12:02 a.m. Eastern time, reshapes the media landscape and makes Disney an even greater entertainment behemoth. In bolstering its trove of characters and stories, the acquisition also puts Disney in a stronger position to take on Netflix and other streaming companies when it launches its own service, Disney+, later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney, which already owns the Pixar, Marvel and the Star Wars brands, will now also get Deadpool and the Fox-owned Marvel characters such as the X-Men and Fantastic Four, allowing for the full Marvel family to be united. Disney also now owns former Fox television networks such as FX Networks and National Geographic Partners. Disney will also get Fox’s 30 percent ownership of Hulu, giving Disney a controlling share of 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/1108134895799267329\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that Fox Corp. has sold off most of its entertainment properties, it has become a standalone company that will retain ownership of its broadcast network, owned-and-operated network affiliates, the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network and Fox Sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former House speaker Paul Ryan is joining the board of directors of the new Fox Corp. NPR’s David Folkenflik \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/03/19/paul-ryan-joins-fox\">told WBUR’s “Here and Now”\u003c/a> that Fox’s decision to retain Ryan “is in keeping with the way in which Rupert Murdoch and his family has operated over the years, where they have acquired, essentially, a lot of major political heavyweights to be on their corporate boards, occasionally as top executives — essentially as a hedge” against the fairly heavy regulations that media companies sometimes face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1108002378064822272\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has been in the works for more than a year, but wasn’t official until various regulatory agencies around the world gave their approvals. After \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/disney-fox-acquisition-comcast-timeline-1202758220/\">months of flirting\u003c/a> with the idea, Disney and Fox announced in December 2017 that they had agreed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/14/568829541/this-mouse-swallows-part-of-a-fox-disney-buys-much-of-murdoch-empire\">$52.4 billion deal\u003c/a> that would sell off most of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment properties. As Folkenflik reported at the time, the acquisition offered a chance for Disney to “consolidate holdings, bringing together talented leaders in television and movie production, major cable properties and a vast network of local sports cable channels to fold into Disney’s ESPN programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal hit a snag in 2018 when Comcast unexpectedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619748496/comcast-puts-in-65-billion-bid-for-21st-century-fox\">bid $65 billion \u003c/a>to lure Fox away from Disney. But Disney was able to keep the deal moving forward when it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630439333/disney-prevails-in-hunt-for-fox-as-comcast-drops-bid\">upped its offer \u003c/a>to $71 billion. The Justice Department OK’d the acquisition last summer as long as Disney, which owns ESPN, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/624075667/justice-department-disney-can-buy-21st-century-fox-but-with-one-caveat\">agreed to sell off\u003c/a> 22 regional sports networks that were originally part of the purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Fox, the decision to sell many of its entertainment properties was motivated mostly by “fear, opportunity and pragmatism,” Folkenflik explained. “Fear of the seemingly bottomless wallets of Netflix, Amazon and possibly Apple to spend on new shows; opportunity to cash out assets at a possible peak; and pragmatism in finally resolving the professional fates of Murdoch’s sons, Lachlan and James, as well the fortunes of four other Murdoch children who do not play a role in the company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The acquisition could have negative consequences. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans told NPR’s Morning Edition that thousands of people will likely lose their jobs as Disney consolidates its properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Both Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Fox have funded NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As it has annually for 17 years, the Library of Congress picked out a wide-ranging set of recordings — songs, albums, speeches, monologues, field recordings and some very old phonograph cylinders — to add to the National Recording Registry, bringing the total number of works within it to 525.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The National Recording Registry honors the music that enriches our souls, the voices that tell our stories and the sounds that mirror our lives,” said Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who in 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/09/14/493965815/first-woman-and-african-american-sworn-in-as-librarian-of-congress\">became the first woman and the first African-American\u003c/a> to lead the Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most modern of this year’s 25 selections is \u003cem>The Blueprint\u003c/em>, Jay-Z’s 2001 album that solidified the now-mogul’s place in history and boosted the rise of Kanye West, who produced several of its songs. 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