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They’re converting a huge warehouse, once the home of a cabinet maker, into a space for 10 galleries on Minnesota St. in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11037154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11037154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Eleanor Harwood and Chris Grunder at 1275 Minnesota Street\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Harwood and Chris Grunder at 1275 Minnesota Street \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Galleries need a physical presence,” Rappaport told me on a recent tour, “whether that’s where most of their sales come from or not. It’s the way they build careers for their artists, it’s the way they build inventory for the art fairs that they have to go to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rappaports are longtime arts patrons who watched with dismay as gallery after gallery lost its lease. So they came up with a business plan for this new space set to open this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing a for profit model, where we just want to break even,” said Rappaport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Rappaport says they can still offer affordable rents, a quarter to a third of what galleries are now paying around Union Square. Plus the Rappaport’s are offering free utilities, providing a room in which to show videoes, packing and shipping facilities, a café and a bar, and even showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is happier about having showers on site than a gallerist,” Rappaport said laughing. “Because they can hang their shows until 15 minutes before the public shows up, and they don’t have to go home to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.minnesotastreetproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Minnesota Street Project\u003c/a>, as it’s called, has attracted younger gallery owners like Chris Grunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this didn’t exist,” he said recently, while sidestepping construction workers and a forklift piled high with steel beams, “we probably would not have continued as a gallery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grunder’s gallery,\u003ca href=\"http://www.bassandreiner.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bass and Reiner\u003c/a>, is losing its Mission District space to — no surprise — a tech company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grunder’s and his future neighbors hope Minnesota St. will become a community, a destination for art lovers and artists to gather, drink and schmooze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really looking forward to that,” said Trish Bransten, Rena Bransten’s daughter and gallery director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yup. The Branstens are moving their gallery to Rappaport’s Minnesota Street Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parallel to Union Square,” Trish Bransten said, “is that the people who come from out of town, will have a place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So score one for the city’s art galleries. But how do you save artists’ studios, which are falling in numbers due to rents increasing at a rapid pace?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Rappaport and her husband are also working on that, with plans to convert another 20,000-square-foot warehouse on Minnesota St. into art studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another obliging landlord turned down higher offers to make room for North Beach Bauhaus, a five-artist studio and gallery collective in North Beach, one of the city’s highest rent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan is to make rent the first year,” said photographer and collective member James Cha, “break even the second year, and be profitable the third year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11037151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11037151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"James Cha at North Beach Bauhaus\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Cha at North Beach Bauhaus \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cha said he and his fellow artists consider themselves very lucky. They had a gallery on Green St. but lost the lease when the landlord raised the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11037152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Earl-Thibodeau-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11037152\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Earl-Thibodeau-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Earl Thibodeau at North Beach Bauhaus\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Earl-Thibodeau-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Earl-Thibodeau-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Earl-Thibodeau-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Earl-Thibodeau-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Earl-Thibodeau-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl Thibodeau at North Beach Bauhaus \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cha shares the space with Earl Thibodeau, who makes colorful hipster hats in the large basement studio they all share. Thibodeau offers this reminder of why it’s worth saving space for local artists to make and show their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all the stores that are selling mass produced stuff,” Thibodeau said. “Artists add the humanistic approach to life. You sort of inspire people. Make people dream.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High rents have spun San Francisco galleries further and further from downtown, and to once unlikely neighborhoods: \u003ca href=\"http://jessicasilvermangallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica Silverman\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gallerywendinorris.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wendi Norris \u003c/a>south of Market Street, and \u003ca href=\"http://cclarkgallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine Clark\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jackfischergallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Fischer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.briangrossfineart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Gross\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.georgelawsongallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Lawson \u003c/a>all in Potrero Flats near the Design District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Bransten’s old neighbors at 77 Geary St., \u003ca href=\"http://georgekrevskygallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Krevsky\u003c/a>, took a more radical approach, and moved his business to his home in the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is a work in progress,” said Krevsky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here are two Milton Avery drawings,” he said while standing in the doorway to a guest bedroom during a tour, which continued through the living room and into his office, where its walls were covered with paintings consigned for sale by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Levine, and prints by Ben Shahn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occasionally Krevsky shows a buyer through the house, but he says most of his sales now are at art fairs or to clients whose experience of the work is an image delivered over the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in there,” Krevsky said pointing to his computer. “And that’s cold. I miss the warmth of the artist being there, and the client coming in and seeing the reaction between the human being and the painting. But I think brick-and-mortar galleries are a thing of the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s at stake for the Bay Area art scene may not be obvious, with museums thriving around the bay, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopening in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renny Pritikin, now chief curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, says galleries are essential to the Bay Area’s arts ecosystem, “Art fairs are elitist,” he said. “But anyone can come into a commercial gallery and meet the curator and the artist for free. I don’t know many fields where that’s the case. And it would be a loss if this went away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe the old gallery model can still thrive in the right location at the right price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Deborah Rappaport and Andrew, her venture capitalist husband, are hoping. They’re converting a huge warehouse, once the home of a cabinet maker, into a space for 10 galleries on Minnesota St. in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11037154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11037154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Eleanor Harwood and Chris Grunder at 1275 Minnesota Street\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/Eleanor-Harwood-and-Chris-Grunder-at-1275-Minnesota-Street-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Harwood and Chris Grunder at 1275 Minnesota Street \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Galleries need a physical presence,” Rappaport told me on a recent tour, “whether that’s where most of their sales come from or not. It’s the way they build careers for their artists, it’s the way they build inventory for the art fairs that they have to go to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rappaports are longtime arts patrons who watched with dismay as gallery after gallery lost its lease. So they came up with a business plan for this new space set to open this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing a for profit model, where we just want to break even,” said Rappaport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Rappaport says they can still offer affordable rents, a quarter to a third of what galleries are now paying around Union Square. Plus the Rappaport’s are offering free utilities, providing a room in which to show videoes, packing and shipping facilities, a café and a bar, and even showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is happier about having showers on site than a gallerist,” Rappaport said laughing. “Because they can hang their shows until 15 minutes before the public shows up, and they don’t have to go home to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.minnesotastreetproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Minnesota Street Project\u003c/a>, as it’s called, has attracted younger gallery owners like Chris Grunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this didn’t exist,” he said recently, while sidestepping construction workers and a forklift piled high with steel beams, “we probably would not have continued as a gallery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grunder’s gallery,\u003ca href=\"http://www.bassandreiner.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bass and Reiner\u003c/a>, is losing its Mission District space to — no surprise — a tech company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grunder’s and his future neighbors hope Minnesota St. will become a community, a destination for art lovers and artists to gather, drink and schmooze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really looking forward to that,” said Trish Bransten, Rena Bransten’s daughter and gallery director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yup. The Branstens are moving their gallery to Rappaport’s Minnesota Street Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parallel to Union Square,” Trish Bransten said, “is that the people who come from out of town, will have a place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So score one for the city’s art galleries. But how do you save artists’ studios, which are falling in numbers due to rents increasing at a rapid pace?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Rappaport and her husband are also working on that, with plans to convert another 20,000-square-foot warehouse on Minnesota St. into art studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another obliging landlord turned down higher offers to make room for North Beach Bauhaus, a five-artist studio and gallery collective in North Beach, one of the city’s highest rent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan is to make rent the first year,” said photographer and collective member James Cha, “break even the second year, and be profitable the third year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11037151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11037151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"James Cha at North Beach Bauhaus\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/James-Cha-at-North-Beach-Bauhaus-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Cha at North Beach Bauhaus \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cha said he and his fellow artists consider themselves very lucky. 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He held up one of the prints and explained that some are not always accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10726273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Outside a Bigfoot museum in Willow Creek.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10726273\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside a Bigfoot museum in Willow Creek. \u003ccite>(Trisha Fawver/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve amassed a collection of reported Bigfoot prints,\" he said. \"Some of them are quite interesting, but other prints are attributable to normal animals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to finding various Bigfoot tracks, the Bluff Creek Project leads outdoor adventure trips, including regular visits to the place where Bigfoot was supposedly filmed. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a child, Luis Valdez started asking \"who am I?\" long before most kids learn to add numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The acclaimed playwright says he has vivid childhood memories of when his parents took over a ranch in the San Joaquin Valley farm town of Delano. But then they went back to being migrant farmworkers near San Jose, and that's when Valdez says he started asking questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I learned that the farm hadn't been ours, but belonged to a Japanese-American farmer who had been sent to an internment camp during World War II,\" says Valdez. \"The U.S. Army took over the farm, brought in mules because of the gas shortage, and brought in my dad to farm it. Then the war ended, and my dad was on his own with the farm, and he couldn't hold onto it. He had to move out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This memory of the contrast between the relatively prosperous time of having a ranch to the ugly discovery that the Japanese-American owner had everything taken away inspired him to write his latest play, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyoftheheart.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Valley of the Heart.\u003c/a>\" It's a love story set in Cupertino in 1941 about the relationship between a Mexican-American ranch hand and the daughter of a Japanese-American rancher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez says \"Valley of the Heart\" not only tackles history and race issues of that era but is also relevant to a new generation because, at its core, it is about today's blended multicultural landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QqiJesJwY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez was in San Jose on Monday holding auditions for \"Valley of the Heart\" at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thestage.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Stage Company,\u003c/a> where it will open Feb. 10 and run through March 6. 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The work has come a long way from the fields of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In terms of a lifetime, 50 years is a considerable chunk,\" says Valdez. \"I have the freedom in San Juan Bautista with my theater company to do more. I can do what I do by watering the root of where I still belong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldo Billingslea, a professor of theater and associate provost for diversity and inclusion at Santa Clara University, has studied Valdez and his body of work at El Teatro Campesino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Much of his work is biting satire. His plays and movies hold up a mirror to society and speak truth to power,\" says Billingslea. \"The common theme in all Valdez's work is about empowering the individual. 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He had graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in English before heading to the Central Valley to connect with iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez and get involved in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wanted to figure out how I could fit in,\" says Valdez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10724596\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10724596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-400x300.jpg\" alt='Luis Valdez (center) performs with his \"Farmworkers Theatre\" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967.' width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Valdez (center) performs with his \"Farmworkers Theatre\" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967. \u003ccite>(George Ballis/El Teatro Campesino)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At age 75, Valdez says he is comfortable in his roles as playwright, director, writer, actor and the person some call the hero of Latino theater. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cb>Update:\u003c/b> Oct. 27, 2015\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Le Video will be liquidating its 90,000+ video inventory in the oncoming weeks and closing down for good after 35 years in business, according to store owner Catherine Tchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A potential deal with the Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse that was in the works has apparently fallen through, Tchen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners will begin the process with selling the high value items online and will follow up with a general liquidation, with prices on all the remaining inventory being lowered each week until they sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cb>Orignal Post:\u003c/b>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know your journalism career is really going gangbusters when you find yourself on the local video store beat, an industry described in a 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=1370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> as “in the declining life stage cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, video stores still \u003cem>exist\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, 3,810 of them across the United States, according to the report from IBISWorld. Last year, I did a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/08/06/can-san-franciscos-video-stores-be-saved/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey of the handful extant in San Francisco\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Their demise encompasses much of what you hear old-guard San Franciscans complaining about as the tech juggernaut transforms neighborhoods: high rents, the ascendancy of technocratic youth culture and the changing values and habits that culture has brought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, we covered \u003ca href=\"http://www.levideo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Video\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Video-Wave-of-Noe-Valley-248196955196370/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video Wave of Noe Valley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Fayes-Video-Espresso-Bar-63018133564/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fayes Video & Espresso Bar\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lostweekendvideo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost Weekend\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the owners I talked to felt basically under siege, as the businesses they’d cultivated over decades had all but collapsed. So we thought it would be only right to revisit these intrepid few and see how things are going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012272\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Frontlyne-e1444886538552.jpg\" alt=\"Street view of Frontlyne\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012272\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street view of Frontlyne \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Yelp)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Frontlyne’s last day\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As I prepared this article, I was horrified to discover I had left out a store I’d never heard of: Frontlyne Video, in Nob Hill. I immediately gave them a ring, breathlessly asking, “Do you guys still rent videos?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman on the other end paused. “Until next Thursday,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there were four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frontlyne, in business 26 years, will peddle its last $1.00-a-day rental on Oct. 15. After that…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just going to blow everything out,” said owner Henry Silverberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology put us all out of business,” he said. “If Blockbuster and the big boys can’t make it and they’ve all been out of business for years, how do you think it is for the small guys?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/LWV88.jpg\" alt=\"The Mission's Lost Weekend\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/LWV88.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/LWV88-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission’s Lost Weekend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Survival by shrinking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“You can’t lose 75 percent of your business and have your rent increase,” says David Hawkins, co-owner of Lost Weekend, on Valencia Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he hangs on, one of the four dead-enders who have somehow managed to avoid being Netflixed onto the scrap heap of media-consumption history. All have survived in part by folding themselves into smaller spaces: Lost Weekend halved itself and now shares rent with a record store; Video Wave recently relocated to the back of a candy store on 24th Street; Fayes, near Dolores Park, tucked its DVDs into a corner of the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Inner Sunset, Le Video gave up on its large downstairs space last year, once notable for a grotto-like display of its 90,000-title inventory. The store consigned itself to a room a quarter of the size upstairs, renting out its previous home to Green Apple Books on the Park, the Richmond District bookstore’s second location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move, financed by a successful Indiegogo campaign, generated cautious optimism. But it didn’t work out, and the store is currently in prolonged negotiations to sell its copious inventory in one lot, so that it remains available to the public. If that doesn’t happen, it will sell everything piecemeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012274\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 565px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/levideo1.jpg\" alt=\"Le Video's old exterior, before Green Apple's Books on the Park moved in.\" width=\"565\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/levideo1.jpg 565w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/levideo1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Video’s old exterior, before Green Apple’s Books on the Park moved in.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Store buyer John Taylor told me business dropped by about a third after the move last year, on top of an already long slow decline. “Mainly it’s just people didn’t know we were here,” he said. “People would say, ‘You need a sign.’ We have three signs. There’s not much more we can do in the sign department.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Tchen, the store’s owner, indicated the problem went deeper than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People discover us when they’ve exhausted every other resource. The rest of the time they don’t understand the correlation of supporting us so we can keep providing them things they just can’t find anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/videostorepiece-e1444886894445.jpg\" alt=\"Sign in Lost Weekend's window.\" width=\"640\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012275\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign in Lost Weekend’s window. \u003ccite>(Photo: Steve Rhodes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The decline continues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hawkins of Lost Weekend agrees that the spirit is willing but the wallet is weak when it comes to potential customers. “I’ve heard platitudes for years,” he says, describing a set of consumers who like the \u003cem>idea\u003c/em> of video stores but don’t patronize any. “It’s not that I don’t believe those people, I think they honestly believe it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t stopped business from declining ever more rapidly. “As business falters you keep thinking… there would be a floor and level out, and that hasn’t happened,” he said, echoing, scarily, the very same complaint he made last year. “There just doesn’t seem to be one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawkins, who is in his 40s, estimates he can keep going for anywhere from 6 to 18 months if the trend continues. “We’re working on Plan R,” he said, noting he now makes less money, personally, than he did when he was in his 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawkins says he’s not afraid of competition. His store flourished when it had to go up against another 400-pound gorilla: chains like Blockbuster. He weathered that storm, he says, by providing a better atmosphere and selection. But competing against virtual stores is, well, virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To go from a physical space where people come in and browse and talk to you to suddenly being an online streaming site… the money to do that is insane. The technological knowledge [required] is insane. It’s not something that a business like ours can compete with in a real sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of mission\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The other thing that motivates him, and also keeps other owners from packing it in, is what some may call a quaint sense of mission, what they would describe as decades’ worth of commitment to a set of attributes: connoisseurship, community and comprehensiveness. They consider those as important as the missing component of convenience that has killed so many of their ilk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/VideoWave2-e1444887084730.jpg\" alt=\"Video Wave's new location on 24th Street.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012276\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video Wave’s new location on 24th Street. \u003ccite>(Photo: Yelp)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gwen Sanderson, co-owner of Video Wave, can rattle off the names of the fallen. Despite San Francisco having transformed into a city where a good chunk of the population is more likely to stream a film on a cell phone than pick one up at an actual store, some of her customers, old-school refugees from neighborhoods whose video businesses went belly up, now traipse over to Noe Valley to rent and lament, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four Star is the one that we get the most grief over, still, people having lost it in Bernal. Before that, Dr. Video in Glen Park was one of most grieved.” She says her customers evince “sheer relief” when they find her store is still open. And, she says, business has actually stabilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What motivates her?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“This is worth something”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to put my foot down and say this is worth something,” she says. “Quality of life has a value that is not monetary. We have people run into each other they haven’t seen in years. People discover things. It’s not just a retail outlet, it’s an activity… It’s something to do together, around other people. We’ve lost a lot of that [in San Francisco].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012277\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/fayes-e1444887346781.jpg\" alt=\"Fayes, with the videos tucked into the back corner\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012277\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fayes, with the videos tucked into the back corner \u003ccite>(Photo: Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That sort of human interaction is worth preserving, says Mike McConell, co-owner of Fayes Video. “There’s customers who’ve come in here since 1999.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Fayes’ DVD business is “astronomically” down, McConnell says the store does okay because of its coffee shop. After pruning the DVD collection down because of declining sales, he still has about 10,000 titles. “There’s enough people who don’t want to get rid of the movies, so we will carry on,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A changing San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The fact that the city has become wealthier has not helped video stores — the IBISWorld report says a wealthier population does not consume hard media; demand for video stores falls when households earn more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an influx of people who are more tech-based and so they use all those gadgets; they’re not used to going in and looking for something or browsing,” says Mike McConell. “Our neighborhood has become so tech-based, or restaurant-based. People are spending their time either eating or on their phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he did last year, Hawkins made an argument that there’s a much larger issue at play here than just the demise of what is now a remote backwater in the media landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s evil to me about the internet, they can wipe out not only the entire world of basically anything that’s shippable or streamable; photography, books, music, then down to shoes, clothing. We’re potentially eliminating everything except food, drink and bodywork.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video Wave, at least, thinks it can survive, especially at its new, more-visible location on 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community has supported us for 30 years,” said Colin Hutton, the store’s other owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my visit to Video Wave, two young couples wandered in, and one pair signed up for memberships. Could maybe there be hope in this counterintuitive development? \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/media/the-plot-twist-e-book-sales-slip-and-print-is-far-from-dead.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bookstores are making a comeback\u003c/a>; sales of e-books have stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IBISWorld, though, does not foresee a similar rewind for video stores. Over the next five years, it says, the country is going to see roughly 15 percent of them fade to black each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, who doesn’t want to see a Spielberg climax for these stores, as opposed to the Lars Von Trier ending we appear to be headed towards?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know your journalism career is really going gangbusters when you find yourself on the local video store beat, an industry described in a 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=1370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> as “in the declining life stage cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, video stores still \u003cem>exist\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, 3,810 of them across the United States, according to the report from IBISWorld. Last year, I did a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/08/06/can-san-franciscos-video-stores-be-saved/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey of the handful extant in San Francisco\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Their demise encompasses much of what you hear old-guard San Franciscans complaining about as the tech juggernaut transforms neighborhoods: high rents, the ascendancy of technocratic youth culture and the changing values and habits that culture has brought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, we covered \u003ca href=\"http://www.levideo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Video\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Video-Wave-of-Noe-Valley-248196955196370/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video Wave of Noe Valley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Fayes-Video-Espresso-Bar-63018133564/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fayes Video & Espresso Bar\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lostweekendvideo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost Weekend\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the owners I talked to felt basically under siege, as the businesses they’d cultivated over decades had all but collapsed. So we thought it would be only right to revisit these intrepid few and see how things are going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012272\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Frontlyne-e1444886538552.jpg\" alt=\"Street view of Frontlyne\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012272\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street view of Frontlyne \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Yelp)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Frontlyne’s last day\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As I prepared this article, I was horrified to discover I had left out a store I’d never heard of: Frontlyne Video, in Nob Hill. I immediately gave them a ring, breathlessly asking, “Do you guys still rent videos?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman on the other end paused. “Until next Thursday,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there were four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frontlyne, in business 26 years, will peddle its last $1.00-a-day rental on Oct. 15. After that…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just going to blow everything out,” said owner Henry Silverberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology put us all out of business,” he said. “If Blockbuster and the big boys can’t make it and they’ve all been out of business for years, how do you think it is for the small guys?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/LWV88.jpg\" alt=\"The Mission's Lost Weekend\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/LWV88.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/LWV88-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission’s Lost Weekend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Survival by shrinking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“You can’t lose 75 percent of your business and have your rent increase,” says David Hawkins, co-owner of Lost Weekend, on Valencia Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he hangs on, one of the four dead-enders who have somehow managed to avoid being Netflixed onto the scrap heap of media-consumption history. All have survived in part by folding themselves into smaller spaces: Lost Weekend halved itself and now shares rent with a record store; Video Wave recently relocated to the back of a candy store on 24th Street; Fayes, near Dolores Park, tucked its DVDs into a corner of the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Inner Sunset, Le Video gave up on its large downstairs space last year, once notable for a grotto-like display of its 90,000-title inventory. The store consigned itself to a room a quarter of the size upstairs, renting out its previous home to Green Apple Books on the Park, the Richmond District bookstore’s second location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move, financed by a successful Indiegogo campaign, generated cautious optimism. But it didn’t work out, and the store is currently in prolonged negotiations to sell its copious inventory in one lot, so that it remains available to the public. If that doesn’t happen, it will sell everything piecemeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012274\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 565px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/levideo1.jpg\" alt=\"Le Video's old exterior, before Green Apple's Books on the Park moved in.\" width=\"565\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/levideo1.jpg 565w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/levideo1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Video’s old exterior, before Green Apple’s Books on the Park moved in.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Store buyer John Taylor told me business dropped by about a third after the move last year, on top of an already long slow decline. “Mainly it’s just people didn’t know we were here,” he said. “People would say, ‘You need a sign.’ We have three signs. There’s not much more we can do in the sign department.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Tchen, the store’s owner, indicated the problem went deeper than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People discover us when they’ve exhausted every other resource. The rest of the time they don’t understand the correlation of supporting us so we can keep providing them things they just can’t find anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/videostorepiece-e1444886894445.jpg\" alt=\"Sign in Lost Weekend's window.\" width=\"640\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012275\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign in Lost Weekend’s window. \u003ccite>(Photo: Steve Rhodes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The decline continues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hawkins of Lost Weekend agrees that the spirit is willing but the wallet is weak when it comes to potential customers. “I’ve heard platitudes for years,” he says, describing a set of consumers who like the \u003cem>idea\u003c/em> of video stores but don’t patronize any. “It’s not that I don’t believe those people, I think they honestly believe it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t stopped business from declining ever more rapidly. “As business falters you keep thinking… there would be a floor and level out, and that hasn’t happened,” he said, echoing, scarily, the very same complaint he made last year. “There just doesn’t seem to be one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawkins, who is in his 40s, estimates he can keep going for anywhere from 6 to 18 months if the trend continues. “We’re working on Plan R,” he said, noting he now makes less money, personally, than he did when he was in his 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawkins says he’s not afraid of competition. His store flourished when it had to go up against another 400-pound gorilla: chains like Blockbuster. He weathered that storm, he says, by providing a better atmosphere and selection. But competing against virtual stores is, well, virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To go from a physical space where people come in and browse and talk to you to suddenly being an online streaming site… the money to do that is insane. The technological knowledge [required] is insane. It’s not something that a business like ours can compete with in a real sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of mission\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The other thing that motivates him, and also keeps other owners from packing it in, is what some may call a quaint sense of mission, what they would describe as decades’ worth of commitment to a set of attributes: connoisseurship, community and comprehensiveness. They consider those as important as the missing component of convenience that has killed so many of their ilk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/VideoWave2-e1444887084730.jpg\" alt=\"Video Wave's new location on 24th Street.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012276\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video Wave’s new location on 24th Street. \u003ccite>(Photo: Yelp)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gwen Sanderson, co-owner of Video Wave, can rattle off the names of the fallen. Despite San Francisco having transformed into a city where a good chunk of the population is more likely to stream a film on a cell phone than pick one up at an actual store, some of her customers, old-school refugees from neighborhoods whose video businesses went belly up, now traipse over to Noe Valley to rent and lament, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four Star is the one that we get the most grief over, still, people having lost it in Bernal. Before that, Dr. Video in Glen Park was one of most grieved.” She says her customers evince “sheer relief” when they find her store is still open. And, she says, business has actually stabilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What motivates her?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“This is worth something”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to put my foot down and say this is worth something,” she says. “Quality of life has a value that is not monetary. We have people run into each other they haven’t seen in years. People discover things. It’s not just a retail outlet, it’s an activity… It’s something to do together, around other people. We’ve lost a lot of that [in San Francisco].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012277\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/fayes-e1444887346781.jpg\" alt=\"Fayes, with the videos tucked into the back corner\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012277\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fayes, with the videos tucked into the back corner \u003ccite>(Photo: Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That sort of human interaction is worth preserving, says Mike McConell, co-owner of Fayes Video. “There’s customers who’ve come in here since 1999.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Fayes’ DVD business is “astronomically” down, McConnell says the store does okay because of its coffee shop. After pruning the DVD collection down because of declining sales, he still has about 10,000 titles. “There’s enough people who don’t want to get rid of the movies, so we will carry on,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A changing San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The fact that the city has become wealthier has not helped video stores — the IBISWorld report says a wealthier population does not consume hard media; demand for video stores falls when households earn more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an influx of people who are more tech-based and so they use all those gadgets; they’re not used to going in and looking for something or browsing,” says Mike McConell. “Our neighborhood has become so tech-based, or restaurant-based. People are spending their time either eating or on their phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he did last year, Hawkins made an argument that there’s a much larger issue at play here than just the demise of what is now a remote backwater in the media landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s evil to me about the internet, they can wipe out not only the entire world of basically anything that’s shippable or streamable; photography, books, music, then down to shoes, clothing. We’re potentially eliminating everything except food, drink and bodywork.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video Wave, at least, thinks it can survive, especially at its new, more-visible location on 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This community has supported us for 30 years,” said Colin Hutton, the store’s other owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my visit to Video Wave, two young couples wandered in, and one pair signed up for memberships. 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"content": "\u003cp>Loipa Araujo is an exacting ballet coach. She has to be: the great Cuban National Ballet star has less than a month to teach the members of Silicon Valley Ballet how to dance \u003ci>Giselle\u003c/i> — the Cuban way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them have done another version of \u003ci>Giselle\u003c/i>,” Araujo says of the beloved classical ballet during a break in their downtown San Jose rehearsal space. “They have to completely forget that and be open to this new \u003ci>Giselle\u003c/i>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230537319″ 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>Relations between the U.S. and Cuba have improved of late. And now Silicon Valley Ballet is doing its part to help move the reconciliation along. The company is unveiling a legendary Cuban version of \u003cem>Giselle\u003c/em>. The ballet tells the tragic tale of a peasant girl who goes mad and dies of a broken heart after being betrayed by her lover — an audience favorite since it was first performed in the 1840s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.balletcuba.cult.cu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuban National Ballet\u003c/a> is particularly associated with \u003ci>Giselle\u003c/i> because of the unique drama and flawless technique of the company’s co-founder, Alicia Alonso, who danced the title role to great acclaim with the Ballet Theatre in New York (known these days as American Ballet Theatre) back in the 1940s. The young Cuban prodigy caused a sensation when she stepped in at the last minute for an injured Alicia Markova during the 1941-42 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that was extraordinary about her version was the mad scene,” says Toba Singer, a Berkeley based dance scholar who frequently writes about Cuban ballet. “Alicia Alonso really gave her own interpretation to it and it was marvelous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkZc5KJIRbU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballet star returned home to Cuba in 1948 to found the institution that would eventually become the Cuban National Ballet. At 93, Alonso still tours with her company, and her version of \u003cem>Giselle \u003c/em> is a hallmark of the company’s repertoire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen many, many other versions of \u003ci>Giselle\u003c/i>, and I do think our Cuban version, the version of Alicia, has this very clear dramatic line,” Araujo says. “All the characters are very well defined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dancers of Silicon Valley Ballet are also working intensively with Araujo and her team of dance coaches from Havana on technical specifics particular to the Cuban version. They pay close attention to seemingly tiny details, like keeping their arms rounded rather than straight in one key scene in the second act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this version, every single thing you do, even how you bow or how you look at somebody, has a meaning,” says principal dancer Ommi Pipit-Suksun, who is one of the dancers charged with bringing the challenging principal character to life on stage in Silicon Valley Ballet’s production. “It’s not just an empty gesture. It has a lot of nuances; many layers and not just steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite paying close attention to the nuances of this Cuban \u003ci>Giselle\u003c/i>, Pipit-Suksun isn’t interested in slavishly imitating Alonso. This ballerina intends to make the role of Giselle her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10997866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10997866 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3814-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Valley Ballet dancers Ommi Pipit-Suksun and Maykel Solas taking a break from rehearsals for 'Giselle.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3814-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3814-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3814-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3814-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3814-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley Ballet dancers Ommi Pipit-Suksun and Maykel Solas taking a break from rehearsals for ‘Giselle.’ \u003ccite>(Photo: Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Copying somebody is never a good thing,” Pipit-Suksun says. “That emotion has to be real. It has to come from you. They can guide you — you should do this and that — but ultimately it’s up to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This landmark collaboration represents a big comeback for Silicon Valley Ballet, which came close to shutting down this past spring. The company was already in a deep financial hole when its present artistic director, international-acclaimed ballet star and Cuban native Jose Manuel Carreno came on board in 2013. “We’ve been through rough patches,” Carreno says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carreno and his community leapt into action earlier this year.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The company rebranded itself from Ballet San Jose to Silicon Valley Ballet and set about fundraising. The company scored $640,000 during the first 10 days of its fundraising campaign, and has so far raised nearly $3 million of its $3.5 million goal. This includes a $50,000 grant to stage \u003cem>Giselle\u003c/em> from the Knight Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re stepping up, the company is moving, is getting better, we’re working on it,” Carreno says. “It’s exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ci>Giselle\u003c/i> isn’t only a turning point for the dance company. As one of the first major cultural collaborations between the U.S. and Cuba in more than half a century, the production is politically significant. For many years, the U.S. government would not grant visas to Cuban dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10997867\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10997867 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3810-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Valley Ballet company members in rehearsal for 'Giselle.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3810-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3810-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3810-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3810-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/IMG_3810-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley Ballet company members in rehearsal for ‘Giselle.’ \u003ccite>(Photo: Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a historic moment for American audiences,” says Singer. “This means we can have access. This is their finest work and we’re going to have a chance to see it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been very risky for most Cuban artists, like Silicon Valley Ballet principal dancer Maykel Solas, to pursue careers in the U.S. Solas has been with the company for 10 years. In his early days in this country, he was worried about how the Cuban authorities would treat his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stopped talking with my mum for months,” Solas says. “I was afraid they would say something to my mum or to my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Cuba and the U.S. on friendlier terms — the American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet both performed at the International Ballet Festival in Havana in 2010 — the possibility of heightened cultural exchange between the U.S. and Cuba in the coming years is a tantalizing prospect for ballet professionals and fans of the art form from both nations. Silicon Valley Ballet plans to participate in the aforementioned festival next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have good relationships, everybody can go back and forwards,” Solas says. “Everybody can learn from everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet visas remain hard to come by. It’s been a long and arduous process for Silicon Valley Ballet to procure the necessary paperwork to enable the Cuban coaches to join the company in San Jose for this production of \u003cem>Giselle\u003c/em>. Although diplomatic relations are currently in the process of being restored between the U.S. and Cuba, it will be quite some time before artists can move freely between the two countries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Ballet’s production of \u003cem>Giselle\u003c/em> runs Oct. 16-18, 2015 at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. 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"content": "\u003cp>Until just a few days go, Kimberly Morrison wasn’t really a political activist. For years, she’s been known more for playing in several popular Seattle bands, including The Intelligence, the Fallouts, and The Dutchess and The Duke, whose songs appeared on shows like \u003ci>Entourage. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison is also a person who once had an abortion, and she has no regrets about it. She's never shied away from stating that her decision to have an abortion was the right one, which is why she had long planned on starting an \"abortion zine\" with her friend Amelia Bonow that would collect reflections from other women who underwent the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after Congress attempted to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood earlier this month, there was a change in plans: Morrison and Bonow launched #ShoutYourAbortion as a Facebook page, after Bonow wrote her \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/amelia-bonow-explains-how-shoutyourabortion-just-kicke-1732379155\" target=\"_blank\">now famous #ShoutYourAbortion post\u003c/a>. They also posted an equally powerful photo as the page's profile pic: Morrison's hairy armpit, accompanied by her tattoo, which reads \"F*ck the Patriarchy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18321\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Morrison playing bass\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morrison playing bass \u003ccite>(Photo: Keith Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Due to overwhelming harassment from abortion opponents, the page has since been taken down. And the armpit photo garnered a startling amount of negative comments, some even from supporters who believed such imagery was \"disgusting and would turn people off from the cause,\" says Morrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I found the image so powerful that I had to talk to Morrison about it, and, since we've known each other a long time, she obliged -- despite the fact that she's been trying to keep under the radar, due to the fact that Bonow has had her safety threatened and her personal information posted online multiple times. Here are Morrison's thoughts on the ordeal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How are you doing?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why is that? It seems that you've been able to avoid the harassment that Amelia has been experiencing.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, but I also believe it's just a matter of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How did #ShoutYourAbortion come together?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18323\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Morrison and Amelia Benow\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morrison and Amelia Benow \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Morrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amelia and I had been talking about starting a zine for quite a while now where we were going to talk to a bunch of our friends and have them tell their stories about having abortions. This came after Amelia and I realized, while talking about abortion, that we had both had positive experiences with them. There's this stigma that we're supposed to hide it and feel bad about it...to mourn and feel ashamed, and neither of us felt that way at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was meant to be a paper 'zine until Congress was working to defund Planned Parenthood, and that's when Amelia posted her statement, which was shared on social media by \u003ca href=\"http://lindywest.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Lindy West\u003c/a> (former \u003cem>Jezebel\u003c/em> writer and \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> contributor). A bunch of her followers reposted it, and it just blew the f*ck up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Perry, a local tattoo artist and friend, does these \"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(tattoo)\" target=\"_blank\">flash days\u003c/a>\" where she'll draw tattoos that fall under a certain theme. One day the theme was \"womyn\" and she had written on a sheet, \"F*ck the Patriarchy.\" It wasn't even intended to be a piece of art that someone would get as a tattoo but I just thought it was hilarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told her I wanted to do it around my armpit and she said, \"Why don't we shave your armpit so we can see how we can get it on there,\" and I said, \"No no no, we're not going to shave my armpit. That's the whole point of the tattoo. We're going to put it around my hairy armpit. I haven't shaved my armpits in over 10 years!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How did the picture of your armpit come about?\"\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"There are so many more important things you could be caring about right now than my body and what I choose to do with the hair on it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then she took a picture after the tattoo was done, posted it on Instagram and we were laughing about it; we just thought the whole thing was funny. Flash forward to Lindy sharing Amelia's post with the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion and I'm talking with Amelia, and though we didn't want to use Facebook initially, we just felt time was of the essence. After we were done, I literally ran home, grabbed my computer and made a Facebook page, making Amelia and Lindy admins. Amelia and I were talking about what the main image would be and I joked that we should use my armpit picture. And she ended up using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It's such a powerful image, challenging so many taboos in such a simple way. But it's also received a lot of harsh criticism.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were so many comments on that image that were like, \"OH MY GOD, you could braid that sh*t!\" and \"This is revolting -- how could a woman have such long armpit hair?\" There are so many more important things you could be caring about right now than my body and what I choose to do with the hair on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Can you tell me about your abortion experience?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never planned on getting an abortion, but I also never planned on getting pregnant. The idea of something living and growing inside of me elicited more internal comparisons to the movie \u003cem>Alien\u003c/em> than thoughts of the Cleavers or the \u003cem>Brady Bunch\u003c/em>. Having kids seemed to me like something other people did. I was, much to my annoyance, told over and over again that I’d change my mind, or had sentences directed at me that began “Well, when you have kids...” These instances baffled me. I could not believe that because I possessed the parts to do so, it was assumed I would eventually procreate.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"I thought this was something that happened to teenagers. I thought I was too smart to get pregnant. I thought I had a deal with my uterus.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>[When I got pregnant,] I was younger and dumber and partying too much. I had a relationship with someone young and dumb who also partied too much. I didn’t have the wherewithal then to identify how profoundly dysfunctional our relationship was. By the time I noticed how unhappy I was, I’d been conditioned to believe that it was all my fault. I wanted to leave, but didn’t know how. He was possessive, controlling, angry, unstable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was mad at me and wanted to have sex, so we did. I told him I was ovulating, and not to come inside me. So he did. I expressed my disbelief. He smirked and pulled himself off of me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow I managed to put the incident out of my mind for a bit. It’s hard to explain, but things were so truly f*cked between us that I was just trying my hardest to act normal; to survive. In my head, I repeated “Sh*t happens every day” like a mantra, the way some would recite positive affirmations in front of a mirror. I thought about how much worse it could be and tried to be happy that it wasn’t “that bad,” even though I was miserable and dreaded going home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staying at a friend’s place after yet another blowout fight, I was at Walgreen’s and for some reason purchased a pregnancy test for the first time in my life. On some level I guess I already knew, but the evidence in front of me didn’t make the pill any less bitter. I called Planned Parenthood and scheduled an abortion before letting him know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I felt so stuck and so stupid. I thought this was something that happened to teenagers. I thought I was too smart to get pregnant. I thought I had a deal with my uterus. I felt, overwhelmingly, that my body had betrayed me.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I was supposed to feel guilty, ashamed. But I didn’t. For me, there was nothing to grieve. I knew then and know now that I absolutely made the right choice, and I am so thankful the choice was mine to make.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t have told him at all. Of course he tried to get me to keep it and he tried to make me feel awful about the situation. He demanded I share the few pills I’d been given for pain, and was predictably outraged when I opted to have an IUD inserted during the same visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the stigma associated, I didn’t really know who to turn to for support. The few people I talked to, I told with trepidation, the words hanging awkwardly in the air while I waited with my breath suspended, hoping I hadn’t entrusted my secret with the wrong person. No one was outwardly hostile, but it seemed understood that I was not to express my happiness or relief that I’d had an abortion. Abortion was a dirty word, and not a cause for celebration. I was supposed to feel guilty, ashamed. But I didn’t. For me, there was nothing to grieve. I was so grateful to not have to be tethered for the rest of my life to a person who acted as though they owned me. I knew then and know now that I absolutely made the right choice, and I am so thankful the choice was mine to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to be clear, I don’t hate children -- just the idea of having my own. In fact, I worked as a nanny for 10 years. I coo at the occasional baby on the street, and love my niece and nephew in a way I wasn’t sure was possible. Parenthood just isn’t a hat I need to try on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Critics have accused the movement of \"bragging\" about your abortion, but from your story I don't hear that.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18350\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Jo-and-Kimberly-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jo Claxton and Kimberly Morrison enjoying life\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Jo-and-Kimberly-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Jo-and-Kimberly-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Jo-and-Kimberly.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jo Claxton and Kimberly Morrison enjoying life \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Jo Claxton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not like, \"I had a bigger abortion than you.\" It's not a competition. We're saying that it happens and let's talk about it so the stigma can go away. One in three woman will have an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to how many times I've said the word \"abortion.\" You don't hear that word because people don't want to talk about it. It's considered a dirty word. And, in these past few days, I've heard that word said more than in all my years on this planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm getting so many messages from people saying, \"I'm so in awe of what you're doing and I would want to be a part of it but my family would disown me.\" Women have said, \"I really want to join your cause and I really want to help you but I'm looking for a new job, and I can't have that attached to my name right now.\" It's 2015!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not naive enough to think that we just de-stigmatized abortion. There will always be people who think it's wrong. But if we can even have a conversation about it, that's the first step to getting somewhere. And before we shut down our Facebook page, those conversations were happening, with both sides involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Well, I'm really glad you're doing this. If my daughter had to have an abortion for any reason, I wouldn't want her to feel horrible or guilty about it.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Crying] That's such a huge part of this. I've heard from so many fathers saying \"Thank you for fighting for the rights of my 5-year-old daughter.\" I don't want anyone to feel sad about it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Until just a few days go, Kimberly Morrison wasn’t really a political activist. For years, she’s been known more for playing in several popular Seattle bands, including The Intelligence, the Fallouts, and The Dutchess and The Duke, whose songs appeared on shows like \u003ci>Entourage. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison is also a person who once had an abortion, and she has no regrets about it. She's never shied away from stating that her decision to have an abortion was the right one, which is why she had long planned on starting an \"abortion zine\" with her friend Amelia Bonow that would collect reflections from other women who underwent the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after Congress attempted to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood earlier this month, there was a change in plans: Morrison and Bonow launched #ShoutYourAbortion as a Facebook page, after Bonow wrote her \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/amelia-bonow-explains-how-shoutyourabortion-just-kicke-1732379155\" target=\"_blank\">now famous #ShoutYourAbortion post\u003c/a>. They also posted an equally powerful photo as the page's profile pic: Morrison's hairy armpit, accompanied by her tattoo, which reads \"F*ck the Patriarchy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18321\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Morrison playing bass\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Kimberly-Playing-Bass.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morrison playing bass \u003ccite>(Photo: Keith Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Due to overwhelming harassment from abortion opponents, the page has since been taken down. And the armpit photo garnered a startling amount of negative comments, some even from supporters who believed such imagery was \"disgusting and would turn people off from the cause,\" says Morrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I found the image so powerful that I had to talk to Morrison about it, and, since we've known each other a long time, she obliged -- despite the fact that she's been trying to keep under the radar, due to the fact that Bonow has had her safety threatened and her personal information posted online multiple times. Here are Morrison's thoughts on the ordeal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How are you doing?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why is that? It seems that you've been able to avoid the harassment that Amelia has been experiencing.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, but I also believe it's just a matter of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How did #ShoutYourAbortion come together?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18323\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Morrison and Amelia Benow\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/10/Morrison-Amelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morrison and Amelia Benow \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Morrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amelia and I had been talking about starting a zine for quite a while now where we were going to talk to a bunch of our friends and have them tell their stories about having abortions. This came after Amelia and I realized, while talking about abortion, that we had both had positive experiences with them. There's this stigma that we're supposed to hide it and feel bad about it...to mourn and feel ashamed, and neither of us felt that way at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was meant to be a paper 'zine until Congress was working to defund Planned Parenthood, and that's when Amelia posted her statement, which was shared on social media by \u003ca href=\"http://lindywest.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Lindy West\u003c/a> (former \u003cem>Jezebel\u003c/em> writer and \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> contributor). A bunch of her followers reposted it, and it just blew the f*ck up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Perry, a local tattoo artist and friend, does these \"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(tattoo)\" target=\"_blank\">flash days\u003c/a>\" where she'll draw tattoos that fall under a certain theme. One day the theme was \"womyn\" and she had written on a sheet, \"F*ck the Patriarchy.\" It wasn't even intended to be a piece of art that someone would get as a tattoo but I just thought it was hilarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told her I wanted to do it around my armpit and she said, \"Why don't we shave your armpit so we can see how we can get it on there,\" and I said, \"No no no, we're not going to shave my armpit. That's the whole point of the tattoo. We're going to put it around my hairy armpit. I haven't shaved my armpits in over 10 years!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How did the picture of your armpit come about?\"\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"There are so many more important things you could be caring about right now than my body and what I choose to do with the hair on it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then she took a picture after the tattoo was done, posted it on Instagram and we were laughing about it; we just thought the whole thing was funny. Flash forward to Lindy sharing Amelia's post with the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion and I'm talking with Amelia, and though we didn't want to use Facebook initially, we just felt time was of the essence. After we were done, I literally ran home, grabbed my computer and made a Facebook page, making Amelia and Lindy admins. Amelia and I were talking about what the main image would be and I joked that we should use my armpit picture. And she ended up using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It's such a powerful image, challenging so many taboos in such a simple way. But it's also received a lot of harsh criticism.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were so many comments on that image that were like, \"OH MY GOD, you could braid that sh*t!\" and \"This is revolting -- how could a woman have such long armpit hair?\" There are so many more important things you could be caring about right now than my body and what I choose to do with the hair on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Can you tell me about your abortion experience?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never planned on getting an abortion, but I also never planned on getting pregnant. The idea of something living and growing inside of me elicited more internal comparisons to the movie \u003cem>Alien\u003c/em> than thoughts of the Cleavers or the \u003cem>Brady Bunch\u003c/em>. Having kids seemed to me like something other people did. I was, much to my annoyance, told over and over again that I’d change my mind, or had sentences directed at me that began “Well, when you have kids...” These instances baffled me. I could not believe that because I possessed the parts to do so, it was assumed I would eventually procreate.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"I thought this was something that happened to teenagers. I thought I was too smart to get pregnant. I thought I had a deal with my uterus.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>[When I got pregnant,] I was younger and dumber and partying too much. I had a relationship with someone young and dumb who also partied too much. I didn’t have the wherewithal then to identify how profoundly dysfunctional our relationship was. By the time I noticed how unhappy I was, I’d been conditioned to believe that it was all my fault. I wanted to leave, but didn’t know how. He was possessive, controlling, angry, unstable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was mad at me and wanted to have sex, so we did. I told him I was ovulating, and not to come inside me. So he did. I expressed my disbelief. He smirked and pulled himself off of me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow I managed to put the incident out of my mind for a bit. It’s hard to explain, but things were so truly f*cked between us that I was just trying my hardest to act normal; to survive. In my head, I repeated “Sh*t happens every day” like a mantra, the way some would recite positive affirmations in front of a mirror. I thought about how much worse it could be and tried to be happy that it wasn’t “that bad,” even though I was miserable and dreaded going home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staying at a friend’s place after yet another blowout fight, I was at Walgreen’s and for some reason purchased a pregnancy test for the first time in my life. On some level I guess I already knew, but the evidence in front of me didn’t make the pill any less bitter. I called Planned Parenthood and scheduled an abortion before letting him know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I felt so stuck and so stupid. I thought this was something that happened to teenagers. I thought I was too smart to get pregnant. I thought I had a deal with my uterus. I felt, overwhelmingly, that my body had betrayed me.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I was supposed to feel guilty, ashamed. But I didn’t. For me, there was nothing to grieve. I knew then and know now that I absolutely made the right choice, and I am so thankful the choice was mine to make.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t have told him at all. Of course he tried to get me to keep it and he tried to make me feel awful about the situation. He demanded I share the few pills I’d been given for pain, and was predictably outraged when I opted to have an IUD inserted during the same visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the stigma associated, I didn’t really know who to turn to for support. The few people I talked to, I told with trepidation, the words hanging awkwardly in the air while I waited with my breath suspended, hoping I hadn’t entrusted my secret with the wrong person. No one was outwardly hostile, but it seemed understood that I was not to express my happiness or relief that I’d had an abortion. Abortion was a dirty word, and not a cause for celebration. I was supposed to feel guilty, ashamed. But I didn’t. For me, there was nothing to grieve. I was so grateful to not have to be tethered for the rest of my life to a person who acted as though they owned me. I knew then and know now that I absolutely made the right choice, and I am so thankful the choice was mine to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to be clear, I don’t hate children -- just the idea of having my own. In fact, I worked as a nanny for 10 years. I coo at the occasional baby on the street, and love my niece and nephew in a way I wasn’t sure was possible. 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"content": "\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to create and host a show. Now I'm getting that chance. So far, most of the reaction to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been positive, sent in by people who are ready to have open and honest discussions about race, culture and diversity:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It's a scary issue, race, and I think I admire your effort to dip your toe into this water, because it's very tumultuous right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\">--Scott\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nobody has all the answers to these tough questions, least of all KQED, but we can help ask good questions and create a safe space to talk. T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he outpouring of personal stories and thoughts from all walks of life, from as far away as Germany, demonstrates the need for this:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/So-Well-Spoken-Sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Candid conversations about race and identity with Joshua Johnson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Read more stories\u003c/a> in this series\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tune in Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. on 88.5 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\">listen live\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m not sure how to compliment a person of color. Maybe I’m overly sensitive to being white and coming across as condescending. I appreciate our differences but I get stuck on what to say. This situation may not be prevalent, but... I don’t feel very well spoken in these circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\">--Cheryl\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, we know that some folks just don’t like the idea of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at all: They believe that we’re chasing shadows, dealing in hyperbole and basically wasting time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, our story about a woman who had a rough situation involving the word “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/10/4-tips-for-dealing-with-racially-charged-insults-like-uppity\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">uppity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” drew this tweet from a listener in San Francisco:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NPR\">@NPR\u003c/a> Now UPPITY is a racist? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQED\">@KQED\u003c/a> should just fire all their reporters. Report the real news, stop trying to create news. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/kqedspoken?src=hash\">#kqedspoken\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>— Josche Schaekar (@ifampresident) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ifampresident/status/641997376282980353\">September 10, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, uppity didn’t just recently become a racist term. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the word has quite a long and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5823018\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">loaded history\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public media organizations like KQED strive not just to report the news as it happens, but also to explore issues, ideas, events and cultures. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the latter type of effort at a time when race \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">culture\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">featured\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prominently in the\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (Recent examples \u003ca href=\"http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/09/28/marathon-organizers-respond-to-black-lives-matter-plans/\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article35679474.html\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/27/politics/ben-carson-muslim-president-sharia-law/\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251743/Asians-set-overtake-Hispanics-largest-group-immigrants-2065-number-foreign-borns-nears-record-high.html\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/panel-studying-racial-divide-in-missouri-presents-a-blunt-picture-of-inequity.html?_r=0\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/24/jeb-bush-win-black-voters-with-aspiration-not-free-stuff/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/09/01/idris-elba-too-street-play-james-bond/4VRukURkTRU3Tud8ChUwYK/story.html\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Facebook, one person took strong issue with our recent story about the concept of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/how-to-acknowledge-prejudice-and-white-privilege-without-the-guilt\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">white privilege\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 MAs, 20 years teaching experience abroad, and I have the privilege of teaching ESL in the great East Bay for $17 net an hr at an ESL school in the super cool, super liberal, full of super-duper love for the homeless city of Berkeley - concern for those of us who work for a living, not so much.. Oh, I forgot!! I'm WHITE so I'm \"privileged\". Gotcha.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That story also prompted a similar reaction from Dick in San Jose, who left us a voicemail:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...I've had to work for everything I've got, so maybe stop spreading the propaganda that all white people are privileged. It's more of a socioeconomic, where you were raised and how much money your parents and how good your parents are at parenting you. So come on, guys, you're smarter than that. It's not about race really. So please, stop with this. Please. Every day. It's half intellectual conversation, half propaganda, “white men are horrible”... come on. Grow up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It's true that not all whites are equally privileged. However, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/07/white_privilege_extends_to_the_poor.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that white privilege transcends socioeconomics. Another \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-whites-downplay-their-individual-racial-privileges?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=4c6f7c1217-Stanford-Business-Issue-71-9-20-2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-4c6f7c1217-73746881&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-71-9-20-2015)\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that the “I’ve worked for everything I’ve got” argument often comes up among people who are reluctant to acknowledge the impact of white privilege. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the criticism has been very helpful. One listener, a white male who declined to give his name or city, suggested that we create an email address for feedback (initially, we took only calls and social media posts). \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"AcH6DuDzdNGzOTy3x0o2Uqhrd2MIzsII\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His concern was that people like him wouldn't share their stories unless they could do so privately and think through their words. That was an excellent point, and we added \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"mailto:SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to meet that need.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps our most vocal critic is Henry, a listener in Napa who was very upset over our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/kqed-so-well-spoken\">story\u003c/a> about the recent incident aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...I think KQED in particular is obsessed with race, and I think the more you talk about it, the worse it gets. one of the reasons race in America is so tenuous and so tense right now, is because of the over-obsession with liberal media like yourselves, and I hope you have the b---- to put this on the radio, OK? Because we're sick and tired of it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or not, whether you agree with the assessments of our guests or not, whether you think this approach is right or wrong, the mere fact that you are engaging with us makes you part of the dialogue. And part of the solution. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m encouraged by these comments, critical and complimentary. We’ve aired only four segments so far -- hardly enough to get into the nuances of race, culture, diversity and identity. Today we air the first hourlong show, where we hope to consider more of those nuances.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cem>So Well Spoken\u003c/em> is a safe space to have dangerous conversations. Pushing the critics away would violate the spirit of this project because, at the end of the day, we really do need one another. I think \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/who-designed-the-march-on-washington/\">Bayard Rustin\u003c/a>, the main organizer of the 1963 March On Washington, said it best:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are all one. And if we do not know it, we will learn it the hard way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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However, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/07/white_privilege_extends_to_the_poor.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that white privilege transcends socioeconomics. Another \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-whites-downplay-their-individual-racial-privileges?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=4c6f7c1217-Stanford-Business-Issue-71-9-20-2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-4c6f7c1217-73746881&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-71-9-20-2015)\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that the “I’ve worked for everything I’ve got” argument often comes up among people who are reluctant to acknowledge the impact of white privilege. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the criticism has been very helpful. One listener, a white male who declined to give his name or city, suggested that we create an email address for feedback (initially, we took only calls and social media posts). \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His concern was that people like him wouldn't share their stories unless they could do so privately and think through their words. That was an excellent point, and we added \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"mailto:SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to meet that need.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps our most vocal critic is Henry, a listener in Napa who was very upset over our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/kqed-so-well-spoken\">story\u003c/a> about the recent incident aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...I think KQED in particular is obsessed with race, and I think the more you talk about it, the worse it gets. one of the reasons race in America is so tenuous and so tense right now, is because of the over-obsession with liberal media like yourselves, and I hope you have the b---- to put this on the radio, OK? Because we're sick and tired of it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or not, whether you agree with the assessments of our guests or not, whether you think this approach is right or wrong, the mere fact that you are engaging with us makes you part of the dialogue. And part of the solution. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m encouraged by these comments, critical and complimentary. We’ve aired only four segments so far -- hardly enough to get into the nuances of race, culture, diversity and identity. Today we air the first hourlong show, where we hope to consider more of those nuances.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cem>So Well Spoken\u003c/em> is a safe space to have dangerous conversations. Pushing the critics away would violate the spirit of this project because, at the end of the day, we really do need one another. I think \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/who-designed-the-march-on-washington/\">Bayard Rustin\u003c/a>, the main organizer of the 1963 March On Washington, said it best:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are all one. And if we do not know it, we will learn it the hard way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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