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"content": "\u003cp>Ask a musician: every instrument has a story behind it. Who played it, where, why and how. One father and son team in Israel has built a collection of 87 violins (and counting) that survived the Holocaust. Now they’re in the San Francisco Bay Area through mid-March, sharing those violins and their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the violins have been restored: revarnished, restrung, the bridge, chin rest and other parts replaced. But some have been left untouched, so you can see they’ve been to hell and back, literally. Violins are light enough to carry, even on a death march; valuable enough to bury in the backyard, or sell, if you’re starving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many musicians in the concentration camps could lengthen their lives by playing in orchestras there, because many Nazis liked to listen to classical music and forced their prisoners to entertain them. A surprising number of violins survived the Holocaust, even though their owners didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tel Aviv luthier Amnon Weinstein, himself a son of Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, began collecting these violins after another Holocaust survivor brought him one to restore. When Weinstein opened up the man’s violin, he found ashes inside from the concentration camp the man had once played in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially appalled, Weinsten began to lovingly restore them as vehicles for the transmission of history. His collection expanded on that of his father’s, who held on to instruments other Holocaust survivors were desperate to discard as they sloughed off all things German to start life anew in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Amnon Weinstein repairing a violin in his Tel Aviv workshop.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amnon Weinstein repairing a violin in his Tel Aviv workshop. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amnon Weinstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weinstein’s son Avshalom inherited his father’s love of violin-making, as well as his passion for keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive as the world’s collective memory of it fades with passing of the last generation of survivors. “There was music everywhere. Every camp had at least one orchestra,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they have 87 violins, a viola and a cello. That may seem like a lot, but consider that almost every Jewish household in Europe owned one or more violin before World War II. Each violin has a story, though not all the violins come with family members who know of it. Sometimes, the story is one of resilience and survival against the odds. Sometimes, the story is one of inevitable tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Weinsteins don’t know who the violin belonged to, they name it after a survivor they do know. One restored violin is named, for instance after Amnon’s wife’s grandfather, one of the three brothers who formed the Bielski brigade in Belarus who inspired the movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw6Rwum7zcU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Defiance\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Father and son began touring in 2008, combining stories they know of with performances by local musicians. Both Weinsteins feel these violins must be played, not just put on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was this past week at \u003ca href=\"https://www.numulosgatos.org/exhibitions-2/voh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Museum Los Gatos\u003c/a>, that violinist \u003ca href=\"https://hannahtarley.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannah Tarley\u003c/a>, whose ancestors hailed from Belarus, picked up one of these surviving violins to play a Yiddish song from the 19th century called \u003cem>Oyfn Pripetshik\u003c/em>. It’s considered one of the most poignant musical memories of pre-holocaust Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/752423227″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tarley played before an audience full of members of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shirhadash.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congregation Shir Hadash\u003c/a> in Los Gatos, many of them began to hum along, haunting proof of the way music has the capacity to survive the loss of so much cultural memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lyrics of the fourth stanza reference the long history of persecution of Jews in Europe, but today, they eerily seem to prophesy worse horrors to come:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ir vet, kinder, elter vern,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vet ir aleyn farshteyn,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vifl in di oysyes lign trern,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Un vi fil geveyn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When you grow older, children,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>You will understand by yourselves,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>How many tears lie in these letters,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>And how much lament.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://violinsofhopesfba.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Violins of Hope San Francisco Bay Area Project\u003c/a> has something — a concert, an exhibition, a classroom visit — planned for eight Bay Area counties. The two-month residency, involving more than 40 local arts, educational, community and religious institutions, is the brainchild of Patricia Kristof Moy, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://musicatkohl.org/violins-of-hope-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Music at Kohl Mansion\u003c/a> in Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB.jpeg\" alt=\"Detail of an affordably priced German model circa 1870s, designed for an unknown Klezmer musician, hence the inlaid mother of pearl Star of David.\" width=\"1045\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB.jpeg 1045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-768x511.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-1020x678.jpeg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of an affordably priced German model circa 1870s, designed for an unknown Klezmer musician, hence the inlaid mother of pearl Star of David. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amnon Weinstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1580435548622_162\">Moy, also the descendent of Holocaust survivors, saw the Weinsteins in Cleveland several years ago and committed herself to lining up the funding and organizational support to bring them to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really had no idea when we started planning this five years ago that our world would be in the state of turmoil that it’s in,” she said. “This extraordinary project is more timely than we ever knew. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ask a musician: every instrument has a story behind it. Who played it, where, why and how. One father and son team in Israel has built a collection of 87 violins (and counting) that survived the Holocaust. Now they’re in the San Francisco Bay Area through mid-March, sharing those violins and their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the violins have been restored: revarnished, restrung, the bridge, chin rest and other parts replaced. But some have been left untouched, so you can see they’ve been to hell and back, literally. Violins are light enough to carry, even on a death march; valuable enough to bury in the backyard, or sell, if you’re starving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many musicians in the concentration camps could lengthen their lives by playing in orchestras there, because many Nazis liked to listen to classical music and forced their prisoners to entertain them. A surprising number of violins survived the Holocaust, even though their owners didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tel Aviv luthier Amnon Weinstein, himself a son of Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, began collecting these violins after another Holocaust survivor brought him one to restore. When Weinstein opened up the man’s violin, he found ashes inside from the concentration camp the man had once played in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially appalled, Weinsten began to lovingly restore them as vehicles for the transmission of history. His collection expanded on that of his father’s, who held on to instruments other Holocaust survivors were desperate to discard as they sloughed off all things German to start life anew in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Amnon Weinstein repairing a violin in his Tel Aviv workshop.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amnon Weinstein repairing a violin in his Tel Aviv workshop. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amnon Weinstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weinstein’s son Avshalom inherited his father’s love of violin-making, as well as his passion for keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive as the world’s collective memory of it fades with passing of the last generation of survivors. “There was music everywhere. Every camp had at least one orchestra,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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One restored violin is named, for instance after Amnon’s wife’s grandfather, one of the three brothers who formed the Bielski brigade in Belarus who inspired the movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw6Rwum7zcU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Defiance\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Father and son began touring in 2008, combining stories they know of with performances by local musicians. Both Weinsteins feel these violins must be played, not just put on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was this past week at \u003ca href=\"https://www.numulosgatos.org/exhibitions-2/voh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Museum Los Gatos\u003c/a>, that violinist \u003ca href=\"https://hannahtarley.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannah Tarley\u003c/a>, whose ancestors hailed from Belarus, picked up one of these surviving violins to play a Yiddish song from the 19th century called \u003cem>Oyfn Pripetshik\u003c/em>. It’s considered one of the most poignant musical memories of pre-holocaust Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”300″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/752423227″&visual=true&”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/752423227″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tarley played before an audience full of members of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shirhadash.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congregation Shir Hadash\u003c/a> in Los Gatos, many of them began to hum along, haunting proof of the way music has the capacity to survive the loss of so much cultural memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lyrics of the fourth stanza reference the long history of persecution of Jews in Europe, but today, they eerily seem to prophesy worse horrors to come:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ir vet, kinder, elter vern,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vet ir aleyn farshteyn,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vifl in di oysyes lign trern,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Un vi fil geveyn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When you grow older, children,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>You will understand by yourselves,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>How many tears lie in these letters,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>And how much lament.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://violinsofhopesfba.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Violins of Hope San Francisco Bay Area Project\u003c/a> has something — a concert, an exhibition, a classroom visit — planned for eight Bay Area counties. The two-month residency, involving more than 40 local arts, educational, community and religious institutions, is the brainchild of Patricia Kristof Moy, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://musicatkohl.org/violins-of-hope-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Music at Kohl Mansion\u003c/a> in Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB.jpeg\" alt=\"Detail of an affordably priced German model circa 1870s, designed for an unknown Klezmer musician, hence the inlaid mother of pearl Star of David.\" width=\"1045\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB.jpeg 1045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-768x511.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-1020x678.jpeg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of an affordably priced German model circa 1870s, designed for an unknown Klezmer musician, hence the inlaid mother of pearl Star of David. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amnon Weinstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1580435548622_162\">Moy, also the descendent of Holocaust survivors, saw the Weinsteins in Cleveland several years ago and committed herself to lining up the funding and organizational support to bring them to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really had no idea when we started planning this five years ago that our world would be in the state of turmoil that it’s in,” she said. “This extraordinary project is more timely than we ever knew. It’s the violins of hope. It’s not the violins of despair. To hope is to be human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Violins of Hope San Francisco Bay Area Project \u003c/strong>runs through March 15, 2020, featuring more than 70 events region-wide including concerts, lectures, exhibits, films, community forums, ecumenical services, interfaith dialogues and educational workshops. 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"content": "\u003cp>In late November, The California Report Magazine held a night of live storytelling that explored stories about California dreams found, and lost, and whether that dream is still alive. In Part Two, hear selected highlights from the event, “Dreaming the Golden State,” held at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. You can listen to part one of our program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796176/dreaming-the-golden-state-with-the-california-report-magazine-part-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Discovering My True Self in Modesto\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toni Rodriguez of Modesto performs his ‘Letter to My California Dreamer’ that he wrote to himself, live on stage at San Francisco’s Brava Theater. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of the show’s “Letter to My California Dreamer” series, several listeners shared what they had written to the first person in their family who moved to the Golden State with a dream. For Toni Rodriguez, that person was himself. He wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707691/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-discovering-my-true-self-in-modesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the kid from the Bronx who dreamed of moving west and surfing with the Beach Boys. After arriving in California, he was able to find and live as his true self.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Her Double Life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Linh Le performs a dance titled ‘Underwater.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My Linh Le has been lying to her family about who she really is for decades. Growing up, her Vietnamese immigrant parents were extremely strict and prone to rage. So she didn’t tell them when she decided to switch her major from biochemistry to dance. As My Linh told reporter April Dembosky, she’s had to take some big steps to cover up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670259/her-double-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her double life\u003c/a>, and she has her reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Finding Home and Harvest in Salinas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Barocio reads a letter she wrote to her big brother, Humberto. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sandra Barocio of Moss Beach wrote a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674420/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-home-and-harvest-in-salinas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> letter\u003c/a> to the family member who brought her to California, her older brother, Humberto. She remembers making the long drive north from Mexico in the family’s brown Dodge Polara, and how she and her parents and siblings had to sleep under a tree, until Humberto found them shelter. Fifty-two year later, she wants to thank him for delivering their family safely to the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Daps and Hugs: I’m Moving Out of Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pendarvis Harshaw, host of KQED’s arts and culture podcast ‘Rightnowish’ describes leaving his hometown. (Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/a> is a cultural icon in his own right, with deep roots in Oakland. He’s also the host of KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rightnowish\u003c/a>” podcast, which explores how Bay Area identity shapes the artists who live and create there. At the event, Pen describes the weekend he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865533/daps-and-hugs-im-moving-out-of-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved away\u003c/a> from his home town.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Pursuing the Next Great American Novel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai Moses reads a letter to her father, who moved to California with dreams of becoming a writer. (Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>” was read by Tai Moses. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694742/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-pursuing-the-next-great-american-novel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> to her father, who crossed the country from Coney Island to Los Angeles, with his portable typewriter in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mike Marshall Gets a Second Chance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11797646 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">R&B singer Mike Marshall performs “I Love Music.” (Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11796176 label='Part One' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/DreamingGoldenState_Eventbrite-1020x538.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRte0S2a_dA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recognize\u003c/a> Mike Marshall’s voice, even if you don’t know his name. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In late November, The California Report Magazine held a night of live storytelling that explored stories about California dreams found, and lost, and whether that dream is still alive. In Part Two, hear selected highlights from the event, “Dreaming the Golden State,” held at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. You can listen to part one of our program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796176/dreaming-the-golden-state-with-the-california-report-magazine-part-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Discovering My True Self in Modesto\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toni Rodriguez of Modesto performs his ‘Letter to My California Dreamer’ that he wrote to himself, live on stage at San Francisco’s Brava Theater. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of the show’s “Letter to My California Dreamer” series, several listeners shared what they had written to the first person in their family who moved to the Golden State with a dream. For Toni Rodriguez, that person was himself. He wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707691/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-discovering-my-true-self-in-modesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the kid from the Bronx who dreamed of moving west and surfing with the Beach Boys. After arriving in California, he was able to find and live as his true self.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Her Double Life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Linh Le performs a dance titled ‘Underwater.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My Linh Le has been lying to her family about who she really is for decades. Growing up, her Vietnamese immigrant parents were extremely strict and prone to rage. So she didn’t tell them when she decided to switch her major from biochemistry to dance. As My Linh told reporter April Dembosky, she’s had to take some big steps to cover up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670259/her-double-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her double life\u003c/a>, and she has her reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Finding Home and Harvest in Salinas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Barocio reads a letter she wrote to her big brother, Humberto. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sandra Barocio of Moss Beach wrote a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674420/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-home-and-harvest-in-salinas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> letter\u003c/a> to the family member who brought her to California, her older brother, Humberto. She remembers making the long drive north from Mexico in the family’s brown Dodge Polara, and how she and her parents and siblings had to sleep under a tree, until Humberto found them shelter. Fifty-two year later, she wants to thank him for delivering their family safely to the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://aggregatespacegallery.org/\">Aggregate Space Gallery\u003c/a>, the artist-run gallery displaced from its Oakland warehouse location of seven years last July, will reopen blocks away in a two-story unit previously occupied by a circus company in a move that promises stability and more than doubles its exhibition space. [aside postID=arts_13851268,arts_13847646,arts_13851209]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate founders Conrad and Willis Meyers, whose video and installation curating and museum-quality exhibitions made ASG a standout Oakland gallery, called the 3,500 square-foot commercial space at 1255 26th Street a lifeline in a forbidding rental market. “We can do everything we used to, plus the things we’ve dreamed of—and not be so cold,” Conrad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a tour, the Meyers described the possibilities of an anticipated $150,000 buildout: A screening room upstairs in what was originally a performance venue with 20-foot high ceilings, and workspace for a residency program in one of the rooms along the mezzanine. Conrad, who’s also a contractor, was relieved to point out fire sprinklers and a wheelchair-accessible elevator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874092\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1.jpg\" alt=\"Aggregate Space Gallery was displaced from its West Oakland location of nine years in 2018.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-768x468.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-1020x621.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-1200x731.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aggregate Space Gallery was displaced from its West Oakland location of nine years in 2018. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Downstairs is a large storefront with additional rooms for office or studio space. There the Meyers see an opportunity for both earned income and community engagement: Before opening, they plan to host neighbors to learn what kind of subtenant could fill the needs of the immediate area. “We want to involve neighbors in this process from the beginning,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New works by Nasim Moghadam, a Bay Area photographer and multimedia artist, will mark Aggregate’s first solo show in the new space, and 68th exhibition overall, come Friday, Apr. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downstairs portion opens Friday, Feb. 7 to show \u003cem>Invulnerable Routes\u003c/em>, a month-long exhibition derived from the gallery’s annual open call for video. The selections, curated by Conrad and Shaghayegh Cyrous, address relationships to society outside patriarchal structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlords, Jacqueline Jackson and her daughter Shannon, a scholar of art and social change at UC Berkeley, will provide the Meyers a decreasing rent subsidy over five years. The deal allows Aggregate, a nonprofit organization, to recover the fundraising momentum lost with its former home. The Jacksons “get Aggregate,” Willis said. “They’re officially our biggest donors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3.jpg\" alt=\"The mezzanine-lined upstairs portion of Aggregate Space Gallery's new 1255 26th Street location was originally build as a performance venue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mezzanine-lined upstairs portion of Aggregate Space Gallery’s new 1255 26th Street location was originally build as a performance venue. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Storied Location\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Meyers hesitated. As KQED\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847646/uc-berkeley-art-professor-displaces-dance-studio-to-create-new-art-space\"> previously reported\u003c/a>, the Jacksons displaced Skyhigh Odditorium, a circus arts studio in the space since 2012, after buying the property in 2017, a move seen as hypocritical given their mission to buoy the arts. “We’ve also struggled with a landlord, so we related,” Conrad said. “Whatever happens in our old place, I’ll probably be pissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Jackson, a prominent figure in the local arts funding establishment, earlier declined to address displacing Skyhigh Odditorium in 2017. In a recent interview, she said she declined to renew the lease for Skyhigh and another tenant, an unpermitted cannabis cultivator, due to “all kinds of health and safety violations,” and that she restored the units to code compliance at “significant expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skyhigh Odditorium founder Madamn Burnz, a circus performer and teacher, said that she’s pleased to learn another arts organization is taking over the space. But she bristled at Jackson’s assertion of safety shortcomings. “That’s bullshit—the place was a dump and we remodeled it,” she said. “If that was her concern why didn’t she say so? … I never even met her before she evicted us.” (Jackson disputes this.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1.jpg\" alt=\"Madamn Burnz founded dance studio and events space Skyhigh Odditorium in 2012.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madamn Burnz founded dance studio and events space Skyhigh Odditorium in 2012. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she has a sideline in Oakland real estate investment, Jackson said she acquired the $3.7 million property, which has 11 live-work units in addition to the commercial space, to create the conditions for an “adventurous aesthetic experiment while also adhering to codes for health and safety.” She continued, “We needed a partner who would be transparent and work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keeping up Momentum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate was displaced from its Grand Avenue location last year after the owner insisted on a $1,500 monthly rent hike and for the Meyers to absorb the cost of an estimated $50,000 in code compliance work. The gallery had doubled its annual operating budget every year for the four years prior, in 2018 reaching $142,000, and was beginning to win grants from national funders such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870004/flight-deck-oaklands-only-black-box-theater-to-close-in-march\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Flight Deck theater’s displacement\u003c/a>, showed the difficulties for Oakland’s growing and creatively rich but not yet institutional arts organizations. In the interim, Aggregate relocated \u003cem>Flash Point\u003c/em>, a video exhibition by Chicago artist Jefferson Pinder, to the San Francisco Art Institute. Oakland artist Leila Weefur sold an edition of \u003cem>Between Beauty & Horror\u003c/em>, which debuted at one of ASG’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851209/leila-weefur-positions-black-experience-between-beauty-horror\">final shows\u003c/a> in the old gallery, to Kadist gallery in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13851534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946.jpg\" alt=\"Conrad and Willis Meyers sit in the workshop at Aggregate Space Gallerys original location on Grand Avenue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conrad and Willis Meyers sit in the workshop at Aggregate Space Gallery’s original location on Grand Avenue. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before settling on the 26th St. location, the Meyers toured the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, which Orton Development is marketing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861121/kaiser-auditorium-redevelopment-proceeds-with-permanent-affordability-for-arts-groups\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">partly to nonprofits\u003c/a>, and met with other real estate developers seeking commercial tenants below new housing. At the previous location in early 2019, Conrad \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851268/despite-doubling-budget-aggregate-space-gallery-faces-displacement\">said\u003c/a> Aggregate wouldn’t move into “the all-windows bottom-floor of condos that’ll be a Gap by 2024.” As it turned out, Aggregate couldn’t afford the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our pitch was a five-year partnership where we meet fundraising benchmarks and then accept rent increases,” Conrad said. “No one was receptive until the Jacksons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate struck Shannon Jackson as an organization with proven fundraising and curatorial abilities that needed a runway to fiscal stability, and developed the unique lease terms as an experiment. The rent subsidy is also intended to nudge other property owners “to figure out what we can do to sustain the Bay Area cultural life that we all say we adore,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Reimagining’ the Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property is the site of earlier experiments: In the 2000s, the Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating the solar-powered live-work units and performance space on what was previously an underground venue called the “Noodle Factory,” keeping the name. The plan excited the local performing arts community, but the land trust’s project floundered amid the 2008 financial crisis, and an investment firm bought the property out of foreclosure in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Burnz leased the space in 2012, it’d been neglected for years. She redid the floors and walls, and treated the place for bedbugs. The landlord at the time, Urban Green Investments, installed a since-removed kitchen and shower. Skyhigh offered classes in pole and aerial dancing, and subleased workspace to other artists. “We brought it back to life,” Burnz said. Since being displaced, Skyhigh has operated out of a nearby studio and a Richmond fitness facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675.jpg\" alt=\"The Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating 11 live-work units and the performance and rehearsal space at what was known as the Noodle Factory.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating 11 live-work units and the performance and rehearsal space at what was known as the Noodle Factory. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The land trust planned affordable live-work condominiums occupied by working artists who could also use the performance and rehearsal space. Jackson revived the Noodle Factory moniker in a nod to the vision, and said she’s interested in integrating the various tenants. In November, 2018 Jackson and the San Francisco nonprofit Community Arts Stabilization Trust hosted an event attended by local artists and gallerists billed “Reimagining the Noodle Factory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, who last fall joined Oakland city officials in an “empowering artists” delegation to France, said that when the Noodle Factory came on the market, she sensed an opportunity. “My mother and I wanted to use our connection to the field of real estate to support a space that could be the embodiment of our values,” she said. Other bidders, she said, wanted to redevelop the whole site. “So we saw it was about to become another story in the gentrification chronicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Meyers poured their personal resources into the Grand Avenue warehouse in 2011 without a long-term plan for sustainability they were “overconfident and naive,” Conrad said. Now, though, he feels the gallery is fortunate to have a financial partner in the Jacksons who also appreciate Aggregate’s mission. “I want people to have the feeling here that nothing like this will ever happen again,” Conrad said. “And come back in four weeks to feel like that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: This article has been updated to clarify that Skyhigh Odditorium was not legally evicted, but that its lease was not renewed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate founders Conrad and Willis Meyers, whose video and installation curating and museum-quality exhibitions made ASG a standout Oakland gallery, called the 3,500 square-foot commercial space at 1255 26th Street a lifeline in a forbidding rental market. “We can do everything we used to, plus the things we’ve dreamed of—and not be so cold,” Conrad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a tour, the Meyers described the possibilities of an anticipated $150,000 buildout: A screening room upstairs in what was originally a performance venue with 20-foot high ceilings, and workspace for a residency program in one of the rooms along the mezzanine. Conrad, who’s also a contractor, was relieved to point out fire sprinklers and a wheelchair-accessible elevator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874092\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1.jpg\" alt=\"Aggregate Space Gallery was displaced from its West Oakland location of nine years in 2018.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-768x468.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-1020x621.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-1200x731.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aggregate Space Gallery was displaced from its West Oakland location of nine years in 2018. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Downstairs is a large storefront with additional rooms for office or studio space. There the Meyers see an opportunity for both earned income and community engagement: Before opening, they plan to host neighbors to learn what kind of subtenant could fill the needs of the immediate area. “We want to involve neighbors in this process from the beginning,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New works by Nasim Moghadam, a Bay Area photographer and multimedia artist, will mark Aggregate’s first solo show in the new space, and 68th exhibition overall, come Friday, Apr. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downstairs portion opens Friday, Feb. 7 to show \u003cem>Invulnerable Routes\u003c/em>, a month-long exhibition derived from the gallery’s annual open call for video. The selections, curated by Conrad and Shaghayegh Cyrous, address relationships to society outside patriarchal structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlords, Jacqueline Jackson and her daughter Shannon, a scholar of art and social change at UC Berkeley, will provide the Meyers a decreasing rent subsidy over five years. The deal allows Aggregate, a nonprofit organization, to recover the fundraising momentum lost with its former home. The Jacksons “get Aggregate,” Willis said. “They’re officially our biggest donors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3.jpg\" alt=\"The mezzanine-lined upstairs portion of Aggregate Space Gallery's new 1255 26th Street location was originally build as a performance venue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mezzanine-lined upstairs portion of Aggregate Space Gallery’s new 1255 26th Street location was originally build as a performance venue. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Storied Location\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Meyers hesitated. As KQED\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847646/uc-berkeley-art-professor-displaces-dance-studio-to-create-new-art-space\"> previously reported\u003c/a>, the Jacksons displaced Skyhigh Odditorium, a circus arts studio in the space since 2012, after buying the property in 2017, a move seen as hypocritical given their mission to buoy the arts. “We’ve also struggled with a landlord, so we related,” Conrad said. “Whatever happens in our old place, I’ll probably be pissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Jackson, a prominent figure in the local arts funding establishment, earlier declined to address displacing Skyhigh Odditorium in 2017. In a recent interview, she said she declined to renew the lease for Skyhigh and another tenant, an unpermitted cannabis cultivator, due to “all kinds of health and safety violations,” and that she restored the units to code compliance at “significant expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skyhigh Odditorium founder Madamn Burnz, a circus performer and teacher, said that she’s pleased to learn another arts organization is taking over the space. But she bristled at Jackson’s assertion of safety shortcomings. “That’s bullshit—the place was a dump and we remodeled it,” she said. “If that was her concern why didn’t she say so? … I never even met her before she evicted us.” (Jackson disputes this.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1.jpg\" alt=\"Madamn Burnz founded dance studio and events space Skyhigh Odditorium in 2012.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madamn Burnz founded dance studio and events space Skyhigh Odditorium in 2012. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she has a sideline in Oakland real estate investment, Jackson said she acquired the $3.7 million property, which has 11 live-work units in addition to the commercial space, to create the conditions for an “adventurous aesthetic experiment while also adhering to codes for health and safety.” She continued, “We needed a partner who would be transparent and work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keeping up Momentum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate was displaced from its Grand Avenue location last year after the owner insisted on a $1,500 monthly rent hike and for the Meyers to absorb the cost of an estimated $50,000 in code compliance work. The gallery had doubled its annual operating budget every year for the four years prior, in 2018 reaching $142,000, and was beginning to win grants from national funders such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870004/flight-deck-oaklands-only-black-box-theater-to-close-in-march\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Flight Deck theater’s displacement\u003c/a>, showed the difficulties for Oakland’s growing and creatively rich but not yet institutional arts organizations. In the interim, Aggregate relocated \u003cem>Flash Point\u003c/em>, a video exhibition by Chicago artist Jefferson Pinder, to the San Francisco Art Institute. Oakland artist Leila Weefur sold an edition of \u003cem>Between Beauty & Horror\u003c/em>, which debuted at one of ASG’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851209/leila-weefur-positions-black-experience-between-beauty-horror\">final shows\u003c/a> in the old gallery, to Kadist gallery in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13851534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946.jpg\" alt=\"Conrad and Willis Meyers sit in the workshop at Aggregate Space Gallerys original location on Grand Avenue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conrad and Willis Meyers sit in the workshop at Aggregate Space Gallery’s original location on Grand Avenue. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before settling on the 26th St. location, the Meyers toured the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, which Orton Development is marketing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861121/kaiser-auditorium-redevelopment-proceeds-with-permanent-affordability-for-arts-groups\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">partly to nonprofits\u003c/a>, and met with other real estate developers seeking commercial tenants below new housing. At the previous location in early 2019, Conrad \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851268/despite-doubling-budget-aggregate-space-gallery-faces-displacement\">said\u003c/a> Aggregate wouldn’t move into “the all-windows bottom-floor of condos that’ll be a Gap by 2024.” As it turned out, Aggregate couldn’t afford the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our pitch was a five-year partnership where we meet fundraising benchmarks and then accept rent increases,” Conrad said. “No one was receptive until the Jacksons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate struck Shannon Jackson as an organization with proven fundraising and curatorial abilities that needed a runway to fiscal stability, and developed the unique lease terms as an experiment. The rent subsidy is also intended to nudge other property owners “to figure out what we can do to sustain the Bay Area cultural life that we all say we adore,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Reimagining’ the Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property is the site of earlier experiments: In the 2000s, the Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating the solar-powered live-work units and performance space on what was previously an underground venue called the “Noodle Factory,” keeping the name. The plan excited the local performing arts community, but the land trust’s project floundered amid the 2008 financial crisis, and an investment firm bought the property out of foreclosure in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Burnz leased the space in 2012, it’d been neglected for years. She redid the floors and walls, and treated the place for bedbugs. The landlord at the time, Urban Green Investments, installed a since-removed kitchen and shower. Skyhigh offered classes in pole and aerial dancing, and subleased workspace to other artists. “We brought it back to life,” Burnz said. Since being displaced, Skyhigh has operated out of a nearby studio and a Richmond fitness facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675.jpg\" alt=\"The Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating 11 live-work units and the performance and rehearsal space at what was known as the Noodle Factory.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating 11 live-work units and the performance and rehearsal space at what was known as the Noodle Factory. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The land trust planned affordable live-work condominiums occupied by working artists who could also use the performance and rehearsal space. Jackson revived the Noodle Factory moniker in a nod to the vision, and said she’s interested in integrating the various tenants. In November, 2018 Jackson and the San Francisco nonprofit Community Arts Stabilization Trust hosted an event attended by local artists and gallerists billed “Reimagining the Noodle Factory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, who last fall joined Oakland city officials in an “empowering artists” delegation to France, said that when the Noodle Factory came on the market, she sensed an opportunity. “My mother and I wanted to use our connection to the field of real estate to support a space that could be the embodiment of our values,” she said. Other bidders, she said, wanted to redevelop the whole site. “So we saw it was about to become another story in the gentrification chronicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Meyers poured their personal resources into the Grand Avenue warehouse in 2011 without a long-term plan for sustainability they were “overconfident and naive,” Conrad said. Now, though, he feels the gallery is fortunate to have a financial partner in the Jacksons who also appreciate Aggregate’s mission. “I want people to have the feeling here that nothing like this will ever happen again,” Conrad said. “And come back in four weeks to feel like that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For non-football types, the Super Bowl halftime show can be the only life raft in a confusing sea of frowning men wearing shoulder pads and over-long commercial breaks. And, since 1993, when Michael Jackson turned in his game-changing, five-song performance in Pasadena, standards for a successful halftime have been incredibly high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder. Super Bowl \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viewing figures\u003c/a> haven’t fallen under 100 million since 1981, and are more commonly closer to the 150 million mark—and that’s in America alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_20247']When it’s done right, the halftime show can be a source of national pride (as when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5tHgXS-2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U2 tried to heal\u003c/a> the nation after 9/11). It can have an immediate and lasting impact on pop culture (Katy Perry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD1QrIe--_Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Left Shark\u003c/a> will live on as a\u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/super-bowl-xlix-halftime-left-shark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> meme\u003c/a> forever). And it can bring the country together during turbulent times (everyone stopped thinking about 2017’s divisive inauguration the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txXwg712zw4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lady Gaga threw herself\u003c/a> off the top of that stadium).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s easy to forget quite how much the pre-Jackson Super Bowl halftime, well, sucked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going all the way back to the beginning, the first three halftime shows (’67-’69) consisted simply of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGj3SFf_VOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marching bands\u003c/a>. In 1970, when the NFL decided to jazz things up \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/06/carol-channing-super-bowl-broadway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for Super Bowl IV\u003c/a> in New Orleans, it saw fit to give America \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGj3SFf_VOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a surreal reenactment\u003c/a> of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Cannons, on-field “deaths” and Carol Channing singing “When the Saints Go Marching In” were all involved. (All of which makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGRfz5_Cuo8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Eyed Peas’ \u003cem>Tron\u003c/em> musical \u003c/a>in 2011 look perfectly reasonable.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Channing was invited back again two years later, when Ella Fitzgerald and Al Hirt performed a rendition of “Mack the Knife” as part of a single-song “tribute to Louis Armstrong.” And by ’73, Andy Williams had been dragged in to pelt the crowd with two easy listening gems while the Michigan Marching Band did its thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny-1Q6qxn-A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that the flashiest thing about Williams’ performance was his belt, in subsequent years, the decision was made to return to simpler times. For the next 15 years, marching bands performing a grab bag of “themes” dominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These regimented “salutes” ranged from fairly reasonable celebrations (America’s bicentennial, “the Big Band era,” Hollywood’s 100th Anniversary), to totally random subjects (Duke Ellington, the Caribbean, Motown). And in between, there were moments of abject surreality (“World of Children’s Dreams,” “KaleidoSUPERscope” and “Beat of the Future,” anyone?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occasionally, flagrant advertising would interrupt proceedings—even more so than Pepsi does now. The most egregious example of this was 1977’s “It’s a Small World.” Produced by The Walt Disney Company, the halftime exhibition featured grinning but under-utilized Mouseketeers, a human reproduction of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride and, for reasons that remain unclear, green-hooded figures waving white sheets in formations that made… nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K-7je-6Dk0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1987’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXMNbK2e98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hollywood’s 100th Anniversary\u003c/a>” special with George Burns, as well as New Kids On The Block’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTOt6CjYaHc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weird, child-laden\u003c/a> set in 1991 also served as thinly-veiled Disney commercials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13863975']As late as 1989, the Super Bowl halftime show was such a mess, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqusO8PegFI&t=381s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the NFL thought nothing of bringing in Elvis Presto, a magician and Elvis impersonator\u003c/a> who spent his time on the field doing one large-scale card trick for the stadium, then a bunch of smaller illusions while singing “Do You Love Me” by The Contours—instead of, you know, an Elvis song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most noteworthy halftime of that period came in 1988 with a show that answered the question: What happens when you have too many ideas and decide to do all of them at the same time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final result, featuring 88 grand pianos, 44 Rockettes, four dudes on roller skates, an untold number of “dancersizers,” hundreds of cheerleaders, “the biggest big band ever to swing” and—wouldn’t you know it?—Chubby Checker, is the single most entertaining (and unintentionally hilarious) halftime show of all time. Behold its majesty:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrksVDVO6w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 25 years, the strides made by the Super Bowl halftime show are immense. But we still find reasons to quibble. For every \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLrOSZi2pfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destiny’s Child reunion\u003c/a>, there is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wL8sAr1Ym0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruno Mars trying\u003c/a> (and failing) to make it work with Red Hot Chili Peppers. For every \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NN3gsSf-Ys&t=105s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prince flawlessly powering through\u003c/a> a thunderstorm, there is an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwkhEqVq4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Levine\u003c/a> assuming that removing his shirt constitutes a grand finale. And for every \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4-0nbHFi4o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inter-generationally loved Bruce Springsteen set\u003c/a>, there’s an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ik_8QjM3U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M.I.A. middle finger\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/20175/nipplegate-revisited-why-america-owes-janet-jackson-a-huge-apology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Janet Jackson nipple guard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_20175']Right now, there are three guarantees when it comes to the Super Bowl halftime show. It \u003cem>will\u003c/em> be spectacular, it \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> please everyone and, even at its worst, it’s still about a million times better than it was in its fledgling years. So this Sunday, if you happen to end up sitting next to someone complaining, feel free to send them a gentle reminder of how bad things used to be. The \u003cem>Peanuts\u003c/em>-related fever dream below ought to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4zzu4Jrl4o\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Cummins is of Irish and Puerto Rican background and had herself raised questions about the narrative, writing in an author’s note at the end of the book that she had wondered if “someone slightly browner than me” should have done it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jeanine Cummins spent five years of her life writing this book with the intent to shine a spotlight on tragedies facing immigrants,” Bob Miller, president and publisher of Flatiron Books, said in a statement Wednesday. “We are saddened that a work of fiction that was well-intentioned has led to such vitriolic rancor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, our concerns about safety have led us to the difficult decision to cancel the book tour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatiron Books is instead hoping to organize a series of town hall discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cummins, 45, had made a handful of promotional appearances since her book was released, but over the past few days the St. Louis-based Left Bank Books had called off an event and Flatiron had canceled interviews in California. The tour for her heavily promoted book had been scheduled to last at least through mid-February, with planned stops everywhere from Seattle to Oxford, Mississippi.\u003cbr>\nMiller says that the town hall gatherings would include Cummins and her critics, calling it “an opportunity to come together and unearth difficult truths to help us move forward as a community.” On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Winfrey confirmed that Winfrey will meet as planned with the author next month and that the discussion will air in March on Apple TV Plus. “American Dirt” was the third novel picked by Winfrey since she began a partnership with Apple last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Wednesday, dozens of authors, including Valeria Luiselli, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Tommy Orange, published an open letter to Winfrey that urged her to reconsider her selection of Cummins’ novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The book club provides a seal of approval that can still, we hope, be changed,” they wrote. “Good intentions do not make good literature particularly not when the execution is so faulty, and the outcome so harmful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winfrey first chose “American Dirt” last fall, before any criticism had emerged and acknowledged in a pre-publication interview with the AP that she was unaware of any controversy. She has since posted a video on Instagram, saying that she had been following the debate and hoped for a broad discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve spent the past few days listening to members of the Latinx community to get a greater understanding of their concerns, and I hear them. I do,” Winfrey said in the video. “What I want to do is bring people together from all sides to talk about this book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American Dirt” has dramatized ongoing issues of diversity in publishing that mirror criticisms of Hollywood. From publishers and editors to booksellers and agents, the book industry is predominantly white. Miller acknowledged that the novel “exposed deep inadequacies” at Flatiron and apologized for how the novel was promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should never have claimed that it was a novel that defined the migrant experience; we should not have said that Jeanine’s husband was an undocumented immigrant while not specifying that he was from Ireland,” he wrote. He also referred to a picture that surfaced on social media from a promotional dinner last May, when table centerpieces included barbed wire decorations based on the book’s cover image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can now see how insensitive those and other decisions were, and we regret them,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatiron is a division of Macmillan and has had authors ranging from former Vice President Joe Biden to Winfrey, who also has her own imprint at Flatiron that is releasing an Alicia Keys memoir in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Cummins’ leading detractors, Myriam Gurba, tweeted Wednesday that she, too, had security concerns. She wrote she had received death threats because of her criticisms and added “Let’s talk about the SAFETY of MIGRANTS and LATINX ppl. That’s what that book was intended to do, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cummins was defended by Ann Patchett, the author and bookstore owner who runs Parnassus Books in Nashville and gave the book an early blurb. 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Clients have included notable locals Tune-Yards, Shannon and the Clams and Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, and big names like Sleater-Kinney, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie and the Mountain Goats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known for its analog recordings on tape, Tiny Telephone offers access to rare, vintage equipment, top-notch audio engineers and even a string ensemble, the Magik*Magik Orchestra. 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He says it’s high time the city honored Huerta, who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association (now \u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>) with Cesar Chavez and fought tirelessly for decades on behalf of workers rights, in the same way it’s honored Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was around San Francisco when Cesar Chavez Street was named,” Scullion says of the thoroughfare formerly known as Army Street. “And I always thought it was strange that Dolores didn’t get a street as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scullion, a resident of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, says he’s known of Chavez and Huerta since he was a child, and that his parents participated in the Delano Grape Strike of 1965. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Clay Theatre in San Francisco showed cult-classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” one last time this weekend before closing its doors for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the last Saturday of the month for the past 13 years, “Rocky Horror” has been a midnight movie staple at the theater. 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This Saturday, he didn't share the same news but remained optimistic about the theaters future.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clay Theatre projectionist and employee of 15 years, Michael Blythe, talks on stage to a sold-out crowd for the last performance of Rocky Horror Picture Show at the theater on Saturday. 10 years previously when the theater faced a shut-down, he was able to stand on stage with the good news that the theater would stay open. This Saturday, he didn’t share the same news but remained optimistic about the theater’s future. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds fill the Clay Theater in San Francisco for the final midnight movie on Saturday, before the theater closes after 110 years of operation. The independent theater is known for its arthouse movies and showed the San Francisco midnight premiere of John Water's film, Pink Flamingos, in 1972.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds fill the Clay Theatre in San Francisco for the final midnight movie on Saturday, before the theater closes after 110 years of operation. The independent theater is known for its arthouse movies and showed the San Francisco midnight premiere of John Water’s film, Pink Flamingos, in 1972. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rocky Horror Picture Show, performed by Bawdy Caste, opened up at the Clay Theater for its last midnight movie show Saturday night, before its doors will close on Sunday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rocky Horror Picture Show, performed by Bawdy Caste, opened up at the Clay Theatre for its last midnight movie show Saturday night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An emotional Julie Shepard took the stage to talk about the loss of the Clay Theater before the Rocky Horror Picture Show performance on Saturday. She has performed in the show since it first opened at the Clay in January of 2007 and on Saturday played Susan Sarandon's character Janet Weiss. She said that Rocky would find a new home but as far as the theater, "it's a real loss for the City, employees and the neighborhood."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An emotional Julie Shepard took the stage to talk about the loss of the Clay Theatre before the Rocky Horror Picture Show performance on Saturday. She has performed in the show since it first opened at the Clay in January of 2007 and on Saturday played Susan Sarandon’s character, Janet Weiss. She said that Rocky would find a new home but as far as the theater, “it’s a real loss for the City, employees and the neighborhood.” \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rice flies in the air during the wedding scene in the Rocky Horror Picture Show during a sold out performance at the Clay Theater on Saturday. Many theaters don't like to host Rocky Horror due to the mess of rice and toilet paper and the late night debauchery. The Clay welcomed the cast of Rocky Horror in 2007 when no other theater was playing the film.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rice flies in the air during the wedding scene in the Rocky Horror Picture Show during a sold-out performance at the Clay Theatre on Saturday. Many theaters don’t like to host Rocky Horror due to the mess of rice and toilet paper and the late-night debauchery. The Clay welcomed the cast of Rocky Horror in 2007 when no other theater was playing the film. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/007_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7045-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The last midnight movie at the Clay Theater on Fillmore Street in San Francisco on Saturday. The theater is set to close on Sunday January 26, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/007_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7045-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/007_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7045-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/007_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7045-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/007_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7045.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last midnight movie at the Clay Theatre on Fillmore Street in San Francisco on Saturday. The theater is set to close on Sunday, January 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Clay Theatre in San Francisco showed cult-classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” one last time this weekend before closing its doors for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the last Saturday of the month for the past 13 years, “Rocky Horror” has been a midnight movie staple at the theater. The Clay took on the show when no other theater in San Francisco was hosting it, and the cast followed the “Rocky Horror” tradition of creating an inclusive space where everyone is made to feel like family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many are mourning the loss of the single-screen independent movie theater in Pacific Heights, including filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797773/john-waters-on-clay-theatre-closure-a-real-era-for-me-is-shutting-down-in-sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Waters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you played at the Clay it gave your movie kind of a little honor of being a real art movie, and being difficult, and causing trouble, and it was just a good club to belong to,” Waters told KQED. “It really mattered very much of climbing up from the underground to play there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While “Rocky Horror” — performed by the troupe \u003ca href=\"http://www.bawdycaste.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bawdy Caste\u003c/a> — will live on in San Francisco at a to-be-determined location, the Clay Theatre is set to close Sunday, Jan. 26, after 110 years in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798112\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/002_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rocky Horror Picture Show character Dr. Scott meets with the cast outside of the Clay Theater before their midnight movie performance on Saturday. The theater is closing its doors on Sunday January 26, 2020 after the last showing, after 110 years in business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/002_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/002_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/002_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/002_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rocky Horror Picture Show character Dr. Scott laughs with the cast and crew outside of the Clay Theatre before their last midnight movie performance at the theater on Saturday. After 110 years in business, the theater will close its doors on Sunday, January 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40908_011_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_8912-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Carolyn Patten and Blake Griffin, both dressed as the character Dr. Frank-N-Furter, pick up tickets from the box office at the Clay Theater for a sold-out performance of the Rocky Horror Picture show on Saturday. This midnight movie performance is the last for the theater, which is shutting its doors on Sunday after 110 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40908_011_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_8912-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40908_011_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_8912-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40908_011_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_8912-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40908_011_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01252020_8912-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blake Griffin and Carolyn Patten, both dressed as the character Dr. Frank-N-Furter, pick up tickets from the box office at the Clay Theatre for a sold-out performance of the Rocky Horror Picture show on Saturday. This midnight movie performance is the last for the theater, which is shutting its doors on Sunday after 110 years. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798118\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798118\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Clay Theater projectionist and employee of 15 years, Michael Blythe, talks on stage to a sold-out crowd for the last performance of Rocky Horror Picture Show at the theater on Saturday. 10 years previously when the theater faced a shut-down, he was able to stand on stage with the good news that the theater would stay open. This Saturday, he didn't share the same news but remained optimistic about the theaters future.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40914_010_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7061-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clay Theatre projectionist and employee of 15 years, Michael Blythe, talks on stage to a sold-out crowd for the last performance of Rocky Horror Picture Show at the theater on Saturday. 10 years previously when the theater faced a shut-down, he was able to stand on stage with the good news that the theater would stay open. This Saturday, he didn’t share the same news but remained optimistic about the theater’s future. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds fill the Clay Theater in San Francisco for the final midnight movie on Saturday, before the theater closes after 110 years of operation. The independent theater is known for its arthouse movies and showed the San Francisco midnight premiere of John Water's film, Pink Flamingos, in 1972.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40921_003_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_8975-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds fill the Clay Theatre in San Francisco for the final midnight movie on Saturday, before the theater closes after 110 years of operation. The independent theater is known for its arthouse movies and showed the San Francisco midnight premiere of John Water’s film, Pink Flamingos, in 1972. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rocky Horror Picture Show, performed by Bawdy Caste, opened up at the Clay Theater for its last midnight movie show Saturday night, before its doors will close on Sunday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/018_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7113.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rocky Horror Picture Show, performed by Bawdy Caste, opened up at the Clay Theatre for its last midnight movie show Saturday night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An emotional Julie Shepard took the stage to talk about the loss of the Clay Theater before the Rocky Horror Picture Show performance on Saturday. She has performed in the show since it first opened at the Clay in January of 2007 and on Saturday played Susan Sarandon's character Janet Weiss. She said that Rocky would find a new home but as far as the theater, "it's a real loss for the City, employees and the neighborhood."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40925_012_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7066-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An emotional Julie Shepard took the stage to talk about the loss of the Clay Theatre before the Rocky Horror Picture Show performance on Saturday. She has performed in the show since it first opened at the Clay in January of 2007 and on Saturday played Susan Sarandon’s character, Janet Weiss. She said that Rocky would find a new home but as far as the theater, “it’s a real loss for the City, employees and the neighborhood.” \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rice flies in the air during the wedding scene in the Rocky Horror Picture Show during a sold out performance at the Clay Theater on Saturday. Many theaters don't like to host Rocky Horror due to the mess of rice and toilet paper and the late night debauchery. The Clay welcomed the cast of Rocky Horror in 2007 when no other theater was playing the film.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/019_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7125.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rice flies in the air during the wedding scene in the Rocky Horror Picture Show during a sold-out performance at the Clay Theatre on Saturday. Many theaters don’t like to host Rocky Horror due to the mess of rice and toilet paper and the late-night debauchery. The Clay welcomed the cast of Rocky Horror in 2007 when no other theater was playing the film. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11798135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11798135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/007_KQED_ClayTheater_RockyHorror_01262020_7045-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The last midnight movie at the Clay Theater on Fillmore Street in San Francisco on Saturday. 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"content": "\u003cp>Winners of the 62nd Grammy Awards will be announced Sunday night — but there's a cloud hanging over the ceremony. Last week, Deborah Dugan, the recently installed president and CEO of the Recording Academy — which hands out the awards — was placed on administrative leave. Earlier this week, Dugan filed a discrimination \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6667812-Dugan-EEOC-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaint\u003c/a> with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that includes allegations of sexual misconduct and vote rigging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Recording Academy has been struggling for years with criticism that the Grammys were too male, too white, too old and too insular. In came Dugan five months ago, as the Academy's first female leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pledged that the organization could do better, as she told NPR in an interview \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/12/787171580/grammys-pledge-more-diversity-under-new-leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last month\u003c/a>: \"We've known as an industry for a long time that we have a monumental problem with gender issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, just over a week ago and only 10 days before the awards telecast, the Recording Academy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797208517/recording-academy-ceo-suspended-amid-allegations-of-misconduct\">abruptly announced\u003c/a> that it had placed Dugan on leave pending an investigation into an allegation of bullying that came from a female assistant. But in an interview Thursday, Dugan claimed she was placed on leave as retaliation for accusations she made, and changes she proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Dugan says her suspension is the result of a memo she sent in December to the Academy's Human Resources director, which included an accusation that she had been sexually harassed by the Academy's general counsel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gtlaw.com/en/professionals/k/katz-joel-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Katz\u003c/a>. (Katz is also a former Academy board chair.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her EEOC complaint, Dugan reiterated her accusations against Katz — and she said she learned that her predecessor, Neil Portnow, had been accused of raping a female artist. Both Katz and Portnow \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798269611/ousted-female-chief-files-discrimination-complaint-against-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deny the accusations\u003c/a>, and Portnow said in a statement that he was investigated and exonerated. In the complaint, Dugan also repeated and elaborated upon her accusations from the HR memo related to questionable financial expenditures, rigged Grammy voting and self-dealing at the public, non-profit organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR on Thursday, Dugan reiterated her accusation against Katz as it is laid out in the EEOC complaint. She said that the incident occurred on May 18, 2019, before she had started officially working at the Academy in August. She had been invited to attend the first day of a three-day board session held at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif. She says Katz (an extremely high-profile attorney who recently negotiated \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737613627/taylor-swifts-former-label-big-machine-is-sold-rankling-the-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the sale\u003c/a> of Taylor Swift's former label home, Big Machine Label Group, to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings Group) invited her to dine with him that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under the guise of a work dinner,\" she told NPR, \"I was propositioned by the general counsel — that is, Joel [Katz]. It started with calling me 'baby' and telling me how pretty I was. And then in the course of the dinner, after ordering a bottle of wine, I got a little more uncomfortable. He was talking about his private plane and trips that we could do and it ended with him leaning forward to kiss me. As I look back now, I think that there — the fact that they had me meet him and have dinner with him first — was sort of a test of how much I would acquiesce to.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='sexual-harassment' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/span>In the moment, Dugan added, she had been \"disgusted and bewildered,\" and that she immediately went back to her hotel room and called \"quite a few people\" to tell them what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR on Wednesday, Katz's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said in part: \"Ms. Dugan's allegations of harassment and her description of a dinner at the steakhouse in the Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel are false, and Mr. Katz categorically and emphatically denies her version of that evening. .... Mr. Katz believed they had a productive and professional meeting in a restaurant where a number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Academy, and others, were dining. ... Mr. Katz will cooperate in any and all investigations or lawsuits by telling the absolute and whole truth. Hopefully Ms. Dugan will do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You hear about these things in entertainment and certainly for women in leadership,\" said Dugan, who immediately prior to coming the Academy had led the charity (RED) after roles as president of Disney Publishing Worldwide and as an executive at EMI Records Group. \"But after so many years, and having such a track record of integrity and purpose, to have this happen — I was very disillusioned and to be honest, a little scared ... And there was a continuing pattern afterwards of whenever we had private conversations, he was calling me 'baby,' telling me how pretty I was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugan and her lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, denied to NPR that she had bullied the Academy employee — a woman named Claudine Little, who had previously served as the executive assistant to Portnow. The Academy has said that Dugan \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798269611/ousted-female-chief-files-discrimination-complaint-against-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is accused\u003c/a> of creating a \"toxic and intolerable\" work environment and engaging in \"abusive and bullying conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR via the Recording Academy on Wednesday, Little said: \"Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO. I am proud of my career with the Academy—where, as a woman, I was able to work my way from secretary to director of administration in the executive suite, solely based on merit and while working for and with leaders far more demanding and hard-charging than Ms. Dugan. It is disappointing that Ms. Dugan hopes to leverage public opinion along gender lines and expects not to be scrutinized for her inexcusable behavior simply because she is a woman; she should be held to the same standard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Thursday NPR interview, Dugan said that she had found Little's work lacking, and that she had suggested moving the assistant into another role at the Academy rather than terminate her employment. (The situation with Little is also described in the EEOC complaint.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wigdor added: \"Neil Portnow was accused of rape. Was he placed on administrative leave? No. So to place Deborah on an administrative leave over being bossy — and by the way, women are bossy, men are bosses — to put her on an administrative leave over something as innocuous and benign as being allegedly bossy to an administrative assistant just doesn't make any sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the discrimination complaint, Dugan also repeated her allegations of irregularities and conflicts of interest in the Grammy voting process, as well as substantial payouts of fees to outside law firms and to individual board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include payouts to Greenberg Traurig, where Joel Katz is an attorney. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2017_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017\u003c/a>, according to the Academy's 990 forms, the firm was paid $6.3 million, as well as $1.75 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2016_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016\u003c/a> and over $1.1 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2015_naras_form_990_public_discolusre_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015\u003c/a>, with similar amounts in the two previous years. According to the EEOC filing, the Academy also pays Katz personally $250,000 annually as a retainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Dugan also said that the board and executive committee reacted negatively to some urgent recommendations from the Academy's Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, a group formed in the wake of widely denounced comments made by her predecessor, longtime Academy president and CEO Portnow. (After the 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony was criticized for a lack of female nominees and performers, Portnow said that women in the industry would just have to \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/06/583464118/women-in-the-music-industry-call-for-evolution-at-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">step up\u003c/a>\" to be recognized.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some things I got pushback on like, 'Oh, we don't need a chief diversity officer,\" Dugan told NPR. She also described what she saw as conflicts of interest in the process of nominating artists for Grammys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a degree of corruption in that system,\" she said. \"There is a problem when you have board members on those committees who have a vested interest in having certain artists winning.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Statement from the Recording Academy']'Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also reiterated in her EEOC complaint that the telecast's producer of 40 years, Ken Ehrlich, holds undue influence over the nominations for high-profile Grammy award categories, including Record of the Year and Album of the Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do I think that this system of him making it clear who he'd like on the show to the board members who are then in the room voting is not a correct one going forward?\" she asked rhetorically. \"I do. I think it should be changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/arts/music/grammys-deborah-dugan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times\u003c/a> on Thursday, Ehrlich said, \"There is no truth to what she alleges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR on Thursday afternoon, the chairman of the Recording Academy, Harvey Mason, Jr., and Bill Freimuth, the Academy's Chief Awards Officer, said in part: \"Spurious allegations claiming members or committees use our process to push forward nominations for artists they have relationships with are categorically false, misleading and wrong. ... Because these committee members are at the top of their craft, and many members work with multiple artists, it is not unusual that some of the people in each room will end up with nominations from the first round. There are strict rules in place to address any conflict of interest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Up until about a decade ago, I was a Grammy voter, and also served on the \"craft\" committee for the Best Album Notes field, one of a small group of Grammy categories outside the \"nomination review\" process and not voted on by the general membership. In addition, my husband, Joshua Sherman, was also a Grammy voter, and served on Academy committees; he was also part of teams that created several Grammy-winning recordings, and he produced several other Grammy-nominated albums. In my own experience, it is certainly true that in certain Grammy categories, especially in smaller genres or for fields involving particular professional expertise, there is a limited universe of accredited Grammy voters willing to volunteer their time to serve on award committees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, record producer and music executive, just became the chair of the Recording Academy's board of trustees \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/press-releases/recording-academy%E2%84%A2-announces-harvey-mason-jr-tammy-hurt-terry-hemmings-and-christine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in June\u003c/a>. After Dugan was put on leave, he became its is acting CEO. In a Thursday interview with NPR, he would not answer any specific questions about the Dugan situation or the conflicting narratives, saying that the behind-the-scenes struggle detracted from the awards ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our biggest season for me,\" he said, \"and this night is everything to our organization. What we are doing is really focusing on the show and the musicians, and trying to make sure that the spotlight doesn't get taken away from that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he took Dugan's allegations — including sexual misconduct, significant financial improprieties, and vote rigging — as grave matters, Mason said, \"Everything is taken seriously. Anything that somebody says, whether it's a guy at the coffee shop that I run into and says, 'You know, the Academy should do this...' I take all that stuff seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In speaking to NPR, Mason also emphasized that the Academy has begun two separate investigations into the allegations by Little and Dugan; Mason said the investigations would be independent and transparent. But he declined to give any timeline for that work, and said repeatedly that he did not know what firm or firms were leading those investigations, adding that they were \"people that we had no association with and no connection to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dugan's EEOC complaint, however, the investigators were selected by the law firm Proskauer Rose — a firm that charged the Academy over \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2017_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$900,000\u003c/a> in 2017 and over \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2016_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$870,000\u003c/a> in 2016, the most recent years for which financial information is available. (A partner at Proskauer Rose, \u003ca href=\"https://www.proskauer.com/professionals/charles-ortner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charles Ortner\u003c/a>, serves as national legal counsel to the Academy, and is one of the most powerful lawyers in the entertainment industry; his client list has included Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, U2 and Madonna.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, the Academy's Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, (which is chaired by Tina Tchen, the president and CEO of Time's Up), issued its own statement. It reiterated its December recommendations, which Dugan had promised to implement almost in entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing of its collective \"shock and dismay,\" the 18-member volunteer group urged the Grammy organization to implement several concrete steps in particular, including hiring a dedicated diversity executive \"to lead the deeper changes that are obviously needed.\" The statement continued, in part: \"We are deeply disappointed at the level of commitment by some of the Academy's leadership in effecting the kind of real and constructive change presented in our report. We are confident that they can do better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason told NPR on Thursday that he was still very committed to diversity improvements at the Academy, noting that they had been part of his own campaign for chair. \"The plan is definitely to continue to push those through and make sure they all happen,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But least one more member of the task force has spoken out even more forcefully as an individual. Ty Stiklorius, a prominent artist manager whose client roster includes singer John Legend and crossover violinist Lindsey Stirling, posted on Twitter Thursday: \"I won't stay quiet on this. As an Academy Inclusivity Task Force member I saw the inner workings & lack of transparency. The board voted down our recommendation of Ranked Choice Voting. They have not implemented our recommendations but used us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tystiklorius/status/1220431046258364419?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as a pawn\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/tystiklorius/status/1220431046258364419?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, however, no artists slated to perform at the Grammys telecast Sunday night have pulled out. Billboard magazine's executive editor West Coast and Nashville, Melinda Newman, has a theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I honestly think this is so complex,\" she says. \"Once you've heard one thing and you think you might have enough information to make your mind up, something else drops and you're like, 'Wow, hang on a second.' I think we haven't seen the reaction yet because people are shocked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sunday night approaches, Deborah Dugan said that her short tenure at the Recording Academy illustrates three things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has hit me about women CEOs and corporate America,\" she said. \"This has hit me on how hard it is for women in the music industry. And it's hit me, and I can't believe it, that three years after the #MeToo movement... we still have this system of character assassination — dig up dirt on this woman and trying to trash her in the press. I'm deeply saddened and profoundly upset that I was slapped with all three of those issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, all of the issues she was hired to address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>In the moment, Dugan added, she had been \"disgusted and bewildered,\" and that she immediately went back to her hotel room and called \"quite a few people\" to tell them what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR on Wednesday, Katz's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said in part: \"Ms. Dugan's allegations of harassment and her description of a dinner at the steakhouse in the Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel are false, and Mr. Katz categorically and emphatically denies her version of that evening. .... Mr. Katz believed they had a productive and professional meeting in a restaurant where a number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Academy, and others, were dining. ... Mr. Katz will cooperate in any and all investigations or lawsuits by telling the absolute and whole truth. Hopefully Ms. Dugan will do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You hear about these things in entertainment and certainly for women in leadership,\" said Dugan, who immediately prior to coming the Academy had led the charity (RED) after roles as president of Disney Publishing Worldwide and as an executive at EMI Records Group. \"But after so many years, and having such a track record of integrity and purpose, to have this happen — I was very disillusioned and to be honest, a little scared ... And there was a continuing pattern afterwards of whenever we had private conversations, he was calling me 'baby,' telling me how pretty I was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugan and her lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, denied to NPR that she had bullied the Academy employee — a woman named Claudine Little, who had previously served as the executive assistant to Portnow. The Academy has said that Dugan \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798269611/ousted-female-chief-files-discrimination-complaint-against-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is accused\u003c/a> of creating a \"toxic and intolerable\" work environment and engaging in \"abusive and bullying conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to NPR via the Recording Academy on Wednesday, Little said: \"Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO. I am proud of my career with the Academy—where, as a woman, I was able to work my way from secretary to director of administration in the executive suite, solely based on merit and while working for and with leaders far more demanding and hard-charging than Ms. Dugan. It is disappointing that Ms. Dugan hopes to leverage public opinion along gender lines and expects not to be scrutinized for her inexcusable behavior simply because she is a woman; she should be held to the same standard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Thursday NPR interview, Dugan said that she had found Little's work lacking, and that she had suggested moving the assistant into another role at the Academy rather than terminate her employment. (The situation with Little is also described in the EEOC complaint.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wigdor added: \"Neil Portnow was accused of rape. Was he placed on administrative leave? No. So to place Deborah on an administrative leave over being bossy — and by the way, women are bossy, men are bosses — to put her on an administrative leave over something as innocuous and benign as being allegedly bossy to an administrative assistant just doesn't make any sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the discrimination complaint, Dugan also repeated her allegations of irregularities and conflicts of interest in the Grammy voting process, as well as substantial payouts of fees to outside law firms and to individual board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include payouts to Greenberg Traurig, where Joel Katz is an attorney. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2017_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017\u003c/a>, according to the Academy's 990 forms, the firm was paid $6.3 million, as well as $1.75 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2016_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016\u003c/a> and over $1.1 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2015_naras_form_990_public_discolusre_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015\u003c/a>, with similar amounts in the two previous years. According to the EEOC filing, the Academy also pays Katz personally $250,000 annually as a retainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Dugan's choice to litigate in the press and spread a false narrative about the Academy and me and my colleagues is regrettable, but it is also emblematic of Ms. Dugan's abusive and bullying conduct while she served as the Academy's president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Dugan also said that the board and executive committee reacted negatively to some urgent recommendations from the Academy's Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, a group formed in the wake of widely denounced comments made by her predecessor, longtime Academy president and CEO Portnow. (After the 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony was criticized for a lack of female nominees and performers, Portnow said that women in the industry would just have to \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/06/583464118/women-in-the-music-industry-call-for-evolution-at-the-grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">step up\u003c/a>\" to be recognized.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some things I got pushback on like, 'Oh, we don't need a chief diversity officer,\" Dugan told NPR. She also described what she saw as conflicts of interest in the process of nominating artists for Grammys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a degree of corruption in that system,\" she said. \"There is a problem when you have board members on those committees who have a vested interest in having certain artists winning.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In my own experience, it is certainly true that in certain Grammy categories, especially in smaller genres or for fields involving particular professional expertise, there is a limited universe of accredited Grammy voters willing to volunteer their time to serve on award committees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, record producer and music executive, just became the chair of the Recording Academy's board of trustees \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/press-releases/recording-academy%E2%84%A2-announces-harvey-mason-jr-tammy-hurt-terry-hemmings-and-christine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in June\u003c/a>. After Dugan was put on leave, he became its is acting CEO. In a Thursday interview with NPR, he would not answer any specific questions about the Dugan situation or the conflicting narratives, saying that the behind-the-scenes struggle detracted from the awards ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our biggest season for me,\" he said, \"and this night is everything to our organization. What we are doing is really focusing on the show and the musicians, and trying to make sure that the spotlight doesn't get taken away from that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he took Dugan's allegations — including sexual misconduct, significant financial improprieties, and vote rigging — as grave matters, Mason said, \"Everything is taken seriously. Anything that somebody says, whether it's a guy at the coffee shop that I run into and says, 'You know, the Academy should do this...' I take all that stuff seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In speaking to NPR, Mason also emphasized that the Academy has begun two separate investigations into the allegations by Little and Dugan; Mason said the investigations would be independent and transparent. But he declined to give any timeline for that work, and said repeatedly that he did not know what firm or firms were leading those investigations, adding that they were \"people that we had no association with and no connection to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dugan's EEOC complaint, however, the investigators were selected by the law firm Proskauer Rose — a firm that charged the Academy over \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2017_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$900,000\u003c/a> in 2017 and over \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/2016_naras_form_990_public_inspection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$870,000\u003c/a> in 2016, the most recent years for which financial information is available. 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