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But \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bryantabarr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryant Barr,\u003c/a> who leads Steph Curry’s philanthropy group SC30 Inc., had already began the process of finding a way to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me to open my DMs, but I’m new to Twitter, so I didn’t know what that meant!” Nimsins laughed. “For a minute I wasn’t responding, because I didn’t believe him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting in contact, the two discussed design and aesthetic of the forthcoming remodel. “He sent me a pic of the artwork model, and was like, ‘I have some artists in mind.’ I said ‘Cool, I have some artists in mind too.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out that they were both thinking about \u003ca href=\"http://www.illuminaries.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Illuminaries\u003c/a>, a Bay Area-based collective of artists composed of Tim Hon, Steve Ha, and Romali Licudan, who’ve painted a number of courts around the US, including one last year in West Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13842893/stars-come-out-for-a-freshly-painted-basketball-court-in-west-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at DeFremery Park\u003c/a>. They worked with another well-known Bay Area-based artist, Kufue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kufue taught me nine years ago at Fremont High School,” said Nimsins, happy that the artists were local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/FullCourt.Steph_-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Steph Curry signs autographs for kids on the completed Concordia Park basketball court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/FullCourt.Steph_-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/FullCourt.Steph_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/FullCourt.Steph_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/FullCourt.Steph_-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/FullCourt.Steph_-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/FullCourt.Steph_-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/FullCourt.Steph_.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steph Curry signs autographs for kids on the completed Concordia Park basketball court. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within weeks, with Chase and Under Armour as sponsors, the project was done. 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He sent out \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nimfromthaeast/status/1144369613448175616?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tweet\u003c/a> asking for someone to come and fix the court, tagging the Warriors organization, as well as Kevon Looney, Draymond Green, Alfonzo McKinnie, Jordan Bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nimsins said he was directly contacted by a number of people, from other concerned residents to Oakland’s own NBA superstar Damian Lillard. 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"content": "\u003cp>The doors open wide, you enter, and they close behind you. As the elevator begins its ascent, you realize it’s just you and one other person taking this ride. The silence soon grows uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pop quiz. What’s your go-to move?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A) Stare at your shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>B) Pull out your cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>C) Make brief eye contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D) Initiate chitchat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your answer was B, you’re like far too many of us, eyes glued to our phones, attention focused on the digital world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of us tend to do just about anything to avoid conversation or even eye contact with strangers. And smartphones make it easier than ever to do that. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563218304643\">recent study\u003c/a> found that phones can keep us from even exchanging brief smiles with people we meet in public places. But a body of research has shown that we might just be short-changing our own happiness by ignoring opportunities to connect with the people around us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='mindshift_49569' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/moodmandala-1180x714.png' target='_blank']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago, University of British Columbia psychologist \u003ca href=\"https://dunn.psych.ubc.ca/\">Elizabeth Dunn\u003c/a> and her colleague \u003ca href=\"https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/sands04300/gillian-sandstrom\">Gillian M. Sandstrom\u003c/a>, tested whether \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550613502990\">short conversations with strangers\u003c/a> could lift moods. They asked participants to enter a busy coffee shop and grab a beverage — half would get in and get out, and half would strike up a conversation with the cashier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that people who were randomly assigned to turn this economic transaction into a quick social interaction left Starbucks in a better mood,” Dunn says. “And they even felt a greater sense of belonging in their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same researchers \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167214529799\">found\u003c/a> that these seemingly trivial encounters with the minor characters in our lives — the random guy at the dog park or the barista at our local coffee shop — can affect feelings of happiness and human connection on a typical day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social anxiety, however, could be preventing these types of interactions, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/e/nicholas-epley\">Nicholas Epley\u003c/a>, a University of Chicago behavioral scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, during a daily train ride, he noticed something paradoxical. People — social creatures — were basically ignoring one another. Why, he wondered, if connecting with others makes us happy, do we so often avoid it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either solitude really is more enjoyable than talking to strangers, he figured, or we have mistaken assumptions holding us back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His curiosity led to \u003ca href=\"https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0037323\">a series of experiments\u003c/a> revealing that train and bus commuters who interacted with other passengers experienced a more pleasant ride — even when they believed they would prefer the solitude of, say, reading a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is fear that the person sitting next to us won’t enjoy talking to us that makes us keep to ourselves, Epley found. But when we do talk to each other, those social interactions with strangers tend to be both less awkward and more enjoyable than most people predict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13847875' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/too-tired-3-copy_custom-47083b7dd7325a378de021d80a85a45b11539c47-s800-c85-768x568.jpg' target='_blank']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If striking up small talk with a stranger sounds daunting, you might be relieved to hear that even something as simple as making eye contact offers benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one likes feeling invisible when someone walks past. The Germans even have a term for it — \u003cem>wie Luft behandeln\u003c/em>, which means “to be looked at as though air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/directory/faculty/Williams_Kip.html\">Kipling Williams\u003c/a>, a Purdue University psychologist, studied how people felt when a young woman walked by them and either made eye contact, made eye contact while smiling, or completely ignored them. \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611427921\">Even brief eye contact\u003c/a> increased people’s sense of inclusion and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just that brief acknowledgment, that brief glance — with or without a smile — made them at least temporarily feel more socially connected,” Williams says. And it works both ways. Those that had been “looked through” felt even more disconnected than the control group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how can we dodge the risks of loneliness and stop short-changing our own happiness?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might be easier than you think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes very little to acknowledge somebody’s existence,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start with folks like the cashier in a grocery store or the barista at your local coffee shop, Dunn says. You’ve got to interact with them anyway, so you might as well make an effort to turn it into a friendly exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And be mindful that using your smartphone sends a signal that you’re not interested in interacting with the people around you. Put it away and you easily remove that barrier, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mood boost of talking to strangers may seem fleeting, but the research on well-being, Epley says, suggests that a happy life is made up of a high frequency of positive events, and even small positive experiences make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Happiness seems a little bit like a leaky tire on a car,” Epley explains. “We just sort of have to keep pumping it up a bit to maintain it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t mean we need to set out on some grand quest to connect at every possible turn. Instead, he recommends paying closer attention to those times when the urge to offer a compliment or strike up a conversation arises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, there may be a bit of fear or reluctance holding us back, but it’s worth overcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next time you walk into an elevator, consider leaving the phone in your pocket, acknowledging the presence of that other person, and maybe even saying “hello” or “good morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who knows? It could wind up putting a smile on your face and theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Paul Nicolaus is a Wisconsin-based freelance writer specializing in science, nature, and health. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If striking up small talk with a stranger sounds daunting, you might be relieved to hear that even something as simple as making eye contact offers benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one likes feeling invisible when someone walks past. The Germans even have a term for it — \u003cem>wie Luft behandeln\u003c/em>, which means “to be looked at as though air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/directory/faculty/Williams_Kip.html\">Kipling Williams\u003c/a>, a Purdue University psychologist, studied how people felt when a young woman walked by them and either made eye contact, made eye contact while smiling, or completely ignored them. \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611427921\">Even brief eye contact\u003c/a> increased people’s sense of inclusion and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just that brief acknowledgment, that brief glance — with or without a smile — made them at least temporarily feel more socially connected,” Williams says. And it works both ways. Those that had been “looked through” felt even more disconnected than the control group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how can we dodge the risks of loneliness and stop short-changing our own happiness?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might be easier than you think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes very little to acknowledge somebody’s existence,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start with folks like the cashier in a grocery store or the barista at your local coffee shop, Dunn says. You’ve got to interact with them anyway, so you might as well make an effort to turn it into a friendly exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And be mindful that using your smartphone sends a signal that you’re not interested in interacting with the people around you. Put it away and you easily remove that barrier, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mood boost of talking to strangers may seem fleeting, but the research on well-being, Epley says, suggests that a happy life is made up of a high frequency of positive events, and even small positive experiences make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Happiness seems a little bit like a leaky tire on a car,” Epley explains. “We just sort of have to keep pumping it up a bit to maintain it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t mean we need to set out on some grand quest to connect at every possible turn. Instead, he recommends paying closer attention to those times when the urge to offer a compliment or strike up a conversation arises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, there may be a bit of fear or reluctance holding us back, but it’s worth overcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next time you walk into an elevator, consider leaving the phone in your pocket, acknowledging the presence of that other person, and maybe even saying “hello” or “good morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who knows? It could wind up putting a smile on your face and theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Paul Nicolaus is a Wisconsin-based freelance writer specializing in science, nature, and health. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Experts say that the case illuminates the discrepancies between the way copyright law is enforced and the real-life practices of pop music producers, who rely on derivative motifs and genre conventions to make hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-kcPyz78fk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who gets to own basic songwriting elements?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue isn’t that “Joyful Noise” or “Dark Horse” are particularly original: both fuse generic elements of pop, trap and EDM—a style that’s come to define the sound of the 2010s. 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Indeed, well-known works like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcPZdihrp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Stranger Things\u003c/em> theme\u003c/a> song and LL Cool J’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lYhjVI4kLQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doin’ It (Remix)\u003c/a>” use descending minor-scale loops similar to those in “Dark Horse” and “Joyful Noise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the trial’s closing arguments, Perry’s lawyer Christine Lepera said that the riffs in “Dark Horse” and “Joyful Noise” are so generic that trying to copyright them would be like “trying to own basic building blocks of music, the alphabet of music that should be available to everyone.” Some music producers now fear that the Perry lawsuit lowers the bar for what qualifies as copyright infringement, leaving their industry vulnerable to predatory lawsuits.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='J. Michael Keyes, intellectual property lawyer']“You could go back to the days of Palestrina, certainly Bach and Handel. … They all copied from preexisting works and created fantastic works as a result. Why don’t we embrace that reality?”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ruling surprised Bay Area producer \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/wax-roof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wax Roof\u003c/a>, whose credits include songs by Rexx Life Raj, Jay Prince and Caleborate. He says the riffs of “Dark Horse” and “Joyful Noise” are so simple, they could’ve been made by a machine. “If you plug that into any sequence generator or arpeggiator in a synth, it’s going to spit that back out at you,” says Wax Roof. “Beyond electronic musical instrument programming, those type of exercises are the foundations of classical theory training. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Friday, 12: 30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Oakland City Council approved a plan to dramatically transform 13th Street immediately east of Broadway. Four lanes will become one, with furniture and landscaping extending the block’s sidewalk into the street to make a sprawling plaza dotted with parklets. Programming, such as live music and yoga, will then “activate” the newly-dubbed “13th Street Commons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what looks like an ambitious public infrastructure project led by the City of Oakland was in fact sponsored and proposed by the Downtown Oakland Association (DOA), a consortium of area landlords and realtors, and it will be patrolled by the organization’s private security guards. The association expects the three-year pilot project to break ground by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://downtownoakland.org/\">Downtown Oakland Association\u003c/a> is subsidized by taxpayers, but it operates independently of city government; councilmembers approved the street-wide overhaul without public discussion. Now its plaza stands to benefit association leadership while threatening some small businesses. And for a “Pavement to Parks” initiative professing to improve the commons, association documents show a seemingly counter-intuitive goal: “Reduce loitering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13863003 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Four lanes will become one, with furniture and landscaping extending the block’s sidewalk into the street to make a sprawling plaza dotted with parklets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four lanes will become one, with furniture and landscaping extending the block’s sidewalk into the street to make a sprawling plaza dotted with parklets. \u003ccite>(Community Design + Architecture)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The association’s description of the incoming parklets being “for merchants and cafes to use for seating” would seem to contradict the city’s requirement that parklets “remain publicly accessible” and include signs to this effect. But according to an Oakland public information officer, the 13th Street Commons project is not part of the city’s official parklet program and not subject to its rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A park that reduces loitering—how ironic,” said Paul Boden of \u003ca href=\"https://wraphome.org/\">Western Regional Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, which sponsored a recent UC Berkeley study exploring how Business Improvement District (BID) organizations including the DOA criminalize homelessness. “It’s about removing the homeless and poor from what the downtown BID wants to be a mall hallway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Downtown Oakland Association argues the plaza is needed to deter crime, and some small businesses agree. Critics, however, see a ploy to discourage the homeless and young people who’ve long congregated near Oakland City Center. Regardless the project shows the extraordinary power of the association and other Business Improvement District organizations to shape and police public space with little oversight, even to annex a right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Burger King and Goodwill recently shuttered on 13th & Broadway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burger King and Goodwill recently shuttered on 13th & Broadway. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Homeless Exclusion Districts’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Downtown Oakland Association, like dozens of other organizations contracted with municipalities to run Business Improvement Districts in the Bay Area, is funded by property tax levies on real-estate within its boundaries. The city collects the funds on behalf of the BID, including on government-owned property such as Oakland City Hall. Oakland’s budget earmarks more than $260,000 annually for BIDs, a sizable public subsidy for organizations generally led by wealthy property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Downtown Oakland Association describes its role as marketing and maintaining the district to improve property values, and it organizes events such as live music at Latham Square Plaza. But the association’s most recent annual report shows the bulk of its $1.2 million budget in 2017 went to “security ambassadors” via a contract with Nashville company Block by Block. The private security guards, coordinating with Oakland police, have tasks including providing hospitality, buffing graffiti and “removal of transients,” according to association documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent example of this work, an association safety report from March boasts of its “biggest victory for 2019 thus far”—serving a three year restraining order to prohibit Melvin Jones, a homeless man, from entering Franklin Square. Jones’ behavior during mental health crises prompted a large proportion of the district’s calls for service. The restraining order seems to undermine the DOA’s claim that its security guards connect homeless people with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are uncertain where Melvin will end up,” reads the report, before worrying aloud that he will return: “Will it be in the district?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Carder of E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore is among the 13th Street merchants skeptical of the incoming plaza.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Carder of E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore is among the 13th Street merchants skeptical of the incoming plaza. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2018 UC Berkeley study “\u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3221446\">Homeless Exclusion Districts\u003c/a>” surveyed 189 BID organizations in 69 California cities, including Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley, and found they impose an “additional form of policing, surveillance and harassment” on unsheltered people. The organizations’ policing practices, the study argues, is increasingly based on homeless people’s status rather than behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their nonprofit designation, which limits lobbying activities, the study also found BIDs actively advocate for anti-homeless laws. For example, they have expended significant resources supporting ordinances that prohibit sitting or lying on sidewalks, which have been criticized for being selectively enforced against the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boden of Western Regional Advocacy Project, a coalition of homeless advocacy organizations, said the 13th Street Commons project is a troubling expansion of the Downtown Oakland Association’s territory that connects to a trend of BIDs encompassing city parks. Last year City Council voted to expand the renamed Downtown Oakland Community Benefit District, boosting the DOA’s annual budget to $2 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who else can close a street and call it a park that discourages loitering?” Boden said. “This is public money, public space, but it benefits private property owners, mostly big corporations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Snider, executive director of the Downtown Oakland Association, called the UC Berkeley study “flawed.” He said the 13th Street Commons will deter what he called worsening downtown crime that authorities are unable to address without help, arguing it will also improve nearby Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way to do it is to encourage more hanging out, but with positive things and not all of the prostitution and drug-dealing,” he said. Referring to a January shooting at 13th & Broadway, Snider claimed downtown employers such as Clorox have threatened to leave due to violence. (A Clorox spokesperson denied this: “We are committed to Oakland.”) “It’s not advisable to walk by at night,” Snider said. “People avoid getting off BART at 12th Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Oakland Association leadership says the plaza will deter drug-dealing and prostitution downtown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Oakland Association leadership says the plaza will deter drug-dealing and prostitution downtown. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Targeted for Removal’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoons and evenings this reporter visited recently, the people at 13th & Broadway appeared to be homeless or waiting for the bus. Once, a handful of people were shooting dice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one corner is an office building recently acquired by Goldman Sachs. Burger King and Goodwill stand shuttered across the street; a Goodwill spokesperson said the businesses’ leases were recently terminated. A cashier next door at Buongiorno Gourmet Express said the sandwich shop is now on a month to month lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaza is a boon to Downtown Oakland Association leadership. Marketing materials for Burger King and Goodwill’s former units prominently feature the 13th Street Commons; they’re listed by Jamie Flaherty-Evans, a Colliers International realtor who sits on the association’s board. Similarly the plaza sits between the 12th St. BART entrance and an incoming residential tower by Carmel Partners, a developer represented on the DOA board by executive Greg Pasquali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaza project also stands to directly benefit Snider, the DOA executive director, because the event programming, he told KQED, will be handled by his own company, Oakland Venue Management. Snider’s company is the Downtown Oakland Association’s second largest contractor (after Block by Block), receiving more than $1 million since 2012, federal tax records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The plaza project is a boon to Downtown Oakland Association leadership.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plaza project is a boon to Downtown Oakland Association leadership. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When City Council approved the 13th Street Commons, the staff report claimed “100 percent” of the block’s merchants, property owners, employers and community members support the project. Some businesses on the block welcome the change—Greg Archer of Archer Bicycles called Burger King a “crime magnet,” and Melissa Axelrod of Mockingbird is excited by the possibility of outdoor seating—but others are concerned it will hasten more establishments’ displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Carder opened E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore across the street from Tribune Tower in 2013. The adjoining storefronts were empty, but the neighborhood wasn’t. “People hanging out on the corner have always come in to use the bathroom,” Carder said. “We’re down with that.” Over time, Good Mother Gallery opened next door and Unity, a queer skateboarding collective, moved into the loft above the bookshop. Now, it’s not unusual for Wolfman to host a poetry reading while an art show opens at Good Mother, filling the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carder believes the 13th Street Commons is part of sanitizing the area between BART and the Carmel development. People made the block their own when it was perceived as derelict, and now they’re “targeted for removal,” Carder said. “And they have no voice in this process.” Behind the DOA’s vision of a 13th St. free of loitering is an assumption, he believes, that anyone who isn’t a customer is a criminal. “That’s a really shortsighted idea of what makes cities great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carder said he wasn’t consulted about 13th Street Commons, and he’s concerned about the programming disrupting readings at Wolfman, an important local literary hub. He’s also worried about what it means for his store’s longevity overall. “Our landlord has been firm about keeping our leases month to month,” Carder said. “Now I feel like our future is on even shakier footing.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Friday, 12: 30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Oakland City Council approved a plan to dramatically transform 13th Street immediately east of Broadway. Four lanes will become one, with furniture and landscaping extending the block’s sidewalk into the street to make a sprawling plaza dotted with parklets. Programming, such as live music and yoga, will then “activate” the newly-dubbed “13th Street Commons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what looks like an ambitious public infrastructure project led by the City of Oakland was in fact sponsored and proposed by the Downtown Oakland Association (DOA), a consortium of area landlords and realtors, and it will be patrolled by the organization’s private security guards. The association expects the three-year pilot project to break ground by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://downtownoakland.org/\">Downtown Oakland Association\u003c/a> is subsidized by taxpayers, but it operates independently of city government; councilmembers approved the street-wide overhaul without public discussion. Now its plaza stands to benefit association leadership while threatening some small businesses. And for a “Pavement to Parks” initiative professing to improve the commons, association documents show a seemingly counter-intuitive goal: “Reduce loitering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13863003 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Four lanes will become one, with furniture and landscaping extending the block’s sidewalk into the street to make a sprawling plaza dotted with parklets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-St-rendering-courtesy-DOA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four lanes will become one, with furniture and landscaping extending the block’s sidewalk into the street to make a sprawling plaza dotted with parklets. \u003ccite>(Community Design + Architecture)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The association’s description of the incoming parklets being “for merchants and cafes to use for seating” would seem to contradict the city’s requirement that parklets “remain publicly accessible” and include signs to this effect. But according to an Oakland public information officer, the 13th Street Commons project is not part of the city’s official parklet program and not subject to its rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A park that reduces loitering—how ironic,” said Paul Boden of \u003ca href=\"https://wraphome.org/\">Western Regional Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, which sponsored a recent UC Berkeley study exploring how Business Improvement District (BID) organizations including the DOA criminalize homelessness. “It’s about removing the homeless and poor from what the downtown BID wants to be a mall hallway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Downtown Oakland Association argues the plaza is needed to deter crime, and some small businesses agree. Critics, however, see a ploy to discourage the homeless and young people who’ve long congregated near Oakland City Center. Regardless the project shows the extraordinary power of the association and other Business Improvement District organizations to shape and police public space with little oversight, even to annex a right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Burger King and Goodwill recently shuttered on 13th & Broadway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Goodwill-gone.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burger King and Goodwill recently shuttered on 13th & Broadway. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Homeless Exclusion Districts’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Downtown Oakland Association, like dozens of other organizations contracted with municipalities to run Business Improvement Districts in the Bay Area, is funded by property tax levies on real-estate within its boundaries. The city collects the funds on behalf of the BID, including on government-owned property such as Oakland City Hall. Oakland’s budget earmarks more than $260,000 annually for BIDs, a sizable public subsidy for organizations generally led by wealthy property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Downtown Oakland Association describes its role as marketing and maintaining the district to improve property values, and it organizes events such as live music at Latham Square Plaza. But the association’s most recent annual report shows the bulk of its $1.2 million budget in 2017 went to “security ambassadors” via a contract with Nashville company Block by Block. The private security guards, coordinating with Oakland police, have tasks including providing hospitality, buffing graffiti and “removal of transients,” according to association documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent example of this work, an association safety report from March boasts of its “biggest victory for 2019 thus far”—serving a three year restraining order to prohibit Melvin Jones, a homeless man, from entering Franklin Square. Jones’ behavior during mental health crises prompted a large proportion of the district’s calls for service. The restraining order seems to undermine the DOA’s claim that its security guards connect homeless people with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are uncertain where Melvin will end up,” reads the report, before worrying aloud that he will return: “Will it be in the district?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Carder of E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore is among the 13th Street merchants skeptical of the incoming plaza.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Wolfman-exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Carder of E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore is among the 13th Street merchants skeptical of the incoming plaza. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2018 UC Berkeley study “\u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3221446\">Homeless Exclusion Districts\u003c/a>” surveyed 189 BID organizations in 69 California cities, including Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley, and found they impose an “additional form of policing, surveillance and harassment” on unsheltered people. The organizations’ policing practices, the study argues, is increasingly based on homeless people’s status rather than behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their nonprofit designation, which limits lobbying activities, the study also found BIDs actively advocate for anti-homeless laws. For example, they have expended significant resources supporting ordinances that prohibit sitting or lying on sidewalks, which have been criticized for being selectively enforced against the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boden of Western Regional Advocacy Project, a coalition of homeless advocacy organizations, said the 13th Street Commons project is a troubling expansion of the Downtown Oakland Association’s territory that connects to a trend of BIDs encompassing city parks. Last year City Council voted to expand the renamed Downtown Oakland Community Benefit District, boosting the DOA’s annual budget to $2 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who else can close a street and call it a park that discourages loitering?” Boden said. “This is public money, public space, but it benefits private property owners, mostly big corporations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Snider, executive director of the Downtown Oakland Association, called the UC Berkeley study “flawed.” He said the 13th Street Commons will deter what he called worsening downtown crime that authorities are unable to address without help, arguing it will also improve nearby Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way to do it is to encourage more hanging out, but with positive things and not all of the prostitution and drug-dealing,” he said. Referring to a January shooting at 13th & Broadway, Snider claimed downtown employers such as Clorox have threatened to leave due to violence. (A Clorox spokesperson denied this: “We are committed to Oakland.”) “It’s not advisable to walk by at night,” Snider said. “People avoid getting off BART at 12th Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Oakland Association leadership says the plaza will deter drug-dealing and prostitution downtown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/13th-street-empty.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Oakland Association leadership says the plaza will deter drug-dealing and prostitution downtown. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Targeted for Removal’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoons and evenings this reporter visited recently, the people at 13th & Broadway appeared to be homeless or waiting for the bus. Once, a handful of people were shooting dice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one corner is an office building recently acquired by Goldman Sachs. Burger King and Goodwill stand shuttered across the street; a Goodwill spokesperson said the businesses’ leases were recently terminated. A cashier next door at Buongiorno Gourmet Express said the sandwich shop is now on a month to month lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaza is a boon to Downtown Oakland Association leadership. Marketing materials for Burger King and Goodwill’s former units prominently feature the 13th Street Commons; they’re listed by Jamie Flaherty-Evans, a Colliers International realtor who sits on the association’s board. Similarly the plaza sits between the 12th St. BART entrance and an incoming residential tower by Carmel Partners, a developer represented on the DOA board by executive Greg Pasquali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaza project also stands to directly benefit Snider, the DOA executive director, because the event programming, he told KQED, will be handled by his own company, Oakland Venue Management. Snider’s company is the Downtown Oakland Association’s second largest contractor (after Block by Block), receiving more than $1 million since 2012, federal tax records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The plaza project is a boon to Downtown Oakland Association leadership.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Colliers-realty-sign.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plaza project is a boon to Downtown Oakland Association leadership. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When City Council approved the 13th Street Commons, the staff report claimed “100 percent” of the block’s merchants, property owners, employers and community members support the project. Some businesses on the block welcome the change—Greg Archer of Archer Bicycles called Burger King a “crime magnet,” and Melissa Axelrod of Mockingbird is excited by the possibility of outdoor seating—but others are concerned it will hasten more establishments’ displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Carder opened E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore across the street from Tribune Tower in 2013. The adjoining storefronts were empty, but the neighborhood wasn’t. “People hanging out on the corner have always come in to use the bathroom,” Carder said. “We’re down with that.” Over time, Good Mother Gallery opened next door and Unity, a queer skateboarding collective, moved into the loft above the bookshop. Now, it’s not unusual for Wolfman to host a poetry reading while an art show opens at Good Mother, filling the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carder believes the 13th Street Commons is part of sanitizing the area between BART and the Carmel development. People made the block their own when it was perceived as derelict, and now they’re “targeted for removal,” Carder said. “And they have no voice in this process.” Behind the DOA’s vision of a 13th St. free of loitering is an assumption, he believes, that anyone who isn’t a customer is a criminal. “That’s a really shortsighted idea of what makes cities great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area prices getting you down? Sick of companies offering you a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/07/rent-a-bunk-bed-for-1200-a-month-idea-sparks-pushback-from-sf-officials/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bunk bed for $1200\u003c/a> and acting like they’re doing you a favor? Been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/112469/bay-bye-breaking-up-with-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thinking about leaving\u003c/a> for a while, but just haven’t taken the plunge yet? If the answer is yes to all of the above, and you fancy living in Norfolk, England, the British royal family may just have the place for you. That’s right! The 2-bedroom house opposite Prince William and Duchess Kate’s place is up for rent—and it’s only $850 (£700) a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the deal. The royal family has a 20,000-acre estate on the southeast coast of England called \u003ca href=\"https://sandringhamestate.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandringham\u003c/a>. The Queen hangs out in the manor there on and off throughout the year, and, for their 2011 wedding, she gifted Will and Kate a ten-bedroom Georgian house on the property, known as \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anmer_Hall\">Anmer Hall\u003c/a>. Interestingly, there are a bunch of other rentals available on the estate, including (for the non-committal among you) self-catering vacation spots, \u003ca href=\"https://sandringhamestate.co.uk/stay/garden-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garden House\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sandringhamestate.co.uk/stay/the-granary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Granary.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home currently for rent at 20 Cherry Tree is a bit special though, because it happens to offer a perfect view of Will and Kate’s country abode. (Their primary residence is at London’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.getyourguide.com/-l2716/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kensington Palace\u003c/a>.) The rental listing describes the “newly refurbished, end of terrace two bedroom” as having a “large garden and off-road parking,” but warns of “steep stairs” and a “strict no cats policy” that applies to the entire Sandringham estate. (Presumably because cats kill birds and the royal family \u003ca href=\"https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1078292/the-queen-news-sandringham-hunt-royal-family-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like to do that themselves\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863070\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/GettyImages-1074773574-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The gang hanging out at Sandringham's St Mary Magdalene Church on Christmas Day, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/GettyImages-1074773574-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/GettyImages-1074773574-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/GettyImages-1074773574-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/GettyImages-1074773574-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/GettyImages-1074773574.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gang hanging out at Sandringham’s St Mary Magdalene Church on Christmas Day, 2018. \u003ccite>(PAUL ELLIS/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time Prince William has been willing to slum it with what his family refers to as “commoners.” He and his wife Kate Middleton (also technically born a commoner, FYI) used to live on the Welsh island of Anglesey, where they frequented the local pub. Kate was also regularly spotted doing \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a19684172/does-royal-family-go-grocery-shopping/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her own grocery shopping\u003c/a> in Tesco, a local plebeian supermarket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which means Will and Kate’s new neighbors will probably see the future king and his fam fairly regularly, as well as guests like Harry, Meghan or whichever royal happens to be hanging out at Sandringham’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_Magdalene_Church,_Sandringham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St Mary Magdalene Church\u003c/a> that week. (Fun fact: that’s where Princess Diana was baptized!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should you fail in your quest to move in directly opposite Will and Kate, there are a number of other backups on the royal estate currently available to rent: a two-bedroom semi-detached house for $880; two three-bedroom terraced cottages (one for $911 a month, the other for $1,002); and, if you’re feeling fancy, the gigantic $3,340 Heath Farm House. All of the above appear to offer far more bang for your buck than anywhere in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandringham’s website says that potential renters should “live and work locally” and be using the home “as a primary residence,” but that new people moving to the area will also be considered. While the Sandringham properties “are not let on a first come, first served basis, but rather on which prospective tenant is best suited” to the place, it’s possible that the property manager will have softened to the idea of transatlantic guests since Prince Harry put a ring on Meghan Markle’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LuminaryBakery/status/1157212584849870848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newidea.com.au%2Fmeghan-markle-perfect-handwriting-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calligraphy-loving\u003c/a> finger last year. At this price, it’s worth at least applying.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was there that she experienced, for the first time, a hierarchy of color within the African-American community. “On the campus, where I felt safe and welcome, I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse … really had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me,” she said in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She earned her master’s at Cornell, and married architect Harold Morrison, with whom she had two sons. They divorced after seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison started her early publishing career as an editor, first in textbooks, then for general circulation books. She told an audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York that she wasn’t happy with how most black books were being edited back then: “I thought the editing was sloppy,” she recalled. “I thought the productions were mishandled, even the great books, like \u003cem>Roots\u003c/em>. … When you read them carefully, you’d see that nobody was paying any attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she consciously sought out excellent black authors, pulling them into what was — and mostly still is — the alabaster publishing industry. She edited Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali and the novelist Gayl Jones during the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early ’70s. Morrison saw this as her contribution to the Civil Rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made it my business to collect African-Americans who were vocal, either politically, or just writing wonderful fiction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as she edited, Morrison secretly wrote for herself, getting up before her children were awake. She later said that when she wrote, she was free from pain. “It’s where I have control,” she said. “It’s where nobody tells me what to do. It’s where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. … I’m thinking up dangerous, difficult things, but it is also extremely safe for me to be in that place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first book, \u003cem>The Bluest Eye,\u003c/em> was published in 1970. It’s a tale about a dark-skinned little girl who believes blue eyes will make her beautiful and cherished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Huguley, a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, remembers how she felt when she read \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em> as a college student. It helped her see “colorism and its connection to self-loathing, and how deeply embedded that could go,” she says. It was a theme Morrison explored further in her 2015 book \u003cem>God Help the Child.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huguley says that kind of frankness about race has made Morrison’s work essential reading. “She exists in a class we call Seminal Writers, that every English major must take,” Huguley explains. “That means she belongs for us here at Spelman, and no doubt elsewhere, as part of the African-American literary canon, that is, an author who \u003cem>must\u003c/em> be read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison’s stories weave between the familiar and the fantastical: In \u003cem>Song of Solomon,\u003c/em> a key element was an ancient folk tale about black people flying away from enslavement and back home to Africa. The theme of mother-daughter love runs through several books, such as \u003cem>Beloved\u003c/em> and \u003cem>A Mercy,\u003c/em> in which women make terrible sacrifices for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are books that focus, without apology or explanation, on black lives. And in 1998, she told talk show host Charlie Rose she had no interest in making white characters more central to her stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books,” she said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison was grounded in the black cultural liberationist art of the 1960s, says Richard Yarborough, who teaches African-American literature at UCLA. 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It was there that she experienced, for the first time, a hierarchy of color within the African-American community. “On the campus, where I felt safe and welcome, I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse … really had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me,” she said in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She earned her master’s at Cornell, and married architect Harold Morrison, with whom she had two sons. They divorced after seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison started her early publishing career as an editor, first in textbooks, then for general circulation books. She told an audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York that she wasn’t happy with how most black books were being edited back then: “I thought the editing was sloppy,” she recalled. “I thought the productions were mishandled, even the great books, like \u003cem>Roots\u003c/em>. … When you read them carefully, you’d see that nobody was paying any attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she consciously sought out excellent black authors, pulling them into what was — and mostly still is — the alabaster publishing industry. She edited Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali and the novelist Gayl Jones during the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early ’70s. Morrison saw this as her contribution to the Civil Rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made it my business to collect African-Americans who were vocal, either politically, or just writing wonderful fiction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as she edited, Morrison secretly wrote for herself, getting up before her children were awake. She later said that when she wrote, she was free from pain. “It’s where I have control,” she said. “It’s where nobody tells me what to do. It’s where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. … I’m thinking up dangerous, difficult things, but it is also extremely safe for me to be in that place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first book, \u003cem>The Bluest Eye,\u003c/em> was published in 1970. It’s a tale about a dark-skinned little girl who believes blue eyes will make her beautiful and cherished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Huguley, a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, remembers how she felt when she read \u003cem>The Bluest Eye\u003c/em> as a college student. It helped her see “colorism and its connection to self-loathing, and how deeply embedded that could go,” she says. It was a theme Morrison explored further in her 2015 book \u003cem>God Help the Child.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huguley says that kind of frankness about race has made Morrison’s work essential reading. “She exists in a class we call Seminal Writers, that every English major must take,” Huguley explains. “That means she belongs for us here at Spelman, and no doubt elsewhere, as part of the African-American literary canon, that is, an author who \u003cem>must\u003c/em> be read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison’s stories weave between the familiar and the fantastical: In \u003cem>Song of Solomon,\u003c/em> a key element was an ancient folk tale about black people flying away from enslavement and back home to Africa. The theme of mother-daughter love runs through several books, such as \u003cem>Beloved\u003c/em> and \u003cem>A Mercy,\u003c/em> in which women make terrible sacrifices for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are books that focus, without apology or explanation, on black lives. And in 1998, she told talk show host Charlie Rose she had no interest in making white characters more central to her stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books,” she said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison was grounded in the black cultural liberationist art of the 1960s, says Richard Yarborough, who teaches African-American literature at UCLA. 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"content": "\u003cp>This weekend, an estimated 40,000 people will descend on downtown San Jose for the 30th anniversary of the \u003ca href=\"https://summerfest.sanjosejazz.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Jazz Summer Fest\u003c/a>. (And yes, extra security is expected.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, the original ambition was decidedly more modest in 1990. So says Artistic & Festival Director Bruce Labadie, there at the creation: “We decided to have it free and outdoors and, basically, was going to be made successful by selling beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, a few sponsorship deals helped, as did careful selection of eight headliners, including Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, and Poncho Sánchez. “10,000 people showed up over two days. It was amazing. So we knew it was going to be successful from the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>30 years later, the Summer Fest is much bigger: 14 stages instead of two, 150 acts, or so, instead of eight. But also, the organization itself is much bigger than its annual summer fest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really nothing else like it in the Bay Area,” says jazz writer Andy Gilbert, who’s covered the organization for KQED over many years. “This takes over downtown San Jose, around the Plaza de Cesar Chavez. You’ve got outdoor stages. It’s a huge street party, with fantastic music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Dee Dee Bridgewater headlined the 2001 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-800x597.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-768x573.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-1020x761.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-1200x896.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dee Dee Bridgewater headlined the 2001 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Andy Nozaka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re also active year round. We do a couple hundred performances throughout all of San Jose throughout the year. We also do a Winter Fest and then we’re active in a lot of San Jose schools with different music education programs,” said Executive Director Brendan Rawson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marketing Director Massimo Chisessi adds, “San Jose Jazz has nurtured a local ecology of musicians here, through jams year-round. We also bring them work, gigs at local restaurants. One of the results is there’s a lot more interest now in live music (in downtown San Jose) than there was 30 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13857655,arts_13804037,arts_10885260' label='More San Jose Jazz']Rawson estimates half of the Summer Fest’s audience is local to Silicon Valley. The other half is split between the greater Bay Area and the world beyond, stretching as far afield as Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full disclosure: I grew up in a family full of talented jazz composers, and I love jazz. But like a lot of musical traditions, jazz’s audience is growing frailer and paler, and it’s dropped off the radio dial in many cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I had to ask, how has San Jose Jazz survived and thrived? Short answer: like most jazz festivals, with a definition of jazz much more expansive than what insiders call “straight-ahead.” That, along with smooth jazz, makes up only 20 percent of what’s on the roster of San Jose Jazz today. The rest represents gospel, blues, funk, soul, hip hop, R&B, and of course, lots of salsa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue during the 2011 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-1200x795.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue during the 2011 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Bruce Fram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing like seeing a band live onstage, because it’s infectious, it’s contagious, it’s … it’s music that you want to dance to!” said Betto Arcos of KPCC in Los Angeles, one of a host of curators who bring specialized rolodexes with them, along with bigger, broader audiences from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year we’re bringing a band from Columbia (\u003ca href=\"http://www.la-33.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orquesta La 33\u003c/a>). This is like the top salsa band from Colombia has come into perform to the Jazz Fest,” Arcos adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert says San Jose Jazz’s commitment to Latin music has been genuine since the beginning. “Showing how that is woven in to the fabric of jazz. This year is no different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labadie say the audiences who come to San Jose Jazz come with big, broad musical appetites, keen to take in the unfamiliar and cheer on the young and the local. Why not, when about 40 percent of music is free?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jazz is roots music\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of these young artists that come of age in a hip hop generation, but they’re incredibly well-trained jazz artists, and you’re seeing them sort of in sort of informing and shaping a lot of popular music today,” Rawson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fair to say San Jose Jazz has helped to “inform and shape” by giving an early chance to musicians coming up. Labadie has a lot of stories along these lines…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1543px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"John Santos with the Machete Ensemble at the 2002 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1543\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut.jpg 1543w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-768x597.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1543px) 100vw, 1543px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Santos with the Machete Ensemble at the 2002 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Andy Nozaka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Years ago, we had the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lulawashington.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lulu Washington Dance Company\u003c/a>, and the guy that promotes it, the husband of Lulu Washington, said, ‘Oh, my nephew is really a good player!’ I go, ‘Okay, whatever.’ Then I open \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> and there he was. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kamasiwashington.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamasi Washington\u003c/a>. He didn’t have an agent. We paid him a little bit of money, and then he was charging $50,000 right after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Same with Trombone Shorty, who we found. You know, played at the main stage, and became unaffordable a couple of years after we had him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like anybody else, the organizers are partial to headliners. Rawson’s favorite? “I’m really excited that we’re having \u003ca href=\"http://diannereeves.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dianne Reeves\u003c/a> back. She was named an \u003ca href=\"https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/dianne-reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEA Jazz Master\u003c/a> last year. She was with us in our second year of the festival. She’s this will be her fourth time appearing with us, and it’s always there’s really a sense of almost homecoming for a lot of our folks that come each year, and she’s just outstanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Jazz doesn’t typically have performance recording rights. The local radio station \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcsm.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCSM\u003c/a> broadcasts some of the music live, and they do run a highlight show the following spring. There’s also some live streaming. But generally, you have to be in San Jose to experience Summer Fest in all its multi-faceted, musical glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003cstrong>San Jose Jazz Summer Fest\u003c/strong> runs August 9-11, 2019. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rawson estimates half of the Summer Fest’s audience is local to Silicon Valley. The other half is split between the greater Bay Area and the world beyond, stretching as far afield as Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full disclosure: I grew up in a family full of talented jazz composers, and I love jazz. But like a lot of musical traditions, jazz’s audience is growing frailer and paler, and it’s dropped off the radio dial in many cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I had to ask, how has San Jose Jazz survived and thrived? Short answer: like most jazz festivals, with a definition of jazz much more expansive than what insiders call “straight-ahead.” That, along with smooth jazz, makes up only 20 percent of what’s on the roster of San Jose Jazz today. The rest represents gospel, blues, funk, soul, hip hop, R&B, and of course, lots of salsa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue during the 2011 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-1200x795.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue during the 2011 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Bruce Fram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing like seeing a band live onstage, because it’s infectious, it’s contagious, it’s … it’s music that you want to dance to!” said Betto Arcos of KPCC in Los Angeles, one of a host of curators who bring specialized rolodexes with them, along with bigger, broader audiences from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year we’re bringing a band from Columbia (\u003ca href=\"http://www.la-33.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orquesta La 33\u003c/a>). This is like the top salsa band from Colombia has come into perform to the Jazz Fest,” Arcos adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert says San Jose Jazz’s commitment to Latin music has been genuine since the beginning. “Showing how that is woven in to the fabric of jazz. This year is no different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labadie say the audiences who come to San Jose Jazz come with big, broad musical appetites, keen to take in the unfamiliar and cheer on the young and the local. Why not, when about 40 percent of music is free?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jazz is roots music\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of these young artists that come of age in a hip hop generation, but they’re incredibly well-trained jazz artists, and you’re seeing them sort of in sort of informing and shaping a lot of popular music today,” Rawson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fair to say San Jose Jazz has helped to “inform and shape” by giving an early chance to musicians coming up. Labadie has a lot of stories along these lines…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1543px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"John Santos with the Machete Ensemble at the 2002 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1543\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut.jpg 1543w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-768x597.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1543px) 100vw, 1543px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Santos with the Machete Ensemble at the 2002 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Andy Nozaka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Years ago, we had the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lulawashington.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lulu Washington Dance Company\u003c/a>, and the guy that promotes it, the husband of Lulu Washington, said, ‘Oh, my nephew is really a good player!’ I go, ‘Okay, whatever.’ Then I open \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> and there he was. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kamasiwashington.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamasi Washington\u003c/a>. He didn’t have an agent. We paid him a little bit of money, and then he was charging $50,000 right after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Same with Trombone Shorty, who we found. You know, played at the main stage, and became unaffordable a couple of years after we had him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like anybody else, the organizers are partial to headliners. Rawson’s favorite? “I’m really excited that we’re having \u003ca href=\"http://diannereeves.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dianne Reeves\u003c/a> back. She was named an \u003ca href=\"https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/dianne-reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEA Jazz Master\u003c/a> last year. She was with us in our second year of the festival. She’s this will be her fourth time appearing with us, and it’s always there’s really a sense of almost homecoming for a lot of our folks that come each year, and she’s just outstanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Jazz doesn’t typically have performance recording rights. The local radio station \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcsm.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCSM\u003c/a> broadcasts some of the music live, and they do run a highlight show the following spring. There’s also some live streaming. But generally, you have to be in San Jose to experience Summer Fest in all its multi-faceted, musical glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003cstrong>San Jose Jazz Summer Fest\u003c/strong> runs August 9-11, 2019. For more information, click \u003ca href=\"https://summerfest.sanjosejazz.org/artists/7th-street-big-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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