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"content": "\u003cp>Let us not rehash the bad feelings around\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297675381/oh-mother-an-awful-end-to-a-long-love-story\"> the poorly conceived ending of \u003cem>How I Met Your Mother\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spent happy years watching that show, loved much of what it did with its talented cast, and don’t believe in regretting that time just because the charming premise of its pilot (sometimes the person who seems to be your romantic soulmate is not, but they may still be incredibly special to you) was betrayed by its ending (psych! She actually is his romantic soulmate LOL ha ha). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of that show’s success lay in what you might just call its hangout vibes. Like \u003cem>Living Single \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Friends \u003c/em>and other sitcoms, it put a bunch of people — Ted (Josh Radnor), Robin (Cobie Smulders), Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan), and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) — in a bunch of rooms doing a bunch of weird things, and it watched as they unfolded. At the same time, the comedy of \u003cem>HIMYM \u003c/em>was heightened and a little unreal. It’s not as well-known for its hooky, jokey concepts as something like \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em>, but bits like the slap bet and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYqqFqgOVS0\">Robin’s past as a Canadian teen pop star\u003c/a> always made it feel a little broader than a pure hangout show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, years later, we get \u003cem>How I Met Your Father \u003c/em>on Hulu, which is premiering Jan. 18. The premise is this: an adult Sophie, played by Kim Cattrall, addresses her son to tell him how she met his father. He says he already knows, but she says he doesn’t know the details. From here, we launch into the story of young Sophie, played by Hilary Duff, who in the first episode is living with a roommate and going on Tinder dates and, improbably, instantly gaining entry into a new group of friends after an adventurous night. Critics have been asked not to talk too much about how the story of the father fits into this story, so: fine. Frankly, that asks us not to tell readers how the show is \u003cem>trying \u003c/em>to preempt fears that its ending will be as much of a gotcha as the original \u003cem>HIMYM \u003c/em>ending, which might be counterproductive from the show’s point of view, but: fine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what I will tell you is that the jokes in the two episodes I watched just do not land at all. It’s not for lack of effort, and it’s not for lack of talent in the cast. Hilary Duff can absolutely carry a show like this, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/396580311/the-ups-and-downs-of-younger-life\">as you know if you watched her on \u003cem>Younger\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. And Chris Lowell, who’s playing one of the guys in her newly formed circle, is one of my very favorite Regular Guy Actors, by which I mean he often brings a little punch and tons of charm to roles that aren’t written with a lot of easy, showy stuff for actors to grab onto. (The role he plays in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/26/948993865/promising-young-woman-is-a-dark-comedy-that-will-keep-you-on-your-toes\">\u003cem>Promising Young Woman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> \u003c/em>almost riffs on this very quality.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/himyf_102_pw_01651rt-1_wide-4aebc6167485c0d51e9b7c6410e847c886c09a08-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/himyf_102_pw_01651rt-1_wide-4aebc6167485c0d51e9b7c6410e847c886c09a08-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/himyf_102_pw_01651rt-1_wide-4aebc6167485c0d51e9b7c6410e847c886c09a08-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/himyf_102_pw_01651rt-1_wide-4aebc6167485c0d51e9b7c6410e847c886c09a08-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/himyf_102_pw_01651rt-1_wide-4aebc6167485c0d51e9b7c6410e847c886c09a08-768x433.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/himyf_102_pw_01651rt-1_wide-4aebc6167485c0d51e9b7c6410e847c886c09a08-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/himyf_102_pw_01651rt-1_wide-4aebc6167485c0d51e9b7c6410e847c886c09a08-2048x1154.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/himyf_102_pw_01651rt-1_wide-4aebc6167485c0d51e9b7c6410e847c886c09a08-1920x1082.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of ‘How I Met Your Father.’ \u003ccite>(Patrick Wymore/Hulu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rest of the cast I don’t know quite as well in comedy — Francia Raisa as Sophie’s roommate; Tom Ainsley, Daniel Augustin, Suraj Sharma (from \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em>!), and Tien Tran all play other people who enter her life in the first episode. But I don’t think it’s them; I think it’s the script not being nearly funny enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the whole, I think this show isn’t weird enough. Ted Mosby was often insufferable, but he had a kind of quixotic desire for love — a belief in grand gestures and destiny — that made him watchable, even if sometimes through your fingers. Marshall and Lily were a couple of beautifully matched dorks. And Barney was pretty loathsome, but at least he was \u003cem>specific\u003c/em>, with his suit-wearing and his high-fiving and the constant question of why he was friends with any of these people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How I Met Your Father \u003c/em>is a hangout show that I think is too much like an actual hangout. These people seem very nice. (And it’s definitely a positive thing that it’s not another full complement of straight white characters.) They seem to like each other; they seem to be rootable and pleasant. The actors are absolutely up to the challenge. But … trying to marry this kind of naturalistic, laid-back approach to the high-concept business with the narrator and the “this is how I met your father” and all that? I think it’s not working in these early episodes, at least. (With that said, comedies often take time to grow into themselves.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s harder than it looks, the “put a bunch of attractive people in a room and put a camera on them” kind of show. It’s hard, period. Chemistry is hard to duplicate; quirkiness is hard to manufacture without having it seem hopelessly labored. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I had to actually be friends with either the friends in the first show or the friends in the follow-up show, I might well choose these friends. 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As it turns out, one thing that can happen to them is that people order pallets of them, knowing either something or next to nothing about what they’re getting, and then they open the pallets for the benefit of YouTube viewers. (These videos are not new, to be clear; they are just new to me.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider HopeScope. Hope has just over a million followers as of this writing (she ran a promotion where she would give away, among other things, a Peloton when she hit a million). She buys a lot of weird stuff in different videos and shows it off: lost luggage, used Kardashian clothes, knockoff versions of movie dresses. But one of the things she does is buy pallets of Amazon returns from a liquidation site. (And Target returns, incidentally.) The merchandise comes to her in massive pallets full of mystery, and she opens the packages and sees how she fared. She tends to go for pallets that are labeled as if they’re mostly clothes. Oooh, leggings! Underwear! A KFC Christmas sweater!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_U29oAqsiw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One time, she bought a pallet that seemed to have been damaged: a bunch of the clothes looked like they had been burned and/or run over. The clothes might not have been much to look at, but there was clearly a heck of a story there. I might have paid just for the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This might seem like a pretty chill hobby, but I am always startled when she reveals that she paid something like $1,500 for a box of returns that are supposedly “worth” $20,000. She keeps some things, donates some things, resells some things and throws away things that have been, for instance, on fire at some point. She always seems to feel that in the end she did well, but … what is doing well, actually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13874905']She is not the only person who does this. There are different \u003cem>genres\u003c/em> of these videos. People who are clothing oriented do them. I’ve seen a bunch of people who are tech oriented crow about getting $2,000 worth of “tech” for $150 or something and then open the box and find a lot of mislabeled cables and printer ink and, often, one or two things that really \u003cem>were\u003c/em> sold for a pretty high price and really \u003cem>do\u003c/em> seemingly work; you just don’t get to decide what they are. (I once saw a stray, apparently unopened Anova sous vide machine—a pretty decent grab—show up in a clothing pallet, and the person was like, “Eh, I don’t know what this is.” Similarly, one guy got a Dire Straits record on vinyl and said, “Never heard of them.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the reveals—It’s a hot styling tool for your hair! It’s expensive earbuds! It’s a Nespresso!—are only the beginning of figuring out what you’ve actually done. Because these things have been returned. That means many have been opened, many have been used, many have been found wanting in some way. Again: Many have been \u003cem>used\u003c/em>. I saw a guy who was pretty psyched about a pair of earbuds until he saw … the evidence that they had been in someone’s ears. Ditto a shaver that had been used to shave someone’s … something before being returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One couple I have seen has actually done a couple of rounds of tracking how much money they can make by buying and trying to resell (like on Facebook Marketplace) the items in a pallet. They have found it to be … somewhat unsatisfying. The woman estimated that once she accounted for her time, she earned about 12 bucks an hour “flipping” a pallet, after quite a bit of effort. It’s better than nothing!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4Nrgs6iV4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I don’t think the actual monetary gain is the goal here at all. It’s the surprise of it and the performance of it. And it’s the promise of getting something for nothing, even if the something is not something you want. These folks use the word “worth” in the stretchiest and most generous way possible—”This is worth $300!” just means that’s what it was being sold for on Amazon. The fact that something was once sold for a particular price does not actually imbue it with that substantive value (ask the people who invested in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907776/elizabeth-holmes-convicted-of-fraud-is-more-fascinating-than-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theranos\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894072']What’s really striking is how these videos underscore the onslaught of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em>, the acquisition and disposable nature of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em>, and the fact that sometimes just getting a bunch of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em> that’s so cheaply made it’s not worth trying to resell piece by piece makes these YouTubers feel like they’re getting away with something. (I also think that in effect, these people have discovered the dollar store and could get a similar effect by going into a dollar store with their eyes closed and just taking home the first 50 things they ran into.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a guy who summed this up \u003ca href=\"https://click.nl.npr.org/?qs=f71d108f3e57526ea70f46c70c5f37ef0f9ea59fe01b09c592f82b4e05b1c3ad8f31fecadce0db3019eaded4deda0c9cb82e7e48d7e2de7a\">in one video\u003c/a> so perfectly that I wrote down his comment immediately. He had just found, among his “tech” stuff, a package of 100 interoffice mail envelopes. Just … interoffice mail envelopes, in there with the doggie camera and the filthy earbuds. He didn’t need them, didn’t want them, knew immediately he would throw them away, but he was still really impressed that he’d gotten such great value. 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Though star Zendaya gets most of the attention playing Rue Bennett, a teen struggling with substance use disorder, the second season’s episodes are truly an ensemble affair—opening with the harrowing backstory of Rue’s drug dealing friend, Fezco, played by a laconic Angus Cloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An explosive series of flashbacks announces the start of the second season, depicting how Fezco’s grandmother, a ruthless drug dealer herself, took over raising him after shooting his father in the hips at the back of a seedy strip club. (Yes, the guy’s, um, \u003cem>excited\u003c/em> private parts were shown; another way \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> shakes up expectations is by showing male nudity in ways even other explicit series do not.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_95643']Much of this episode feels inspired by director Martin Scorsese’s style in crime epics like \u003cem>Goodfellas—\u003c/em>perhaps because of the liberal use of classic rock hits, sweeping camera angles, quick cuts, gangster activities or the appearance of \u003cem>Sopranos\u003c/em> co-star Kathrine Narducci as Fezco’s hardcore, gun-toting grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the ginger-haired drug dealer’s story reaches the modern day—and we see Fezco negotiating a tense drug deal with suppliers who demand he and his friends strip naked to prove they aren’t informants—Levinson’s ability to make audiences feel what the characters are experiencing is masterful and discomfiting, all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The characters bring a tangle of storylines to the second season. Rue is trying desperately to convince most of her family and friends that she is sober, though she most certainly isn’t. Chief among those she’s lying to is young, transgender girl Jules Vaughn (played by Hunter Schafer); the two had planned to run away together at the end of last season until Rue balked. 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Turns out, Nate’s terrible behavior is fueled by anger against his philandering dad Cal, played by \u003cem>Grey’s Anatomy\u003c/em> alum Eric Dane. And Cal’s story as a tortured man struggling with his sexuality is given a breathtaking backstory in this season’s third episode that will make you rethink a character depicted as a towering jerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These stories and several more are told with a gutsy, explicit flair, forcing the viewer to face the brutal reality of each character’s pain, along with their poignant emotions. In particular, Rue’s struggle to deal with her desire to get high—culminating in a tour de force story focused on her character in episode five—gets at the debilitating reality of addiction in a way few other shows match.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Depictions which bring a warning\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Watching this can be so unsettling that Zendaya issued a warning on social media before the show’s return Sunday, noting that \u003cem>Euphoria \u003c/em>is for mature audiences and “deals with subject matter that can be triggering and difficult to watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Zendaya/status/1480318350169235456\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tempting to turn these stories and characters into parables about the issues bedeviling Generation Z. 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"content": "\u003cp>Perhaps it’s only right for a story about a convicted criminal to start with a confession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is a partial list of the media I have consumed on the topic of Elizabeth Holmes (no relation), recently convicted of four fraud-related charges for lying to investors in her company, Theranos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The John Carreyrou book \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The John Carreyrou podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.threeuncannyfour.com/show/bad-blood/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Bad Blood: The Final Chapter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The ABC podcast \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Business/nightline-documentary-podcast-dropout-story-elizabeth-holmes-theranos/story?id=60365362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Dropout\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Alex Gibney documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8488126/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>I have listened to the Carreyrou book on audio — twice. I have watched the Gibney documentary, I believe, three times. If Theranos Fever is a disease, I am the patient who kept going back and putting my mouth directly on the water fountain, no matter how many times they tell me to stop, making myself sick all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The draw of the scam\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13148571']Part of this, I admit, is rooted in a more general weakness for stories about brazen grabs for other people’s money, particularly people who have a lot of it. People who have enough money that they buy \u003cem>Magic Beans: The Painting\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Magic Beans: The Stock\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Magic Beans: The Experience\u003c/em>. There were two documentaries in 2019 about the ill-fated Fyre Festival, and I watched both. I would have watched three. (Who am I kidding? I would have watched ten. That iconic and possibly apocryphal \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb8va8/the-full-story-of-the-legendary-fyre-festival-cheese-sandwich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cheese sandwich\u003c/a>!) I love \u003cem>Sour Grapes\u003c/em>, about rich types who paid small fortunes for counterfeit wine, and \u003cem>Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art\u003c/em>, about a massive bamboozle involving paintings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it related to investors, Theranos has always been, for me, a bit like \u003cem>Magic Beans: The Startup\u003c/em>: something rich people invested in because other rich people were doing it and said they should do it too. And when the magic evaporated, well, all those rich people were \u003cem>furious\u003c/em>. If you take this comparison to its logical conclusion, here’s the question: Was Elizabeth Holmes the seller, or was she, in fact, the beans? Did she make the shiny object, or was she herself the shiny object?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have thus far avoided Theranos Fever, some basics: Holmes was a young Stanford dropout who wanted to be the Steve Jobs of biotech. (When she was still in college, she had this idea that you could put a patch on your arm that would detect your medical problem \u003cem>and \u003c/em>administer your medications through your skin. When I try to envision this, it’s always on George Jetson.) She carried her Jobs-iness through her adoption of a black-turtleneck uniform, her hiring of people who came from Apple, and her apparent conviction that a slick-looking interface was the lever you pulled to make money come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, she began to follow her dream of making a machine that could run hundreds of medical tests on a couple of drops of blood from pricking your finger. She raised a fortune from investors, got on the \u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cover of \u003cem>Fortune\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, hobnobbed with political and financial mucky-mucks of many stripes, was hailed as the rare woman to break through the very male world of Silicon Valley startup founders, and then \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1063973490/elizabeth-holmes-trial-verdict-guilty-theranos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saw it all go to pieces\u003c/a> when it turned out that the machines didn’t work the way she hoped and she, according to the charges on which she was just convicted, didn’t tell her investors the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtDaP18OGfw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Holmes belongs to a robust cohort of startup founders who have seen their reputations tank. (WeWork’s ousted Adam Neumann \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/ousted-wework-ceo-adam-neumann-47-billion-valuation-went-to-his-head.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying a $47 billion valuation\u003c/a> might just have warped his perspective is \u003cem>amazing\u003c/em>.) But there’s something about the brazenness with which she operated that makes her mesmerizing to me. You can keep your high-level financial maneuvers and your sophisticated document manipulations: according to Carreyrou’s reporting and some of the \u003ca href=\"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/theranos-devices-ran-demo-apps-that-blocked-error-messages-during-investor-pitches/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trial testimony\u003c/a>, Theranos got around demands for demonstrations of its machines with painfully obvious dodges—moves about as complicated as making beeping noises with your mouth to make a toddler think you’re a robot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Self-made, indeed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I keep asking myself: How did \u003cem>any \u003c/em>of this work? On \u003cem>anybody\u003c/em>? How did she have two former Secretaries of State on her board (Henry Kissinger and George Schultz), both over 90 years old, and wiggle around the doubts about her motives that one would think decades of experience in diplomacy would instill? How did a company like Walgreens, which undoubtedly wouldn’t change the length of the tail on the “W” logo without being certain that they understood every last possible consequence, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/13/theranos-walgreens-holmes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spend $140 million\u003c/a> on a doomed deal with Theranos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it was her capacity for invention after all—not invention of the machine, but invention of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='science_1978159']Consider this: Elizabeth Holmes was touted at one point as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/profile/elizabeth-holmes/?sh=3ceea43147a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youngest-ever woman self-made billionaire\u003c/a>, but \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em> revised her net worth from billions to zero in a single year. And it wasn’t because she gave all that money away or spent it on candy and magazines. It just no longer existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s almost charming, the \u003cem>verve \u003c/em>of this particular kind of operator, right? Imagine I walked up to you with my hand held behind my back, and I told you I had a unicorn horn of potentially unlimited value. Imagine I offered you a one percent interest in my unicorn horn, which you have not seen yet, for $10,000. And imagine you believed me. You paid me the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, I only have $10,000. But on the other, I own a unicorn horn that has been valued by the market at one million dollars. \u003cem>I am a self-made millionaire.\u003c/em> You may have never even seen the unicorn horn, but I have the proof of its worth. Your belief in me has defined me! \u003cem>How impressive\u003c/em>, someone might say when walking past me, \u003cem>that yesterday she was broke, and today, she is a self-made millionaire! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this example, I do not actually have a unicorn horn, of course. And I don’t have a million dollars. But I have a \u003cem>story\u003c/em>. And Elizabeth Holmes did not have operational technology that could do hundreds of tests on a finger prick’s worth of blood, and she did not have billions of dollars. But she had a story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/ap968958996355-24d4e67337d532b606ad114fb8e04bd720aa7480-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Holmes, in her trademark black turtleneck, blonde hair pulled back into a messy ponytail, leans forward to listen to someone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/ap968958996355-24d4e67337d532b606ad114fb8e04bd720aa7480-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/ap968958996355-24d4e67337d532b606ad114fb8e04bd720aa7480-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/ap968958996355-24d4e67337d532b606ad114fb8e04bd720aa7480-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/ap968958996355-24d4e67337d532b606ad114fb8e04bd720aa7480-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/ap968958996355-24d4e67337d532b606ad114fb8e04bd720aa7480-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/ap968958996355-24d4e67337d532b606ad114fb8e04bd720aa7480-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/ap968958996355-24d4e67337d532b606ad114fb8e04bd720aa7480-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Holmes speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco in 2015. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Underestimate her at your peril\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We come, inevitably, to this: Most of the purveyors of magic beans who have become cultural (and sometimes criminal) legends have been men. Plenty of people before me have spent considerable time since Holmes came to power analyzing the complicated gender dynamics around her rise and fall. We know sexism is rampant in tech, in Silicon Valley, in press coverage, in everything. No one gets the chance to opt out of all relevant context. She’s sometimes argued that the treatment of her has been sexist compared to the treatment of other similarly sketchy startup founders, and it probably has been at times. Why wouldn’t it be? How couldn’t it be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11900856']But the gender dynamics in the Theranos story pull in multiple directions. Skepticism—lack of faith in one’s work and ability—can be the result of bias. But maybe in this case, the many powerful men pulled into her orbit as investors or board members or public allies—or, in some cases, credulous journalists—were \u003cem>less \u003c/em>skeptical of her than they might have been if she weren’t a young woman. Maybe they just didn’t have their antennae up. When you see the way men like George Schultz acted around her, it doesn’t seem patronizing as much as just \u003cem>paternal\u003c/em>. Introducing her in 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB5_68CIt_k&ab_channel=StanfordInstituteforEconomicPolicyResearch%28SIEPR%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schultz said\u003c/a> his first thought when he met her was that she seemed like a friend of his granddaughter’s. He claimed that he quickly realized he’d underestimated her, and he began to rave about her accomplishments. But did he \u003cem>really\u003c/em> understand the ways he’d underestimated her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if the most important sexist misapprehension of Elizabeth Holmes was that some of her backers believed young women to be less driven, less capable, and therefore less dangerous to take at their word than young men? What if they underestimated not just her abilities, but also her ruthlessness? What if she keenly understood sexism and used it to her advantage? And what if, given the way Silicon Valley works, the way tech works, the way big money works, a woman less willing to exploit sexism would not have stood a chance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Friedman \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/style/elizabeth-holmes-trial-makeover.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> recently about Holmes’ image makeover before and at her trial. She described it as a transformation “from black-clad genius to besuited milquetoast.” Whatever the purpose of that change was, it’s hard to deny that the Elizabeth Holmes of her trial was a very different one from the Elizabeth you will see in any footage that was taken during the highest highs of her publicity swings. As the aforementioned Theranos enthusiast I am, I almost didn’t recognize her the first time I saw her during her trial. Different hair, different makeup, different clothes, different bearing, the abandonment of \u003cem>every \u003c/em>element of her Theranos-era style. (Except, of course, her deep voice, which I have considered mostly a distraction—if she artificially started speaking in a lower voice at some point because people didn’t take her seriously, that’s a modest and understandable manipulation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/GettyImages-1237525059-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/GettyImages-1237525059-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/GettyImages-1237525059-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/GettyImages-1237525059-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/GettyImages-1237525059-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/GettyImages-1237525059-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/GettyImages-1237525059-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/GettyImages-1237525059-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Holmes (2nd L) walks with her partner Billy Evans (L), her mother Noel Holmes and a lawyer as they leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on January 3, 2022 in San Jose. \u003ccite>(David Odisho/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This question also got a lot more prickly when Holmes testified about sexual and emotional abuse she said she suffered at the hands of Sunny Balwani, her significantly older former boyfriend and her number-two at Theranos. Raising the issue of intimate partner abuse in the context of this trial, to suggest Balwani was really the driver of the bad acts at Theranos, was \u003cem>really\u003c/em> complicated to navigate, only partly because so much of what had been reported about Elizabeth Holmes had focused on how forceful she was, how in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More to come\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pop culture is not through with Elizabeth Holmes. Apple has a movie coming (perhaps not the connection to Apple that Holmes dreamed of) in which Jennifer Lawrence will play her. Adam McKay (\u003cem>The Big Short\u003c/em>) is directing, so it’s probably not going to be a particularly \u003cem>flattering \u003c/em>portrait. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22838297/hulu-amanda-seyfried-elizabeth-holmes-theranos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hulu has a limited series\u003c/a> coming much sooner, in March, in which Holmes is played by Amanda Seyfried. There were two podcasts, at least one big book, a big documentary … it only makes sense that there will be two high-profile fictional Elizabeths as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know myself. I will watch both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/U_pasana/status/1479157325797552128\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Perhaps it’s only right for a story about a convicted criminal to start with a confession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is a partial list of the media I have consumed on the topic of Elizabeth Holmes (no relation), recently convicted of four fraud-related charges for lying to investors in her company, Theranos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The John Carreyrou book \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The John Carreyrou podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.threeuncannyfour.com/show/bad-blood/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Bad Blood: The Final Chapter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The ABC podcast \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Business/nightline-documentary-podcast-dropout-story-elizabeth-holmes-theranos/story?id=60365362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Dropout\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Alex Gibney documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8488126/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>I have listened to the Carreyrou book on audio — twice. I have watched the Gibney documentary, I believe, three times. If Theranos Fever is a disease, I am the patient who kept going back and putting my mouth directly on the water fountain, no matter how many times they tell me to stop, making myself sick all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The draw of the scam\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Part of this, I admit, is rooted in a more general weakness for stories about brazen grabs for other people’s money, particularly people who have a lot of it. People who have enough money that they buy \u003cem>Magic Beans: The Painting\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Magic Beans: The Stock\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Magic Beans: The Experience\u003c/em>. There were two documentaries in 2019 about the ill-fated Fyre Festival, and I watched both. I would have watched three. (Who am I kidding? I would have watched ten. That iconic and possibly apocryphal \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb8va8/the-full-story-of-the-legendary-fyre-festival-cheese-sandwich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cheese sandwich\u003c/a>!) I love \u003cem>Sour Grapes\u003c/em>, about rich types who paid small fortunes for counterfeit wine, and \u003cem>Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art\u003c/em>, about a massive bamboozle involving paintings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it related to investors, Theranos has always been, for me, a bit like \u003cem>Magic Beans: The Startup\u003c/em>: something rich people invested in because other rich people were doing it and said they should do it too. And when the magic evaporated, well, all those rich people were \u003cem>furious\u003c/em>. If you take this comparison to its logical conclusion, here’s the question: Was Elizabeth Holmes the seller, or was she, in fact, the beans? Did she make the shiny object, or was she herself the shiny object?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have thus far avoided Theranos Fever, some basics: Holmes was a young Stanford dropout who wanted to be the Steve Jobs of biotech. (When she was still in college, she had this idea that you could put a patch on your arm that would detect your medical problem \u003cem>and \u003c/em>administer your medications through your skin. When I try to envision this, it’s always on George Jetson.) She carried her Jobs-iness through her adoption of a black-turtleneck uniform, her hiring of people who came from Apple, and her apparent conviction that a slick-looking interface was the lever you pulled to make money come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, she began to follow her dream of making a machine that could run hundreds of medical tests on a couple of drops of blood from pricking your finger. She raised a fortune from investors, got on the \u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cover of \u003cem>Fortune\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, hobnobbed with political and financial mucky-mucks of many stripes, was hailed as the rare woman to break through the very male world of Silicon Valley startup founders, and then \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1063973490/elizabeth-holmes-trial-verdict-guilty-theranos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saw it all go to pieces\u003c/a> when it turned out that the machines didn’t work the way she hoped and she, according to the charges on which she was just convicted, didn’t tell her investors the truth.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wtDaP18OGfw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wtDaP18OGfw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Elizabeth Holmes belongs to a robust cohort of startup founders who have seen their reputations tank. (WeWork’s ousted Adam Neumann \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/ousted-wework-ceo-adam-neumann-47-billion-valuation-went-to-his-head.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying a $47 billion valuation\u003c/a> might just have warped his perspective is \u003cem>amazing\u003c/em>.) But there’s something about the brazenness with which she operated that makes her mesmerizing to me. You can keep your high-level financial maneuvers and your sophisticated document manipulations: according to Carreyrou’s reporting and some of the \u003ca href=\"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/theranos-devices-ran-demo-apps-that-blocked-error-messages-during-investor-pitches/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trial testimony\u003c/a>, Theranos got around demands for demonstrations of its machines with painfully obvious dodges—moves about as complicated as making beeping noises with your mouth to make a toddler think you’re a robot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Self-made, indeed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I keep asking myself: How did \u003cem>any \u003c/em>of this work? On \u003cem>anybody\u003c/em>? How did she have two former Secretaries of State on her board (Henry Kissinger and George Schultz), both over 90 years old, and wiggle around the doubts about her motives that one would think decades of experience in diplomacy would instill? How did a company like Walgreens, which undoubtedly wouldn’t change the length of the tail on the “W” logo without being certain that they understood every last possible consequence, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/13/theranos-walgreens-holmes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spend $140 million\u003c/a> on a doomed deal with Theranos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it was her capacity for invention after all—not invention of the machine, but invention of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He claimed that he quickly realized he’d underestimated her, and he began to rave about her accomplishments. But did he \u003cem>really\u003c/em> understand the ways he’d underestimated her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if the most important sexist misapprehension of Elizabeth Holmes was that some of her backers believed young women to be less driven, less capable, and therefore less dangerous to take at their word than young men? What if they underestimated not just her abilities, but also her ruthlessness? What if she keenly understood sexism and used it to her advantage? 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Different hair, different makeup, different clothes, different bearing, the abandonment of \u003cem>every \u003c/em>element of her Theranos-era style. 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Adam McKay (\u003cem>The Big Short\u003c/em>) is directing, so it’s probably not going to be a particularly \u003cem>flattering \u003c/em>portrait. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22838297/hulu-amanda-seyfried-elizabeth-holmes-theranos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hulu has a limited series\u003c/a> coming much sooner, in March, in which Holmes is played by Amanda Seyfried. There were two podcasts, at least one big book, a big documentary … it only makes sense that there will be two high-profile fictional Elizabeths as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know myself. I will watch both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They’re planning their estates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.universalmusic.com/universal-music-publishing-group-acquires-bob-dylans-entire-catalog-of-songs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob Dylan sold his entire songwriting catalog\u003c/a> to Universal Music Publishing Group last year, it included music he’d written more than 50 years ago. So he’s taking a lump sum now, rather than counting on royalties from whenever “Mr. Tambourine Man” goes viral on whatever platform might be most popular in a few decades. Even younger artists like Shakira and Calvin Harris recently sold parts of their back catalogs because corporations are paying so much for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Stringer of Sony Music Group told investors this spring not to worry about the price of these acquisitions. Stocks go up and down, but lucrative music rights feel safer, he noted, due to Spotify, Apple and other streaming and subscription services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of users of paid music streaming services went up by almost 100 million in 2020 to 443 million globally, ” he explained. “Many research analysts are projecting this figure to well exceed one billion by 2030. In the music publishing market, streaming is driving similar sustained growth. The publishing industry achieved its seventh straight year of consecutive expansion, rising 5.2 percent in 2020,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Synergy is also the name of the game here; when Sony buys up Springsteen’s music, they can use it more easily in movies and TV made by Sony studios. Other artists on Sony labels can sample or cover his songs, and whenever a Bruce Springsteen biopic comes out, you can bet a Sony movie studio will make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=David+Bowie+joins+constellation+of+stars+selling+off+back+catalogs+for+galactic+sums&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Looking back over the last 12 months, it’s hard to find many discernible features of 2021 that extend beyond the ongoing fight against COVID-19. The fear and unknowns of 2020 subsided with the release of vaccines—but relief was short-lived because of the emergence of the delta, and more recently, the omicron variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13906845']Still, 2021 was undoubtedly the year that people began to emerge from their pods again, as bars, theaters and restaurants reopened (albeit with vaccine mandates and mask rules). It was the year that we cautiously found our way back to one another, tip-toeing into each other’s dining rooms, buying our first concert tickets in well over a year, and reacquainting ourselves with our beloved, long-lost bartenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, the greatest thrill came in October: seeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMehItNQKAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Idles\u003c/a> at the Warfield. The seething and primal sounds of their albums \u003cem>Brutalism\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Joy as an Act of Resistance \u003c/em>had almost single-handedly kept me sane during the long months of shelter in place. In the pandemic, Idles became my therapy \u003cem>and\u003c/em> my meditation. So being in the same room as the band; hearing these songs live for the very first time; surrendering in a sea of raging bodies, was a surreal and supremely emotional experience. I didn’t know whether to stomp or cry—so I did both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was that experience that inspired us at KQED Arts & Culture to ask you, the readers, what it was that finally pried you out of your COVID pods and back into the world in 2021. Your responses reflected both the joys of reconnecting with people, and the trepidation of doing so mid-pandemic. Here’s what you told us.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Live Music\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899160\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.MAIN_.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Alfonso, singer of Sunami, at the Real Bay Shit show in San Jose on June 19, 2021.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.MAIN_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.MAIN_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.MAIN_-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josef Alfonso, singer of Sunami, at the Real Bay Shit show in San Jose on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The announcement that some local music venues would require proof of vaccination is what finally pushed me and my wife out of the house. We bought tickets to see Andrew St. James, Zelma Stone and French Cassette at \u003ca href=\"https://thechapelsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chapel\u003c/a>. We told ourselves if we were just the least bit uncomfortable, we’d walk out. But any anxiety quickly faded once inside, and we felt reassured by Chapel staff’s gracious yet diligent enforcement of COVID-related protocols. For the most part, the audience seemed to share this sense of responsibility and there wasn’t any behavior to give us pause. We had such an incredible time, we went out to see another show at \u003ca href=\"http://www.makeoutroom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Makeout Room\u003c/a> a week later. We’re still being uber-cautious, but have gradually expanded our activities. We’ve been inside at restaurants and bars a few times, and have more live music shows ahead of us.” — \u003cem>Mark Barbeau, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906688 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-01-at-1.20.27-PM-800x1008.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-01-at-1.20.27-PM-800x1008.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-01-at-1.20.27-PM-160x202.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-01-at-1.20.27-PM-768x968.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-01-at-1.20.27-PM.png 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I attended a California Symphony performance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.smuinballet.org/events/the-christmas-ballet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smuin’s Christmas Ballet\u003c/a>, and a performance of Wintertime at the Berkeley Rep. Finally! It was all terrific. It was wonderful seeing and being with folks we hadn’t seen in a while.” — \u003cem>Mark J. 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One year later, we knew we had to do something to share our Irish spirit and pride with the community! Wearing our green, the \u003ca href=\"https://healyirishdancers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healy School of Irish Dance\u003c/a> set out to march down Magnolia in Larkspur to lift the spirits of whomever was lucky enough to be out and Irish that day! It was truly a breath of fresh air to be in person and performing with our dancers. It was rejuvenating and uplifting to bring cheer to so many bystanders who enjoyed our spontaneous performances throughout our mini route.” — Alisa Belew, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During Pride weekend, I danced at some Castro nightclub surrounded by perspiring men who stripped their masks and shirts off with the same abandon. Despite my vaccination there were simply too many people in close proximity. I quickly masked up and continued wiggling on the dance floor, careful to distance myself from the laboriously breathing mouths. Since that night, I’ve avoided crowded events—save for a couple of outdoor protests. My pod fluctuates among the vaccinated who enjoy outdoor activities and quiet dinners. But the silent alarm of omicron is steadily creeping upon my senses—I’ll keep my mask on.” — \u003cem>Justin Ebrahemi, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Going Back to Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906702 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A bartender wearing black sleeveless denim jacket pours out a cocktail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was forced to go back to work because we need money to survive.” — \u003cem>Julia Brooks, Brisbane\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a bartender at \u003ca href=\"https://www.zeitgeistsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zeitgeist\u003c/a> and in the ‘before times,’ I do recall having to shut people down when they were sitting at the bar Facetiming hella loud. But after 2020, people seemed to be even less aware of their general surroundings. Reopening definitely had people on their phones more. I remember a few weeks [into reopening], this lady and her baby in a stroller just wandered into the beer garden. She walked right past the sign that said ‘Please wait to be seated.’ After she’d done one lap of the yard, I said ‘Excuse me! Can I help you?’ Because I thought maybe she was just looking to join someone she knew already there. She holds up her phone like, ‘Oh it’s OK, I’m just showing my followers.’ I had to step in front of her and say ‘You either have to stay as a customer and let me check you in like everyone else, or please leave and stop live streaming.’ She laughed and pointed the phone at me as she walked out. Working at a bar mid-pandemic, my zen game had to get pretty tight.” — \u003cem>Nathan McDaniel, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Performing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13896010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/TheWasteLand_LisaRamirez2_photocredit_CarsonFrench-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/TheWasteLand_LisaRamirez2_photocredit_CarsonFrench-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/TheWasteLand_LisaRamirez2_photocredit_CarsonFrench-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/TheWasteLand_LisaRamirez2_photocredit_CarsonFrench-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/TheWasteLand_LisaRamirez2_photocredit_CarsonFrench-768x543.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/TheWasteLand_LisaRamirez2_photocredit_CarsonFrench-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/TheWasteLand_LisaRamirez2_photocredit_CarsonFrench-1920x1358.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/TheWasteLand_LisaRamirez2_photocredit_CarsonFrench.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ramirez stars in Oakland Theater Project’s The Waste Land. \u003ccite>(Carson French)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Getting back to performing at \u003ca href=\"https://bazaarcafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bazaar Cafe\u003c/a>‘s open mic once that started up again. Performing over a Zoom call is just not the same as actually being able to make eye contact with a real audience so you can gage their reaction to what you’re doing. Actual applause is also nice.” — \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.duckswithpants.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E.G. Phillips\u003c/a>, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a collage of experiences with deejaying in public again. I remember playing at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academy of Sciences\u003c/a> and getting a round of applause at the end of my set. And also being compelled to say a few words before another night of DJing, thanking everyone there. Also, there was that one weekend where people felt free—July 4th. I was in L.A. and just remember not feeling sure on what to play but getting the biggest reactions from songs I wouldn’t think would work.” — \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kingmost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King Most\u003c/a>, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13893070']“Performing at Stern Grove [with \u003ca href=\"https://theseshen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Seshen\u003c/a>] def felt like a re-emergence. That was the first time the band was back on stage in front of an audience since we played our album release party, February 2020. I remember the first time hearing the crowd cheer after the end of a song that day. Chills, and it almost brought me to tears.” — \u003cem>Kumar Butler, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Performing live in front of an audience at [Woodside cultural center] \u003ca href=\"https://filoli.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filoli\u003c/a> a few weeks back. Suddenly, it felt like things were opening up again and that we’re getting back on track!” — \u003cem>James Lanman, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My full-time job is singing and playing guitar in a cover band called \u003ca href=\"https://www.roxygunnproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Roxy Gunn Project\u003c/a>. Our very first gig back was super weird. We’d been streaming for over a year and just playing in my living room in front of a camera. All of sudden we were in front of nearly one hundred people who weren’t allowed, at that time, to dance, cheer, or sing along. They could clap if they wanted but that was it. It was quite a sight! Not to mention we had to essentially relearn how to perform for an audience again. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t winded after the first two songs.” — \u003cem>Roxy Gunn, Las Vegas\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Still Waiting…\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Thao and the Get Down Stay Down's new video was shot entirely on Zoom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_.jpg 1666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thao and the Get Down Stay Down’s music video for “Phenom” was shot entirely on Zoom. \u003ccite>(YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Transplant recipients like me are still in our pods. I’m 53 and I had a kidney transplant 14 years ago. Transplant drugs increase the risk for contracting illnesses—it’s possible to be hospitalized for something like food poisoning. I’ve had three full doses of the vaccine, which they hope will bring up my immune response closer to the average person’s response with two doses. Since the start of the pandemic we’ve had everything delivered. We stopped eating out completely, including no take out. We only do outdoor activities, even with vaccinated family and friends. I miss simple things like hanging out with my kid without anyone taking a C19 test, museums, open studio events, concerts, wandering the aisles of Trader Joe’s for snacks, and having coffee indoors with friends. I’ve adjusted to outdoor art events, attending online art lectures and workshops, coffee in the park, and watching live streams of our son’s performances—but I don’t know when life will shift for my little family. I’ve been doing risk assessment for 14 years since my transplant, wearing masks when needed, washing my hands all the time. But now feeling isolated and left behind by the world—feeling the threat of other people’s ignorance—is taking its toll. ‘Return to the world’ is a long ways away.” — \u003cem>Sarah Logan, East Bay\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we acting like the pandemic is over?! It’s still in full swing last time I checked…” — @melancholera, Instagram\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Personal Commitments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906701 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/md-duran-1VqHRwxcCCw-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a cap and gown, viewed from behind, looking onwards to her graduating classmates.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I was in a large crowd of people was in June of 2021 at my college graduation at the University of Oregon. Things had to be changed such as the ceremony was moved outdoors instead of inside our basketball arena like it always is. There was a mask requirement and, being college students, not a lot of people followed it. But it was still super nice to have an in-person ceremony of some sort.” — \u003cem>Ashley Ng, Danville\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I joined a fitness center that held its classes outdoors. When we were finally able to workout indoors, it was like ‘Wow! We can be inside together!’ It felt hopeful, like things were getting better. I recently let down my guard (i.e. my mask) to eat inside my home with a good friend. Now with the new virus, I will not do that again.” — \u003cem>Julie Twichell, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I flew home to NYC to visit my family at the end of July, I was cautiously excited. Ironically, I am more nervous about my visit at end of the year, despite being boostered.” — \u003cem>Vicki Shu, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting Creative\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren D’Amato and Isaac Vazquez Avila of Avila Rose Signs add gilding to Incline Gallery’s window in preparation for the reopening. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being an artist, seeing exhibits was the best way for me to come back into the world. After my second shot, being a senior and getting vaccinated earlier, in April I went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894558/immersive-van-gogh-review-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immersive van Gogh experience\u003c/a>. Surrounded in beauty inspired two solid weeks of studio work.” — \u003cem>Denys Adida, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gallery openings and artist talks!” — \u003cem>Max Blue, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote a book entitled, \u003cem>Travels With An Artist\u003c/em>. It is the story of my pioneer Alaskan family as well as incidents of my very exciting life as an artist, anecdotes from experiences and ending with my the way I managed COVID. The last year was hard but I hope for a better year ahead.” — \u003cem>Helen Ann Licht, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hitting the Movies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GrandLake-FredDunn-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland's Grand Lake Theater as captured in "Sights of Northern California."\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GrandLake-FredDunn-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GrandLake-FredDunn-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GrandLake-FredDunn-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GrandLake-FredDunn-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GrandLake-FredDunn.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater as captured in “Sights of Northern California.” \u003ccite>(Fred Dunn / CC BY-NC 2.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I got to see \u003cem>Rocky Horror\u003c/em> for the first time in the theater this year! For Pride! In costume! With everything these past two years it was such a pleasure. And now a tradition—I’ve started going to the Balboa Theatre the last Saturday of each month to watch \u003ca href=\"https://bawdycaste.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Bawdy Caste\u003c/a>.” — \u003cem>Shaylyn Martos, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13902724']“The first time I felt some normalcy returning to the world was when I went to the movies in person to see \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902470/shang-chi-bus-fight-chase-muni-chinatown-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The last time that I saw a film in person was in March 2020 at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival in Eugene, OR. I thought it was very important to support Asian representation on the big screen, since there were very few role models that looked like me on the big screen or TV when I was growing up here in the Bay Area. It was wonderful to do something together as a family outside the house.” — \u003cem>Susie Willemsz-Geeroms, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a big fan of seeing movies in the theater. It can make a mediocre movie into a memorable night, and it was the biggest social casualty for me during the pandemic. It was a year and six months, almost to the day, between my last pre-pandemic movie and the one that got me back in theaters. A lovely friend surprised me with a movie ticket and refreshments for my birthday this summer, and even though I was hesitant, I dove back in. It was like pulling your favorite blanket out of the closet in the fall; like melting into your favorite chair; like putting on your favorite album. Those two hours made me remember what life was like pre-pandemic. And it made me hopeful that someday we can return to normalcy.” — \u003cem>Joe Dissolvo, Baltimore\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, 2021 was undoubtedly the year that people began to emerge from their pods again, as bars, theaters and restaurants reopened (albeit with vaccine mandates and mask rules). It was the year that we cautiously found our way back to one another, tip-toeing into each other’s dining rooms, buying our first concert tickets in well over a year, and reacquainting ourselves with our beloved, long-lost bartenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, the greatest thrill came in October: seeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMehItNQKAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Idles\u003c/a> at the Warfield. The seething and primal sounds of their albums \u003cem>Brutalism\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Joy as an Act of Resistance \u003c/em>had almost single-handedly kept me sane during the long months of shelter in place. In the pandemic, Idles became my therapy \u003cem>and\u003c/em> my meditation. So being in the same room as the band; hearing these songs live for the very first time; surrendering in a sea of raging bodies, was a surreal and supremely emotional experience. I didn’t know whether to stomp or cry—so I did both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was that experience that inspired us at KQED Arts & Culture to ask you, the readers, what it was that finally pried you out of your COVID pods and back into the world in 2021. Your responses reflected both the joys of reconnecting with people, and the trepidation of doing so mid-pandemic. Here’s what you told us.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Live Music\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899160\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.MAIN_.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Alfonso, singer of Sunami, at the Real Bay Shit show in San Jose on June 19, 2021.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.MAIN_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.MAIN_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Sunami.MAIN_-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josef Alfonso, singer of Sunami, at the Real Bay Shit show in San Jose on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The announcement that some local music venues would require proof of vaccination is what finally pushed me and my wife out of the house. We bought tickets to see Andrew St. James, Zelma Stone and French Cassette at \u003ca href=\"https://thechapelsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chapel\u003c/a>. We told ourselves if we were just the least bit uncomfortable, we’d walk out. But any anxiety quickly faded once inside, and we felt reassured by Chapel staff’s gracious yet diligent enforcement of COVID-related protocols. For the most part, the audience seemed to share this sense of responsibility and there wasn’t any behavior to give us pause. We had such an incredible time, we went out to see another show at \u003ca href=\"http://www.makeoutroom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Makeout Room\u003c/a> a week later. We’re still being uber-cautious, but have gradually expanded our activities. We’ve been inside at restaurants and bars a few times, and have more live music shows ahead of us.” — \u003cem>Mark Barbeau, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Finally! It was all terrific. It was wonderful seeing and being with folks we hadn’t seen in a while.” — \u003cem>Mark J. 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Since that night, I’ve avoided crowded events—save for a couple of outdoor protests. My pod fluctuates among the vaccinated who enjoy outdoor activities and quiet dinners. But the silent alarm of omicron is steadily creeping upon my senses—I’ll keep my mask on.” — \u003cem>Justin Ebrahemi, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Going Back to Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906702 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A bartender wearing black sleeveless denim jacket pours out a cocktail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/artem-pochepetsky-YIUawXx7xm0-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was forced to go back to work because we need money to survive.” — \u003cem>Julia Brooks, Brisbane\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a bartender at \u003ca href=\"https://www.zeitgeistsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zeitgeist\u003c/a> and in the ‘before times,’ I do recall having to shut people down when they were sitting at the bar Facetiming hella loud. But after 2020, people seemed to be even less aware of their general surroundings. Reopening definitely had people on their phones more. I remember a few weeks [into reopening], this lady and her baby in a stroller just wandered into the beer garden. She walked right past the sign that said ‘Please wait to be seated.’ After she’d done one lap of the yard, I said ‘Excuse me! Can I help you?’ Because I thought maybe she was just looking to join someone she knew already there. She holds up her phone like, ‘Oh it’s OK, I’m just showing my followers.’ I had to step in front of her and say ‘You either have to stay as a customer and let me check you in like everyone else, or please leave and stop live streaming.’ She laughed and pointed the phone at me as she walked out. 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Suddenly, it felt like things were opening up again and that we’re getting back on track!” — \u003cem>James Lanman, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My full-time job is singing and playing guitar in a cover band called \u003ca href=\"https://www.roxygunnproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Roxy Gunn Project\u003c/a>. Our very first gig back was super weird. We’d been streaming for over a year and just playing in my living room in front of a camera. All of sudden we were in front of nearly one hundred people who weren’t allowed, at that time, to dance, cheer, or sing along. They could clap if they wanted but that was it. It was quite a sight! Not to mention we had to essentially relearn how to perform for an audience again. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t winded after the first two songs.” — \u003cem>Roxy Gunn, Las Vegas\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Still Waiting…\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Thao and the Get Down Stay Down's new video was shot entirely on Zoom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Thao.Zoom_.jpg 1666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thao and the Get Down Stay Down’s music video for “Phenom” was shot entirely on Zoom. \u003ccite>(YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Transplant recipients like me are still in our pods. I’m 53 and I had a kidney transplant 14 years ago. Transplant drugs increase the risk for contracting illnesses—it’s possible to be hospitalized for something like food poisoning. I’ve had three full doses of the vaccine, which they hope will bring up my immune response closer to the average person’s response with two doses. Since the start of the pandemic we’ve had everything delivered. We stopped eating out completely, including no take out. We only do outdoor activities, even with vaccinated family and friends. I miss simple things like hanging out with my kid without anyone taking a C19 test, museums, open studio events, concerts, wandering the aisles of Trader Joe’s for snacks, and having coffee indoors with friends. I’ve adjusted to outdoor art events, attending online art lectures and workshops, coffee in the park, and watching live streams of our son’s performances—but I don’t know when life will shift for my little family. I’ve been doing risk assessment for 14 years since my transplant, wearing masks when needed, washing my hands all the time. But now feeling isolated and left behind by the world—feeling the threat of other people’s ignorance—is taking its toll. ‘Return to the world’ is a long ways away.” — \u003cem>Sarah Logan, East Bay\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we acting like the pandemic is over?! It’s still in full swing last time I checked…” — @melancholera, Instagram\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Personal Commitments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906701 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/md-duran-1VqHRwxcCCw-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a cap and gown, viewed from behind, looking onwards to her graduating classmates.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I was in a large crowd of people was in June of 2021 at my college graduation at the University of Oregon. Things had to be changed such as the ceremony was moved outdoors instead of inside our basketball arena like it always is. There was a mask requirement and, being college students, not a lot of people followed it. 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Ironically, I am more nervous about my visit at end of the year, despite being boostered.” — \u003cem>Vicki Shu, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting Creative\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/KQED_Incline_Gallery_web17_1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren D’Amato and Isaac Vazquez Avila of Avila Rose Signs add gilding to Incline Gallery’s window in preparation for the reopening. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being an artist, seeing exhibits was the best way for me to come back into the world. After my second shot, being a senior and getting vaccinated earlier, in April I went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894558/immersive-van-gogh-review-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immersive van Gogh experience\u003c/a>. Surrounded in beauty inspired two solid weeks of studio work.” — \u003cem>Denys Adida, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gallery openings and artist talks!” — \u003cem>Max Blue, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote a book entitled, \u003cem>Travels With An Artist\u003c/em>. It is the story of my pioneer Alaskan family as well as incidents of my very exciting life as an artist, anecdotes from experiences and ending with my the way I managed COVID. 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