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Come by 21st and Noe to pick one up. They’re on the southwest corner pinned to a wooden fence. I’ll do the same tomorrow around 6pm. Happy baking, everyone!! I’m also here if anyone needs advice or help with sourdough. I’ve been making Tartine-style sourdough for a while and have learned a lot through trial and error! Let’s get in contact if you need anything!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879500\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879500\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-1.31.44-PM.png\" alt=\"The starter that Nextdoor user, Ryan Sweat, found in Glenn Canyon Park.\" width=\"252\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-1.31.44-PM.png 252w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-1.31.44-PM-160x186.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The starter Nextdoor user Ryan found in Glen Canyon Park. \u003ccite>(Nextdoor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, this just seems like a treasure hunt with prizes I definitely don’t know what to do with. On the other, my heart is warmed every time I see a post like the one a Nextdoor user named Ryan shared on April 28. “I’ve got a starter that I’ve been feeding,” Ryan wrote. “Found the original on a hike. Want to keep the tradition going! If you’re trying to bake in this quarantine time, this is a fun project. Send me a message and I’m happy to hook you up with a starter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I found out that KQED Food’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/owon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Won\u003c/a> had been delivering starter packs to friends and neighbors in the East Bay, I had a million questions. She understands how confusing the sourdough baking world is for newcomers, and immediately made a joke about the “absurdly vague recipe steps” that frequently crop up. (She also listed terms like “float-test,” “autolyse,” “stretch and fold,” and “billowing/pillowy character” as stumbling blocks for newbies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she gave me an explanation of what sourdough starters are, and how exactly they are used, that is, by far, the clearest one I’ve come across:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>You can create a starter by mixing flour and water and letting it sit on a counter for a few days, until wild yeast from the air jumps in. The yeast feeds on the flour, releases gas, and magically, wet flour transforms into a bubbling, sour-smelling living creature. To prevent it from getting super acidic, you have to ‘feed’ it fresh flour and water every day. (When I’ve mismanaged my baking schedule in the past, I’ve canceled plans or just brought along rising dough to social gatherings, like a true crazy lady!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each feed, it grows and grows, like \u003cem>The Blob\u003c/em>. You can seed a brand new starter with a teaspoon of a ‘mother’ sourdough starter. ‘Mother’ starters are truly mind-boggling. There are some bakeries/wholesome Midwestern families with 100-year-old starters!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Won has been making sourdough for years now. Born initially out of a desire to practice mindfulness and slowing down, she now finds herself enamored with the “laborious, time-intensive process” of baking bread, as well as its “rich culinary history.” In other words, Won has taken all of the elements of cooking that have always scared me (and my entire family), and embraced them as a meditation of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s definitely not alone. Evidence suggests that an increasing number of Bay Area residents are doing the very same thing since shelter in place began. Since March 16, Google searches for “sourdough recipe” in the San Francisco/Oakland metropolitan area have been steadily on the rise. (Pun intended.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879392\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-800x271.png\" alt='Internet searches for \"Sourdough Recipe\" in the San Francisco-Oakland metro area have increased since shelter-in-place began.' width=\"800\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-800x271.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-160x54.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-768x260.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-1020x346.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM.png 1268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Internet searches for “sourdough recipe” in the San Francisco-Oakland metro area have increased since shelter-in-place began. \u003ccite>(Google Trends)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, during an appearance on \u003cem>The Late Show\u003c/em>, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=IMsZIarMmA0&feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Gyllenhaal confessed\u003c/a> to a growing sourdough obsession. And when he informed Stephen Colbert he was learning to bake under the instruction of his friend Josey Baker, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.themillsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mill\u003c/a> in Alamo Square, Colbert flashed his own starter kit! (Colbert’s apparently came from his niece.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understanding this growing trend is what prompted Olivia Won to stop composting the excesses of her starter and begin sharing “plastic bags of goo.” Which, for the uninitiated, look like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 408px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.07.55-PM.png\" alt=\"A batch of Olivia Won's "Sourdough Goo."\" width=\"408\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.07.55-PM.png 408w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.07.55-PM-160x188.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A batch of Olivia Won’s “sourdough goo.” \u003ccite>(Olivia Won)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Won has been delivering these bags to “anyone who expresses a desire to embark on a mercurial, demanding relationship with a jar of hungry, wild, often unpredictable yeast-goo.” Won describes her process of transforming the goo into the bread as, “a humbling, intimate, and often ridiculous relationship, in which I really give myself over to the needs of a squishy chunk of dough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end results are worth it, as one of her recent loaves demonstrates:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/image0-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"With enough practice, you too can turn sourdough goo into this gorgeous specimen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With enough practice, you too can turn sourdough goo into this gorgeous specimen. \u003ccite>(Olivia Won)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the sharing of sourdough starters is now a trend all over the Bay Area, nowhere is taking it quite as seriously as San Francisco. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1pxfv0JVX9QTuv3fB_lMO5V-0imjsR3Xv&shorturl=1&ll=37.75579474098462%2C-122.4185453122559&z=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google map\u003c/a> showing where exactly to pick up starter kits is now marked with 24 different locations around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 660px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.49.14-PM.png\" alt='The \"Victory Dough - Neighborhood Sourdough Starter Sharing\" guide on Google Maps now has 24 locations, and counting.' width=\"660\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.49.14-PM.png 660w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.49.14-PM-160x136.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Victory Dough – Neighborhood Sourdough Starter Sharing” guide on Google Maps now has 24 locations, and counting. \u003ccite>(Google Maps)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Few shelter-in-place activities are as well equipped at battling all of the challenges of social distancing at once. Sourdough starter kits have created a new way for neighbors to bond, given people a reason and means to keep in touch, inspired countless people to take up a new hobby, acted as an effective and productive way to fill time and, yes, prompted an increased reverence for the slower things in life. Plus: food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is absurd—and maybe a bit sweet—to think about how, in response to the bleak feelings of helplessness in our current moment,” Won says, “so many of us are eagerly directing pent-up attention and care into the project of keeping yeast-goo alive! It really is \u003cem>so\u003c/em> empowering when you finally make a great loaf.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I grew up in a home where cooking was a much-despised chore, the kitchen was the angriest room in the house, and my mother openly despised being stuck with the task of feeding us all. The idea that food preparation was something to be resented and avoided seeped into my consciousness early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, one of the more confusing aspects of shelter-in-place has been watching the respite that people are finding in their kitchens. Nowhere is this more visible than in the solace—and community—some of my neighbors have found in the task of making bread from scratch. And, since we’re in San Francisco, the bread of choice is almost always sourdough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time I stumbled across this phenomenon, I was browsing \u003ca href=\"https://nextdoor.com/news_feed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nextdoor\u003c/a>. On March 27, a user named Deanna posted the following: “Sourdough starter! This was a neighborhood movement started in Bernal Heights! Because baking ingredients have been in short supply, we are continuing the sharing of sourdough starter. An extension of the starter named ‘Godric’ which has treated us well so far. Great for bread, pancakes, biscuits, and more—up for grabs at the corner of 25th and York in the Mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post was accompanied by this photo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 657px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-21-at-3.41.36-PM.png\" alt=\"Sourdough Starter packs are being shared between neighbors all over the Bay Area during shelter-in-place.\" width=\"657\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-21-at-3.41.36-PM.png 657w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-21-at-3.41.36-PM-160x152.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sourdough starter packs are being shared between neighbors all over the Bay Area during shelter in place. \u003ccite>(Nextdoor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite being clueless about starters and Godrics and yeast and such, I have spent the last few weeks watching from a distance, both confused and fascinated by what all of these people are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, a user named Amity posted (also in Nextdoor): “Just left the corner with 9 starters still out! Come by 21st and Noe to pick one up. They’re on the southwest corner pinned to a wooden fence. I’ll do the same tomorrow around 6pm. Happy baking, everyone!! I’m also here if anyone needs advice or help with sourdough. I’ve been making Tartine-style sourdough for a while and have learned a lot through trial and error! Let’s get in contact if you need anything!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879500\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879500\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-1.31.44-PM.png\" alt=\"The starter that Nextdoor user, Ryan Sweat, found in Glenn Canyon Park.\" width=\"252\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-1.31.44-PM.png 252w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-1.31.44-PM-160x186.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The starter Nextdoor user Ryan found in Glen Canyon Park. \u003ccite>(Nextdoor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, this just seems like a treasure hunt with prizes I definitely don’t know what to do with. On the other, my heart is warmed every time I see a post like the one a Nextdoor user named Ryan shared on April 28. “I’ve got a starter that I’ve been feeding,” Ryan wrote. “Found the original on a hike. Want to keep the tradition going! If you’re trying to bake in this quarantine time, this is a fun project. Send me a message and I’m happy to hook you up with a starter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I found out that KQED Food’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/owon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Won\u003c/a> had been delivering starter packs to friends and neighbors in the East Bay, I had a million questions. She understands how confusing the sourdough baking world is for newcomers, and immediately made a joke about the “absurdly vague recipe steps” that frequently crop up. (She also listed terms like “float-test,” “autolyse,” “stretch and fold,” and “billowing/pillowy character” as stumbling blocks for newbies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she gave me an explanation of what sourdough starters are, and how exactly they are used, that is, by far, the clearest one I’ve come across:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>You can create a starter by mixing flour and water and letting it sit on a counter for a few days, until wild yeast from the air jumps in. The yeast feeds on the flour, releases gas, and magically, wet flour transforms into a bubbling, sour-smelling living creature. To prevent it from getting super acidic, you have to ‘feed’ it fresh flour and water every day. (When I’ve mismanaged my baking schedule in the past, I’ve canceled plans or just brought along rising dough to social gatherings, like a true crazy lady!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each feed, it grows and grows, like \u003cem>The Blob\u003c/em>. You can seed a brand new starter with a teaspoon of a ‘mother’ sourdough starter. ‘Mother’ starters are truly mind-boggling. There are some bakeries/wholesome Midwestern families with 100-year-old starters!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Won has been making sourdough for years now. Born initially out of a desire to practice mindfulness and slowing down, she now finds herself enamored with the “laborious, time-intensive process” of baking bread, as well as its “rich culinary history.” In other words, Won has taken all of the elements of cooking that have always scared me (and my entire family), and embraced them as a meditation of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s definitely not alone. Evidence suggests that an increasing number of Bay Area residents are doing the very same thing since shelter in place began. Since March 16, Google searches for “sourdough recipe” in the San Francisco/Oakland metropolitan area have been steadily on the rise. (Pun intended.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879392\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-800x271.png\" alt='Internet searches for \"Sourdough Recipe\" in the San Francisco-Oakland metro area have increased since shelter-in-place began.' width=\"800\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-800x271.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-160x54.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-768x260.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM-1020x346.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-12.59.54-PM.png 1268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Internet searches for “sourdough recipe” in the San Francisco-Oakland metro area have increased since shelter-in-place began. \u003ccite>(Google Trends)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, during an appearance on \u003cem>The Late Show\u003c/em>, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=IMsZIarMmA0&feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Gyllenhaal confessed\u003c/a> to a growing sourdough obsession. And when he informed Stephen Colbert he was learning to bake under the instruction of his friend Josey Baker, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.themillsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mill\u003c/a> in Alamo Square, Colbert flashed his own starter kit! (Colbert’s apparently came from his niece.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understanding this growing trend is what prompted Olivia Won to stop composting the excesses of her starter and begin sharing “plastic bags of goo.” Which, for the uninitiated, look like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 408px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.07.55-PM.png\" alt=\"A batch of Olivia Won's "Sourdough Goo."\" width=\"408\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.07.55-PM.png 408w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.07.55-PM-160x188.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A batch of Olivia Won’s “sourdough goo.” \u003ccite>(Olivia Won)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Won has been delivering these bags to “anyone who expresses a desire to embark on a mercurial, demanding relationship with a jar of hungry, wild, often unpredictable yeast-goo.” Won describes her process of transforming the goo into the bread as, “a humbling, intimate, and often ridiculous relationship, in which I really give myself over to the needs of a squishy chunk of dough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end results are worth it, as one of her recent loaves demonstrates:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/image0-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"With enough practice, you too can turn sourdough goo into this gorgeous specimen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With enough practice, you too can turn sourdough goo into this gorgeous specimen. \u003ccite>(Olivia Won)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the sharing of sourdough starters is now a trend all over the Bay Area, nowhere is taking it quite as seriously as San Francisco. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1pxfv0JVX9QTuv3fB_lMO5V-0imjsR3Xv&shorturl=1&ll=37.75579474098462%2C-122.4185453122559&z=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google map\u003c/a> showing where exactly to pick up starter kits is now marked with 24 different locations around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 660px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.49.14-PM.png\" alt='The \"Victory Dough - Neighborhood Sourdough Starter Sharing\" guide on Google Maps now has 24 locations, and counting.' width=\"660\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.49.14-PM.png 660w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-29-at-2.49.14-PM-160x136.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Victory Dough – Neighborhood Sourdough Starter Sharing” guide on Google Maps now has 24 locations, and counting. \u003ccite>(Google Maps)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Few shelter-in-place activities are as well equipped at battling all of the challenges of social distancing at once. Sourdough starter kits have created a new way for neighbors to bond, given people a reason and means to keep in touch, inspired countless people to take up a new hobby, acted as an effective and productive way to fill time and, yes, prompted an increased reverence for the slower things in life. Plus: food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A regency in Indonesia admitted last week to locking two people who violated self-isolation orders inside a \u003ca href=\"https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/indonesians-quarantined-in-haunted-house-for-disobeying-self-isolation-order/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">haunted location\u003c/a> as a punishment, practical solution \u003cem>and\u003c/em> deterrent to others. Finding itself recently flooded with an influx of people from surrounding cities, Central Java’s Sragen regency took this unusual step in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regent Kusdinar Untung Yuni Sukowati told \u003ca href=\"https://jateng.suara.com/read/2020/04/20/133532/ogah-karantina-mandiri-dua-warga-di-sragen-dibawa-ke-rumah-berhantu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Suara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “Two Plupuh residents agreed to self-isolate but they violated the order. So they were locked inside an abandoned haunted house. Had they obeyed their order they wouldn’t have been locked in there.” She was careful to emphasize that these and any future detainees would remain fed and monitored during their stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which makes you think. If the Bay Area employed such a policy, which haunted locations would best scare the bejesus out of shelter-in-place violators? Some suggestions…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alcatraz, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alcatraz Island.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alcatraz Island. \u003ccite>(Eric Ward/ Unsplash)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look. Is it a bit harsh? Sure. But it’s secure, it’s isolated and, according to multiple sources, it’s definitely haunted. Over the years, there have been reports of \u003ca href=\"https://wildsftours.com/why-is-alcatraz-prison-in-san-francisco-haunted/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disembodied cries\u003c/a> and moans on the island, \u003ca href=\"https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/alcatraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mysterious banjo\u003c/a> music, as well as eerie sounds emanating from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/alcatraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">utility corridor\u003c/a>. During a 2010 investigation, Syfy’s \u003cem>Ghost Hunters\u003c/em> even managed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwdBbZtGCkE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">capture\u003c/a> the voice of former inmate \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Brunette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Walter Brunette\u003c/a>, a notorious Depression-era bank robber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>USS Hornet, Alameda\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-800x519.png\" alt=\"USS Hornet: Sunny tourist attraction by day, alleged ghost party by night!\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-800x519.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-1020x662.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-768x498.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Hornet: Sunny tourist attraction by day, alleged ghost party by night! \u003ccite>(Johnny Dismal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What better way to get people to behave than a show of military might? This imposing aircraft carrier is a sea, air and space museum by day, but by night—in addition to hosting parties and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uss-hornet.org/hornetescape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">escape rooms\u003c/a>—it is said to be guarded by the spirits of servicemen who once lived and worked on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Docent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/visit-haunted-uss-hornet-alameda#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Fee told KALW\u003c/a> in 2018: “One particular Friday night … I’m the only one here on the ship. But about 2:30 in the morning, I woke up, because I heard the click of the nightlight at the end of the passageway. Then I heard the next nightlight click on. So I got up, opened my stateroom door, looked down the passageway, and sure enough, all the red lights were on.” If anything’s going to keep you locked in your room, it’s inexplicable lighting changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Claremont Hotel, Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Claremont Hotel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Claremont Hotel. \u003ccite>(Facebook/ @ClaremontHotel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fairmont.com/claremont-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Claremont\u003c/a> is a sprawling, luxurious hotel complete with spa, swimming pool, gorgeous views and … some mysterious goings on. \u003ca href=\"https://www.hauntedrooms.com/california/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/claremont-hotel-berkeley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guests have reported\u003c/a> weird temperature changes, seeing and hearing ghost children, and smelling smoke. (A mansion on the site burned down in 1901.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Antonio Spurs stayed there in 2014, basketball players Jeff Ayres and Tim Duncan both reported hearing the sounds of a baby inside Ayres’ room and being unable to unlock the door. After contacting the front desk to get a new key, the hotel decided to relocate Ayres to a different room. Duncan later \u003ca href=\"https://sports.yahoo.com/tim-duncan-and-jeff-ayres-had-a-creepy-encounter-at-a-haunted-hotel-014047063.html?y20=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the \u003cem>San Antonio Express-News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “There was a baby there, absolutely. I heard about the history of the place, and I’d rather not (stay there again).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Mills College, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mills College, Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mills College, Oakland. \u003ccite>(Facebook/ @millscollege)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mills College: Come for the liberal arts and sciences, stay for the supernatural! No less than five buildings on the 168-year-old campus are rumored to be haunted. Over the years, there have been reports of a horse and carriage speeding along the edge of campus before vanishing into thin air, as well as disembodied footsteps on the stage at Lisser Hall. There’s even supposed to be a deceased math nerd roaming around one of the libraries, doing sleepy students’ work for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orchard-Meadow Hall would probably work best for housing shelter-in-place violators though—it comes with a built-in guard. The ghost of a Victorian woman has been seen hanging around, particularly on the steps outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Phoenix Theater, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The Phoenix Theater's main hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-1920x1275.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Phoenix Theater’s main hall. \u003ccite>(Dominic Davi/Tsunami Bomb)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a movie theater, now a music venue, the Phoenix is locally legendary for being haunted. In 2000, AFI released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a8rE6ObNSw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a song about the venue\u003c/a> which referenced “the ghosts on the stage” and the “secret tunnels below.” Other bands can attest. In the ’90s, a security guard traveling with metal monsters GWAR reportedly expressed confusion, followed by horror, after seeing the ghost of a small boy backstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, then-venue manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.petaluma360.com/entertainment/3028155-181/phoenix-theater-hauntings?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Gaffey told the \u003cem>Argus Courier\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that, while completely alone in the building, he had seen floating blue lights, heard loud footsteps and dealt with ghostly phone calls from the empty projection booth. A psychic from the Berkeley Psychic Institute is said to have removed the spirit of an angry woman from the bathrooms, but the entity in the projection booth—a tall man with white hair and angular features—apparently remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps if locking people inside haunted buildings seems a bit cruel and unusual, Indonesia can offer a second supernatural solution to the issue of keeping people indoors. Back in March, the regency of Purworejo hired \u003ca href=\"https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/men-dressed-as-pocong-spook-village-in-central-java-into-self-isolation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two people to dress as pocong\u003c/a>—\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ghosts\u003c/a> that remain trapped in their own burial shrouds. The pair sat at the main entrance to the village of Tuk Songo to discourage visitors. Perhaps patrols of \u003ca href=\"https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Winchester\u003c/a> look-a-likes would be similarly effective for the Bay. Stranger things have happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A regency in Indonesia admitted last week to locking two people who violated self-isolation orders inside a \u003ca href=\"https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/indonesians-quarantined-in-haunted-house-for-disobeying-self-isolation-order/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">haunted location\u003c/a> as a punishment, practical solution \u003cem>and\u003c/em> deterrent to others. Finding itself recently flooded with an influx of people from surrounding cities, Central Java’s Sragen regency took this unusual step in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regent Kusdinar Untung Yuni Sukowati told \u003ca href=\"https://jateng.suara.com/read/2020/04/20/133532/ogah-karantina-mandiri-dua-warga-di-sragen-dibawa-ke-rumah-berhantu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Suara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “Two Plupuh residents agreed to self-isolate but they violated the order. So they were locked inside an abandoned haunted house. Had they obeyed their order they wouldn’t have been locked in there.” She was careful to emphasize that these and any future detainees would remain fed and monitored during their stays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which makes you think. If the Bay Area employed such a policy, which haunted locations would best scare the bejesus out of shelter-in-place violators? Some suggestions…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alcatraz, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alcatraz Island.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/eric-ward-QsJg2IuWPSE-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alcatraz Island. \u003ccite>(Eric Ward/ Unsplash)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look. Is it a bit harsh? Sure. But it’s secure, it’s isolated and, according to multiple sources, it’s definitely haunted. Over the years, there have been reports of \u003ca href=\"https://wildsftours.com/why-is-alcatraz-prison-in-san-francisco-haunted/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disembodied cries\u003c/a> and moans on the island, \u003ca href=\"https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/alcatraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mysterious banjo\u003c/a> music, as well as eerie sounds emanating from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/alcatraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">utility corridor\u003c/a>. During a 2010 investigation, Syfy’s \u003cem>Ghost Hunters\u003c/em> even managed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwdBbZtGCkE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">capture\u003c/a> the voice of former inmate \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Brunette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Walter Brunette\u003c/a>, a notorious Depression-era bank robber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>USS Hornet, Alameda\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-800x519.png\" alt=\"USS Hornet: Sunny tourist attraction by day, alleged ghost party by night!\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-800x519.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-1020x662.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1-768x498.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/20200427_163149-1.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Hornet: Sunny tourist attraction by day, alleged ghost party by night! \u003ccite>(Johnny Dismal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What better way to get people to behave than a show of military might? This imposing aircraft carrier is a sea, air and space museum by day, but by night—in addition to hosting parties and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uss-hornet.org/hornetescape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">escape rooms\u003c/a>—it is said to be guarded by the spirits of servicemen who once lived and worked on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Docent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/visit-haunted-uss-hornet-alameda#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Fee told KALW\u003c/a> in 2018: “One particular Friday night … I’m the only one here on the ship. But about 2:30 in the morning, I woke up, because I heard the click of the nightlight at the end of the passageway. Then I heard the next nightlight click on. So I got up, opened my stateroom door, looked down the passageway, and sure enough, all the red lights were on.” If anything’s going to keep you locked in your room, it’s inexplicable lighting changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Claremont Hotel, Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Claremont Hotel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/91405461_10157398378544118_3409352392548810752_o.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Claremont Hotel. \u003ccite>(Facebook/ @ClaremontHotel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fairmont.com/claremont-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Claremont\u003c/a> is a sprawling, luxurious hotel complete with spa, swimming pool, gorgeous views and … some mysterious goings on. \u003ca href=\"https://www.hauntedrooms.com/california/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/claremont-hotel-berkeley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guests have reported\u003c/a> weird temperature changes, seeing and hearing ghost children, and smelling smoke. (A mansion on the site burned down in 1901.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Antonio Spurs stayed there in 2014, basketball players Jeff Ayres and Tim Duncan both reported hearing the sounds of a baby inside Ayres’ room and being unable to unlock the door. After contacting the front desk to get a new key, the hotel decided to relocate Ayres to a different room. Duncan later \u003ca href=\"https://sports.yahoo.com/tim-duncan-and-jeff-ayres-had-a-creepy-encounter-at-a-haunted-hotel-014047063.html?y20=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the \u003cem>San Antonio Express-News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “There was a baby there, absolutely. I heard about the history of the place, and I’d rather not (stay there again).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Mills College, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mills College, Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/89381405_10158218103424359_7490912264078229504_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mills College, Oakland. \u003ccite>(Facebook/ @millscollege)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mills College: Come for the liberal arts and sciences, stay for the supernatural! No less than five buildings on the 168-year-old campus are rumored to be haunted. Over the years, there have been reports of a horse and carriage speeding along the edge of campus before vanishing into thin air, as well as disembodied footsteps on the stage at Lisser Hall. There’s even supposed to be a deceased math nerd roaming around one of the libraries, doing sleepy students’ work for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orchard-Meadow Hall would probably work best for housing shelter-in-place violators though—it comes with a built-in guard. The ghost of a Victorian woman has been seen hanging around, particularly on the steps outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Phoenix Theater, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The Phoenix Theater's main hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o-1920x1275.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/36199715_2112186705689111_1866427602399395840_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Phoenix Theater’s main hall. \u003ccite>(Dominic Davi/Tsunami Bomb)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a movie theater, now a music venue, the Phoenix is locally legendary for being haunted. In 2000, AFI released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a8rE6ObNSw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a song about the venue\u003c/a> which referenced “the ghosts on the stage” and the “secret tunnels below.” Other bands can attest. In the ’90s, a security guard traveling with metal monsters GWAR reportedly expressed confusion, followed by horror, after seeing the ghost of a small boy backstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, then-venue manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.petaluma360.com/entertainment/3028155-181/phoenix-theater-hauntings?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Gaffey told the \u003cem>Argus Courier\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that, while completely alone in the building, he had seen floating blue lights, heard loud footsteps and dealt with ghostly phone calls from the empty projection booth. A psychic from the Berkeley Psychic Institute is said to have removed the spirit of an angry woman from the bathrooms, but the entity in the projection booth—a tall man with white hair and angular features—apparently remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Welcome to week five of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/lockdown-movie-musts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lockdown Movie Musts\u003c/a>! Featuring weird subgenres of yore that’ll take your mind off, well, (*smashes head on wall*) you know…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, we’re creepin’ and crawlin’ through swamps and a surprising amount of radiation to get better acquainted with the underwater creatures of 1950s B-movies. [aside postid='arts_13877955']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rational place to start, of course, is with the most famous of them all: 1954’s\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046876/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creature From the Black Lagoon\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. It’s a movie that starts with lofty ideas (a depiction of the Big Bang!) and descends quickly into racist nonsense (why do all these indigenous people have hair like \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanmythology.net/gallery?lightbox=image_1x15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moe from the \u003cem>Three Stooges\u003c/em>\u003c/a>?). Then come a series of appearances by the aforementioned creature that revolve entirely around his webbed hand. (It reaches out of the water in a claw position! It touches the riverbank in slow motion for no reason! And, faced with the sight of a Moe haircut, it attacks!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plot involves a team of explorers who are hanging out in the Amazon investigating a fossilized version of The Webbed Hand that presumably came from the creature’s great-grandad. What follows is a gratuitous amount of scuba diving (presumably because it was only \u003ca href=\"https://blog.padi.com/2014/01/27/jacques-cousteau-the-father-of-scuba-diving/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invented\u003c/a> 12 years before this movie came out) and human behavior that is increasingly hard to justify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ariuokNFhSw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There the creature is, just swimming around, trying to deal with his woeful inability to successfully grab women’s ankles. Meanwhile, the humans are casually tossing cigarette butts into his lagoon and wondering why their repeated attempts to hurt or trap him are making him angry. It’s impossible not to side with the creature on this one. The moral of the story is clear: humans are \u003cem>awful\u003c/em>. [aside postid='arts_13878444']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1957’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050147/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Attack of the Crab Monsters\u003c/em>\u003c/a> makes for far less emotional viewing because it makes absolutely no sense. Sure, radiation has made a bunch of giant googly-eyed crabs. And sure, a team of humans wants to investigate. But get this! In this movie—and please bear with me—when a human gets eaten by a crab, the crab then magically absorbs the personality of the human and can suddenly transmit their voice and thoughts. Long-distance, sometimes!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, an on-screen botanist tries to make sense of this by saying: “Once they were men, now they are land crabs.” Sure, bro, but what’s with the ghost-in-the-crustacean stuff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S68QJFheZaw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the confusing front—and this is definitely a side-note—there is only one woman on the team of explorers here and her eyebrows appear to have been stolen from a ventriloquist’s dummy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who did this to you, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242056/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pamela Duncan\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 446px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879057\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-12.01.52-AM.png\" alt=\"Martha stressing about her weird eyebrows (probably) in 'Attack of the Crab Monsters.'\" width=\"446\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-12.01.52-AM.png 446w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-12.01.52-AM-160x108.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha stressing about her weird eyebrows (probably) in ‘Attack of the Crab Monsters.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anyway, just like those eyebrows, \u003cem>Attack of the Crab Monsters\u003c/em> tries way, way too hard to justify itself. It could learn a thing or two from our next pick, a 1959 movie that answers the question: What would it look like if a man turned into an alligator, but still managed to keep his snazzy, high-waisted, 1950s pants on? It’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Alligator People\u003c/a>\u003c/em>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all begins with Joyce, a woman whose husband, Paul, ditches her literally an hour into their honeymoon. She responds to this by going on a cross-country hunt to track him down. (Have some pride, woman! Just get an annulment and put on some \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl1aHhXnN1k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ariana Grande\u003c/a>, already!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After arriving in the butt crack of Louisiana, Joyce casually jumps into the truck of a man with a hook hand who enjoys running over alligators and saying menacing things about swamps and quicksand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Can we just take a timeout here to talk about the fact that, if you were a child growing up anytime between 1920 and 1990, quicksand was presented in popular culture as a constant, imminent threat. Why don’t we ever hear about quicksand anymore? It used to be freakin’ \u003cem>everywhere\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After arriving totally unannounced at Paul’s family’s house (rude much, Joyce?), Joyce meets Paul’s mom, who has an accent that can’t make up its mind about whether it wants to be Southern, British or Mrs. Doubtfire. Also, Joyce finds a local doctor who dresses like Colonel Sanders and has been doing dodgy experiments on gravely injured people using radiation and alligator DNA. Turns out—*dun-dun-duuuuun!*—Paul is one of them! And now his face is falling off! Or getting scaley! Or both depending on the makeup that day!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t want to spoil the ending, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307500/?ref_=tt_cl_t1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beverly Garland\u003c/a> has to do a surprising amount of stunt work with living, snapping alligators, and the alligator-man in the pants is a thing of majestic beauty that you’ll never forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-lv3OxnnG4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week, stay safe and keep sheltering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For other Lockdown Movie Musts, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/lockdown-movie-musts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Long-distance, sometimes!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, an on-screen botanist tries to make sense of this by saying: “Once they were men, now they are land crabs.” Sure, bro, but what’s with the ghost-in-the-crustacean stuff?\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/S68QJFheZaw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/S68QJFheZaw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Also on the confusing front—and this is definitely a side-note—there is only one woman on the team of explorers here and her eyebrows appear to have been stolen from a ventriloquist’s dummy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who did this to you, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242056/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pamela Duncan\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 446px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879057\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-12.01.52-AM.png\" alt=\"Martha stressing about her weird eyebrows (probably) in 'Attack of the Crab Monsters.'\" width=\"446\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-12.01.52-AM.png 446w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-12.01.52-AM-160x108.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha stressing about her weird eyebrows (probably) in ‘Attack of the Crab Monsters.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anyway, just like those eyebrows, \u003cem>Attack of the Crab Monsters\u003c/em> tries way, way too hard to justify itself. 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Just get an annulment and put on some \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl1aHhXnN1k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ariana Grande\u003c/a>, already!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After arriving in the butt crack of Louisiana, Joyce casually jumps into the truck of a man with a hook hand who enjoys running over alligators and saying menacing things about swamps and quicksand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Can we just take a timeout here to talk about the fact that, if you were a child growing up anytime between 1920 and 1990, quicksand was presented in popular culture as a constant, imminent threat. Why don’t we ever hear about quicksand anymore? It used to be freakin’ \u003cem>everywhere\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After arriving totally unannounced at Paul’s family’s house (rude much, Joyce?), Joyce meets Paul’s mom, who has an accent that can’t make up its mind about whether it wants to be Southern, British or Mrs. Doubtfire. 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This vacation romp has the distinction of being Patient Zero for both the raging popularity of American college students’ spring break vacations (nobody beyond the northeast went on those until this movie came out), \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the beach party movies that infested the rest of the decade. (\u003cem>Where The Boys Are\u003c/em> has an awful lot to answer for…) [aside postid='arts_13877955']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college ladies of \u003cem>Where The Boys Are\u003c/em> are a likable bunch, even though they say things like “Girls like me weren’t built to get educated, we were meant to have children!” and “What is he? Queer for hats?” and “No girl enjoys being considered promiscuous, even those who might be!” It speaks to the awesomeness of their swimsuits that they can say all of these things and remain perfectly watchable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKyZKNNWngo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ladies, despite also owning a wide range of excellent dresses, all consistently punch below their weight when it comes to men. There’s George Hamilton in short-shorts who confuses owning a boat for having a personality. There’s a pretentious jazz musician Connie Francis is so eager to impress, she spontaneously breaks into song in the middle of a bar (called the Elbo Room, incidentally). There’s even a literal rapist! (Way to totally go dark, \u003cem>Where the Boys Are\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s poor, gorgeous Paula Prentiss who puts up with this crap because all men other than this guy (his name is TV) think she’s too tall:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nYcG-sz0k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Can we bring back swimming tank shows in restaurants when this is all over please?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the godawful men of \u003cem>Where The Boys Are\u003c/em> seem like dreamboats (except for the rapist, obvi) when lined up next to the douche-lords of 1964’s \u003cem>Bikini Beach\u003c/em>. [aside postid='arts_13877402']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frankie Avalon stars here as a raging egomaniac with a chip on his shoulder who’s in romantic competition with a pop sensation named The Potato Bug. The Potato Bug is a snarky composite of all of the Beatles, and is played by (no, really) Frankie Avalon in a wig and glasses. Words cannot express how unfunny it all is, but just imagine \u003cem>Austin Powers\u003c/em> with no jokes and less style and that’s pretty close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0zQklrDL0&t=41s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s everything you need to know about \u003cem>Bikini Beach\u003c/em>. Everyone runs everywhere all of the time. Frankie’s girl Dee Dee (played by Annette Funicello) wears a weird toupee on top of her regular hair and we’re not supposed to notice. Candy, a woman who only wears outfits with red tassels on them, makes men fall down when she shakes her ass. There’s a biker guy whose whole body freezes when he points at his own head. (I’d rather not get into it…) There’s Don Rickles as a bar/drag strip owner. (I’d rather not get into it…) And there’s a posh older guy with a surfing chimp (I’d definitely rather not get into it…) trying to get the kids off the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bikini Beach\u003c/em> was the third in a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_party_film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(\u003cem>long\u003c/em>) series\u003c/a> of beach party movies starring “Frankie and Annette” and the highest grossing of them all. Which boggles the mind because it is so incredibly dumb, I literally felt my IQ dropping as I watched it. Even an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0zQklrDL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearance by “Little Stevie Wonder”\u003c/a> couldn’t save this thing. [aside postid='arts_13878444']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1966’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060807/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Out of Sight\u003c/em>\u003c/a> does a much better job of being stupid, thanks to stylistic cues from \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Monkees\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Avengers\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a plot involving secret agents and a series of bombshell lady-villains (called things like Scuba, Turbo and Wipeout!). There are secret labs and comedy bombs and slapstick violence and bouts of slow motion volleyball. There are death rays and musical torture devices and many scenes of unfiltered young-person-joy. I cannot overstate how much easier it is to watch than \u003cem>Bikini Beach\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best of all, there are constant gratuitous musical interludes. Why are The Turtles and The Astronauts and The Knickerbockers always just hanging around playing music for these beautiful idiots? Nobody ever says and it really doesn’t matter! \u003cem>Out of Sight\u003c/em> is at its best when music is happening, and if you don’t believe me, let me leave you with this most perfect of moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBa0Zs0pAw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beach party movies: Come for the music, stay for the girls doing dance-karate on the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week, stay safe and keep sheltering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For other Lockdown Movie Musts, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/lockdown-movie-musts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s week three of California’s shelter-in-place order due to the spread of COVID-19. How deep into your childhood memories are you by now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Old photos. Ancient notebooks. Video games you haven’t played since the second grade. How about that TV show you used to watch back in the day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for me, and many others of a certain age and locale, there’s an Instagram page paying homage to the old school Bay Area TV station that hosted shows, music videos and Oakland culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soul Beat TV, one of the nation’s first African American-owned TV Networks—which ran from \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oaklanders-calling-for-return-of-Soul-Beat-2510067.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1978–2003\u003c/a>, and which was filmed and broadcast from East Oakland—has been revived \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soulbeattv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in Instagram form\u003c/a>. 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