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Stories about working at Disney World or being in an interracial couple are both specific to her but indirectly confront some harsh truths about current events. While she doesn't consider herself a political comedian, she couldn't avoid Donald Trump when she filmed her comedy special\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0RBaS57zPw\"> Pizza Mind\u003c/a> \u003c/em>in New Orleans last December. \"I only have one joke in there. He gets enough press,\" says Zamata pointedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laid-back Ron Funches avoids material that's heavily political altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not comedy. That's a rally,\" he says. Funches prefers to keep his material \"sharp\" but \"positive.\" He says he has more fun telling jokes about things he likes. \"Video games. Pot. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's been just over a month since Jay-Z's \u003cem>4:44\u003c/em> album landed. Special attention has been paid across the board to the title track, thanks to the fact that it's a painfully raw apology to Beyoncé for basically everything we heard about on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>. Pay close attention to the lyrics if you want an unflinching look at the weight that comes with deep remorse, regret, and guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkA61esq_c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay told \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/06/jay-z-breaks-down-meaning-songs-444-album/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XXL\u003c/a>\u003c/em> that the track is \"the crux of the album, just right in the middle of the album. And I woke up, literally, at 4:44 in the morning, 4:44 AM, to write this song. So it became the title of the album and everything. It’s the title track because it’s such a powerful song, and I just believe one of the best songs I’ve ever written.” [aside postid='pop_104326']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that's that, right? We've got the song, an amazing video, a response to \u003cem>Lemonade,\u003c/em> and an explanation about the title. Done! The End. Only not, because in the age of the internet, this just \u003cem>has\u003c/em> to be about a bunch of other stuff too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the album was even released, Twitter was already throwing out theories. On June 6, 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/geespin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Geespin\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/geespin/status/872199299349835776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted\u003c/a>: \"JOHN 4:44 — 'For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.' ....read what you may into that.\" The following day, another user, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerrelXL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JerrelXL\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerrelXL/status/872470378550927360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked\u003c/a>: \"What if 4:44 is also an homage to Jay's good friend and the greatest president of our lifetime Barack Obama?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the album's release, one of the first groups to jump in with some extra analysis were numerologists. You can't blame them really. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.spiritual-path.com/numerology.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpiritualPath.com\u003c/a>, seeing the number sequence 444 or 4444 repeatedly is a \"Cosmic 'No!'\" that \"indicates a 'No' to absolutely anything\" the person is thinking about at their time of seeing it. (Imagine using number sequences to make decisions every single day, then having one of the biggest artists in the world name his album after the sequence that means \"No.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Giant ads for Jay-Z's '4:44' album, like this one on the side of a bus? Not great news for some numerologists. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-768x508.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1920x1270.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant ads for Jay-Z's '4:44' album? Not great news for some numerologists. \u003ccite>(TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891898']\u003ca href=\"http://feliciabender.com/blog/444jayz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Felicia Bender\u003c/a>, \"The Practical Numerologist,\" has a more positive spin. \"There are obvious connections,\" she says, \"like Beyoncé’s birthday is on the 4th, his mother’s birthday is on the 4th, his own birthday on the 4th, and he and Beyoncé got married on the 4th.\" She continues: \"The number 4 carries the energy of structure ... The 4 is all about hard work, process, stability, and a certain level of security. Its power resides in envisioning something and creating it from nothing … Where others give up or want the easy way out, the 4 stays late and comes to work early, if you know what I mean.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think the numerologists sound bananas, just wait until you hear what the illuminati conspiracy theorists had to say on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 30, 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/locale40th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@locale40th\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/locale40th/status/880814491881140224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pointed out\u003c/a>: \"On 4:44 Illuminati Jazy Z/Carter raps about ego (devil's sin), being stuck in La La Land, & catching 'The Eye.\" 4:44 upside down like 66:6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KONNYKON_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KONNYKON\u003c/a> chimed in with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KONNYKON_/status/880815238169473025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a tweet\u003c/a> that referenced Jay-Z's 1996 track \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5JYhNAymY&list=RDuC5JYhNAymY#t=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22 Twos\u003c/a>.\" \"Jay Z did 22 2's first,\" it said. \"Now 4:44. 222 + 444 = 666 #illuminati.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you, interwebs, for somehow transporting us from the time on a clock in Jay-Z's bedroom to ACTUAL SATAN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on Planet Earth (specifically the Meatpacking District of Manhattan), some other folks just noticed that 444 just might have a link to the address of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standard,_High_Line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Standard Hotel\u003c/a>. This is significant, since that's where Solange Knowles \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_6lrpg6kh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">physically attacked her brother-in-law \u003c/a>in an elevator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StephenOssola/status/890063102515007488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spin.com%2F2017%2F07%2F444-solange-jay-z-elevator%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick Google search reveals that The Standard's actual address is 848 Washington St. Though if we're clutching at straws, \u003ca href=\"https://standardhotels.myshopify.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Shop at The Standard\u003c/a>, as well as the hotel's rooftop bar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.standardhotels.com/new-york/features/le-bain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Le Bain\u003c/a>, is, in fact listed as 444 W. 13th Street. (Wait... 13? \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://taylorswift.wikia.com/wiki/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Does Taylor Swift have something to do with this too?!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's face it, not even Beyoncé directly referencing these kinds of conspiracy theories on her track, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZJPJV__bQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Formation\"\u003c/a> (\u003cem>\"Ya'll haters corny with that Illuminati mess\"\u003c/em>) could shut them down. And thank goodness for that—this is altogether far too much fun.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's been just over a month since Jay-Z's \u003cem>4:44\u003c/em> album landed. Special attention has been paid across the board to the title track, thanks to the fact that it's a painfully raw apology to Beyoncé for basically everything we heard about on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>. Pay close attention to the lyrics if you want an unflinching look at the weight that comes with deep remorse, regret, and guilt.\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/zSkA61esq_c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zSkA61esq_c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Jay told \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/06/jay-z-breaks-down-meaning-songs-444-album/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XXL\u003c/a>\u003c/em> that the track is \"the crux of the album, just right in the middle of the album. And I woke up, literally, at 4:44 in the morning, 4:44 AM, to write this song. So it became the title of the album and everything. It’s the title track because it’s such a powerful song, and I just believe one of the best songs I’ve ever written.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that's that, right? We've got the song, an amazing video, a response to \u003cem>Lemonade,\u003c/em> and an explanation about the title. Done! The End. Only not, because in the age of the internet, this just \u003cem>has\u003c/em> to be about a bunch of other stuff too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the album was even released, Twitter was already throwing out theories. On June 6, 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/geespin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Geespin\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/geespin/status/872199299349835776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted\u003c/a>: \"JOHN 4:44 — 'For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.' ....read what you may into that.\" The following day, another user, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerrelXL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JerrelXL\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerrelXL/status/872470378550927360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked\u003c/a>: \"What if 4:44 is also an homage to Jay's good friend and the greatest president of our lifetime Barack Obama?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the album's release, one of the first groups to jump in with some extra analysis were numerologists. You can't blame them really. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.spiritual-path.com/numerology.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpiritualPath.com\u003c/a>, seeing the number sequence 444 or 4444 repeatedly is a \"Cosmic 'No!'\" that \"indicates a 'No' to absolutely anything\" the person is thinking about at their time of seeing it. (Imagine using number sequences to make decisions every single day, then having one of the biggest artists in the world name his album after the sequence that means \"No.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Giant ads for Jay-Z's '4:44' album, like this one on the side of a bus? Not great news for some numerologists. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-768x508.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1920x1270.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant ads for Jay-Z's '4:44' album? Not great news for some numerologists. \u003ccite>(TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Exactly ten years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921477/lindsay-lohan-christmas-movie-netflix-falling-for-christmas\">Lindsay Lohan \u003c/a>starred in one of the reasons she ceased to have a movie career. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0897361/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was painful at the time, but has only grown more baffling and preposterous as the years have passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spoiler alert:\u003c/strong> I’m about to tell you everything about this movie. I mention this because watching \u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em> with zero knowledge of it is such a literally astounding experience, you might want to experience that, spoiler-free, before you read this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those of you who wish to proceed, just know that I‘m not going to present the film’s storyline in the twisty-turny order it unfolds in. Instead, I’ll just tell you what you learn by the end, because getting rid of the non-linear structure of this movie really highlights its awfulness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ready? (You think you are, but you’re not — you couldn’t possibly be.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB6YtM1tH4k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Lohan plays twins (like \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120783/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>The Parent Trap\u003c/em>\u003c/a>! Only not at all!) who don’t know that they’re twins. Back in 1988, Daniel and Susan Fleming conceived a child. When their baby died “in the incubator,” Daniel strolled down the hall and decided to purchase a baby girl from a drug addict who’d just birthed twins “because she had one to spare.” (That’s an actual line.) Daniel never tells his wife, and they somehow manage to successfully wander out of the hospital with someone else’s un-treated crack baby without any staff noticing or stopping Susan to tell her that her own baby is dead. (What kind of hospital is this?!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flemings name their new baby Aubrey. Across town, her twin (also presumably surviving without any medical intervention) is named Dakota. All grown up, Aubrey loves to play piano and write, and she won’t have sex with her boyfriend. On the flip side, Dakota is a stripper who curses a lot and smokes cigarettes. Somehow, despite never meeting, both girls have grown their hair into identical styles, down to cut, length \u003cem>and\u003c/em> color, and maintained identical complexions and weights, despite their wildly differing lifestyles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, Aubrey is kidnapped by a dude that has a thing for chopping off body parts. Once Aubrey is tied up, dude crushes and freezes Aubrey’s right hand before cutting off her middle finger. Across town, Dakota is working as a stripper. When she gets off stage, she pulls off her long red gloves to find that the middle finger of her right hand has fallen off. (No, really.) Naturally, she responds to this by taking the bus home (“Take an extra towel,” her boss generously offers) and attempting to sew her finger back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/I-Know-Who-Killed-Me-i-know-who-killed-me-32605273-500-210.gif\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/I-Know-Who-Killed-Me-i-know-who-killed-me-32605273-500-210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night in bed, Dakota has bad dreams and wakes up in a pool of her own blood. She suddenly has a hunch she has a twin and decides that, now that she’s bleeding profusely, it’s a perfect time to head out and find her. Later, a random driver finds Dakota passed out in a ditch (we’re never told how she got there), and the cops (and everyone else) presume she is the still-missing Aubrey. After a spell in the hospital — where Darnell from \u003cem>My Name is Earl\u003c/em> gives her a robotic hand and leg (YES!) — she goes home with her twin’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 398px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91589 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM.png 398w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM-240x157.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM-375x246.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: TriStar Pictures\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dakota can’t remember exactly what happened to her, but she tells everyone repeatedly that she is not Aubrey. No one believes her — not even the dude who bought a twin baby from a crackhead 19 years earlier! Slowly but surely, Dakota figures everything out by having a variety of psychic visions involving blue roses and ribbons, and going to Ask.com (of all places) to find out about “stigmatic twins.” This all magically gives Dakota the ability to know who Aubrey’s kidnapper is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After confronting Aubrey’s dad about his baby-buying, the two head to the kidnapper’s house, Dakota manages to cut his hand clean off in, like, 30 seconds, using only a piece of glass, then Aubrey’s dad dies on a table for reasons that are never explained. Dakota kills the kidnapper by stabbing him in the neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all of this, Dakota magically knows that her long lost twin is buried close-by, so she grabs a shovel, picks a spot, digs for a minute — miraculously unencumbered by her brand new bionic limbs — and finds Aubrey, buried under stained glass (fancy!), still alive and flawless despite a bit of a smudge in her freshly applied lipstick. Aubrey says absolutely nothing about the fact that her mirror image is looming over her, and Dakota just lies down next to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That — remarkably — is The End.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91591 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM.png 427w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM-160x79.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM-240x119.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM-375x185.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cbr>\nPlease. By all means. Take a minute to digest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly, \u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em> is actually even worse when viewed in its natural state. The dialogue alone is bewilderingly awkward. Some samples:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>One scene consists, in its entirety, of a cop saying: “I hope this investigation doesn’t interfere with bingo night.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immediately after having sex with Aubrey’s boyfriend, Dakota says, “My finger got cut off, but nobody did it. Who’s gonna believe that? Look at you — you don’t even believe it.”\u003cbr>\nJared: “Yeah, I do.”\u003cbr>\nDakota: “It’s because I f–ked you.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dakota, also to Jared: “It’s phantom limb pain. Maybe that’s why ghosts are restless. Because there’s nothing left of what they were, except for the pain.” (Dear. God.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dakota to the cops, after waking up in the hospital: “Fingers! Leg! Hand! Gone! I practically f–king died!”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When Dakota corners Aubrey’s kidnapper, he says: “Why aren’t you dead? I f–king buried you. Now I have to f–king do the whole thing all over again.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>The thing that really elevates \u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em> to possible Worst Movie of All Time status is the fact that there are also weird, awkward elements that don’t contribute anything to the plot. For example, when Dakota and Jared have sex, the scene keeps panning to Aubrey’s mother, who can hear them humping while she’s cleaning the kitchen. Rather than retire to a different room in her massive house, Mrs. Fleming just scrubs the sink extra-frantically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s this wholly unnecessary moment. Please note: sexy gardener doesn’t appear before or after this scene at all. This is his entire role, scorpion-tattoo-nipple and all:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z81EtsTLTfU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of this is aided by the fact that there isn’t one likable person in the entire movie. Aubrey is arrogant and entitled. Dakota is defensive and rude. Susan is a doormat. Daniel is a creep. The cops are idiots. Jared is in a perpetual state of arousal, but can’t make-out to save his life. There is literally nobody at all to root for in this thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em> is awful in such a plethora of ways, it should really have been elevated to cult status by now, à la \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)\">\u003cem>The Room\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. While Lohan would probably prefer to leave it buried, like the body of Aubrey Fleming, I say we dig this thing up and never let it go.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Exactly ten years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921477/lindsay-lohan-christmas-movie-netflix-falling-for-christmas\">Lindsay Lohan \u003c/a>starred in one of the reasons she ceased to have a movie career. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0897361/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was painful at the time, but has only grown more baffling and preposterous as the years have passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spoiler alert:\u003c/strong> I’m about to tell you everything about this movie. I mention this because watching \u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em> with zero knowledge of it is such a literally astounding experience, you might want to experience that, spoiler-free, before you read this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those of you who wish to proceed, just know that I‘m not going to present the film’s storyline in the twisty-turny order it unfolds in. Instead, I’ll just tell you what you learn by the end, because getting rid of the non-linear structure of this movie really highlights its awfulness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ready? (You think you are, but you’re not — you couldn’t possibly be.)\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/QB6YtM1tH4k'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QB6YtM1tH4k'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Lohan plays twins (like \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120783/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>The Parent Trap\u003c/em>\u003c/a>! Only not at all!) who don’t know that they’re twins. Back in 1988, Daniel and Susan Fleming conceived a child. When their baby died “in the incubator,” Daniel strolled down the hall and decided to purchase a baby girl from a drug addict who’d just birthed twins “because she had one to spare.” (That’s an actual line.) Daniel never tells his wife, and they somehow manage to successfully wander out of the hospital with someone else’s un-treated crack baby without any staff noticing or stopping Susan to tell her that her own baby is dead. (What kind of hospital is this?!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flemings name their new baby Aubrey. Across town, her twin (also presumably surviving without any medical intervention) is named Dakota. All grown up, Aubrey loves to play piano and write, and she won’t have sex with her boyfriend. On the flip side, Dakota is a stripper who curses a lot and smokes cigarettes. Somehow, despite never meeting, both girls have grown their hair into identical styles, down to cut, length \u003cem>and\u003c/em> color, and maintained identical complexions and weights, despite their wildly differing lifestyles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, Aubrey is kidnapped by a dude that has a thing for chopping off body parts. Once Aubrey is tied up, dude crushes and freezes Aubrey’s right hand before cutting off her middle finger. Across town, Dakota is working as a stripper. When she gets off stage, she pulls off her long red gloves to find that the middle finger of her right hand has fallen off. (No, really.) Naturally, she responds to this by taking the bus home (“Take an extra towel,” her boss generously offers) and attempting to sew her finger back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/I-Know-Who-Killed-Me-i-know-who-killed-me-32605273-500-210.gif\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/I-Know-Who-Killed-Me-i-know-who-killed-me-32605273-500-210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night in bed, Dakota has bad dreams and wakes up in a pool of her own blood. She suddenly has a hunch she has a twin and decides that, now that she’s bleeding profusely, it’s a perfect time to head out and find her. Later, a random driver finds Dakota passed out in a ditch (we’re never told how she got there), and the cops (and everyone else) presume she is the still-missing Aubrey. After a spell in the hospital — where Darnell from \u003cem>My Name is Earl\u003c/em> gives her a robotic hand and leg (YES!) — she goes home with her twin’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 398px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91589 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM.png 398w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM-240x157.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.41.16-AM-375x246.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: TriStar Pictures\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dakota can’t remember exactly what happened to her, but she tells everyone repeatedly that she is not Aubrey. No one believes her — not even the dude who bought a twin baby from a crackhead 19 years earlier! Slowly but surely, Dakota figures everything out by having a variety of psychic visions involving blue roses and ribbons, and going to Ask.com (of all places) to find out about “stigmatic twins.” This all magically gives Dakota the ability to know who Aubrey’s kidnapper is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After confronting Aubrey’s dad about his baby-buying, the two head to the kidnapper’s house, Dakota manages to cut his hand clean off in, like, 30 seconds, using only a piece of glass, then Aubrey’s dad dies on a table for reasons that are never explained. Dakota kills the kidnapper by stabbing him in the neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all of this, Dakota magically knows that her long lost twin is buried close-by, so she grabs a shovel, picks a spot, digs for a minute — miraculously unencumbered by her brand new bionic limbs — and finds Aubrey, buried under stained glass (fancy!), still alive and flawless despite a bit of a smudge in her freshly applied lipstick. Aubrey says absolutely nothing about the fact that her mirror image is looming over her, and Dakota just lies down next to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That — remarkably — is The End.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91591 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM.png 427w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM-160x79.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM-240x119.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-13-at-12.52.20-AM-375x185.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cbr>\nPlease. By all means. Take a minute to digest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly, \u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em> is actually even worse when viewed in its natural state. The dialogue alone is bewilderingly awkward. Some samples:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>One scene consists, in its entirety, of a cop saying: “I hope this investigation doesn’t interfere with bingo night.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immediately after having sex with Aubrey’s boyfriend, Dakota says, “My finger got cut off, but nobody did it. Who’s gonna believe that? Look at you — you don’t even believe it.”\u003cbr>\nJared: “Yeah, I do.”\u003cbr>\nDakota: “It’s because I f–ked you.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dakota, also to Jared: “It’s phantom limb pain. Maybe that’s why ghosts are restless. Because there’s nothing left of what they were, except for the pain.” (Dear. God.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dakota to the cops, after waking up in the hospital: “Fingers! Leg! Hand! Gone! 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"content": "\u003cp>If you don't have time to call your senator, stage a protest or partake in a rescue mission at a slaughterhouse, you can at least save some chickens on your phone. Thanks to the new animal rights app \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paintball-hero/id1197127542?ls=1&mt=8\">Paintball Hero\u003c/a>, created by 17-year-old game developer Skylar Thomas, animal liberation is now as easy as click, swipe, win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An animal rights activist since early childhood, Thomas sought to start a conversation about animal abuse and mistreatment through gaming. He partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.peta2.com/\">PETA2\u003c/a>, the youth chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to turn animal rights activism into a 3-D mobile app experience. In the multilevel game, activists or \"rebels\" can rescue animals in three settings: factory farms, rain forests and circuses. As players move through their various missions, they blast corporate gatekeepers via the fatal forces of \"education paintballs,\" colorful blocks that educate as they kill. In the high-stakes land of Paintball Hero, getting informed can get deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response to the game, Thomas says, has been largely positive. The game's reach has been wide, extending far beyond the animal rights echo chamber. Thomas says the app has even attracted players who once derided the vegan lifestyle. \"They didn't realize until becoming engaged in playing what they were actually doing in the game,\" he says, \"And then they asked questions. Then, they paused to think.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paintball Hero is not the only game to create a narrative around a cause. In recent years, there has been an influx of games centered on social and political issues, from sexism to racism to the refugee crisis. \u003ca href=\"https://andyman404.itch.io/the-cat-in-the-hijab\">The Cat in the Hijab\u003c/a>, created by Andrew Wang, features stylized cats who are lobbed with hate speech on a subway train. Here, users enter a world that conjures our own, inhabited by feline bigots who could very well have some ancestral ties to brutish Twitter trolls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 635px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-94059 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-3.06.06-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-3.06.06-PM.png 635w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-3.06.06-PM-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-3.06.06-PM-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-3.06.06-PM-375x210.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-3.06.06-PM-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"The Cat in the Hijab\", by Andrew Wang, for #ResistJam\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/12/13/250737898/game-director-shifts-from-grand-theft-auto-to-iranian-revolution\">1979 Revolution: Black Friday\u003c/a>, produced by iNK Stories, users play a photojournalist caught in the deadly throes of the Islamic Revolution. The storyline presents some tough choices: Do you side with your family or political allies? Do you partake in nonviolence or armed struggle? Growing up as a child in Iran during the revolution, game director Navid Khonsari hoped the game would help players understand the moral ambiguities that activists face during war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While certainly compelling, does the impact of these \"games for good\" reverberate off-screen? How seamlessly do our actions drift from our phones to the real world? Psychologist Mari Swingle, author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsociety.com/Books/I/i-Minds\">i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming, and Social Media are Changing Our Brains, Our Behavior, and the Evolution of Our Species\u003c/a>, says the data is still thin. However, she believes that a game's influence on our behavior hinges heavily on our identification with the game and its avatar. When we see ourselves in the game, our on- and off-screen lives tend to blur. We feel more connected to our on-screen actions, making us more likely to repeat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swingle argues that users' relationship to the subject matter also impacts how games translate into their lives. The same game can activate different brain centers and systems in different users. Homelessness, for instance, can trigger a range of emotions in a person: empathy, pity, fear and even superiority. A game intended to augment empathy and understanding for the homeless plight may not get past, let's say, the base emotion of fear. If the game can't change the base emotion, it can't shift behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, how messages are delivered can influence how we process them. Because gamers often seek out games that align with their beliefs, Nathan Piperno — the lead designer and writer for the game development company Inner Void Interactive — insists that the key to changing minds is subtle messaging. Unless a developer wants to simply \"code to the choir,\" messaging should meld seamlessly with the rest of the storyline. \"I think players don't want to be lectured,\" Piperno explains, \"But they can be extremely perceptive if important themes are delivered organically in the game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How we game also matters. Kirk Kristofferson, who co-authored the study \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/People/Faculty_Members/~/media/Files/Faculty%20Research/Marketing%20Division/Marketing%20Publications/White/Kristofferson%20White%20and%20Peloza%20JCR2014.ashx\">The Nature of Slacktivism: How the Social Observability of an Initial Act of Token Support Affects Prosocial Action\u003c/a>,\" found that when people's acts of token support were public, it would satisfy their desire to look good to others. Showing off was their endgame. No further action needed. Gaming, on the other hand, tends to be a more private act, unless we Instagram our scores. When people privately support a cause, they tend to believe their values align with that cause, which leads to subsequent support. Hence, gaming, when not broadcasted to a live audience or a newsfeed, should inspire future action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers are still determining how gaming imprints itself on our thoughts and behavior. 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The same game can activate different brain centers and systems in different users. Homelessness, for instance, can trigger a range of emotions in a person: empathy, pity, fear and even superiority. A game intended to augment empathy and understanding for the homeless plight may not get past, let's say, the base emotion of fear. If the game can't change the base emotion, it can't shift behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, how messages are delivered can influence how we process them. Because gamers often seek out games that align with their beliefs, Nathan Piperno — the lead designer and writer for the game development company Inner Void Interactive — insists that the key to changing minds is subtle messaging. 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Moms drank alcohol and parents smoked with all the windows closed—and nobody batted an eyelid. What was considered good parenting in those decades would inspire online diatribes about neglect today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016's \u003cem>Bad Moms\u003c/em> movie (which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6359956/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sequel\u003c/a> coming out this November) isn't actually about bad mothers. It's about amazing mothers who think they \"suck\" because they're late for stuff sometimes, get drunk now and again, and (*gasp*) give kids store-bought desserts. The movie is also careful to repeatedly emphasize that, despite all of their frustrations, these mothers also \"love being... mom[s].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKCw-kqo3cs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bad Moms\u003c/em> puts the bar for perfect mom-hood so high that the regular moms are supposed to be the \"bad\" ones. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Many of the criticisms launched at famous moms say far more about the commenters' issues than the shamed celebrity's parenting skills. Last summer, mom-of-four Victoria Beckham was called \"disgusting\" for posting a photo of her giving her daughter a motherly \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/health/victoria-beckham-kisses-daughter-on-lips/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">peck on the lips\u003c/a>, with the sweet tagline: \"kisses from mummy X.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, just last month, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/08/critics-blast-jessica-simpson-over-this-public-photo-of-her-5-year-old-daughter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jessica Simpson came under fire\u003c/a> for posting a perfectly innocent photo of her five-year-old daughter wearing a bikini. Simpson was criticized to such a degree about endangering her child (because: pedophilia), she eventually removed the pic. Kim Kardashian, on the other hand, doesn't even need to pose with her kids to get mommy-shamed—posing nude is enough, and it's not just the public that has chimed in. After Kardashian's internet-breaking \u003ca href=\"http://www.papermag.com/introducing-our-winter-cover-star-kim-kardashian-1427448936.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Paper\u003c/em>\u003c/a> photoshoot, Naya Rivera commented, \"You're someone's mother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only are these types of criticisms monumentally unfair, they add to the insecurities felt by new mothers everywhere. The specific way in which celebrity moms are publicly criticized doesn't just offer a window into how all mothers, famous or not, are criticized in the midst of figuring out new parenting, it instills further fear that they must be doing everything wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mommy-shaming has been exacerbated by both social media and a relatively new kind of parenting industry. In the 1970s and '80s, the pressures on parents were different. New fathers were expected to provide financially; new mothers were expected, above all else, to put their own personalities and interests second to that of their children (to an even greater degree than is still expected today), but at least most of them weren't made to feel neglectful if their kids somehow gained access to \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/2914155/organic-food-children-health/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">non-organic food\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.comfykid.com/Organic-Baby-Clothes.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toys and clothes\u003c/a> that weren't hypoallergenic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who grew up in the 1970s and '80s will tell you that, for most people, it was the age of frozen convenience food, microwave dinners, playgrounds that were made of steel and concrete, and the kind of driving environment where neither carseats (nor even seatbelts) were required past the age of three. Moms drank alcohol and parents smoked with all the windows closed—and nobody batted an eyelid. What was considered good parenting in those decades would inspire online diatribes about neglect today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016's \u003cem>Bad Moms\u003c/em> movie (which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6359956/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sequel\u003c/a> coming out this November) isn't actually about bad mothers. It's about amazing mothers who think they \"suck\" because they're late for stuff sometimes, get drunk now and again, and (*gasp*) give kids store-bought desserts. The movie is also careful to repeatedly emphasize that, despite all of their frustrations, these mothers also \"love being... mom[s].\"\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/iKCw-kqo3cs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iKCw-kqo3cs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Bad Moms\u003c/em> puts the bar for perfect mom-hood so high that the regular moms are supposed to be the \"bad\" ones. That's not helpful or fair to the everyday mothers watching, who may absorb, relate, and then identify as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This week, Justin Bieber unexpectedly canceled the rest of his Purpose Tour, with very little explanation. On Monday, a notice went up on the singer's \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JustinBieber/posts/10155888091793888\">Facebook\u003c/a> page that read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Due to unforeseen circumstances, Justin Bieber will cancel the remainder of the Purpose World Tour concerts. Justin loves his fans and hates to disappoint them. He thanks his fans for the incredible experience of the Purpose World Tour over last 18 months. He is grateful and honored to have shared that experience with his cast and crew for over 150 successful shows across 6 continents during this run. However, after careful consideration he has decided he will not be performing any further dates. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For the agonizing hours that have since passed, fans on Twitter have been commiserating over their lost opportunity to see Biebs live and in the flesh. So what possible reason does JB have for canceling the final 14 dates, when he's already \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purpose_World_Tour#Shows\">completed 152\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's explore possible reasons for Justin Bieber to bail so late in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1. 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If you want to find out about humanity's deepest, darkest secrets -- our fears, our loves, our paranoias, our desires -- Yahoo! Answers is positively Shakespearean in its scope. It's also frequented by an awful lot of people who appear to be in the midst of existential crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrXoCB.anZZDxEAmxBPmolQ;_ylu=X3oDMTEybXNoODNyBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjI1NTlfMQRzZWMDc3I-?qid=20070409232622AApPy7e\">\"Is Jesus Alive?\"\u003c/a> has garnered 37 answers so far, that range from devout confirmations, passages of bible scripture, historical analysis of non-biblical texts, and, brilliantly, some guy who says: \"Sorry, he's long dead; you missed him by almost 2000 years. 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"content": "\u003cp>The next \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em> could be a sci-fi epic set in Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor posted an announcement on her Facebook page:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I'm finally free to announce this: My World Fantasy Award winning novel WHO FEARS DEATH has been optioned by HBO and is now in early development as a TV series with George R. R. Martin as executive producer. Note: This did not happen overnight. It's been nearly 4 years coming.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Martin is, of course, the author of the novels that became the HBO smash hit \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em> and also serves as a co-executive producer of the series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news is a major win not just for Okorafor but for African fiction and representation of African issues on television. To understand why, it's important to understand the themes Okorafor explores in her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting to know the author is the first step in understanding her work. Born in America and the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, \u003ca href=\"http://nnedi.com/\">Nnedi Okorafor\u003c/a> grew up in Illinois. She was a star tennis player until she was diagnosed with scoliosis. It was during her recovery from surgery that Okorafor turned to writing. Her first published novels were young adult books set in West Africa, mainly in Nigeria. \u003cem>Who Fears Death \u003c/em>is her first adult novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93822\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-93822 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-768x1025.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-1020x1361.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-1180x1574.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-960x1281.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0-520x694.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/14517382789_3cf6b76f40_o_vert-ec94021a0078ca2c972d4f9a17a0a0e4ebf079e0.jpg 1874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nnedi Okorafor is the author of the sci-fi novel Who Fears Death, which has been optioned by HBO.\u003cbr> Jim Hines/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A professor of English at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Okorafor has written several other books, including the Hugo and Nebula award-winning \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Binti-Nnedi-Okorafor/dp/0765385252/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500667627&sr=1-2&keywords=binti+nnedi\">Binti\u003c/a>. Her main characters are usually young black African women who want to shape their own destiny but first must overcome present circumstances (going against their parents' wishes, leaving abusive relationships or coming to terms with being an unwanted outsider in a community). She contributed a short story to \u003ca href=\"http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-from-a-certain-point-of-view-anthology-book-celebrates-40-years-of-a-galaxy-far-far-away\">Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View\u003c/a>, an anthology set in the Star Wars universe, due for release in October and was part of a panel discussion on Wonder Woman's \"Sister Protagonists\" at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Fears-Okorafor-18-Mar-2014-Market-Paperback/dp/B011T7CQCC/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=9D01QZQCC2NNJPMB51P5\">Who Fears Death\u003c/a> the right fit for television? Like \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>, it is a great blend of fantasy, magic and suspense. First published in 2010, the 304-page book is a perfect example of the way African science fiction critiques real-life, modern-day Africa. The book is set in a post-apocalyptic Sudan plagued by civil war. The light-skinned Nuru tribe enslaves and wants to exterminate the Okere tribe. Whole villages are burnt and plundered; the dark-skinned Okere women are raped by the Nuru. The novel's protagonist, Onyesonwu, was born from such a rape. Onyesonwu has magical powers, making her a threat to the Nuru and especially to her sorcerer father, Daib. Ultimately, she must overcome her fears and defeat him. In fact, the meaning of Onyesonwu's name is \"who fears death,\" given to her by her mother, in an African language invented for the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the book has the same fantastical elements that make \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em> so popular, it is grounded in current African affairs. The cycle of armed conflict between tribes in Africa is not an invention of science fiction. Okorafor wrote that she gained inspiration for the plot from a \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> article about the children born from sexual violence in Congo and Sudan during their civil wars. Their existence serves as proof of a heinous crime that no one talks about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Okorafor writes in the book:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you ... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93821\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-1180x1772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-960x1442.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3-520x781.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/9780756407285_custom-7db5d141e15876388b9753aa2f0e9898c51f7da3.jpg 1798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penguin Random House\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The practice of female genital mutilation is part of the story. Onyesonwu undergoes FGM and her powers are severely impaired. Steven Barnes, an African-American science fiction writer, criticized this element in the book. In a review for \u003cem>American Book Review, \u003c/em>he said Okorafor made traditional African culture look bad and should have used her book to celebrate the good aspects of the culture. Okorafor responded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Culture is alive and it is fluid. It is not made of stone nor is it absolute. Just because I believe that aspects of my culture are problematic does not mean I am 'betraying' my people by pointing out those problems.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Okorafor is confident that the TV adaptation of her book, if it happens, will remain true to her vision. In a post on her Facebook page, she explains why having Martin as a producer is a bonus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I think I need to say this because I see a lot of people saying weird things: They didn't just choose George R.R. Martin strictly because he's a big name and he's already with HBO and he didn't just agree to executive produce because of all these bs reasons people are making up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've known George for over three years now. Since BEFORE all this with. He's been a sort of mentor to me since the day I [met] him. We've had long phone conversations about writing, Hollywood, teaching, academia, juggling it all. If I had questions, I could just call him up and ask and I have. We are well met. This isn't just a project throwing my book into George's hands just because. He-knows-me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And note: George is a really cool and wonderful person.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The edginess to her writing is also apparent in her social media. When a tweet showed the book jacket without her name, Okorafor was quick to let everyone know that while Martin was helping bring \u003cem>Who Fears Death\u003c/em> to television, no one should forget the writer behind the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mako Muzenda is a freelance journalist and blogger. She's from Zimbabwe and is now studying in South Africa at Rhodes University. Reach her\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mgmuzenda\">@MGMuzenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. 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In fact, the meaning of Onyesonwu's name is \"who fears death,\" given to her by her mother, in an African language invented for the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the book has the same fantastical elements that make \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em> so popular, it is grounded in current African affairs. The cycle of armed conflict between tribes in Africa is not an invention of science fiction. Okorafor wrote that she gained inspiration for the plot from a \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> article about the children born from sexual violence in Congo and Sudan during their civil wars. Their existence serves as proof of a heinous crime that no one talks about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Okorafor writes in the book:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. 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Onyesonwu undergoes FGM and her powers are severely impaired. Steven Barnes, an African-American science fiction writer, criticized this element in the book. In a review for \u003cem>American Book Review, \u003c/em>he said Okorafor made traditional African culture look bad and should have used her book to celebrate the good aspects of the culture. Okorafor responded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Culture is alive and it is fluid. It is not made of stone nor is it absolute. Just because I believe that aspects of my culture are problematic does not mean I am 'betraying' my people by pointing out those problems.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Okorafor is confident that the TV adaptation of her book, if it happens, will remain true to her vision. In a post on her Facebook page, she explains why having Martin as a producer is a bonus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I think I need to say this because I see a lot of people saying weird things: They didn't just choose George R.R. Martin strictly because he's a big name and he's already with HBO and he didn't just agree to executive produce because of all these bs reasons people are making up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've known George for over three years now. Since BEFORE all this with. He's been a sort of mentor to me since the day I [met] him. We've had long phone conversations about writing, Hollywood, teaching, academia, juggling it all. If I had questions, I could just call him up and ask and I have. We are well met. This isn't just a project throwing my book into George's hands just because. 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"content": "\u003cp>There's no subtle way to talk about the fact that Michael Phelps raced a shark on Sunday. (Who knew that winning 23 Olympic gold medals could end in... this?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6Z_9YUvss\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're wondering what happened, Phelps did not swim side-by-side with a shark, or \u003ca href=\"http://media.ufc.tv/photo_galleries/122_weighin/122_weighin-07_UFC122_Soszynski_v_Reljic.jpg\">face off\u003c/a> beforehand, à la UFC matches. In the end (spoiler alert!), even with the aid of something called a \"monofin,\" Phelps lost to both the hammerhead and great white sharks. In your face, mankind!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Discovery Channel's annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/\">\u003cem>Shark Week\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is, of course, a law unto itself at this point. But fewer species have suffered the sheer number of humiliations in the name of popular culture as the shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can all be traced back to that infamous 1977 episode of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Days\">\u003cem>Happy Days\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in which Fonzie, propelled by Richie Cunningham in a speed boat, did a waterski jump over a shark because: ratings desperation. This is where the term \"jumping the shark\" comes from -- a phrase that has come to signify the ultimate in pushing a TV show into a ridiculous premise, in the hopes of keeping it alive past its sell-by date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to three of the most embarrassing minutes in all of \u003cem>Happy Days\u003c/em>' -- nay television's -- history:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvGopsM1G9g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1975's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)\">\u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that originally put sharks on the pop culture map. Widely considered to be the world's \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2015/film/news/jaws-40th-anniversary-at-40-box-office-summer-blockbuster-1201521198/\">first summer blockbuster\u003c/a>, the movie gave swimmers everywhere -- including, inexplicably, the ones in pools -- phobias of what might be hiding beneath the water's surface. The movie is so enduringly adored that there is an annual event in Austin, Texas where people \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/shylawatson/you-couldnt-pay-me-to-attend-this-on-the-water-screening-of?utm_term=.xmqdO33Rd#.qaO9zPPv9\">float in Lake Travis\u003c/a>, while watching the movie. (Rumor has it, a couple of years ago, organizers went to the trouble of hiring divers to tickle the feet of audience members under the water.) Last month, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> also launched a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/time-out-is-launching-londons-first-cinema-to-sail-the-river-thames-050217\">\u003cem>Movies on the River\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in London, England.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the adoration for the original movie so frequently forgets, however, is how completely insane this franchise eventually became. Remember: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_3-D\">Jaws 3-D's\u003c/a>\u003c/em> plot starts with a shark breaking into SeaWorld to eat people, and ends with dolphins rescuing Dennis Quaid. Even worse than that, the premise of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_The_Revenge\">\u003cem>Jaws 4\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is that a great white shark is stalking the one specific family that has featured in each \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> installment, with the purpose of seeking vengeance for its previously murdered shark brethren. This revenge-hungry shark is so angry, it follows the family all the way to the Bahamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, a fan went to the trouble of summing up the absurdity of the entire movie thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf2K_645qtw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As shark movies go, 1999's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_Sea_(1999_film)\">\u003cem>Deep Blue Sea\u003c/em>\u003c/a> had the good sense to alter the DNA of its sharks to turn them into actual monsters. It also won a lot of people over with one of the most joyously \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8I9H07wKw\">unexpected character death\u003c/a> scenes in movie history. Sadly, further shark movies have not faired nearly as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(film)\">\u003cem>The Shallows\u003c/em>\u003c/a> starred a shark that decided that stalking and waiting all day for Blake Lively to fall off a rock was a much better idea than eating the massive dead whale that had brought it into shallow, probably-too-warm waters in the first place. Truly, the movie's premise made absolutely no sense, but 2010's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reef_(2010_film)\">\u003cem>The Reef\u003c/em>\u003c/a> also featured a shark that was dead set on stalking humans as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBS6r4QB86E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, \u003cem>The Shallows\u003c/em> looks like a BBC wildlife documentary when compared with one of the most preposterous movies in history, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado\">Sharknado\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> which suggests that, with the right combination of extreme weather conditions, sharks could legitimately get sucked into the sky and then rained down onto land-dwelling humans below, snapping at, killing, and getting chopped in half by chainsaw-wielding ex-\u003cem>Beverly Hills 90210\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Ziering\">cast members\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-pXDoe5a0E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sharknado\u003c/em> was so insane, and such a guilty pleasure for so many, that this August, we'll be facing down \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbRroXtmvOU\">\u003cem>Sharknado 5\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. No, really. There's five of these suckers now -- and there's absolutely no need for at least four of them -- especially when you consider how many shark-based B-movies already exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some relatively recent shark movies you may not know about, but are 100% real: \u003cem>Shark Night 3-D, Bait 3-D, Shark Attack, 2-Headed Shark Attack, Jurassic Shark, Ghost Shark, Supershark, Dinoshark, Swamp Shark, Sand Shark, Megashark Vs. Mechashark, Megashark Vs. Giant Octopus, Shark Swarm, Shark Attack, Raging Sharks, Sharktopus\u003c/em>. Truly, the list is endless. There are a lot more out there, but that's what Google is for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of movies, one of the most insane iterations of pop culture-related shark humiliation took place during the halftime show of 2015's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIX_halftime_show\">Superbowl XLIX\u003c/a>. It's impossible to know what possessed Katy Perry to stick a couple of dancers in shark costumes to do a jaunty little routine for \"Teenage Dream,\" but all anyone could talk about the next day was Left Shark: the one that momentarily forgot its dance steps, so collapsed into flailing wildly on national television in front of 118.5 million viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://68.media.tumblr.com/a22c1ea0974a1af00f8f0c44dcf447cc/tumblr_nj4pr3bVvH1s2wio8o1_500.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left Shark first prompted a bazillion memes and gifs, then stretched out into \u003ca href=\"http://29odkrngwwiml6xqsb8nbfh.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screen-Shot-2015-05-01-at-12.29.36-PM.png\">parodies\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/styles/marquee_large_2x/public/2015/02/03/super-bowl-left-shark-tattoo.jpg?itok=uD5Y0XBj\">tattoos\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6859524/katy-perry-left-shark-revealed-true-story-super-bowl\">background stories\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redbubble.com/shop/left+shark\">merch\u003c/a>, and, yes, eventually, even a \u003ca href=\"http://bitterempire.com/most-ridiculous-celebrity-lawsuit-of-the-week-katy-perrys-left-shark-trademark-rejected/\">trademark-related lawsuit\u003c/a> because: America. Sure, the incriminating footage of Left Shark remains tear-inducingly funny even now, but the sheer expansion of Left Shark into so many areas of our lives was a prime example of a pop culture moment, uh, jumping the shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of attention we give, and the scary information we perpetuate about sharks has little basis in reality (though 2003's \u003ca href=\"http://www.blumhouse.com/2016/03/16/the-true-story-behind-the-movie-open-water/\">\u003cem>Open Water\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was based on a true story). Movies that depict sharks as ruthless human-murderers are really quite unfair. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/isaf/what-are-odds/risks-comparison/risk-death\">Florida Museum of Natural History\u003c/a> puts your chances, as an American, of being killed by a shark in your lifetime at 1 in 3,748,067. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to three of the most embarrassing minutes in all of \u003cem>Happy Days\u003c/em>' -- nay television's -- history:\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/WvGopsM1G9g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WvGopsM1G9g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It was 1975's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)\">\u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that originally put sharks on the pop culture map. Widely considered to be the world's \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2015/film/news/jaws-40th-anniversary-at-40-box-office-summer-blockbuster-1201521198/\">first summer blockbuster\u003c/a>, the movie gave swimmers everywhere -- including, inexplicably, the ones in pools -- phobias of what might be hiding beneath the water's surface. The movie is so enduringly adored that there is an annual event in Austin, Texas where people \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/shylawatson/you-couldnt-pay-me-to-attend-this-on-the-water-screening-of?utm_term=.xmqdO33Rd#.qaO9zPPv9\">float in Lake Travis\u003c/a>, while watching the movie. (Rumor has it, a couple of years ago, organizers went to the trouble of hiring divers to tickle the feet of audience members under the water.) Last month, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> also launched a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/time-out-is-launching-londons-first-cinema-to-sail-the-river-thames-050217\">\u003cem>Movies on the River\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in London, England.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the adoration for the original movie so frequently forgets, however, is how completely insane this franchise eventually became. Remember: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_3-D\">Jaws 3-D's\u003c/a>\u003c/em> plot starts with a shark breaking into SeaWorld to eat people, and ends with dolphins rescuing Dennis Quaid. Even worse than that, the premise of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_The_Revenge\">\u003cem>Jaws 4\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is that a great white shark is stalking the one specific family that has featured in each \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> installment, with the purpose of seeking vengeance for its previously murdered shark brethren. This revenge-hungry shark is so angry, it follows the family all the way to the Bahamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, a fan went to the trouble of summing up the absurdity of the entire movie thusly:\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/nf2K_645qtw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nf2K_645qtw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>As shark movies go, 1999's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_Sea_(1999_film)\">\u003cem>Deep Blue Sea\u003c/em>\u003c/a> had the good sense to alter the DNA of its sharks to turn them into actual monsters. It also won a lot of people over with one of the most joyously \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8I9H07wKw\">unexpected character death\u003c/a> scenes in movie history. Sadly, further shark movies have not faired nearly as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(film)\">\u003cem>The Shallows\u003c/em>\u003c/a> starred a shark that decided that stalking and waiting all day for Blake Lively to fall off a rock was a much better idea than eating the massive dead whale that had brought it into shallow, probably-too-warm waters in the first place. Truly, the movie's premise made absolutely no sense, but 2010's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reef_(2010_film)\">\u003cem>The Reef\u003c/em>\u003c/a> also featured a shark that was dead set on stalking humans as well.\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/NBS6r4QB86E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/NBS6r4QB86E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Of course, \u003cem>The Shallows\u003c/em> looks like a BBC wildlife documentary when compared with one of the most preposterous movies in history, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado\">Sharknado\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> which suggests that, with the right combination of extreme weather conditions, sharks could legitimately get sucked into the sky and then rained down onto land-dwelling humans below, snapping at, killing, and getting chopped in half by chainsaw-wielding ex-\u003cem>Beverly Hills 90210\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Ziering\">cast members\u003c/a>.\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/M-pXDoe5a0E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/M-pXDoe5a0E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Sharknado\u003c/em> was so insane, and such a guilty pleasure for so many, that this August, we'll be facing down \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbRroXtmvOU\">\u003cem>Sharknado 5\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. No, really. There's five of these suckers now -- and there's absolutely no need for at least four of them -- especially when you consider how many shark-based B-movies already exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some relatively recent shark movies you may not know about, but are 100% real: \u003cem>Shark Night 3-D, Bait 3-D, Shark Attack, 2-Headed Shark Attack, Jurassic Shark, Ghost Shark, Supershark, Dinoshark, Swamp Shark, Sand Shark, Megashark Vs. Mechashark, Megashark Vs. Giant Octopus, Shark Swarm, Shark Attack, Raging Sharks, Sharktopus\u003c/em>. Truly, the list is endless. There are a lot more out there, but that's what Google is for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of movies, one of the most insane iterations of pop culture-related shark humiliation took place during the halftime show of 2015's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIX_halftime_show\">Superbowl XLIX\u003c/a>. It's impossible to know what possessed Katy Perry to stick a couple of dancers in shark costumes to do a jaunty little routine for \"Teenage Dream,\" but all anyone could talk about the next day was Left Shark: the one that momentarily forgot its dance steps, so collapsed into flailing wildly on national television in front of 118.5 million viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://68.media.tumblr.com/a22c1ea0974a1af00f8f0c44dcf447cc/tumblr_nj4pr3bVvH1s2wio8o1_500.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left Shark first prompted a bazillion memes and gifs, then stretched out into \u003ca href=\"http://29odkrngwwiml6xqsb8nbfh.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screen-Shot-2015-05-01-at-12.29.36-PM.png\">parodies\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/styles/marquee_large_2x/public/2015/02/03/super-bowl-left-shark-tattoo.jpg?itok=uD5Y0XBj\">tattoos\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6859524/katy-perry-left-shark-revealed-true-story-super-bowl\">background stories\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redbubble.com/shop/left+shark\">merch\u003c/a>, and, yes, eventually, even a \u003ca href=\"http://bitterempire.com/most-ridiculous-celebrity-lawsuit-of-the-week-katy-perrys-left-shark-trademark-rejected/\">trademark-related lawsuit\u003c/a> because: America. Sure, the incriminating footage of Left Shark remains tear-inducingly funny even now, but the sheer expansion of Left Shark into so many areas of our lives was a prime example of a pop culture moment, uh, jumping the shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Composer and electronica DJ \u003ca href=\"http://www.masonbates.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mason Bates\u003c/a> is listening intently to the sound of a clicking computer key through speakers rigged up to a laptop in his Burlingame music studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/07/20170724JobsOperaVeltman.mp3\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-1180x668.jpg\" title=\"Silicon Valley Composer Transforms Steve Jobs' Life Story Into Opera\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates admits the key clicks don’t sound like much on their own. But the opening music in his new opera, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santafeopera.org/operas-and-ticketing/the-revolution-of-steve-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs”\u003c/a>, morphs out of those simple sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you take them together and then turn them into a rhythmic device, they create a bit of a tapestry,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11577470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11577470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"Composer Mason Bates in his home music studio in Burlingame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Mason Bates in his home music studio in Burlingame. \u003ccite>(Photo: Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bates often uses digital technology in his orchestral works. He’s written major pieces for the likes of the San Francisco Symphony and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., among other top-tier arts institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is his first full-length opera. And it matters to the 40-year-old composer that the pops, beeps and whizzes in his score come from genuine Apple gear. The key clicks are those of the Mac Plus computer, released in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While you might not be able to pick out exactly that’s a spinning hard drive of an Apple I, a Power Mac or Mac Plus key click, I think the accumulation of those sounds does lend an authenticity to the sound world,” Bates says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/Jobs_2003_rev3.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Jobs in 2003. Creative Commons.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1755\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Jobs in 2003. Creative Commons.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it takes more than an authentic sound world to make sense of Steve Jobs’ epic life story on stage; it’s not for nothing that Walter Isaacson’s well-known 2011 biography of Jobs (which Bates cites as a major source of inspiration for his opera) runs to more than 650 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, the man ran three major companies — Apple, NeXT and Pixar — where he oversaw the release of many wildly successful products and movies like the iPhone and \u003ci>Toy Story\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also had a complicated personal life. Jobs was adopted as a baby; he refused to publicly acknowledge his first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, for years; and he died young in 2011 of cancer at the age of 56.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11577472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11577472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Parks as Steve Jobs in ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-1920x1086.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-1180x668.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-960x543.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-375x212.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-520x294.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Parks as Steve Jobs in ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’. \u003ccite>(Photo: Ken Howard Courtesy Santa Fe Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was such a complex individual, I cannot even imagine how you’d capture Steve’s life in an opera,” says Andy Cunningham, who worked closely with Jobs as a publicist and witnessed the ups and down of his career — and erratic temperament — firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham says Jobs hired and fired her several times, and once demanded calla lilies for his hotel room at midnight. “Steve was a very emotional person, and he was driven largely by his emotions,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11572896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11572896\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Cunningham worked as a publicist for Steve Jobs in his early years at Apple, NeXT and Pixar. She witnessed the ups and down of his career — and erratic temperament — first hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Cunningham worked as a publicist for Steve Jobs in his early years at Apple, NeXT and Pixar. She witnessed the ups and down of his career — and erratic temperament — firsthand. \u003ccite>(Photo: Richard Michel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other individuals and organizations have also questioned the idea of transforming Jobs’ story into opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the San Francisco Opera turned down the opportunity to host the world premiere when Bates and his early-stage collaborator on the project, UC Berkeley arts presenter Cal Performances, approached SF Opera’s leadership in 2013. (Since the project was workshopped at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2015 and 2016, SF Opera has come around, and will be producing the work in its 2019-2020 season.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bates revels in the complexity and emotionality of his subject. “His actual life is the stuff of opera,” Bates says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opera careens backward and forward between episodes in Jobs’ life. In one scene he’s launching the iPhone at MacWorld 2007. Then it’s 1974 and he’s dropping acid in an orchard with his girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work also weaves together intricate theme tunes for each individual character. There’s jazzy saxophone music for Steve Wozniak, Jobs’ partner in the early years of Apple. Gongs and prayer bowls illustrate Jobs’ spiritual adviser, Kobun Chino Otogawa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11577471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11577471\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Sorenson as Steve Wozniak and Edward Parks as Steve Jobs in ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-1920x1088.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-1180x668.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-960x544.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-375x212.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-520x295.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrett Sorenson as Steve Wozniak and Edward Parks as Steve Jobs in ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’. \u003ccite>(Photo: Ken Howard Courtesy Santa Fe Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Appropriately, Bates has created a sound world for the opera’s protagonist that features quicksilver electronic sounds and acoustic guitar — an instrument that Jobs adored, especially as played by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while operatic heroes are usually played by tenors, this one’s a baritone — a darker, more nuanced voice. American singer Edward Parks plays the character of Jobs in the world premiere production, opening in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this weekend. Like a true baritone, Parks isn’t afraid to embrace Jobs’ dark side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m mostly drawn to his flaws,” Parks says. “The arc of his life is grand. There’s a lot of betrayal, there’s a lot of anger towards people, and there’s a lot of love as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All ingredients ripe for opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.santafeopera.org/operas-and-ticketing/the-revolution-of-steve-jobs\"> “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs”\u003c/a> opens this weekend at Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There will be a California production at San Francisco Opera during the company’s 2019-2020 season.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates admits the key clicks don’t sound like much on their own. But the opening music in his new opera, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santafeopera.org/operas-and-ticketing/the-revolution-of-steve-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs”\u003c/a>, morphs out of those simple sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you take them together and then turn them into a rhythmic device, they create a bit of a tapestry,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11577470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11577470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"Composer Mason Bates in his home music studio in Burlingame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/mason-bates-in-studio-e1500565320462-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Mason Bates in his home music studio in Burlingame. \u003ccite>(Photo: Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bates often uses digital technology in his orchestral works. He’s written major pieces for the likes of the San Francisco Symphony and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., among other top-tier arts institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is his first full-length opera. And it matters to the 40-year-old composer that the pops, beeps and whizzes in his score come from genuine Apple gear. The key clicks are those of the Mac Plus computer, released in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While you might not be able to pick out exactly that’s a spinning hard drive of an Apple I, a Power Mac or Mac Plus key click, I think the accumulation of those sounds does lend an authenticity to the sound world,” Bates says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/Jobs_2003_rev3.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Jobs in 2003. Creative Commons.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1755\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Jobs in 2003. Creative Commons.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it takes more than an authentic sound world to make sense of Steve Jobs’ epic life story on stage; it’s not for nothing that Walter Isaacson’s well-known 2011 biography of Jobs (which Bates cites as a major source of inspiration for his opera) runs to more than 650 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, the man ran three major companies — Apple, NeXT and Pixar — where he oversaw the release of many wildly successful products and movies like the iPhone and \u003ci>Toy Story\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also had a complicated personal life. Jobs was adopted as a baby; he refused to publicly acknowledge his first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, for years; and he died young in 2011 of cancer at the age of 56.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11577472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11577472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Parks as Steve Jobs in ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-1920x1086.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-1180x668.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-960x543.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-375x212.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ed-parks-as-steve-jobs-e1500565671452-520x294.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Parks as Steve Jobs in ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’. \u003ccite>(Photo: Ken Howard Courtesy Santa Fe Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was such a complex individual, I cannot even imagine how you’d capture Steve’s life in an opera,” says Andy Cunningham, who worked closely with Jobs as a publicist and witnessed the ups and down of his career — and erratic temperament — firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham says Jobs hired and fired her several times, and once demanded calla lilies for his hotel room at midnight. “Steve was a very emotional person, and he was driven largely by his emotions,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11572896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11572896\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Andy-Cunningham-worked-as-a-publicist-for-Steve-Jobs-in-his-early-years-at-Apple-NeXT-and-Pixar-photo-credit-richard-michel-e1500322382895-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Cunningham worked as a publicist for Steve Jobs in his early years at Apple, NeXT and Pixar. 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She witnessed the ups and down of his career — and erratic temperament — firsthand. \u003ccite>(Photo: Richard Michel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other individuals and organizations have also questioned the idea of transforming Jobs’ story into opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the San Francisco Opera turned down the opportunity to host the world premiere when Bates and his early-stage collaborator on the project, UC Berkeley arts presenter Cal Performances, approached SF Opera’s leadership in 2013. (Since the project was workshopped at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2015 and 2016, SF Opera has come around, and will be producing the work in its 2019-2020 season.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bates revels in the complexity and emotionality of his subject. “His actual life is the stuff of opera,” Bates says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opera careens backward and forward between episodes in Jobs’ life. In one scene he’s launching the iPhone at MacWorld 2007. Then it’s 1974 and he’s dropping acid in an orchard with his girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work also weaves together intricate theme tunes for each individual character. There’s jazzy saxophone music for Steve Wozniak, Jobs’ partner in the early years of Apple. Gongs and prayer bowls illustrate Jobs’ spiritual adviser, Kobun Chino Otogawa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11577471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11577471\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Sorenson as Steve Wozniak and Edward Parks as Steve Jobs in ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-1920x1088.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-1180x668.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-960x544.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-375x212.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/steve-and-woz-e1500565440961-520x295.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrett Sorenson as Steve Wozniak and Edward Parks as Steve Jobs in ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’. \u003ccite>(Photo: Ken Howard Courtesy Santa Fe Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Appropriately, Bates has created a sound world for the opera’s protagonist that features quicksilver electronic sounds and acoustic guitar — an instrument that Jobs adored, especially as played by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while operatic heroes are usually played by tenors, this one’s a baritone — a darker, more nuanced voice. American singer Edward Parks plays the character of Jobs in the world premiere production, opening in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this weekend. Like a true baritone, Parks isn’t afraid to embrace Jobs’ dark side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m mostly drawn to his flaws,” Parks says. “The arc of his life is grand. There’s a lot of betrayal, there’s a lot of anger towards people, and there’s a lot of love as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All ingredients ripe for opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.santafeopera.org/operas-and-ticketing/the-revolution-of-steve-jobs\"> “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs”\u003c/a> opens this weekend at Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There will be a California production at San Francisco Opera during the company’s 2019-2020 season.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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