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Catch them before the season ends on Jan. 15th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx-Mho3qU2I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 9–11\u003c/strong>: Rock ‘n’ roll lost some great performers this past year, but others are still going strong, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.midgeure.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midge Ure\u003c/a>, formerly of Thin Lizzy, Rich Kids, and Ultravox. He’s also one of the masterminds, with Bob Geldof, of Live Aid, and the co-writer of “Do They Know it’s Christmas” — a rock ‘n’ roll Zelig. His charity work earned him an Order of the British Empire, and we’re grateful he keeps performing, despite some serious hearing issues. Ure’s shows in the Bay Area include Jan. 9 at Harlow’s in Sacramento (details \u003ca href=\"http://www.harlows.com/event/1319815-midge-ure-sacramento/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>); Jan. 10 at Petaluma’s Mystic Theatre (details \u003ca href=\"http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=6879695&pl=mystic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here\u003c/a>); and Jan. 11 at the Social Hall in San Francisco (details \u003ca href=\"http://www.socialhallsf.com/events/detail/314015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12585018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12585018 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks and Pierre Scott in The Lower Bottom Playaz premiere of 'Mama at Twilight' at the Flight Deck in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-768x474.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-1920x1185.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-960x593.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-240x148.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-375x231.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-520x321.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks and Pierre Scott in The Lower Bottom Playaz premiere of ‘Mama at Twilight’ at the Flight Deck in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Photo: Tasin Sabir/Lower Bottom Playaz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12–29\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.lowerbottomplayaz.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lower Bottom Playaz\u003c/a> is one of the groups keeping theater — and theater training — alive in Oakland (along with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ubuntutheaterproject.com/our-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubuntu Theater Project\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.grittycityrep.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gritty City Repertory\u003c/a>). In keeping with their mission to critically examine the lives of people in the inner city, the Playaz are staging an insightful world premiere by founder and company director Ayodele Nzinga.\u003cem> Mama at Twilight: Death by Love\u003c/em> is a play about HIV, incarceration and health care, just in time for the Republican-controlled Congress to show us how much health care, or its absence, matters in America today. Details for the play at Oakland’s Flight Deck are \u003ca href=\"http://www.lowerbottomplayaz.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2URhI_AEk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 6\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.esandresky.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eleonor Sandresky\u003c/a> is on the cutting edge of the avant-garde. She’s a New York-based pianist who’s trying on some new ideas in music and clothing, with what she calls her “Wonder Suit.” This is wearable tech that does more than just track your footsteps. The suit, as you can see in the video above, lets Sandresky integrate live electronics with her movements. Okay, so the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.pamelaz.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pamela Z\u003c/a> and Derrique McGee have been playing with these ideas for years. But Sandresky brings her New York sensibility to a new work in which she integrates live piano with recorded space sounds from NASA, taking us, we hope, to a deep listening space. Details for her show at the Center for New Music are \u003ca href=\"http://centerfornewmusic.com/calendar/prism-series-presents-the-wonder-suit-show-a-space-odyssey/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12585219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12585219\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"Isaac Julien‘s work will be featured at the Jessica Silverman Gallery booth at the Fog Art Fair\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-1920x1312.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-1180x806.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-960x656.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-375x256.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-520x355.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989.jpg 2037w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac Julien‘s work will be featured at the Jessica Silverman Gallery booth at the Fog Art Fair. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12–14\u003c/strong>: The FOG Design+Art Fair is back at Fort Mason for the fourth year. This is a design and art showcase for the whole west coast, and a Bay Area response to the boom in art fairs around the world. This one is carefully curated, with just a few dozen exhibitors from the worlds of art and design. Among the programs is \u003cem>Designing a Legacy: Female Game Changers in Art and Culture\u003c/em>, a panel including Cheryl Haines of the For-Site Foundation and Stephanie Hanor from the Mills College Museum; a conversation with artist and designer Tomás Saraceno, and much more. Details for the fair (tickets are $20 in advance) at Fort Mason are \u003ca href=\"https://fogfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVifTdjtvE&t=346s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12–29:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsketchfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sketchfest\u003c/a> is back, just in time to bring some humor and comedy to this dark time of year. We’ve got Patton Oswalt coming to town, closeup magician Ricky Jay (who is astonishingly weird and good), tributes to Tig Notaro (David put \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/One-Mississippi-Season-1/dp/B017APUVI8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Mississippi\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> her new show on Amazon, on his \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/tv/article/The-10-best-TV-shows-of-2016-and-2-more-10815761.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Best List\u003c/a>), and more. There’s even a couple of shows aimed at the President-elect, with comedian Moshe Kahser doing a live podcast called \u003cem>Planning a Non-Violent Revolution in the Age of Trump\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sketchfest also features an evening of vaudeville hosted by Tony-winning clown \u003ca href=\"http://thebillirwin.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Irwin\u003c/a>, who performs with his old clowning partner \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Hoyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoff Hoyle\u003c/a> and guitarist \u003ca href=\"http://billfrisell.com/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Frisell\u003c/a>. Irwin is also in San Francisco for a one-man show at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) about playwright \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel Beckett\u003c/a>. Irwin told me by phone that the two shows are deeply connected, because Beckett’s plays were a kind of metaphysical vaudeville. “He and his family went to the variety theater, watching music hall and vaudeville comics,” Irwin said. “He seemed to be, even in his most avant-garde work, alluding to a kind of circus and music hall and vaudeville tradition. And he asked for bowler hats and baggy pants (for the characters of Vladimir and Estragon in \u003cem>Waiting for Godot\u003c/em>).” Details for Sketchfest are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsketchfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>, and for Irwin’s ACT performance \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.act-sf.org/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=A5AED901-EFAA-48AB-964C-2A1C7A7F67BB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3De0E_1x1Rw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 7:\u003c/strong> A lot of people are still hurting as a result of the Ghost Ship Fire, and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/21/women-to-watch-sarah-sexton/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Sexton\u003c/a> is producing a benefit concert at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.starlinesocialclub.com/#home-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starline Social Club \u003c/a>featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ritualsofmine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rituals of Mine\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/waxidols/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wax Idols\u003c/a>, Kool A.D. and others. There will be an altar at the event for offerings from audience members that will later be moved to the site of the fire in Fruitvale. Details for the benefit are \u003ca href=\"http://www.starlinesocialclub.com/new-events/2017/1/7/ghost-ship-benefit-feat-rituals-of-mine-special-guests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPQb6XkxNL4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 19: \u003c/strong>Here’s a heads up for a show that will quickly sell out: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dodosmusic.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dodos\u003c/a> play a benefit for booker Annie Southworth at Bottom of the Hill. Let’s call it a \u003cstrong>CHEAP THRILL\u003c/strong>, $20 in advance for a good cause and a rare chance to see Meric Long and Logan Kroeber play amazing rock ‘n’ roll. \u003ca href=\"http://www.songkick.com/concerts/28697629-dodos-at-bottom-of-the-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>KQED’s Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2017/01/TDL20170105.mp3\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This week we feature the premiere of a new play from Oakland’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.lowerbottomplayaz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Lower Bottom Playaz\u003c/a>, but there’s another scrappy little theater company making amazing work as it closes out its 2016 season. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shotgun Players \u003c/a>in Berkeley are doing five shows in repertory, each one a winner. But their \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> is a work of daredevil brilliance, with cast members learning which character they’ll play just before each performance. Catch them before the season ends on Jan. 15th.\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/Dx-Mho3qU2I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Dx-Mho3qU2I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 9–11\u003c/strong>: Rock ‘n’ roll lost some great performers this past year, but others are still going strong, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.midgeure.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midge Ure\u003c/a>, formerly of Thin Lizzy, Rich Kids, and Ultravox. He’s also one of the masterminds, with Bob Geldof, of Live Aid, and the co-writer of “Do They Know it’s Christmas” — a rock ‘n’ roll Zelig. His charity work earned him an Order of the British Empire, and we’re grateful he keeps performing, despite some serious hearing issues. Ure’s shows in the Bay Area include Jan. 9 at Harlow’s in Sacramento (details \u003ca href=\"http://www.harlows.com/event/1319815-midge-ure-sacramento/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>); Jan. 10 at Petaluma’s Mystic Theatre (details \u003ca href=\"http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=6879695&pl=mystic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here\u003c/a>); and Jan. 11 at the Social Hall in San Francisco (details \u003ca href=\"http://www.socialhallsf.com/events/detail/314015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12585018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12585018 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks and Pierre Scott in The Lower Bottom Playaz premiere of 'Mama at Twilight' at the Flight Deck in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-768x474.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-1920x1185.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-960x593.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-240x148.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-375x231.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970-520x321.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Lower-Bottom-Playaz.-Cat-Brooks-and-Pierre-Scott-in-Mama-at-Twilight.-Photo-by-TaSin-Sabir-e1483654624970.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks and Pierre Scott in The Lower Bottom Playaz premiere of ‘Mama at Twilight’ at the Flight Deck in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Photo: Tasin Sabir/Lower Bottom Playaz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12–29\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.lowerbottomplayaz.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lower Bottom Playaz\u003c/a> is one of the groups keeping theater — and theater training — alive in Oakland (along with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ubuntutheaterproject.com/our-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubuntu Theater Project\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.grittycityrep.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gritty City Repertory\u003c/a>). In keeping with their mission to critically examine the lives of people in the inner city, the Playaz are staging an insightful world premiere by founder and company director Ayodele Nzinga.\u003cem> Mama at Twilight: Death by Love\u003c/em> is a play about HIV, incarceration and health care, just in time for the Republican-controlled Congress to show us how much health care, or its absence, matters in America today. Details for the play at Oakland’s Flight Deck are \u003ca href=\"http://www.lowerbottomplayaz.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\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/vO2URhI_AEk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vO2URhI_AEk'\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>\u003cstrong>Jan. 6\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.esandresky.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eleonor Sandresky\u003c/a> is on the cutting edge of the avant-garde. She’s a New York-based pianist who’s trying on some new ideas in music and clothing, with what she calls her “Wonder Suit.” This is wearable tech that does more than just track your footsteps. The suit, as you can see in the video above, lets Sandresky integrate live electronics with her movements. Okay, so the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.pamelaz.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pamela Z\u003c/a> and Derrique McGee have been playing with these ideas for years. But Sandresky brings her New York sensibility to a new work in which she integrates live piano with recorded space sounds from NASA, taking us, we hope, to a deep listening space. Details for her show at the Center for New Music are \u003ca href=\"http://centerfornewmusic.com/calendar/prism-series-presents-the-wonder-suit-show-a-space-odyssey/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12585219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12585219\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"Isaac Julien‘s work will be featured at the Jessica Silverman Gallery booth at the Fog Art Fair\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-1920x1312.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-1180x806.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-960x656.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-375x256.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989-520x355.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Julien_Baltimore-Courtesy-of-Jessica-Silverman-Gallery-e1483658551989.jpg 2037w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac Julien‘s work will be featured at the Jessica Silverman Gallery booth at the Fog Art Fair. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12–14\u003c/strong>: The FOG Design+Art Fair is back at Fort Mason for the fourth year. This is a design and art showcase for the whole west coast, and a Bay Area response to the boom in art fairs around the world. This one is carefully curated, with just a few dozen exhibitors from the worlds of art and design. Among the programs is \u003cem>Designing a Legacy: Female Game Changers in Art and Culture\u003c/em>, a panel including Cheryl Haines of the For-Site Foundation and Stephanie Hanor from the Mills College Museum; a conversation with artist and designer Tomás Saraceno, and much more. Details for the fair (tickets are $20 in advance) at Fort Mason are \u003ca href=\"https://fogfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\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/-AVifTdjtvE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-AVifTdjtvE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12–29:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsketchfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sketchfest\u003c/a> is back, just in time to bring some humor and comedy to this dark time of year. We’ve got Patton Oswalt coming to town, closeup magician Ricky Jay (who is astonishingly weird and good), tributes to Tig Notaro (David put \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/One-Mississippi-Season-1/dp/B017APUVI8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Mississippi\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> her new show on Amazon, on his \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/tv/article/The-10-best-TV-shows-of-2016-and-2-more-10815761.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Best List\u003c/a>), and more. There’s even a couple of shows aimed at the President-elect, with comedian Moshe Kahser doing a live podcast called \u003cem>Planning a Non-Violent Revolution in the Age of Trump\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sketchfest also features an evening of vaudeville hosted by Tony-winning clown \u003ca href=\"http://thebillirwin.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Irwin\u003c/a>, who performs with his old clowning partner \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Hoyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoff Hoyle\u003c/a> and guitarist \u003ca href=\"http://billfrisell.com/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Frisell\u003c/a>. Irwin is also in San Francisco for a one-man show at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) about playwright \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel Beckett\u003c/a>. Irwin told me by phone that the two shows are deeply connected, because Beckett’s plays were a kind of metaphysical vaudeville. “He and his family went to the variety theater, watching music hall and vaudeville comics,” Irwin said. “He seemed to be, even in his most avant-garde work, alluding to a kind of circus and music hall and vaudeville tradition. And he asked for bowler hats and baggy pants (for the characters of Vladimir and Estragon in \u003cem>Waiting for Godot\u003c/em>).” Details for Sketchfest are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsketchfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>, and for Irwin’s ACT performance \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.act-sf.org/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=A5AED901-EFAA-48AB-964C-2A1C7A7F67BB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\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/3De0E_1x1Rw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3De0E_1x1Rw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 7:\u003c/strong> A lot of people are still hurting as a result of the Ghost Ship Fire, and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/21/women-to-watch-sarah-sexton/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Sexton\u003c/a> is producing a benefit concert at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.starlinesocialclub.com/#home-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starline Social Club \u003c/a>featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ritualsofmine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rituals of Mine\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/waxidols/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wax Idols\u003c/a>, Kool A.D. and others. There will be an altar at the event for offerings from audience members that will later be moved to the site of the fire in Fruitvale. 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Let’s call it a \u003cstrong>CHEAP THRILL\u003c/strong>, $20 in advance for a good cause and a rare chance to see Meric Long and Logan Kroeber play amazing rock ‘n’ roll. \u003ca href=\"http://www.songkick.com/concerts/28697629-dodos-at-bottom-of-the-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rewind to August 2015: Then-candidate Donald Trump is on stage in Cleveland at the first Republican presidential debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct,\" Trump tells the moderator, Fox News' Megyn Kelly. \"I've been challenged by so many people and I don't, frankly, have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time, either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now president-elect, Trump has denounced \"political correctness\" \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/288840-trumps-politically-correct-paradox\">many, many, times\u003c/a> since his campaign began. At a rally a year ago in South Carolina, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/08/458875362/trump-on-his-plan-to-ban-muslims-not-politically-correct-but-i-don-t-care\">he called for\u003c/a> a \"total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.\" He told a cheering crowd that his \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/07/donald-trump-calls-for-total-and-complete-shutdown-of-muslims-entering-the-united-states/?utm_term=.64361be8d5e2\">statement on the subject\u003c/a> was \"very, very salient, very important and probably not politically correct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically correct. Political correctness. Using the biggest bully pulpit there is, Trump has wielded the phrase and its variants like a club some days and a shield on others. And he's hardly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since as far back as 1793, when the term appeared in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/2us419\">U.S. Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> about the boundaries of federal jurisdiction, \"politically correct\" has had an array of definitions. It has been used to describe what is politically wise, and it has been employed as ironic self-mockery. The phrase has driven contentious debates in which free speech and free choice are pitted against civility and inclusion. But it hasn't just changed meaning, it has changed targets. What the November election has made clear is that these words, especially when they're related to matters of multiculturalism and diversity, carry consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://view2.fdu.edu/publicmind/2015/151030/\">Fairleigh Dickinson University\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/20/in-political-correctness-debate-most-americans-think-too-many-people-are-easily-offended/\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a> released two polls in the past year, each finding that, like Trump, a majority of Americans thought people were too easily offended and that \"political correctness\" was one of the country's biggest problems. But what exactly is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People of all political stripes have used the phrase with varying, even contradictory meanings. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson used it to simply describe the correct (and incorrect) way to do politics when he said that he would enact policies \"not because they are politically correct, but because they are right.\" \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> reporter Caitlin Gibson cited the quote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-politically-correct-went-from-compliment-to-insult/2016/01/13/b1cf5918-b61a-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html?utm_term=.19da582509e3\">January story headlined\u003c/a>, \"How 'politically correct' went from compliment to insult.\" In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/us/university-of-chicago-strikes-back-against-campus-political-correctness.html\">academic debates\u003c/a> this year, people have used the words to dismiss the validity of those who advocate for \"safe spaces\" on college campuses and trigger warnings in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author Lionel Shriver riled up literary circles this fall with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/lionel-shrivers-full-speech-i-hope-the-concept-of-cultural-appropriation-is-a-passing-fad\">controversial speech\u003c/a> at the Brisbane Writers Festival. Some called her intolerant and out of touch. Then others \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441096/elena-ferrante-political-correctness-controversy-progressive-opposition-creativity\">accused Shriver's critics\u003c/a> of being too politically correct, another way of saying \"hypersensitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedian Bill Maher, whose aptly named TV show \u003cem>Politically Incorrect \u003c/em>ran for nearly a decade, regularly skewers American politics and assails \"political correctness\" with commentary and satire on \u003cem>Real Time with Bill Maher\u003c/em>, his HBO talk show. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/bill-maher-pens-blistering-essay-863493\">contentious piece for the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in February in which he announced his support for Sen. Bernie Sanders, Maher said Americans \"have been choking on political correctness and overly careful politicians for the last generation or two and are sick of it.\" In that essay, Maher used the phrase as a synonym for cultural cowardice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to review: \"Politically correct\" means \u003cem>politically wise\u003c/em> or \u003cem>invalid\u003c/em> or \u003cem>hypersensitive\u003c/em> or \u003cem>cowardice\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth Perry, a professor of literature at MIT, has written about the moment she thinks the phrase took a turn toward its most common contemporary usage: a rebuttal to the ideals or practice of diversity. That history, she says, starts in the 1960s, when Black Power advocates, along with what she called the New Left movement, used \"politically incorrect\" to mean people were out of step with the movement's orthodoxy. Perry, who founded MIT's women's studies program, wrote a widely cited 1992 essay in \u003cem>The Women's Review of Books \u003c/em>to make the case that the phrase had been co-opted by political conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, people were battling over language that seemed to serve as proxy for deeper disagreements about how Americans should handle ideas of equality and equity. Mixed in with debates about whether or not \u003ca href=\"http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1990/Watch-Your-Language-City-Seeks-Neuter-Form-for-Manhole-/id-3962c20a9b644607b5d509aba29079f1\">\"manhole cover\" should include the word \"man,\"\u003c/a> were more divisive arguments about whether things like affirmative action and multiculturalism were destroying liberal education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her essay, Perry talked about the countless times she had come across articles, op-eds and books that used the phrase \"politically correct\" to assail people like her. It was a phrase she and her friends, all civil rights activists, used all the time, but not the way it was being used in her readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The attack on the 'politically correct,' \" Perry wrote, \"in the universities is an attack on the theory and practice of affirmative action—a legacy of the sixties and seventies—defined as the recruitment to an institution of students and faculty who do not conform to what has always constituted the population of academic institutions: usually white, middle-class, straight, male.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It was our shorthand, and it was always used ironically. ... So that you would say, 'I know it's not politically correct, but I'm going to go get a hamburger anyway,' or, 'I know it's not politically correct, but I shave my legs.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Ruth Perry\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The emerging definition was \"confusing to us, me and my buddies,\" Perry said in a recent interview. \"It was our shorthand, and it was always used ironically. It was always used as a joke. It was, I think, one of the ways we distinguished ourselves as the New Left from the Old Left. It was about not being dogmatic. So that you would say, 'I know it's not politically correct, but I'm going to go get a hamburger anyway,' or, 'I know it's not politically correct, but I shave my legs.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the meaning had already started to shift to the right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, conservative philosopher Allan Bloom wrote the book \u003cem>The Closing of the American Mind\u003c/em>, which a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/allan-bloom-and-the-conservative-mind.html?_r=0\">described as having\u003c/a> \"wildfire success.\" In the book, he railed against the so-called \"open minds\" in academia that he said had instead offered students narrow, liberal perspectives. To make his case, he pointed to the Black Power movement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The Black Power movement that supplanted the older civil rights movement—leaving aside both its excesses and its very understandable emphasis on self-respect and refusal to beg for acceptance—had at its core the view that the Constitutional tradition was always corrupt and was constructed as a defense of slavery. Its demand was for black identity, not universal rights. ....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The upshot of all this for the education of young Americans is that they know much less about American history and those who were held to be its heroes. This was one of the few things that they used to come to college with that had something to do with their lives. Nothing has taken its place except a smattering of facts learned about other nations or cultures and a few social science formulas.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bloom, who died in 1992, is cited regularly by conservative academics and writers. While he didn't use the phrase \"political correctness,\" his writing stoked the view that people were overly concerned with multiculturalism and diversity at the expense of rigorous education and free thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=19546\">1991 commencement speech\u003c/a> at the University of Michigan, then-president George H.W. Bush took note of the conversation that was preoccupying the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land,\" he said. \"And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry said that she and her colleagues \"all believed in consensus and discussion and so on, so we used the term to signify an idealistic belief in something, but the inability of the frail flesh to actually manage always to live up to it. And that's how we used it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, said that language is being manipulated for political purposes all the time by the left and the right. But liberals, he suggested in an interview, are more concerned with being politically \u003cem>right\u003c/em> than being factually \u003cem>correct\u003c/em>. Conservatives, he said, prefer to \"say whatever you want and let it fall where it is, and we'll make the argument as it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now,\" Hanson said, \"the left has destroyed the idea of absolute truth and legitimate ends. ... I think it's really dangerous what the left has done. They've created this effort to distort reality through vocabulary and they thought their agenda was enhanced by it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It is the case that words are weapons in political discourse, and they always have been.\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Vincent Hutchings\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Today, \"politically correct\" is being used as a \"kind of linguistic jujitsu\" to disable an opponent's diversity argument, said Vincent Hutchings, a professor of American politics at the University of Michigan. \"It is the case that words are weapons in political discourse, and they always have been,\" Hutchings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has blamed \"political correctness\" for the\u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283298-trump-decries-political-correctness-in-post-orlando\"> Orlando shootings\u003c/a>, for NBC's\u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/29/media/donald-trump-statement-nbc-brian-williams/\"> decision in 2015\u003c/a> to sever its ties with him over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/16/full-text-donald-trump-announces-a-presidential-bid/?utm_term=.97e0638b6465\">speech announcing his candidacy\u003c/a>, and for a Scottish university's decision to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35060868\">strip him\u003c/a> of an honorary degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the writer and academic \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump\">Moira Weigel wrote\u003c/a> for \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> that Trump hasn't just rejected \"political correctness\"; he has reveled in being \u003cem>incorrect\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Trump did not simply criticise the idea of political correctness – he actually said and did the kind of outrageous things that PC culture supposedly prohibited. The first wave of conservative critics of political correctness claimed they were defending the status quo, but Trump's mission was to destroy it. In 1991, when George HW Bush warned that political correctness was a threat to free speech, he did not choose to exercise his free speech rights by publicly mocking a man with a disability or characterising Mexican immigrants as rapists. Trump did. Having elevated the powers of PC to mythic status, the draft-dodging billionaire, son of a slumlord, taunted the parents of a fallen soldier and claimed that his cruelty and malice was, in fact, courage.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So, to review again: \"Politically correct\" means \u003cem>cowardly\u003c/em> and \u003cem>courageous\u003c/em>; \u003cem>invalid\u003c/em> or \u003cem>hypersensitive\u003c/em>; \u003cem>in step with the orthodoxy\u003c/em>; \u003cem>distortion\u003c/em> and \u003cem>linguistic jujitsu\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The writer Lindy West offers a way out of this semantic loop: People who think the phrase is used to demonize things like social justice and diversity should drop it altogether and call things what they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, she said in an interview, \"I've had to write the same piece about how being 'politically correct' is good. Letting terms just sit there and calcify and normalize just makes it more difficult to dismantle those concepts that ... language props up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tweet recently captured her view about the decades-long debate in fewer than 140 characters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-1.40.31-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56716\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-1.40.31-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-01-04-at-1-40-31-pm\" width=\"779\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-1.40.31-PM.png 779w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-1.40.31-PM-160x17.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-1.40.31-PM-768x82.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-1.40.31-PM-240x26.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-1.40.31-PM-375x40.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-1.40.31-PM-520x55.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rewind to August 2015: Then-candidate Donald Trump is on stage in Cleveland at the first Republican presidential debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct,\" Trump tells the moderator, Fox News' Megyn Kelly. \"I've been challenged by so many people and I don't, frankly, have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time, either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now president-elect, Trump has denounced \"political correctness\" \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/288840-trumps-politically-correct-paradox\">many, many, times\u003c/a> since his campaign began. At a rally a year ago in South Carolina, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/08/458875362/trump-on-his-plan-to-ban-muslims-not-politically-correct-but-i-don-t-care\">he called for\u003c/a> a \"total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.\" He told a cheering crowd that his \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/07/donald-trump-calls-for-total-and-complete-shutdown-of-muslims-entering-the-united-states/?utm_term=.64361be8d5e2\">statement on the subject\u003c/a> was \"very, very salient, very important and probably not politically correct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically correct. Political correctness. Using the biggest bully pulpit there is, Trump has wielded the phrase and its variants like a club some days and a shield on others. And he's hardly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since as far back as 1793, when the term appeared in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/2us419\">U.S. Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> about the boundaries of federal jurisdiction, \"politically correct\" has had an array of definitions. It has been used to describe what is politically wise, and it has been employed as ironic self-mockery. The phrase has driven contentious debates in which free speech and free choice are pitted against civility and inclusion. But it hasn't just changed meaning, it has changed targets. What the November election has made clear is that these words, especially when they're related to matters of multiculturalism and diversity, carry consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://view2.fdu.edu/publicmind/2015/151030/\">Fairleigh Dickinson University\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/20/in-political-correctness-debate-most-americans-think-too-many-people-are-easily-offended/\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a> released two polls in the past year, each finding that, like Trump, a majority of Americans thought people were too easily offended and that \"political correctness\" was one of the country's biggest problems. But what exactly is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People of all political stripes have used the phrase with varying, even contradictory meanings. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson used it to simply describe the correct (and incorrect) way to do politics when he said that he would enact policies \"not because they are politically correct, but because they are right.\" \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> reporter Caitlin Gibson cited the quote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-politically-correct-went-from-compliment-to-insult/2016/01/13/b1cf5918-b61a-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html?utm_term=.19da582509e3\">January story headlined\u003c/a>, \"How 'politically correct' went from compliment to insult.\" In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/us/university-of-chicago-strikes-back-against-campus-political-correctness.html\">academic debates\u003c/a> this year, people have used the words to dismiss the validity of those who advocate for \"safe spaces\" on college campuses and trigger warnings in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author Lionel Shriver riled up literary circles this fall with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/lionel-shrivers-full-speech-i-hope-the-concept-of-cultural-appropriation-is-a-passing-fad\">controversial speech\u003c/a> at the Brisbane Writers Festival. Some called her intolerant and out of touch. Then others \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441096/elena-ferrante-political-correctness-controversy-progressive-opposition-creativity\">accused Shriver's critics\u003c/a> of being too politically correct, another way of saying \"hypersensitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedian Bill Maher, whose aptly named TV show \u003cem>Politically Incorrect \u003c/em>ran for nearly a decade, regularly skewers American politics and assails \"political correctness\" with commentary and satire on \u003cem>Real Time with Bill Maher\u003c/em>, his HBO talk show. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/bill-maher-pens-blistering-essay-863493\">contentious piece for the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in February in which he announced his support for Sen. Bernie Sanders, Maher said Americans \"have been choking on political correctness and overly careful politicians for the last generation or two and are sick of it.\" In that essay, Maher used the phrase as a synonym for cultural cowardice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to review: \"Politically correct\" means \u003cem>politically wise\u003c/em> or \u003cem>invalid\u003c/em> or \u003cem>hypersensitive\u003c/em> or \u003cem>cowardice\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth Perry, a professor of literature at MIT, has written about the moment she thinks the phrase took a turn toward its most common contemporary usage: a rebuttal to the ideals or practice of diversity. That history, she says, starts in the 1960s, when Black Power advocates, along with what she called the New Left movement, used \"politically incorrect\" to mean people were out of step with the movement's orthodoxy. Perry, who founded MIT's women's studies program, wrote a widely cited 1992 essay in \u003cem>The Women's Review of Books \u003c/em>to make the case that the phrase had been co-opted by political conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, people were battling over language that seemed to serve as proxy for deeper disagreements about how Americans should handle ideas of equality and equity. Mixed in with debates about whether or not \u003ca href=\"http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1990/Watch-Your-Language-City-Seeks-Neuter-Form-for-Manhole-/id-3962c20a9b644607b5d509aba29079f1\">\"manhole cover\" should include the word \"man,\"\u003c/a> were more divisive arguments about whether things like affirmative action and multiculturalism were destroying liberal education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her essay, Perry talked about the countless times she had come across articles, op-eds and books that used the phrase \"politically correct\" to assail people like her. It was a phrase she and her friends, all civil rights activists, used all the time, but not the way it was being used in her readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The attack on the 'politically correct,' \" Perry wrote, \"in the universities is an attack on the theory and practice of affirmative action—a legacy of the sixties and seventies—defined as the recruitment to an institution of students and faculty who do not conform to what has always constituted the population of academic institutions: usually white, middle-class, straight, male.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It was our shorthand, and it was always used ironically. ... So that you would say, 'I know it's not politically correct, but I'm going to go get a hamburger anyway,' or, 'I know it's not politically correct, but I shave my legs.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Ruth Perry\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The emerging definition was \"confusing to us, me and my buddies,\" Perry said in a recent interview. \"It was our shorthand, and it was always used ironically. It was always used as a joke. It was, I think, one of the ways we distinguished ourselves as the New Left from the Old Left. It was about not being dogmatic. So that you would say, 'I know it's not politically correct, but I'm going to go get a hamburger anyway,' or, 'I know it's not politically correct, but I shave my legs.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the meaning had already started to shift to the right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, conservative philosopher Allan Bloom wrote the book \u003cem>The Closing of the American Mind\u003c/em>, which a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/allan-bloom-and-the-conservative-mind.html?_r=0\">described as having\u003c/a> \"wildfire success.\" In the book, he railed against the so-called \"open minds\" in academia that he said had instead offered students narrow, liberal perspectives. To make his case, he pointed to the Black Power movement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The Black Power movement that supplanted the older civil rights movement—leaving aside both its excesses and its very understandable emphasis on self-respect and refusal to beg for acceptance—had at its core the view that the Constitutional tradition was always corrupt and was constructed as a defense of slavery. Its demand was for black identity, not universal rights. ....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The upshot of all this for the education of young Americans is that they know much less about American history and those who were held to be its heroes. This was one of the few things that they used to come to college with that had something to do with their lives. Nothing has taken its place except a smattering of facts learned about other nations or cultures and a few social science formulas.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bloom, who died in 1992, is cited regularly by conservative academics and writers. While he didn't use the phrase \"political correctness,\" his writing stoked the view that people were overly concerned with multiculturalism and diversity at the expense of rigorous education and free thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=19546\">1991 commencement speech\u003c/a> at the University of Michigan, then-president George H.W. Bush took note of the conversation that was preoccupying the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land,\" he said. \"And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry said that she and her colleagues \"all believed in consensus and discussion and so on, so we used the term to signify an idealistic belief in something, but the inability of the frail flesh to actually manage always to live up to it. And that's how we used it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, said that language is being manipulated for political purposes all the time by the left and the right. But liberals, he suggested in an interview, are more concerned with being politically \u003cem>right\u003c/em> than being factually \u003cem>correct\u003c/em>. Conservatives, he said, prefer to \"say whatever you want and let it fall where it is, and we'll make the argument as it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now,\" Hanson said, \"the left has destroyed the idea of absolute truth and legitimate ends. ... I think it's really dangerous what the left has done. They've created this effort to distort reality through vocabulary and they thought their agenda was enhanced by it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It is the case that words are weapons in political discourse, and they always have been.\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Vincent Hutchings\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Today, \"politically correct\" is being used as a \"kind of linguistic jujitsu\" to disable an opponent's diversity argument, said Vincent Hutchings, a professor of American politics at the University of Michigan. \"It is the case that words are weapons in political discourse, and they always have been,\" Hutchings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has blamed \"political correctness\" for the\u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283298-trump-decries-political-correctness-in-post-orlando\"> Orlando shootings\u003c/a>, for NBC's\u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/29/media/donald-trump-statement-nbc-brian-williams/\"> decision in 2015\u003c/a> to sever its ties with him over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/16/full-text-donald-trump-announces-a-presidential-bid/?utm_term=.97e0638b6465\">speech announcing his candidacy\u003c/a>, and for a Scottish university's decision to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35060868\">strip him\u003c/a> of an honorary degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the writer and academic \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump\">Moira Weigel wrote\u003c/a> for \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> that Trump hasn't just rejected \"political correctness\"; he has reveled in being \u003cem>incorrect\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Trump did not simply criticise the idea of political correctness – he actually said and did the kind of outrageous things that PC culture supposedly prohibited. The first wave of conservative critics of political correctness claimed they were defending the status quo, but Trump's mission was to destroy it. In 1991, when George HW Bush warned that political correctness was a threat to free speech, he did not choose to exercise his free speech rights by publicly mocking a man with a disability or characterising Mexican immigrants as rapists. Trump did. Having elevated the powers of PC to mythic status, the draft-dodging billionaire, son of a slumlord, taunted the parents of a fallen soldier and claimed that his cruelty and malice was, in fact, courage.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So, to review again: \"Politically correct\" means \u003cem>cowardly\u003c/em> and \u003cem>courageous\u003c/em>; \u003cem>invalid\u003c/em> or \u003cem>hypersensitive\u003c/em>; \u003cem>in step with the orthodoxy\u003c/em>; \u003cem>distortion\u003c/em> and \u003cem>linguistic jujitsu\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The writer Lindy West offers a way out of this semantic loop: People who think the phrase is used to demonize things like social justice and diversity should drop it altogether and call things what they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, she said in an interview, \"I've had to write the same piece about how being 'politically correct' is good. Letting terms just sit there and calcify and normalize just makes it more difficult to dismantle those concepts that ... language props up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tweet recently captured her view about the decades-long debate in fewer than 140 characters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Later, Ariel \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eR6BGrYJ3Y\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found videos on YouTube about her family, calling them “crisis actors,”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> insisting their entire family was invented by the media, Big Pharma, the Illuminati and probably George Soros.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(If you think they’re invented, you have to question why these giants of misdirection didn’t give the wee victim a less distinct name than “Mobius Loop.” Or why the invented father insisted on wearing kilts in the various interviews they conducted with news outlets.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 gave rise to conspiracies that took hold more tightly than ever. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.snopes.com/justin-trudeau-is-fidel-castros-love-child/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s love child.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And everything from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/18/498297287/5-reasons-and-then-some-not-to-worry-about-a-rigged-election\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the election\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eater.com/2016/2/4/10914958/chipotle-conspiracy-theory-e-coli-bioterrorism\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the leftover Chipotle in your fridge\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-wolfson/the-nba-is-rigged-too_b_10598010.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the NBA championship\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is rigged. 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In the end, it is as impossible for us to ignore Banks when she spews \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/azealia-banks-lashes-out-at-zayn-malik-in-twitter-rant-w206021\">racist slurs at Zayn Malik\u003c/a>, as it is to ignore Trump when he's referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TML2cApMueU\">Mexicans as \"rapists.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theories abound that Trump tweets outrageous things to distract us from darker things that are going on in his campaign and cabinet. The \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/29/donald-trumps-preposterous-tweets-distracting-us-enormous-conflicts/\">Telegraph\u003c/a> \u003c/em>went so far as to say: \"It is up to the media to attempt to hold the obstinate new president to account and trawl through his business dealings with meticulous detail. Instead, they are chasing their tails over provocative tweets about the number of illegal votes and Hamilton actors. Trump is a master of misdirection. We must not allow ourselves to be distracted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same vein, Azealia Banks receives more critiques of her personality than her music. Attacking people on social media is a way of forcing us to think about her even when she's not promoting a record. She knows that we -- the music press, the gossip sites, music fans -- will talk about her if she behaves badly. We simply cannot help ourselves. Consider the fact that Banks didn't release an album in 2013, but she did receive a nomination for the \"Villain of the Year\" Award by Britain's well-respected\u003cem> NME\u003c/em> publication. Who won that same award in 2016? You've guessed it: Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undoubtedly, these two are cut from the same cloth. Is it possible that they truly believe all of the things they say on social media? Sure. 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By the way, I’m in awe of every play now in rotation at \u003ca href=\"https://www.shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shotgun Players\u003c/a> in Berkeley: \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Village Bike\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Grand Concourse\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>Caught\u003c/em> are all terrific, with a repertory company of just 12 actors doing all the shows through Jan. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now here’s the official list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2016/12/TDL20161223.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPFEdYX9boU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 24\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.oigc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir\u003c/a> proves that diversity is strength. The choir has brought the ecstatic joy of Black church music to audiences for more than 30 years under the leadership of Terrance Kelly. He said a recent poll revealed that members adhere to 13 faiths, including Judaism, Bahá’í, Buddhism, and baseball. The choir has been doing this Christmas Eve show at Slim’s for about 25 years. and Kelly says there’s nothing wrong with taking gospel into a rock club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re supposed to take the gospel outside of the church,” he told me, “that’s what’s wrong with a lot of churches now is that it remains inside the church. If somebody can get blessed with a cocktail in their hands, they still got blessed. Right?” The Slim’s shows are all ages and just $15, so bring the family for this \u003cstrong>CHEAP THRILL\u003c/strong>! 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It won’t be like anything else you’ve heard this year, and that’s a good thing. Details for their Point Richmond Jazz show at the First United Methodist Church are \u003ca href=\"http://www.prjazz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsRmL9mgxCU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 29-Jan. 1\u003c/strong>: Saxophonist \u003ca href=\"http://maceoparker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maceo Parker\u003c/a> helped define the meaning of funk while a sideman to James Brown. As a bandleader since the early 1990’s, he’s become a Bay Area regular, swinging in to host New Year’s parties first at \u003ca href=\"http://www.yoshis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yoshi’s \u003c/a>and now at SFJAZZ. Parker’s music is jazz as the best kind of party music, and this year he’s featuring the terrific vocalist Judith Hill, who recorded with Prince and did the soundtrack for \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1989593/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spike Lee’s \u003c/a>\u003cem>Red Hook Summer. \u003c/em>Parker does four nights at SF JAZZ and details are \u003ca href=\"https://sfjazz.org/events/2016-17/1231/maceo-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1-HTiwGiY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 31\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sleater-kinney.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sleater Kinney\u003c/a> is back in the in the Bay Area on a comeback tour that proves they still rock as hard (or harder) than any other band. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 24\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.oigc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir\u003c/a> proves that diversity is strength. The choir has brought the ecstatic joy of Black church music to audiences for more than 30 years under the leadership of Terrance Kelly. He said a recent poll revealed that members adhere to 13 faiths, including Judaism, Bahá’í, Buddhism, and baseball. The choir has been doing this Christmas Eve show at Slim’s for about 25 years. and Kelly says there’s nothing wrong with taking gospel into a rock club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re supposed to take the gospel outside of the church,” he told me, “that’s what’s wrong with a lot of churches now is that it remains inside the church. If somebody can get blessed with a cocktail in their hands, they still got blessed. Right?” The Slim’s shows are all ages and just $15, so bring the family for this \u003cstrong>CHEAP THRILL\u003c/strong>! 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Details for the shows at San Francisco’s New Asia Restaurant are \u003ca href=\"http://www.koshercomedy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\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/KabkFfwJK3E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KabkFfwJK3E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 23\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/adamtheismusic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Theis\u003c/a> can wake surf and play trombone at the same time. (Really. See him do it \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1H-BwT65I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.) So it’s no surprise that he’s a multi-tasker when it comes to leading bands too, heading the big-band Jazz Mafia and the smaller Mobtet, plus the Cosa Nostra Strings. Friday night he’s leading the string band into Point Richmond Jazz, with the terrific Shaina Evoniuk on violin, Keith Lawrence on viola, Lewis Pazner on cello. and Aaron Kierbel on cajon/percussion. It won’t be like anything else you’ve heard this year, and that’s a good thing. 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And with only four channels to choose from (my parents refused to get cable) I had to rely on whatever the networks aired and hope for the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, that hope was often misplaced, especially around the holidays when networks would broadcast very special holiday episodes that might as well have been cooked up by a nefarious cell of Santa-hating atheists, such was their power to make Christmas look lame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/art-nerd-holiday-guide-2016/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12409450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016.jpg\" alt=\"art_nerd-holidayguide-2016\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, as Alf is my witness, I loved them. No, I hated them. No, I loved them. No, I tolerated them. Anyway, here are my most memorable holiday special dumpster fires from years past. You’ll find, I think, a healthy mixture of horrible wonderfulness, beautiful misery, agony, and ecstasy. Happy holidays, kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eFMwzyxsGA\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Beverly Hills 90210\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Brandon, Brenda, Dylan, Kelly and the rest of the 30-year-old teens celebrated many Christmases during their original run, but none were more infamous than the episode that took the angel motif from \u003cem>It’s a Wonderful Life\u003c/em> and beat it to death with a stick. The episode concludes with two off-screen angels (helpfully represented by stock footage of blinking stars) intervening to prevent the bus-riding teens from colliding with a rusty garbage truck. 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That’s not that a bad idea, but just doesn’t seem very likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3a5j8PgQxg\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> \u003cem>Holiday Special\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, it was just a rumor: A \u003cem>Star Wars Holiday Special\u003c/em> featuring all the main actors partaking in jaw-droppingly lame variety show skits about “Life Day”? No way could that be true. But then the Internets happened and people started to sell old VHS copies on eBay and the world bore witness to the horror that is four wookiees grunting at each other with no subtitles. And that’s just the first 15 minutes. Stick around and watch Bea Arthur do standup, Carrie Fisher sing, and Chewbacca’s father enjoy virtual reality wookiee porn. I’m not joking. People really made this. It exists and no list of worst Christmas anything can be complete without it. Like the Grand Canyon, it has to be seen to be believed.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Here are just a few ideas for those on your (medically-qualified) list of patients, er…friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12513367\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumb wp-image-12513367\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang.jpg\" alt=\"Zen Potion's Big Bang Tea\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zen Potion’s Big Bang Tea\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Zen Potion’s Big Bang Tea\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Zen-Potion-556647741085019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>We’re all familiar with the time-honored tradition of pouring a little whiskey in your tea; but what about some THC? The San Francisco-based team at Zen Potion has put together a handful of tea varieties to sooth both your throat and mind on these windy winter evenings. The all-vegan, all-organic, sugar-free Big Bang variety packs includes rooibos, cinnamon, cloves, orange peel, rosehip, rose petals, and a strong dose of THC into a toasty treat. Also available in Creativity, Time Travel and Healing varieties (all of which deliver a mellower high). Bonus points: it comes in a little triangular box that looks #StraightOuttaDiagonAlley. 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You don’t need a medical card to buy this coloring book. Created by Jared Hoffman, the volume features more than 40 original illustrations by nine artists, and is designed to both mesmerize and relieve your stress. While Hoffman suggests that it’s perfect for “[settling] down with your ‘kindest buds,’ a stash of junk food, and plenty of good vibes,” any open-minded adult is likely to find peace of mind by tapping into the Zen-like trance of coloring, especially on the handful of gray winter days we get per year, when you’re just looking to inject a little color into the gloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12513563\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 625px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumb wp-image-12513563\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/WhoopiMaya-Products.jpg\" alt=\"Whoopi & Maya products\" width=\"625\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/WhoopiMaya-Products.jpg 625w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/WhoopiMaya-Products-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/WhoopiMaya-Products-240x144.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/WhoopiMaya-Products-375x226.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/WhoopiMaya-Products-520x313.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whoopi & Maya products\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Whoopi & Maya’s Bath Salts\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"http://whoopiandmaya.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>It’s official: Whoopi Goldberg is in the medical marijuana game. The talk-show host and actress has teamed up with Maya Elisabeth, the founder of Om Edibles and winner of numerous Cannabis Cup awards, to create a collection of medical cannabis products specifically designed to relieve menstrual discomfort. Their product line include rubs, tinctures and edibles. And their most exciting offering is a line of Epsom bath salts called Soak designed to give bathers the most glorious soak this side of Turkey. The salts come in three scents: lavender, something called Amber Moon (is it a metaphor? a moon made of caramel?) and Fragrance-Free. But just to clarify — you’re not gonna get high. 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Available in countless strains, from the OG Kush to the Blue Dream Haze, cultivating your own plants isn’t just a way to save some cash — it’s the best way to learn about the intricacies, challenges and rewards of home-grown pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2>Runner Ups\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>VapeXhale\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor the high-end patients in your family (or if you’ve robbed a bank recently, or have come into an inheritance, or work in tech) there is no stronger product on the market than the VapeXhale. Developed by Bone Thugs n’ Harmony backup dancer and Mortal Kombat stunt double turned entrepreneur Seibo Shen, the Evo model delivers the most thorough and pleasant inhalation out there. Plus, you can carry it around in a suitcase, which makes you look cool, or like you’re in The Matrix.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nNapreva Peppermint Tincture\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis tincture – spritz it under your tongue for maximum effect – is mostly CBD, versus THC, so it won’t get you terribly stoned. But if you’re having trouble sleeping, or are experiencing any aches this holiday season, this may just be the gift for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gift Cards!\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIf you know whether the person you’re buying for prefers an indica or a sativa, a concentrate or an eighth, why not just get them a gift card from one of the Bay Area’s many dispensaries, including Cookies SF, Berkeley Patients Group, CBCB or Harborside? You can’t go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/art-nerd-holiday-guide-2016/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12409450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016.jpg\" alt=\"art_nerd-holidayguide-2016\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/Art_Nerd-HolidayGuide-2016-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the days get shorter, we find ourselves retreating, with accelerating frequency, to the comfort of the couch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the holidays upon us, what better opportunity to give the gift of cannabis! Here are just a few ideas for those on your (medically-qualified) list of patients, er…friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12513367\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumb wp-image-12513367\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang.jpg\" alt=\"Zen Potion's Big Bang Tea\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/zen-potion-big-bang-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zen Potion’s Big Bang Tea\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Zen Potion’s Big Bang Tea\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Zen-Potion-556647741085019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>We’re all familiar with the time-honored tradition of pouring a little whiskey in your tea; but what about some THC? The San Francisco-based team at Zen Potion has put together a handful of tea varieties to sooth both your throat and mind on these windy winter evenings. The all-vegan, all-organic, sugar-free Big Bang variety packs includes rooibos, cinnamon, cloves, orange peel, rosehip, rose petals, and a strong dose of THC into a toasty treat. Also available in Creativity, Time Travel and Healing varieties (all of which deliver a mellower high). Bonus points: it comes in a little triangular box that looks #StraightOuttaDiagonAlley. 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You don’t need a medical card to buy this coloring book. Created by Jared Hoffman, the volume features more than 40 original illustrations by nine artists, and is designed to both mesmerize and relieve your stress. 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The talk-show host and actress has teamed up with Maya Elisabeth, the founder of Om Edibles and winner of numerous Cannabis Cup awards, to create a collection of medical cannabis products specifically designed to relieve menstrual discomfort. Their product line include rubs, tinctures and edibles. And their most exciting offering is a line of Epsom bath salts called Soak designed to give bathers the most glorious soak this side of Turkey. The salts come in three scents: lavender, something called Amber Moon (is it a metaphor? a moon made of caramel?) and Fragrance-Free. But just to clarify — you’re not gonna get high. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you are a woman over the age of 12 who goes online or leaves the house, then you already know that the world doesn't offer you much protection. Whether in the street, in a bar, on public transport, at a show, or merely having the audacity to speak in the comments section, you know -- from a wealth of exhausting experience -- that a lot of men feel entitled to say a lot of unsolicited, terrible things to you. We learn this young, and we learn to be wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the sake of our mental well-being, a lot of women regularly retreat to female-friendly spaces. We have feminist Facebook groups that are private to keep out the trolls and the \"men's rights\" activists. We have meetings in our communities about politics, art, and knitting. We have bands that attract predominantly female audiences (never leave us again, Sleater-Kinney) and we have online activities that are so innocuous, we like to presume they're safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, I assumed Words With Friends was one of these activities because, well, it's \u003cem>Scrabble\u003c/em>. Sadly, these days, not even in the nerdiest, wordiest online environment can we get away from men who do not understand or respect social boundaries. I found this out recently after accepting a game request from a stranger, who immediately messaged me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was our exchange:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52186\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-800x418.png\" alt=\"wwf-me\" width=\"800\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-800x418.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-160x84.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-768x402.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-1020x534.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-1920x1004.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-1180x617.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-960x502.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-240x126.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-375x196.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Me-520x272.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of you might think that was an overreaction on my part. Perhaps so. But when I posted this screenshot to social media, aghast that I can't even play WWF without a man vocalizing what he thinks of my appearance, I was reasonably astonished to find that this type of non-game-related contact is not only common, but has been happening to a lot of women I know, inside the app, for a really long time. And some of their experiences are great examples of precisely why I responded so bluntly, so quickly. [Please note: I have omitted user names and last names to eliminate the chance of these women being targeted for further harassment.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a screenshot from my friend Tamra, demonstrating how a hearty greeting from a stranger can become threatening, if you don't immediately respond to it (even though it's the middle of the night):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52196\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-800x505.png\" alt=\"tamra-final\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-800x505.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-768x485.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-1020x644.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-1920x1212.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-1180x745.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-960x606.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-375x237.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-520x328.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's one from my pal Caroline, demonstrating what can happen when you take the time to engage rationally with the stranger asking you questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-800x628.png\" alt=\"wwf-caz-pt-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-800x628.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-160x126.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-768x603.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-1020x801.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-1920x1508.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-1180x927.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-960x754.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-240x188.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-375x295.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-520x408.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52198\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-800x1121.png\" alt=\"wwf-caz-pt-3\" width=\"800\" height=\"1121\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-800x1121.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-160x224.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-768x1076.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-1020x1429.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-1920x2689.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-1180x1653.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-960x1345.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-240x336.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-375x525.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-520x728.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sending these screenshots to me, Caroline told me with a shrug that because she is such an active WWF user: \"I tend to block and delete them, but they happen most days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca, another regular player who contacted me, said: \"I refuse all random games now. One guy seemed okay at first, then got completely obsessed and weird. Others just send random sexual s**t...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicky told me: \"I deleted the app because, despite enjoying Words with actual friends, it was too depressing to start games with randos and have all the words be [sexually explicit].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, being actively aggressive is the only way to shut this type of behavior down. Here's my friend Alexis trying and ultimately failing to ignore a pest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-800x938.png\" alt=\"alexis\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-800x938.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-160x188.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-768x901.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-1020x1196.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-1920x2252.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-1180x1384.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-960x1126.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-240x281.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-375x440.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-520x610.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing I discovered, just within my immediate friend group, is that sexual harassment on WWF isn't limited to merely irritating come-on lines and ugly insults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Two of the last four people WWF has paired me up with have had porn as their profile pic,\" my friend Julia told me. \"I didn’t take screen shots. I just resigned both games immediately. The second one was an amateur shot of him (his name was graphic too) and a woman. I could see his penis \u003cem>and\u003c/em> her vagina.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was initially a little taken aback to find that my friends, for the most part, were not reporting many of these incidents to Zynga (\"I just ignore it,\" Dani said, \"because it happens constantly\"), but it made a whole lot more sense once I discovered that blocking a player in WWF does not automatically remove them from your screen. The game that's already been started with that person will remain on your homepage, and the lines of contact between you (messages and \"nudges\") will remain open until you hit the \"resign\" button. And, as all WWF players know, the \"resign\" button comes with a clear warning: \"End this game and it counts as a loss!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it another way, Words With Friends currently has a blocking system that actively penalizes women for trying to get away from sexual harassers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After trying and failing to remove the unwanted player from my games list without having to \"resign\" (and add a loss to my overall score), I attempted to contact Zynga to find out why. Not only was there no means to file a complaint within the app, but the form I filled out on the company's website prompted little more than an automatically triggered email and a few days of silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, frustrated, I contacted Zynga as a member of the press, and asked them what they were doing to tackle the harassment problems inside WWF. I also asked them why the list of options when blocking another player were limited to things like spam and sexually explicit content, when straight-forward \"unwanted contact\" seemed to be a more accurate description of what I and many of my friends were dealing with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response from Zynga this time was swift and serious -- to the degree that, in a slightly bizarre turn of events, I was invited to discuss these issues over a conference call with three very concerned-sounding high-ranking Zynga employees, including Vaibhav Sahgal, VP of Games and head of Words With Friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of the communications that followed, Zynga sent me the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"\u003cem>Upcoming feature roll outs [include]: \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Enhancing the blocking of an opponent so that once an opponent has been blocked, they will not have a presence within the reporting player’s app, including their games list, leaderboard and friends list. This enhanced blocking has already started to ramp in Words With Friends and will be live for all players across Web, iOS and Android over the coming days.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We appreciated your suggestion to add a category for “Unwanted Contact” when reporting a player. We will be adding this category into the Words With Friends game across Web, iOS and Android in the next two weeks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Looking ahead, we are evaluating additional measures, including reducing the number of steps taken by players in-game to report violations of our Terms of Service and Community Rules.\u003c/em>\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>All of which is great news for the multitude of women who just want to play a word game in peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, though, the fact that these steps even have to be taken within an app like Words With Friends is monumentally depressing. It is symbolic of how hard it is for women to get away from sexual harassment and unsolicited body-commentary, and how even the simplest of everyday activities can be interrupted by jarring interactions with male strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, there is one silver lining: it is easier to safely shut down sexual harassment within the realm of an app than it is to do so in a public space -- but this must be a team effort. We as individuals must take responsibility for reporting harassment, and web and app companies must be far more vigilant in monitoring who's getting blocked and why. 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[Please note: I have omitted user names and last names to eliminate the chance of these women being targeted for further harassment.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a screenshot from my friend Tamra, demonstrating how a hearty greeting from a stranger can become threatening, if you don't immediately respond to it (even though it's the middle of the night):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52196\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-800x505.png\" alt=\"tamra-final\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-800x505.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-768x485.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-1020x644.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-1920x1212.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-1180x745.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-960x606.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-375x237.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tamra-final-520x328.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's one from my pal Caroline, demonstrating what can happen when you take the time to engage rationally with the stranger asking you questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-800x628.png\" alt=\"wwf-caz-pt-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-800x628.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-160x126.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-768x603.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-1020x801.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-1920x1508.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-1180x927.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-960x754.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-240x188.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-375x295.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt.-1-520x408.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52198\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-800x1121.png\" alt=\"wwf-caz-pt-3\" width=\"800\" height=\"1121\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-800x1121.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-160x224.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-768x1076.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-1020x1429.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-1920x2689.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-1180x1653.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-960x1345.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-240x336.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-375x525.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/WWF-Caz-Pt-3-520x728.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sending these screenshots to me, Caroline told me with a shrug that because she is such an active WWF user: \"I tend to block and delete them, but they happen most days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca, another regular player who contacted me, said: \"I refuse all random games now. One guy seemed okay at first, then got completely obsessed and weird. Others just send random sexual s**t...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicky told me: \"I deleted the app because, despite enjoying Words with actual friends, it was too depressing to start games with randos and have all the words be [sexually explicit].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, being actively aggressive is the only way to shut this type of behavior down. Here's my friend Alexis trying and ultimately failing to ignore a pest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-800x938.png\" alt=\"alexis\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-800x938.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-160x188.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-768x901.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-1020x1196.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-1920x2252.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-1180x1384.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-960x1126.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-240x281.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-375x440.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/Alexis-520x610.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing I discovered, just within my immediate friend group, is that sexual harassment on WWF isn't limited to merely irritating come-on lines and ugly insults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Two of the last four people WWF has paired me up with have had porn as their profile pic,\" my friend Julia told me. \"I didn’t take screen shots. I just resigned both games immediately. The second one was an amateur shot of him (his name was graphic too) and a woman. I could see his penis \u003cem>and\u003c/em> her vagina.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was initially a little taken aback to find that my friends, for the most part, were not reporting many of these incidents to Zynga (\"I just ignore it,\" Dani said, \"because it happens constantly\"), but it made a whole lot more sense once I discovered that blocking a player in WWF does not automatically remove them from your screen. The game that's already been started with that person will remain on your homepage, and the lines of contact between you (messages and \"nudges\") will remain open until you hit the \"resign\" button. And, as all WWF players know, the \"resign\" button comes with a clear warning: \"End this game and it counts as a loss!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it another way, Words With Friends currently has a blocking system that actively penalizes women for trying to get away from sexual harassers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After trying and failing to remove the unwanted player from my games list without having to \"resign\" (and add a loss to my overall score), I attempted to contact Zynga to find out why. Not only was there no means to file a complaint within the app, but the form I filled out on the company's website prompted little more than an automatically triggered email and a few days of silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, frustrated, I contacted Zynga as a member of the press, and asked them what they were doing to tackle the harassment problems inside WWF. 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This enhanced blocking has already started to ramp in Words With Friends and will be live for all players across Web, iOS and Android over the coming days.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We appreciated your suggestion to add a category for “Unwanted Contact” when reporting a player. We will be adding this category into the Words With Friends game across Web, iOS and Android in the next two weeks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Looking ahead, we are evaluating additional measures, including reducing the number of steps taken by players in-game to report violations of our Terms of Service and Community Rules.\u003c/em>\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>All of which is great news for the multitude of women who just want to play a word game in peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, though, the fact that these steps even have to be taken within an app like Words With Friends is monumentally depressing. It is symbolic of how hard it is for women to get away from sexual harassment and unsolicited body-commentary, and how even the simplest of everyday activities can be interrupted by jarring interactions with male strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, there is one silver lining: it is easier to safely shut down sexual harassment within the realm of an app than it is to do so in a public space -- but this must be a team effort. We as individuals must take responsibility for reporting harassment, and web and app companies must be far more vigilant in monitoring who's getting blocked and why. Because if we can't eliminate harassment from an online word game, what hope do we have for all of the other places women exist?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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