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She later tweeted: \"I only trust this country to what it is: full of s**t. takes s**t to know s**t so we may as well, put a piece of s**t in the White House.\" Later still: \"In conclusion I think Donald trump is evil like America is evil and in order for America to keep up with itself it needs him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truthfully, as unlikely as it seems, Trump and Banks do have far more in common with each other than Trump and Kanye do. Banks' career started with a MySpace profile; Trump's campaign relied heavily on his use of Twitter (and it looks like his Presidency will too).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last month, there have been discussions in every corner of the media about whether Trump's shock election win was at least partially attributable to the inflated amount of press he received while on the campaign trail, largely on account of his habit of sending controversial Tweets out into the ether. 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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. But there's also a strong likelihood that they do it simply because this method has been tried, tested and successful for them both, and they've noticed that their careers don't suffer, no matter what they say to keep the focus on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, when self-created, self-promoted controversies are beneficial to someone's career, that person is not incentivized to be more respectful to others -- quite the opposite. Banks and Trump may never end up in the same room as each other, but if they did, there's a high likelihood that the meeting would be an explosive clash of egos, an absurd waste of time, and one of the most annoyingly entertaining distractions of the year. Not even Kanye could beat that.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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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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>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabkFfwJK3E\u003c/p>\n\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. 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. 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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. After this aired in 1992, I remember turning to my sister and saying, with utmost sincerity, “What?” 24 years later, I still don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter noborder\">\nhttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmq5p6_alf-s-special-christmas_shortfilms\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Alf \u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I know, I know. It’s \u003cem>Alf\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Alf\u003c/em> was always lame, so of course the Christmas episode was too. True. But hear me out, because this two-parter (remember those?) found a way to make a show about a wise-ass alien puppet incredibly depressing (while still using a laugh track). Basic plot: The Tanners go to a cabin for Christmas. Alf gets lost and mistaken for a stuffed animal. Hilarity ensues, right? WRONG! Alf winds up in the hands of a very sick young girl and learns an important lesson about how the grim specter of death is never far away. And… scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJgeO2wL8zE\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>He-Man and She-Ra\u003c/em>: \u003cem>A Christmas Special\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Welcome to the wonderful world of Eternia, where every character is on steroids and the wearing of loin clothes is enforceable by law. In this yuletide special, a couple of ragamuffins from Earth are kidnapped and end up in the hands of the evil Skeletor. Things looks very grim indeed because Skeletor is one mean S.O.B. But then he has a change of heart and decides he wants to protect the kids from the elements as they traipse through a blizzard. Why? Does he have an even more sinister plan? Is he going to harvest their organs? Nope. He’s been transformed by the magic of Christmas. Oof. Not believable, Skelly, totally out of character. It’s as if a misogynist suddenly started respecting women. 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. 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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"content": "\u003cp>Hellooo, end-of-the-year internet perusers! How many best-of-2016 lists have you read today? How’s your panicked last-minute online shopping going? On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your creeping existential dread, especially in tandem with the knowledge that the Gregorian calendar is an arbitrary, meaningless way to mark the passage of time, and there’s zero logic in thinking the year we call 2017 will be less traumatizing for any of us in any way than the year we called 2016?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, this is how I get into the holiday spirit: Lots of ranting, with brief intermissions for eating baked goods and wishing I had some of whatever Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan is on in the “Must Be Santa” video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I digress. The fact is, many things happened in 2016 that simply cry out for a good rant. Several of these fall under the category of “proof that sexism and misogyny are alive and well in America.” Some of the events in \u003cem>that \u003c/em>category are both vast and well-trodden territory, and touch on issues that will, over the next four years, affect half of Americans’ access to health care, right to equal pay, right to not have their body parts grabbed by an elected official, etc. Sigh. I got tired just writing that sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.magazine-agent.com/Rolling-Stone/Covers\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> didn’t put a single solitary woman on its cover for the entirety of 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12512006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 738px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/covers.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12512006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/covers.jpg\" alt=\"The year in dudes -- aka 'Rolling Stone' covers.\" width=\"738\" height=\"608\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The year in dudes -- aka 'Rolling Stone' covers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know, I know. \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> hasn't been relevant for (depending on whom you ask) five to 30 years. The print magazine has been shrinking seemingly exponentially over the past decade; in September, Jann Wenner chose to turn over \u003ca href=\"http://pagesix.com/2016/09/21/gus-wenner-to-take-over-for-dad-at-rolling-stone-magazine/\" target=\"_blank\">a top editorial position to his kid\u003c/a> -- as opposed to, you know, someone with experience. And then there was that whole incredibly unfortunate possibly fabricated cover story. And the retraction.\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/04/500701682/jury-finds-rolling-stone-reporter-liable-for-damages-over-rape-allegation-story\" target=\"_blank\"> And the lawsuit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond that, I'm almost impressed by the degree to which \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>'s music coverage these past few years has sounded like -- forgive me -- a broken record. Did you guys know that the Rolling Stones were still a Very Important and Edgy Rock Band? How about Springsteen? The Beatles? I realize some of these artists are kind of esoteric, off-the-radar, if you will. It's my job to know them, I'm a music journalist! You can look 'em up later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/image-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12512007\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"425\" height=\"578\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps I shouldn't have been caught off-guard, then, by the overwhelming wave of obliviousness that showed itself when it came to my attention that not a single cover of the biweekly music, politics and pop culture magazine has been devoted to a woman since Nov. 19, 2015, when the cover story was about Adele. The one \u003cem>almost\u003c/em>-exception to this glaring offense is the March 24, 2016 cover, which Hillary Clinton shared with Bernie Sanders for a cover story with the headline \"Hillary vs. Bernie: American Politics at Its Best.\" (Also: really?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting aside for now the implications of an entire editorial staff at a major national entertainment outlet wherein not a single person thought to check if maybe they'd bothered putting a female entertainer on the cover in the past year, I have some suggestions for how things might have gone in a better world. A fairer world. A world where something like bragging about sexual assault on video might be considered a substantial enough setback to --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorry. That's been happening to me a lot lately. Here are five women who should've appeared on the cover of \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> in 2016 (as opposed to none).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12512008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Beyonce.MAIN_-1440x810.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-12512008\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Beyonce.MAIN_-1440x810-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Beyonce at Levi's Stadium May 16, 2016. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beyonce at Levi's Stadium May 16, 2016.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Beyoncé.\u003c/strong> I know, you're sick of her -- there was Black Power imagery at the Super Bowl, then \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/04/25/475542607/beyonce-defiant-in-the-midst-of-upheaval\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> dropped\u003c/a> and immediately broke approximately \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4314347/beyonce-makes-history-with-record-breaking-lemonade/\" target=\"_blank\">17 sales records\u003c/a>; then she spent the rest of the year \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/05/17/live-review-beyonce-unexplainable-celestial-being-slays-at-levis-stadium/\" target=\"_blank\">touring non-stop\u003c/a>, punctuated by blowing everyone else out of the water at the VMAs. Then there was that whole \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/11/05/beyonce-and-the-dixie-chicks-offer-up-lessons-on-country-musics-past-and-future/\" target=\"_blank\">Country Music Awards-Dixie Chicks controversy\u003c/a>, which began, mind you, when the Country Music Awards invited Beyoncé to perform the legitimate country song that appears on her record-breaking album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know what happens when a pop culture figure seems to be so on top of the world that you can barely stand the sight of them anymore? They get a \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> cover. That's how it should be. Ask Kim Kardashian, the second-to-last woman to be featured on an RS cover, in July 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/1435774434-kim-kardashian-for-rolling-stone-magazine-bellanaija-july2015.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12359934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/1435774434-kim-kardashian-for-rolling-stone-magazine-bellanaija-july2015-800x1088.jpeg\" alt=\"1435774434-kim-kardashian-for-rolling-stone-magazine-bellanaija-july2015\" width=\"367\" height=\"499\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Any woman in comedy. \u003c/strong>Hey, have you heard? It's a great time for women in comedy. This is a sentence that all entertainment news outlets seemed contractually obligated to publish in the year 2016, regardless of context. From \u003cem>Broad City\u003c/em> to Amy Schumer to Ali Wong to the four stars of the much-heralded, incredibly unnecessarily controversial \u003cem>Ghostbusters\u003c/em> reboot to founding mothers Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, if there's one thing I've learned about women in comedy, it's that now is a really great time for them. Leslie Jones, in particular, has been having \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/23/turns-out-fighting-fat-shaming-and-racist-trolls-is-also-a-ghostbusters-job/\" target=\"_blank\">a really, really great t\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/23/turns-out-fighting-fat-shaming-and-racist-trolls-is-also-a-ghostbusters-job/\" target=\"_blank\">ime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/ghostbusters-2016-625x324.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12359935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/ghostbusters-2016-625x324.png\" alt=\"ghostbusters-2016-625x324\" width=\"509\" height=\"264\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently not good enough for a \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> cover, though. Pass me that one about James Corden, Aug. 24, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Kesha. \u003c/strong>One of the most compelling pop music stories of the year is also the saddest: Since 2014, the pop star has been entrenched in a highly public battle to get out of her contract with producer Dr. Luke, whom she alleges in a lawsuit \"sexually, physically, verbally, and emotionally abused [her] to the point where [she] nearly lost her life.\" \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/02/22/taylor-swift-donates-250k-to-kesha-amid-fight-with-dr-luke/\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and other celebrities have all donated money to \u003c/a>help with her legal fees. In February 2016, a New York judge denied an injunction that would have allowed Kesha to record music outside of Dr. Luke's Kemosabe Records (which lies under the umbrella of Sony Music). Come summer, unable to record new music -- she's supposedly sitting on 30 new songs -- she did the next best thing:\u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1261-keshas-live-rebirth-what-her-fuck-the-world-tour-means-for-her-future/\" target=\"_blank\"> she hit the road for the aptly named \"F*ck the World\" tour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12359937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 491px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/GettyImages-533610106.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-12359937\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/GettyImages-533610106-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kesha performs at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards in May 2016.\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kesha performs at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards in May 2016.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While it's true that Kesha likely isn't doing interviews for legal reasons, that doesn't mean the editors of \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> couldn't have made the decision to put her on the cover anyway -- thereby shining an unambiguous light on the very real issue of sexual assault in the music industry, not to mention the myriad problems the case lays bare about the outdated contract standards under which so many artists suffer. \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> puts people on the cover who weren't interviewed for the main story all the time: just ask Kurt Cobain. (Yes,\u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/kesha-and-dr-luke-everything-you-need-to-know-to-understand-the-case-20160222\" target=\"_blank\"> Maura Johnston, for whom I have great respect, has been covering the Kesha story for the magazine\u003c/a>. But the cover star they chose for the Feb. 25, 2016 issue, immediately following the injunction, was Coldplay's Chris Martin.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Simone Biles. \u003c/strong>Remember summer? It seems like a different era now, with good reason: It was a simpler time, a time when multiple headlines a day about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/19/roundup-smart-thoughts-on-ryan-lochte-and-white-privilege/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Lochte being a moron\u003c/a> captured our attention; I went down a weird rabbit hole \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/12/pointcounterpoint-is-bob-costas-actually-a-1000-year-old-vampire/\" target=\"_blank\">learning about Bob Costas' personal life;\u003c/a> and a tiny, gravity-defying human named\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/11/489654857/simone-biles-aly-raisman-lead-field-vying-for-all-around-gold-in-rio\" target=\"_blank\"> Simone Biles and the rest of her cohort on the U.S. Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team stole our hearts\u003c/a>. They Instagrammed! They had \u003ca href=\"http://www.today.com/popculture/watch-simone-biles-nearly-pass-out-when-crush-zac-efron-t101922\" target=\"_blank\">crushes on Zac Efron\u003c/a>! For a second, they kind of gave us faith in America!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12359939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/GettyImages-589497258.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-12359939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/GettyImages-589497258-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Simone Biles on the podium for the women's vault event final of the Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Arena during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016.\" width=\"504\" height=\"336\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simone Biles on the podium for the women's vault event final of the Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Arena during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Come to think of it, it'd be kind of anachronistic, but we could all really use a Simone Biles cover right about now, \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>. Just a suggestion. It'd be hell of a lot more fun to see in the grocery checkout aisle than this Olympian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/SHAUN-WHITE-ROLLING-STONE-shaun-white-10740759-300-408.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12359929\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/SHAUN-WHITE-ROLLING-STONE-shaun-white-10740759-300-408.jpg\" alt=\"shaun-white-rolling-stone-shaun-white-10740759-300-408\" width=\"425\" height=\"578\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Hillary Goddamn Clinton. \u003c/strong>As previously mentioned, Clinton may have lost her bid for the presidency, but she did win one honor in 2016: the only woman to appear on even one half of one cover of \u003cem>Rolling Stone.\u003c/em> For contrast, the past 16 months have seen Sanders also get the full-cover-profile treatment (Dec. 3, 2015), while Donald Trump got two (Sept. 24, 2015, and in cartoon form, March 10, 2016).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I will acknowledge the possibility that Clinton did not want to sit for an interview with \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>. I will also point to: that doesn't matter, this was the most dynamic and unbelievable presidential election cycle in modern history, and also, see Kurt Cobain, above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few more examples of covers that do not reflect major feature interviews with the subjects of said cover photos:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/image-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12360131\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/image-3.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"425\" height=\"594\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/image.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12512004\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/image.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"425\" height=\"579\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/image-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12360130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/image-2.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"425\" height=\"578\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So. What have we learned this year, aside from the fact that women are still seen as less than human by many, many people, and that the work they do is consistently deemed less significant than comparable work by their male counterparts, and that that vantage point is reflected back to us day in, day out thanks to our institutions, from the workplace to the entertainment industry on up to our highest levels of office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good question -- especially considering at least half of us already knew that. Maybe next year someone will publish a big magazine story about it! And hey, \u003cem>Rolling Stone:\u003c/em> If you wanna stick with the Baby Boomer theme for the cover, \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/makeherstory/transcript-of-madonnas-controversial-2016-woman-of-the-year-award-thank-you-speech-at-billboard-5f34cfbf8644#.wxkbew5rs\" target=\"_blank\">I recommend Madonna\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hellooo, end-of-the-year internet perusers! How many best-of-2016 lists have you read today? How’s your panicked last-minute online shopping going? On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your creeping existential dread, especially in tandem with the knowledge that the Gregorian calendar is an arbitrary, meaningless way to mark the passage of time, and there’s zero logic in thinking the year we call 2017 will be less traumatizing for any of us in any way than the year we called 2016?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, this is how I get into the holiday spirit: Lots of ranting, with brief intermissions for eating baked goods and wishing I had some of whatever Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan is on in the “Must Be Santa” video.\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/a8qE6WQmNus'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/a8qE6WQmNus'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But I digress. The fact is, many things happened in 2016 that simply cry out for a good rant. Several of these fall under the category of “proof that sexism and misogyny are alive and well in America.” Some of the events in \u003cem>that \u003c/em>category are both vast and well-trodden territory, and touch on issues that will, over the next four years, affect half of Americans’ access to health care, right to equal pay, right to not have their body parts grabbed by an elected official, etc. Sigh. I got tired just writing that sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.magazine-agent.com/Rolling-Stone/Covers\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> didn’t put a single solitary woman on its cover for the entirety of 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12512006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 738px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/covers.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12512006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/covers.jpg\" alt=\"The year in dudes -- aka 'Rolling Stone' covers.\" width=\"738\" height=\"608\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The year in dudes -- aka 'Rolling Stone' covers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know, I know. \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> hasn't been relevant for (depending on whom you ask) five to 30 years. The print magazine has been shrinking seemingly exponentially over the past decade; in September, Jann Wenner chose to turn over \u003ca href=\"http://pagesix.com/2016/09/21/gus-wenner-to-take-over-for-dad-at-rolling-stone-magazine/\" target=\"_blank\">a top editorial position to his kid\u003c/a> -- as opposed to, you know, someone with experience. And then there was that whole incredibly unfortunate possibly fabricated cover story. And the retraction.\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/04/500701682/jury-finds-rolling-stone-reporter-liable-for-damages-over-rape-allegation-story\" target=\"_blank\"> And the lawsuit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond that, I'm almost impressed by the degree to which \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>'s music coverage these past few years has sounded like -- forgive me -- a broken record. Did you guys know that the Rolling Stones were still a Very Important and Edgy Rock Band? How about Springsteen? The Beatles? I realize some of these artists are kind of esoteric, off-the-radar, if you will. It's my job to know them, I'm a music journalist! You can look 'em up later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/image-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12512007\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"425\" height=\"578\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps I shouldn't have been caught off-guard, then, by the overwhelming wave of obliviousness that showed itself when it came to my attention that not a single cover of the biweekly music, politics and pop culture magazine has been devoted to a woman since Nov. 19, 2015, when the cover story was about Adele. The one \u003cem>almost\u003c/em>-exception to this glaring offense is the March 24, 2016 cover, which Hillary Clinton shared with Bernie Sanders for a cover story with the headline \"Hillary vs. Bernie: American Politics at Its Best.\" (Also: really?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting aside for now the implications of an entire editorial staff at a major national entertainment outlet wherein not a single person thought to check if maybe they'd bothered putting a female entertainer on the cover in the past year, I have some suggestions for how things might have gone in a better world. A fairer world. A world where something like bragging about sexual assault on video might be considered a substantial enough setback to --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorry. That's been happening to me a lot lately. Here are five women who should've appeared on the cover of \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> in 2016 (as opposed to none).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12512008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Beyonce.MAIN_-1440x810.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-12512008\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Beyonce.MAIN_-1440x810-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Beyonce at Levi's Stadium May 16, 2016. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beyonce at Levi's Stadium May 16, 2016.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Beyoncé.\u003c/strong> I know, you're sick of her -- there was Black Power imagery at the Super Bowl, then \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/04/25/475542607/beyonce-defiant-in-the-midst-of-upheaval\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> dropped\u003c/a> and immediately broke approximately \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4314347/beyonce-makes-history-with-record-breaking-lemonade/\" target=\"_blank\">17 sales records\u003c/a>; then she spent the rest of the year \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/05/17/live-review-beyonce-unexplainable-celestial-being-slays-at-levis-stadium/\" target=\"_blank\">touring non-stop\u003c/a>, punctuated by blowing everyone else out of the water at the VMAs. Then there was that whole \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/11/05/beyonce-and-the-dixie-chicks-offer-up-lessons-on-country-musics-past-and-future/\" target=\"_blank\">Country Music Awards-Dixie Chicks controversy\u003c/a>, which began, mind you, when the Country Music Awards invited Beyoncé to perform the legitimate country song that appears on her record-breaking album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know what happens when a pop culture figure seems to be so on top of the world that you can barely stand the sight of them anymore? They get a \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> cover. That's how it should be. Ask Kim Kardashian, the second-to-last woman to be featured on an RS cover, in July 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/1435774434-kim-kardashian-for-rolling-stone-magazine-bellanaija-july2015.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12359934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/1435774434-kim-kardashian-for-rolling-stone-magazine-bellanaija-july2015-800x1088.jpeg\" alt=\"1435774434-kim-kardashian-for-rolling-stone-magazine-bellanaija-july2015\" width=\"367\" height=\"499\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Any woman in comedy. \u003c/strong>Hey, have you heard? It's a great time for women in comedy. This is a sentence that all entertainment news outlets seemed contractually obligated to publish in the year 2016, regardless of context. From \u003cem>Broad City\u003c/em> to Amy Schumer to Ali Wong to the four stars of the much-heralded, incredibly unnecessarily controversial \u003cem>Ghostbusters\u003c/em> reboot to founding mothers Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, if there's one thing I've learned about women in comedy, it's that now is a really great time for them. Leslie Jones, in particular, has been having \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/23/turns-out-fighting-fat-shaming-and-racist-trolls-is-also-a-ghostbusters-job/\" target=\"_blank\">a really, really great t\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/23/turns-out-fighting-fat-shaming-and-racist-trolls-is-also-a-ghostbusters-job/\" target=\"_blank\">ime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/ghostbusters-2016-625x324.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12359935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/ghostbusters-2016-625x324.png\" alt=\"ghostbusters-2016-625x324\" width=\"509\" height=\"264\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently not good enough for a \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> cover, though. Pass me that one about James Corden, Aug. 24, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Kesha. \u003c/strong>One of the most compelling pop music stories of the year is also the saddest: Since 2014, the pop star has been entrenched in a highly public battle to get out of her contract with producer Dr. Luke, whom she alleges in a lawsuit \"sexually, physically, verbally, and emotionally abused [her] to the point where [she] nearly lost her life.\" \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/02/22/taylor-swift-donates-250k-to-kesha-amid-fight-with-dr-luke/\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and other celebrities have all donated money to \u003c/a>help with her legal fees. In February 2016, a New York judge denied an injunction that would have allowed Kesha to record music outside of Dr. Luke's Kemosabe Records (which lies under the umbrella of Sony Music). Come summer, unable to record new music -- she's supposedly sitting on 30 new songs -- she did the next best thing:\u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1261-keshas-live-rebirth-what-her-fuck-the-world-tour-means-for-her-future/\" target=\"_blank\"> she hit the road for the aptly named \"F*ck the World\" tour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12359937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 491px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/GettyImages-533610106.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-12359937\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/GettyImages-533610106-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kesha performs at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards in May 2016.\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kesha performs at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards in May 2016.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While it's true that Kesha likely isn't doing interviews for legal reasons, that doesn't mean the editors of \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> couldn't have made the decision to put her on the cover anyway -- thereby shining an unambiguous light on the very real issue of sexual assault in the music industry, not to mention the myriad problems the case lays bare about the outdated contract standards under which so many artists suffer. \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> puts people on the cover who weren't interviewed for the main story all the time: just ask Kurt Cobain. (Yes,\u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/kesha-and-dr-luke-everything-you-need-to-know-to-understand-the-case-20160222\" target=\"_blank\"> Maura Johnston, for whom I have great respect, has been covering the Kesha story for the magazine\u003c/a>. But the cover star they chose for the Feb. 25, 2016 issue, immediately following the injunction, was Coldplay's Chris Martin.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Simone Biles. \u003c/strong>Remember summer? It seems like a different era now, with good reason: It was a simpler time, a time when multiple headlines a day about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/19/roundup-smart-thoughts-on-ryan-lochte-and-white-privilege/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Lochte being a moron\u003c/a> captured our attention; I went down a weird rabbit hole \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/12/pointcounterpoint-is-bob-costas-actually-a-1000-year-old-vampire/\" target=\"_blank\">learning about Bob Costas' personal life;\u003c/a> and a tiny, gravity-defying human named\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/11/489654857/simone-biles-aly-raisman-lead-field-vying-for-all-around-gold-in-rio\" target=\"_blank\"> Simone Biles and the rest of her cohort on the U.S. Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team stole our hearts\u003c/a>. They Instagrammed! They had \u003ca href=\"http://www.today.com/popculture/watch-simone-biles-nearly-pass-out-when-crush-zac-efron-t101922\" target=\"_blank\">crushes on Zac Efron\u003c/a>! For a second, they kind of gave us faith in America!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12359939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/GettyImages-589497258.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-12359939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/GettyImages-589497258-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Simone Biles on the podium for the women's vault event final of the Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Arena during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016.\" width=\"504\" height=\"336\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simone Biles on the podium for the women's vault event final of the Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Arena during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Come to think of it, it'd be kind of anachronistic, but we could all really use a Simone Biles cover right about now, \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>. Just a suggestion. It'd be hell of a lot more fun to see in the grocery checkout aisle than this Olympian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/SHAUN-WHITE-ROLLING-STONE-shaun-white-10740759-300-408.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12359929\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/SHAUN-WHITE-ROLLING-STONE-shaun-white-10740759-300-408.jpg\" alt=\"shaun-white-rolling-stone-shaun-white-10740759-300-408\" width=\"425\" height=\"578\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. 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What have we learned this year, aside from the fact that women are still seen as less than human by many, many people, and that the work they do is consistently deemed less significant than comparable work by their male counterparts, and that that vantage point is reflected back to us day in, day out thanks to our institutions, from the workplace to the entertainment industry on up to our highest levels of office?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good question -- especially considering at least half of us already knew that. Maybe next year someone will publish a big magazine story about it! And hey, \u003cem>Rolling Stone:\u003c/em> If you wanna stick with the Baby Boomer theme for the cover, \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/makeherstory/transcript-of-madonnas-controversial-2016-woman-of-the-year-award-thank-you-speech-at-billboard-5f34cfbf8644#.wxkbew5rs\" target=\"_blank\">I recommend Madonna\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Procedurals are the comfort food of TV. They are built on a formula: a problem is introduced, but rest assured that by the end of the episode, the bad guy will be caught, the patient will be diagnosed, the court case will be won, and the character’s lives will remain more or less the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shows like this feed us with the comfort of ritual and stasis. But one hidden ingredient makes them particularly addictive, and particularly harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In almost every procedural, there is a main character, whom I will refer to as the “Always Right Man.” He may be a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_House\">doctor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://brooklyn99.wikia.com/wiki/Jake_Peralta\">a cop\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Caffrey\">a con man\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1632701/\">a lawyer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491738/\">an amateur\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes\">detective\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Mulder\">or even an FBI agent investigating the paranormal\u003c/a>. 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He’s the perfect wish-fulfillment character for white men nostalgic for an era when they didn’t have to answer to anyone. We are only a century and a half away from a time when women were little more than property, and when people of color could be owned. White men were the master of the house, and they answered to no one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TV characters live in a world written to affirm their brilliance. The problem comes when viewers internalize the message of these shows and behave like their fictional heroes. Seeing the Always Right Man save the day on each weekly episode by ignoring all others and acting on hunches, viewers run the risk of mimicking this behavior in their own lives, convinced that they, too, might be the Always Right Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This archetype is the perfect balm for cognitive dissonance. Are facts, logic, and the voices of others challenging those concepts that you hold most dear? Are they asking that you change your behavior? Easy. Pretend you are the Always Right Man, living in a fantasy world where facts are dismissed and other people’s voices are ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is climate change too scary? Follow your hunch that it might not exist. Now you don’t have to worry!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is your female co-worker harping on you, bothering you with pesky demands to not be sexually harassed at work? Ignore her, and dive into your hunch that she’s just playing the victim for attention. Why is she even working anyway? She should be at home!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are the Black Lives Matters protestors challenging your idea that America is always fair and the police always follow the law? 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Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.for-site.org/project/home-land-security/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a> And we’re featuring more benefits for the families, friends and roommates of those who died in the Ghost Ship fire (see below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZLbZmll4w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec 31\u003c/strong>: How do you say goodbye to a year some are calling the worst ever? Laugh through the tears. Paula Poundstone, a regular on NPR’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/504987196/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-for-dec-10-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, does her sneakily subversive style of family comedy at the Nourse Theatre on New Year’s Eve. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.axs.com/events/310261/paula-poundstone-tickets?skin=goldenvoice%20%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 31: \u003c/strong>If you want to support \u003cem>local\u003c/em> comedians, try the Brava Theater Center’s New Year’s Eve Comedy Fiesta. Headliner Marga Gomez is fresh from a stint in New York with her 12th autobiographical show, and she’s joined by Tom Ammiano, former standup comedian and state lawmaker, plus Priya Prasad, Butch Escobar, and Chey Bell. This one may not be much fun for supporters of President-elect Trump. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.brava.org/current-shows/pp/bravas-4th-annual-new-years-eve-comedy-fiesta-w-marga-gome/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qoOtUMQ12k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 31: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco Symphony managed a big get for it’s Holiday Concert Series: two guests who can sing, tell jokes, do Broadway musicals and star in a popular television series. Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski are in the Netflix show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80025384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and they’ll sing and crack wise with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall New Year’s Eve. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2016-2017/New-Year-Tituss-Burgess-Jane-Krakowski.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2016-2017/New-Year-Tituss-Burgess-Jane-Krakowski.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">. \u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12483971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12483971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Opera San Jose has formed a chorus of military veterans, which will perform a program of Christmas and patriotic songs\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1920x1430.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1180x879.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-960x715.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-375x279.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-520x387.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opera San Jose has formed a chorus of military veterans, which will perform a program of Christmas and patriotic songs \u003ccite>(Photo: Collage courtesy of Opera San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 16: \u003c/strong>Opera San Jose\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>has done a kind of star-search for military veterans, and recruited them into a chorus for a holiday concert. It’s a commemoration of the little-known Christmas Eve truce of 1914, when Scottish, French and German soldiers celebrated Christmas in the trenches on the Western front. It’s also a preview for Opera San Jose’s upcoming production (Feb. 2017) of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.operasj.org/buy-tickets/single-tickets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silent Night\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell\u003cem>,\u003c/em> an opera about that same Christmas truce. Details on the veterans’ chorus concert at \u003ca href=\"http://www.trianontheatre.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Petit Trianon Theatre\u003c/a> in San Jose are \u003ca href=\"https://www.operasj.org/buy-tickets/single-tickets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12488622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12488622\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"William Scott's cityscapes are featured at the gallery 836M in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-768x488.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-960x610.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-375x238.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-520x330.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Scott’s cityscapes are featured at the gallery 836M in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Creative Growth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Continuing through Jan. 31\u003c/strong>: William Scott paints utopian cityscapes, in which San Francisco becomes Praise Frisco, a community of love and harmony. Scott, who grew up in the Bayview, is developmentally disabled, and he’s painted for years at \u003ca href=\"http://creativegrowth.org/category/news/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Growth \u003c/a>in Oakland, a non-profit for people with learning disabilities. Scott’s work is in the permanent collection at New York’s MOMA, and he’s getting an exhibit in San Francisco at 836M, a gallery that’s been showcasing Creative Growth artists this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creative Growth Director Tom di Maria says the exhibit is about being home for the holidays. “But it also brings up issues around displacement and families,” di Maria said, “For a lot of our people and artists with disabilities, it’s a really difficult time for them. Some of them don’t know their families, some are challenged by a time when they’re supposed to be happy, but they can feel alone. But William Scott’s work is so amazing. He’s the nicest guy on the planet, he wants to make the city perfect and clean and wholesome so that people’s lives will be better.” Details for the show at 836M are \u003ca href=\"http://www.836m.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. And Creative Growth has its own terrific gallery with work by Scott and other artists. What a nice place to shop for holiday gifts. Details \u003ca href=\"http://creativegrowth.org/exhibitions/holiday-2016-revel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRCUoK-gkw\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dec. 16\u003c/strong>: Members of The Atom Age are punk legends, and they’re part of the lineup with Dirty Denim and others in a benefit for families and friends of those who died in the Ghost Ship fire. Details for their concert at the Starry Plough in Berkeley (with donations going to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcaring.com/firevictimsofoaklandfiredec232016-706684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fire\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcaring.com/firevictimsofoaklandfiredec232016-706684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Relief fund \u003c/a>organized by Gray Area Foundation for The Arts) are \u003ca href=\"http://calendar.thebaybridged.com/events/2016/12/16/ghost-ship-benefit-show-with-the-atom-age-and-dirty-denim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec 17\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://about.me/elcircodia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Circo Dia\u003c/a>‘s is restaging their aerial dance/theater piece \u003cem>Refuge: A Ballad for the Renting Class \u003c/em>at Project Artaud, as a benefit for the Ghost Ship fire. 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