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Naturally, her rejected friends embark on a painful and hilarious downward spiral of sex, drugs... and revenge!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Or as D’Arcy likes to describe it, “an everything but the kitchen sink melodrama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend is your last chance to see \u003cem>Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls\u003c/em> for now, so go snag some tickets! If you can't make it for whatever reason, don't fret. In between productions, you can always visit D’Arcy at Oasis, a nightclub that she co-owns with San Francisco legend, Heklina, or you can catch her each week teaching \u003ca href=\"http://www.darcydrollinger.com/#!sexitude/c1wji\">Sexitude at Sunday Skool\u003c/a> – a body-positive, age-positive, sex-positive dance experience for those who are looking to make their dreams of becoming a famous back-up dancer a reality. Who knows? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you think of the performing arts scene in San Francisco, 'typical' is the last adjective that comes to mind. Sure, New York may have the well-oiled machine that is Broadway, but we San Franciscans find pleasure in productions that err on the left-most side of zany. Or at least the devoted fans of D'Arcy Drollinger do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco, the culture is more risk-taking,” D’Arcy said. “I lived in New York for a time and there is more of a dependency on commerce. There is a freedom and ability to take risks in San Francisco that is great for incubating new work – the community really rallies new stuff in a way that I don’t see in places like New York or Los Angeles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a performer, writer, and choreographer, D'Arcy has an incredible knack for creating productions that are equal parts raunchy, ridiculous, and nostalgic. If you've laughed your way through any of Darcy's recent shows (\u003cem>Sh*t & Champagne\u003c/em>, or its sequel, \u003cem>Champagne White and the Temple of Poon\u003c/em>), then you're well aware that anything she touches turns to camp-classic gold. It's the kind of humor that is so over-the-top -- at times bordering on absurd -- that it has the power to wax the highbrow off of even the most stoic of theatergoers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humor aside, the direction, comedic timing, and sense of pride in D'Arcy's performances let the audience know that this is so much more than a drag show, and labeling it as such would be a complete misnomer. In a world where the majority of queens simply lip-sync for their lives, D'Arcy has raised the satirical bar for her peers. Humor is afoot nearly everywhere in the world of drag, but it's D'Arcy's unique brand of homegrown creativity, coupled with her finger on the pulse of anything and everything campy, that truly sets her apart. That, plus the fact that she has the most sizzling pair of legs south of Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is not to say that D’Arcy hasn’t worked hard for her success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We played there for about nine months and the new show was definitely something that organically grew out of the band, so it was a very collaborative project from the beginning.”\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/nwgY5A6SEfI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nwgY5A6SEfI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Though the original script for \u003cem>Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls\u003c/em> was written in the '90s, D’Arcy has dusted it off, updated it and infused it with her love of tasteless wit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reboot is a little more current and, like the way that \u003cem>Sh*t & Champagne\u003c/em> was inspired by the Blaxploitation films of the '70s, this one riffs off of a Russ Meyer film, written by Roger Ebert, called \u003cem>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls\u003c/em>, and elements of \u003cem>Showgirls\u003c/em>. They were both so ridiculous, over-the-top, trashy, melodramatic scripts that almost shouldn’t have been made since they were so cheesy. But instead these films had huge budgets. \u003cem>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls\u003c/em> had a budget of over one million dollars, and that was in 1970! Both of these films have amazingly lush cinematography, but they also have ridiculous plot lines and dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millennials, who may not be familiar with \u003cem>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls\u003c/em>, can certainly relate to the nostalgia of \u003cem>Showgirls\u003c/em> – the overdone tale of a Las Vegas hopeful turned rebel played by \u003cem>Saved by the Bell\u003c/em> alumna, Elizabeth Berkley. 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When Dick talks Gewürztraminer into leaving her band mates, she changes her name to Sherry, hooks up with even trashier back up girls and becomes an overnight sensation. Naturally, her rejected friends embark on a painful and hilarious downward spiral of sex, drugs... and revenge!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Or as D’Arcy likes to describe it, “an everything but the kitchen sink melodrama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend is your last chance to see \u003cem>Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls\u003c/em> for now, so go snag some tickets! If you can't make it for whatever reason, don't fret. 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"content": "\u003cp>Let’s start with this: I am not here to hate bluntly on Gwyneth Paltrow. And a desire to do that is not, I swear to you, why I felt a subtle yet unmistakable gravitational pull toward the actress’s new San Francisco pop-up shop, \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/goop-mrkt/\">Goop MRKT\u003c/a> (apparently she got the memo about ditching vowels if you want to do good business in the Bay Area), when I learned she would be appearing there May 5 to sign her new cookbook and shower plebeians with her effervescent, organically produced glow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwyneth is an easy target. Too easy, one could say. In this \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-woman-attacked_us_57289b7ae4b0bc9cb0447aed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrifying political climate\u003c/a>, with our current levels of income inequality — while five hunger strikers endanger themselves in the hopes of raising awareness about police brutality against young men of color \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/04/30/equiptos-hunger-strike-the-importance-of-art-in-social-change/\">four blocks away from my house\u003c/a> — it is all too convenient to point a finger at the extremely wealthy thin white blonde actress lady shilling \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455522716/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687682&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1455584215&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1VS4T5GV941V0EWNXQCW\">health-conscious cookbooks\u003c/a> and an organic skincare line as part of her \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/\">egregiously overpriced lifestyle brand\u003c/a> and say, “That right there, that’s a thing I know how to hate. That seems simple. Let’s just focus on that for today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hating on Gwyneth has, in fact, become such an\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2310405/Gwyneth-Paltrow-named-hated-celebrities-Hollywood-beats-Anne-Hathaway-Kristen-Stewart-poll.html\"> obvious national pastime\u003c/a> that when she was gruesomely killed off in the first 10 minutes of \u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>a few years ago\u003cem>, \u003c/em>one had to wonder if Steven Soderbergh was enacting a bit of cinematic revenge porn for his audience’s collective benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gwyneth looking not that pretty \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gwyneth looking not that pretty in ‘Contagion.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which, in turn, brings up a slew of questions, such as: Is she in on the joke? Surely the most hated celebrity in America has an inkling of that status by now. On the other hand: Is a person whose online kitchenware store includes \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/copper-spoons\">$1200 spoons\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/apron-with-leather\">$200 apron\u003c/a> one must disassemble with a screwdriver in order to wash really a person who’s in touch with the rest of America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-800x776.jpg\" alt=\"Paltrow-Vegetables1\" width=\"800\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-800x776.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-400x388.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-768x745.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I’m not here to add on the hate-pile, you might ask, then why did I join a couple hundred Gwyneth fans on the street in downtown San Francisco yesterday, all for the privilege of getting an up-close-and-personal look at her line of children’s clothes, face washes, and frying pans, then wait in line for nearly 90 minutes to have her royal blondness sign a cookbook for my mother?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can say I was genuinely curious about the interior of San Francisco’s only \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/S-F-move-to-protect-interior-of-Frank-Lloyd-6834897.php\">Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building\u003c/a>, which is the “mrkt” from whence Gwyneth shall sell her Goop until May 22. And I can promise that I really tried to leave my preconceived notions behind — to consciously uncouple, if you will, from whatever biases I may have previously formed about the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23876 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"goop-mrkt-details-left\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-1180x839.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-960x683.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official press photos from the goop MRKT website.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, I had questions, and I thought her devotees, these subjects of Gwyneth’s empire who had dutifully flocked here on a muggy, overcast Thursday morning, might answer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, I also had some time to kill. Gwyneth was due to sign books from 10:30 to noon; the doorman informed that me that the first people began lining up around 9am. By 10:30, when I arrived, the line stretched entirely down the length of Maiden Lane. Roughly 95 percent of these people were women; maybe 93 percent of them were white; 100 percent of them were beautiful. A special kind of beautiful. You know that specific kind of rich-people beautiful that involves perfect skin and shiny hair and flawless manicures and a general aura of effortlessness that somehow also communicates a great deal of effort and certainly a f*ck-ton of money? I was immediately aware of my chipped nail polish, of the stray cat hair on my jacket. I couldn’t tell if I hated everyone or wanted them to adopt me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What brings you here?” I asked about a dozen women, tossing my hair, trying my darnedest to act like I belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-02 at 10.26.36 PM\" width=\"475\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM.png 475w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM-400x343.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just been a fan of hers forever,” offered a woman with immaculate eyeliner. “I just think she’s really cool, and has a great sense of style. And I try to eat healthy, so her recipes are great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another told me she traveled for work frequently, and Gwyneth’s \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/city-guides/city-guide/\">hotel and restaurant tips \u003c/a>were always right up her alley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said. “What do you do for work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work in marketing at Twitter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-800x1059.jpg\" alt=\"Who looks beautiful holding cans of sardines? Gwyneth Paltrow looks beautiful holding cans of sardines. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-800x1059.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-400x530.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-768x1017.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1440x1907.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1920x2542.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1180x1563.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-960x1271.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18.jpg 1925w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who looks beautiful holding cans of sardines? Gwyneth Paltrow looks beautiful holding cans of sardines.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another young woman who worked in PR revealed to me that this was not her first Goop experience this week: She had attended a Goop workout class at The Battery, San Francisco’s grand members-only club, the previous evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of workout class?” I asked. “Was Gwyneth there, like, on the floor doing Pilates with you guys?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, she wasn’t there,” she clarified with a laugh, looking starry-eyed at the thought. “Just a Goop thing. They had us, like, running around on the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"goop waterbottles for those goop workouts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goop waterbottles for those Goop workouts.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many attendees reported that they were in fact big fans of Gwyneth’s previous cookbooks, including \u003cem>My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness \u003c/em>and\u003cem> It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new book, out in time for Mother’s Day, is titled \u003cem>It’s All Easy: Delicious Weekday Recipes for the Super-Busy Home Cook. \u003c/em>Its promotional copy, in case the title didn’t make this clear, emphasizes that these are Gwyneth’s favorite recipes for regular people like you and me — people with jobs, in other words, and without personal chefs, nor millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23880\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m.png\" alt=\"Something that Gwyneth Paltrow totally eats on the regular hahahaha yeah right\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m.png 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m-400x200.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Something that Gwyneth Paltrow totally eats on the regular hahahaha yeah right.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is filled, naturally, with photos of Gwyneth looking beautiful, wearing chunky knit sweaters at home or in nature with her children, in addition to photos of the beautiful meals she ostensibly prepares on weeknights when she is home from her imaginary regular-person job, and must feed her regular children without any help whatsoever. These spreads are interspersed with “easy” recipes — the very first in the book is for an “easy” acai bowl — plus stories about Gwyneth’s ostensible regular-person life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The persistent attempt to come off like a relatable human being results in some hilarious reaches, like the recipe for a beautiful, gourmet salad niçoise made with nine-minute eggs served on a fresh baguette, which Gwyneth suggests should really be enjoyed during a picnic with a bottle of rosé, but can also be wolfed down while sitting in one’s car waiting for the kids to finish soccer practice. (You can clearly envision the edit meetings: “That’s a thing people do, right?”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some actual excerpts from the book, selected via a process of opening it to random pages once I was home, writing this, eating cheese popcorn out of a bag that I bought at the liquor store across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cacio e pepe is one of my favorite simple pasta dishes, so when Thea and I started spiralizing vegetables like maniacs, we thought a zucchini noodle version might be nice. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you’re short on time, get someone at the meat counter to pound out your chicken for you and be sure to let the lemon slices get caramelized and sweet before adding the other ingredients. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When working on a GOOP story with the L.A.-based company Moon Juice, we learned the easiest-ever method for making instant almond milk: simply blend good almond butter and water together. Duh — why didn’t we think of that?! Here we make a hot version with fresh ginger and a little sesame oil to add roundness. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duh!! Anyway, the interior of the building was truly beautiful. With a nod from the doorman, I passed the rubicon (goopicon? sorry) to see beautiful assistants swiping credit cards through iPads as customers bought books for Gwyneth to sign; the line to meet her packed the spiral ramp to the second floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23879\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (9)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ground floor below, the Goop beauty and skincare line occupied one bright-white corner, while another, set up to look like an expensive but also regular-person living room, featured bookshelves full of architecture tomes and travel guides; $200 throw pillows; and black and white photographs lining each wall. (“She curated those herself,” I heard one impressed woman murmur to another, as Rihanna extolled the virtues of \u003cem>werk werk werk werk werk\u003c/em> over a PA.) A white old-timey bicycle was perched in another corner; I couldn’t tell if it was for sale or if perhaps Gwyneth had pedaled it here herself while carrying a basket overflowing with fresh vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23882\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (12)\" width=\"489\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up the walkway, the line snaked past Goop’s various houseware and clothing lines — workout gear, children’s items, these weird things that were hanging on the wall and I still don’t know what they are after looking them up but they cost \u003cem>$300 each\u003c/em>. Oh wait, the tag says they’re “wall tassels.” That clears it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (22)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet: As I made my way through the vortex, inching closer to the holy grail — Gwyneth had been set up for the book-signing behind a hilariously wide butcher-block table, accessorized with Goop dish sets and cast iron pans for that “I’m totally actually in Gwyneth Paltrow’s kitchen!” feeling — I felt some air leaking slowly from my dark balloon of repulsion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it was the fact that every single beautiful human I’d interacted with for the past hour and a half had been wonderfully kind and friendly. Then there was the fact that every person walking away from the table after meeting her looked like they could die happy, on the spot. Then, from 10 feet away, I could see Gwyneth’s own smile as she chatted up each beautiful human who’d come out to see her, and — in my limited experience with encountering celebrities in the flesh — it was among the most warm, lifelike, genuine smiles I’d seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1.jpg\" alt=\"32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1\" width=\"634\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1.jpg 634w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1-400x383.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe it was more like: Over the course of 90 minutes, I’d made peace with my incredulity. Because you know what? It’s fine to be obscenely wealthy. It’s fine that she was born into a Hollywood family, and has therefore been wealthy, and privileged, and ensconced in a bubble with people just like her, for literally her entire life. It’s even fine that she’s selling this \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/three-dip-board\">slab of wood you’re supposed to pay $395 to put hummus on\u003c/a>. (I mean it’s crazy, but it’s fine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that is not why people hate her. Extreme wealth in and of itself is not grounds for ridicule in this country. It’s your attitude about it — your understanding of where you fit into the grand scheme of things — that can get you in trouble. The Kardashians are mocked for many things, but they have never pretended they cook their own meals. George Clooney owns a f*cking villa in Italy; he does not, however, have a weekly newsletter with suggestions for other people about how to decorate their Italian villas. (That I know of. Someone please sign me up immediately if I’m wrong.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23896\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-800x600.jpg\" alt='Here is a seafood-and-sherry dish one is supposed to be able to make at the last minute if one has \"unexpected guests\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is a seafood-and-sherry dish one is supposed to be able to make at the last minute if one has “unexpected guests.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s complete lack of self-awareness or calculated business strategy or both, the idea of being so disconnected from reality that you see “regular person with a 9-to-5 and kids to feed” as a charming brand to try on is staggering; it’s homemaker fetishization of the most insidious degree. The fact that it’s difficult for busy people with little money to feed their children nutritious food is a source of real pain for real humans every day, not to mention the root of a massive national health crisis, and for Gwyneth Paltrow — who has publicly proved that she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/17/a-hungry-gwyneth-paltrow-fails-the-food-stamp-challenge-four-days-in/\">woefully incapable of eating on a budget for more than four days\u003c/a> — to suggest that she can relate to this problem, let alone has solutions to it, is patently insulting. \u003cem>It’s All Easy\u003c/em> is a book for people who can afford to not cook but want to feel like they’re the kind of people who do anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The central conceit, that Gwyneth is a regular person in any way, is condescending and gross. It’s tacky. And the level of narcissism and near-sightedness it reveals implies a kind of existence \u003cem>I don’t actually think I would ever want.\u003c/em> I work for a public radio station, Gwyneth. I live in the most expensive city in America, one whose future is alarmingly uncertain. I’m hanging on by a thread, and relatively speaking I’m incredibly lucky: I walked by approximately 30 homeless people in and around BART stations just to get here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a $165 keychain by Stella McCartney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0229\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s aspirational, for sure,” the girl behind me in line said thoughtfully, of her affinity for Gwyn’s cookbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right,” I said. “Like if you’re eating the same dinner she’s eating, you might — ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kind of become her? Yeah,” she laughed. “It’s a little weird, isn’t it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our journey ends like this: Gwyneth was a doll. No, I mean she actually looked like a doll. A tiny, beautiful, beaming doll, and one who — with zero prompting — signed a copy of \u003cem>It’s All Easy\u003c/em> with a Mother’s Day message for my mother, then both my name and hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-800x923.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (17)\" width=\"800\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-800x923.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-400x462.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-768x886.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1440x1662.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1920x2216.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1180x1362.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-960x1108.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17.jpg 1948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So,” I said to her from across the table, with what I can only assume was the voice of a sheepish giantess, willing myself to be something like a journalist and not a large, trembly child meeting Cinderella at Disneyland. “What do you do when it doesn’t all \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> easy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looked peeved for a moment, cocked her head to one side. For one, instantaneous flash of a second, I saw a crack in her golden human-shaped costume, a slight tinge of awareness of being mocked. And then it was gone, and she was beaming again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just take deep breaths,” she said, in a beautiful voice. “And keep putting one foot in front of the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I nodded. And then I did just that, Gwyneth. All the way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/24274/whats-really-behind-all-the-hate-gwyneth-paltrow-and-goop-get\">More about Emma’s Goopy day can be found in this episode of ‘The Cooler.’\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Let’s start with this: I am not here to hate bluntly on Gwyneth Paltrow. And a desire to do that is not, I swear to you, why I felt a subtle yet unmistakable gravitational pull toward the actress’s new San Francisco pop-up shop, \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/goop-mrkt/\">Goop MRKT\u003c/a> (apparently she got the memo about ditching vowels if you want to do good business in the Bay Area), when I learned she would be appearing there May 5 to sign her new cookbook and shower plebeians with her effervescent, organically produced glow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwyneth is an easy target. Too easy, one could say. In this \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-woman-attacked_us_57289b7ae4b0bc9cb0447aed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrifying political climate\u003c/a>, with our current levels of income inequality — while five hunger strikers endanger themselves in the hopes of raising awareness about police brutality against young men of color \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/04/30/equiptos-hunger-strike-the-importance-of-art-in-social-change/\">four blocks away from my house\u003c/a> — it is all too convenient to point a finger at the extremely wealthy thin white blonde actress lady shilling \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455522716/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687682&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1455584215&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1VS4T5GV941V0EWNXQCW\">health-conscious cookbooks\u003c/a> and an organic skincare line as part of her \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/\">egregiously overpriced lifestyle brand\u003c/a> and say, “That right there, that’s a thing I know how to hate. That seems simple. Let’s just focus on that for today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hating on Gwyneth has, in fact, become such an\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2310405/Gwyneth-Paltrow-named-hated-celebrities-Hollywood-beats-Anne-Hathaway-Kristen-Stewart-poll.html\"> obvious national pastime\u003c/a> that when she was gruesomely killed off in the first 10 minutes of \u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>a few years ago\u003cem>, \u003c/em>one had to wonder if Steven Soderbergh was enacting a bit of cinematic revenge porn for his audience’s collective benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gwyneth looking not that pretty \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gwyneth looking not that pretty in ‘Contagion.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which, in turn, brings up a slew of questions, such as: Is she in on the joke? Surely the most hated celebrity in America has an inkling of that status by now. On the other hand: Is a person whose online kitchenware store includes \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/copper-spoons\">$1200 spoons\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/apron-with-leather\">$200 apron\u003c/a> one must disassemble with a screwdriver in order to wash really a person who’s in touch with the rest of America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-800x776.jpg\" alt=\"Paltrow-Vegetables1\" width=\"800\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-800x776.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-400x388.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-768x745.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I’m not here to add on the hate-pile, you might ask, then why did I join a couple hundred Gwyneth fans on the street in downtown San Francisco yesterday, all for the privilege of getting an up-close-and-personal look at her line of children’s clothes, face washes, and frying pans, then wait in line for nearly 90 minutes to have her royal blondness sign a cookbook for my mother?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can say I was genuinely curious about the interior of San Francisco’s only \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/S-F-move-to-protect-interior-of-Frank-Lloyd-6834897.php\">Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building\u003c/a>, which is the “mrkt” from whence Gwyneth shall sell her Goop until May 22. And I can promise that I really tried to leave my preconceived notions behind — to consciously uncouple, if you will, from whatever biases I may have previously formed about the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23876 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"goop-mrkt-details-left\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-1180x839.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-960x683.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official press photos from the goop MRKT website.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, I had questions, and I thought her devotees, these subjects of Gwyneth’s empire who had dutifully flocked here on a muggy, overcast Thursday morning, might answer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, I also had some time to kill. Gwyneth was due to sign books from 10:30 to noon; the doorman informed that me that the first people began lining up around 9am. By 10:30, when I arrived, the line stretched entirely down the length of Maiden Lane. Roughly 95 percent of these people were women; maybe 93 percent of them were white; 100 percent of them were beautiful. A special kind of beautiful. You know that specific kind of rich-people beautiful that involves perfect skin and shiny hair and flawless manicures and a general aura of effortlessness that somehow also communicates a great deal of effort and certainly a f*ck-ton of money? I was immediately aware of my chipped nail polish, of the stray cat hair on my jacket. I couldn’t tell if I hated everyone or wanted them to adopt me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What brings you here?” I asked about a dozen women, tossing my hair, trying my darnedest to act like I belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-02 at 10.26.36 PM\" width=\"475\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM.png 475w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM-400x343.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just been a fan of hers forever,” offered a woman with immaculate eyeliner. “I just think she’s really cool, and has a great sense of style. And I try to eat healthy, so her recipes are great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another told me she traveled for work frequently, and Gwyneth’s \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/city-guides/city-guide/\">hotel and restaurant tips \u003c/a>were always right up her alley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said. “What do you do for work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work in marketing at Twitter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-800x1059.jpg\" alt=\"Who looks beautiful holding cans of sardines? Gwyneth Paltrow looks beautiful holding cans of sardines. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-800x1059.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-400x530.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-768x1017.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1440x1907.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1920x2542.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1180x1563.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-960x1271.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18.jpg 1925w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who looks beautiful holding cans of sardines? Gwyneth Paltrow looks beautiful holding cans of sardines.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another young woman who worked in PR revealed to me that this was not her first Goop experience this week: She had attended a Goop workout class at The Battery, San Francisco’s grand members-only club, the previous evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of workout class?” I asked. “Was Gwyneth there, like, on the floor doing Pilates with you guys?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, she wasn’t there,” she clarified with a laugh, looking starry-eyed at the thought. “Just a Goop thing. They had us, like, running around on the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"goop waterbottles for those goop workouts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goop waterbottles for those Goop workouts.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many attendees reported that they were in fact big fans of Gwyneth’s previous cookbooks, including \u003cem>My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness \u003c/em>and\u003cem> It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new book, out in time for Mother’s Day, is titled \u003cem>It’s All Easy: Delicious Weekday Recipes for the Super-Busy Home Cook. \u003c/em>Its promotional copy, in case the title didn’t make this clear, emphasizes that these are Gwyneth’s favorite recipes for regular people like you and me — people with jobs, in other words, and without personal chefs, nor millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23880\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m.png\" alt=\"Something that Gwyneth Paltrow totally eats on the regular hahahaha yeah right\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m.png 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m-400x200.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Something that Gwyneth Paltrow totally eats on the regular hahahaha yeah right.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is filled, naturally, with photos of Gwyneth looking beautiful, wearing chunky knit sweaters at home or in nature with her children, in addition to photos of the beautiful meals she ostensibly prepares on weeknights when she is home from her imaginary regular-person job, and must feed her regular children without any help whatsoever. These spreads are interspersed with “easy” recipes — the very first in the book is for an “easy” acai bowl — plus stories about Gwyneth’s ostensible regular-person life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The persistent attempt to come off like a relatable human being results in some hilarious reaches, like the recipe for a beautiful, gourmet salad niçoise made with nine-minute eggs served on a fresh baguette, which Gwyneth suggests should really be enjoyed during a picnic with a bottle of rosé, but can also be wolfed down while sitting in one’s car waiting for the kids to finish soccer practice. (You can clearly envision the edit meetings: “That’s a thing people do, right?”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some actual excerpts from the book, selected via a process of opening it to random pages once I was home, writing this, eating cheese popcorn out of a bag that I bought at the liquor store across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cacio e pepe is one of my favorite simple pasta dishes, so when Thea and I started spiralizing vegetables like maniacs, we thought a zucchini noodle version might be nice. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you’re short on time, get someone at the meat counter to pound out your chicken for you and be sure to let the lemon slices get caramelized and sweet before adding the other ingredients. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When working on a GOOP story with the L.A.-based company Moon Juice, we learned the easiest-ever method for making instant almond milk: simply blend good almond butter and water together. Duh — why didn’t we think of that?! Here we make a hot version with fresh ginger and a little sesame oil to add roundness. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duh!! Anyway, the interior of the building was truly beautiful. 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Oh wait, the tag says they’re “wall tassels.” That clears it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (22)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet: As I made my way through the vortex, inching closer to the holy grail — Gwyneth had been set up for the book-signing behind a hilariously wide butcher-block table, accessorized with Goop dish sets and cast iron pans for that “I’m totally actually in Gwyneth Paltrow’s kitchen!” feeling — I felt some air leaking slowly from my dark balloon of repulsion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it was the fact that every single beautiful human I’d interacted with for the past hour and a half had been wonderfully kind and friendly. Then there was the fact that every person walking away from the table after meeting her looked like they could die happy, on the spot. Then, from 10 feet away, I could see Gwyneth’s own smile as she chatted up each beautiful human who’d come out to see her, and — in my limited experience with encountering celebrities in the flesh — it was among the most warm, lifelike, genuine smiles I’d seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1.jpg\" alt=\"32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1\" width=\"634\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1.jpg 634w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1-400x383.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe it was more like: Over the course of 90 minutes, I’d made peace with my incredulity. Because you know what? It’s fine to be obscenely wealthy. It’s fine that she was born into a Hollywood family, and has therefore been wealthy, and privileged, and ensconced in a bubble with people just like her, for literally her entire life. It’s even fine that she’s selling this \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/three-dip-board\">slab of wood you’re supposed to pay $395 to put hummus on\u003c/a>. (I mean it’s crazy, but it’s fine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that is not why people hate her. Extreme wealth in and of itself is not grounds for ridicule in this country. It’s your attitude about it — your understanding of where you fit into the grand scheme of things — that can get you in trouble. The Kardashians are mocked for many things, but they have never pretended they cook their own meals. George Clooney owns a f*cking villa in Italy; he does not, however, have a weekly newsletter with suggestions for other people about how to decorate their Italian villas. (That I know of. Someone please sign me up immediately if I’m wrong.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23896\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-800x600.jpg\" alt='Here is a seafood-and-sherry dish one is supposed to be able to make at the last minute if one has \"unexpected guests\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is a seafood-and-sherry dish one is supposed to be able to make at the last minute if one has “unexpected guests.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s complete lack of self-awareness or calculated business strategy or both, the idea of being so disconnected from reality that you see “regular person with a 9-to-5 and kids to feed” as a charming brand to try on is staggering; it’s homemaker fetishization of the most insidious degree. The fact that it’s difficult for busy people with little money to feed their children nutritious food is a source of real pain for real humans every day, not to mention the root of a massive national health crisis, and for Gwyneth Paltrow — who has publicly proved that she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/17/a-hungry-gwyneth-paltrow-fails-the-food-stamp-challenge-four-days-in/\">woefully incapable of eating on a budget for more than four days\u003c/a> — to suggest that she can relate to this problem, let alone has solutions to it, is patently insulting. \u003cem>It’s All Easy\u003c/em> is a book for people who can afford to not cook but want to feel like they’re the kind of people who do anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The central conceit, that Gwyneth is a regular person in any way, is condescending and gross. It’s tacky. And the level of narcissism and near-sightedness it reveals implies a kind of existence \u003cem>I don’t actually think I would ever want.\u003c/em> I work for a public radio station, Gwyneth. I live in the most expensive city in America, one whose future is alarmingly uncertain. I’m hanging on by a thread, and relatively speaking I’m incredibly lucky: I walked by approximately 30 homeless people in and around BART stations just to get here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a $165 keychain by Stella McCartney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0229\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s aspirational, for sure,” the girl behind me in line said thoughtfully, of her affinity for Gwyn’s cookbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right,” I said. “Like if you’re eating the same dinner she’s eating, you might — ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kind of become her? Yeah,” she laughed. “It’s a little weird, isn’t it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our journey ends like this: Gwyneth was a doll. No, I mean she actually looked like a doll. A tiny, beautiful, beaming doll, and one who — with zero prompting — signed a copy of \u003cem>It’s All Easy\u003c/em> with a Mother’s Day message for my mother, then both my name and hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-800x923.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (17)\" width=\"800\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-800x923.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-400x462.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-768x886.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1440x1662.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1920x2216.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1180x1362.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-960x1108.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17.jpg 1948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So,” I said to her from across the table, with what I can only assume was the voice of a sheepish giantess, willing myself to be something like a journalist and not a large, trembly child meeting Cinderella at Disneyland. “What do you do when it doesn’t all \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> easy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looked peeved for a moment, cocked her head to one side. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Ed. note:\u003c/strong> Afeni Shakur, a onetime Black Panther, lifelong political activist, and the mother of famed rapper Tupac Shakur, died May 2 at her home in Sausalito. KQED Pop reached out to DJ, hip-hop historian and SFSU professor \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/\">Davey D\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, who met with Shakur soon after Tupac died, for a personal remembrance. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution! All power to all the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were words uttered by Chairman Fred Hampton Sr., who in the late ’60s headed up the largest chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/\">Black Panther Party for Self Defense\u003c/a> in Chicago, Illinois. They were profound words that resonated with party members, and which sadly took on greater and graver meaning when Hampton and his comrade Mark Clark were tragically gunned down on Dec. 4, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur with Black Panther leader Richard Moore. \" width=\"594\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501-400x333.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur with Black Panther leader Richard Moore. \u003ccite>(Photo by Frank Hurley/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s important to keep in mind the mindset of those who joined the Black Panther Party\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> BPP members knew that many among them would be locked up. They knew many would lose their lives. They also knew that the tenacious, heartfelt commitments they made when joining the Black Panthers were to bring about a better world for their children and their children’s children. If they were to fall short or be compromised in any way, their children, Panther Cubs born and unborn, would take the seeds that had been planted and carry on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac and Afeni Shakur\" width=\"582\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube-400x334.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac and Afeni Shakur\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can’t talk about the late Afeni Shakur, nor her son, the late Tupac Shakur — who was one of the most prolific, impactful and admired artists to ever bless the mic — without referencing the Black Panthers who shaped their lives. I met Afeni \u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/afeni.html\">almost a year to the day her son was taken from us\u003c/a>. It was in Marin City, where she had raised Tupac. She wasn’t doing interviews, but had agreed to talk with us because we had known her son just as he was starting his career. We were there at the beginning, when Oakland’s Digital Underground was starting, and knew Tupac when he first linked up with the group. He was doing the Humpty Dance in their videos and basically being a roadie for them while he honed his emcee skills and built upon his writing — which was already on point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byIkY9qsTdU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the world knew an in-your-face, bold, outspoken Tupac, we knew a Tupac who was well-read and had intellectual depth. We knew a Tupac who was well-versed in Panther history and at the end of the day, in spite of all his brashness, was about the community and seeing it uplifted. Pac often said he was trying to give voice to the young Black male, who he felt was systemically being demonized and made into a scapegoat for society’s deep-seated problems. Pac had his contradictions, but for those of us who knew him, the one thing you could say unequivocally was he was honest. Brutally honest. Honest when it was inconvenient, honest when it ruffled feathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23778\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n.jpg\" alt=\"Tupacs business card.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac’s business card.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tupac many of us came to know was also one who always referenced his mom. He always uplifted her — long before he released the song that immortalized her, “Dear Mama.” In the Digital Underground camp, we came to know of Afeni via the running barbs that Tupac and group member Money B would privately and publicly exchange with one another. Tupac might be on stage at a concert and, as the crowd gave him a standing ovation, he would sign off by clowning Money B’s mom — e.g. “Can we give it up for Money B’s mom, who will be outside the concert beatboxing for quarters?” The crowd would roar with laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Money B might be doing a radio interview in New York and, before leaving, he would get back at Tupac: “I wanna thank Tupac’s mom Afeni for not stealing the dice at the dice game I just left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1ZvUDvLDY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her name was mentioned often — frequently in jest, but the jokes were never explicitly offensive. Even if we had not met her personally, we knew Afeni was a former Black Panther, and she had our reverence and respect. We knew she was part of the Panther 21, who were brought up on conspiracy charges in 1971. We knew that Afeni had represented herself during the trial while pregnant with Tupac. We knew that she and the other Panther members beat the case and were acquitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when doing \u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/afeni.html\">that interview\u003c/a> with Afeni a year after Tupac’s passing, it was with a mixture of sadness and awe: This was the woman we had heard so much about. It became clear that day where Tupac got his strength. It was clear that day why Pac was so well-read, why he was so brutally honest. During our conversation, Afeni noted that she and her children lived in truth. There were no secrets, she said, and Tupac was truthful in the face of anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to clear up any misconceptions about her son, Afeni noted that while most people saw him just as a rapper, he was in fact so much more than that. “Tupac was and remains in my mind a child of the Black Panther Party,” she said. “I always felt that Tupac was living witness to who we are and who we were. I think that his life spoke to every part of our development and the development of the Party, and the development in this country that I don’t think will die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 680px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni and Tupac Shakur\" width=\"680\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya.jpg 680w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni and Tupac Shakur\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During our conversation, Afeni talked at length about her own upbringing. She talked about joining the Black Panthers in 1968 and how, unlike many who came onboard via college, she came to the party out of a gang in the South Bronx called the Disciples Deads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Panther Party did for me? I used to always say it gave me home training,” she said. “The Party taught me things that were principles to living … principles I think most Panthers have tried to pass on to their children and to anybody else that would listen to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“…One of those principles was like, don’t steal a penny, needle or a simple piece of thread from the people. It’s just general basic things about how we as individuals treat a race of people, and how we treat each other as a people! And those are the things I think the people recognize in Tupac.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdLJ-8p-eUA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our interview, we were interrupted when former Black Panther and recently released political prisoner Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt came in to greet Afeni. I recall her smiling broadly and the two embracing. As we ended the interview, Afeni teared up a bit when she urged us to study Tupac’s music and read books like \u003cem>The Art of War\u003c/em> by Sun Tzu, and \u003cem>The Prince\u003c/em> by Machiavelli, so that we “would have a better way of looking at things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for her son’s killers, she noted: “Not only will they have to live with it, but so will their children and their children’s children. I would not want to stand before God and say that I’m the one who took Tupac’s life. So what I have to say is more power to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afeni’s words were in sharp contrast to those who, at that time, were insisting that Tupac had faked his death and was still alive. It was clear that she knew the grave truth and was facing it while so many had not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23770\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur speaks to a crowd at the center named for her son in 2005.\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur speaks to a crowd at the center named for her son in 2005. \u003ccite>(Renee’ Hannans Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years later, I got to see Afeni for a second time. I was with Chuck D of Public Enemy and then-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. We went to the [now defunct] \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Amaru_Shakur_Center_for_the_Arts\">Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts\u003c/a>, which Afeni had founded just outside Atlanta. She spoke to us about the work of the education and performing arts foundation and the peace garden she had set up. The center’s purpose was not only to preserve Tupac’s legacy but to carry out Pac’s vision of reaching the youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That center was the realization of a dream Tupac held for a long time. In 1991, he filed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/14/arts/tupac-shakur-25-rap-performer-who-personified-violence-dies.html?pagewanted=2\">$10 million civil suit against the Oakland Police Department\u003c/a>, alleging they \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-G7HbQX8Qg\">beat him after he was stopped for jaywalking\u003c/a>. He vowed that the money he got would go to build a youth center, and continue the afterschool program work he was doing in Marin with his friend and former manager Leila Steinberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pac never got $10 million from the OPD. In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2011/06/16/tupac-shakurs-40th-birthday-lessons-in-police-community-relationships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out-of-court settlement\u003c/a>, he barely got enough to pay for his lawyer, but in his death his mother had carried out much of that vision with the center. She talked earnestly about the peace garden and her hopes for many to heal. Whereas the Black Panthers’ plan was for their children (Panther Cubs) to carry out the vision of the Panthers, here we saw Afeni the Black Panther carrying out the vision of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 625px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23775\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur is escorted from a police station in New York in1969 after her arrest. \" width=\"625\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2.jpg 625w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur is escorted from a police station in New York in1969 after her arrest. \u003ccite>(AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afeni also went to great lengths to educate herself and get her son’s music affairs in order. She gained control of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spin.com/2013/09/tupac-shakur-afeni-royalties-death-row-lawsuit-unreleased/\">his unreleased music\u003c/a>. She set up a record label, Amaru Records, and accomplished the Herculean task of getting the his assets under one roof, preventing them from exploitation by an often unforgiving and cannibalistic music industry. Afeni Shakur became a sharp businesswoman and, in doing so, prevented the silencing of her son’s voice and nefarious distortions of his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time I saw Afeni was in Memphis in 2008, during the Dream Reborn conference, a civil rights gathering organized by former White House adviser and longtime organizer Van Jones. Afeni gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94sXTwU0h18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a keynote address\u003c/a> for the ages: she talked about the importance of folks being spiritually grounded, owning land and being self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, it may have appeared Afeni was headed in a different direction and no longer saw herself as a revolutionary or militant. The truth of the matter was that Afeni was talking about setting up survival programs. She was talking about making sure we as a people would be able to take care of one another, and would not have to be dependent upon a system that did not fully care for far too many of us. That message was an extension of what the Panthers were about, and in many ways, what was core to their existence. People hear “Black Panthers” and think guns and berets, but many people will tell you that what J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI feared most were the party’s survival programs. Afeni was speaking to the party’s legacy, a message she had committed herself to back in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-800x264.png\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur visits Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland.\" width=\"501\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-800x264.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-400x132.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-768x253.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur visits Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Photos from Mic.com courtesy of Reena Valvani)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September of 2015, Afeni Shakur came to Oakland and paid a surprise visit to a new school called \u003ca href=\"http://rosesinconcrete.org/\">Roses In Concrete\u003c/a>, an elementary school with a social justice emphasis, \u003ca href=\"http://mic.com/articles/125029/oakland-elementary-school-uses-tupac-s-poetry-to-help-children-deal-with-ptsd#.H7CoSTx32\">named in honor of her son’s poem and book of the same title\u003c/a>. Afeni visited the kindergarten class that my wife teaches, and was touched to discover, on the wall of the classroom, a picture of her son and a copy of his poem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac's poem, said to be about his mother, in his own handwriting. \" width=\"503\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting.jpg 506w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting-400x251.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac’s poem in his own handwriting.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was impressed, and promised to support the school however she could. The kids were excited, as well as the staff. She had lifted up their spirits. After learning of her death this week, they held a drumming circle and tears were shed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afeni Shakur joins her son and is now amongst the ancestors. She was a force to be reckoned with, and a person who honored that commitment made in 1968 to plant seeds and make a difference. She touched many, and through her son she touched even more. Left to carry the torch is her daughter Sekyiwa. Our heartfelt condolences to her. May we remember Afeni Shakur and honor her memory by keeping the revolutionary spirit and values that she embodied alive.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Ed. note:\u003c/strong> Afeni Shakur, a onetime Black Panther, lifelong political activist, and the mother of famed rapper Tupac Shakur, died May 2 at her home in Sausalito. KQED Pop reached out to DJ, hip-hop historian and SFSU professor \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/\">Davey D\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, who met with Shakur soon after Tupac died, for a personal remembrance. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution! All power to all the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were words uttered by Chairman Fred Hampton Sr., who in the late ’60s headed up the largest chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/\">Black Panther Party for Self Defense\u003c/a> in Chicago, Illinois. They were profound words that resonated with party members, and which sadly took on greater and graver meaning when Hampton and his comrade Mark Clark were tragically gunned down on Dec. 4, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur with Black Panther leader Richard Moore. \" width=\"594\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501-400x333.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur with Black Panther leader Richard Moore. \u003ccite>(Photo by Frank Hurley/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s important to keep in mind the mindset of those who joined the Black Panther Party\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> BPP members knew that many among them would be locked up. They knew many would lose their lives. They also knew that the tenacious, heartfelt commitments they made when joining the Black Panthers were to bring about a better world for their children and their children’s children. If they were to fall short or be compromised in any way, their children, Panther Cubs born and unborn, would take the seeds that had been planted and carry on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac and Afeni Shakur\" width=\"582\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube-400x334.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac and Afeni Shakur\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can’t talk about the late Afeni Shakur, nor her son, the late Tupac Shakur — who was one of the most prolific, impactful and admired artists to ever bless the mic — without referencing the Black Panthers who shaped their lives. I met Afeni \u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/afeni.html\">almost a year to the day her son was taken from us\u003c/a>. It was in Marin City, where she had raised Tupac. She wasn’t doing interviews, but had agreed to talk with us because we had known her son just as he was starting his career. We were there at the beginning, when Oakland’s Digital Underground was starting, and knew Tupac when he first linked up with the group. He was doing the Humpty Dance in their videos and basically being a roadie for them while he honed his emcee skills and built upon his writing — which was already on point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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/byIkY9qsTdU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/byIkY9qsTdU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>While the world knew an in-your-face, bold, outspoken Tupac, we knew a Tupac who was well-read and had intellectual depth. We knew a Tupac who was well-versed in Panther history and at the end of the day, in spite of all his brashness, was about the community and seeing it uplifted. Pac often said he was trying to give voice to the young Black male, who he felt was systemically being demonized and made into a scapegoat for society’s deep-seated problems. Pac had his contradictions, but for those of us who knew him, the one thing you could say unequivocally was he was honest. Brutally honest. Honest when it was inconvenient, honest when it ruffled feathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23778\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n.jpg\" alt=\"Tupacs business card.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac’s business card.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tupac many of us came to know was also one who always referenced his mom. He always uplifted her — long before he released the song that immortalized her, “Dear Mama.” In the Digital Underground camp, we came to know of Afeni via the running barbs that Tupac and group member Money B would privately and publicly exchange with one another. Tupac might be on stage at a concert and, as the crowd gave him a standing ovation, he would sign off by clowning Money B’s mom — e.g. “Can we give it up for Money B’s mom, who will be outside the concert beatboxing for quarters?” The crowd would roar with laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Money B might be doing a radio interview in New York and, before leaving, he would get back at Tupac: “I wanna thank Tupac’s mom Afeni for not stealing the dice at the dice game I just left.”\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/Mb1ZvUDvLDY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Mb1ZvUDvLDY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Her name was mentioned often — frequently in jest, but the jokes were never explicitly offensive. Even if we had not met her personally, we knew Afeni was a former Black Panther, and she had our reverence and respect. We knew she was part of the Panther 21, who were brought up on conspiracy charges in 1971. We knew that Afeni had represented herself during the trial while pregnant with Tupac. We knew that she and the other Panther members beat the case and were acquitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when doing \u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/afeni.html\">that interview\u003c/a> with Afeni a year after Tupac’s passing, it was with a mixture of sadness and awe: This was the woman we had heard so much about. It became clear that day where Tupac got his strength. It was clear that day why Pac was so well-read, why he was so brutally honest. During our conversation, Afeni noted that she and her children lived in truth. There were no secrets, she said, and Tupac was truthful in the face of anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to clear up any misconceptions about her son, Afeni noted that while most people saw him just as a rapper, he was in fact so much more than that. “Tupac was and remains in my mind a child of the Black Panther Party,” she said. “I always felt that Tupac was living witness to who we are and who we were. I think that his life spoke to every part of our development and the development of the Party, and the development in this country that I don’t think will die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 680px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni and Tupac Shakur\" width=\"680\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya.jpg 680w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni and Tupac Shakur\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During our conversation, Afeni talked at length about her own upbringing. She talked about joining the Black Panthers in 1968 and how, unlike many who came onboard via college, she came to the party out of a gang in the South Bronx called the Disciples Deads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Panther Party did for me? I used to always say it gave me home training,” she said. “The Party taught me things that were principles to living … principles I think most Panthers have tried to pass on to their children and to anybody else that would listen to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“…One of those principles was like, don’t steal a penny, needle or a simple piece of thread from the people. It’s just general basic things about how we as individuals treat a race of people, and how we treat each other as a people! And those are the things I think the people recognize in Tupac.”\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/QdLJ-8p-eUA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QdLJ-8p-eUA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>During our interview, we were interrupted when former Black Panther and recently released political prisoner Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt came in to greet Afeni. I recall her smiling broadly and the two embracing. As we ended the interview, Afeni teared up a bit when she urged us to study Tupac’s music and read books like \u003cem>The Art of War\u003c/em> by Sun Tzu, and \u003cem>The Prince\u003c/em> by Machiavelli, so that we “would have a better way of looking at things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for her son’s killers, she noted: “Not only will they have to live with it, but so will their children and their children’s children. I would not want to stand before God and say that I’m the one who took Tupac’s life. So what I have to say is more power to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afeni’s words were in sharp contrast to those who, at that time, were insisting that Tupac had faked his death and was still alive. It was clear that she knew the grave truth and was facing it while so many had not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23770\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur speaks to a crowd at the center named for her son in 2005.\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur speaks to a crowd at the center named for her son in 2005. \u003ccite>(Renee’ Hannans Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years later, I got to see Afeni for a second time. I was with Chuck D of Public Enemy and then-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. We went to the [now defunct] \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Amaru_Shakur_Center_for_the_Arts\">Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts\u003c/a>, which Afeni had founded just outside Atlanta. She spoke to us about the work of the education and performing arts foundation and the peace garden she had set up. The center’s purpose was not only to preserve Tupac’s legacy but to carry out Pac’s vision of reaching the youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That center was the realization of a dream Tupac held for a long time. In 1991, he filed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/14/arts/tupac-shakur-25-rap-performer-who-personified-violence-dies.html?pagewanted=2\">$10 million civil suit against the Oakland Police Department\u003c/a>, alleging they \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-G7HbQX8Qg\">beat him after he was stopped for jaywalking\u003c/a>. He vowed that the money he got would go to build a youth center, and continue the afterschool program work he was doing in Marin with his friend and former manager Leila Steinberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pac never got $10 million from the OPD. In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2011/06/16/tupac-shakurs-40th-birthday-lessons-in-police-community-relationships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out-of-court settlement\u003c/a>, he barely got enough to pay for his lawyer, but in his death his mother had carried out much of that vision with the center. She talked earnestly about the peace garden and her hopes for many to heal. Whereas the Black Panthers’ plan was for their children (Panther Cubs) to carry out the vision of the Panthers, here we saw Afeni the Black Panther carrying out the vision of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 625px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23775\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur is escorted from a police station in New York in1969 after her arrest. \" width=\"625\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2.jpg 625w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur is escorted from a police station in New York in1969 after her arrest. \u003ccite>(AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afeni also went to great lengths to educate herself and get her son’s music affairs in order. She gained control of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spin.com/2013/09/tupac-shakur-afeni-royalties-death-row-lawsuit-unreleased/\">his unreleased music\u003c/a>. She set up a record label, Amaru Records, and accomplished the Herculean task of getting the his assets under one roof, preventing them from exploitation by an often unforgiving and cannibalistic music industry. Afeni Shakur became a sharp businesswoman and, in doing so, prevented the silencing of her son’s voice and nefarious distortions of his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time I saw Afeni was in Memphis in 2008, during the Dream Reborn conference, a civil rights gathering organized by former White House adviser and longtime organizer Van Jones. Afeni gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94sXTwU0h18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a keynote address\u003c/a> for the ages: she talked about the importance of folks being spiritually grounded, owning land and being self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, it may have appeared Afeni was headed in a different direction and no longer saw herself as a revolutionary or militant. The truth of the matter was that Afeni was talking about setting up survival programs. She was talking about making sure we as a people would be able to take care of one another, and would not have to be dependent upon a system that did not fully care for far too many of us. That message was an extension of what the Panthers were about, and in many ways, what was core to their existence. People hear “Black Panthers” and think guns and berets, but many people will tell you that what J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI feared most were the party’s survival programs. Afeni was speaking to the party’s legacy, a message she had committed herself to back in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-800x264.png\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur visits Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland.\" width=\"501\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-800x264.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-400x132.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-768x253.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur visits Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Photos from Mic.com courtesy of Reena Valvani)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September of 2015, Afeni Shakur came to Oakland and paid a surprise visit to a new school called \u003ca href=\"http://rosesinconcrete.org/\">Roses In Concrete\u003c/a>, an elementary school with a social justice emphasis, \u003ca href=\"http://mic.com/articles/125029/oakland-elementary-school-uses-tupac-s-poetry-to-help-children-deal-with-ptsd#.H7CoSTx32\">named in honor of her son’s poem and book of the same title\u003c/a>. Afeni visited the kindergarten class that my wife teaches, and was touched to discover, on the wall of the classroom, a picture of her son and a copy of his poem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac's poem, said to be about his mother, in his own handwriting. \" width=\"503\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting.jpg 506w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting-400x251.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac’s poem in his own handwriting.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was impressed, and promised to support the school however she could. The kids were excited, as well as the staff. She had lifted up their spirits. After learning of her death this week, they held a drumming circle and tears were shed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the good old days, the music-career-on-the-side was an endeavor only attempted by actors. The TV actors did it in an attempt to take their careers to the next level -- we’re looking at you, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5h8jrceec\">Brian Austin Green\u003c/a> and giving you serious side eye, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ti8-vEM3U8\">Uncle Jesse\u003c/a> -- but the movie guys often did it in an attempt to claw back some street cred after accidentally becoming millionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ‘90s, this meant watching Keanu Reeves staring at his feet in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TSnE1b-Bs\">Dogstar\u003c/a>, and Johnny Depp collaborating with a Butthole Surfer and trying to look casual about it (that band was called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKkWvNQzxE\">P\u003c/a>, in case you erased it from memory). At the time, we all assumed these lackluster attempts to break into rock ‘n’ roll were just about the worst things we’d ever deal with in the world of celebrity music crossovers – but that’s because, at the time, reality TV was just a \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/19177327\">\u003cem>Real World\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-shaped twinkle in MTV’s eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-23648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the advent of reality television, however, celebrities who were famous for nothing more than living with a camera crew started consistently assuming that the fastest way to a more credible career was via the medium of music. In the early days, this happened repeatedly and, without fail, each and every reality star thought that their music career would be different; that they somehow would get one over on a public who, they refused to acknowledge, really, really didn’t want to hear them sing in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this phenomena first started in the early 2000s, it became apparent very quickly that even when reality stars made a real effort to put out something musically solid -- or at least something that wouldn’t immediately get you scrambling to the mute button on your TV--- they were still met with indifference and not a small amount of disapproval from the peanut gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, emerging on the back of the enormously successful \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osbournes\">\u003cem>The Osbournes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Kelly Osbourne’s wooden performance in the video for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUb5JihqZZQ#t=70\">Papa Don’t Preach\u003c/a>\" might have erred on the side of cringeworthy, but the actual song was on par with -- perhaps even better than --anything Avril Lavigne was doing with more success that year. Osbourne’s follow-up singles, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8nng0Anvig\">Shut Up\u003c/a>” and “Come Dig Me Out”, certainly out-paced and outsmarted Lavigne’s \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPBIwQyPWE\">Complicated\u003c/a>\" and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k\">Sk8tr Boi\u003c/a>”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_qE8_BHMrI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still it came to naught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Paris Hilton -- who occasionally seemed like an actual Real Human Girl in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362153/\">\u003cem>The Simple Life\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- had a crack at music stardom with “Stars Are Blind” -- a song that was received across the board with a kind shrug, a gentle nod and a muttering of “This actually isn’t that bad.” Which, of course, is code for “I’d listen to this song if Gwen Stefani had recorded it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joWpYsKere8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, Heidi Montag (poor, dear Heidi Montag) did put some effort into her \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hills_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Hills\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-adjacent foray into music, copying Paris Hilton’s beachy video and being hailed (by people who were surely being paid to do so) as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOgA5D10Hvg\">The NEXT Britney Spears!\u003c/a>\" Sadly, Montag's attempts to not sound like a balloon deflating in slow motion failed. (Poor, dear Heidi Montag.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHZYGrC40Ko\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three stars were forced to abandon their music careers shortly after they’d begun, to the disappointment of almost nobody. But what followed was a contagious idea among other reality stars that (a) anyone could have a go, and (b) since it was clearly going to be short-lived, they could just release any old nonsense. The reality star singles that followed were both infuriating in their laziness and -- silver lining! -- a goldmine of unintentional comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there was Daisy De La Hoya, one of Brett Michaels’ playthings from his (consistently gag-worthy) \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Love_with_Bret_Michaels_(season_2)\">\u003cem>Rock Of Love\u003c/em>\u003c/a> dating show. Ms. De La Hoya decided in 2009 that the quickest way to a rock ‘n’ roll career was singing a song titled “Suck It” featuring the immortal refrain: “Girls, they wanna be me! Boys, they wanna do me!” It was just as head-desk terrible as you might imagine, but there was, at least, also a strong possibility that every time you heard this, you laughed until the breath left your lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tul_1hRphI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone on the trashiness scale, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Jersey Shore\u003c/em>\u003c/a>’s Pauly D decided to release “Beat Dat Beat” a year later. It was a Pitbull-inspired tropical house nightmare with spoken word sections about tanning, being Italian and “only dealing with 9s and 10s in the DJ booth.” It was like Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch went on a bender, stopped being able to do backflips and just started complaining about ugly people:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Gpt12psAA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, Kim Kardashian’s “Jam” half-emerged. That’s right! This atrocity was so bad, not even the Kardashians wanted it released, even after airing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uzScEbcws\">Kim in the recording studio\u003c/a> during an episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/shows/kardashians\">\u003cem>Keeping Up With The Kardashians\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. To this day, it’s impossible to find an entirely finished video to accompany the track. Not even The Dream, a vat of body oil and Kim K’s perfect derriere crawling through a service tunnel could disguise the fact that her singing(?) voice was even more profoundly irritating than the one she speaks with. But hey, rosé up in the air, everybody! (ROSÉ!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHp7sq1Tzn0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Astonishingly, in the years that have followed, we’ve only seen the bar set increasingly lower, thanks almost entirely to the squawking banshees of \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> franchise. Here’s New York’s Kim Zolciak with “Tardy For The Party,” closely resembling that friend of your mom’s that always drinks too much on national holidays, then passes out on the front lawn:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIeb7tY3Z6s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another NYC housewife, Countess Luann, went one step further with “Money Can’t Buy You Class,” a track that features so many layers of Auto-Tune, it sounds like she recorded it with her face submerged in a mop bucket. Money can't buy you talent either, sweet cheeks!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEDvlSAMhQU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even bit-players from \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> got in on recording singles. Do you know who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlRUlXWz0#t=20\">Simon Van Kempen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUcQq1sbWsM#t=63\">Miss Lawrence\u003c/a> are? We don’t either. But someone let those fools into recording booths because, apparently, being on reality television erases the ability to feel shame. Truly, it would now be an impossibility for a reality star to record anything worse than this exercise in humiliation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlRUlXWz0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s possible for actors to cross over into legitimate and nerd-approved music careers in a way that simply wasn’t permitted a decade ago. Perhaps many actors’ efforts just don’t seem so bad now that we’re so consistently exposed to the bottom of the barrel by reality stars. That’s not to say many people are clamoring to listen to \u003ca href=\"http://www.baconbros.com/\">The Bacon Brothers\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://kevincostnermodernwest.com/\">Kevin Costner & Modern West\u003c/a>, and sweet baby Jesus, we wish we'd never found out about Jada Pinkett Smith’s metal band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f56ZtXrx_nw\">Wicked Wisdom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truthfully, the established actors who have succeeded in recording music that isn’t just tolerable, but legitimately great, have done so by collaborating with respected artists and not pandering to the biggest potential audience. The two best examples are Zooey Deschanel’s collaboration with indie darling M. Ward, for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheandhim.com/\">She & Him\u003c/a>, and Ryan Gosling’s foray into artsy horror-themed experimentation with the surprisingly excellent \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Bones\">Dead Man’s Bones\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpYwHfB7eds\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75mYuwvlg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Gosling and Deschanel have in common: You can tell that they’re recording music truthfully and with not a small amount of skill. Neither of them has made their music to get their egos stroked (see Russell Crowe’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfomuY2ysg\">30 Odd Foot of Grunts\u003c/a>) or to live out some rock star fantasy (see Jared Leto's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcps2fJKuAI\">30 Seconds to Mars\u003c/a>) -- they’ve done it because they were compelled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, reality TV's favorite tattoo artist Kat Von D emerged as a guest vocalist on a single by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers_(rock_duo)\">Prayers\u003c/a>, an underground electro-goth outfit that is garnering a fair amount of underground buzz right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnA_ADv9J_8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnA_ADv9J_8\">Black Leather\u003c/a>\" is Von D’s first foray into music since promising the world an album in 2014, then never actually coming through with one. If she can forge a path into music following her passions rather than her bank balance, she might actually be the first reality star to pull off a real career in music. Also in her favor is the fact that she’s no longer on our televisions every day -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/la-ink/\">\u003cem>LA Ink\u003c/em>\u003c/a> ended all the way back in 2011, and that fact alone gives Von D a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-v2FDhHbI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kat Von D is certainly, currently, the reality star most likely to succeed when it comes to branching out into music (she has a multitude of musician friends in respected places and can play actual instruments). But if she can’t do it? Well, I'm not holding my breath -- but it'd be nice to see this trend come to an end, once and for all.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the good old days, the music-career-on-the-side was an endeavor only attempted by actors. The TV actors did it in an attempt to take their careers to the next level -- we’re looking at you, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5h8jrceec\">Brian Austin Green\u003c/a> and giving you serious side eye, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ti8-vEM3U8\">Uncle Jesse\u003c/a> -- but the movie guys often did it in an attempt to claw back some street cred after accidentally becoming millionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ‘90s, this meant watching Keanu Reeves staring at his feet in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TSnE1b-Bs\">Dogstar\u003c/a>, and Johnny Depp collaborating with a Butthole Surfer and trying to look casual about it (that band was called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKkWvNQzxE\">P\u003c/a>, in case you erased it from memory). At the time, we all assumed these lackluster attempts to break into rock ‘n’ roll were just about the worst things we’d ever deal with in the world of celebrity music crossovers – but that’s because, at the time, reality TV was just a \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/19177327\">\u003cem>Real World\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-shaped twinkle in MTV’s eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-23648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the advent of reality television, however, celebrities who were famous for nothing more than living with a camera crew started consistently assuming that the fastest way to a more credible career was via the medium of music. In the early days, this happened repeatedly and, without fail, each and every reality star thought that their music career would be different; that they somehow would get one over on a public who, they refused to acknowledge, really, really didn’t want to hear them sing in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this phenomena first started in the early 2000s, it became apparent very quickly that even when reality stars made a real effort to put out something musically solid -- or at least something that wouldn’t immediately get you scrambling to the mute button on your TV--- they were still met with indifference and not a small amount of disapproval from the peanut gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, emerging on the back of the enormously successful \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osbournes\">\u003cem>The Osbournes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Kelly Osbourne’s wooden performance in the video for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUb5JihqZZQ#t=70\">Papa Don’t Preach\u003c/a>\" might have erred on the side of cringeworthy, but the actual song was on par with -- perhaps even better than --anything Avril Lavigne was doing with more success that year. Osbourne’s follow-up singles, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8nng0Anvig\">Shut Up\u003c/a>” and “Come Dig Me Out”, certainly out-paced and outsmarted Lavigne’s \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPBIwQyPWE\">Complicated\u003c/a>\" and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k\">Sk8tr Boi\u003c/a>”:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Q_qE8_BHMrI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Q_qE8_BHMrI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Still it came to naught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Paris Hilton -- who occasionally seemed like an actual Real Human Girl in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362153/\">\u003cem>The Simple Life\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- had a crack at music stardom with “Stars Are Blind” -- a song that was received across the board with a kind shrug, a gentle nod and a muttering of “This actually isn’t that bad.” Which, of course, is code for “I’d listen to this song if Gwen Stefani had recorded it.”\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/joWpYsKere8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/joWpYsKere8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2008, Heidi Montag (poor, dear Heidi Montag) did put some effort into her \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hills_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Hills\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-adjacent foray into music, copying Paris Hilton’s beachy video and being hailed (by people who were surely being paid to do so) as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOgA5D10Hvg\">The NEXT Britney Spears!\u003c/a>\" Sadly, Montag's attempts to not sound like a balloon deflating in slow motion failed. (Poor, dear Heidi Montag.)\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/wHZYGrC40Ko'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wHZYGrC40Ko'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>All three stars were forced to abandon their music careers shortly after they’d begun, to the disappointment of almost nobody. But what followed was a contagious idea among other reality stars that (a) anyone could have a go, and (b) since it was clearly going to be short-lived, they could just release any old nonsense. 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Boys, they wanna do me!” It was just as head-desk terrible as you might imagine, but there was, at least, also a strong possibility that every time you heard this, you laughed until the breath left your lungs.\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/8tul_1hRphI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8tul_1hRphI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Not to be outdone on the trashiness scale, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Jersey Shore\u003c/em>\u003c/a>’s Pauly D decided to release “Beat Dat Beat” a year later. It was a Pitbull-inspired tropical house nightmare with spoken word sections about tanning, being Italian and “only dealing with 9s and 10s in the DJ booth.” It was like Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch went on a bender, stopped being able to do backflips and just started complaining about ugly people:\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/y0Gpt12psAA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/y0Gpt12psAA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, Kim Kardashian’s “Jam” half-emerged. That’s right! This atrocity was so bad, not even the Kardashians wanted it released, even after airing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uzScEbcws\">Kim in the recording studio\u003c/a> during an episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/shows/kardashians\">\u003cem>Keeping Up With The Kardashians\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. To this day, it’s impossible to find an entirely finished video to accompany the track. Not even The Dream, a vat of body oil and Kim K’s perfect derriere crawling through a service tunnel could disguise the fact that her singing(?) voice was even more profoundly irritating than the one she speaks with. But hey, rosé up in the air, everybody! (ROSÉ!)\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/gHp7sq1Tzn0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gHp7sq1Tzn0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Astonishingly, in the years that have followed, we’ve only seen the bar set increasingly lower, thanks almost entirely to the squawking banshees of \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> franchise. 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