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But she kept choking up mid-sentence, overwhelmed by her emotions. “I’m sorry,” she said to the TV cameras, “I hope you can edit this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long pause, Grzeca regained her composure and continued. “I’ll always remember him for his humor and his authenticity,” she said. “He was a huge fan of electronic dance music. He was a huge fan of hip-hop, and he was also a classically trained singer, but those worlds weren’t separate for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memorial concert made that clear. It featured songs that were some of McGill’s favorites, choral works and two movements from Brahms’ German Requiem, about the “joy that comes after terrible grief,” Grzeca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students didn’t talk to reporters, but three of McGill’s friends performed songs they’d written as memorials for McGill. Classmate Evan Tiapula led the school’s concert choirs in a setting of the poem “Turn Again to Life” by Mary Lee Hall. The poem features these reassuring lines:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If I should die, and leave you here awhile\u003cbr>\nBe not like others sore undone, who keep\u003cbr>\nLong vigils by the silent dust and weep.\u003cbr>\nFor my sake, turn again to life, and smile,\u003cbr>\nNerving thy heart and trembling hand to do\u003cbr>\nSomething to comfort weaker hearts than thine.\u003cbr>\nComplete these dear unfinished tasks of mine,\u003cbr>\nAnd I, perchance, may therein comfort you!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12483965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-800x1029.jpg\" alt=\"Sheet music for song dedicated to McGill\" width=\"800\" height=\"1029\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12483965\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-800x1029.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-160x206.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-768x988.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-1020x1312.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-1920x2470.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-1180x1518.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-960x1235.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-240x309.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-375x483.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music-520x669.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Main-Sheet-Music.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheet music for song dedicated to McGill\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then the choir sang a song by junior Nick Main, another of McGill’s friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So sorry,” said the lyrics, “my heart goes out to you. I will always remember all those times we sang together, all those beautiful memories. Your life along with many others will not be forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concert hall on the school of arts campus was packed with parents and students, and many, like Dina LeFeat, were crying. McGill and Julian Granados, LeFeat’s son, were inseparable, she said, “and so good for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spent a lot of time listening to ’70s rock and roll, LeFeat said, “and eating a lot of cookies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just a great kid,” LeFeat said, touching her eyes with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/dravenmcgilledit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Everyone said she was a bright light in a big world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Hanna Ruax only once, over drinks at a favorite bar in the Mission with her and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/06/alex-ghassan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her fiancé Alex Ghassan\u003c/a> the night before they died in the Oakland warehouse fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First impressions ran deep. Alex was a good friend, and I had been badgering him to introduce me to the amazing woman he’d met in Finland. When we sat down, the conversation took off like a shot. She told me about her jewelry design business, her yoga studio in Helsinki, and her far-flung travels around the globe — including, at length, about one especially remarkable trip she made across Siberia from the Urals to the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12490449\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12490449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Hanna Ruax and Alex Ghassan\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanna Ruax and Alex Ghassan.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As I wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/06/alex-ghassan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a remembrance for Alex\u003c/a>, Hanna was luminous — not just for her beauty, of course, but also for her energy, confidence and irrepressible optimism. There seemed to be no end to her enthusiasm for the people whose paths she had crossed in her 32 years. And while we lamented the coarsening of political dialogue in America and Finland, Hanna spoke with gritty, upbeat determination about “not sitting down” when it was time to “stand up,” referencing her own activism on behalf of Syrian and other refugees in Helsinki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanna seemed to me every inch the true Finn: bold and forthright, punctuating her points at least three times that evening with slaps to my shoulder (and I’m not talking love taps.) She spoke about her parents and how different they were from one another, and how much she loved them for those differences. On a lighter note, she reported that Alex had taught her to swear like an Oakland hipster, and then proceeded to show off her newly acquired skill with impressive acumen, as Alex looked on beaming. Through it all, Hanna kept returning to people, the human race, their essential goodness and the great opportunity we humans have to connect to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanna wrote the following on her Facebook page last Father’s Day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today we celebrate Father’s Day in Finland. Thank you Dad, Yrjö Timonen, for giving me tools to survive and succeed in my life. I admire how you made it from a small village in the countryside to become a successful business man. You give me inspiration to be a successful entrepreneur, too. Even when times get rough, I’ll always find a new way to bounce back as you have done so many times. Thank you boo Alex G for sharing and opening your life and letting me be part of your and your sweet little girls’ lives. I admire you in so many ways, and love seeing not only the inspiring artist but the kind-hearted daddy in you. Happy Father’s Day to all daddies, new and those who are already gone from this world (RIP great granddad Yrjö-ukki and granddad Vaari).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Looking for more about Hanna’s life in Finland, I reached out to her dear friend and “yoga sister,” Meri Mort. Meri sent this beautiful remembrance from Helsinki:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12490448\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12490448\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Hanna Ruax\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanna Ruax\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hanna had a drive for creativity and she saw beauty everywhere. As a child she played piano and danced. She also loved to go hiking to the Koli national park in eastern Finland and swimming in the lake at their summer cottage. Yoga came to Hanna through her mother, and before she turned 30, she was the “boss lady” of the yoga studio her mother had founded. The yoga studio was a cozy spot in the center of Helsinki and everyone felt welcome there. Hanna was a gentle and inspiring teacher. She taught her signature classes, “Reggae yoga” with a live DJ. The fun was contagious. Hanna enjoyed organizing parties and making tasty dishes for her friends. Her crew was a colorful bunch of lively, creative people who loved her. She was never judgmental and always saw good in people. She was always ready to fight for the rights of those in need. She even started an anti-racism demonstration after reading about a violent act that took place at the Helsinki railway station. She was a bright light who always had time to listen, give insightful advice, laugh and dance!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It is difficult and far beyond the power of words to convey the depth of the loss of such a bright light at such a young age. When there is so much that we can’t understand at a time like this, there is comfort in knowing that this remarkable woman’s life will shine on for years to come in the memories of those who knew her. And as her friend Meri wrote, she and Alex “can now travel together to the stars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/hannaruaxedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Everyone said she was a bright light in a big world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Hanna Ruax only once, over drinks at a favorite bar in the Mission with her and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/06/alex-ghassan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her fiancé Alex Ghassan\u003c/a> the night before they died in the Oakland warehouse fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First impressions ran deep. Alex was a good friend, and I had been badgering him to introduce me to the amazing woman he’d met in Finland. When we sat down, the conversation took off like a shot. She told me about her jewelry design business, her yoga studio in Helsinki, and her far-flung travels around the globe — including, at length, about one especially remarkable trip she made across Siberia from the Urals to the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12490449\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12490449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Hanna Ruax and Alex Ghassan\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexAndHanna.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanna Ruax and Alex Ghassan.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As I wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/06/alex-ghassan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a remembrance for Alex\u003c/a>, Hanna was luminous — not just for her beauty, of course, but also for her energy, confidence and irrepressible optimism. There seemed to be no end to her enthusiasm for the people whose paths she had crossed in her 32 years. And while we lamented the coarsening of political dialogue in America and Finland, Hanna spoke with gritty, upbeat determination about “not sitting down” when it was time to “stand up,” referencing her own activism on behalf of Syrian and other refugees in Helsinki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanna seemed to me every inch the true Finn: bold and forthright, punctuating her points at least three times that evening with slaps to my shoulder (and I’m not talking love taps.) She spoke about her parents and how different they were from one another, and how much she loved them for those differences. On a lighter note, she reported that Alex had taught her to swear like an Oakland hipster, and then proceeded to show off her newly acquired skill with impressive acumen, as Alex looked on beaming. Through it all, Hanna kept returning to people, the human race, their essential goodness and the great opportunity we humans have to connect to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanna wrote the following on her Facebook page last Father’s Day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today we celebrate Father’s Day in Finland. Thank you Dad, Yrjö Timonen, for giving me tools to survive and succeed in my life. I admire how you made it from a small village in the countryside to become a successful business man. You give me inspiration to be a successful entrepreneur, too. Even when times get rough, I’ll always find a new way to bounce back as you have done so many times. Thank you boo Alex G for sharing and opening your life and letting me be part of your and your sweet little girls’ lives. I admire you in so many ways, and love seeing not only the inspiring artist but the kind-hearted daddy in you. Happy Father’s Day to all daddies, new and those who are already gone from this world (RIP great granddad Yrjö-ukki and granddad Vaari).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Looking for more about Hanna’s life in Finland, I reached out to her dear friend and “yoga sister,” Meri Mort. Meri sent this beautiful remembrance from Helsinki:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12490448\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12490448\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Hanna Ruax\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/HannaRuax.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanna Ruax\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hanna had a drive for creativity and she saw beauty everywhere. As a child she played piano and danced. She also loved to go hiking to the Koli national park in eastern Finland and swimming in the lake at their summer cottage. Yoga came to Hanna through her mother, and before she turned 30, she was the “boss lady” of the yoga studio her mother had founded. The yoga studio was a cozy spot in the center of Helsinki and everyone felt welcome there. Hanna was a gentle and inspiring teacher. She taught her signature classes, “Reggae yoga” with a live DJ. The fun was contagious. Hanna enjoyed organizing parties and making tasty dishes for her friends. Her crew was a colorful bunch of lively, creative people who loved her. She was never judgmental and always saw good in people. She was always ready to fight for the rights of those in need. She even started an anti-racism demonstration after reading about a violent act that took place at the Helsinki railway station. She was a bright light who always had time to listen, give insightful advice, laugh and dance!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It is difficult and far beyond the power of words to convey the depth of the loss of such a bright light at such a young age. When there is so much that we can’t understand at a time like this, there is comfort in knowing that this remarkable woman’s life will shine on for years to come in the memories of those who knew her. And as her friend Meri wrote, she and Alex “can now travel together to the stars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/hannaruaxedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I didn’t know Peter Wadsworth, but I wish I had known him. Here are his vital statistics: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Peter Wadsworth, age 38. Attended Reed College and Harvard. Studied History, Psychology, Chinese, Religion. Spoke some Mandarin. Spoke some Coptic. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Spoke some Mandarin and some Coptic. That’s when I began to appreciate Wadsworth’s deep intellect. He wrote on his LinkedIn Profile the he “designed non-traditional drones for private consultants.” He worked on drone projects that involved VTOL — vertical take-off and landing — extended range and payload capacity and a mix of fuel sources and propellant. Drones using these technologies can map large areas or deliver small loads. What this means is that Peter Wadsworth was a thinker in an emerging field of drone technology and application. He saw the potential for technology and how it could be helpful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"peter-wadsworth_courtesy-of-facebook\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12483758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A thinker. That’s what Wadsworth was. A friend of his — who would only talk to KQED if we agreed not to use his name because he wanted to honor how Wadsworth “didn’t like to draw any attention to himself” — says, “he was one of the smartest guys I knew (literally genius level in my estimation), and always wanted to be part of a big idea, from behind the scenes. He’s had impact in the early stages of at least one of the biggest California tech success stories, but no one would know because that’s not how he wants to be known. Wicked nice guy with a big heart and always willing to make time for others.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wadsworth’s high school literature teacher, Steven Craig, wrote a blog post about his former student upon hearing the news of his death: “His papers were grammatically flawed but philosophically insightful, and I pushed him to explore the boundaries of his thinking,” Craig writes. “As he would sit in my room long after class to discuss Oscar Wilde (a personal favorite for both of us), Shakespeare or Huxley, I knew I had this kid hooked. He was sort of like my prized protégé, comprised of an intellect that had the cutting ability to see through the bullshit but the passionate heart to embrace all the world had to offer us nonetheless.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wadsworth’s good friend, Tammy Tasoff, a dental student at UCSF, tells the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> how he would help her with her computer and her organization. “He’d make me food. He took really good care of me. He was like my big brother.” Wadsworth’s Facebook page reveals that he even helped Tasoff gather teeth to study dentistry: “A friend of mine is in dental school and I know a few of you are dentists, then there are a few married to dentists and all of you (should) be seeing dentists!” his post on the subject says. “If you can ask them for teeth (adult human please) that she can practice on it would be pretty fantastic to help out her and if there is a surplus, her classmates. Message me for details….thanks!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter’s Facebook page is also filled with posts about the cutting edges of technology and invention: 3D printing technology, Tor sites, conductive thread, contact lenses with zoom capability. He also posted environmental articles about the drought and smog in Beijing. He described the novel \u003cem>Cloud Atlas\u003c/em> as “one of the most amazing books I have ever read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12483757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Wadsworth's cat\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12483757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Wadsworth’s cat. \u003ccite>(via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he obviously loved cats. Wadsworth’s Facebook cover image is a picture of a sprawling cat with the title “King Aeneas” by the photo. There are many posts about cat rescue organizations and cute articles about cats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked the friend who wanted to remain anonymous what the world has lost in losing Wadsworth to the Ghost Ship Fire. He says, “The world has a lost a person of high regard for his actions, himself and others. He did the right thing, because, well, why would you do it any other way? The world may have lost Pete, but Pete hasn’t left the world. He’s shared himself with so many people that the world is a better place for having had Pete in it for a mere 38 years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I didn’t know Peter Wadsworth, but I wish I had known him. Here are his vital statistics: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Peter Wadsworth, age 38. Attended Reed College and Harvard. Studied History, Psychology, Chinese, Religion. Spoke some Mandarin. Spoke some Coptic. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Spoke some Mandarin and some Coptic. That’s when I began to appreciate Wadsworth’s deep intellect. He wrote on his LinkedIn Profile the he “designed non-traditional drones for private consultants.” He worked on drone projects that involved VTOL — vertical take-off and landing — extended range and payload capacity and a mix of fuel sources and propellant. Drones using these technologies can map large areas or deliver small loads. What this means is that Peter Wadsworth was a thinker in an emerging field of drone technology and application. He saw the potential for technology and how it could be helpful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"peter-wadsworth_courtesy-of-facebook\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12483758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_courtesy-of-Facebook-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A thinker. That’s what Wadsworth was. A friend of his — who would only talk to KQED if we agreed not to use his name because he wanted to honor how Wadsworth “didn’t like to draw any attention to himself” — says, “he was one of the smartest guys I knew (literally genius level in my estimation), and always wanted to be part of a big idea, from behind the scenes. He’s had impact in the early stages of at least one of the biggest California tech success stories, but no one would know because that’s not how he wants to be known. Wicked nice guy with a big heart and always willing to make time for others.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wadsworth’s high school literature teacher, Steven Craig, wrote a blog post about his former student upon hearing the news of his death: “His papers were grammatically flawed but philosophically insightful, and I pushed him to explore the boundaries of his thinking,” Craig writes. “As he would sit in my room long after class to discuss Oscar Wilde (a personal favorite for both of us), Shakespeare or Huxley, I knew I had this kid hooked. He was sort of like my prized protégé, comprised of an intellect that had the cutting ability to see through the bullshit but the passionate heart to embrace all the world had to offer us nonetheless.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wadsworth’s good friend, Tammy Tasoff, a dental student at UCSF, tells the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> how he would help her with her computer and her organization. “He’d make me food. He took really good care of me. He was like my big brother.” Wadsworth’s Facebook page reveals that he even helped Tasoff gather teeth to study dentistry: “A friend of mine is in dental school and I know a few of you are dentists, then there are a few married to dentists and all of you (should) be seeing dentists!” his post on the subject says. “If you can ask them for teeth (adult human please) that she can practice on it would be pretty fantastic to help out her and if there is a surplus, her classmates. Message me for details….thanks!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter’s Facebook page is also filled with posts about the cutting edges of technology and invention: 3D printing technology, Tor sites, conductive thread, contact lenses with zoom capability. He also posted environmental articles about the drought and smog in Beijing. He described the novel \u003cem>Cloud Atlas\u003c/em> as “one of the most amazing books I have ever read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12483757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Wadsworth's cat\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12483757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Peter-Wadsworth_the-cat-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Wadsworth’s cat. \u003ccite>(via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he obviously loved cats. Wadsworth’s Facebook cover image is a picture of a sprawling cat with the title “King Aeneas” by the photo. There are many posts about cat rescue organizations and cute articles about cats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked the friend who wanted to remain anonymous what the world has lost in losing Wadsworth to the Ghost Ship Fire. He says, “The world has a lost a person of high regard for his actions, himself and others. He did the right thing, because, well, why would you do it any other way? The world may have lost Pete, but Pete hasn’t left the world. He’s shared himself with so many people that the world is a better place for having had Pete in it for a mere 38 years. We carry those characteristics with us and will continue to pass them on to others as Pete did.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/peterwadsworthedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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She’d found a home at Cal, where she roomed with her close friend, Jenny Morris, who also died in the Dec. 2 blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We attended the Lake Merritt vigil for all of the victims of this fire and that vigil gave me the full picture of my daughter,” Gary Plotkin says. “The love and acceptance that exists in this community is who she is — who she has always been since her birth — and by her attending school here only increased that reverberation that existed in her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Plotkin two tries to get into Berkeley, her dad says, noting that she was “determined, focused and persistent.” When she got to Cal, Plotkin “reached her mountaintop,” her father says. “This is where she belonged. This was her dream. This is where she was excelling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her Cal experience, Plotkin had recently started volunteering at the campus radio station, KALX. “We will feel the loss of her kindness, bright smile, and love for music,” the station wrote in a statement about Plotkin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she was far from home, Plotkin kept close ties to her family and friends back in Lakewood. Her mom, Valerie Plotkkin, shared text messages, complete with heart emojis. “She was such a beautiful daughter to me,” she says. “I was blessed to have her for 21 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12483955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Vanessa Plotkin\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12483955\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/VanessaPlotkin1.jpg 914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Plotkin\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last correspondence between mom and daughter was a text on that Friday morning, when Vanessa told her how a video she’d made using photos of her mother had been well-received in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of that message, Valerie Plotkin says: “She just told me: ‘My class loved the video I made of you mom!! A couple of people even cried LOL. Ha-ha. I am going to share it with you and the family. I hope you like it.’ And then I replied to her, ‘Aw, really,’ and I gave her an emoji throwing a kiss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plotkin adored music. Her close childhood friend, Olivia Greene, recalls listening with Plotkin to a Lil’ Kim song that she loved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vanessa is my childhood,” Greene says. “I can tell our friendship in music. It might start with Hillary Duff, her iconic \u003cem>Metamorphosis\u003c/em> album was a thing for a good period of time. I can’t wait to buy a record player and buy the records of all our favorite songs, because I know she is with me when I listen to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plotkin’s parents says they will be grieving their daughter’s loss for a long time. But they take comfort from a message she left tacked on her memo board in her bedroom. “All it said was ‘I will be OK,’” Valerie Plotkin says. “And so we just know that Vanessa will be OK, up in heaven with my mom and my dad and people who love her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/vanessaplotkinedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nicholas Walrath’s friends talk about his college years as if he was a superhero learning to use his own powers. They describe him as a hyper-intelligent, humble, athletic man in constant search of understanding why the world — and people — existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pursuit of this fundamental question, Walrath tried his hand at atomic physics and philosophy, studying the former in Colorado and the latter at Cambridge. He was a legendary scholastic workhorse, known to sit down for hours and complete meticulous, tedious tasks. His smarts and work ethic would send Walrath to graduate with honors from MIT, majoring in philosophy and physics. He then went to New York University law school, finishing near the top of his class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12471331\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 245px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12471331\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas_Walrath-Vert-Litigation-Daily.jpg\" alt=\"Nicholas Walrath\" width=\"245\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas_Walrath-Vert-Litigation-Daily.jpg 245w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas_Walrath-Vert-Litigation-Daily-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas_Walrath-Vert-Litigation-Daily-240x360.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Walrath.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And besides the world-class smarts, there were his looks. “Dude looked like Thor,” says his lifelong friend Julian Klepper, echoing the general consensus of Walrath as a superhero dreamboat. “The guy couldn’t take a bad picture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Klepper says his friend’s quest to understand the universe through physics, philosophy, and the law led him to a singular conclusion about his own existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nick thought none of it mattered,” Klepper says. “We were sitting in our apartment in Brooklyn, maybe like seven years ago or so, and I remember he said, ‘If you look at this long enough, you’ll find there is no scientific reason for this earth.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wasn’t sad about it,” adds friend David Droz. “It was more like, he had come to this understanding both philosophically and scientifically that existence was without any higher meaning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a huge conclusion for him to come to, because even as a kid he had lived his life trying to add purpose and meaning,” Klepper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Klepper and Droz say their friend came to this understanding during a particularly harsh summer in Cambridge, where he was isolated from friends and under immense academic pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to Skype a lot, and he would always say the only thing he was working for at Cambridge was one test,” Droz says. “So everyone was inside, it was raining, he was away from his friends, and he was feeling really, really lonely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12471333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas-Walrath-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"nicholas-walrath-facebook\" width=\"634\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas-Walrath-facebook.jpg 634w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas-Walrath-facebook-160x205.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas-Walrath-facebook-240x307.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas-Walrath-facebook-375x480.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nicholas-Walrath-facebook-520x666.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he returned to the U.S., Walrath carried around his personality and existential understanding with him in every part of his life — even on his OK Cupid profile. Walrath refused to mention his notable achievements, and he often found it difficult to satiate his desire for a deep level of connection with the few dates he did attract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to write his OK Cupid profile, and once I bragged to everyone what kind of guy he was, he would get dozens of messages a day,” Klepper says. “It was nuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the people he met online was Alexis Abrams-Bourke, a loquacious and curious young woman who was quick to ask Walrath, “Why take life so seriously?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Walrath struggled at first to be as effusive and talkative as his new friend, he found in Abrams-Bourke a partner who brought out an energetic goofball side that had laid dormant while he sought out cerebral, high minded questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12471523\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath.jpg\" alt=\"nick-walrath\" width=\"442\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath.jpg 442w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath-160x178.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath-240x267.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath-375x417.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I met him he was a solid nihilist libertarian,” Abrams-Bourke says. “Although he didn’t tell me he was a libertarian. If he would have told me he was a libertarian, I would have run away.” Abrams-Bourke says the couple connected on a playful level. “He had this high-pitch giggle which you wouldn’t expect from a six-foot-two, big dude,” Abrams-Bourke says. “I can remember early on in the relationship, we were trying to figure out what we were doing. And he said, ‘I can be so goofy with you.’ It wasn’t the only reason, but we connected on this deep, playful level, and over time I was watching him become more and more spiritual, and finding more and more meaning in his life through love and his relationships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Walrath had joined the firm Durie Tangri LLP, which remembered him in a statement as “a fine lawyer as well as a good and caring person.” Previously, Walrath had clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the Ghost Ship fire, Abrams-Bourke invited her boyfriend to a magazine opening in San Francisco. Walrath decided to stay close to their Oakland home instead. “I think he hoped I would come home early and we could hang out,” Abrams-Bourke says. “But I texted him and told him I was going to this party, and so he was looking for something to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Walrath decided to bike over to the underground music and art show on 31st Avenue in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 11:25 pm, Abrams-Bourke got a text from her boyfriend. “Fire,” it read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A split second later, Walrath sent the last text of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love you,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams-Bourke says she, too, thought of Walrath as a sort of superhero, someone who wouldn’t ever die. “Immortal,” as she puts it. Abrams-Bourke says she can’t make sense of why he didn’t escape the warehouse. She thinks the fire must have come at him quickly for his text messages to have been so short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what he chose to do, send me a text,” Abrams-Bourke says. “I know he wanted me to know he loved me, and what had happened. But now I want a why. I want to believe in something more, but I don’t know if I do… I wish he was here, because he could help me figure this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/nicolaswalrathedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Walrath refused to mention his notable achievements, and he often found it difficult to satiate his desire for a deep level of connection with the few dates he did attract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to write his OK Cupid profile, and once I bragged to everyone what kind of guy he was, he would get dozens of messages a day,” Klepper says. “It was nuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the people he met online was Alexis Abrams-Bourke, a loquacious and curious young woman who was quick to ask Walrath, “Why take life so seriously?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Walrath struggled at first to be as effusive and talkative as his new friend, he found in Abrams-Bourke a partner who brought out an energetic goofball side that had laid dormant while he sought out cerebral, high minded questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12471523\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath.jpg\" alt=\"nick-walrath\" width=\"442\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath.jpg 442w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath-160x178.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath-240x267.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Nick-Walrath-375x417.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I met him he was a solid nihilist libertarian,” Abrams-Bourke says. “Although he didn’t tell me he was a libertarian. If he would have told me he was a libertarian, I would have run away.” Abrams-Bourke says the couple connected on a playful level. “He had this high-pitch giggle which you wouldn’t expect from a six-foot-two, big dude,” Abrams-Bourke says. “I can remember early on in the relationship, we were trying to figure out what we were doing. And he said, ‘I can be so goofy with you.’ It wasn’t the only reason, but we connected on this deep, playful level, and over time I was watching him become more and more spiritual, and finding more and more meaning in his life through love and his relationships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Walrath had joined the firm Durie Tangri LLP, which remembered him in a statement as “a fine lawyer as well as a good and caring person.” Previously, Walrath had clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the Ghost Ship fire, Abrams-Bourke invited her boyfriend to a magazine opening in San Francisco. Walrath decided to stay close to their Oakland home instead. “I think he hoped I would come home early and we could hang out,” Abrams-Bourke says. “But I texted him and told him I was going to this party, and so he was looking for something to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Walrath decided to bike over to the underground music and art show on 31st Avenue in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 11:25 pm, Abrams-Bourke got a text from her boyfriend. “Fire,” it read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A split second later, Walrath sent the last text of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love you,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams-Bourke says she, too, thought of Walrath as a sort of superhero, someone who wouldn’t ever die. “Immortal,” as she puts it. Abrams-Bourke says she can’t make sense of why he didn’t escape the warehouse. She thinks the fire must have come at him quickly for his text messages to have been so short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what he chose to do, send me a text,” Abrams-Bourke says. “I know he wanted me to know he loved me, and what had happened. But now I want a why. 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Lapine loved to record his voice on a Fisher-Price cassette player she’d given him when he was young, and over time he collected other instruments and tools that fostered his love for the medium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After declaring he wanted to be a rock star and becoming part of a local Park City, Utah, teen band, it was nearly impossible to get Edmond into any other hobby or activity,” Kopelman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A self-taught guitarist, Lapine played in various bands around the Northwest before moving to Oakland two years ago, drawn by the city’s vibrant electronic music scene. 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She recalls the time when Lapine approached her after a show she played with her band Upside Drown a few years ago: “He was talking to me and said, ‘Colleen, what you just did – that is why I play music. That’s why I’m here, that was everything.'” Johnson says. “It meant a lot to hear that from somebody who’s a dynamic and incredibly intelligent person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roxy Blank, Lapine’s partner, remembers him the same way, with a combination of “insight, emotional intelligence, and his general intellect” — and she was enchanted, she says, “from the moment I met him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear more of Lapine’s music as Cool d’État at \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cooldetat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Soundcloud page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/edmondlapineedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jennifer Mendiola threw herself into work and play with such passion, her friends and colleagues lived in awe of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she died in the Ghost Ship fire, Mendiola, 35, was close to finishing up her doctorate in health psychology at the University of California Merced. She focused on the social and emotional factors that influence healthy and unhealthy behavior. To watch her presentation on the “Daily Impact of Social Relationships” is to see a woman in command of her facts and enthusiastically optimistic about improving public health. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk3DK_3sda8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social interactions are important. They can make us feel happy, supported, loved,” Mendiola says in her talk. “But sometimes, we don’t get enough social interactions, or they aren’t always positive, and they can make us feel alone, and even sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One semester away from earning the title “Dr. Mendiola,” she had already published articles in academic journals and mainstream media like the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>, in which she \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gonzalez-et-al-latino-vaccination-20151229-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote an op-ed\u003c/a> on the implications of resistance to flu shots among Latinos in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had this strong sense of justice in the world,” says Zora Burden, a close friend of Mendiola for 20 years. “She was a sister to me, like family.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendiola worked as a social worker and advocate for the marginalized while getting her degree. But it would be a mistake to think she was all work and no play. “I think she’d want to be remembered for her sense of humor — and her dancing,” Burden says of her old friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12485558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-800x625.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Mendiola loved to dress up and go out dancing\" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12485558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-800x625.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-768x600.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-240x188.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-375x293.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-520x406.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Mendiola loved to dress up and go out dancing \u003ccite>(Photo: Zora Burden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the time she was a teenager, Mendiola loved live music, especially goth, punk and new wave. She grew up in Sacramento, but when her academic career brought her to San Francisco State University, Mendiola took full advantage of the Bay Area’s nightlife. “Her biggest passion in life was dancing,” Burden says. “She felt free and could lose herself completely at clubs. She was an incredible dancer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco actor Zachary Culbertson met Mendiola in the early 2000s when they were both in their 20s. They often saw each other at venues like Kimo’s and the Cat Club, and briefly dated at one point. “The last time I spoke with her online, we had plans to see Peter Murphy,” Culbertson says, referring to the English goth vocalist. The night they were scheduled to attend Murphy’s concert was the night President Barack Obama \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/05/statement-president-oakland-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a statement to the nation\u003c/a> about the Oakland warehouse fire. “How dramatic and strange and sad,” Culbertson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendiola was at the Ghost Ship the night of the fire to see her boyfriend, electronica musician Micah Danemayer, perform. Danemayer also died as the couple attempted to flee the warehouse together. They had just moved into an apartment together in Oakland, cementing their blossoming relationship. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12485559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-800x755.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Mendiola\" width=\"800\" height=\"755\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12485559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-160x151.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-768x725.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-240x227.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-375x354.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-520x491.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Mendiola\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a memorial page for Mendiola \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Jennifer-Mendiola-Barmby-Alana-Kane-1209280089157043/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set up on Facebook\u003c/a>, friends posted pictures of flowers left at her new front door, as well as a live stream of Danemayer’s recent memorial at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were so deeply in love they couldn’t stand to be apart, and were constantly texting or calling each other,” Burden says. “They planned to get married and talked of having children.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was kind. She never judged anyone by outward appearances,” wrote Lisa Jensen in a eulogy for her friend of 13 years. “She wanted to be appreciated for what she had on the inside, which was tremendous. She embraced life the same way she embraced her studies: fully and completely, and touched so many people along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Jennifer Mendiola’s op-ed about the implications of resistance to flu shots among Latinos \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gonzalez-et-al-latino-vaccination-20151229-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jennifermendiolaedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jennifer Mendiola threw herself into work and play with such passion, her friends and colleagues lived in awe of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she died in the Ghost Ship fire, Mendiola, 35, was close to finishing up her doctorate in health psychology at the University of California Merced. She focused on the social and emotional factors that influence healthy and unhealthy behavior. To watch her presentation on the “Daily Impact of Social Relationships” is to see a woman in command of her facts and enthusiastically optimistic about improving public health. \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/hk3DK_3sda8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/hk3DK_3sda8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Social interactions are important. They can make us feel happy, supported, loved,” Mendiola says in her talk. “But sometimes, we don’t get enough social interactions, or they aren’t always positive, and they can make us feel alone, and even sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One semester away from earning the title “Dr. Mendiola,” she had already published articles in academic journals and mainstream media like the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>, in which she \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gonzalez-et-al-latino-vaccination-20151229-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote an op-ed\u003c/a> on the implications of resistance to flu shots among Latinos in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had this strong sense of justice in the world,” says Zora Burden, a close friend of Mendiola for 20 years. “She was a sister to me, like family.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendiola worked as a social worker and advocate for the marginalized while getting her degree. But it would be a mistake to think she was all work and no play. “I think she’d want to be remembered for her sense of humor — and her dancing,” Burden says of her old friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12485558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-800x625.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Mendiola loved to dress up and go out dancing\" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12485558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-800x625.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-768x600.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-240x188.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-375x293.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-2-520x406.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Mendiola loved to dress up and go out dancing \u003ccite>(Photo: Zora Burden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the time she was a teenager, Mendiola loved live music, especially goth, punk and new wave. She grew up in Sacramento, but when her academic career brought her to San Francisco State University, Mendiola took full advantage of the Bay Area’s nightlife. “Her biggest passion in life was dancing,” Burden says. “She felt free and could lose herself completely at clubs. She was an incredible dancer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco actor Zachary Culbertson met Mendiola in the early 2000s when they were both in their 20s. They often saw each other at venues like Kimo’s and the Cat Club, and briefly dated at one point. “The last time I spoke with her online, we had plans to see Peter Murphy,” Culbertson says, referring to the English goth vocalist. The night they were scheduled to attend Murphy’s concert was the night President Barack Obama \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/05/statement-president-oakland-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a statement to the nation\u003c/a> about the Oakland warehouse fire. “How dramatic and strange and sad,” Culbertson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendiola was at the Ghost Ship the night of the fire to see her boyfriend, electronica musician Micah Danemayer, perform. Danemayer also died as the couple attempted to flee the warehouse together. They had just moved into an apartment together in Oakland, cementing their blossoming relationship. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12485559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-800x755.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Mendiola\" width=\"800\" height=\"755\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12485559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-160x151.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-768x725.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-240x227.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-375x354.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Jennifer-Mendiola-520x491.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Mendiola\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a memorial page for Mendiola \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Jennifer-Mendiola-Barmby-Alana-Kane-1209280089157043/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set up on Facebook\u003c/a>, friends posted pictures of flowers left at her new front door, as well as a live stream of Danemayer’s recent memorial at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were so deeply in love they couldn’t stand to be apart, and were constantly texting or calling each other,” Burden says. “They planned to get married and talked of having children.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was kind. She never judged anyone by outward appearances,” wrote Lisa Jensen in a eulogy for her friend of 13 years. “She wanted to be appreciated for what she had on the inside, which was tremendous. She embraced life the same way she embraced her studies: fully and completely, and touched so many people along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Jennifer Mendiola’s op-ed about the implications of resistance to flu shots among Latinos \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gonzalez-et-al-latino-vaccination-20151229-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jennifermendiolaedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2016/12/TDL20161216.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the last weekend for \u003cem>Inversion: Circus Disobedience, \u003c/em>an intimate and beautifully performed circus show at Kinetic Arts in West Oakland. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.kineticartsproductions.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. And it’s the last weekend for one of the big art shows of the fall, For-Site Foundation’s\u003cem> Homeland Security,\u003c/em> an exhibit on national security in the WWII era bunkers and buildings in the Presidio. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.for-site.org/project/home-land-security/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a> And we’re featuring more benefits for the families, friends and roommates of those who died in the Ghost Ship fire (see below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZLbZmll4w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec 31\u003c/strong>: How do you say goodbye to a year some are calling the worst ever? Laugh through the tears. Paula Poundstone, a regular on NPR’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/504987196/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-for-dec-10-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, does her sneakily subversive style of family comedy at the Nourse Theatre on New Year’s Eve. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.axs.com/events/310261/paula-poundstone-tickets?skin=goldenvoice%20%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 31: \u003c/strong>If you want to support \u003cem>local\u003c/em> comedians, try the Brava Theater Center’s New Year’s Eve Comedy Fiesta. Headliner Marga Gomez is fresh from a stint in New York with her 12th autobiographical show, and she’s joined by Tom Ammiano, former standup comedian and state lawmaker, plus Priya Prasad, Butch Escobar, and Chey Bell. This one may not be much fun for supporters of President-elect Trump. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.brava.org/current-shows/pp/bravas-4th-annual-new-years-eve-comedy-fiesta-w-marga-gome/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qoOtUMQ12k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 31: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco Symphony managed a big get for it’s Holiday Concert Series: two guests who can sing, tell jokes, do Broadway musicals and star in a popular television series. Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski are in the Netflix show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80025384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and they’ll sing and crack wise with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall New Year’s Eve. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2016-2017/New-Year-Tituss-Burgess-Jane-Krakowski.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2016-2017/New-Year-Tituss-Burgess-Jane-Krakowski.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">. \u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12483971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12483971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Opera San Jose has formed a chorus of military veterans, which will perform a program of Christmas and patriotic songs\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1920x1430.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1180x879.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-960x715.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-375x279.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-520x387.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opera San Jose has formed a chorus of military veterans, which will perform a program of Christmas and patriotic songs \u003ccite>(Photo: Collage courtesy of Opera San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 16: \u003c/strong>Opera San Jose\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>has done a kind of star-search for military veterans, and recruited them into a chorus for a holiday concert. It’s a commemoration of the little-known Christmas Eve truce of 1914, when Scottish, French and German soldiers celebrated Christmas in the trenches on the Western front. It’s also a preview for Opera San Jose’s upcoming production (Feb. 2017) of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.operasj.org/buy-tickets/single-tickets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silent Night\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell\u003cem>,\u003c/em> an opera about that same Christmas truce. Details on the veterans’ chorus concert at \u003ca href=\"http://www.trianontheatre.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Petit Trianon Theatre\u003c/a> in San Jose are \u003ca href=\"https://www.operasj.org/buy-tickets/single-tickets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12488622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12488622\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"William Scott's cityscapes are featured at the gallery 836M in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-768x488.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-960x610.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-375x238.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794-520x330.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/P1070627-e1481841966794.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Scott’s cityscapes are featured at the gallery 836M in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Creative Growth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Continuing through Jan. 31\u003c/strong>: William Scott paints utopian cityscapes, in which San Francisco becomes Praise Frisco, a community of love and harmony. Scott, who grew up in the Bayview, is developmentally disabled, and he’s painted for years at \u003ca href=\"http://creativegrowth.org/category/news/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Growth \u003c/a>in Oakland, a non-profit for people with learning disabilities. Scott’s work is in the permanent collection at New York’s MOMA, and he’s getting an exhibit in San Francisco at 836M, a gallery that’s been showcasing Creative Growth artists this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creative Growth Director Tom di Maria says the exhibit is about being home for the holidays. “But it also brings up issues around displacement and families,” di Maria said, “For a lot of our people and artists with disabilities, it’s a really difficult time for them. Some of them don’t know their families, some are challenged by a time when they’re supposed to be happy, but they can feel alone. But William Scott’s work is so amazing. He’s the nicest guy on the planet, he wants to make the city perfect and clean and wholesome so that people’s lives will be better.” Details for the show at 836M are \u003ca href=\"http://www.836m.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. And Creative Growth has its own terrific gallery with work by Scott and other artists. What a nice place to shop for holiday gifts. Details \u003ca href=\"http://creativegrowth.org/exhibitions/holiday-2016-revel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRCUoK-gkw\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dec. 16\u003c/strong>: Members of The Atom Age are punk legends, and they’re part of the lineup with Dirty Denim and others in a benefit for families and friends of those who died in the Ghost Ship fire. Details for their concert at the Starry Plough in Berkeley (with donations going to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcaring.com/firevictimsofoaklandfiredec232016-706684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fire\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youcaring.com/firevictimsofoaklandfiredec232016-706684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Relief fund \u003c/a>organized by Gray Area Foundation for The Arts) are \u003ca href=\"http://calendar.thebaybridged.com/events/2016/12/16/ghost-ship-benefit-show-with-the-atom-age-and-dirty-denim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec 17\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://about.me/elcircodia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Circo Dia\u003c/a>‘s is restaging their aerial dance/theater piece \u003cem>Refuge: A Ballad for the Renting Class \u003c/em>at Project Artaud, as a benefit for the Ghost Ship fire. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.refugebenefit.brownpapertickets.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5fIZinvWxc\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dec. 18:\u003c/strong> And there’s another way to heal and and to mourn those lost in the Ghost Ship fire. The Chapel of the Chimes is holding its annual free concert called \u003cem>Musical Reflections\u003c/em>, dedicated to those who died in the musical community this year. The concert features members of Kitka, the Temple of Light Georgian Community Choir, the William Winant Percussion Group, the Cardew Choir, Samuel Carl Adams, Ellen Fullman, Pamela Z, Sarah Cahill, members of Volti, and many more. Details \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.chapelofthechimes.com/who-we-are/community-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This is the last weekend for \u003cem>Inversion: Circus Disobedience, \u003c/em>an intimate and beautifully performed circus show at Kinetic Arts in West Oakland. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.kineticartsproductions.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. And it’s the last weekend for one of the big art shows of the fall, For-Site Foundation’s\u003cem> Homeland Security,\u003c/em> an exhibit on national security in the WWII era bunkers and buildings in the Presidio. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.for-site.org/project/home-land-security/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a> And we’re featuring more benefits for the families, friends and roommates of those who died in the Ghost Ship fire (see below).\u003c/p>\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/kKZLbZmll4w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kKZLbZmll4w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec 31\u003c/strong>: How do you say goodbye to a year some are calling the worst ever? Laugh through the tears. Paula Poundstone, a regular on NPR’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/504987196/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-for-dec-10-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, does her sneakily subversive style of family comedy at the Nourse Theatre on New Year’s Eve. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.axs.com/events/310261/paula-poundstone-tickets?skin=goldenvoice%20%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 31: \u003c/strong>If you want to support \u003cem>local\u003c/em> comedians, try the Brava Theater Center’s New Year’s Eve Comedy Fiesta. Headliner Marga Gomez is fresh from a stint in New York with her 12th autobiographical show, and she’s joined by Tom Ammiano, former standup comedian and state lawmaker, plus Priya Prasad, Butch Escobar, and Chey Bell. This one may not be much fun for supporters of President-elect Trump. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.brava.org/current-shows/pp/bravas-4th-annual-new-years-eve-comedy-fiesta-w-marga-gome/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski are in the Netflix show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80025384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and they’ll sing and crack wise with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall New Year’s Eve. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2016-2017/New-Year-Tituss-Burgess-Jane-Krakowski.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2016-2017/New-Year-Tituss-Burgess-Jane-Krakowski.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">. \u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12483971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12483971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Opera San Jose has formed a chorus of military veterans, which will perform a program of Christmas and patriotic songs\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1920x1430.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-1180x879.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-960x715.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-375x279.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487-520x387.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SilentNIght_Collage_small-e1481760742487.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opera San Jose has formed a chorus of military veterans, which will perform a program of Christmas and patriotic songs \u003ccite>(Photo: Collage courtesy of Opera San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 16: \u003c/strong>Opera San Jose\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>has done a kind of star-search for military veterans, and recruited them into a chorus for a holiday concert. It’s a commemoration of the little-known Christmas Eve truce of 1914, when Scottish, French and German soldiers celebrated Christmas in the trenches on the Western front. It’s also a preview for Opera San Jose’s upcoming production (Feb. 2017) of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.operasj.org/buy-tickets/single-tickets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silent Night\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell\u003cem>,\u003c/em> an opera about that same Christmas truce. 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Scott, who grew up in the Bayview, is developmentally disabled, and he’s painted for years at \u003ca href=\"http://creativegrowth.org/category/news/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Growth \u003c/a>in Oakland, a non-profit for people with learning disabilities. Scott’s work is in the permanent collection at New York’s MOMA, and he’s getting an exhibit in San Francisco at 836M, a gallery that’s been showcasing Creative Growth artists this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creative Growth Director Tom di Maria says the exhibit is about being home for the holidays. “But it also brings up issues around displacement and families,” di Maria said, “For a lot of our people and artists with disabilities, it’s a really difficult time for them. Some of them don’t know their families, some are challenged by a time when they’re supposed to be happy, but they can feel alone. But William Scott’s work is so amazing. He’s the nicest guy on the planet, he wants to make the city perfect and clean and wholesome so that people’s lives will be better.” Details for the show at 836M are \u003ca href=\"http://www.836m.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. And Creative Growth has its own terrific gallery with work by Scott and other artists. What a nice place to shop for holiday gifts. Details \u003ca href=\"http://creativegrowth.org/exhibitions/holiday-2016-revel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRCUoK-gkw\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dec. 16\u003c/strong>: Members of The Atom Age are punk legends, and they’re part of the lineup with Dirty Denim and others in a benefit for families and friends of those who died in the Ghost Ship fire. 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"content": "\u003cp>Guitarist and electronic musician Billy Dixon told friends he was studying microbiology in college because he wanted to create tiny dolphins and whales to put in fish tanks. “We laughed a lot because it was a joke,” says Robert St John Price, a friend of Dixon’s of about 15 years. “But deep down I’m certain he was being 100-percent serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12479464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Dixon\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Dixon. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Robert St. John Price)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was who Dixon was — a quirky, 35-year-old who was one part entertainer and one part mad scientist. When making music on computers became widely accessible, Dixon was all over it. And his creations had a distinctive sound. He never did create tiny dolphins. But wherever he was, Dixon sought out spaces where he could create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had the amazing ability to hole away for entire nights without any social interaction in his recording studio or electronic workshop he stuffed into the giant spare closet,” Price says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dixon was 19, he and his friend Jonny Gunton would drive to an apartment in East Cleveland between jobs to work on making a hip-hop record. Dixon took on the beat and Gunton was on vocals. “Being 19 was weird,” Gunton says. They were both just trying to figure life out. Music was their vent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gunton first got to really know Dixon, they were both taking guitar classes at a local church in Ohio. “I remember being like ‘Wow, he’s really good,'” Gunton says. “And he didn’t even have to try that hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12479462\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-800x653.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Dixon\" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-800x653.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-768x627.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-240x196.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-375x306.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-520x425.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon was a quick study who was always happy to share his knowledge with others. It came naturally to him, Gunton says. Dixon was the kind of guy who was so organically talented in music that it was almost frustrating to watch. “He just had it,” Gunton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon surrounded himself with art. “He was always present at the small gatherings and fine art shows and gallery openings,” Price says. “These were intimate experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the day he died in the Oakland warehouse fire, Dixon was always searching out new and interesting spaces to make and share in art. This was the impulse that drew him to the Ghost Ship warehouse. “He was just one of those people you know who’s in your orbit your whole life,” Gunton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixonedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Guitarist and electronic musician Billy Dixon told friends he was studying microbiology in college because he wanted to create tiny dolphins and whales to put in fish tanks. “We laughed a lot because it was a joke,” says Robert St John Price, a friend of Dixon’s of about 15 years. “But deep down I’m certain he was being 100-percent serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12479464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Dixon\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Dixon. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Robert St. John Price)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was who Dixon was — a quirky, 35-year-old who was one part entertainer and one part mad scientist. When making music on computers became widely accessible, Dixon was all over it. And his creations had a distinctive sound. He never did create tiny dolphins. But wherever he was, Dixon sought out spaces where he could create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had the amazing ability to hole away for entire nights without any social interaction in his recording studio or electronic workshop he stuffed into the giant spare closet,” Price says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dixon was 19, he and his friend Jonny Gunton would drive to an apartment in East Cleveland between jobs to work on making a hip-hop record. Dixon took on the beat and Gunton was on vocals. “Being 19 was weird,” Gunton says. They were both just trying to figure life out. Music was their vent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gunton first got to really know Dixon, they were both taking guitar classes at a local church in Ohio. “I remember being like ‘Wow, he’s really good,'” Gunton says. “And he didn’t even have to try that hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12479462\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-800x653.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Dixon\" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-800x653.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-768x627.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-240x196.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-375x306.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixon1-520x425.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon was a quick study who was always happy to share his knowledge with others. It came naturally to him, Gunton says. Dixon was the kind of guy who was so organically talented in music that it was almost frustrating to watch. “He just had it,” Gunton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon surrounded himself with art. “He was always present at the small gatherings and fine art shows and gallery openings,” Price says. “These were intimate experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the day he died in the Oakland warehouse fire, Dixon was always searching out new and interesting spaces to make and share in art. This was the impulse that drew him to the Ghost Ship warehouse. “He was just one of those people you know who’s in your orbit your whole life,” Gunton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/billydixonedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jenny Morris, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley student, was the kind of person everyone wanted to hang out with: sincere, genuine and without artifice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jenny was such a beautiful, loving, caring, intelligent, bright shining star,” her cousin Drew Morris told the crowd gathered for a vigil on the UC Berkeley campus in the wake of the Oakland warehouse fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KFsHblfH10\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drew Morris said he saw his cousin last summer at a family reunion, where she fixed a technical problem on one of his devices. He and his wife had spent all day wrestling with it as they traveled to the reunion, and Morris fixed it in about 20 seconds. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12485752\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jenny-morris.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Morris\" width=\"400\" height=\"701\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12485752\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jenny-morris.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jenny-morris-160x280.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jenny-morris-240x421.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jenny-morris-375x657.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Morris.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That willingness to lend a hand wasn’t just for friends and family, say those who knew her. Morris shone her light equally on everyone she met. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris attended San Mateo High School, were she excelled academically (studying pre-calculus as a sophomore, and AP statistics as a senior) as well as artistically, participating in the school choir. “There was a sweet quality to her,” says San Mateo High School choral director Shawn Reifschaneider. “She was honest and authentic and pure. I liken it to the sweet elegance of Audrey Hepburn, and it was endearing to everyone around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Morris pulled out her ukulele and settled in to sing, Reifschaneider says, the other kids would gather around her, cross-legged on the floor, some joining in with their own ukuleles. “She was the one who drew everyone together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo High math teacher Jared Wilke says his son was in choir with Morris. “He used to ask her to protect him every time they went to sing in a church, so he wouldn’t burn up,” Wilke says. “She’d laugh about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Mateo High student David Huang remembers Morris’ captivating voice. “One of the most magical things is hearing her sing,” Huang says. “She’s so into it, so focused in it. It’s like she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk0RcivOlms\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang is now at the Rhode Island School of Design, but he and Morris regularly got together during college breaks. He remembers Morris pulling up to the curb in her car to pick him up with a big smile on her face. Then the pair would have long talks in cafes. Huang would pull out his sketchbook to draw her as they talked. “I’m not afraid to keep a sketchbook when I’m around her,” Huang says. “She appreciated it. With other people, they would think I’m doing something outside the conversation, but for Jenny it was part of the conversation. Art and music were natural to her.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12488423\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Morris.\" width=\"390\" height=\"390\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12488423\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris.jpg 390w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Morris. \u003ccite>(via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morris went from high school to UC Santa Cruz, and then did a stint at College of San Mateo before transferring to UC Berkeley. She began volunteering this semester at KALX, the university’s radio station, working in the music department. Staff remember how excited she was to discover new music as it arrived at the station. Morris was one of four KALX volunteers who died in the Ghost Ship fire; others include Vanessa Plotkin (Morris’ best friend), Griffin Madden, and Chelsea Faith Dolan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been devastating to people at the station,” station manager Sandra Wasson says. “Our DJs are doing lots of on-air tributes, playing music to help the community heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris’ family is deeply moved by the outpouring of love received from the many people whose lives she touched, says brother Chris Morris. “I found this tweet from about a year ago, where she said, ‘2015 was a year of blessings,’” Chris Morris says. “‘In 2016 I will be smarter, more humbled and more aligned with the person that I want to be and would be proud of.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Jenny Morris sing a cover and her original music at \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWhS_qa2W_Z-wl0-2DLTU7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jennymorrisedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris attended San Mateo High School, were she excelled academically (studying pre-calculus as a sophomore, and AP statistics as a senior) as well as artistically, participating in the school choir. “There was a sweet quality to her,” says San Mateo High School choral director Shawn Reifschaneider. “She was honest and authentic and pure. 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Art and music were natural to her.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12488423\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Morris.\" width=\"390\" height=\"390\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12488423\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris.jpg 390w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JennyMorris-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Morris. \u003ccite>(via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morris went from high school to UC Santa Cruz, and then did a stint at College of San Mateo before transferring to UC Berkeley. She began volunteering this semester at KALX, the university’s radio station, working in the music department. Staff remember how excited she was to discover new music as it arrived at the station. Morris was one of four KALX volunteers who died in the Ghost Ship fire; others include Vanessa Plotkin (Morris’ best friend), Griffin Madden, and Chelsea Faith Dolan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been devastating to people at the station,” station manager Sandra Wasson says. “Our DJs are doing lots of on-air tributes, playing music to help the community heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris’ family is deeply moved by the outpouring of love received from the many people whose lives she touched, says brother Chris Morris. “I found this tweet from about a year ago, where she said, ‘2015 was a year of blessings,’” Chris Morris says. “‘In 2016 I will be smarter, more humbled and more aligned with the person that I want to be and would be proud of.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Jenny Morris sing a cover and her original music at \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWhS_qa2W_Z-wl0-2DLTU7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jennymorrisedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I met Barrett Clark for the first time years ago, at a small art gallery in downtown Oakland. My friend Nihar Bhatt was making his debut as a live electronic music performer, and Barrett had lent his sound system to the event, as well as his time and labor to operate it. (I learned this fact much later, and realize it was just one selfless act in a life defined by them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I struck up a conversation with Barrett outside the gallery, and talk immediately turned to music, as it goes with music geeks of a certain stripe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12484172\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 394px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12484172\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark3.jpg\" alt=\"Barrett Clark\" width=\"394\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark3.jpg 394w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark3-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark3-240x245.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark3-375x384.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark3-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark3-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrett Clark \u003ccite>(via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a lifelong fan of difficult music, I’m used to blank stares when asked “So what do you listen to?” Not so with Barrett. He was a consummate lover of the strange, the weird, the challenging, the unusual, the outré. Barrett knew and loved outsider music of all kinds, and waxed lyrical about it all with a big, goofy smile on his face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To quote the words of the brilliantly talented Swedish crooner Jens Lekman, with whom Barrett toured, managing sound and audio, for years: “Barrett was one of the kindest humans I’ve ever met — a patient, caring, romantic goth kid who liked strange, dark music and all the beauty of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett, 35, was many things to many people: a devoted friend, a beloved partner, a brilliant musician, a community mainstay, and a peerless sound engineer. “Sound engineer” is reductive, as a matter of fact: Barrett was a bonafide philosopher of sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=814141738/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=1080205356/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-time friend Tyler Green, who grew up alongside Barrett in Santa Rosa, sums it up: “Barrett grasped inherently where sound frequencies live, and how they interact with each other,” Green says. “His knowledge was as deep as it comes. The right sound elements had their own space, and the elements that needed to blend did.” Anyone can pick up technical knowledge, says Green, “but Barrett understood the artistry behind making live music sound truly great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12484173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12484173\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Barrett Clark\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrett Clark\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To Green, Barrett was more than a brilliant musician and sound engineer. He was an inspiration. “The first time I met Barrett, it struck me just how much of an individual he was,” Green says. “It was fascinating and alien to me — and alluring at the same time, because I come from a conservative military family. As I got to know him over the years, one thing Barrett taught me will stay with me for the rest of my life: You can defy all the conventions forced upon us by society, be totally uncompromising, and still be a great person. Barrett was among the strongest, kindest, gentlest, and sweetest people I’ve ever met. The saddest part is that he was only getting better with time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/142838203″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the experimental music community in particular, Barrett was respected and cherished. Tributes have poured in from some of the most revered figures in the scene. “Such a sudden loss is heart-wrenchingly sad,” say legendary British duo Chris & Cosey. “That we touched his life with our music is a privilege.” Even Blixa Bargeld, the singular lead vocalist of German industrial music pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten, gave condolences to Barrett’s friends and family, remarking that his loss is a “terrible tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12484174\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12484174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Barrett Clark\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrett Clark\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for Barrett’s close friend and fellow experimental musician Jay Fields, that is all beside the point. “Barrett was the next level — the next incarnation of those luminaries we all look up to,” Fields says. “He was carrying the torch in the most humble, ego-free, delicate manner. We’re now discovering his completed, unreleased music, almost a dozen albums’ worth, and the music he was making in high school puts the big names to shame. That shows us how high his standards were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett’s live-in partner, Valentyn Rosewood, remembers him as a devoted, loving partner. “Barrett was pure love, which he’d often remind me was something he learned from his parents,” she says. He “loved deeply, fiercely, and was very protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett and Rosewood met decades ago. “He told me this story over and over — the first time he saw me, he knew he wanted to be with me forever,” says Rosewood. “We kept finding our way back together. Sometimes with long gaps of many years in between, but we always found our way back to each other.” He taught Rosewood “unconditional love and complete and total devotion,” she says, adding that she will live her life “immortalizing his spirit by extending that same example to the loved ones in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3797133084/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3535928928/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields has a photograph of himself with Barrett and fellow musician Michael Buchanan, taken by experimental artist Sean Dimentia the Wednesday before the Oakland warehouse fire. The four were meeting to plan the future output of the long-running experimental collective they co-produce called Katabatik. “I’ve looked at this photo a lot, lately, and I imagine him sleeping blissfully,” Fields says. “Rest in peace, my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more from Clark’s label and soundsystem Katabatik, see the collective’s \u003ca href=\"https://katabatik.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/katabatik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud\u003c/a> pages.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/barrettclarkedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The right sound elements had their own space, and the elements that needed to blend did.” Anyone can pick up technical knowledge, says Green, “but Barrett understood the artistry behind making live music sound truly great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12484173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12484173\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Barrett Clark\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrett Clark\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To Green, Barrett was more than a brilliant musician and sound engineer. He was an inspiration. “The first time I met Barrett, it struck me just how much of an individual he was,” Green says. “It was fascinating and alien to me — and alluring at the same time, because I come from a conservative military family. As I got to know him over the years, one thing Barrett taught me will stay with me for the rest of my life: You can defy all the conventions forced upon us by society, be totally uncompromising, and still be a great person. Barrett was among the strongest, kindest, gentlest, and sweetest people I’ve ever met. The saddest part is that he was only getting better with time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”150″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/142838203″&visual=true&”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/142838203″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the experimental music community in particular, Barrett was respected and cherished. Tributes have poured in from some of the most revered figures in the scene. “Such a sudden loss is heart-wrenchingly sad,” say legendary British duo Chris & Cosey. “That we touched his life with our music is a privilege.” Even Blixa Bargeld, the singular lead vocalist of German industrial music pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten, gave condolences to Barrett’s friends and family, remarking that his loss is a “terrible tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12484174\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12484174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Barrett Clark\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BarrettClark2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrett Clark\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for Barrett’s close friend and fellow experimental musician Jay Fields, that is all beside the point. “Barrett was the next level — the next incarnation of those luminaries we all look up to,” Fields says. “He was carrying the torch in the most humble, ego-free, delicate manner. We’re now discovering his completed, unreleased music, almost a dozen albums’ worth, and the music he was making in high school puts the big names to shame. That shows us how high his standards were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett’s live-in partner, Valentyn Rosewood, remembers him as a devoted, loving partner. “Barrett was pure love, which he’d often remind me was something he learned from his parents,” she says. He “loved deeply, fiercely, and was very protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett and Rosewood met decades ago. “He told me this story over and over — the first time he saw me, he knew he wanted to be with me forever,” says Rosewood. “We kept finding our way back together. Sometimes with long gaps of many years in between, but we always found our way back to each other.” He taught Rosewood “unconditional love and complete and total devotion,” she says, adding that she will live her life “immortalizing his spirit by extending that same example to the loved ones in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3797133084/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3535928928/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields has a photograph of himself with Barrett and fellow musician Michael Buchanan, taken by experimental artist Sean Dimentia the Wednesday before the Oakland warehouse fire. The four were meeting to plan the future output of the long-running experimental collective they co-produce called Katabatik. “I’ve looked at this photo a lot, lately, and I imagine him sleeping blissfully,” Fields says. “Rest in peace, my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more from Clark’s label and soundsystem Katabatik, see the collective’s \u003ca href=\"https://katabatik.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/katabatik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud\u003c/a> pages.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/barrettclarkedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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