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And not just because she was trans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bohlka’s poem titled “Footnote to the Los Angeles Valley Suburbs,” published in the \u003ci>Pomona Valley Review\u003c/i>, rages against the status quo of white suburbia: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We ought not aspire to the suburbs.\u003cbr>\nWe do not need anything\u003cbr>\nthey embody; large screen televisions, larger than large homes, a car for each would-be driver, swimming pools –\u003cbr>\nnone of it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Something I’ve been sharing with people is Em’s radical belief that everyone deserved the same respect and compassion,” Jahanbani says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12457892\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_.jpg\" alt=\"Em (right) with Laura Jane Grace of the band Against Me!, who issued a widely-read remembrance of Em.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12457892\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bohlka (right) with Laura Jane Grace of the band Against Me!, who issued a widely-read remembrance of Em. \u003ccite>(via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the day she died, Jahanbani says, Bohlka told her a story exemplary of this belief: “She said, ‘I handed a homeless woman some fruit. And she told me I looked beautiful and it made my day.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being trans, being on the periphery for so long and feeling like she didn’t fit in, gave her a level of understanding that lot of people don’t have,” Jahanbani says. “Even in the pain of that and feeling left out and marginalized, I will say that it made her viewpoint more complex than even I could understand. She just was really radical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahanbani has been more outspoken in the face of her grief than many of the family and friends of victims of the warehouse fire. “I am devastated for how many people we lost,” she says. “I hope that there are other trans people who are seeing that even in these situations that are so horrific that we loved these people and we care for them. On behalf of myself and Em’s father, we’re on a mission to see that these women’s voices are not silenced. That happens too often.”\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 Laura Jane Grace’s tribute to Bohlka \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BNsnys3DV68/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Trans Assistance Project is collecting funds for the transgender women who were victims of the fire. To donate, visit their website at \u003ca href=\"https://www.transassistance.org/oakland-donations/\">transassistance.org\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\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/embohlkaedit.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>Em Bohlka was a brilliant poet. She held a master’s degree in literature, rhetoric and composition from Cal Poly Pomona and a bachelor’s in English from UC Riverside. “She was not one of us,” says her partner Natalie Jahanbani of Bohlka’s powerful intellect. “She really was an exemplary person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, Bohlka supported her art with several day jobs. She worked as a barista at Highwire Coffee Roasters (with fellow victim Donna Kellogg), and as a baker at Firebrand Artisan Breads. Three of her poems appeared in the summer 2015 issue of the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://pomonavalleyreview.com/pdf/PVR%209/PVR%209.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pomona Valley Review\u003c/a>\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12452194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 460px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/EmBohlka1.jpg\" alt=\"Em Bohkla\" width=\"460\" height=\"613\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12452194\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/EmBohlka1.jpg 460w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/EmBohlka1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/EmBohlka1-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/EmBohlka1-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Em Bohlka\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She was writing just nonstop,” says Bohlka’s longtime friend Kassidy Heal. The two met at age five and grew up together in the Claremont area. “From that moment on we’ve talked every day,” Heal says. “We’ve just had to know about each other’s lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bohlka and Heal were in several bands together. Music — playing it, listening to it, seeing it performed live — was an integral part of Bohlka’s life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heal’s current band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ropeinhand/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rope in Hand\u003c/a>, a self-described “Southern California country/honky-punk” outfit, was a solo project until Bohlka joined him in 2009. “She was tired of seeing me perform up on stage by myself,” Heal says. “She said, ‘So what instrument do you need?’ That was a Friday night and by Monday we had purchased an upright bass.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bohlka, who already played guitar, learned to play all of Rope in Hand’s songs on the upright bass in just three weeks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never fought; not even one time in 27 years did we ever get into an argument,” Heal says. “We gave each other space and we would bicker, but we were on a level that I don’t know if I’ll ever match again in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bohlka and Jahanbani moved to Oakland in July, 2015. Bohlka came out as transgender earlier this year. “It was hard and scary through and through,” Jahanbani writes in a memorial post on Instagram. “But she showed such bravery and perseverance even with the toughest obstacles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poetry was a fitting medium for Bohlka’s creative energy, Jahanbani says, because it is such a malleable form. “She was someone who definitely pushed the ideas of what we think of as normal,” Jahanbani says. “The way she saw the world and what we consider to be normal was not normal to her. And not just because she was trans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bohlka’s poem titled “Footnote to the Los Angeles Valley Suburbs,” published in the \u003ci>Pomona Valley Review\u003c/i>, rages against the status quo of white suburbia: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We ought not aspire to the suburbs.\u003cbr>\nWe do not need anything\u003cbr>\nthey embody; large screen televisions, larger than large homes, a car for each would-be driver, swimming pools –\u003cbr>\nnone of it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Something I’ve been sharing with people is Em’s radical belief that everyone deserved the same respect and compassion,” Jahanbani says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12457892\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_.jpg\" alt=\"Em (right) with Laura Jane Grace of the band Against Me!, who issued a widely-read remembrance of Em.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12457892\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Em.Laura_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bohlka (right) with Laura Jane Grace of the band Against Me!, who issued a widely-read remembrance of Em. \u003ccite>(via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the day she died, Jahanbani says, Bohlka told her a story exemplary of this belief: “She said, ‘I handed a homeless woman some fruit. And she told me I looked beautiful and it made my day.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being trans, being on the periphery for so long and feeling like she didn’t fit in, gave her a level of understanding that lot of people don’t have,” Jahanbani says. “Even in the pain of that and feeling left out and marginalized, I will say that it made her viewpoint more complex than even I could understand. She just was really radical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahanbani has been more outspoken in the face of her grief than many of the family and friends of victims of the warehouse fire. “I am devastated for how many people we lost,” she says. “I hope that there are other trans people who are seeing that even in these situations that are so horrific that we loved these people and we care for them. On behalf of myself and Em’s father, we’re on a mission to see that these women’s voices are not silenced. That happens too often.”\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 Laura Jane Grace’s tribute to Bohlka \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BNsnys3DV68/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Trans Assistance Project is collecting funds for the transgender women who were victims of the fire. To donate, visit their website at \u003ca href=\"https://www.transassistance.org/oakland-donations/\">transassistance.org\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\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/embohlkaedit.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>At a time when most musicians in the Pacific Northwest were drenching themselves in angst, dread, and power chords, Joey Casio was dancing in the basement to the beat of his own electronic music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he was doing it with a huge smile on his face. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When everybody else had these really big amplifiers and all these [guitar] pedals on stage, you’d walk down into a basement in a house show and see Joey behind a table with a bunch of wires on it,” says Portland musician and longtime friend Charlie Salas-Humara. “He was just a really nice, silly guy who was doing things musically nobody else was even thinking about at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12457644\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 319px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JoeyCasio.Inline.KRecs_.jpg\" alt=\"Joey Casio.\" width=\"319\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12457644\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JoeyCasio.Inline.KRecs_.jpg 319w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JoeyCasio.Inline.KRecs_-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JoeyCasio.Inline.KRecs_-240x361.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey Casio. \u003ccite>(Photo via K Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Musician and visual artist Claudia Meza was friends with Casio for 15 years when they both lived in Olympia, Wash., and agrees his music was ahead of its time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before punk kids thought electronic and techno was cool, Joey was doing it,” Meza says. “When I moved to Olympia in 2001, Joey was playing an electro version of this awesome Richard Hell song [Blank Generation]. And one day I asked him, ‘Where did that song come from?’ and he’s like ‘It’s from Richard Hell, the original bassist in the band Television.’ I had listened to Television for years, and I was like ‘What?’ I never even heard of him. But Joey had, and was playing it for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Matlock — a.k.a. Joey Casio — moved from Hazel Dell, Wash. to Olympia around 2000 after high school. By 2001, he had become a prominent part of the city’s vibrant music scene. He released four singles on the prominent indie label K Records, and went on tour with the label’s founder, Calvin Johnson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody didn’t like Joey,” Johnson says. “He was smart, funny, good looking and a talented music maker and performer.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txc8cyoCoAE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says Casio put himself into the middle of the Olympia scene by moving into the city’s “Red House,” a famous music squat featuring cutting edge music shows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joey often lived in places like that,” Johnson says. “In 2011, he lived in an old church. He was drawn to these collectives. He was a lifer — he believed in the art and the music, and the fact is he is an obscure but brilliant artist who needs to be remembered and rediscovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casio was known for his generous spirit despite his own personal, life-long poverty. He often organized benefit shows for the Olympia homeless community that featured diverse lineups. Deeply committed to art and the community, Casio “had one nice outfit, and he would wear it better than anyone else could,” Meza says. “He was the kind of guy who if you were walking down the street and ran into him while he was eating a sandwich, he would offer you a piece, even if it was the only thing he was going to eat all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456492\" 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/joey-casio-facebook-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Joey Casio promo photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12456492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey Casio promo photo \u003ccite>(Photo: Via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casio was also a longtime boyfriend of feminist icon and \u003ca href=\"https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bikini Kill\u003c/a> co-founder, Tobi Vail. The relationship was happy and loving, according to the former couple’s friends. Salas-Humara was married to Vail’s sister Maggie, and spent time with the pair. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the family get-togethers, they were a lot of fun to be around,” Salas-Humara says. “He was a really goofy, sweet guy with this really contagious laugh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after Casio and Vail split, they remained close. “Trust me, if Joey was a shithead, Tobi would have said so,” Meza says. “Everyone I know who dated him — including Tobi — loved him even after they broke up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpANcYjzcA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Vail would continue to champion her former boyfriend’s music even after he moved from the Pacific Northwest to Oakland around 2012. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their recording is skillfully well-produced and their minimal compositions are fully realized, while the live show borders on performance art,” Vail \u003ca href=\"http://www.wonderingsound.com/interview/who-is/who-is-uncanny-valley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote about Casio’s band Uncanny Valley\u003c/a> in 2013. “When I saw them live they looked like Victorian ghosts, obliterating the line between performer and audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as he did in Olympia and Portland, Casio would establish himself as a celebrated, integral part of the Oakland art scene in the four years he lived in the city. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his experience in the Bay Area was markedly different in that the art scene had finally caught up to his musical vision. The label which threw the party at the Ghost Ship, 100% Silk, had carved out a deep niche featuring musicians who followed in Casio’s footsteps. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He found his tribe in Oakland,” Meza says. “And he deserved it. He’s magical. He was a magical alien.”\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/joeycasioedit.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>At a time when most musicians in the Pacific Northwest were drenching themselves in angst, dread, and power chords, Joey Casio was dancing in the basement to the beat of his own electronic music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he was doing it with a huge smile on his face. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When everybody else had these really big amplifiers and all these [guitar] pedals on stage, you’d walk down into a basement in a house show and see Joey behind a table with a bunch of wires on it,” says Portland musician and longtime friend Charlie Salas-Humara. “He was just a really nice, silly guy who was doing things musically nobody else was even thinking about at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12457644\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 319px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JoeyCasio.Inline.KRecs_.jpg\" alt=\"Joey Casio.\" width=\"319\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12457644\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JoeyCasio.Inline.KRecs_.jpg 319w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JoeyCasio.Inline.KRecs_-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JoeyCasio.Inline.KRecs_-240x361.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey Casio. \u003ccite>(Photo via K Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Musician and visual artist Claudia Meza was friends with Casio for 15 years when they both lived in Olympia, Wash., and agrees his music was ahead of its time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before punk kids thought electronic and techno was cool, Joey was doing it,” Meza says. “When I moved to Olympia in 2001, Joey was playing an electro version of this awesome Richard Hell song [Blank Generation]. And one day I asked him, ‘Where did that song come from?’ and he’s like ‘It’s from Richard Hell, the original bassist in the band Television.’ I had listened to Television for years, and I was like ‘What?’ I never even heard of him. But Joey had, and was playing it for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He released four singles on the prominent indie label K Records, and went on tour with the label’s founder, Calvin Johnson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody didn’t like Joey,” Johnson says. “He was smart, funny, good looking and a talented music maker and performer.” \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/Txc8cyoCoAE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Txc8cyoCoAE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Johnson says Casio put himself into the middle of the Olympia scene by moving into the city’s “Red House,” a famous music squat featuring cutting edge music shows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joey often lived in places like that,” Johnson says. “In 2011, he lived in an old church. He was drawn to these collectives. He was a lifer — he believed in the art and the music, and the fact is he is an obscure but brilliant artist who needs to be remembered and rediscovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casio was known for his generous spirit despite his own personal, life-long poverty. He often organized benefit shows for the Olympia homeless community that featured diverse lineups. Deeply committed to art and the community, Casio “had one nice outfit, and he would wear it better than anyone else could,” Meza says. “He was the kind of guy who if you were walking down the street and ran into him while he was eating a sandwich, he would offer you a piece, even if it was the only thing he was going to eat all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456492\" 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/joey-casio-facebook-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Joey Casio promo photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12456492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/joey-casio-facebook-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey Casio promo photo \u003ccite>(Photo: Via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casio was also a longtime boyfriend of feminist icon and \u003ca href=\"https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bikini Kill\u003c/a> co-founder, Tobi Vail. The relationship was happy and loving, according to the former couple’s friends. Salas-Humara was married to Vail’s sister Maggie, and spent time with the pair. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the family get-togethers, they were a lot of fun to be around,” Salas-Humara says. “He was a really goofy, sweet guy with this really contagious laugh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after Casio and Vail split, they remained close. “Trust me, if Joey was a shithead, Tobi would have said so,” Meza says. “Everyone I know who dated him — including Tobi — loved him even after they broke up.”\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/xcpANcYjzcA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xcpANcYjzcA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In fact, Vail would continue to champion her former boyfriend’s music even after he moved from the Pacific Northwest to Oakland around 2012. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their recording is skillfully well-produced and their minimal compositions are fully realized, while the live show borders on performance art,” Vail \u003ca href=\"http://www.wonderingsound.com/interview/who-is/who-is-uncanny-valley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote about Casio’s band Uncanny Valley\u003c/a> in 2013. “When I saw them live they looked like Victorian ghosts, obliterating the line between performer and audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as he did in Olympia and Portland, Casio would establish himself as a celebrated, integral part of the Oakland art scene in the four years he lived in the city. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his experience in the Bay Area was markedly different in that the art scene had finally caught up to his musical vision. The label which threw the party at the Ghost Ship, 100% Silk, had carved out a deep niche featuring musicians who followed in Casio’s footsteps. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He found his tribe in Oakland,” Meza says. “And he deserved it. He’s magical. He was a magical alien.”\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/joeycasioedit.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>Pure beauty: That’s what Kiyomi Tanouye’s name means in Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 31-year-old Oakland resident, whose full name was Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye, was doing nail art at the Ghost Ship party when the deadly fire started on Friday night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I think of my sister, I think of someone who is very pure, very genuine, always trying to help people,” says her brother Kevin. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456689\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2.jpg\" alt=\"Kiyomi Tanouye\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12456689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2.jpg 612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiyomi Tanouye. \u003ccite>(Photo: Via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tanouye loved music. She was a music manager at the online music identification company Shazam where she was the unofficial underground electronic and indie music expert. Prior to Shazam, she had worked at both ISSUES, a magazine store, and Rasputin Music. Outside of work, she helped organize the Mission Creek Oakland Music and Arts Festival. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She infected everyone with joy and excitement for going to work,” says her boss at Shazam, Charles Slomovitz. “Our office is a mess. We’re all shell-shocked.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family say Tanouye was an avid runner and animal lover who competed in half-marathons and adored her Pomeranian, Jejune. They described her as an incredibly warm and inviting person who loved to have fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When she was little, she was always happy and energetic,” says her mom, Tomoko. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanouye’s family and her Japanese heritage were incredibly important to her identity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12457076\" 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/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Nails by Kiyomi Tanouye.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12457076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nails by Kiyomi Tanouye. \u003ccite>(via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She would always drop anything and come home,” says her dad, Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers one day during their trip to Japan last summer when she convinced him to get sushi at 6 a.m. and then go to Tokyo Disneyland. “If you just would hang on to her, she would take you to places you would not normally go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanouye was also a strong feminist and passionate defender of the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She taught me a lot about those parts of society,” says her father, who describes himself as a conservative banker. “She has doggedly taught me many lessons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think of her as a star,” says close friend Ronnie Casey, who met Tanouye near the end of 2008 and says the two had “instant chemistry.” “She was someone people gravitated towards. She was kind to everybody. There was never any drama or ill feelings with Kiyomi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two shared a love of the drag queen RuPaul, whom they got to meet in person at a book signing in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456690\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 352px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1.jpg\" alt=\"Kiyomi Tanouye\" width=\"352\" height=\"352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12456690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1.jpg 352w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiyomi Tanouye.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He took one look at her and said, ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie,’” Casey says. “She never had a day when she didn’t look good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another close friend, Adriana Handono, says that while she considers Tanouye to have been the “Queen of the Nightlife,” she says she values most the intimate moments they shared together, like when Tanouye would cook for the two of them or they would have “girl talk” at the Downtown Oakland YMCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handono said she saw her friend at the YMCA on Friday afternoon and invited her to a party that night. “She said, ‘No, I’m going to do nails,'” mentioning the event at the Ghost Ship, Handono says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handono said she tried to call Tanouye when she her heard about the fire, but her phone was off. “I knew she was gone,” she says.\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>Tanouye’s alma mater, Mills College, has set up a scholarship fund in her memory. Donors can go to \u003ca href=\"https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1244/index.aspx?sid=1244&gid=1&pgid=772&cid=1748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mills’ giving page\u003c/a> and pledge their gift for the Kiyomi “Jennifer” Tanouye Memorial Scholarship Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read a 2012 interview with Tanouye \u003ca href=\"http://workitberk.blogspot.com/2012/09/interview-kiyomi-tanouye-of-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read an East Bay Express profile about nail art including Tanouye \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/painting-nails-as-art/Content?oid=4330480\" 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/kiyomitanouyeedit.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>Pure beauty: That’s what Kiyomi Tanouye’s name means in Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 31-year-old Oakland resident, whose full name was Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye, was doing nail art at the Ghost Ship party when the deadly fire started on Friday night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I think of my sister, I think of someone who is very pure, very genuine, always trying to help people,” says her brother Kevin. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456689\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2.jpg\" alt=\"Kiyomi Tanouye\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12456689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2.jpg 612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiyomi Tanouye. \u003ccite>(Photo: Via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tanouye loved music. She was a music manager at the online music identification company Shazam where she was the unofficial underground electronic and indie music expert. Prior to Shazam, she had worked at both ISSUES, a magazine store, and Rasputin Music. Outside of work, she helped organize the Mission Creek Oakland Music and Arts Festival. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She infected everyone with joy and excitement for going to work,” says her boss at Shazam, Charles Slomovitz. “Our office is a mess. We’re all shell-shocked.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family say Tanouye was an avid runner and animal lover who competed in half-marathons and adored her Pomeranian, Jejune. They described her as an incredibly warm and inviting person who loved to have fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When she was little, she was always happy and energetic,” says her mom, Tomoko. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanouye’s family and her Japanese heritage were incredibly important to her identity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12457076\" 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/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Nails by Kiyomi Tanouye.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12457076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Kiyomi.Nails_.IG_.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nails by Kiyomi Tanouye. \u003ccite>(via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She would always drop anything and come home,” says her dad, Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers one day during their trip to Japan last summer when she convinced him to get sushi at 6 a.m. and then go to Tokyo Disneyland. “If you just would hang on to her, she would take you to places you would not normally go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanouye was also a strong feminist and passionate defender of the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She taught me a lot about those parts of society,” says her father, who describes himself as a conservative banker. “She has doggedly taught me many lessons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think of her as a star,” says close friend Ronnie Casey, who met Tanouye near the end of 2008 and says the two had “instant chemistry.” “She was someone people gravitated towards. She was kind to everybody. There was never any drama or ill feelings with Kiyomi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two shared a love of the drag queen RuPaul, whom they got to meet in person at a book signing in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456690\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 352px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1.jpg\" alt=\"Kiyomi Tanouye\" width=\"352\" height=\"352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12456690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1.jpg 352w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/KiyomiTanouye1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiyomi Tanouye.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He took one look at her and said, ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie,’” Casey says. “She never had a day when she didn’t look good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another close friend, Adriana Handono, says that while she considers Tanouye to have been the “Queen of the Nightlife,” she says she values most the intimate moments they shared together, like when Tanouye would cook for the two of them or they would have “girl talk” at the Downtown Oakland YMCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handono said she saw her friend at the YMCA on Friday afternoon and invited her to a party that night. “She said, ‘No, I’m going to do nails,'” mentioning the event at the Ghost Ship, Handono says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handono said she tried to call Tanouye when she her heard about the fire, but her phone was off. “I knew she was gone,” she says.\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>Tanouye’s alma mater, Mills College, has set up a scholarship fund in her memory. Donors can go to \u003ca href=\"https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1244/index.aspx?sid=1244&gid=1&pgid=772&cid=1748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mills’ giving page\u003c/a> and pledge their gift for the Kiyomi “Jennifer” Tanouye Memorial Scholarship Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read a 2012 interview with Tanouye \u003ca href=\"http://workitberk.blogspot.com/2012/09/interview-kiyomi-tanouye-of-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read an East Bay Express profile about nail art including Tanouye \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/painting-nails-as-art/Content?oid=4330480\" 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/kiyomitanouyeedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Chelsea Faith Dolan, Peerless Electronic Musician, 'Full of Exuberant Joy'",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most stories about loved ones lost begin with how you met. But I can’t remember the first time I met Chelsea Faith Dolan — simply because her presence in the world of Bay Area underground electronic music was ubiquitous.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the first night I began going out in San Francisco, Chelsea was there: in the crowd; on the bill; behind the decks; on the stage. There was no mistaking her: she wore bright, colorful outfits, often with hair dyed to match. When Chelsea performed, she was always done up in brilliant, otherworldly makeup, looking like a visitor from another planet. Considering how inhumanly talented she was, that look seemed particularly apropos.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12456080\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-800x481.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Faith.\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-1180x710.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-960x578.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-240x144.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-375x226.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-520x313.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Faith.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under her stage name \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cherushii\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cherushii\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Chelsea was regularly booked as a support act for touring international headlining artists. I say without hyperbole that three times out of four, her performance outshone the main acts. She invariably performed live on hardware, programming and coaxing sound out of her machines in real time. That’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no small feat, musical genius notwithstanding.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM8M_6Hp87I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the start, I was deeply impressed by her kindness, grace, and humility. Chelsea spoke softly, gently, and assuredly. She was endlessly generous with her time, knowledge, and resources, going out of her way to share with others, even if it meant hardship for herself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As our friendship deepened, I learned that Chelsea and I had grown up together in San Rafael. Both of us spent untold hours at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.starbasearcade.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">StarBase One\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — a video arcade, now defunct — unbeknownst to the other. If circumstances had been different, perhaps Chelsea and I would have been friends for decades.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12456082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-800x643.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Faith.\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-800x643.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-768x617.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-1020x820.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-960x771.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-240x193.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-375x301.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-520x418.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Faith.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chelsea’s talent was boundless. She possessed a deep, intimate knowledge of electronic music of all kinds — dance music certainly, and so much more. She told me she fell in love with the first generation of rave music — U.K. hardcore, jungle, breakbeat — before she was a teenager, just like I did. She soon became smitten with classic deep house — \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIC6SqXpYTM\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Larry Heard\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_TnLsXxEI\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert Owens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — and it was these sounds that primarily \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYehnKlWol0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">informed her own music\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Later, shortly before she passed, Chelsea began experimenting with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VT6bStvi4k\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moody, mellow textures\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5uK_4rOEw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every corner of the community remembers Chelsea with love. Her mother, Colleen Dolan, remembers her as an “extraordinary person, full of exuberant joy.” Her mom recounts that Chelsea’s musicality began at age 3, and at age 15, she traveled solo to Japan, where she adopted the moniker Cherushii. Chelsea turned to electronic music, Colleen explains, when she realized, “it allowed her to play the complex and haunting melodies she heard in her head.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her sister, Sabrina Dolan, says Chelsea remained unapologetic about who she was, chasing her dreams with a courage few others possess. Chelsea always accepted others no matter who they were, Sabrina recalls, and loved colorful clothes, sparkles, glitter, neon, and iridescent fabrics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friend and fellow DJ David Siska remarks that Chelsea’s true love was music. She “lived it all day, every day,” Siska says. Even if that meant working side jobs, less-than-stellar gigs, and going without basics to cover rent in the most expensive city in the U.S., Chelsea was, “absolutely at peace with this choice,” Siska says, “and unrelenting and positive in making it work.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVfMBuZPuw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another DJ, David Sylvester, who once booked Chelsea for a party in Portland, was in awe of her talent: “I knew she would only get bigger and bigger as time went on,” Sylvester says. Meanwhile, longtime friend and musician Evelyn Malinowski recounts that when she and Chelsea visited Berlin, Chelsea wrote an entire track — \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx04TY-Y7W0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Nightsteps”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — while waiting for Evelyn to arrive at the flat they were sharing, a protracted pause that turned into an artistic boon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea’s live-in partner and musical collaborator, David Last, remembers what it was like working with her: “She wasn’t busy copying any particular style. Working together, it was just our personalities, winding playfully across chords, rhythms, and melody. Chelsea was never afraid to write music into her music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chelsea worked tirelessly to promote, empower, and support women in electronic music. This year, Chelsea performed and presented an educational workshop at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/daphne-electronic-dance-women-smart-bar-festival-eris-cherushii/Content?oid=22761959\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daphne\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a showcase for female electronic musicians hosted in Chicago, arranged by renowned DJ Marea Stamper, aka The Black Madonna.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stamper emphasizes how “special, rare and important she was for women in dance music in a wider sense. She was the kind of woman that other women wanted to be and best of all, she was accessible enough that she made you feel it might be possible to someday know what she knew. She was the kind of woman I wanted younger women to meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chelsea’s longtime roommate, friend, and fellow electronic musician Sepehr Alimagham summarizes her radiance. Chelsea filled every room she entered with “color and vibrance,” Alimagham says, making “every room a painting, every room a garden, every room a waterfall.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx04TY-Y7W0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time I saw Chelsea was Thursday, Dec. 1 — the night before the Oakland warehouse fire. I went to visit her at her house. On her way out the door, Chelsea gave me a high-five. Sometimes high-fives are awkward, but this one wasn’t. She nailed it — right in the middle of my palm. I can still feel her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright 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>To read an interview with Chelsea, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dummymag.com/features/cherushii-in-conversation-with-bretts-mike-coogan\">visit Dummy Mag\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To explore more of Chelsea’s work, \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cherushii\">visit her Soundcloud\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contribute to a fundraiser supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcaring.com/colleendolan-710275\">Chelsea’s family 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/chelseadolanedit.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>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most stories about loved ones lost begin with how you met. But I can’t remember the first time I met Chelsea Faith Dolan — simply because her presence in the world of Bay Area underground electronic music was ubiquitous.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the first night I began going out in San Francisco, Chelsea was there: in the crowd; on the bill; behind the decks; on the stage. There was no mistaking her: she wore bright, colorful outfits, often with hair dyed to match. When Chelsea performed, she was always done up in brilliant, otherworldly makeup, looking like a visitor from another planet. Considering how inhumanly talented she was, that look seemed particularly apropos.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12456080\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-800x481.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Faith.\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-1180x710.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-960x578.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-240x144.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-375x226.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1-520x313.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Faith.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under her stage name \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cherushii\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cherushii\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Chelsea was regularly booked as a support act for touring international headlining artists. I say without hyperbole that three times out of four, her performance outshone the main acts. She invariably performed live on hardware, programming and coaxing sound out of her machines in real time. That’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no small feat, musical genius notwithstanding.\u003c/span>\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/VM8M_6Hp87I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VM8M_6Hp87I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the start, I was deeply impressed by her kindness, grace, and humility. Chelsea spoke softly, gently, and assuredly. She was endlessly generous with her time, knowledge, and resources, going out of her way to share with others, even if it meant hardship for herself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As our friendship deepened, I learned that Chelsea and I had grown up together in San Rafael. Both of us spent untold hours at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.starbasearcade.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">StarBase One\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — a video arcade, now defunct — unbeknownst to the other. If circumstances had been different, perhaps Chelsea and I would have been friends for decades.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12456082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-800x643.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Faith.\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-800x643.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-768x617.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-1020x820.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-960x771.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-240x193.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-375x301.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7-520x418.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ChelseaDolan7.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Faith.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chelsea’s talent was boundless. She possessed a deep, intimate knowledge of electronic music of all kinds — dance music certainly, and so much more. She told me she fell in love with the first generation of rave music — U.K. hardcore, jungle, breakbeat — before she was a teenager, just like I did. She soon became smitten with classic deep house — \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIC6SqXpYTM\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Larry Heard\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_TnLsXxEI\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert Owens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — and it was these sounds that primarily \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYehnKlWol0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">informed her own music\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Later, shortly before she passed, Chelsea began experimenting with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VT6bStvi4k\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moody, mellow textures\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\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/rw5uK_4rOEw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/rw5uK_4rOEw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every corner of the community remembers Chelsea with love. Her mother, Colleen Dolan, remembers her as an “extraordinary person, full of exuberant joy.” Her mom recounts that Chelsea’s musicality began at age 3, and at age 15, she traveled solo to Japan, where she adopted the moniker Cherushii. Chelsea turned to electronic music, Colleen explains, when she realized, “it allowed her to play the complex and haunting melodies she heard in her head.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her sister, Sabrina Dolan, says Chelsea remained unapologetic about who she was, chasing her dreams with a courage few others possess. Chelsea always accepted others no matter who they were, Sabrina recalls, and loved colorful clothes, sparkles, glitter, neon, and iridescent fabrics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friend and fellow DJ David Siska remarks that Chelsea’s true love was music. She “lived it all day, every day,” Siska says. Even if that meant working side jobs, less-than-stellar gigs, and going without basics to cover rent in the most expensive city in the U.S., Chelsea was, “absolutely at peace with this choice,” Siska says, “and unrelenting and positive in making it work.”\u003c/span>\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/JRVfMBuZPuw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JRVfMBuZPuw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another DJ, David Sylvester, who once booked Chelsea for a party in Portland, was in awe of her talent: “I knew she would only get bigger and bigger as time went on,” Sylvester says. Meanwhile, longtime friend and musician Evelyn Malinowski recounts that when she and Chelsea visited Berlin, Chelsea wrote an entire track — \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx04TY-Y7W0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Nightsteps”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — while waiting for Evelyn to arrive at the flat they were sharing, a protracted pause that turned into an artistic boon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea’s live-in partner and musical collaborator, David Last, remembers what it was like working with her: “She wasn’t busy copying any particular style. Working together, it was just our personalities, winding playfully across chords, rhythms, and melody. Chelsea was never afraid to write music into her music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chelsea worked tirelessly to promote, empower, and support women in electronic music. This year, Chelsea performed and presented an educational workshop at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/daphne-electronic-dance-women-smart-bar-festival-eris-cherushii/Content?oid=22761959\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daphne\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a showcase for female electronic musicians hosted in Chicago, arranged by renowned DJ Marea Stamper, aka The Black Madonna.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stamper emphasizes how “special, rare and important she was for women in dance music in a wider sense. She was the kind of woman that other women wanted to be and best of all, she was accessible enough that she made you feel it might be possible to someday know what she knew. She was the kind of woman I wanted younger women to meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chelsea’s longtime roommate, friend, and fellow electronic musician Sepehr Alimagham summarizes her radiance. Chelsea filled every room she entered with “color and vibrance,” Alimagham says, making “every room a painting, every room a garden, every room a waterfall.”\u003c/span>\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/Lx04TY-Y7W0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Lx04TY-Y7W0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time I saw Chelsea was Thursday, Dec. 1 — the night before the Oakland warehouse fire. I went to visit her at her house. On her way out the door, Chelsea gave me a high-five. Sometimes high-fives are awkward, but this one wasn’t. She nailed it — right in the middle of my palm. I can still feel her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright 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>To read an interview with Chelsea, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dummymag.com/features/cherushii-in-conversation-with-bretts-mike-coogan\">visit Dummy Mag\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To explore more of Chelsea’s work, \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cherushii\">visit her Soundcloud\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contribute to a fundraiser supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcaring.com/colleendolan-710275\">Chelsea’s family 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/chelseadolanedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Prior to that, she was a longtime employee at Berkeley’s California Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friend and former California Theater coworker John Laux remembers Kellogg as “one of the kindest people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laux and Kellogg played music together under the moniker Mouth Juice — him on bass, her on drums. “It was experimental music, kind of like weird noise jams, but we’d always turn them into something fun,” Laux says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12452001\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DonnaKellogg.inline.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Kellogg.\" width=\"322\" height=\"574\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12452001\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DonnaKellogg.inline.jpg 322w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DonnaKellogg.inline-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DonnaKellogg.inline-240x428.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Kellogg.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kellogg’s friend John Benson remembers the California Theater after-hours scene fondly. “Pretty much everyone who worked there would put on midnight shows and use the movie sound system to do experimental sound events,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson spent about a month in 2008 traveling and playing music with Kellogg in a bus converted to run on biodiesel — a project known simply as “John Benson’s Bus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gutted an Oakland AC transit bus and took it on the road as a mobile venue,” Benson says. “Bands from whatever town we were in would come onboard and play.” Benson says sometimes the bands would play while the bus was on the move, and people would dance holding onto the roof for support. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The adventurous venue-on-wheels was a welcoming space for Kellogg. “Donna went through a really hard time,” Benson says. “When we went on the bus trip she had just lost a brother, but she remained such a positive person.” Kellogg’s younger brother, Nick Garber, died at age 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n‘She was the only person I know who didn’t have Facebook or a smartphone and still remembered my birthday.’ \u003ccite>Bianca Foss, friend of Donna Kellogg\u003c/cite> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Artist and musician Aurora Crispin met Kellogg in 2006, when they both lived in Oakland. Their friendship was so immediate that they got matching tattoos one of the first times they hung out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have three dots on the palm of my hand and she has two,” Crispin says. When the two friends high-fived, their tattoos would complete a five-dot pattern. “Certain people you get a hug from and it’s like you’re dancing with them,” Crispin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the friends were in and out of touch over the years, Crispin says they remained close. “Every time I would see her it would be like no time had passed,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12447503\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322.jpg\" alt=\"The marquee at Landmark's California Theater in Berkeley after Kellogg's death was confirmed. Kellogg used to work at the theater\" width=\"540\" height=\"641\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12447503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322-240x285.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322-375x445.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322-520x617.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The marquee at Landmark’s California Theater in Berkeley after Kellogg’s death was confirmed. Kellogg used to work at the theater \u003ccite>(Photo: Michael Deane)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another friend, Bianca Foss, remembers Kellogg as similarly steadfast. “She was the only person I know who didn’t have Facebook or a smartphone and still remembered my birthday,” Foss says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laux and Crispin both remarked on Kellogg’s recent interest in nutrition studies. “She was going back to school,” Laux says. “She was really turning things around. Getting really serious about nutrition and her life. She was just on such a good path, it just breaks my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all her friends and the Bay Area community at large, Kellogg’s absence is palpable. “The world’s not going to be the same without her,” Laux says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first heard about the fire,” says Benson, “I went down to the coffee shop because I thought she would be a good person to hang out with and talk to. I had no idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright 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/donnakelloggedit.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>Benson spent about a month in 2008 traveling and playing music with Kellogg in a bus converted to run on biodiesel — a project known simply as “John Benson’s Bus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gutted an Oakland AC transit bus and took it on the road as a mobile venue,” Benson says. “Bands from whatever town we were in would come onboard and play.” Benson says sometimes the bands would play while the bus was on the move, and people would dance holding onto the roof for support. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The adventurous venue-on-wheels was a welcoming space for Kellogg. “Donna went through a really hard time,” Benson says. “When we went on the bus trip she had just lost a brother, but she remained such a positive person.” Kellogg’s younger brother, Nick Garber, died at age 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n‘She was the only person I know who didn’t have Facebook or a smartphone and still remembered my birthday.’ \u003ccite>Bianca Foss, friend of Donna Kellogg\u003c/cite> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Artist and musician Aurora Crispin met Kellogg in 2006, when they both lived in Oakland. Their friendship was so immediate that they got matching tattoos one of the first times they hung out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have three dots on the palm of my hand and she has two,” Crispin says. When the two friends high-fived, their tattoos would complete a five-dot pattern. “Certain people you get a hug from and it’s like you’re dancing with them,” Crispin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the friends were in and out of touch over the years, Crispin says they remained close. “Every time I would see her it would be like no time had passed,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12447503\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322.jpg\" alt=\"The marquee at Landmark's California Theater in Berkeley after Kellogg's death was confirmed. Kellogg used to work at the theater\" width=\"540\" height=\"641\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12447503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322-240x285.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322-375x445.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Donna-Kellog-Marquee-e1481156914322-520x617.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The marquee at Landmark’s California Theater in Berkeley after Kellogg’s death was confirmed. 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"content": "\u003cp>I first met Alex Ghassan in the summer of 2013 when he interviewed for a job at KQED as a video producer. He made me laugh right from the start when, in response to the interviewer’s comment that he would be on assignment in African-American, Latino and other communities of color, he deadpanned, “That’s okay — I’m pretty comfortable with black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beneath the wicked wit, and sly grin, Alex was whip-smart with an insatiable appetite for the next amazing opportunity, most of which he imagined through the lens of camera. He was always looking for something — something new, yes, but more something that would rock him down deep. I didn’t hire him for the KQED full-time position because we both knew his vision and aspirations weren’t going to fit inside the box of a 9-to-5 job, so he ended up working as an on-call producer for KQED and all kinds of other folks around the country and the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/163519999\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex was a brilliant cinematographer, and emerging as a very talented director. He could make the most mundane scene dance and sparkle in his lens. He worked for Spike Lee and countless other producers and executives, and was a master of the music video. He didn’t mince words (Spike had done something back when to piss him off) but neither did he cloak his affections. He once told me about some people whose names he didn’t know in Mexico City who had — for no compensation — helped him scout and style a shoot and then snatched him out of harm’s way when some dangerous stuff went down. When it was over they hugged him and sent him on his way. He loved that, and loved them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there were many others along the way. Not least his friend, colleague and fellow Haitian brother Benjamin Michel (“two Haitians and a prayer can conquer the world,” they would say). In Oakland, they seemed to do everything together — shared a home, produced together, partied, laughed. Ben is also an on-call producer for KQED Arts, and calling him early Saturday morning to tell him Alex and his fiancé Hanna were missing in the Ghost Ship fire was one of the hardest phone calls I have made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb8vYa7irHE&t=17s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex was more than a colleague. As we got to know each other, usually over drinks (he seemed impervious to the charms of tequila), we discovered that he was born on the same day, nearly the same hour, not far from the hospital where my son Lucien was born. When I told him Lucien died when he was 10, he stopped and we both sat silently for a second. Then he asked me, actually kind of probed into me, about Lucien’s life, what he loved, how he lived, what he means to me now. Most people, when you tell them your kid died when he was 10, understandably, don’t know what to say. Not Alex, and I will never forget that. After I had satisfied his curiosity (and the dude was always curious: inside scoop, gossip, anything he could pull out of you), he said, “Okay, that’s it. You’re my San Fran daddy and I am your San Fran son. Deal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s how it went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked a lot about fatherhood — about my two daughters and two other sons, and his two vibrant, beautiful, blissfully energetic four-year-old twin daughters, Lucy and Alex. Their names were tattooed across his knuckles. They are his pride and his bliss. When he talked about them, he would speak fondly of their mom, Lesley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4a4Q8Mokw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex and I worked together, me the dad/boss, him the young man, proud and determined. We fought over stuff, mostly creative differences. (He was stubborn and claimed I was impossibly so.) I would try to be of help as he navigated the bumpy road of getting ahead in the world of work. We talked about the slights, the disappointments, the petty insensitivities a black man too often faces in the workplace. But he would never lay it off to race, just human venality. I was too racially minded, he’d say: “Too many people are selfish and mean, it’s true. But here in the Bay, it’s not about race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like I say, we didn’t always agree, but he always made me think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12447497\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12447497\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexGhassan1.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Ghassan.\" width=\"750\" height=\"937\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexGhassan1.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexGhassan1-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexGhassan1-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexGhassan1-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AlexGhassan1-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Ghassan. \u003ccite>(via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last time I saw him was last Thursday night for drinks at the Homestead on Folsom — me, Alex, and his fiancé Hanna. Truly, this lady lit up the room. Charm, smarts, world-traveler savvy, creative vision, beauty and a smile that would stop a train. She grew up in Helsinki where she had her own jewelry design business and so much more than I will never know. What I do know is that she was what Alex was looking for all this time. She rocked him down deep, and I learned over the tequila and the wine that he returned the favor. I watched them glow at each other. Admiration for one another’s work, dreams of travel — and, yes, a wedding date sometime late next year, they coyly admitted. I know Alex found what he was looking for, and Hanna’s excitement for the prospects that lay ahead couldn’t be bottled up, and spilled all over. I was so happy for them. When I dropped them off that night, their last before the fire, I hugged her and thanked her for finding Alex. That’s the last I saw of them, on a dimly lit corner at 40th and Irving in the Sunset. We were all happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VBn6uXdbps\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with all the folks listed as missing in the fire, we knew when no one heard from either of them that Alex and Hanna had likely died that night. Exhausted, I had gone to sleep early this past Monday night. When I awoke at 4am, there was this text from Alex’s mom, Emilie Grandchamps: “Okay, they found them, Alex and Hanna. They found them dead together.” When you hear it from the mom, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I loved that young man. We loved each other in our own way. And I was smitten by Hanna. They were true artists wrapped tightly in their own creative bond. I wrote Alex a text, before I went to sleep that last Thursday night, “Hanna is awesome. You lucky, bruh. Happy for you.” His last words to me: “Thank u.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you, my friend. 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We talked about the slights, the disappointments, the petty insensitivities a black man too often faces in the workplace. But he would never lay it off to race, just human venality. I was too racially minded, he’d say: “Too many people are selfish and mean, it’s true. 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