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"content": "\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, there’s no shortage of sports history and cultural activities to enjoy before the San Francisco 49ers’ return to the Super Bowl. With a victory against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, Feb. 11, the gold-rushers could tie the NFL record with six Lombardi Trophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone who’s witnessed the team’s rise and fall over three decades, including their latest Super Bowl win in 1994, I say the more the merrier on this gold-plated bandwagon. So whether you’ve seen every 49ers ’chip, or this is your first rodeo, here’s a list of 49 things to do before Super Bowl LVIII.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856467\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13856467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Kota-Ezawa-National-Anthem-San-Francisco-49ers_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Kota Ezawa, 'National Anthem (San Francisco 49ers),' 2019; watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 29 inches, edition variée of 3.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Kota-Ezawa-National-Anthem-San-Francisco-49ers_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Kota-Ezawa-National-Anthem-San-Francisco-49ers_1200-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Kota-Ezawa-National-Anthem-San-Francisco-49ers_1200-800x465.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Kota-Ezawa-National-Anthem-San-Francisco-49ers_1200-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Kota-Ezawa-National-Anthem-San-Francisco-49ers_1200-1020x593.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kota Ezawa, ‘National Anthem (San Francisco 49ers),’ 2019; watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 29 inches, edition variée of 3. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>1. Visit Treasure Island’s Gold Bar Distillery, a whiskey lover’s paradise — and the makers of this \u003ca href=\"https://goldbarwhiskey.com/pages/joe-montana-collection\">Joe Montana-sponsored whiskey\u003c/a> — with a view of San Francisco’s skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Snag a tee of 49ers legend Steve Young \u003ca href=\"https://breezyexcursion.com/collections/49ers/products/best-young-xxix-snow-wash-t-shirt\">embracing the ’94 trophy like his firstborn child\u003c/a>, or a mashup of Draymond Green \u003ca href=\"https://breezyexcursion.com/collections/49ers/products/best-draymond-greenlaw-snow-wash-t-shirt\">wearing linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s uniform\u003c/a>, from \u003ca href=\"https://breezyexcursion.com/collections/49ers\">Breezy Excursion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Press play on the latest 49ers anthem, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950697/49ers-nfl-playoffs-superbowl-p-lo-saweetie-do-it-for-the-bay\">Do It For The Bay\u003c/a>,” from P-Lo and Saweetie, two homegrown Filipino American artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Catch an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@TheWarnerHouse\">The Warner House\u003c/a> — a podcast hosted by the team’s leading tackler Fred Warner and his wife, Sydney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Listen to “\u003ca href=\"https://theninerempire.com/niners-law-jose-santana/\">Niners By Law\u003c/a>,” a hyphy-era track by Jose Santana that features RBL Posse’s Black C and showcases the 49ers’ longstanding Black and Latino fan solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/EBJxXP2Bi0k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Blast this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHMjTVRqcFg\">super-early rap song from 1982\u003c/a> about the Niners making their first-ever Super Bowl appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Laugh at the time in 1991 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/14836923/uni-watch-friday-flashback-why-san-francisco-49ers-1991-helmet-redesign-was-historic-failure\">the 49ers tried to change their logo\u003c/a> but were vetoed by fans and media — the first and only time a Bay Area team has been publicly shamed into abandoning a proposed design, which the team never wore after the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. Dine at the Canyon Inn in Redwood City, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/san-francisco-49ers-legendary-bar-canyon-inn-14274475.php\">legendary 49ers hangout\u003c/a> near the team’s old practice facility from the ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. Hear fans \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-AFNpeAM8\">say goodbye to Candlestick Park\u003c/a> on its final night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. Swing by Final Final in SF’s Marina District and have a cocktail while sitting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bars/article/SF-sports-bar-where-celebs-and-athletes-hang-out-16787876.php\">actual seats from Candlestick Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. Cringe at this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTVC4ocEEDs\">eternally bad Jerry Rice Popeye’s commercial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTVC4ocEEDs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. Hear defensive lineman Arik Armstead discuss his return to the field after sustaining an injury on his podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/third-and-long/id1706023069\">Third and Long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>13. Grab a brew at \u003ca href=\"https://www.candlestickbarsf.com/\">Candlestick Park Sports Bar\u003c/a> on 3rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>14. Become a member of \u003ca href=\"https://theninerempire.com/\">Niner Empire\u003c/a> — a local organization that’s united 49ers fans online since 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>15. Stroll around Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.49ers.com/news/on-this-day-in-the-bay-goodbye-old-kezar-stadium\">the original home of the 49ers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>16. Pop into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kezarpub/\">Kezar Pub\u003c/a> for a pint of golden ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>17. Read Colin Kaepernick’s graphic novel memoir, \u003cem>Change The Game\u003c/em>, published by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaepernickpublishing.com/\">Kaepernick Publishing\u003c/a>, a printing press focused on social justice and racial equity founded by the former 49ers quarterback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13816885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"Yonas Tesfai, 'Kaepernicks,' 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yonas Tesfai, ‘Kaepernicks,’ 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>18. How serious are you about 49ers history? Live like a true 49er by visiting \u003ca href=\"https://www.marshallgold.com/\">Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park\u003c/a> in Coloma, the original site of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>19. Add a custom \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/madebyrila/?hl=en\">airbrushed 49ers hat\u003c/a> to your collection from MadeByRila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>20. Make a funny \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-dating.html\">Taylor Swift meme\u003c/a>. (In case you’ve been cryogenically frozen for the past four months: she’s dating the opposing team’s tight end, Travis Kelce.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>21. Make a funny \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzjlbPRPrw2/\">Travis Kelce meme\u003c/a> while you’re at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>22. Think of more nicknames for 49ers’ breakout quarterback \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-brock-purdy-wikipedia-war-real-18624324.php\">Brock Purdy, whose Wikipedia page is now “semi-protected”\u003c/a> due to an excessive amount of fan editing (Glock Purdy, Big ____ Brock, MVPurdy, Sturdy Purdy, etc.).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLp2x4hYn8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>23. Eat at \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/flippys-cafe-rodeo\">Flippy’s\u003c/a> — an old-school, mom-and-pop diner in Rodeo decked out in vintage 49ers memorabilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>24. Beef up your football knowledge by listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@RichardShermanPod\">The Richard Sherman Podcast\u003c/a> from the Stanford grad and former 49ers cornerback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>25. Dust off your \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/music/the-rise-of-big-steppin-stunnaman02-s-viral-dance/article_515a8fcf-c165-55c5-9a2c-fb608cfe08cc.html\">“Big Steppin’” dance moves\u003c/a> with Stunnaman02’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWBj_VCRiA\">49ers Remix\u003c/a>, a viral song that’s had rival opponents like Joe Mixon hitting the San Francisco-born dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>26. Take in a view of the San Francisco Bay at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/candlestickpointsra/\">Candlestick Point State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, the former site of the 49ers stadium in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>27. Watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FzN6eolIIc\">\u003cem>The Ritual Killer\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a low-budget crime thriller that has Morgan Freeman and former Niners tight end Vernon Davis — and a 9% score on Rotten Tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FzN6eolIIc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>28. Stop by \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/alexs-49er-inn-san-jose-2\">Alex’s 49er Inn\u003c/a>, a San Jose dive bar that shares a name with the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>29. Read about the Alabama-based apparel company that popularized those \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Chalk-Line-made-millions-selling-49ers-jacket-16806338.php\">gold satin 49ers jackets\u003c/a> in the ’80s — and then disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>30. Tune into \u003ca href=\"https://www.hssv.org/puppybowl/\">the Puppy Bowl\u003c/a> before the Super Bowl and support the Humane Society of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>31. Pick up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/coldwater.sj/?hl=en\">Sourdough Sam T-shirt\u003c/a> from Silicon Valley’s Coldwater, owned by three brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>32. Count the number of ads running now ’til the Super Bowl that feature All-Pro tight end George Kittle — including this semi-nude \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/0LYwLBg13LI?feature=shared\">commercial for men’s swimwear\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/0LYwLBg13LI?feature=shared\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>33. Enjoy the lunacy of former head coach \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-acD_VGqcBg\">Jim Harbaugh in a tussle against opposing head coach Jim Schwartz\u003c/a> in Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>34. Drive by the Illuminaries’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/49ers-commission-faithful-mural-by-illuminaries\">“Faithful to the Bay” mural\u003c/a> commissioned by the 49ers in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>35. Research the \u003ca href=\"https://historicoregoncity.org/2019/04/02/gold-the-49ers-and-other-travelers/#:~:text=Along%20the%20way%2C%20they%20followed,old%20as%20the%20Oregon%20Trail.\">Trail of the Forty Niners\u003c/a>, a literal trail forged across the United States by gold-seekers in 1849.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>36. Celebrate with a pint of chicken and waffles ice cream made by \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RL11jGdDD8\">longtime 49ers fan and ambassador E-40\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>37. Brandon Lloyd used to play for San Francisco — watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAgbqeNOvsw\">the former wide receiver’s submission to MTV2’s Sucker Freestyles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAgbqeNOvsw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>38. You can never watch enough of \u003ca href=\"https://www.49ers.com/news/nfl-tight-end-rap-music-video-kittle-kelce-mccaffrey-dwelley-woerner-juszczyk\">George Kittle and his on-field antics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>39. San Francisco-raised coach and Hall of Famer \u003ca href=\"https://www.49ers.com/video/george-seifert-reflects-on-super-bowl-titles-13159764\">George Siefert was involved in every 49ers Super Bowl victory\u003c/a>; listen to him talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>40. Look at photos of former 49ers safety \u003ca href=\"https://fanbuzz.com/nfl/ronnie-lott-pinky/\">Ronnie Lott’s amputated finger\u003c/a> after he broke his pinky finger mid-game against the Dallas Cowboys and elected to remove it rather than wait for the bone to heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>41. Remember when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GvNc24yQZA\">Dirty Harry (played by Clint Eastwood) shot a man on a football field in San Francisco\u003c/a>? That field was Kezar Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>42. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuhcQRlkiF8\">Retrace all of Clint Eastwood’s steps\u003c/a> around The City while filming \u003cem>Dirty Harry\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GvNc24yQZA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>43. Get a \u003ca href=\"https://wallofwallace.com/shop\">49ers Betty Boop crewneck\u003c/a> from this San Francisco designer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>44. Be a tourist and visit Ghiradelli Square to eat chocolate and take a selfie in front of the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LombardiHimself/status/1752502355067830649\">temporarily themed red-and-gold neon signage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>45. Drink a 40 oz. from \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/49ers-liquors-and-groceries-san-francisco\">49’ERS Liquors & Groceries\u003c/a> in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>46. 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Laugh at the time in 1991 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/14836923/uni-watch-friday-flashback-why-san-francisco-49ers-1991-helmet-redesign-was-historic-failure\">the 49ers tried to change their logo\u003c/a> but were vetoed by fans and media — the first and only time a Bay Area team has been publicly shamed into abandoning a proposed design, which the team never wore after the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. Dine at the Canyon Inn in Redwood City, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/san-francisco-49ers-legendary-bar-canyon-inn-14274475.php\">legendary 49ers hangout\u003c/a> near the team’s old practice facility from the ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. Hear fans \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-AFNpeAM8\">say goodbye to Candlestick Park\u003c/a> on its final night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. Swing by Final Final in SF’s Marina District and have a cocktail while sitting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bars/article/SF-sports-bar-where-celebs-and-athletes-hang-out-16787876.php\">actual seats from Candlestick Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. Cringe at this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTVC4ocEEDs\">eternally bad Jerry Rice Popeye’s commercial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/jTVC4ocEEDs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jTVC4ocEEDs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>12. Hear defensive lineman Arik Armstead discuss his return to the field after sustaining an injury on his podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/third-and-long/id1706023069\">Third and Long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>13. Grab a brew at \u003ca href=\"https://www.candlestickbarsf.com/\">Candlestick Park Sports Bar\u003c/a> on 3rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>14. Become a member of \u003ca href=\"https://theninerempire.com/\">Niner Empire\u003c/a> — a local organization that’s united 49ers fans online since 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>15. Stroll around Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.49ers.com/news/on-this-day-in-the-bay-goodbye-old-kezar-stadium\">the original home of the 49ers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>16. Pop into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kezarpub/\">Kezar Pub\u003c/a> for a pint of golden ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>17. Read Colin Kaepernick’s graphic novel memoir, \u003cem>Change The Game\u003c/em>, published by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaepernickpublishing.com/\">Kaepernick Publishing\u003c/a>, a printing press focused on social justice and racial equity founded by the former 49ers quarterback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13816885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"Yonas Tesfai, 'Kaepernicks,' 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Colin_COVER-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yonas Tesfai, ‘Kaepernicks,’ 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>18. How serious are you about 49ers history? Live like a true 49er by visiting \u003ca href=\"https://www.marshallgold.com/\">Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park\u003c/a> in Coloma, the original site of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>19. Add a custom \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/madebyrila/?hl=en\">airbrushed 49ers hat\u003c/a> to your collection from MadeByRila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>20. Make a funny \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-dating.html\">Taylor Swift meme\u003c/a>. (In case you’ve been cryogenically frozen for the past four months: she’s dating the opposing team’s tight end, Travis Kelce.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>21. Make a funny \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzjlbPRPrw2/\">Travis Kelce meme\u003c/a> while you’re at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>22. Think of more nicknames for 49ers’ breakout quarterback \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-brock-purdy-wikipedia-war-real-18624324.php\">Brock Purdy, whose Wikipedia page is now “semi-protected”\u003c/a> due to an excessive amount of fan editing (Glock Purdy, Big ____ Brock, MVPurdy, Sturdy Purdy, etc.).\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/LWLp2x4hYn8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LWLp2x4hYn8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>23. Eat at \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/flippys-cafe-rodeo\">Flippy’s\u003c/a> — an old-school, mom-and-pop diner in Rodeo decked out in vintage 49ers memorabilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>24. Beef up your football knowledge by listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@RichardShermanPod\">The Richard Sherman Podcast\u003c/a> from the Stanford grad and former 49ers cornerback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>25. Dust off your \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/music/the-rise-of-big-steppin-stunnaman02-s-viral-dance/article_515a8fcf-c165-55c5-9a2c-fb608cfe08cc.html\">“Big Steppin’” dance moves\u003c/a> with Stunnaman02’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWBj_VCRiA\">49ers Remix\u003c/a>, a viral song that’s had rival opponents like Joe Mixon hitting the San Francisco-born dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>26. Take in a view of the San Francisco Bay at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/candlestickpointsra/\">Candlestick Point State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, the former site of the 49ers stadium in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>27. Watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FzN6eolIIc\">\u003cem>The Ritual Killer\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a low-budget crime thriller that has Morgan Freeman and former Niners tight end Vernon Davis — and a 9% score on Rotten Tomatoes.\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/7FzN6eolIIc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7FzN6eolIIc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>28. Stop by \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/alexs-49er-inn-san-jose-2\">Alex’s 49er Inn\u003c/a>, a San Jose dive bar that shares a name with the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>29. Read about the Alabama-based apparel company that popularized those \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Chalk-Line-made-millions-selling-49ers-jacket-16806338.php\">gold satin 49ers jackets\u003c/a> in the ’80s — and then disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>30. Tune into \u003ca href=\"https://www.hssv.org/puppybowl/\">the Puppy Bowl\u003c/a> before the Super Bowl and support the Humane Society of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>31. Pick up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/coldwater.sj/?hl=en\">Sourdough Sam T-shirt\u003c/a> from Silicon Valley’s Coldwater, owned by three brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>32. Count the number of ads running now ’til the Super Bowl that feature All-Pro tight end George Kittle — including this semi-nude \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/0LYwLBg13LI?feature=shared\">commercial for men’s swimwear\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0LYwLBg13LI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0LYwLBg13LI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>33. Enjoy the lunacy of former head coach \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-acD_VGqcBg\">Jim Harbaugh in a tussle against opposing head coach Jim Schwartz\u003c/a> in Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>34. Drive by the Illuminaries’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/49ers-commission-faithful-mural-by-illuminaries\">“Faithful to the Bay” mural\u003c/a> commissioned by the 49ers in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>35. Research the \u003ca href=\"https://historicoregoncity.org/2019/04/02/gold-the-49ers-and-other-travelers/#:~:text=Along%20the%20way%2C%20they%20followed,old%20as%20the%20Oregon%20Trail.\">Trail of the Forty Niners\u003c/a>, a literal trail forged across the United States by gold-seekers in 1849.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>36. Celebrate with a pint of chicken and waffles ice cream made by \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RL11jGdDD8\">longtime 49ers fan and ambassador E-40\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>37. Brandon Lloyd used to play for San Francisco — watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAgbqeNOvsw\">the former wide receiver’s submission to MTV2’s Sucker Freestyles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qAgbqeNOvsw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qAgbqeNOvsw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>38. You can never watch enough of \u003ca href=\"https://www.49ers.com/news/nfl-tight-end-rap-music-video-kittle-kelce-mccaffrey-dwelley-woerner-juszczyk\">George Kittle and his on-field antics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>39. San Francisco-raised coach and Hall of Famer \u003ca href=\"https://www.49ers.com/video/george-seifert-reflects-on-super-bowl-titles-13159764\">George Siefert was involved in every 49ers Super Bowl victory\u003c/a>; listen to him talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>40. Look at photos of former 49ers safety \u003ca href=\"https://fanbuzz.com/nfl/ronnie-lott-pinky/\">Ronnie Lott’s amputated finger\u003c/a> after he broke his pinky finger mid-game against the Dallas Cowboys and elected to remove it rather than wait for the bone to heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>41. Remember when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GvNc24yQZA\">Dirty Harry (played by Clint Eastwood) shot a man on a football field in San Francisco\u003c/a>? 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It was just Tom Waits’ birthday; \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/195963-we-are-buried-beneath-the-weight-of-information-which-is\">let’s let him weigh in\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s to you all, individually and collectively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AMZmWqgRM\">love and happiness\u003c/a> in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde woman with a microphone is on stage performing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-768x544.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-2048x1452.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1920x1361.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Swift performs onstage during The Eras Tour at Levi’s Stadium on July 28, 2023 in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Jeff Kravitz/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Return of the Monoculture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Twelve years after Touré’s defining treatise “\u003ca href=\"https://www.salon.com/2011/09/29/how_niches_killed_culture/\">Why I Miss the Monoculture\u003c/a>,” the monoculture is back, for better or for worse. 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In other words, if you needed common ground to talk about with coworkers, you had plenty to pick from this year.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894605\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immersive van Gogh at SVN West, San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Cheshire Isaacs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The End of Immersive ‘Art Experiences’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let me tell you one thing I didn’t miss this year: being immersed in a so-called art experience. 2022 was full of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894558/immersive-van-gogh-review-san-francisco\">Immersive van Gogh\u003c/a> spawn (a frankly offensive Frida Kahlo, a fine-by-comparison \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909273/review-imagine-picasso-immersive-san-francisco\">Picasso thing\u003c/a> at the Armory). Those events, in turn, were the immaterial outcome of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13804930/no-filter-necessary-in-sfs-instagram-ready-color-factory\">Color Factory\u003c/a>, the Museum of Ice Cream and (my personal least favorite) the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861247/the-90s-experience-instagram\">90’s Experience\u003c/a>. Strangely, we’ve now come full circle: the immersive photo-op has phase-shifted back into physical artwork and taken up residence at our largest museum, courtesy of SFMOMA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935810/yayoi-kusama-sfmoma-infinite-love-review\">Yayoi Kusama exhibition\u003c/a>, which literally costs $10 a minute. If museums learned one thing from all the immersive offshoots over the years, it’s that people will pay top dollar for a limited amount of time in an audio-visual experience utterly stripped of context.\u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 848px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401.jpg 848w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If San Francisco’s new marketing campaign slogan sounds familiar, well… (seen here: a sign in Las Vegas.) \u003ccite>(Darren Asay/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco Spending Millions Trying to Rebrand Itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine you live elsewhere, and your understanding of San Francisco is essentially Fox News footage of people pillaging Walgreens. But wait! You encounter a bus ad: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/san-francisco-ad-campaign.html\">It All Starts Here\u003c/a>.” Are you overcome with desire to travel to SF? How about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RkuigBlSLg\">Always San Francisco\u003c/a>,” does that do anything for you? This is, as far as I can tell, the scenario on which city leaders and a handful of tech billionaires wagered a combined $10 million in 2023, attempting to reverse reputational damage caused by a dearth of affordable housing, an absurd cost of living and a devastating fentanyl crisis \u003cem>with marketing\u003c/em>. Does this feel a little like the captain of the Titanic launching a social media rebrand mid-collision? Sure! Do nuanced discussions of public health, inequality and long-term investments in the arts make for snappy copy in politicians’ campaign materials? Not really! But hey, maybe we just haven’t come up with the right slogan yet. In the meantime, we have this new “\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/04/san-francisco-anthem-premiere-johns-grill/\">San Francisco theme song\u003c/a>,” about which I will say: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931922/tony-bennett-san-francisco-remembrance\">We miss you, Tony Bennett\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—Emma Silvers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop.jpg\" alt=\"A hand reaches to pick up an icy pink beverage. There's also a iced chocolate drink and a plate of corn roti on the table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dek Doi Cafe’s Thai-style “pink milk” and street food style sweet roti.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Bay Area’s (Mom-and-Pop) Restaurant Scene Isn’t Dead Yet\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These days, keeping a restaurant afloat in the Bay Area seems like an impossible task — an unwinnable battle against \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/oakland-restaurants-crime-closure-18373900.php\">thieves\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz2mhcvLNwW/\">vandals\u003c/a> and an overall “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/cafe-international-lower-haight-18339072.php\">sea of lawlessness\u003c/a>.” Or so goes the prevailing narrative, anyway. A few Oakland restaurateurs even declared a (\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/27/strike-oakland-business-closure-protest/\">largely overblown, hour-long\u003c/a>) “strike” in protest. And it’s true that crime (and, nearly as bad, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933006/hina-yakitori-closing-grilled-chicken-omakase-san-francisco\">the \u003cem>perception\u003c/em> of crime\u003c/a>) is a real concern. This isn’t an economy that leaves much margin for error, and the sheer economics of the Bay have snuffed out a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bonappetit.com/story/sf-bay-area-dining-problem-opinion\">innovation at the highest end\u003c/a>. Still, anyone lamenting the death of Bay Area food hasn’t been eating out at the same places we have — not when 2023 has gifted us with S-tier \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936332/tchaka-haitian-restaurant-oakland\">Haitian comfort food\u003c/a>, idiosyncratic little Thai cafes serving dessert rotis and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925310/dek-doi-cafe-pink-milk-thai-bl-oakland\">gay pink milk\u003c/a>,” and joyously off-kilter \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/egglicious-india-san-jose-18193681.php\">Indian egg restaurants\u003c/a>. Now as always, when it comes to niche, street-level mom-and-pops, the Bay remains undefeated.\u003cem>—Luke Tsai\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939096\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The A’s Resent You\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Well, the A’s \u003cem>owners\u003c/em> do, at least. That much was confirmed in 2023, during which, instead of my usual seven or eight games at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1179463946631184384\">the greatest ballpark in America\u003c/a>, I could only bring myself to go to one. Finally, after years of neglect, the A’s owner — I’d say his name, but it’d have to be accompanied by the foulest string of obscenities imaginable — acquired approval from Major League Baseball to move the whole sad, desiccated team southward to sad, desiccated Las Vegas. Sure, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\">another baseball team coming to town\u003c/a>. But 2023 was the year of the “SELL” T-shirt, and the broken hearts of longtime fans.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands holding a sign with a building in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937172\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soha Leach, 42, poses in front of a marching crowd at the ‘Stop the Genocide in Gaza’ rally at the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 28. \u003ccite>(Olivia Cruz Mayeda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Pro-Palestinian Uprising Larger Than Ever\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year saw the largest, most cohesive wave of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937170/the-art-of-protest-in-san-francisco-5-messages-from-the-gaza-rally\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> ever. In the Bay Area, Richmond became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/richmond-city-council-passes-resolution-showing-solidarity-with-gaza/\">first American city\u003c/a> to pass a ceasefire resolution, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968400/oakland-city-council-set-to-vote-on-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">followed by Oakland\u003c/a>. Bay Area artists, in particular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938450/400-bay-area-artists-palestine-bds-pacbi-letter\">rallied in protest\u003c/a> of Israel’s most recent siege of Gaza, which has so far killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-passes-15000-palestinian-official-says?nid=322376&topic=Israel-Palestine%2520war&fid=491046\">more than 15,000\u003c/a> Palestinians. Artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937219/bay-area-artists-palestinian-childrens-relief-fund-continental-club\">raised upwards of $13,000\u003c/a> for Palestinian children at a November fundraiser in Oakland, matched in the restaurant scene with support for and by Palestinian \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/israel-hamas-war-giving-back-to-gaza-fundraiser-san-jose-business-el-halal-amigos/13968097/\">businesses and eateries\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area. Even local surfers got involved, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937866/local-surfers-screening-gaza-surf-club\">screening\u003c/a> the documentary \u003cem>Gaza Surf Club\u003c/em> to call upon their community to advocate for a ceasefire. With their dollars, poetry, policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938619/porch-party-oakland-pop-up-art-activism-community\">food\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938450/400-bay-area-artists-palestine-bds-pacbi-letter\">organized boycotts\u003c/a>, Bay Area folks are showing up for Palestinians now more than ever.\u003cem>—Olivia Mayeda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg\" alt=\"Signage at Bandcamp's new Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"751\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13848951\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-768x524.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-1020x696.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signage at Bandcamp’s Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019. The downtown Oakland performance space and record showroom closed in 2023 shortly after Bandcamp’s sale to Songtradr. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Music Industry Making it Harder to Be an Artist — and Fan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, we convinced ourselves that paying Ticketmaster hundreds of dollars in fees would be a fair exchange for experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934154/beyonce-review-levis-stadium-2023-renaissance-world-tour\">Beyoncé tour\u003c/a>. But throughout the year, the ubiquitous ticketing company drove up prices for large and small concerts alike with those exorbitant add-on fees, all while its parent company, Live Nation, pocketed record profits. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935406/fillmore-live-nation-on-road-again-touring-artists\">independent touring musicians\u003c/a> continued to lose money amidst post-pandemic gas prices and inflation. Songtradr bought Bandcamp and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936509/idiotic-and-cruel-musicians-slam-layoffs-at-bandcamp\">laid off staff\u003c/a> including the entire union bargaining committee, prompting a labor complaint, and Spotify announced that it will stop paying royalties on songs with under 1,000 streams. The music industry is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893314/how-musicians-are-navigating-streaming-algorithms-ai-and-automation\">increasingly stacked against up-and-coming musicians\u003c/a>, which is why it’s all the more important to be intentional about supporting our local artists.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Rubber gloved hand sprinkles chopped cilantro onto an oversized pupusa topped the meat.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938220\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irma Morales sprinkles cilantro on a Birria Pupusa Pizza in the kitchen at Pupuseria Las Cabańas in Hayward, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Watch Me Eat This Pupusa The Size of Your Head and sMasH tHaT LiKe bUtToN!!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anyone chronically on TikTok and Instagram has probably already noticed this year’s biggest food trend: the proliferation of local, raucous, personality-driven food influencers. From the humorous caricatures of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thesnacksensei/?hl=en\">The Snack Sensei\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bayareafoodz/\">BayAreaFoodz\u003c/a> to the health-focused feed of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915889/berkeley-vegan-food-festival-bizerkeley-vegan\">Bizerkeley Vegan\u003c/a> and lavish outings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/allie.eats/?hl=en\">Allie Eats\u003c/a> (nearly half a million followers combined between the four accounts), there’s more bombastic food-related content than ever from the Bay Area. Viral videos of an oversized pupusa or a pan dulce big enough to use as a literal pillow has fueled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936325/social-media-biggest-pupusas-burritos-instagram-tiktok-latinextravagant-bay-area\">new wave of extravagant restaurateurs\u003c/a> catering to the frenzy by super-sizing, quadruple-dipping and gold-flaking everything under the sun — often collabing with foodie accounts to build hype. And all of our internet-marinated brains seem to be eating it up.\u003cem>—Alan Chazaro\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1630px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM.png\" alt='A blue sky background with a large Barbie logo in the center and a United airplane. Text around it reads: \"This Barbie is a dream. Now flying.\"' width=\"1630\" height=\"1196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM.png 1630w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-768x564.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-1536x1127.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1630px) 100vw, 1630px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Barbie isn’t a Barbie. Now, knock it off, United. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @united)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Barbie Burnout\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At first it was like, yay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933011/its-billiongirlsummer-taylor-beyonce-and-barbie-made-for-one-epic-trifecta\">girly pop culture moment\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931981/greta-gerwig-box-office-record-female-directors\">female director from Sacramento making hella bank\u003c/a>, but then it was like, why is every commercial this very specific shade of pink and why are all the makeup stores pink, and the clothing stores, and the shoe stores, and why is that Burger King burger pink, and why is my Google search pink, and is it okay that everyone’s making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931677/barbenheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-box-office-greta-gerwig-christopher-nolan\">memes that combine Barbie and the actual atomic bomb\u003c/a>, and what the hell is an Ice Spice Munchkin, and isn’t it a bit weird that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931533/taylor-swift-irs-fbi-woke-gen-z-how-do-you-do-fellow-kidshttps://www.kqed.org/arts/13931533/taylor-swift-irs-fbi-woke-gen-z-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids\">the TSA used Barbie in a knives warning\u003c/a>, and isn’t the end of the movie where Barbie goes to the gynecologist actually lazy and reductive, and wouldn’t it have been better if she was in the Mattel CEO chair instead because women aren’t allowed that very often, and actually, just forget it, because even though \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931753/allan-doll-michael-cera-greta-gerwig-barbie-movie-review\">Allan is the literal greatest\u003c/a>, I want nothing to do with any of this now.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 928px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM.png 928w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-800x236.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-160x47.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-768x227.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks, Elon. \u003ccite>(X)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Billionaires Ruining the Internet’s Usefulness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While TikTok continues to drive culture and dominate discourse among young people, adults like Elon Musk (“adults,” ha) couldn’t figure out what to do with their social media platforms if it walked up and hit them with a Cybertruck. Meta did what it always does and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931259/threads-meta-thanks-i-hate-it\">copied an existing platform\u003c/a> with Threads. BlueSky didn’t fully catch on, Mastodon is a distant memory, and BeReal kinda withered and died. And, in the midst of it all, Google Search became \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/16yxzg0/google_is_no_longer_a_search_engine/\">more useless than ever\u003c/a>, prompting users seeking information to be fed pages of ads, or worse, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032639402037610\">AI-generated garbage\u003c/a>. (This is where I repeat my catchphrase: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=subscribe%20to%20a%20newspaper%20from%3Agmeline&src=typed_query&f=top\">subscribe to a newspaper\u003c/a>.)\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1455560954-scaled-e1673477731985.jpg\" alt=\"A stack of books featuring Prince Harry's face in close up, sit in a neat pile.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923614\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ is offered for sale at a Barnes & Noble store on Jan. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Flood of Celebrity Memoirs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The secret to publishing a NYT-bestselling blockbuster this year seemed to lie in aristocracy. Celebrity memoirs have never gone out of style, but the monumental success of Prince Harry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13923613/dish-from-prince-harry-one-of-their-own-could-fuel-royal-change\">\u003cem>Spare\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and pop music royalty Britney Spears’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936729/britney-spears-book-autobiography-the-woman-in-me-gallery-books\">\u003cem>The Woman in Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which sold over 1.6 million and 1.1 million copies in the U.S. alone in their first weeks, shifted the spotlight back on the genre in 2023. For those of us seeking even more juicy, reflective stories from our aspirational tax bracket, memoirs from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937730/barbra-streisands-memoir-review-my-name-is-barbra\">Barbra Streisand\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936614/dolly-parton-book-review-behind-the-seams-my-life-in-rhinestones\">Dolly Parton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930083/elliot-page-shares-struggles-and-former-selves-in-engaging-new-memoir\">Elliot Page\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151356491/pamela-anderson-book-memoir\">Pamela Anderson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206140650/jada-pinkett-will-smith-tupac-worthy\">Jada Pinkett Smith\u003c/a> did not disappoint. Pro tip: These memoirs make great stocking stuffers for the pop culture fanatics in your life.\u003cem>—Ugur Dursun\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 848px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968.jpg 848w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pants! \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Great Pants Awakening\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I went to high school in the late aughts, when we all traded low-rise flares for skinny jeans, so I’ve been studying the latest Great Pants Awakening like an anthropologist, gathering data on BART and TikTok, and surveying friends and family members of all ages. Some millennials dared to break up with our beloved tapered legs and waist-cinching highrise trousers, while others clung on to their favorite cuts for dear life. Meanwhile, new pants styles challenged all generations to reconsider their notions of beauty, gender and even propriety. Unisex cargo pants paired with a baggy hoodie to hide the body; thong-revealing ultra-low-rise with nipple-baring mesh on top. It’s all fair game, and both looks can be seen on the same person in a given week. 2023 was all about poly-pantism: the way of the future.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1852px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1852\" height=\"1384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939094\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin.jpg 1852w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-1536x1148.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1852px) 100vw, 1852px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Albany Twin theater pictured on June 16, 2023, the day after its final movie screening. The theater had served Albany’s moviegoing public for 88 years. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Too Many Movie Theaters Biting the Dust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite some hopeful reopenings such as San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924146/4-star-theater-talk-movies-richmond-history-woody-labounty\">4-Star Theater\u003c/a>, the Bay Area’s movie theaters continue to roll credits and close down for good. The Albany Twin, the Century Theater in San Francisco’s Westfield Mall, the CGV (formerly the AMC) on Van Ness, the Rohnert Park Reading cinema and others all shuttered. “But we can watch movies at home now,” you might say! Joke’s on you, bub: fees for streaming subscriptions \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/streaming-service-price-increase-1235784311/\">got significantly more expensive\u003c/a>. After three years of other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892596/historic-west-portal-theater-closes-permanently-due-to-pandemic\">tough-to-swallow theater closures\u003c/a>, and tumult for fans of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">movies at the Castro\u003c/a>, we’re happy for even the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/s-f-real-estate-office-movie-theater-18431003.php\">smallest bit of good news\u003c/a> for local theaters.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The studio of San Francisco sign painter and pinstriper Lauren D’Amato at Headlands Center for the Arts, Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lots of Love for Sign Painting (and Signs in General) \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With a healthy local sign painting scene, it’s no surprise we saw a lot of this work in gallery spaces this year — and a greater appreciation for the artistry of signs, period. Lauren D’Amato’s \u003ca href=\"https://houseofseiko.info/complete_machine\">solo at House of Seiko\u003c/a> borrowed from real-life Bayview signs, and she later received the Headlands’ Tournesol Award for an emerging Bay Area painter. The \u003ca href=\"https://web-production-7d4c4.up.railway.app/pieces/pieces/pieces/shows/2/\">inaugural show at Berkeley’s 127010\u003c/a>, curated by Oliver Hawk Holden, focused on artists merging commercial craft and fine art (a gold leaf and enamel piece by sign painter Michelle “Meng” Nguyen was a standout). And Pacific Saw Works, a new artist-run space in Oakland, christened their walls with a show of sign painters called, simply, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificsawworks.com/exhibitions\">\u003ci>Signs\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. I also need to mention the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/tenderloin-neon-sign-district-wins-approval/article_cf388ae8-3939-11ed-94c7-3376ecdea09c.html\">legislation\u003c/a> that passed late last year to make it easier to repair old neon signs (which often include painted elements) and install new ones in the Tenderloin. This year, we saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz7G72syuX0/?img_index=1\">the electric results\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1017px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1017\" height=\"652\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1.jpg 1017w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jackson about to win 12 Grammys for ‘Thriller’ at the 1984 awards. At his side is his date Brooke Shields. At the time, says Mary J. Blige in a new documentary, Jackson was considered ‘super-duper-duper sexy.’ \u003ccite>(Ron Galella/ Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>TV Going Peak ’80s and ’90s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My childhood was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97337/the-other-f-word-how-homophobic-language-has-ruined-80s-teen-movies\">the 1980s\u003c/a>, my teen years coincided with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915084/chloe-sherman-renegade-san-francisco-1990s-schlomer-haus\">the ’90s\u003c/a>, and goddamnit, the streaming platforms \u003cem>really\u003c/em> played into my rapidly aging hands this year. In 2023, I finally got to rewatch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936463/moonlighting-hulu-cybill-shepherd-bruce-willis-1980s-comedy\">\u003cem>Moonlighting\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (the endearingly preposterous detective show that launched Bruce Willis’ career) and unabashedly immerse myself in \u003cem>L.A. Law\u003c/em> at an age where I could actually understand it. But nowhere has ’80s and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/14084/90s-nostalgia-a-look-at-how-our-lives-do-and-dont-matter\">’90s nostalgia\u003c/a> shown up harder than in celebrity documentaries. Watching retrospectives about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938155\">\u003cem>Thriller\u003c/em>-era Michael Jackson\u003c/a>, Michael J. Fox, Wham!, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924520/pamela-anderson-captivatingly-tells-her-own-story-in-new-netflix-documentary\">Pamela Anderson\u003c/a>, Anna Nicole Smith, the Gladiators, Robbie Williams, David Beckham and, yes, even Apple TV+’s far too rose-tinted profile of \u003cem>The Super Models\u003c/em> was like seeing my first 20 years of life flash before my eyes. My middle-aged ass is clearly being pandered to — and I absolutely love it.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Welcome to our list of Bay Area arts and culture trends in 2023. Notably, it was a year that few are describing as “the worst year ever,” as many year-end listmakers were understandably wont to do for a while. We also suppose this list could have included things like AI, driverless cars, robot deliveries and the metaverse. It was just Tom Waits’ birthday; \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/195963-we-are-buried-beneath-the-weight-of-information-which-is\">let’s let him weigh in\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s to you all, individually and collectively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AMZmWqgRM\">love and happiness\u003c/a> in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde woman with a microphone is on stage performing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-768x544.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-2048x1452.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1920x1361.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Swift performs onstage during The Eras Tour at Levi’s Stadium on July 28, 2023 in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Jeff Kravitz/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Return of the Monoculture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Twelve years after Touré’s defining treatise “\u003ca href=\"https://www.salon.com/2011/09/29/how_niches_killed_culture/\">Why I Miss the Monoculture\u003c/a>,” the monoculture is back, for better or for worse. Taylor Swift alone absolutely dominated the \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-top-album-sales-chart-1235464968/\">recording\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.normantranscript.com/community/taylor-swift-is-spotify-s-most-streamed-artist-of-2023-ending-bad-bunnys-3-year/article_daecf7f8-8fa4-11ee-8337-5f9be5f11a35.html\">streaming\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-eras-tour-top-grossing-global-tour/\">touring\u003c/a> industry, while captivating the \u003ca href=\"https://ew.com/movies/taylor-swift-eras-tour-concert-film-tops-box-office-breaks-global-record/\">box office\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937413/uc-berkeleys-taylor-swift-business-class-set-for-2024\">UC system\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/\">\u003cem>TIME\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931892/dear-city-leaders-stop-with-the-taylor-swift-pandering-already\">our nation’s elected officials\u003c/a> — and Beyoncé was \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/music/news/beyonce-record-most-grammy-wins-all-time-1235513412/\">not far behind\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> took the nation’s multiplexes \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/summer-box-office-hits-4-billion-barbie-oppenheimer-1235712314/\">by storm\u003c/a>, and superhero franchises like \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Spider-Man\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Ant-Man\u003c/em> filled out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2023/\">Top 10 box office list\u003c/a>. In other words, if you needed common ground to talk about with coworkers, you had plenty to pick from this year.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894605\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immersive van Gogh at SVN West, San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Cheshire Isaacs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The End of Immersive ‘Art Experiences’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let me tell you one thing I didn’t miss this year: being immersed in a so-called art experience. 2022 was full of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894558/immersive-van-gogh-review-san-francisco\">Immersive van Gogh\u003c/a> spawn (a frankly offensive Frida Kahlo, a fine-by-comparison \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909273/review-imagine-picasso-immersive-san-francisco\">Picasso thing\u003c/a> at the Armory). Those events, in turn, were the immaterial outcome of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13804930/no-filter-necessary-in-sfs-instagram-ready-color-factory\">Color Factory\u003c/a>, the Museum of Ice Cream and (my personal least favorite) the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861247/the-90s-experience-instagram\">90’s Experience\u003c/a>. Strangely, we’ve now come full circle: the immersive photo-op has phase-shifted back into physical artwork and taken up residence at our largest museum, courtesy of SFMOMA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935810/yayoi-kusama-sfmoma-infinite-love-review\">Yayoi Kusama exhibition\u003c/a>, which literally costs $10 a minute. If museums learned one thing from all the immersive offshoots over the years, it’s that people will pay top dollar for a limited amount of time in an audio-visual experience utterly stripped of context.\u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 848px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401.jpg 848w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If San Francisco’s new marketing campaign slogan sounds familiar, well… (seen here: a sign in Las Vegas.) \u003ccite>(Darren Asay/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco Spending Millions Trying to Rebrand Itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine you live elsewhere, and your understanding of San Francisco is essentially Fox News footage of people pillaging Walgreens. But wait! You encounter a bus ad: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/san-francisco-ad-campaign.html\">It All Starts Here\u003c/a>.” Are you overcome with desire to travel to SF? How about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RkuigBlSLg\">Always San Francisco\u003c/a>,” does that do anything for you? This is, as far as I can tell, the scenario on which city leaders and a handful of tech billionaires wagered a combined $10 million in 2023, attempting to reverse reputational damage caused by a dearth of affordable housing, an absurd cost of living and a devastating fentanyl crisis \u003cem>with marketing\u003c/em>. Does this feel a little like the captain of the Titanic launching a social media rebrand mid-collision? Sure! Do nuanced discussions of public health, inequality and long-term investments in the arts make for snappy copy in politicians’ campaign materials? Not really! But hey, maybe we just haven’t come up with the right slogan yet. In the meantime, we have this new “\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/04/san-francisco-anthem-premiere-johns-grill/\">San Francisco theme song\u003c/a>,” about which I will say: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931922/tony-bennett-san-francisco-remembrance\">We miss you, Tony Bennett\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—Emma Silvers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop.jpg\" alt=\"A hand reaches to pick up an icy pink beverage. There's also a iced chocolate drink and a plate of corn roti on the table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dek Doi Cafe’s Thai-style “pink milk” and street food style sweet roti.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Bay Area’s (Mom-and-Pop) Restaurant Scene Isn’t Dead Yet\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These days, keeping a restaurant afloat in the Bay Area seems like an impossible task — an unwinnable battle against \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/oakland-restaurants-crime-closure-18373900.php\">thieves\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz2mhcvLNwW/\">vandals\u003c/a> and an overall “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/cafe-international-lower-haight-18339072.php\">sea of lawlessness\u003c/a>.” Or so goes the prevailing narrative, anyway. A few Oakland restaurateurs even declared a (\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/27/strike-oakland-business-closure-protest/\">largely overblown, hour-long\u003c/a>) “strike” in protest. And it’s true that crime (and, nearly as bad, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933006/hina-yakitori-closing-grilled-chicken-omakase-san-francisco\">the \u003cem>perception\u003c/em> of crime\u003c/a>) is a real concern. This isn’t an economy that leaves much margin for error, and the sheer economics of the Bay have snuffed out a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bonappetit.com/story/sf-bay-area-dining-problem-opinion\">innovation at the highest end\u003c/a>. Still, anyone lamenting the death of Bay Area food hasn’t been eating out at the same places we have — not when 2023 has gifted us with S-tier \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936332/tchaka-haitian-restaurant-oakland\">Haitian comfort food\u003c/a>, idiosyncratic little Thai cafes serving dessert rotis and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925310/dek-doi-cafe-pink-milk-thai-bl-oakland\">gay pink milk\u003c/a>,” and joyously off-kilter \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/egglicious-india-san-jose-18193681.php\">Indian egg restaurants\u003c/a>. Now as always, when it comes to niche, street-level mom-and-pops, the Bay remains undefeated.\u003cem>—Luke Tsai\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939096\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The A’s Resent You\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Well, the A’s \u003cem>owners\u003c/em> do, at least. That much was confirmed in 2023, during which, instead of my usual seven or eight games at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1179463946631184384\">the greatest ballpark in America\u003c/a>, I could only bring myself to go to one. Finally, after years of neglect, the A’s owner — I’d say his name, but it’d have to be accompanied by the foulest string of obscenities imaginable — acquired approval from Major League Baseball to move the whole sad, desiccated team southward to sad, desiccated Las Vegas. Sure, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\">another baseball team coming to town\u003c/a>. But 2023 was the year of the “SELL” T-shirt, and the broken hearts of longtime fans.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands holding a sign with a building in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937172\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soha Leach, 42, poses in front of a marching crowd at the ‘Stop the Genocide in Gaza’ rally at the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 28. \u003ccite>(Olivia Cruz Mayeda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Pro-Palestinian Uprising Larger Than Ever\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year saw the largest, most cohesive wave of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937170/the-art-of-protest-in-san-francisco-5-messages-from-the-gaza-rally\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> ever. In the Bay Area, Richmond became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/richmond-city-council-passes-resolution-showing-solidarity-with-gaza/\">first American city\u003c/a> to pass a ceasefire resolution, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968400/oakland-city-council-set-to-vote-on-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">followed by Oakland\u003c/a>. Bay Area artists, in particular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938450/400-bay-area-artists-palestine-bds-pacbi-letter\">rallied in protest\u003c/a> of Israel’s most recent siege of Gaza, which has so far killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-passes-15000-palestinian-official-says?nid=322376&topic=Israel-Palestine%2520war&fid=491046\">more than 15,000\u003c/a> Palestinians. Artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937219/bay-area-artists-palestinian-childrens-relief-fund-continental-club\">raised upwards of $13,000\u003c/a> for Palestinian children at a November fundraiser in Oakland, matched in the restaurant scene with support for and by Palestinian \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/israel-hamas-war-giving-back-to-gaza-fundraiser-san-jose-business-el-halal-amigos/13968097/\">businesses and eateries\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area. Even local surfers got involved, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937866/local-surfers-screening-gaza-surf-club\">screening\u003c/a> the documentary \u003cem>Gaza Surf Club\u003c/em> to call upon their community to advocate for a ceasefire. With their dollars, poetry, policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938619/porch-party-oakland-pop-up-art-activism-community\">food\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938450/400-bay-area-artists-palestine-bds-pacbi-letter\">organized boycotts\u003c/a>, Bay Area folks are showing up for Palestinians now more than ever.\u003cem>—Olivia Mayeda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg\" alt=\"Signage at Bandcamp's new Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"751\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13848951\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-768x524.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-1020x696.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signage at Bandcamp’s Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019. The downtown Oakland performance space and record showroom closed in 2023 shortly after Bandcamp’s sale to Songtradr. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Music Industry Making it Harder to Be an Artist — and Fan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, we convinced ourselves that paying Ticketmaster hundreds of dollars in fees would be a fair exchange for experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934154/beyonce-review-levis-stadium-2023-renaissance-world-tour\">Beyoncé tour\u003c/a>. But throughout the year, the ubiquitous ticketing company drove up prices for large and small concerts alike with those exorbitant add-on fees, all while its parent company, Live Nation, pocketed record profits. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935406/fillmore-live-nation-on-road-again-touring-artists\">independent touring musicians\u003c/a> continued to lose money amidst post-pandemic gas prices and inflation. Songtradr bought Bandcamp and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936509/idiotic-and-cruel-musicians-slam-layoffs-at-bandcamp\">laid off staff\u003c/a> including the entire union bargaining committee, prompting a labor complaint, and Spotify announced that it will stop paying royalties on songs with under 1,000 streams. The music industry is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893314/how-musicians-are-navigating-streaming-algorithms-ai-and-automation\">increasingly stacked against up-and-coming musicians\u003c/a>, which is why it’s all the more important to be intentional about supporting our local artists.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Rubber gloved hand sprinkles chopped cilantro onto an oversized pupusa topped the meat.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938220\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irma Morales sprinkles cilantro on a Birria Pupusa Pizza in the kitchen at Pupuseria Las Cabańas in Hayward, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Watch Me Eat This Pupusa The Size of Your Head and sMasH tHaT LiKe bUtToN!!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anyone chronically on TikTok and Instagram has probably already noticed this year’s biggest food trend: the proliferation of local, raucous, personality-driven food influencers. From the humorous caricatures of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thesnacksensei/?hl=en\">The Snack Sensei\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bayareafoodz/\">BayAreaFoodz\u003c/a> to the health-focused feed of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915889/berkeley-vegan-food-festival-bizerkeley-vegan\">Bizerkeley Vegan\u003c/a> and lavish outings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/allie.eats/?hl=en\">Allie Eats\u003c/a> (nearly half a million followers combined between the four accounts), there’s more bombastic food-related content than ever from the Bay Area. Viral videos of an oversized pupusa or a pan dulce big enough to use as a literal pillow has fueled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936325/social-media-biggest-pupusas-burritos-instagram-tiktok-latinextravagant-bay-area\">new wave of extravagant restaurateurs\u003c/a> catering to the frenzy by super-sizing, quadruple-dipping and gold-flaking everything under the sun — often collabing with foodie accounts to build hype. And all of our internet-marinated brains seem to be eating it up.\u003cem>—Alan Chazaro\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1630px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM.png\" alt='A blue sky background with a large Barbie logo in the center and a United airplane. Text around it reads: \"This Barbie is a dream. Now flying.\"' width=\"1630\" height=\"1196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM.png 1630w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-768x564.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-1536x1127.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1630px) 100vw, 1630px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Barbie isn’t a Barbie. Now, knock it off, United. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @united)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Barbie Burnout\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At first it was like, yay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933011/its-billiongirlsummer-taylor-beyonce-and-barbie-made-for-one-epic-trifecta\">girly pop culture moment\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931981/greta-gerwig-box-office-record-female-directors\">female director from Sacramento making hella bank\u003c/a>, but then it was like, why is every commercial this very specific shade of pink and why are all the makeup stores pink, and the clothing stores, and the shoe stores, and why is that Burger King burger pink, and why is my Google search pink, and is it okay that everyone’s making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931677/barbenheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-box-office-greta-gerwig-christopher-nolan\">memes that combine Barbie and the actual atomic bomb\u003c/a>, and what the hell is an Ice Spice Munchkin, and isn’t it a bit weird that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931533/taylor-swift-irs-fbi-woke-gen-z-how-do-you-do-fellow-kidshttps://www.kqed.org/arts/13931533/taylor-swift-irs-fbi-woke-gen-z-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids\">the TSA used Barbie in a knives warning\u003c/a>, and isn’t the end of the movie where Barbie goes to the gynecologist actually lazy and reductive, and wouldn’t it have been better if she was in the Mattel CEO chair instead because women aren’t allowed that very often, and actually, just forget it, because even though \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931753/allan-doll-michael-cera-greta-gerwig-barbie-movie-review\">Allan is the literal greatest\u003c/a>, I want nothing to do with any of this now.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 928px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM.png 928w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-800x236.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-160x47.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-768x227.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks, Elon. \u003ccite>(X)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Billionaires Ruining the Internet’s Usefulness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While TikTok continues to drive culture and dominate discourse among young people, adults like Elon Musk (“adults,” ha) couldn’t figure out what to do with their social media platforms if it walked up and hit them with a Cybertruck. Meta did what it always does and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931259/threads-meta-thanks-i-hate-it\">copied an existing platform\u003c/a> with Threads. BlueSky didn’t fully catch on, Mastodon is a distant memory, and BeReal kinda withered and died. And, in the midst of it all, Google Search became \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/16yxzg0/google_is_no_longer_a_search_engine/\">more useless than ever\u003c/a>, prompting users seeking information to be fed pages of ads, or worse, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032639402037610\">AI-generated garbage\u003c/a>. (This is where I repeat my catchphrase: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=subscribe%20to%20a%20newspaper%20from%3Agmeline&src=typed_query&f=top\">subscribe to a newspaper\u003c/a>.)\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1455560954-scaled-e1673477731985.jpg\" alt=\"A stack of books featuring Prince Harry's face in close up, sit in a neat pile.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923614\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ is offered for sale at a Barnes & Noble store on Jan. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Flood of Celebrity Memoirs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The secret to publishing a NYT-bestselling blockbuster this year seemed to lie in aristocracy. Celebrity memoirs have never gone out of style, but the monumental success of Prince Harry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13923613/dish-from-prince-harry-one-of-their-own-could-fuel-royal-change\">\u003cem>Spare\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and pop music royalty Britney Spears’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936729/britney-spears-book-autobiography-the-woman-in-me-gallery-books\">\u003cem>The Woman in Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which sold over 1.6 million and 1.1 million copies in the U.S. alone in their first weeks, shifted the spotlight back on the genre in 2023. For those of us seeking even more juicy, reflective stories from our aspirational tax bracket, memoirs from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937730/barbra-streisands-memoir-review-my-name-is-barbra\">Barbra Streisand\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936614/dolly-parton-book-review-behind-the-seams-my-life-in-rhinestones\">Dolly Parton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930083/elliot-page-shares-struggles-and-former-selves-in-engaging-new-memoir\">Elliot Page\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151356491/pamela-anderson-book-memoir\">Pamela Anderson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206140650/jada-pinkett-will-smith-tupac-worthy\">Jada Pinkett Smith\u003c/a> did not disappoint. Pro tip: These memoirs make great stocking stuffers for the pop culture fanatics in your life.\u003cem>—Ugur Dursun\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 848px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968.jpg 848w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pants! \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Great Pants Awakening\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I went to high school in the late aughts, when we all traded low-rise flares for skinny jeans, so I’ve been studying the latest Great Pants Awakening like an anthropologist, gathering data on BART and TikTok, and surveying friends and family members of all ages. Some millennials dared to break up with our beloved tapered legs and waist-cinching highrise trousers, while others clung on to their favorite cuts for dear life. Meanwhile, new pants styles challenged all generations to reconsider their notions of beauty, gender and even propriety. Unisex cargo pants paired with a baggy hoodie to hide the body; thong-revealing ultra-low-rise with nipple-baring mesh on top. It’s all fair game, and both looks can be seen on the same person in a given week. 2023 was all about poly-pantism: the way of the future.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1852px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1852\" height=\"1384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939094\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin.jpg 1852w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-1536x1148.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1852px) 100vw, 1852px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Albany Twin theater pictured on June 16, 2023, the day after its final movie screening. The theater had served Albany’s moviegoing public for 88 years. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Too Many Movie Theaters Biting the Dust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite some hopeful reopenings such as San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924146/4-star-theater-talk-movies-richmond-history-woody-labounty\">4-Star Theater\u003c/a>, the Bay Area’s movie theaters continue to roll credits and close down for good. The Albany Twin, the Century Theater in San Francisco’s Westfield Mall, the CGV (formerly the AMC) on Van Ness, the Rohnert Park Reading cinema and others all shuttered. “But we can watch movies at home now,” you might say! Joke’s on you, bub: fees for streaming subscriptions \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/streaming-service-price-increase-1235784311/\">got significantly more expensive\u003c/a>. After three years of other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892596/historic-west-portal-theater-closes-permanently-due-to-pandemic\">tough-to-swallow theater closures\u003c/a>, and tumult for fans of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">movies at the Castro\u003c/a>, we’re happy for even the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/s-f-real-estate-office-movie-theater-18431003.php\">smallest bit of good news\u003c/a> for local theaters.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The studio of San Francisco sign painter and pinstriper Lauren D’Amato at Headlands Center for the Arts, Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lots of Love for Sign Painting (and Signs in General) \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With a healthy local sign painting scene, it’s no surprise we saw a lot of this work in gallery spaces this year — and a greater appreciation for the artistry of signs, period. Lauren D’Amato’s \u003ca href=\"https://houseofseiko.info/complete_machine\">solo at House of Seiko\u003c/a> borrowed from real-life Bayview signs, and she later received the Headlands’ Tournesol Award for an emerging Bay Area painter. The \u003ca href=\"https://web-production-7d4c4.up.railway.app/pieces/pieces/pieces/shows/2/\">inaugural show at Berkeley’s 127010\u003c/a>, curated by Oliver Hawk Holden, focused on artists merging commercial craft and fine art (a gold leaf and enamel piece by sign painter Michelle “Meng” Nguyen was a standout). And Pacific Saw Works, a new artist-run space in Oakland, christened their walls with a show of sign painters called, simply, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificsawworks.com/exhibitions\">\u003ci>Signs\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. I also need to mention the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/tenderloin-neon-sign-district-wins-approval/article_cf388ae8-3939-11ed-94c7-3376ecdea09c.html\">legislation\u003c/a> that passed late last year to make it easier to repair old neon signs (which often include painted elements) and install new ones in the Tenderloin. This year, we saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz7G72syuX0/?img_index=1\">the electric results\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1017px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1017\" height=\"652\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1.jpg 1017w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jackson about to win 12 Grammys for ‘Thriller’ at the 1984 awards. At his side is his date Brooke Shields. At the time, says Mary J. Blige in a new documentary, Jackson was considered ‘super-duper-duper sexy.’ \u003ccite>(Ron Galella/ Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>TV Going Peak ’80s and ’90s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My childhood was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97337/the-other-f-word-how-homophobic-language-has-ruined-80s-teen-movies\">the 1980s\u003c/a>, my teen years coincided with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915084/chloe-sherman-renegade-san-francisco-1990s-schlomer-haus\">the ’90s\u003c/a>, and goddamnit, the streaming platforms \u003cem>really\u003c/em> played into my rapidly aging hands this year. In 2023, I finally got to rewatch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936463/moonlighting-hulu-cybill-shepherd-bruce-willis-1980s-comedy\">\u003cem>Moonlighting\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (the endearingly preposterous detective show that launched Bruce Willis’ career) and unabashedly immerse myself in \u003cem>L.A. Law\u003c/em> at an age where I could actually understand it. But nowhere has ’80s and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/14084/90s-nostalgia-a-look-at-how-our-lives-do-and-dont-matter\">’90s nostalgia\u003c/a> shown up harder than in celebrity documentaries. Watching retrospectives about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938155\">\u003cem>Thriller\u003c/em>-era Michael Jackson\u003c/a>, Michael J. Fox, Wham!, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924520/pamela-anderson-captivatingly-tells-her-own-story-in-new-netflix-documentary\">Pamela Anderson\u003c/a>, Anna Nicole Smith, the Gladiators, Robbie Williams, David Beckham and, yes, even Apple TV+’s far too rose-tinted profile of \u003cem>The Super Models\u003c/em> was like seeing my first 20 years of life flash before my eyes. My middle-aged ass is clearly being pandered to — and I absolutely love it.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In \u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em>, there are two feats of perseverance on display. First, there is the ceaseless determination of Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) to accomplish a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida across 103 miles of open, shark-infested waters. Then there is the mettle of Nyad’s support team to tolerate the singularly self-absorbed and stubborn Nyad. Both, in the film, are an endurance sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em>, which opens in limited theaters Friday and streams Nov. 3 on Netflix, is in many ways a conventional sports drama, defined by long odds and personal triumph. But there is enough here to help the film, directed by the intrepid filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, if not swim against the tide of sports-biopic convention then at least ride a swift current to the finish line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13936628']First and foremost there’s the fact that this is a sports drama led by two actresses in their 60s: Bening and Jodie Foster, who plays Diana’s best friend and personal trainer Bonnie Stoll. When \u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em> gets underway, the setting isn’t the 1970s, when Nyad’s record swims made her a headline-grabbing sensation. It’s Diana’s 60th birthday, which for her only marks her long distance from a real challenge. “Where’s the excellence?” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana soon thereafter gets back in the pool, resolving to complete the Cuba-to-Florida swim, a route some moviegoers may associate more with the Go-Fast boats of Michael Mann’s \u003cem>Miami Vice\u003c/em> than athletic pursuit. For Diana, the 50-hour endeavor is a matter of completing a long-ago abandoned dream and a way to prove to herself (and everyone else) that age is no match for her will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3anCgVSQb3Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the rare role that could be said to be both shark and Oscar bait. Yet Bening’s performance has little vanity to it. Her Diana is obsessively single-minded to the point of unlikeable. When Diana hits the ocean, Bening turns into a ferociously forward-moving force who won’t let anything — not thunder storms, nor jelly fish stings — stop her in her quest. Just keep swimming? She’d leave Dory in the dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana also comes close to outswimming the people trying hardest to help her. Though the film is principally a showcase for Bening, it’s Foster’s supporting turn that lifts \u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em>. Foster is a rare screen presence these days, which only makes her warmth and ease all the more powerful here. \u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em> is balanced between Diana’s admirably insane ambition and Bonnie’s loyal (up to a point) support for her friend. In any case, it’s a reminder, like a pail of cold water, of just how good Foster can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13936363']Other supporting characters are along for the ride, too, most notably Rhys Ifans’ crusty sea-dog navigator John Bartlett. He’s a cliche but a darn likable one. Nyad has, herself, often been a brash and savvy self-promoter less likely to share the spotlight. It’s to the movie’s credit that it pushes back against its prickly protagonist at the same time it exalts her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em> does accept Nyad’s ultimate accomplishment, even if some have disputed it. Her 2013 swim to the Florida Keys was never ratified by the World Open Water Swimming Assn., and fellow marathon swimmers have cast doubts on it. Nyad has forcefully maintained she completed the swim, without assistance. At times, \u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em> bends over backwards to depict Nyad as conscientious of the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1544px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-11.32.55-AM.png\" alt=\"An athletic looking tanned woman wearing a scruffy grey t-shirt and holding a drink smiles at an older woman with very short blonde hair who is wearing a tracksuit.\" width=\"1544\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-11.32.55-AM.png 1544w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-11.32.55-AM-800x527.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-11.32.55-AM-1020x673.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-11.32.55-AM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-11.32.55-AM-768x506.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-11.32.55-AM-1536x1013.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1544px) 100vw, 1544px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie Foster and Annette Bening in a scene from ‘Nyad.’ \u003ccite>(Liz Parkinson/ Netflix via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vasarhelyi and Chin, in their narrative debut, mix in documentary footage throughout the film, smoothly transitioning from the non-fiction world they come from. They’re the filmmaking team behind documentary standouts like the Oscar-winning \u003cem>Free Solo\u003c/em> and the Thai cave chronicle \u003cem>The Rescue\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those films were excellent not just due to Vasarhelyi and Chin’s own filmmaking adventurousness but because of their firm grasp of the psychology of those who push themselves to physical extremes. \u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em> relies on flashbacks to Diana’s past — including an encounter with an unnamed swim coach Nyad said sexually assaulted her and others — to dig into what fuels her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like Alex Honnold of \u003cem>Free Solo\u003c/em> and the British cave divers of \u003cem>The Rescue\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Nyad\u003c/em> convincingly argues that to accomplish something great — to really dream big — you may need a dose of delusion, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" 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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Nyad’ opens in limited theaters on Oct. 20 and begins streaming on Netflix on Nov. 3.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editors Note\u003c/strong>: A version of this story originally appeared on The Bold Italic. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]U[/dropcap]nless you live under a Chase Center-sized rock, you’ve probably heard the news: the Bay Area is getting a WNBA expansion team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/4902855/2023/09/26/warriors-wnba-bay-area/\">initially reported by Marcus Thompson\u003c/a>, the franchise will be the WNBA’s first expansion effort since 2008, and Northern California’s only professional women’s basketball squad since the Sacramento Monarchs folded in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13927875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Acquired by Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob, the as-yet-unnamed Bay Area team will play in San Francisco and practice in Oakland. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/38574635/wnba-expansion-golden-state-warriors-everything-know\">ESPN’s extensive reporting\u003c/a>, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert believes the Bay Area’s unique social, economic and technological intersections make it an ideal location for the league’s growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the hoopla, this isn’t the first time women’s basketball has made waves in this region. In fact, the Bay has long been at the forefront — \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/12/purdy-joe-lacob-lost-10-million-on-his-first-basketball-investment-and-has-no-regrets/\">Lacob himself was involved with the San Jose Lasers of the ABA\u003c/a>, a short-lived women’s league that launched in the same year as the WNBA but quickly fizzled out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you want to go way back, you have to talk about Denise Long. In 1969, the Warriors — then known as the San Francisco Warriors — attempted to draft Long, a high school phenom from Iowa, to play alongside the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may have been more of a sociological experiment than anything else. And perhaps it failed. But it indirectly led to one of the country’s first opportunities for women’s basketball in 1970, and paved the path for a women’s team to finally play here in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 838px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_.jpg 838w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-768x1210.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Long appears in a public campaign for Muni shortly after arriving in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(SFMTA/Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Denise Long: The Longest Shot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the summer of ’69, the Milwaukee Bucks chose Lew Alcindor with the number one NBA draft pick. You may know Alcindor today as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Hall of Famer with six championships who’s widely considered to be on basketball’s Mount Rushmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, with the 175th pick in the 13th round, the Warriors chose a teenage player they felt could rewrite the rules of the game: Denise Long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like that, Long became the first-ever woman to be picked up by an NBA team. Standing just 5’11”, the supercharged player from Union-Whitten High School became a regional legend after singlehandedly eclipsing the 100-point mark \u003cem>three times\u003c/em> in her young career. Locally televised games attracted as many as 3.5 million viewers. She packed small-town arenas whenever she played. In her senior year she averaged a total of 69 points per game — more than Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan combined in any season they’ve played at any level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch highlights from Long’s 56-point performance in the 1968 Girls State Tournament Finals, in which the Union-Whitten Cobras overcame the Everly Lady Cattle Feeders with a 113–107 overtime victory:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-0zuP18tQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Warriors eccentric owner, Franklin Mieuli, decided to break every convention known to basketball by \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/06/17/nba-draft-how-iowa-basketball-star-denise-long-rife-made-history-golden-state-warriors-girls-6-on-6/1409879001/\">recruiting Long to play for his team\u003c/a> in the City by Bay. No one, Long included, expected it. In fact, the pick was so out of pocket that when Long was contacted about being drafted, she mistakenly thought she was being drafted by the military to serve in the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Almost no opportunities for women in basketball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When she suddenly found herself interviewed about potentially playing in the NBA by Johnny Carson, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>, she had to admit: She had never even heard of the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only two NBA [teams] I really ever remember hearing was the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers,” Long said in an interview, decades later, on the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL21vb25saWdodGdyYWhhbXNob3cubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/ZjhhOWIzMGMtNGU4MS00Zjk0LTg5NmEtYjZmNzQ4OTU0Mjdi?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiOlsbpqq7vAhXTJzQIHT_0CN4QjrkEegQIBBAI&ep=6\">Moonlight Graham Show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be because, despite her eye-popping stats, virtually no opportunities existed for women players back then. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-10-sp-3529-story.html\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> story from 1985\u003c/a> noted a sad reality regarding Long’s career: “Without so much as a college scholarship to show for her achievements, without \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/ann-meyers-drysdale-interview\">Title IX’s equal rights legislation\u003c/a> as a springboard, with no Olympic gold available and no place to play, the most prolific high school scorer this country has known put away her basketball and resolved to get on with her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she achieved the unthinkable by technically crossing over into the NBA, defined in those days by Abdul-Jabbar’s towering emergence, Walt Frazier’s silky smoothness and Wilt Chamberlain’s flagrant womanizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935983\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935983\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers.jpg 710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers-160x225.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotional poster for the San Jose Lasers, a short-lived women’s team that had the involvement of current Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob. \u003ccite>(Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Warriors’ bold move to create genderless basketball was far ahead of its time — and still is. Walter Kennedy, the NBA commissioner at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedraftreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3347&catid=638&Itemid=342\">immediately nullified the Warriors’ pick\u003c/a> before Long could even put on a game jersey. Long’s name fell out of conversation, and the NBA world kept spinning as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A women’s league at the Cow Palace\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To the credit of Long and Warriors owner Mieuli, they went ahead with a new game plan. Long migrated to the Bay Area, and Mieuli, an ever-flamboyant man of his word, paid for Long’s expenses while promoting her as the marquee talent of his new, soon-to-be-launched regional women’s league. (Mieuli even \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/sportsraid/denise-long-the-story-of-the-nbas-first-female-draft-pick-6a57c2917829\">bought his unlikely basketball prodigy a purple Jaguar\u003c/a> as part of her star-treatment package).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Warrior Girls Basketball League” was among the \u003ca href=\"https://sports.yahoo.com/the-warriors-made-history-50-years-ago-when-they-drafted-denise-long-the-queen-of-6-on-6-184004158.html\">first organized adult leagues for women’s basketball\u003c/a> to have been played in the United States. Mieuli didn’t pay the players, so technically it was not a professional league. But he did offer a rare chance for women to showcase their skills for NBA fans who were already used to attending Warriors games at the Cow Palace. The four women’s teams would play in a junior varsity–style double header before the men’s teams came on later in the evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935976\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13935976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-800x1236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-800x1236.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-1020x1576.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-768x1186.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-994x1536.jpg 994w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-1326x2048.jpg 1326w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-scaled.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Long makes some shots at the Warriors’ practice facility in Oakland during a 2018 visit. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though highly imperfect, and by today’s standards demeaning, it proved an innovative attempt to expose Bay Area sports fans to something that, in 1971, the rest of the nation had basically no access to: post-college women’s basketball. Sadly, very little information exists about this amateur league. Online, there’s no video footage of it. But it was an important precursor to the WNBA, which wouldn’t arrive until 25 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as we all tune in to the arrival of a new WNBA team in the Bay Area in 2025, when that first swish causes Chase Center to erupt with long-awaited excitement, just remember everything it took to get there. Remember the Warriors and their unprecedented draft pick, and remember Denise Long.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editors Note\u003c/strong>: A version of this story originally appeared on The Bold Italic. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">U\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nless you live under a Chase Center-sized rock, you’ve probably heard the news: the Bay Area is getting a WNBA expansion team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/4902855/2023/09/26/warriors-wnba-bay-area/\">initially reported by Marcus Thompson\u003c/a>, the franchise will be the WNBA’s first expansion effort since 2008, and Northern California’s only professional women’s basketball squad since the Sacramento Monarchs folded in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13927875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Acquired by Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob, the as-yet-unnamed Bay Area team will play in San Francisco and practice in Oakland. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/38574635/wnba-expansion-golden-state-warriors-everything-know\">ESPN’s extensive reporting\u003c/a>, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert believes the Bay Area’s unique social, economic and technological intersections make it an ideal location for the league’s growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the hoopla, this isn’t the first time women’s basketball has made waves in this region. In fact, the Bay has long been at the forefront — \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/12/purdy-joe-lacob-lost-10-million-on-his-first-basketball-investment-and-has-no-regrets/\">Lacob himself was involved with the San Jose Lasers of the ABA\u003c/a>, a short-lived women’s league that launched in the same year as the WNBA but quickly fizzled out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you want to go way back, you have to talk about Denise Long. In 1969, the Warriors — then known as the San Francisco Warriors — attempted to draft Long, a high school phenom from Iowa, to play alongside the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may have been more of a sociological experiment than anything else. And perhaps it failed. But it indirectly led to one of the country’s first opportunities for women’s basketball in 1970, and paved the path for a women’s team to finally play here in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 838px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_.jpg 838w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-768x1210.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Long appears in a public campaign for Muni shortly after arriving in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(SFMTA/Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Denise Long: The Longest Shot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the summer of ’69, the Milwaukee Bucks chose Lew Alcindor with the number one NBA draft pick. You may know Alcindor today as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Hall of Famer with six championships who’s widely considered to be on basketball’s Mount Rushmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, with the 175th pick in the 13th round, the Warriors chose a teenage player they felt could rewrite the rules of the game: Denise Long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like that, Long became the first-ever woman to be picked up by an NBA team. Standing just 5’11”, the supercharged player from Union-Whitten High School became a regional legend after singlehandedly eclipsing the 100-point mark \u003cem>three times\u003c/em> in her young career. Locally televised games attracted as many as 3.5 million viewers. She packed small-town arenas whenever she played. In her senior year she averaged a total of 69 points per game — more than Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan combined in any season they’ve played at any level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch highlights from Long’s 56-point performance in the 1968 Girls State Tournament Finals, in which the Union-Whitten Cobras overcame the Everly Lady Cattle Feeders with a 113–107 overtime victory:\u003c/em>\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/lf-0zuP18tQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lf-0zuP18tQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Warriors eccentric owner, Franklin Mieuli, decided to break every convention known to basketball by \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/06/17/nba-draft-how-iowa-basketball-star-denise-long-rife-made-history-golden-state-warriors-girls-6-on-6/1409879001/\">recruiting Long to play for his team\u003c/a> in the City by Bay. No one, Long included, expected it. In fact, the pick was so out of pocket that when Long was contacted about being drafted, she mistakenly thought she was being drafted by the military to serve in the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Almost no opportunities for women in basketball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When she suddenly found herself interviewed about potentially playing in the NBA by Johnny Carson, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>, she had to admit: She had never even heard of the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only two NBA [teams] I really ever remember hearing was the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers,” Long said in an interview, decades later, on the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL21vb25saWdodGdyYWhhbXNob3cubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/ZjhhOWIzMGMtNGU4MS00Zjk0LTg5NmEtYjZmNzQ4OTU0Mjdi?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiOlsbpqq7vAhXTJzQIHT_0CN4QjrkEegQIBBAI&ep=6\">Moonlight Graham Show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be because, despite her eye-popping stats, virtually no opportunities existed for women players back then. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-10-sp-3529-story.html\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> story from 1985\u003c/a> noted a sad reality regarding Long’s career: “Without so much as a college scholarship to show for her achievements, without \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/ann-meyers-drysdale-interview\">Title IX’s equal rights legislation\u003c/a> as a springboard, with no Olympic gold available and no place to play, the most prolific high school scorer this country has known put away her basketball and resolved to get on with her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she achieved the unthinkable by technically crossing over into the NBA, defined in those days by Abdul-Jabbar’s towering emergence, Walt Frazier’s silky smoothness and Wilt Chamberlain’s flagrant womanizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935983\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935983\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers.jpg 710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers-160x225.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotional poster for the San Jose Lasers, a short-lived women’s team that had the involvement of current Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob. \u003ccite>(Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Warriors’ bold move to create genderless basketball was far ahead of its time — and still is. Walter Kennedy, the NBA commissioner at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedraftreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3347&catid=638&Itemid=342\">immediately nullified the Warriors’ pick\u003c/a> before Long could even put on a game jersey. Long’s name fell out of conversation, and the NBA world kept spinning as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A women’s league at the Cow Palace\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To the credit of Long and Warriors owner Mieuli, they went ahead with a new game plan. Long migrated to the Bay Area, and Mieuli, an ever-flamboyant man of his word, paid for Long’s expenses while promoting her as the marquee talent of his new, soon-to-be-launched regional women’s league. (Mieuli even \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/sportsraid/denise-long-the-story-of-the-nbas-first-female-draft-pick-6a57c2917829\">bought his unlikely basketball prodigy a purple Jaguar\u003c/a> as part of her star-treatment package).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Warrior Girls Basketball League” was among the \u003ca href=\"https://sports.yahoo.com/the-warriors-made-history-50-years-ago-when-they-drafted-denise-long-the-queen-of-6-on-6-184004158.html\">first organized adult leagues for women’s basketball\u003c/a> to have been played in the United States. Mieuli didn’t pay the players, so technically it was not a professional league. But he did offer a rare chance for women to showcase their skills for NBA fans who were already used to attending Warriors games at the Cow Palace. The four women’s teams would play in a junior varsity–style double header before the men’s teams came on later in the evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935976\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13935976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-800x1236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-800x1236.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-1020x1576.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-768x1186.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-994x1536.jpg 994w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-1326x2048.jpg 1326w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-scaled.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Long makes some shots at the Warriors’ practice facility in Oakland during a 2018 visit. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though highly imperfect, and by today’s standards demeaning, it proved an innovative attempt to expose Bay Area sports fans to something that, in 1971, the rest of the nation had basically no access to: post-college women’s basketball. Sadly, very little information exists about this amateur league. Online, there’s no video footage of it. But it was an important precursor to the WNBA, which wouldn’t arrive until 25 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931617\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly man sits in a large cushioned chair looking at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-03-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Liecty at his home in Walnut Creek on July 13, 2023. Liecty was the first general manager of the Oakland Clippers, a short-lived soccer team that won the National Professional Soccer League championship in 1967. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of the series \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/8over80\">8 Over 80\u003c/a>, celebrating artists and cultural figures over the age of 80 who continue to shape the greater Bay Area.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen it comes to winning in the Bay Area, one could easily point to the Golden State Warriors, San Francisco 49ers or Oakland A’s for the seasons of parades, trophies and collective euphoria. But it was a little-known soccer club that claimed the region’s first professional national championship before any of those titans, becoming the most important team you’ve probably never heard of: the \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Oakland_Clippers_%28soccer%29\">1967 Oakland Clippers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='8over80' label='More 8 Over 80']Though historically unrecognized, the team’s success is largely predicated on one man’s vision for soccer expansion in the United States. Without Derek Liecty, it’s unlikely the team would have competed in \u003ca href=\"https://lostmediawiki.com/National_Professional_Soccer_League_(partially_found_footage_of_soccer_matches;_1967)\">the oldest national soccer league in the country\u003c/a> — and they certainly would not have done so at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Clippers franchise was an idealistic start-up with hopes of growing soccer’s appeal in North America. As one of the 10 inaugural teams in the National Professional Soccer League, they were originally slated to play at Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park. With a pair of oil tycoons funding the organization, everything was in order for San Francisco to make a splashy debut on the national soccer circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, when the team’s owners arrived from Texas, Liecty, the Clippers’ general manager, shuttled them across the Bay Bridge to the then-brand-new Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have you been to Kezar Stadium?” asks Liecty, who recently celebrated his 91st birthday and maintains an active lifestyle in his Walnut Creek apartment. “The wind, the dreary sky, all of it stinks for soccer. I knew Oakland was the better choice for the Clippers, so I took them there instead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66QuPh4EdCU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gambit worked; it was the first of many notable imprints he would make on the Bay Area’s soccer world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their debut (and only) season, the Clippers — which fielded predominantly Yugoslavian and Costa Rican immigrants — would go on to bring Oakland, and the entire Bay Area, a national trophy. Shortly after, Liecty convinced Brazilian legend Pelé and his team, F.C. Santos, to play their first and only game at the Oakland Coliseum for an exhibition match against the Clippers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the team’s short-lived success, Liecty continued to devote himself to soccer — a man ahead of his time. He would go on to referee soccer matches in San Francisco’s inaugural Gay Games; he helped bring the World Cup to Palo Alto; and he has served as an international ambassador for the sport for nearly five decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931618\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A framed clipping from a newspaper reads 'A First... Clippers in Playoff' above a photo of shirtless young men celebrating.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A framed Oakland Tribune article about the Oakland Clippers’ 1967 season hangs on the wall at Derek Liecty’s home. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A California soccer story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born in 1932, Liecty was raised by a single mother in Santa Barbara, where he began to play organized soccer at the age of 10. “I was bitten by the soccer bug early on,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those years, organized soccer in the United States was underdeveloped and rudimentary compared to today’s standards. Still, Liecty says he was drawn to the international allure of the sport; his first coach was an Englishman and most of his teammates were from abroad. As a teenager, Liecty dedicated his extracurricular time to running an independent soccer team before enrolling at Stanford University in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer before he started college, Liecty joined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsfl.com/\">San Francisco Football League\u003c/a>, a famed adult league designed to develop a grassroots pipeline for San Francisco’s best soccer talent — an active system dating back to 1902. Though many of the soccer pathways Liecty utilized are still around half a century later, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2022/11/18/why-doesnt-san-francisco-have-a-major-league-soccer-team/\">the region has lagged\u003c/a> in developing any momentum for professional soccer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those in the know like Liecty, the Bay has always offered world-class potential for footie. While reminiscing on his playing days from a reclining sofa chair at the center of his tidy living room — his hair neatly combed, polo shirt tucked in, eyes looking off in a state of nostalgic reflection — he proudly rattles off a bevy of teams he once suited up for or played against in the area: Olympic Club, Mercury Club, Viking Athletic Club (“the most well known top-level team in San Francisco”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalls his days as a center back: “The fields [back then] reminded me of a giant billiard table. A fabulous game that I loved to play so much. Up until then it was always soccer, soccer, soccer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"An older man standing beside a book case holds a framed photo of a younger man walking on crutches.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Liecty holds a photo of himself in 1952, when a broken leg kept him from participating in the Olympics. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liecty played for Stanford’s squad until 1954, eventually becoming a captain, before breaking his leg during Olympic tryouts. Post-graduation, he served in the U.S. military for two years in Europe, later working in Chile for the American and Foreign Power Company. While in South America, he enrolled in a soccer referee academy — for fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he heard rumors about the formation of the U.S.’s first professional, multi-regional league, Liecty reached out to an old acquaintance, William D. Cox — a flamboyant soccer visionary who was spearheading the National Professional Soccer League.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox hoped to kick off a California team in 1966. And so Liecty abandoned his 9-to-5 lifestyle to chase after the checkered ball once more as the general manager of the Clippers. It was a risky bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ’60s were wild,” Liecty says. “We had civil rights happening. We had the Vietnam War starting. We had the Black Panthers coming around. And Cox’s league was seen as a bunch of outlaws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Liecty, in those days FIFA (soccer’s international governing body) lacked any interest in promoting soccer in the United States and threatened to fine the league for its unsanctioned operation. In the words of Liecty, “Mr. Cox said ‘fuck you all’” and went ahead anyway, with Liecty steering the Clippers. And they won, defeating the Baltimore Bays. Though the league only lasted one full season, it established Liecty as one of the Bay Area’s earliest public soccer advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13934642\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly man in a blue polo shirt stands on a balcony with trees behind, one hand on railing, other hand in pocket\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Liecty at his home in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Coming out after the Gay Games\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soccer has shaped Liecty’s path in powerful, life-altering ways. It was through soccer, and his role as a referee in the inaugural Gay Games, that he finally felt comfortable to publicly come out as gay. For his entire career until then, he says, “I was a closeted, gay soccer player.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://gaygames.org/latest-news/12904911\">Federation of Gay Games\u003c/a>, founded in 1982, is an international series of Olympics-like events with an especially strong focus on LGBTQ+ and other marginalized participants. Liecty refereed the Gay Games’ first-ever soccer match in San Francisco, and continued volunteering as an organizer for years, helping to contract sports facilities. At his home, he shows me the lifetime achievement award he received from the organization and a promotional poster for the opening competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those early years of the Gay Games coincided with the emerging AIDS epidemic, and its innumerable tragedies. For Liecty, soccer and the Gay Games not only helped create a sense of purpose, they also provided an outlet for the community during a time of trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://itgetsbetter.org/video/zlhxki5ncsk/\">He discusses the complexities of queerness\u003c/a> in sports, and tells me that the Gay Games were primarily focused on working in foreign countries as a form of civic outreach and to educate others about gay rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you get parity? Not just with gender, but with race, economics?” he wonders. “I’m not sure, but people could be inspired by the Gay Games to do something different in their own countries. There has been some progress in the U.S., but we need it everywhere. South America is waking up to gay rights. Muslim countries are still struggling. We want to play a good part in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13934643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66953_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-10_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A trophy, commemorative plaques and framed photographs sit on a white mantle with a colorful painting above\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66953_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-10_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66953_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-10_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66953_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-10_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66953_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-10_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66953_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-10_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66953_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-10_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66953_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-10_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tom Waddell Award from the 2006 Gay Games sits on Derek Liecty’s mantle. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liecty’s apartment is filled with commemorative pins, trophies, medallions and plaques. (He attended every World Cup around the globe from 1966 to 1994.) He shows me a photo of his younger self embracing a lover (next to a fast-looking car). In another snapshot of him, perhaps in his 60s, he’s suited up for a long bicycle ride (Liecty began bicycling as a serious hobby in his mid-life and has now toured over 40 countries). There’s a framed photograph of him and Pelé (casual). And the only official championship award the Oakland Clippers received after winning it all hangs in his office (next to a 1994 World Cup medallion).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking forward to soccer’s future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s awesome, in the most literal way, to see how Liecty lights up about the game. These days he doesn’t watch much of it on television, citing his dislike of how modern players complain and frequently stop the game, but he sees hope in the direction the sport is heading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11915080']“Major League Soccer is progressing the right way,” he says. “They just signed Messi. We’re 95% there. Now we just need to get more kids playing year-round. I like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\">Oakland Roots\u003c/a> and what they’re doing as well, starting small and building up from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows what he’s talking about; the outsized influence of the Oakland Clippers can be seen to this day. Liecty mentions Don Greer, an Irishman whose passion for the sport got him hired by the Clippers as a full-time youth soccer coordinator. “Don became the genesis for youth soccer programs in the entire United States,” Liecty says. Greer helped the U.S. build its national \u003ca href=\"http://www.ussoccerda.com/home.php\">Soccer Development Academy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also Clay Burling, a former insurance worker from Albany who attended every Clippers game with his six children because it was “the most affordable family event in town.” Burling ended up publishing a newsletter called \u003ci>Soccer West\u003c/i> — now \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.socceramerica.com/\">Soccer America\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, one of earliest and still active online outlets for soccer news — all from his East Bay basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13934653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white framed photo of a soccer team, coaches and managers lined up on field, celebrating\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A framed photo of the winning 1967 Oakland Clippers with Liecty on the far left. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Liecty’s part, those years gave him confidence and clarity — characteristics he fully exhibits to this day. It’s overwhelmingly evident that his connection to the game remains at once worldly and tender. Unlike today’s megastars, U.S. soccer players from Liecty’s generation scrappily committed to the game’s principled essence. With less money and less opportunities to go pro back then, potential footballers had to look elsewhere for income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he mumbles, “the U.S. Soccer Federation is fucked up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As factual as that may be, the actual concept of soccer is nearly perfect — if not in action, then as a beautiful abstraction, a sport of free-flowing passes and shared movement that offers so many life lessons. It’s a microcosm of the diverse, democratic, open-spirited globe that Liecty has been kicking for since he was a child in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following our interview, Liecty shows me his collection of Toyota Supra cars in his garage, one of which he still drives around town in its gleaming coat of devilish red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He gives me a firm handshake, gets into his ride and starts the rumbling motor — then takes off without looking back.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have you been to Kezar Stadium?” asks Liecty, who recently celebrated his 91st birthday and maintains an active lifestyle in his Walnut Creek apartment. “The wind, the dreary sky, all of it stinks for soccer. I knew Oakland was the better choice for the Clippers, so I took them there instead.”\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/66QuPh4EdCU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/66QuPh4EdCU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gambit worked; it was the first of many notable imprints he would make on the Bay Area’s soccer world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their debut (and only) season, the Clippers — which fielded predominantly Yugoslavian and Costa Rican immigrants — would go on to bring Oakland, and the entire Bay Area, a national trophy. Shortly after, Liecty convinced Brazilian legend Pelé and his team, F.C. Santos, to play their first and only game at the Oakland Coliseum for an exhibition match against the Clippers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the team’s short-lived success, Liecty continued to devote himself to soccer — a man ahead of his time. He would go on to referee soccer matches in San Francisco’s inaugural Gay Games; he helped bring the World Cup to Palo Alto; and he has served as an international ambassador for the sport for nearly five decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931618\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A framed clipping from a newspaper reads 'A First... Clippers in Playoff' above a photo of shirtless young men celebrating.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A framed Oakland Tribune article about the Oakland Clippers’ 1967 season hangs on the wall at Derek Liecty’s home. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A California soccer story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born in 1932, Liecty was raised by a single mother in Santa Barbara, where he began to play organized soccer at the age of 10. “I was bitten by the soccer bug early on,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those years, organized soccer in the United States was underdeveloped and rudimentary compared to today’s standards. Still, Liecty says he was drawn to the international allure of the sport; his first coach was an Englishman and most of his teammates were from abroad. As a teenager, Liecty dedicated his extracurricular time to running an independent soccer team before enrolling at Stanford University in 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer before he started college, Liecty joined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsfl.com/\">San Francisco Football League\u003c/a>, a famed adult league designed to develop a grassroots pipeline for San Francisco’s best soccer talent — an active system dating back to 1902. Though many of the soccer pathways Liecty utilized are still around half a century later, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2022/11/18/why-doesnt-san-francisco-have-a-major-league-soccer-team/\">the region has lagged\u003c/a> in developing any momentum for professional soccer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those in the know like Liecty, the Bay has always offered world-class potential for footie. While reminiscing on his playing days from a reclining sofa chair at the center of his tidy living room — his hair neatly combed, polo shirt tucked in, eyes looking off in a state of nostalgic reflection — he proudly rattles off a bevy of teams he once suited up for or played against in the area: Olympic Club, Mercury Club, Viking Athletic Club (“the most well known top-level team in San Francisco”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalls his days as a center back: “The fields [back then] reminded me of a giant billiard table. A fabulous game that I loved to play so much. Up until then it was always soccer, soccer, soccer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"An older man standing beside a book case holds a framed photo of a younger man walking on crutches.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-15-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Liecty holds a photo of himself in 1952, when a broken leg kept him from participating in the Olympics. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liecty played for Stanford’s squad until 1954, eventually becoming a captain, before breaking his leg during Olympic tryouts. Post-graduation, he served in the U.S. military for two years in Europe, later working in Chile for the American and Foreign Power Company. While in South America, he enrolled in a soccer referee academy — for fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he heard rumors about the formation of the U.S.’s first professional, multi-regional league, Liecty reached out to an old acquaintance, William D. Cox — a flamboyant soccer visionary who was spearheading the National Professional Soccer League.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox hoped to kick off a California team in 1966. And so Liecty abandoned his 9-to-5 lifestyle to chase after the checkered ball once more as the general manager of the Clippers. It was a risky bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ’60s were wild,” Liecty says. “We had civil rights happening. We had the Vietnam War starting. We had the Black Panthers coming around. And Cox’s league was seen as a bunch of outlaws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Liecty, in those days FIFA (soccer’s international governing body) lacked any interest in promoting soccer in the United States and threatened to fine the league for its unsanctioned operation. In the words of Liecty, “Mr. Cox said ‘fuck you all’” and went ahead anyway, with Liecty steering the Clippers. And they won, defeating the Baltimore Bays. Though the league only lasted one full season, it established Liecty as one of the Bay Area’s earliest public soccer advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13934642\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly man in a blue polo shirt stands on a balcony with trees behind, one hand on railing, other hand in pocket\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66949_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-05._2000jpg-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Liecty at his home in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Coming out after the Gay Games\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soccer has shaped Liecty’s path in powerful, life-altering ways. It was through soccer, and his role as a referee in the inaugural Gay Games, that he finally felt comfortable to publicly come out as gay. For his entire career until then, he says, “I was a closeted, gay soccer player.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://gaygames.org/latest-news/12904911\">Federation of Gay Games\u003c/a>, founded in 1982, is an international series of Olympics-like events with an especially strong focus on LGBTQ+ and other marginalized participants. Liecty refereed the Gay Games’ first-ever soccer match in San Francisco, and continued volunteering as an organizer for years, helping to contract sports facilities. At his home, he shows me the lifetime achievement award he received from the organization and a promotional poster for the opening competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those early years of the Gay Games coincided with the emerging AIDS epidemic, and its innumerable tragedies. For Liecty, soccer and the Gay Games not only helped create a sense of purpose, they also provided an outlet for the community during a time of trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://itgetsbetter.org/video/zlhxki5ncsk/\">He discusses the complexities of queerness\u003c/a> in sports, and tells me that the Gay Games were primarily focused on working in foreign countries as a form of civic outreach and to educate others about gay rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you get parity? Not just with gender, but with race, economics?” he wonders. “I’m not sure, but people could be inspired by the Gay Games to do something different in their own countries. There has been some progress in the U.S., but we need it everywhere. South America is waking up to gay rights. Muslim countries are still struggling. 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(He attended every World Cup around the globe from 1966 to 1994.) He shows me a photo of his younger self embracing a lover (next to a fast-looking car). In another snapshot of him, perhaps in his 60s, he’s suited up for a long bicycle ride (Liecty began bicycling as a serious hobby in his mid-life and has now toured over 40 countries). There’s a framed photograph of him and Pelé (casual). And the only official championship award the Oakland Clippers received after winning it all hangs in his office (next to a 1994 World Cup medallion).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking forward to soccer’s future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s awesome, in the most literal way, to see how Liecty lights up about the game. These days he doesn’t watch much of it on television, citing his dislike of how modern players complain and frequently stop the game, but he sees hope in the direction the sport is heading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Major League Soccer is progressing the right way,” he says. “They just signed Messi. We’re 95% there. Now we just need to get more kids playing year-round. I like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\">Oakland Roots\u003c/a> and what they’re doing as well, starting small and building up from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows what he’s talking about; the outsized influence of the Oakland Clippers can be seen to this day. Liecty mentions Don Greer, an Irishman whose passion for the sport got him hired by the Clippers as a full-time youth soccer coordinator. “Don became the genesis for youth soccer programs in the entire United States,” Liecty says. Greer helped the U.S. build its national \u003ca href=\"http://www.ussoccerda.com/home.php\">Soccer Development Academy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also Clay Burling, a former insurance worker from Albany who attended every Clippers game with his six children because it was “the most affordable family event in town.” Burling ended up publishing a newsletter called \u003ci>Soccer West\u003c/i> — now \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.socceramerica.com/\">Soccer America\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, one of earliest and still active online outlets for soccer news — all from his East Bay basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13934653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13934653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white framed photo of a soccer team, coaches and managers lined up on field, celebrating\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RS66955_230713-DEREK-LIECTY-MHN-12_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A framed photo of the winning 1967 Oakland Clippers with Liecty on the far left. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Liecty’s part, those years gave him confidence and clarity — characteristics he fully exhibits to this day. It’s overwhelmingly evident that his connection to the game remains at once worldly and tender. Unlike today’s megastars, U.S. soccer players from Liecty’s generation scrappily committed to the game’s principled essence. With less money and less opportunities to go pro back then, potential footballers had to look elsewhere for income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he mumbles, “the U.S. Soccer Federation is fucked up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As factual as that may be, the actual concept of soccer is nearly perfect — if not in action, then as a beautiful abstraction, a sport of free-flowing passes and shared movement that offers so many life lessons. It’s a microcosm of the diverse, democratic, open-spirited globe that Liecty has been kicking for since he was a child in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following our interview, Liecty shows me his collection of Toyota Supra cars in his garage, one of which he still drives around town in its gleaming coat of devilish red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For nearly 15 years, two things have been unquestionably true about \u003cem>The Blind Side\u003c/em>, the 2009 blockbuster inspired by the early life of ex-NFL star Michael Oher: It won Sandra Bullock her best actress Oscar for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, and it’s become a poster child for Hollywood’s “white savior” narratives, nestled comfortably alongside maudlin peers like \u003cem>Dangerous Minds \u003c/em>and \u003cem>The Help\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But everything else relating to this story is far more complicated. While the movie and Michael Lewis’s book of the same name claim Tuohy and her family legally adopted Oher at 18, he recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933167\">filed a petition alleging he was unknowingly coerced\u003c/a> into a conservatorship, one he’s still under to this day. (He’s now 37.) He also claims the Tuohy family profited off the movie while he received nothing; in response, Leigh Anne and her husband Sean accuse Oher of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194217793/michael-oher-the-blind-side-tuohy-family-petition-conservatorship\">shakedown\u003c/a>” and deny making money off the film. Somehow, \u003cem>The Blind Side \u003c/em>now seems even ickier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqj_Tk_kuM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By now, the movie has been appropriately excoriated for being the sentimental trash it is, and these new allegations from Oher only buttress every critique made about it over the years. But even as ostensible truths come to light, the residue remains of that pesky little bugaboo of unrelenting post-racial idealism, a fixture of far too many old and new narratives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood is known as a dream factory, and when you’re in the business of producing dreams, any attempts to depict reality are going to be elided, embellished, or completely distorted. These sweet dreams can be made of destitute, downtrodden people of color, and the noble white individuals courageous enough to “help” them get out of their destitution and downtrodden-ness, as in the Hilary Swank classroom drama \u003cem>Freedom Writers\u003c/em>. Or they can be wholly imagined worlds where our most pressing social issues are resolved via the unlikely “bonds” of the historically marginalized and their would-be oppressors a la \u003cem>Green Book. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so yes, you get a movie like \u003cem>The Blind Side\u003c/em>, but also something like \u003cem>Losing Isaiah\u003c/em>, a 1995 melodrama that directly and messily proposes two central questions, per one of its producers: \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-17-ca-43795-story.html\">“Who’s to say who is a mother?” and “Should a white person raise a Black child?”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881907']Halle Berry stars as Khaila, a crack addict who stashes her infant son in a dumpster to go get high, only to discover later he’s disappeared. She’s distraught and believes he died, but he barely escapes being crushed by a garbage truck before he’s rushed to the hospital, where he’s looked after by Margaret, a social worker played by Jessica Lange. Isaiah is nursed back to health, and Margaret and her husband legally adopt the child. A few short years later, Khaila is clean and getting her life back on track; when she learns that Isaiah is alive, she seeks to regain her parental rights, to Margaret’s horror. They duke it out in family court, with Khaila’s lawyer (Samuel L. Jackson) arguing a Black child is better off with a Black family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stand, Margaret protests that “it’ll kill [Isaiah]” if he’s taken away from them. Khaila’s lawyer shoots back: “Oh, so only \u003cem>you \u003c/em>can save him? You’re the Great White Hope?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, but I \u003cem>am his \u003c/em>mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the child is ordered to be returned to Khaila, shattering Margaret’s world and Isaiah’s, too; he has trouble adjusting to life with this stranger, who happens to be his biological mother, and has frequent meltdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5i-SK8I8-w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like \u003cem>The Blind Side\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Losing Isaiah \u003c/em>was unsurprisingly polarizing at the time of its release, though perhaps because of its arrival in the pre-social media era, its complicated legacy isn’t as readily remembered. Yet its effects are the same — it traffics in the flimsy lane of “understanding/reconciliation” between its Black and white characters. The movie’s final image is of Khaila and Margaret playing peacefully with Isaiah in his classroom, mere moments after Khaila has admitted that taking him away from the only mom he’s ever known so soon is traumatizing and that she’ll temporarily return him to Margaret. All is ostensibly well — both women clearly love Isaiah. But the ending is a pure flight of fancy, as if it’s at all believable that a Black woman would get her kid back after giving him up a \u003cem>second\u003c/em> time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anytime a movie like this is made, its creators usually argue their creative ambitions are built upon a desire to “start a dialogue.” “We intended to say that there is no simple answer and we’d better start talking to each other about this,” said \u003cem>Losing Isaiah \u003c/em>director Stephen Gyllenhaal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13932939']Or, to “inspire” or provide “hope” — you know, the sort of meaningless words commonly found sewn into pillows or printed onto mugs. “This movie was intended to lift people up — bring out the best in people, not the worst,” said one of \u003cem>The Blind Side\u003c/em>‘s producers at the time, Broderick Johnson. The road to hell, as they say, is paved with good intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oher also commented on that movie’s success to a journalist in 2009, though he seemed more ambivalent: “I guess people are looking for hope. They want something to build on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hope” can be a lifeline, but it can also be a crutch or a cloak for pretending racism isn’t truly a widespread issue. In this sense, these thinly sketched movies allow people to convince themselves that racial inequality is an individual problem rather than a systemic one, combatted via one savior at a time. They give fuel to conservatives who willfully distort Martin Luther King, Jr.’s optimism while ignoring his \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-16/martin-luther-king-jr-radical-politics\">searing criticisms\u003c/a>. It allows white people like the Tuohy family to simultaneously pity Black people while unwittingly reinforcing the structures that encourage their pity. (In case you missed it, about a decade ago, \u003ca href=\"https://bellejar.ca/2014/12/15/leigh-anne-tuohy-racism-and-the-white-saviour-complex/comment-page-7/\">Leigh Anne was called out by two Black teen boys\u003c/a> for assuming they were up to no good, and then, upon learning they were just two Black teens minding their own business, using them as a photo op to preach about how we shouldn’t “judge a book by its cover” in a Facebook post.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hope alone cannot power a two-hour movie, which is so often an inadequate landscape for even beginning to scratch the surface of such complex issues as transracial adoption or a flailing education system. (Which is why a slow-burn series like \u003cem>The Wire \u003c/em>remains an extraordinary example of the form.) 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For nearly 15 years, two things have been unquestionably true about \u003cem>The Blind Side\u003c/em>, the 2009 blockbuster inspired by the early life of ex-NFL star Michael Oher: It won Sandra Bullock her best actress Oscar for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, and it’s become a poster child for Hollywood’s “white savior” narratives, nestled comfortably alongside maudlin peers like \u003cem>Dangerous Minds \u003c/em>and \u003cem>The Help\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But everything else relating to this story is far more complicated. While the movie and Michael Lewis’s book of the same name claim Tuohy and her family legally adopted Oher at 18, he recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933167\">filed a petition alleging he was unknowingly coerced\u003c/a> into a conservatorship, one he’s still under to this day. (He’s now 37.) He also claims the Tuohy family profited off the movie while he received nothing; in response, Leigh Anne and her husband Sean accuse Oher of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194217793/michael-oher-the-blind-side-tuohy-family-petition-conservatorship\">shakedown\u003c/a>” and deny making money off the film. Somehow, \u003cem>The Blind Side \u003c/em>now seems even ickier.\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/gvqj_Tk_kuM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gvqj_Tk_kuM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>By now, the movie has been appropriately excoriated for being the sentimental trash it is, and these new allegations from Oher only buttress every critique made about it over the years. But even as ostensible truths come to light, the residue remains of that pesky little bugaboo of unrelenting post-racial idealism, a fixture of far too many old and new narratives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood is known as a dream factory, and when you’re in the business of producing dreams, any attempts to depict reality are going to be elided, embellished, or completely distorted. These sweet dreams can be made of destitute, downtrodden people of color, and the noble white individuals courageous enough to “help” them get out of their destitution and downtrodden-ness, as in the Hilary Swank classroom drama \u003cem>Freedom Writers\u003c/em>. Or they can be wholly imagined worlds where our most pressing social issues are resolved via the unlikely “bonds” of the historically marginalized and their would-be oppressors a la \u003cem>Green Book. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He also asks to be paid what he is due along with interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He accuses the Tuohys of enriching themselves at his expense by continuing to “falsely and publicly” represent themselves as his adoptive parents “to the date of the filing of this petition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys,” according to the petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oher, who has never been a fan of the movie of his life, also asks in the petition that the Tuohys be sanctioned and required to pay both compensatory and punitive damages determined by the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ESPN.com first reported the petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Farese, a lawyer for the Tuohys, told The Associated Press they will file an answer to the allegations in court but declined to comment further. He was among three attorneys served on behalf of the Tuohys on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leigh Anne Tuohy did not immediately respond to an email sent to her personal website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie was nominated for an Oscar, and Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oher accuses the Tuohys of never taking legal action to assume custody from the Tennessee Department of Human Services before he turned 18. The conservatorship paperwork was filed months after Oher turned 18 in May 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He moved in with the Tuohys just before his senior year of high school and says he was told to call them “Mom” and “Dad.” Oher says in the petition he was encouraged to call the attorney who filed the conservatorship paperwork “Aunt Debbie” Branan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931346']Oher also alleges the Tuohys had him sign paperwork almost immediately after he moved in as part of the adoption process. Oher says he was “falsely advised” that it would be called a conservatorship because he was already 18 but the intent was adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At no point did the Tuohys inform Michael that they would have ultimate control of all his contracts, and as a result Michael did not understand that if the Conservatorship was granted, he was signing away his right to contract for himself,” according to the petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A book based on Oher’s life was released in September 2006 written by Michael Lewis, described in the petition as a childhood friend of Sean Tuohy’s. 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A contract titled “Life Story Rights Agreement” was “purportedly signed by Michael Oher” and dated April 20, 2007, according to the petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition says Oher believes the signature is similar to his own but that he “at no time ever willingly or knowingly signed this document and that nobody ever presented this contract to him with any explanation that he was signing such a document.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the petition, Oher asks for a full accounting of his assets and how they were used considering his life story produced millions of dollars and he received nothing for the rights to something that would not have existed without him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931888']Oher was the 23rd overall pick in the 2009 draft out of Mississippi, and he spent his first five seasons with the Baltimore Ravens. He wound up playing eight NFL seasons, including 2014 when he started 11 games for the Tennessee Titans. 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