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"content": "\u003cp>During the Renaissance era, the conflicting bedfellows of religion and science had clear delineations, dictated by Earth’s highest stewards to Heaven’s gates. “Science asks questions, but the Bible gives the answers,” thundered Pope Urban VIII, verbalizing the view of many in Europe’s 16th and 17th centuries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Galileo Galilei fancied himself a strong purveyor of both the scientific and theological, his moral core of truth at the center of his existence faced a brutal reckoning — one that ultimately ripped both his body and soul to shreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13957684']In the spellbinding yet problematic world premiere musical \u003cem>Galileo\u003c/em>, which opened May 15 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, discoveries made in both science and religion complicate matters. Its storyline is greatly informed by the modern-day war on truth, loaded with a ceaselessly high-octane rock music score exploited mightily by the wicked talents of director Michael Mayer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Kushnier (Bishop Maffeo Barberini) and Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei) in the world premiere of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galileo Galilei (Raúl Esparza) has taken root in his laboratory, a man of 45 who has trouble blindly accepting the religious view that Earth is the center of the universe. After all, that view had been challenged years prior by fellow polymath Nicolaus Copernicus in the famed heliocentric model, where Earth and other planets were shown to revolve around the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An affirmation of those teachings, thanks to Galileo’s enhancement of the telescope, has proved unsatisfactory to the dominant biblical divinity of Catholic doctrine, which citizens believe to be infallible. Yet Galileo still carries some support, despite the dominance of Cardinal Morosini (Javier Muñoz), who gives no space for what he perceives as anti-Bible sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13957845']The support of Galileo’s close ally Bishop Barberini (Jeremy Kushnier) contributes greatly to his desire to continue locking horns with the Catholic establishment, and when Barberini is elevated as pontiff and becomes Pope Urban VIII, Galileo is poised to break through and declare truth the victor. Yet an effort by the pope to slow the public acceleration of Galileo’s scientific theories, introduced in Galileo’s book comparing the Copernican system with the accepted and less truthful Ptolemaic system, comes with an offensive slight, accelerating Galileo’s demise. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei, center) and the cast of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So many elements of spectacle allow the musical to brew and breathe within a white-hot fire, with music thrusting itself to the top of the ticket. Composers Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak unleash consecutive bangers, challenging their vocalists with vein-popping verve, melodies and divine harmonies as persistent as Galileo himself. Those compositions are nestled neatly inside Danny Strong’s book. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each challenge is accepted by the cast, led by Broadway stalwart Esparza, who digs mightily into every ounce of his scintillating, grizzled register. A delicious counterpoint to Esparza’s wide-ranging vocals is his commitment to Galileo’s painful and joyous discoveries. His eyes accentuate each arc in every moment, a broken and beaten man who is constantly reminded that power decides truth, not the other way around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958077\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Magby (Alessandro Tarantola) and Madalynn Mathews (Virginia Galilei) in the world premiere of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kushnier’s mellifluity lives within its own constellation, a buttery-smooth falsetto that spotlights tenderness and admiration for Galileo, especially in his solo “By Thy Light I See.” Muñoz, Esparza’s fellow Broadway star, commands respect as the uncompromising Morosini, and Madelynn Mathews as Galileo’s embattled daughter Virginia, whose illegitimacy thrusts her away from love and into a cloistered life, gives a master class in vocals and empathy. 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Yet an effort by the pope to slow the public acceleration of Galileo’s scientific theories, introduced in Galileo’s book comparing the Copernican system with the accepted and less truthful Ptolemaic system, comes with an offensive slight, accelerating Galileo’s demise. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei, center) and the cast of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So many elements of spectacle allow the musical to brew and breathe within a white-hot fire, with music thrusting itself to the top of the ticket. Composers Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak unleash consecutive bangers, challenging their vocalists with vein-popping verve, melodies and divine harmonies as persistent as Galileo himself. Those compositions are nestled neatly inside Danny Strong’s book. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each challenge is accepted by the cast, led by Broadway stalwart Esparza, who digs mightily into every ounce of his scintillating, grizzled register. A delicious counterpoint to Esparza’s wide-ranging vocals is his commitment to Galileo’s painful and joyous discoveries. His eyes accentuate each arc in every moment, a broken and beaten man who is constantly reminded that power decides truth, not the other way around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958077\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Magby (Alessandro Tarantola) and Madalynn Mathews (Virginia Galilei) in the world premiere of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kushnier’s mellifluity lives within its own constellation, a buttery-smooth falsetto that spotlights tenderness and admiration for Galileo, especially in his solo “By Thy Light I See.” Muñoz, Esparza’s fellow Broadway star, commands respect as the uncompromising Morosini, and Madelynn Mathews as Galileo’s embattled daughter Virginia, whose illegitimacy thrusts her away from love and into a cloistered life, gives a master class in vocals and empathy. These four craft a narrative that elevates the entire company in a show that gets louder and louder as time passes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where the piece needs harnessing begins late in the second act, when a certain theme carries on much too long, ultimately diluting the critical nature of its voice. It’s as if the concept of truth and its virtues need constant repeating, which drags the entire narrative down. A piece that moves towards three hours needs to slap incessantly; this is not the case here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei) and the cast of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, the show feels as if it’s hurtling somewhere with no expense spared, especially through the technical design. 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"content": "\u003cp>Anyone who has ever perused the quaint aisles of specialty cheeses, imported pastas, organic jams and much more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/markethallfoods/\">Market Hall Foods\u003c/a> on Fourth Street in Berkeley will be saddened to hear that the 28-year specialty grocer will be shuttering next month. Market Hall’s flagship location in Rockridge will remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open since 1996, the upscale shop (formerly known as The Pasta Shop) has always been the kind of place where you’d run into local chefs stocking up on hard-to-find goods — a reliable little market where you could pop by for a quality lunch on the go. It’s also been \u003ca href=\"https://edibleeastbay.com/2017/11/15/market-hall-at-30/\">a cornerstone for locally-sourced ingredients and high-quality products\u003c/a> long before it became a national trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13954342,arts_13931296']The market’s Berkeley location is slated for its final day on Sunday, May 26 (Memorial Day weekend). Customers will be able to continue shopping there for the next few weeks. After that, there won’t be any remaining grocery options in the Fourth Street shopping district proper, though a Trader Joe’s, a Whole Foods and Berkeley Bowl West all continue to operate nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a heartfelt \u003ca href=\"https://rockridgemarkethall.com/images/mf4_announcement.pdf\">public letter\u003c/a> released earlier today, co-owner Sara E. Wilson — who founded the original shop in Oakland in 1987 with her two brothers, Tony and Peter — stated a variety of post-COVID economic factors that has led to the difficult decision. “We recognize that this closure is the best way to ensure the strength of our overall business,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the latest in an ongoing slew of small, local businesses having to unexpectedly pivot — either by downsizing or closing completely — due to various cost factors in an ever-expensive Bay Area economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many other retailers and food establishments, we have been experiencing new challenges post-COVID… with more people working from home, we could no longer rely on those customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to serving fewer customers than in the past, the letter also references how remaining customers ”have become more cautious with their spending and are buying fewer items.” They make clear that the building owners did not raise rent or anything of the sort, instead citing “shifts in customer patterns” as an unscalable financial barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956921\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/market-hall-foods-courtesy.jpg\" alt='Exterior facade of a specialty grocery store. The sign reads, \"Market Hall Foods on 4th.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/market-hall-foods-courtesy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/market-hall-foods-courtesy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/market-hall-foods-courtesy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/market-hall-foods-courtesy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/market-hall-foods-courtesy-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/market-hall-foods-courtesy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shop’s final day of business will be May 26. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Market Hall Foods)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson also cited how it has been challenging for the company “to cover increased wage and benefit costs” — a reference, perhaps, to the City of Berkeley’s recent increase of its minimum wage to $20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, the market’s sister location in Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood will continue to operate. In her letter, Wilson notes that because the Rockridge location is centralized in a residential area, it has been able to better endure the challenges of a difficult economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 48 employees — kitchen, bakery and retail — who will be affected by the closure, some will be transferring to the Oakland location, while others will receive severance packages. They were informed on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its final weekend in Berkeley, Market Hall Foods will host a “closing celebration,” with more details to be announced shortly.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>You’re at a food and wine festival in the Bay Area. But instead of the usual Chardonnay and chicken pairing, you’re drinking arak — an anise seed–based Palestinian spirit — and eating hearty Ethiopian sambussas in a space that is designated for diasporic, cross-communal celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might sip on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drinkkace/\">a Filipino and Taiwanese tea\u003c/a> founded by a pair of young AAPI entrepreneurs while enjoying bites from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/1610\">Chef Nelson German — the Dominican savant behind Oakland’s alaMar and Sobre Mesa\u003c/a>. And since true nourishment requires more than just food and beverages, you can sneak off for a CBD sound bath, or keep your energy balanced at an R&B Soul Lounge, before returning for the afterparty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a snippet of the vision that San Francisco event organizer Gina Mariko Rosales has in mind for the first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://www.pocfoodandwine.com/\">POC Food and Wine Festival\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to know up front that it’s a diverse space, and you’re welcome here,” Rosales says. “We’re already battling in the wine space. It doesn’t feel comfortable or safe for some people, and I knew I needed to create and name it so people would feel it’s a space for them. This is a celebration of the global majority. You gotta have big balls to do this shit. It’s not an easy feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having co-founded UNDISCOVERED SF’s Creative Night Market in SOMA Pilipinas, and with nearly a decade of experience working as an event specialist with Google, Rosales believes she has the savvy and background to execute such an ambitious three-day festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a huge desire to build a multicultural space to come together and meet each other, share resources, create collaborations that didn’t exist and expand our reach and make it bigger than any one cultural group. We need a space to come together,” she continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a red jacket stands before a lavish spread of drinks, appetizers and flowers.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The festival is the brainchild of San Francisco event planner Gina Mariko Rosales. \u003ccite>(Melissa De Mata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In all, the bodacious festival will include seven events happening across two venues in Berkeley and San Francisco from Thursday, May 2, through Sunday, May 5 (with Friday, May 3, as an off-day). The inaugural festivities will comprise a who’s who of Bay Area foodmakers and small business owners of color, all gathered at one intentional table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival will kick off with a “Palestinian Family Meal” featuring one of the Bay Area’s most notable Palestinian chefs in Reem Assil (of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reemscalifornia/\">Reem’s\u003c/a>). Assil’s dishes — an array of mezzes, flatbreads, sweets and more served for large group enjoyment — will be paired with\u003ca href=\"https://www.terahwineco.com/\"> Terah Wine Co.\u003c/a> and Terra Sancta, a local winemaker and an importer of Middle Eastern wines and arak, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening night dinner underscores a mindful awareness to serve more than just good food. Rosales believes it’s also an opportunity to empower, uplift and educate around the various, complex politics that different Bay Area groups — often working in solidarity — must combat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Alanna-Hale_ShishBarak_LambDumplings_021.jpg\" alt=\"A bowl of Palestinian lamb dumplings in yogurt sauce, presented in a pale yellow bowl.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2259\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Alanna-Hale_ShishBarak_LambDumplings_021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Alanna-Hale_ShishBarak_LambDumplings_021-800x941.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Alanna-Hale_ShishBarak_LambDumplings_021-1020x1200.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Alanna-Hale_ShishBarak_LambDumplings_021-160x188.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Alanna-Hale_ShishBarak_LambDumplings_021-768x904.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Alanna-Hale_ShishBarak_LambDumplings_021-1305x1536.jpg 1305w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Alanna-Hale_ShishBarak_LambDumplings_021-1741x2048.jpg 1741w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the festival’s Saturday main event, Reem’s will serve shish barak — lamb dumplings in yogurt sauce. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alanna Hale)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Food is an entryway to culture,” Rosales says. “Everyone wants good food. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a huge desire to build a multicultural space to come together and meet each other, share resources, create collaborations that didn’t exist and expand our reach and make it bigger than any one cultural group. We need a space to come together,” she continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a red jacket stands before a lavish spread of drinks, appetizers and flowers.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ginamariko-pocfoodandwine-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The festival is the brainchild of San Francisco event planner Gina Mariko Rosales. \u003ccite>(Melissa De Mata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In all, the bodacious festival will include seven events happening across two venues in Berkeley and San Francisco from Thursday, May 2, through Sunday, May 5 (with Friday, May 3, as an off-day). The inaugural festivities will comprise a who’s who of Bay Area foodmakers and small business owners of color, all gathered at one intentional table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival will kick off with a “Palestinian Family Meal” featuring one of the Bay Area’s most notable Palestinian chefs in Reem Assil (of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reemscalifornia/\">Reem’s\u003c/a>). Assil’s dishes — an array of mezzes, flatbreads, sweets and more served for large group enjoyment — will be paired with\u003ca href=\"https://www.terahwineco.com/\"> Terah Wine Co.\u003c/a> and Terra Sancta, a local winemaker and an importer of Middle Eastern wines and arak, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening night dinner underscores a mindful awareness to serve more than just good food. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/hellahungry\">¡Hella Hungry!\u003c/a> is a series of interviews with Bay Area foodmakers exploring the region’s culinary innovations through the mouth of a first-generation local.\u003c/i>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d better make reservations ahead of time at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/popoca.oakland/?hl=en\">Popoca\u003c/a>, chef Anthony Salguero’s chic eatery in Old Oakland. The lively Salvadoreño spot has become such a popular hangout that you’ll likely run into friends randomly (hello, Ricky and Olivia) during dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason is simple: Popoca’s elevated cuisine, cocktails and decor are a reflection of Salguero’s Central American origins, where his parents immigrated from and where he learned how to prepare tamales using freshly made wild duck broth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can taste Salguero’s expansive love for El Salvador in each decision. It’s in the hint of honey and spice in his naranja y betabel en alguashte. It’s in the lemony butteriness of his wood-fired pupusas de hongo. And it’s in the generous smattering of beans, rice, sour cream and escabeche that you should order to accompany the banana leaf-wrapped vegetarian tamales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13954919 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0070-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Thick purple pupusas cooking on the griddle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0070-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0070-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0070-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0070-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0070-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0070-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0070-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue corn pupusas fry on the open grill. \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also in the people he has surrounded himself with — the servers, bartenders, kitchen hands. Everything feels intentional, genuine and joyfully interconnected in the service of helping each guest experience Popoca. And that’s exactly what Marisa Sanchez-Dunning is committed to showcasing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ifonlycreative/?hl=en\">If Only Creative\u003c/a> — a Berkeley-based creative agency that supports dope East Bay destinations such as Popoca, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thisisdaytrip.com/\">DAYTRIP\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.burdelloakland.com/\">Burdell\u003c/a> — Sanchez-Dunning is fiercely aligned with those who share her sense of community values. A homegrown Chicana, she predominantly works with small business owners of color. She carved her way into the scene with her relentless hustle, building her studio from the ground up by hiring other women of color that represent the Bay Area she knows. Beyond providing photography, social media management and branding for a handful of local outlets, Sanchez-Dunning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928459/cinco-de-mayo-vegan-dinner-el-otro-lado-oakland\">hosts events to celebrate the Bay’s rich food traditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954975\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13954975 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A restaurant server laughs as she takes an order from two customers sitting inside a sunny restaurant dining room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Alan Chazaro, left, and Marisa Sanchez-Dunning order their meal. \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a bustling evening at Popoca, despite a persistent rainstorm, I connected with her to discuss her role as a connector in the East Bay’s diverse food and bev world. I’ll be clear: I don’t typically meet with creative directors, PR flaks or other folks who work on the marketing side of the food scene. But, like Sanchez-Dunning and Salguero, I believe in the importance of nurturing and expanding the local ecosystem, and seeing things from every perspective — and I can appreciate the unseen work that Sanchez-Dunning is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay, sustaining your community can begin by simply sharing a soul-mending plate of pupusas with someone across the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ci>********\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Chazaro: You’re not a foodmaker, but you work closely with chefs and small business owners throughout the Bay Area’s culinary scene. How did you enter the food world?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisa Sanchez-Dunning:\u003c/b> My journey in food and hospitality started with my first job at 15 years old serving ice cream. Being in service, you get an appreciation for the whole spectrum. Eventually, I became a waitress. When I was 20, I worked at Peet’s and Scolari’s. I was working doubles, closing one shop late at night and opening another the next day. It’s all about the people you meet. You become a family, a community, and you realize how small the industry is here. That’s part of the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In college, I entered as a bio major, then I switched to journalism and ended up in marketing. I most enjoyed the creative classes: branding, design, photography. When I entered the 9 to 5 world, I started with branding and design agencies, and then I veered off to start my own agency through trial and error. I learned that my passion thrives the most in the food and bev industry. Bars, cafes, restaurants, CPGs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A CPG?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, my bad. Consumer Packaged Goods. It’s an annoying acronym (laughs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Word. That’s very corporate-y.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I honestly try to stay away from that (laughs). For me, food is where [my agency] thrives creatively. That’s what we’re genuinely passionate about. As far as I know, we’re the only Chicana-owned agency doing this in the Bay. In my industry, I’m kind of like the only one that looks like me doing what I’m doing and supporting the clients that I’m supporting. And I think being in the Bay, there is an appreciation and excitement around seeing a Chicana. There’s a connection to our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954974\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cara cara orange slices and beets topped alguashte is one of the small plates offered at Popoca in Oakland, Calif., on March 22, 2024.\u003cbr>CREDIT: Marissa Leshnov for KQED \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What have you noticed working in the local food industry? Are there any trends right now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s really a mix, and I love that. One thing is that everyone is working their asses off. Places like Popoca are what I support. There’s a specific group of people in the Bay that don’t have any major investors, who don’t come from tons of privilege and tons of money. That takes a certain amount of working your ass off to get where they’ve gotten, and I see that. Those [business owners] have to think authentically and genuinely about every decision made, from working with me to their hiring practices and their vendor sourcing. They make sure everything is in line with their values. That’s also how I operate, for better or worse. Luckily I have a team of amazing women who are helping me out. It may take longer, and it may be harder, but it’s more gratifying. To be real, as a business owner in the Bay working in food and bev, it’s not easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>We all can only do so much, and it can be draining. Finding that balance and intentionality is crucial. How can we keep our money and time in places that are deserving? And how can we increase access to experiences like Popoca?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>100%. I love going to places like this to support them. That’s basically what my entire role is with visual assets, videos, photos of the food and drinks. There’s so much beautiful storytelling on the plate. We’re in a digital world. If someone tells you about a spot they like, you’ll probably pull out your phone and check Instagram. Even just sharing that on social media or sending a text to your friend, it goes a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you realize like, \u003cem>Oh shit, this person is nixtamalizing corn and making their own masa? You’re making your own in-house crema from scratch? And not only that, but it’s also being sourced intentionally?\u003c/em> I fuck with that. I don’t want to take the easy way and work with corporate, and neither do a lot of [the foodmakers]. And there are lots of barriers to that, or even to these businesses being able to hire someone like me. Budget is the biggest one. It’s a Catch-22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13954918 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Hands holding horchata with star anise inside a wooden bowl.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popoca’s peanut horchata topped with star anise. \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What keeps you going?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to employ the community. Working with people who may look like me, but more importantly, who think like me and move around the world like me. There’s a secret superpower to thinking that way. And there are certain businesses in the Bay who are doing that and helping to build their communities. Here at Popoca, there’s an intentionality in trying to invest in Old Oakland. I love the dedication and inspiration that they get and give here. Same with Jo’s Modern Thai [in Oakland’s Laurel District]. The owner was born and raised in that neighborhood. They want to get that area popping. It’s not like Temescal, which gets all this attention. But these other areas deserve to have that elevation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Oakland, and the Bay as a whole, can be overwhelming with choices. And there are different perceptions people have about going to certain areas.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13950866,arts_13950436,arts_13919032']\u003c/span>I had a friend visiting from out of town and told them we were going to eat dinner in Oakland, and they asked, “Is it okay to go?” And that’s sad. It’s a whole thing. The city of Oakland has been branded in an unfair way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954976\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954976\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bags of ground corn are seen in stacks near the bar for Popoca’s house-made masa corn flour in Oakland, Calif., on March 22, 2024.\u003cbr>CREDIT: Marissa Leshnov for KQED \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>People who have never lived in Oakland always seem to misunderstand it. But part of that intentionality you spoke about is in how you help these businesses get visibility. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try to always get people to try new spots, to come meet me at this restaurant or that bar or whatever. It’s in my blood to bring people together, and through the studio I’ve found a way to do that in a way that I’m proud of because of the real relationships I’ve built. This isn’t transactional. It’s like having homies with boundaries. It’s nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What do you have coming up next?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m actually working with [Popoca chef] Anthony Salguero to host a Cinco de Mayo dinner in this space in collaboration with chef Jacob from [the Chicano pop-up] \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937851/ofrendas-mexican-immigration-dinner-bolita-masa-sf-ica\">My Friend Fernando\u003c/a>. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928562/mission-art-and-comic-expo-chicano-latinx-artists\">a local painter, Alex Sodari\u003c/a>, who will be giving away his prints. It’s a dinner with art and community. Everyone sitting at the same table. I love what I do on a day-to-day, but I’m always thinking of how to drive more impact than just being a creative agency. How can we bring more people together? If we’re not doing that, then what’s the point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13954923 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior facade of the restaurant Popoca, with ornate columns and large windows extending the length of the building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the restaurant. \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If Only Creative’s special Cinco de Mayo dinner will be held at Popoca (906 Washington St., Oakland) on Sunday, May 5. The event is part of If Only’s private dinner series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ifonly-creative.com/shop-1/p/el-otro-lado\">El Otro Lado\u003c/a>. Tickets are available \u003ca href=\"https://www.ifonly-creative.com/shop-1/p/el-otro-lado\">online\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ifonlycreative/?hl=en\">If Only Creative\u003c/a> — a Berkeley-based creative agency that supports dope East Bay destinations such as Popoca, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thisisdaytrip.com/\">DAYTRIP\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.burdelloakland.com/\">Burdell\u003c/a> — Sanchez-Dunning is fiercely aligned with those who share her sense of community values. A homegrown Chicana, she predominantly works with small business owners of color. She carved her way into the scene with her relentless hustle, building her studio from the ground up by hiring other women of color that represent the Bay Area she knows. Beyond providing photography, social media management and branding for a handful of local outlets, Sanchez-Dunning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928459/cinco-de-mayo-vegan-dinner-el-otro-lado-oakland\">hosts events to celebrate the Bay’s rich food traditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954975\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13954975 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A restaurant server laughs as she takes an order from two customers sitting inside a sunny restaurant dining room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0054_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Alan Chazaro, left, and Marisa Sanchez-Dunning order their meal. \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a bustling evening at Popoca, despite a persistent rainstorm, I connected with her to discuss her role as a connector in the East Bay’s diverse food and bev world. I’ll be clear: I don’t typically meet with creative directors, PR flaks or other folks who work on the marketing side of the food scene. But, like Sanchez-Dunning and Salguero, I believe in the importance of nurturing and expanding the local ecosystem, and seeing things from every perspective — and I can appreciate the unseen work that Sanchez-Dunning is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay, sustaining your community can begin by simply sharing a soul-mending plate of pupusas with someone across the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ci>********\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Chazaro: You’re not a foodmaker, but you work closely with chefs and small business owners throughout the Bay Area’s culinary scene. How did you enter the food world?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisa Sanchez-Dunning:\u003c/b> My journey in food and hospitality started with my first job at 15 years old serving ice cream. Being in service, you get an appreciation for the whole spectrum. Eventually, I became a waitress. When I was 20, I worked at Peet’s and Scolari’s. I was working doubles, closing one shop late at night and opening another the next day. It’s all about the people you meet. You become a family, a community, and you realize how small the industry is here. That’s part of the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In college, I entered as a bio major, then I switched to journalism and ended up in marketing. I most enjoyed the creative classes: branding, design, photography. When I entered the 9 to 5 world, I started with branding and design agencies, and then I veered off to start my own agency through trial and error. I learned that my passion thrives the most in the food and bev industry. Bars, cafes, restaurants, CPGs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A CPG?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, my bad. Consumer Packaged Goods. It’s an annoying acronym (laughs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Word. That’s very corporate-y.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I honestly try to stay away from that (laughs). For me, food is where [my agency] thrives creatively. That’s what we’re genuinely passionate about. As far as I know, we’re the only Chicana-owned agency doing this in the Bay. In my industry, I’m kind of like the only one that looks like me doing what I’m doing and supporting the clients that I’m supporting. And I think being in the Bay, there is an appreciation and excitement around seeing a Chicana. There’s a connection to our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954974\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0112_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cara cara orange slices and beets topped alguashte is one of the small plates offered at Popoca in Oakland, Calif., on March 22, 2024.\u003cbr>CREDIT: Marissa Leshnov for KQED \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What have you noticed working in the local food industry? Are there any trends right now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s really a mix, and I love that. One thing is that everyone is working their asses off. Places like Popoca are what I support. There’s a specific group of people in the Bay that don’t have any major investors, who don’t come from tons of privilege and tons of money. That takes a certain amount of working your ass off to get where they’ve gotten, and I see that. Those [business owners] have to think authentically and genuinely about every decision made, from working with me to their hiring practices and their vendor sourcing. They make sure everything is in line with their values. That’s also how I operate, for better or worse. Luckily I have a team of amazing women who are helping me out. It may take longer, and it may be harder, but it’s more gratifying. To be real, as a business owner in the Bay working in food and bev, it’s not easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>We all can only do so much, and it can be draining. Finding that balance and intentionality is crucial. How can we keep our money and time in places that are deserving? And how can we increase access to experiences like Popoca?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>100%. I love going to places like this to support them. That’s basically what my entire role is with visual assets, videos, photos of the food and drinks. There’s so much beautiful storytelling on the plate. We’re in a digital world. If someone tells you about a spot they like, you’ll probably pull out your phone and check Instagram. Even just sharing that on social media or sending a text to your friend, it goes a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you realize like, \u003cem>Oh shit, this person is nixtamalizing corn and making their own masa? You’re making your own in-house crema from scratch? And not only that, but it’s also being sourced intentionally?\u003c/em> I fuck with that. I don’t want to take the easy way and work with corporate, and neither do a lot of [the foodmakers]. And there are lots of barriers to that, or even to these businesses being able to hire someone like me. Budget is the biggest one. It’s a Catch-22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13954918 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Hands holding horchata with star anise inside a wooden bowl.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0059-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popoca’s peanut horchata topped with star anise. \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What keeps you going?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to employ the community. Working with people who may look like me, but more importantly, who think like me and move around the world like me. There’s a secret superpower to thinking that way. And there are certain businesses in the Bay who are doing that and helping to build their communities. Here at Popoca, there’s an intentionality in trying to invest in Old Oakland. I love the dedication and inspiration that they get and give here. Same with Jo’s Modern Thai [in Oakland’s Laurel District]. The owner was born and raised in that neighborhood. They want to get that area popping. It’s not like Temescal, which gets all this attention. But these other areas deserve to have that elevation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Oakland, and the Bay as a whole, can be overwhelming with choices. And there are different perceptions people have about going to certain areas.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>I had a friend visiting from out of town and told them we were going to eat dinner in Oakland, and they asked, “Is it okay to go?” And that’s sad. It’s a whole thing. The city of Oakland has been branded in an unfair way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954976\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954976\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_Hella_Hungry_Popoca_ML_0107_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bags of ground corn are seen in stacks near the bar for Popoca’s house-made masa corn flour in Oakland, Calif., on March 22, 2024.\u003cbr>CREDIT: Marissa Leshnov for KQED \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>People who have never lived in Oakland always seem to misunderstand it. But part of that intentionality you spoke about is in how you help these businesses get visibility. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try to always get people to try new spots, to come meet me at this restaurant or that bar or whatever. It’s in my blood to bring people together, and through the studio I’ve found a way to do that in a way that I’m proud of because of the real relationships I’ve built. This isn’t transactional. It’s like having homies with boundaries. It’s nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What do you have coming up next?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m actually working with [Popoca chef] Anthony Salguero to host a Cinco de Mayo dinner in this space in collaboration with chef Jacob from [the Chicano pop-up] \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937851/ofrendas-mexican-immigration-dinner-bolita-masa-sf-ica\">My Friend Fernando\u003c/a>. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928562/mission-art-and-comic-expo-chicano-latinx-artists\">a local painter, Alex Sodari\u003c/a>, who will be giving away his prints. It’s a dinner with art and community. Everyone sitting at the same table. I love what I do on a day-to-day, but I’m always thinking of how to drive more impact than just being a creative agency. How can we bring more people together? If we’re not doing that, then what’s the point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13954923 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior facade of the restaurant Popoca, with ornate columns and large windows extending the length of the building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/20240322_KQED_HELLA_HUNGRY_POPOCA_ML_0137-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the restaurant. \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A lot of artists rap about triumphing over struggles in the past tense, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/caseycopesodope/\">Casey Cope\u003c/a> isn’t afraid to share them in real time. If you’ve been to one of his recent shows, you might’ve heard him riff about his absurdly bad 2023 — he had his catalytic converter stolen twice (and his entire car once), went through a breakup and got fired from his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It already takes tremendous sacrifice to make it as an artist in the expensive Bay Area, and for a while there, it seemed like everything was working against Cope. But the ever-resourceful rapper, producer and engineer turned his unlucky streak into fuel for his next solo project (out in the fall) and many collaborations. His next release, \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i>, arrives on April 12. It’s an album he, his musical partner in crime \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/marquitoooo_/\">Marquito\u003c/a> and a crew of 20 artists created from scratch in a 72-hour span, in a Berkeley studio Cope and Marquito helped build with their bare hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0dIU3nAeiJ12tym7WIe8cj?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cope is remarkably transparent about his grind. On mornings, he’ll post a picture of his hearty breakfast (eggs, turkey bacon, burnt toast) overlaid with a breakdown of his schedule, which can include teaching, catering and working at a sports radio station, depending on the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, in his lyrics, he’s straight up about the sacrifices he’s made to pursue not just his own musical career, but to foster a thriving community of independent artists. He owns it to the point that it’s become a flex: Audiences grin and nod along when he performs “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzGZdKwL2Ls\">Back Up!\u003c/a>,” his 2020 song with a punk-rock attitude that features the bar “Your girl likes broke n—s if she likes us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two musical collaborators pose in front of a computer monitor in a DIY music studio.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Cope and Marquito (left to right) at Studio Q in Berkeley on Mar. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being earnest has become important in my life, so as an artist, I just feel that translates,” Cope says. “When I was younger, like earlier 20s, I would go further in that lane — just a younger, less mature version. Like, ‘Oh, hey, look at me. I don’t rap about money and bitches.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rolls his eyes at his past self: “It’s like, ‘OK, come on, bro.’ But now it’s just like, I like being honest. And I think people appreciate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cope’s live shows, he’s not afraid to bring that same earnestness to the stage. His demeanor between songs tends to be jovial and charismatic; he articulates angry lyrics with a near-yelling intensity, then suddenly pivots into soft-spoken reflection. The display of raw emotion leaves people enthralled and slightly off balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cope doesn’t overthink it. “I usually read comics before I perform,” he says. “I will literally be reading up until one minute before I go on stage sometimes, and I just go up and I’m like, ‘All right, let’s do it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/24Gjglko2NP3ra4hlIZXeC?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cope entered hip-hop as somewhat of an outsider, but his eclectic influences have proven to be a strength. As a high school student in Hayward, he played guitar and listened to Green Day, Weezer and Sum 41. It was during this era that he connected with his classmate Marquito, who grew up playing mariachi music and now floats comfortably between jazz, hip-hop, R&B and even reggaeton. Today, the friends, who both rock long hair and beat-up sneakers, vibe on a shared genre-agnostic frequency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we just complement each other energetically inside and outside of music,” Marquito says. “We hang out, we talk shit, we laugh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955077\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Cope and Marquito at Studio Q in Berkeley on Mar. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During our interview at Studio Q, the DIY West Berkeley recording space spearheaded by their collaborator Big Soda, Cope and Marquito recount the \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i> sessions, which had configurations of rappers, singers, beatmakers and instrumentalists (including a tuba player) split up among the studio’s three rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free-flowing collabs led to unexpected output, including Stoni and Qing Qi rapping shit-talking bars over a skittering jazz instrumental, instead of the hyphy-adjacent slaps they typically go for. (That track will arrive on the \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i> deluxe album in May, along with a behind-the-scenes documentary.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Bay Area rap] is a lot more diverse than people realize,” Cope reflects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1805px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1805\" height=\"1850\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker.jpg 1805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-800x820.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-1020x1045.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-768x787.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-1499x1536.jpg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1805px) 100vw, 1805px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kchaya, Pandaraps, Casey Cope, Nüxia and Nick Tasker at the ‘Qamp III’ recording session. \u003ccite>(Jason Mageria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He and Marquito released the first \u003ci>Qamp\u003c/i> album in 2022, and for each iteration they’ve recruited a different set of artists who have since bonded and blossomed into a community. Other collaborators on \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i> include Marika Sage, a dynamic young vocalist equally comfortable in earthy, conscious rap and head-banging post-rock; jazz singer, trombonist and pianist Oddity; soulful guitarist, drummer and producer Ian Santillano; and over a dozen others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wide-ranging styles will be in full effect at the \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i> release show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tixr.com/groups/cornerstoneberkeley/events/qamp-album-release-show-97088\">April 13 at Berkeley venue Cornerstone\u003c/a>, which features performances from Cope, Marquito, Qing Qi, Marika Sage and singer Rittybo. Rittybo’s rich vocals shine on \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i>’s single, “You Already Know,” which has a g-funk bass line that brings to mind glossy Cutlasses and pool tables in old-school dive bars. [aside postid='arts_13954736']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Cope keeps hustling. In addition to \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i>, he and Marquito have music lined up as a duo, Los Lunes, named after their weekly Monday studio session together. And Cope’s solo album \u003ci>Life’s Never That Bad\u003c/i> arrives in the fall. The idea at its core is his self-described “blind optimism” that keeps him going as an artist, no matter how many catalytic converters he has to replace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s got some heartfelt notes,” he says. “There’s some hard, deep shit, but it’s also like, nope. Let’s play some cool bossa nova. Let’s play a jazz beat with Afrobeat drums. Life’s never that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.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>\u003cem>‘Qamp III’ comes out April 12 on all platforms. The full list of artists is: Anjali Asha, Casey Cope, CIN, ClayDough, Criibaby, Ian Santillano, Kchaya, Kiyomi, Marika Sage, Mungo Baby, Nick Tasker, Oddity, Pandaraps, Qing Qi, Rittybo, Sophia Bromberg, Stoni, SundaY, SuperGood4UThing, Surfer Dave, Tia Nomore, Tommy Holmes, Tope.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On April 13, Casey Cope, Marquito, Qing Qi, Marika Sage and Rittybo perform at Cornerstone in Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://www.tixr.com/groups/cornerstoneberkeley/events/qamp-album-release-show-97088\">Tickets and details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A lot of artists rap about triumphing over struggles in the past tense, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/caseycopesodope/\">Casey Cope\u003c/a> isn’t afraid to share them in real time. If you’ve been to one of his recent shows, you might’ve heard him riff about his absurdly bad 2023 — he had his catalytic converter stolen twice (and his entire car once), went through a breakup and got fired from his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It already takes tremendous sacrifice to make it as an artist in the expensive Bay Area, and for a while there, it seemed like everything was working against Cope. But the ever-resourceful rapper, producer and engineer turned his unlucky streak into fuel for his next solo project (out in the fall) and many collaborations. His next release, \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i>, arrives on April 12. It’s an album he, his musical partner in crime \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/marquitoooo_/\">Marquito\u003c/a> and a crew of 20 artists created from scratch in a 72-hour span, in a Berkeley studio Cope and Marquito helped build with their bare hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0dIU3nAeiJ12tym7WIe8cj?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cope is remarkably transparent about his grind. On mornings, he’ll post a picture of his hearty breakfast (eggs, turkey bacon, burnt toast) overlaid with a breakdown of his schedule, which can include teaching, catering and working at a sports radio station, depending on the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, in his lyrics, he’s straight up about the sacrifices he’s made to pursue not just his own musical career, but to foster a thriving community of independent artists. He owns it to the point that it’s become a flex: Audiences grin and nod along when he performs “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzGZdKwL2Ls\">Back Up!\u003c/a>,” his 2020 song with a punk-rock attitude that features the bar “Your girl likes broke n—s if she likes us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two musical collaborators pose in front of a computer monitor in a DIY music studio.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Cope and Marquito (left to right) at Studio Q in Berkeley on Mar. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being earnest has become important in my life, so as an artist, I just feel that translates,” Cope says. “When I was younger, like earlier 20s, I would go further in that lane — just a younger, less mature version. Like, ‘Oh, hey, look at me. I don’t rap about money and bitches.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rolls his eyes at his past self: “It’s like, ‘OK, come on, bro.’ But now it’s just like, I like being honest. And I think people appreciate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cope’s live shows, he’s not afraid to bring that same earnestness to the stage. His demeanor between songs tends to be jovial and charismatic; he articulates angry lyrics with a near-yelling intensity, then suddenly pivots into soft-spoken reflection. The display of raw emotion leaves people enthralled and slightly off balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cope doesn’t overthink it. “I usually read comics before I perform,” he says. “I will literally be reading up until one minute before I go on stage sometimes, and I just go up and I’m like, ‘All right, let’s do it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/24Gjglko2NP3ra4hlIZXeC?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cope entered hip-hop as somewhat of an outsider, but his eclectic influences have proven to be a strength. As a high school student in Hayward, he played guitar and listened to Green Day, Weezer and Sum 41. It was during this era that he connected with his classmate Marquito, who grew up playing mariachi music and now floats comfortably between jazz, hip-hop, R&B and even reggaeton. Today, the friends, who both rock long hair and beat-up sneakers, vibe on a shared genre-agnostic frequency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we just complement each other energetically inside and outside of music,” Marquito says. “We hang out, we talk shit, we laugh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955077\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240327-CASEY-COPE-KSM-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Cope and Marquito at Studio Q in Berkeley on Mar. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During our interview at Studio Q, the DIY West Berkeley recording space spearheaded by their collaborator Big Soda, Cope and Marquito recount the \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i> sessions, which had configurations of rappers, singers, beatmakers and instrumentalists (including a tuba player) split up among the studio’s three rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free-flowing collabs led to unexpected output, including Stoni and Qing Qi rapping shit-talking bars over a skittering jazz instrumental, instead of the hyphy-adjacent slaps they typically go for. (That track will arrive on the \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i> deluxe album in May, along with a behind-the-scenes documentary.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Bay Area rap] is a lot more diverse than people realize,” Cope reflects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1805px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1805\" height=\"1850\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker.jpg 1805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-800x820.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-1020x1045.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-768x787.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Kchaya-Pandaraps-Casey-Cope-Nuxia-Nick-Tasker-1499x1536.jpg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1805px) 100vw, 1805px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kchaya, Pandaraps, Casey Cope, Nüxia and Nick Tasker at the ‘Qamp III’ recording session. \u003ccite>(Jason Mageria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He and Marquito released the first \u003ci>Qamp\u003c/i> album in 2022, and for each iteration they’ve recruited a different set of artists who have since bonded and blossomed into a community. Other collaborators on \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i> include Marika Sage, a dynamic young vocalist equally comfortable in earthy, conscious rap and head-banging post-rock; jazz singer, trombonist and pianist Oddity; soulful guitarist, drummer and producer Ian Santillano; and over a dozen others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wide-ranging styles will be in full effect at the \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i> release show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tixr.com/groups/cornerstoneberkeley/events/qamp-album-release-show-97088\">April 13 at Berkeley venue Cornerstone\u003c/a>, which features performances from Cope, Marquito, Qing Qi, Marika Sage and singer Rittybo. Rittybo’s rich vocals shine on \u003ci>Qamp III\u003c/i>’s single, “You Already Know,” which has a g-funk bass line that brings to mind glossy Cutlasses and pool tables in old-school dive bars. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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His works to date foreground mothering and queerness, piercing the heart of an Asian refugee experience in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebrated poet and novelist comes to the Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive on Thursday, April 4 for a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/avenali-lecture-ocean-vuong-conversation-cathy-park-hong\">conversation\u003c/a> with \u003cem>Minor Feelings\u003c/em> author Cathy Park Hong and Friday, April 5 for a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/reading-ocean-vuong\">reading\u003c/a> from his 2022 poetry collection, \u003cem>Time Is a Mother\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/img_5981-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocean Vuong’s ‘Time Is a Mother.’ \u003ccite>(Olivia Cruz Mayeda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We often look at queerness being innately faulty, that it’s the queerness that makes these lives tragic,” Vuong \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjTiLodYG3Y&ab_channel=StrandBookStore\">said\u003c/a> at New York bookstore The Strand in 2020. “But in fact it’s hegemonic masculinity and this patriarchal structure that made these lives lose themselves within it, and so the tragedy is America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vuong’s writing also holds — in its gentle and expert hands — the very nature of language, of words. Vuong puts language in careful and powerful proximity to itself and “embraces the quiet between words,” as \u003ca href=\"https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/05/survival-as-a-creative-force-an-interview-with-ocean-vuong/\">described\u003c/a> by \u003cem>Paris Review\u003c/em> writer Spencer Quong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Writing as a poet is very akin to chemistry,” Vuong said. “And words have always lived this way for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 816px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Ocean.Vuong_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"816\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Ocean.Vuong_.jpg 816w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Ocean.Vuong_-800x998.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Ocean.Vuong_-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Ocean.Vuong_-768x958.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocean Vuong \u003ccite>(Tom Hines)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With striking turns of phrase in poems like “Old Glory” from \u003cem>Time Is a Mother\u003c/em>, Vuong lays bare the violence of the American vernacular. But he also offers readers a new way beyond the Western storytelling traditions that rely on death, sex and victory to move characters through plot by literal force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some folks do not survive this book, but their destruction was not necessary for the realization of the protagonist,” Vuong said of his novel. “And that’s how a lot of Western literature in the Western canon is given to us from the Greco-Roman tradition: David and Goliath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vuong instead reveres Asian storytelling structures like \u003ca href=\"https://artofnarrative.com/2020/07/08/kishotenketsu-exploring-the-four-act-story-structure/\">kishōtenketsu\u003c/a>, which emphasizes deepening of self instead of conquest over others. 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Both events are free and open to the general public, first come, first served. \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/avenali-lecture-ocean-vuong-conversation-cathy-park-hong\">Details here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/reading-ocean-vuong\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Friday 6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small Press Distribution (SPD), the 55-year-old nonprofit literary distributor, has closed its doors effective immediately. A reduced team is winding down business operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know this news is both sudden and devastating,” read the March 28 announcement on the SPD website. “Several years of declining sales and the loss of grant support … have combined to squeeze our budget beyond the breaking point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, SPD completed the move of over 300,000 books from their Berkeley warehouse to facilities run by Ingram Content Group in Tennessee and Publishers Storage and Shipping in Michigan. This was part of an effort, according to Publisher’s Weekly, to cut operating costs while increasing services for the some 400 publishers who use SPD’s distribution services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit had raised more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-diverse-independent-literature-in-america\">$100,000 in a GoFundMe\u003c/a> to support the move, and earlier this year SPD launched yet another fundraiser to help it focus on expanding print-on-demand, eBooks, and global distribution. Donations were still coming in this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the heroic efforts of a tireless staff to raise new funds, find new sales channels for our presses, and move from our outdated Berkeley warehouse, we are simply no longer able to make ends meet,” said Kent Watson, SPD’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1969, SPD is the only nonprofit literary distributor in the country. It distinguished itself as a place that helped indie publishers to get experimental, avant-garde works into the hands of booksellers and customers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better.jpg\" alt=\"Warehouse shelves full of boxes of books\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-800x456.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-768x438.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-1020x582.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small Press Distribution, one of the last remaining independent book distributors in the country, moved over 300,000 books into facilities owned by Ingram Content Group and Publishers Storage and Shipping. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Against all odds, a tiny distribution service in the back of Berkeley’s Serendipity Books grew to help authors attain some of the literary world’s crowning achievements,” the announcement says. “SPD-distributed authors won multiple National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants, PEN Awards, Lambda Literary Awards — nearly 100 awards since 2019 alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poet Jean Day, who worked at SPD in the late 1970s and served as its director beginning in 1983, said the end of SPD is a blow. SPD introduced her to the poetry world during an era when the Bay Area was one of the centers of small press publishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it will be a lot harder to get small presses into libraries and bookstores, Day said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPD survived for decades through shrinking arts funding, the decline in independent bookstores, the rise of the internet, and the domination of the book market by Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Publishing poetry especially, but any kind of non-mainstream literature, is never going to attract the numbers that make publishing possible,” Day said. “I don’t mean profitable, I mean even possible to break even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent ears, SPD has been rocked by instability and controversy. Watson, the current executive director, was hired in 2022 following an 18-month period of uncertainty after the resignation of Brent Cunningham. 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Many described feeling abandoned or betrayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Ryan Ruby posted that the collapse of SPD is a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a magazine goes, it’s a terrible thing, but from the point of view of the magazine world it’s like losing a limb. For small press world, this is heart failure,” Ruby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presses did not see this coming, said Josh Savory, the editor-in-chief and co-creator of Game Over Books in Boston. 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This was part of an effort, according to Publisher’s Weekly, to cut operating costs while increasing services for the some 400 publishers who use SPD’s distribution services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit had raised more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-diverse-independent-literature-in-america\">$100,000 in a GoFundMe\u003c/a> to support the move, and earlier this year SPD launched yet another fundraiser to help it focus on expanding print-on-demand, eBooks, and global distribution. Donations were still coming in this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the heroic efforts of a tireless staff to raise new funds, find new sales channels for our presses, and move from our outdated Berkeley warehouse, we are simply no longer able to make ends meet,” said Kent Watson, SPD’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1969, SPD is the only nonprofit literary distributor in the country. It distinguished itself as a place that helped indie publishers to get experimental, avant-garde works into the hands of booksellers and customers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better.jpg\" alt=\"Warehouse shelves full of boxes of books\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-800x456.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-768x438.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-1020x582.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small Press Distribution, one of the last remaining independent book distributors in the country, moved over 300,000 books into facilities owned by Ingram Content Group and Publishers Storage and Shipping. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Against all odds, a tiny distribution service in the back of Berkeley’s Serendipity Books grew to help authors attain some of the literary world’s crowning achievements,” the announcement says. “SPD-distributed authors won multiple National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants, PEN Awards, Lambda Literary Awards — nearly 100 awards since 2019 alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poet Jean Day, who worked at SPD in the late 1970s and served as its director beginning in 1983, said the end of SPD is a blow. SPD introduced her to the poetry world during an era when the Bay Area was one of the centers of small press publishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it will be a lot harder to get small presses into libraries and bookstores, Day said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPD survived for decades through shrinking arts funding, the decline in independent bookstores, the rise of the internet, and the domination of the book market by Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Publishing poetry especially, but any kind of non-mainstream literature, is never going to attract the numbers that make publishing possible,” Day said. “I don’t mean profitable, I mean even possible to break even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent ears, SPD has been rocked by instability and controversy. Watson, the current executive director, was hired in 2022 following an 18-month period of uncertainty after the resignation of Brent Cunningham. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1533px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with a short bob haircut stands in a collared shirt and pants at a large metal printing press in a cluttered room.\" width=\"1533\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing.jpg 1533w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-1020x1277.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-768x962.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Paul-Steinbrink_1972_printing-1226x1536.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1533px) 100vw, 1533px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta at her printing press, circa 1972. Founded in 1969, Shameless Hussy Press was first to publish the work of Ntozake Shange and others, and is recognized as the first feminist press in the United States. \u003ccite>(Paul Steinbrink)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alta Gerrey loved being in the thick of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The award-winning poet, gallerist and people magnet — who published under a single moniker, Alta — kicked down the door to the predominately male preserve of publishing in the early 1970s. With a keen eye for talent, she ushered some of the most consequential women writers of that turbulent era onto the literary scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She died March 10 at the age of 81, at home in Oakland, after a long struggle with cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954752\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-800x711.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-1020x907.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-768x683.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta-70s_unknown-1536x1366.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in the 1970s. Photographer unknown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kia Simon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many women who joined the feminist movement’s second wave in the late 1960s, Alta had been active in the civil rights movement. After realizing that she and her peers couldn’t get their work published, she launched \u003ca href=\"https://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/alta\">the nation’s first feminist press\u003c/a> in 1969, Shameless Hussy Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ribald name signaled both Alta’s irreverent sensibility and her openness to writers who were sidelined and ignored by mainstream publishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had been reading Anaïs Nin’s diaries, and I knew that she and Henry Miller had made books on a letterpress,” she told Irene Reti in an interview for an essay about Shameless Hussy Press for the UC Santa Cruz University Library, which holds the \u003ca href=\"https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf396nb2dv/admin/\">Shameless Hussy archives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1211px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1211\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover.jpg 1211w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-800x1268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-1020x1617.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-160x254.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-768x1218.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-969x1536.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1211px) 100vw, 1211px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta’s 1980 anthology, ‘The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays and Poetry.’ \u003ccite>(Crossing Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shameless Hussy was the first to publish Ntozake Shange’s \u003cem>for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf\u003c/em>, which went on to become a Tony-winning Broadway play. It introduced Mitsuye Yamada, whose \u003cem>Camp Notes and Other Poems\u003c/em> were written during and after her experience in Minidoka, the internment camp in Hunt, Idaho. Shameless Hussy was also the first to publish work by Pat Parker, Susan Griffin, and Mary Mackey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mackey credits Alta with launching a career that now includes \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> best-selling novels and eight volumes of poetry. Even with Fred Cody serving as her agent, Mackey couldn’t find a publisher for her first novel, 1972’s \u003cem>Immersion\u003c/em>, a roman à clef about “a woman looking for her own personal and sexual liberation in the jungles of Costa Rica,” Mackey said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alta looked at it and said, ‘I’m going to print it.’ She had the ability to look at a piece of work and not care who you knew, what class you were, or how you identified. She could see things in the work itself,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta, holding court in 1988. \u003ccite>(Harold Parrish)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Susan Griffin was part of an Oakland women’s group with Alta and had faced multiple rejections from mainstream publishing houses when Shameless Hussy published her books \u003cem>The Sink: Six Short Stories\u003c/em> and \u003cem>dear sky\u003c/em>, a collection of poems. Part of the book deal involved working with Alta’s AB Dick 360 offset press, which she moved to San Lorenzo after receiving multiple death threats from people offended by work she had published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would come out to San Lorenzo and help a couple of days in the printing process,” Griffin recalled. “She was a bit wacky, mostly in a great way, but sometimes not. Alta was just one of the most courageous people I knew. She was very very honest, unless she was on purpose not being honest. She would tell you about anything, say anything, or do anything she thought was right. That made her very effective regarding social change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid 1970s, Alta had returned to Oakland, where she continued printing batches of groundbreaking poetry, essays and novels until 1989. The press’s biggest money maker was \u003cem>Calamity Jane’s Letters to her Daughter\u003c/em>, a collection of uncertain provenance that got increased attention in 2016 when actor Ethan Hawke listed it as one of the best books he’d recently read. (Alta quickly printed up a batch of new copies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-768x597.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-1536x1194.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Shameless Hussy Press titles included ‘Calamity Jane’s Letters to Her Daughter’ and Ntozake Shange’s ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.’ \u003ccite>(Shameless Hussy Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Running her own press gave Alta tremendous freedom, but it wasn’t a one-woman show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was part of the operation,” said her daughter Kia Simon, an independent video editor who sometimes works for KQED. “In elementary school we were making 10 cents an hour to fold books. It was a family business. My stepdad was pumping gas at a service station when they met, and he moved in with us. He was very focused on distribution, and the press actually paid for itself for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954747\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in Oakland, in 2010. \u003ccite>(Kia Simon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in 1942 in Reno, Nevada, Alta was 12 when her family moved to Berkeley so that her brother could attend the California School for the Blind. In the early 1960s, she dropped out of UC Berkeley to teach in the South. After the end of her first marriage to Danny Bosserman, she became caught up in the Bay Area’s literary ferment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her partnership with poet and noted Spanish-language translator John Oliver Simon ended in 1970, she founded a commune in Oakland for women seeking refuge from abusive relationships, which she wrote about enduring herself. Her second marriage to Daniel “Angel” Skarry in the early 1970s ended in divorce a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta’s 1980 book \u003ci>The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays and Poetry\u003c/i> won a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Other volumes include 1990’s \u003ci>Traveling Tales: Flings I’ve Flung in Foreign Parts\u003c/i> and 2015’s \u003ci>Another Moment: Living Well with a Dread Disease and Everything That Grows Can Also Shrink\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in early 2024. \u003ccite>(Pam Strayer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Always looking to stay in the mix culturally, she opened Alta Galleria in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood in 2006, representing local artists and artists from China. She was forced to close the gallery due to the financial straits of the 2008 recession. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Alta spent many years studying healing and diet while contending with increasingly limited mobility. She was a regular presence in her Temescal neighborhood, hanging out for hours with other writers, academics and artists at Pizzaiolo, where she always had a copy of the \u003cem>Financial Times\u003c/em> and never seemed to pick up a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alta had a superpower for eating for free at restaurants,” Simon said. “There are a bunch of places where she wouldn’t get a bill, and Pizzaiolo was one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta is survived by her daughters Lorelei Bosserman of Oakland and Kia Simon of San Francisco, as well as her granddaughter Tesla Rose Moyer. A memorial will be held at noon on April 21 at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shameless Hussy \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i am one of the true hussies;\u003cbr>\ni have no shame;\u003cbr>\ni was a housewife, and\u003cbr>\nstretched from the housiness of it (hus)\u003cbr>\nand the wifiness of (wif/hus-wif) to\u003cbr>\na woman who cant bear wifedom (hussy) / i\u003cbr>\ngrew beyond the house, like alice after eating\u003cbr>\ntoo many cookies. exactly what i did; i ate\u003cbr>\ntoo many cookies; lovers, poetry, moving my\u003cbr>\nbody in a new way, an old way, the way women\u003cbr>\nlike me have always moved, largely; with great\u003cbr>\nmotions beyond our allotted sphere, with more\u003cbr>\nneed than fear, and more grace than shame.[1]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>—By Alta\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had been reading Anaïs Nin’s diaries, and I knew that she and Henry Miller had made books on a letterpress,” she told Irene Reti in an interview for an essay about Shameless Hussy Press for the UC Santa Cruz University Library, which holds the \u003ca href=\"https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf396nb2dv/admin/\">Shameless Hussy archives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1211px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1211\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover.jpg 1211w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-800x1268.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-1020x1617.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-160x254.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-768x1218.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_shameless-hussy-cover-969x1536.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1211px) 100vw, 1211px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta’s 1980 anthology, ‘The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays and Poetry.’ \u003ccite>(Crossing Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shameless Hussy was the first to publish Ntozake Shange’s \u003cem>for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf\u003c/em>, which went on to become a Tony-winning Broadway play. It introduced Mitsuye Yamada, whose \u003cem>Camp Notes and Other Poems\u003c/em> were written during and after her experience in Minidoka, the internment camp in Hunt, Idaho. Shameless Hussy was also the first to publish work by Pat Parker, Susan Griffin, and Mary Mackey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mackey credits Alta with launching a career that now includes \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> best-selling novels and eight volumes of poetry. Even with Fred Cody serving as her agent, Mackey couldn’t find a publisher for her first novel, 1972’s \u003cem>Immersion\u003c/em>, a roman à clef about “a woman looking for her own personal and sexual liberation in the jungles of Costa Rica,” Mackey said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alta looked at it and said, ‘I’m going to print it.’ She had the ability to look at a piece of work and not care who you knew, what class you were, or how you identified. She could see things in the work itself,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/alta_1988_Harold-Parrish_gesture-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta, holding court in 1988. \u003ccite>(Harold Parrish)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Susan Griffin was part of an Oakland women’s group with Alta and had faced multiple rejections from mainstream publishing houses when Shameless Hussy published her books \u003cem>The Sink: Six Short Stories\u003c/em> and \u003cem>dear sky\u003c/em>, a collection of poems. Part of the book deal involved working with Alta’s AB Dick 360 offset press, which she moved to San Lorenzo after receiving multiple death threats from people offended by work she had published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would come out to San Lorenzo and help a couple of days in the printing process,” Griffin recalled. “She was a bit wacky, mostly in a great way, but sometimes not. Alta was just one of the most courageous people I knew. She was very very honest, unless she was on purpose not being honest. She would tell you about anything, say anything, or do anything she thought was right. That made her very effective regarding social change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid 1970s, Alta had returned to Oakland, where she continued printing batches of groundbreaking poetry, essays and novels until 1989. The press’s biggest money maker was \u003cem>Calamity Jane’s Letters to her Daughter\u003c/em>, a collection of uncertain provenance that got increased attention in 2016 when actor Ethan Hawke listed it as one of the best books he’d recently read. (Alta quickly printed up a batch of new copies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-768x597.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/shange-jane-1536x1194.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Shameless Hussy Press titles included ‘Calamity Jane’s Letters to Her Daughter’ and Ntozake Shange’s ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.’ \u003ccite>(Shameless Hussy Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Running her own press gave Alta tremendous freedom, but it wasn’t a one-woman show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was part of the operation,” said her daughter Kia Simon, an independent video editor who sometimes works for KQED. “In elementary school we were making 10 cents an hour to fold books. It was a family business. My stepdad was pumping gas at a service station when they met, and he moved in with us. He was very focused on distribution, and the press actually paid for itself for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954747\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Kia-Simon_2010_Oakland-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in Oakland, in 2010. \u003ccite>(Kia Simon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born in 1942 in Reno, Nevada, Alta was 12 when her family moved to Berkeley so that her brother could attend the California School for the Blind. In the early 1960s, she dropped out of UC Berkeley to teach in the South. After the end of her first marriage to Danny Bosserman, she became caught up in the Bay Area’s literary ferment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her partnership with poet and noted Spanish-language translator John Oliver Simon ended in 1970, she founded a commune in Oakland for women seeking refuge from abusive relationships, which she wrote about enduring herself. Her second marriage to Daniel “Angel” Skarry in the early 1970s ended in divorce a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta’s 1980 book \u003ci>The Shameless Hussy: Selected Stories, Essays and Poetry\u003c/i> won a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Other volumes include 1990’s \u003ci>Traveling Tales: Flings I’ve Flung in Foreign Parts\u003c/i> and 2015’s \u003ci>Another Moment: Living Well with a Dread Disease and Everything That Grows Can Also Shrink\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Alta_Pam-Strayer_2024-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta in early 2024. \u003ccite>(Pam Strayer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Always looking to stay in the mix culturally, she opened Alta Galleria in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood in 2006, representing local artists and artists from China. She was forced to close the gallery due to the financial straits of the 2008 recession. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Alta spent many years studying healing and diet while contending with increasingly limited mobility. She was a regular presence in her Temescal neighborhood, hanging out for hours with other writers, academics and artists at Pizzaiolo, where she always had a copy of the \u003cem>Financial Times\u003c/em> and never seemed to pick up a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alta had a superpower for eating for free at restaurants,” Simon said. “There are a bunch of places where she wouldn’t get a bill, and Pizzaiolo was one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta is survived by her daughters Lorelei Bosserman of Oakland and Kia Simon of San Francisco, as well as her granddaughter Tesla Rose Moyer. A memorial will be held at noon on April 21 at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shameless Hussy \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i am one of the true hussies;\u003cbr>\ni have no shame;\u003cbr>\ni was a housewife, and\u003cbr>\nstretched from the housiness of it (hus)\u003cbr>\nand the wifiness of (wif/hus-wif) to\u003cbr>\na woman who cant bear wifedom (hussy) / i\u003cbr>\ngrew beyond the house, like alice after eating\u003cbr>\ntoo many cookies. exactly what i did; i ate\u003cbr>\ntoo many cookies; lovers, poetry, moving my\u003cbr>\nbody in a new way, an old way, the way women\u003cbr>\nlike me have always moved, largely; with great\u003cbr>\nmotions beyond our allotted sphere, with more\u003cbr>\nneed than fear, and more grace than shame.[1]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954605\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954605\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_dog_2000px-1.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of two men eating hot dogs standing up, inside the hot dog shop. Behind them, a woman adds ketchup to her hot dog.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_dog_2000px-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_dog_2000px-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_dog_2000px-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_dog_2000px-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_dog_2000px-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_dog_2000px-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_dog_2000px-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In its own way, Top Dog is a quintessential Berkeley restaurant — one that feeds hungry college students, and also middle-aged cartoonists and writers, until 3 a.m. on weekends. \u003ccite>(Briana Loewinsohn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Midnight Diners\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and artist Thien Pham. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene. This week, guest artist \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brianabreaks/?hl=en\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Briana Loewinsohn\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> joins the excursion.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you attended UC Berkeley, or spent any significant amount of time near campus, then Top Dog requires no introduction. Open since 1966, the original Durant Avenue location is just a slip of a no-frills hot dog joint, with a bar of self-serve condiments and toppings and a small counter where maybe three diners, tops, can stand shoulder-to-shoulder while housing some classic all-beef wieners. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For generations of Berkeleyites, however, the place is magic. People always want to start with Chez Panisse when telling the city’s illustrious food history, but in its own way, Top Dog is just as much of a quintessentially Berkeley restaurant, with its jaunty wiener-in-a-top-hat logo, offbeat libertarian propaganda posters (“Discard Statism. Unbend the Knee!”) and gruff grill cooks who brook no bullshit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Top Dog has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Top-Dog-Berkeley-libertarian-aid-coronavirus-15200903.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">endured\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for all these years, through various \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2017/08/13/berkeleys-top-dog-fires-employee-went-white-nationalist-rally\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">controversies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and nightmarish street parking, for one simple reason: The hot dogs themselves are so damn good. Especially when you walk into the shop at 2 a.m., when every other restaurant in the vicinity is closed, there isn’t a more beautiful sight than the Top Dog flat-top, which is always piled high with dozens of sizzling sausages — more than you would think is advisable to cook at one time. But those grillmasters know what they’re doing. For as long as I’ve lived in the Bay Area, packages of cold Top Dog franks have been easy enough to buy and cook at home. They just never taste as good as they do at the mothership.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_Dog_2000px-2.jpg\" alt='Exterior of a hot dog restaurant. The \"Top Dog\" sign has a logo of a hot dog wearing a top hat.' width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_Dog_2000px-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_Dog_2000px-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_Dog_2000px-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_Dog_2000px-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_Dog_2000px-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_Dog_2000px-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Top_Dog_2000px-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Berkeley location has been open since 1966. \u003ccite>(Briana Loewinsohn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are 11 different sausages on the menu, each of them with their own brigade of loyalists. The original kosher all-beef dogs are, of course, unimpeachable, with that snappiness to their casing that’s at the heart of the restaurant’s almost-60-year legacy. If you eat pork, though? Allow me to recommend the garlic frankfurter, which boasts a 75/25 mix of beef and pork and fresh garlic in the sausage itself, resulting in the juiciest, most flavorful dog of them all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13954112,arts_13930727,arts_13914585']\u003c/span>Really, though, it’s hard to go wrong. The hot links are excellent, more akin to spicy frankfurters than the kind of thing you’d get a barbecue spot. If you’d like something a little softer and squishier, the bockwurst has your name written on it. And, with apologies to anyone from Chicago or New York, I’m convinced that Top Dog’s crusty, well-toasted sesame-seed French rolls might be the greatest hot dog bun of them all. They just have the perfect amount of airiness and chew.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The best thing about eating a Top Dog at 1 o’clock in the morning is the simplicity of the meal. The dogs don’t really need anything added, though a tub of the mild, creamy potato salad makes for a nice side. And the standard, serve-yourself condiments station, in its own way, stays true to the restaurant’s libertarian spirit. Want to drench your hot dog with ketchup like you’re a small child? No one will judge you here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You would think that this slice of campus around Durant and Telegraph avenues would be a gold mine for after-hours deliciousness, but the options are surprisingly sparse. There’s Kingpin Donuts (a late-night legend in its own right), a couple of pizzerias, a boba shop — and, honestly, not much else of note. Gourmet sports bars, fancified Taco Bells, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqedfood/p/Ct4ciTYR5-t/?img_index=1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">late-night coffee shops\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and “Munchie”-themed meal delivery services have come and gone and come again, but at the end of a long, hungry night, Top Dog is still the king. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">May it reign for many years to come.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.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>\u003ca href=\"http://www.topdoghotdogs.com/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Top Dog’s\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> original Berkeley location is at 2543 Durant Ave. in Berkeley. 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"content": "\u003cp>When I first started watching \u003ci>A Brighter Summer Day\u003c/i>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/taiwanese\">Taiwanese\u003c/a> filmmaker Edward Yang’s bittersweet chronicle of teenage street gangs in 1960 Taipei, I was more than a little dubious. The film has a four-hour (!) runtime, after all, and my past experiences with Taiwan New Wave cinema — with its long, languid takes and relative lack of dialogue — had been middling at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needn’t have worried. From its opening moments, the film transfixed me with its slow-simmering portrayal of rebellious, misunderstood and (sometimes) delinquent youths who roam the streets of Taipei during a particularly uneasy time in Taiwan’s history. Occasionally, the kids are brawling with concrete bricks and baseball bats. In other scenes, though, they’re eating shaved ice on a hot summer day. Crooning American rock ‘n’ roll ballads with the voice of an angel. Falling in love for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is screening on March 23 at \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/\">Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\u003c/a>, which is a few weeks into a months-long series, \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/program/edward-yangs-taipei-stories\">Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories\u003c/a>, during which they’ll show all seven films that the legendary director made before he died in 2007. Taken together, the series makes a compelling case for what many film buffs, including BAMPFA Associate Film Curator Kate MacKay, have concluded: that Yang was “one of the all-time greats of cinema.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_A-Brighter-Summer-Day_005.jpg\" alt=\"Teenage boys in matching khaki green school uniforms stand in a row, looking off to the side with serious expressions.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_A-Brighter-Summer-Day_005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_A-Brighter-Summer-Day_005-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_A-Brighter-Summer-Day_005-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_A-Brighter-Summer-Day_005-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_A-Brighter-Summer-Day_005-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_A-Brighter-Summer-Day_005-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_A-Brighter-Summer-Day_005-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another still from ‘A Brighter Summer Day.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13951535,arts_11023362,arts_13954039']MacKay says she first fell in love with Yang’s films when she was working as a projectionist for a retrospective of his work at Toronto’s Cinematheque Ontario in 2008. Over the course of her time at BAMPFA, the theater has screened a handful of Yang’s films as one-offs or as part of a broader series. But the wheels were set in motion for a full retrospective a couple of years ago, when the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute announced that it was digitally restoring several of his features, including some that had never seen a proper U.S. release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that Yang’s shots are long and immaculately composed, and that his characters are often filmed at an artful distance. MacKay describes his cinematic universe as “so beautiful and smart and poignant,” from a visual standpoint. At the same time, MacKay says, Yang’s work is emotionally astute and has a wonderful narrative complexity. “He’s a humanist filmmaker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The films are also hard to pigeonhole. On top of everything else, \u003ci>A Brighter Summer Day\u003c/i> (which BAMPFA will screen on \u003ca href=\"https://secure.bampfa.org/22861/22866\">March 23\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://secure.bampfa.org/22861/23595\">May 11\u003c/a>) is a crime epic, at its heart, with a violent climax inspired by a real-life murder case that happened when Yang was growing up in Taiwan. Released in 1991, the film has an “elegiac quality” that MacKay especially admires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, \u003ci>A Confucian Confusion \u003c/i>(1994) and \u003ci>Mahjong \u003c/i>(1996) — screening on \u003ca href=\"https://secure.bampfa.org/22861/22867\">March 27\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://secure.bampfa.org/22861/22868\">April 6\u003c/a>, respectively — are biting, satirical comedies that poke fun at the materialism of the post-economic-boom Taiwan of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike previous generations of Taiwanese filmmakers, Yang was best known for his interest in the concerns and interior lives of everyday middle-class people. For example, \u003ci>That Day, on the Beach \u003c/i>(screening \u003ca href=\"https://secure.bampfa.org/22861/23593\">May 3\u003c/a>), Yang’s 1983 debut feature, tells the story of a chance meeting between two successful career women who reflect back on decisions they made, or didn’t make, that might have taken their lives down a different path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954592\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_Yi-Yi_004.jpg\" alt=\"A boy in a yellow T-shirt holds a camera to his face.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_Yi-Yi_004.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_Yi-Yi_004-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_Yi-Yi_004-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_Yi-Yi_004-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_Yi-Yi_004-768x500.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_Yi-Yi_004-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Yang_Yi-Yi_004-1920x1251.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from ‘Yi Yi,’ Yang’s most famous feature.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Finally, there’s \u003ci>Yi Yi\u003c/i> (screening April 20 and \u003ca href=\"https://secure.bampfa.org/22861/23594\">May 5\u003c/a>), Yang’s 2000 masterpiece, which is easily the filmmaker’s most famous and most widely acclaimed work — a movie that starts with a wedding and ends with a wake, and is framed around conversations that members of a multigenerational family have with the grandmother, who has fallen into a coma. It’s the film that prompted the \u003ci>New York Times \u003c/i>to call Yang “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/arts/film-a-poet-of-middleclass-life-played-out-in-taiwan.html\">a poet of middle-class life\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a dedicated audience in the Bay Area for what MacKay describes as “Asian auteur cinema,” and so it has been no surprise that the three movies that have screened so far — including Yang’s 1985 classic, \u003ci>Taipei Story\u003c/i>, for which the retrospective is named — all sold out. Several of the screenings also feature introductions by UC Berkeley professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.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>\u003ci>BAMPFA’s Edward Yang series ends on May 11. Tickets should be \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/program/edward-yangs-taipei-stories\">\u003ci>purchased in advance\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, as each screening is likely to sell out. The theater is located at 2155 Center St. in Berkeley.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>I’ve been going to Gaumenkitzel, the airy, sun-soaked German restaurant in West Berkeley, since my eldest child was an infant — my kids were practically raised on its cheesy, wiener-topped spätzle, which they love more than any mac ’n cheese. For twelve years now, we’ve dined at Gaumenkitzel at least once every couple of months — through good and bad economies and the worst of the pandemic, when the restaurant stayed afloat selling baked goods and big tubs of butternut squash soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the sort of familiar, comforting place where none of us even need to look at the menu: I know I’m just going to order the pork schnitzel, which always arrives at the table perfectly crispy and golden-brown. It’s never once let me down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a bitter pill to swallow, then, when the beloved restaurant \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/28/gaumenkitzel-berkeley-closing-heads-tails-bbq/\">announced a couple of weeks ago\u003c/a> that it would be closing on March 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chef and co-owner Anja Voth, who opened Gaumenkitzel in 2011 with her husband Kai Flache, says she has had a very difficult time staffing the restaurant ever since the start of the COVID shutdowns, to the point that the business became unsustainable. It’s an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/restaurants-staff-food-workers-17878883.php\">industry-wide problem\u003c/a>, but one that Voth believes hit her European-style kitchen — where every cook needs to master multiple cooking techniques instead of specializing in a single station — especially hard. It became harder and harder to find staff who stayed long enough to be properly trained, she says. She and Flache decided \u003ca href=\"https://www.gaumenkitzel.net/GaumenkitzelNoticeFebruary2024.pdf\">the only solution was to close\u003c/a> and perhaps look to open a smaller place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Gaumenkitzel-veggie-cake-photo-credit-Christina-Mueller.jpg\" alt=\"Pan-fried vegetable cake with greens and carrots on a white plate.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Gaumenkitzel-veggie-cake-photo-credit-Christina-Mueller.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Gaumenkitzel-veggie-cake-photo-credit-Christina-Mueller-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Gaumenkitzel-veggie-cake-photo-credit-Christina-Mueller-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Gaumenkitzel-veggie-cake-photo-credit-Christina-Mueller-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Gaumenkitzel-veggie-cake-photo-credit-Christina-Mueller-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Gaumenkitzel-veggie-cake-photo-credit-Christina-Mueller-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The veggie cake at Gaumenkitzel, based on a 1914 recipe from Hamburg, Germany. \u003ccite>(Christina Mueller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gaumenkitzel was never a particularly trendy restaurant. It sourced local, organic ingredients as diligently as any place in Berkeley but did so without a lot of fanfare. After its first few years of business, it rarely made the various best restaurant lists. Yet it persisted as a staple of the community. Oakland novelist Robin Sloan once called Gaumenkitzel his “favorite restaurant in the world,” marveling at how it managed to feel both fully German and fully Californian. “The place — its continued existence — just makes me happy,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the kind of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt7VuwNdLk0\">warm and welcoming place\u003c/a> where long-time Berkeleyites, in particular, would return again and again — for the schnitzel and spätzle, the fresh pretzels and obscure German beers, and jaw-dropping occasional specials like the butter-soaked emperor’s pancake. Voth recalls one older Jewish customer in her 80s or 90s — a Holocaust survivor who’d escaped Germany and hadn’t spoken German for 40 years. “It was a huge, huge compliment that she would come here,” Voth says. “You connect to people, and all of a sudden you’re a little bridge-builder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954350\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-emperors-pancake.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy seed flecked German pancake on a plate.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-emperors-pancake.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-emperors-pancake-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-emperors-pancake-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-emperors-pancake-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-emperors-pancake-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-emperors-pancake-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The emperor’s pancake. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When another elderly customer passed away, his family found a whole stackful of Gaumenkitzel receipts in a drawer. They thought, “Oh, that must have been an important place for him,” and asked Gaumenkitzel to cater the memorial luncheon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that sense of connection and hospitality that Voth looks back on most fondly. “That’s what it’s all about in life,” she says. “It’s not about making all this big money or my ego, like, ‘I’m the super chef. I’m so creative.’ It’s this happiness that food can create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant doesn’t have any special events planned for its final weekend. In fact, Voth says, the past three weeks have already seen such an outpouring of people visiting to say their final goodbyes, it has been overwhelming. All she asks for is customers’ understanding as the restaurant slowly ramps down its menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954351\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-schnitzel.jpg\" alt=\"Pork schnitzel over a bed of spätzle, topped with a lemon wedge.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-schnitzel.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-schnitzel-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-schnitzel-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-schnitzel-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-schnitzel-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-schnitzel-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/gaumenkitzel-schnitzel-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view of that glorious schnitzel. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13953224,arts_13950832,arts_13931303']Then, after taking a short break, Voth will begin actively looking for a new space to open a smaller version of Gaumenkitzel — one with a shorter menu but the same focus on providing comforting foods and a cozy, relaxed atmosphere. Somewhere in West Berkeley would be ideal, but she’s also open to adjacent cities like Albany and Emeryville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of all, Voth says, she doesn’t want anyone to feel like they’re to blame for Gaumenkitzel’s closure. No one should feel guilty and think, “I wish I had gone more often” or spent more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no blaming at all,” Voth says. “We got so much support from everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.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>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gaumenkitzel.net/\">\u003ci>Gaumenkitzel\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is open Wednesday to Friday from 4–8:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 8:30 p.m. Its final day of service will be on Sunday, March 24. Reservations strongly suggested.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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