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For the legions of fans packing Chase Center game after game — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047885/how-to-be-a-valkyries-fan-a-beginners-guide-to-bay-area-wnba-fandom\">many of them women and queer people\u003c/a> — the atmosphere rivals Oracle Arena during the Warriors’ 2010s championship run. Behind the decks, Bay Area nightlife fixtures Shellheart and LadyRyan provide the soundtrack, from warmups to the final buzzer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s 18,000 people I get to DJ in front of. It’s just motivated me so much,” Shellheart says, still visibly in disbelief that this is her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mainey\">mainey\u003c/a>,” she says. “I got chills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The rise of two nightlife luminaries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shellheart and LadyRyan have been friends and colleagues in the Bay Area music scene for a decade, but they’ve taken different paths to Ballhalla. Shellheart, who’s been DJing since 2014, is a major figure in Bay Area hip-hop: She’s the tour DJ for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979968/rexx-life-raj-in-rhythm-new-album\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a>, the Berkeley-raised rapper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she’s not on the road, Shellheart spins at big-name events, sharing stages with stars like DJ Jazzy Jeff and Anderson .Paak, or DJing atop the San Francisco Bay Ferry for P-Lo’s album release party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Shellheart plays a set for the Golden State Valkyries during a game at Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her day party, Good Times, is an Oakland summer staple, and her annual Green Party — celebrating her birthday — recently packed San Francisco’s Midway with hundreds of partygoers in head-to-toe forest, chartreuse and lime green outfits to see Bay Area rap heavy-hitters DaBoii and Kamaiyah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LadyRyan began spinning at Bay Area parties in 2006 and has become one of the most influential figures in Oakland’s LGBTQ+ scene. The party she co-founded 14 years ago, Soulovely — with its eclectic mix of hip-hop, house and multicultural sounds like dembow and dabke — continues to draw a passionate following of queer and trans people of color.[aside postID=arts_13980000 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Violet-Valkyries.jpg']Over the summer, LadyRyan got thousands dancing at festivals like Stern Grove, where she most recently opened for the Pointer Sisters, and the San Francisco Hip-Hop Festival, headlined by Digable Planets. She hosts a weekly radio show on KALW, and on Sept. 7, she’ll perform at Oakland Pride. She and her partner, Dennise Acio, also recently opened Golden Ratio, a cozy, inclusive cocktail lounge with a dance floor and giant disco ball in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Chase Center, LadyRyan and Shellheart hype the crowd during interactive T-shirt-throwing moments, timeouts and halftime. For both DJs, joining the Valkyries for their inaugural season is a career highlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people are there at their first game, and you catch that vibe, it makes you want to be involved in this major unison of excitement and celebration,” LadyRyan says. “You get there, and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, this is bigger than I thought it would be.’ They’re loud, and I’m loud with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they entered the sports world, both DJs found a supporter in the Warriors’ official DJ, D Sharp. A hip-hop veteran with the team since before their mid-2010s dynasty, D Sharp guided LadyRyan and Shellheart when they became the Valkyries’ official selectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13980968 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS00326_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS00326_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS00326_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS00326_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS00326_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ LadyRyan (left) and DJ ShellHeart (right) pose for a portrait before starting their “Cut a Rug” event at the venue ForTheCulture in Oakland on Sept. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Especially in the male-dominated industry where people kind of look at each other as competition,” LadyRyan says, “he’s one of those DJs that knows that there’s enough for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D Sharp has supported LadyRyan since they met almost a decade ago while performing at a pan-African festival. “She was killing it. And I was like, ‘Go, girl, do your thing,” he says. They bonded through mutual appreciation of each other’s DJing skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking about Shellheart, D Sharp beams with pride, recalling her on the jumbotron at a Valkyries game for the first time. “They gave her a DJ spotlight and she murdered that s—,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The WNBA embraces queer culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Valkyries’ selection of Shellheart and LadyRyan comes as the WNBA increasingly embraces its queer players and fans. When the league debuted in 1997, it marketed a feminine, straight image; in the 2000s, when WNBA greats like Sue Wicks and Sheryl Swoopes came out, it rocked the sports world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to 2025, LGBTQ+ players’ ability to be themselves is fueling the league’s growing mainstream popularity. During All-Star Weekend, charismatic Minnesota Lynx players Court Williams and Natisha “T” Hiedeman livestreamed off-court antics on their Twitch channel, StudBudz, to give fans unprecedented behind-the-scenes access for 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ LadyRyan plays her set as a friend chats with her at the “Cut a Rug” event at the venue ForTheCulture in Oakland on Sept. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They went viral, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6507411/2025/07/22/stud-budz-studbudz-courtney-williams-natisha-hiedeman-wnba-twitch/\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> called them a “sensation.”\u003c/a> During the same weekend, the Dallas Wings’ No. 1 overall draft pick Paige Bueckers hard-launched her relationship with University of Connecticut player Azzi Fudd, adding to a growing list of WNBA couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shellheart was at the center of the All-Star Weekend, hanging with the players at the celebrations and afterparties. She’d DJed NBA All-Star parties before, but the W felt different. “Just seeing all the beautiful women, all the athletic women — being around women that are wealthy, you know?” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shellheart, this is it,” she remembers telling herself. “This is where you belong.”[aside postID=arts_13977457 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/RIKKIS-0326-fave.jpg']For LadyRyan, DJing on such a massive platform that centers women comes with a sense of pride. Her sets feature amped-up anthems like Beyoncé’s “My House” and Doechii’s “Nissan Altima.” “It just feels comfortable and really empowering,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Chase Center during Valkyries games, it’s common to see Pride flags, fashion-forward queer friend groups and couples on dates. But LadyRyan warns that openness comes with backlash: a contingent of incel-ish MNBA fans routinely post sexist and homophobic comments on social media. In the past month, three men were arrested for throwing sex toys onto the court during WNBA games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t discriminated against to begin with, we wouldn’t have to be proud about it, you know? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent August afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-state-valkyries\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a> guard Kaitlyn Chen looks up, bends her knees and releases the ball with a flick of the wrist, sinking another 3-pointer. Down the violet-tinted court, forward Cecilia Zandalasini runs drills, crouching low as she dribbles the ball between her legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two hours before tip-off, the Valkyries are getting ready to take on the Phoenix Mercury. To hype up the players, DJ Shellheart is behind the decks, blending Soulja Boy’s nostalgic swag rap with the sad-boy crooning of Drake and the cocky, Memphis-inflected flow of GloRilla. By the time she hits a transition into E-40’s “Yay Area,” the players are clearly feeling themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it dooo?” Kate Martin says as she jogs by and fist-bumps Shellheart, who has one eye on her DJ controller and the other on the players, making sure they’re responding to the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love a good DJ,” guard Tiffany Hayes tells KQED courtside, pointing to a music note tattoo on her ankle. “I think positive frequencies are important. … The DJ in here got us rockin’ right now, gettin’ ready for the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039501/wnbas-newest-team-golden-state-valkyries-kick-off-first-season\">inaugural season\u003c/a>, the Valkyries have made WNBA history, consistently selling out Chase Center and breaking the record for most wins by an expansion team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/20250516_VALKYRIESHOMEOPENER_GC-66-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/20250516_VALKYRIESHOMEOPENER_GC-66-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/20250516_VALKYRIESHOMEOPENER_GC-66-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/20250516_VALKYRIESHOMEOPENER_GC-66-KQED-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/20250516_VALKYRIESHOMEOPENER_GC-66-KQED-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden State Valkyries guard Tiffany Hayes (15) advances towards the basket as Los Angeles Sparks guard Odyssey Sims (0) defends during the Valkyries’ home opener at Chase Center on May 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along the way, they’ve cultivated an unmatched energy at “Ballhalla,” as their home arena is known. For the legions of fans packing Chase Center game after game — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047885/how-to-be-a-valkyries-fan-a-beginners-guide-to-bay-area-wnba-fandom\">many of them women and queer people\u003c/a> — the atmosphere rivals Oracle Arena during the Warriors’ 2010s championship run. Behind the decks, Bay Area nightlife fixtures Shellheart and LadyRyan provide the soundtrack, from warmups to the final buzzer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s 18,000 people I get to DJ in front of. It’s just motivated me so much,” Shellheart says, still visibly in disbelief that this is her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mainey\">mainey\u003c/a>,” she says. “I got chills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The rise of two nightlife luminaries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shellheart and LadyRyan have been friends and colleagues in the Bay Area music scene for a decade, but they’ve taken different paths to Ballhalla. Shellheart, who’s been DJing since 2014, is a major figure in Bay Area hip-hop: She’s the tour DJ for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979968/rexx-life-raj-in-rhythm-new-album\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a>, the Berkeley-raised rapper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she’s not on the road, Shellheart spins at big-name events, sharing stages with stars like DJ Jazzy Jeff and Anderson .Paak, or DJing atop the San Francisco Bay Ferry for P-Lo’s album release party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00605_TV-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Shellheart plays a set for the Golden State Valkyries during a game at Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her day party, Good Times, is an Oakland summer staple, and her annual Green Party — celebrating her birthday — recently packed San Francisco’s Midway with hundreds of partygoers in head-to-toe forest, chartreuse and lime green outfits to see Bay Area rap heavy-hitters DaBoii and Kamaiyah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LadyRyan began spinning at Bay Area parties in 2006 and has become one of the most influential figures in Oakland’s LGBTQ+ scene. The party she co-founded 14 years ago, Soulovely — with its eclectic mix of hip-hop, house and multicultural sounds like dembow and dabke — continues to draw a passionate following of queer and trans people of color.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Over the summer, LadyRyan got thousands dancing at festivals like Stern Grove, where she most recently opened for the Pointer Sisters, and the San Francisco Hip-Hop Festival, headlined by Digable Planets. She hosts a weekly radio show on KALW, and on Sept. 7, she’ll perform at Oakland Pride. She and her partner, Dennise Acio, also recently opened Golden Ratio, a cozy, inclusive cocktail lounge with a dance floor and giant disco ball in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Chase Center, LadyRyan and Shellheart hype the crowd during interactive T-shirt-throwing moments, timeouts and halftime. For both DJs, joining the Valkyries for their inaugural season is a career highlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people are there at their first game, and you catch that vibe, it makes you want to be involved in this major unison of excitement and celebration,” LadyRyan says. “You get there, and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, this is bigger than I thought it would be.’ They’re loud, and I’m loud with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they entered the sports world, both DJs found a supporter in the Warriors’ official DJ, D Sharp. 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And I was like, ‘Go, girl, do your thing,” he says. They bonded through mutual appreciation of each other’s DJing skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking about Shellheart, D Sharp beams with pride, recalling her on the jumbotron at a Valkyries game for the first time. “They gave her a DJ spotlight and she murdered that s—,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The WNBA embraces queer culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Valkyries’ selection of Shellheart and LadyRyan comes as the WNBA increasingly embraces its queer players and fans. When the league debuted in 1997, it marketed a feminine, straight image; in the 2000s, when WNBA greats like Sue Wicks and Sheryl Swoopes came out, it rocked the sports world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to 2025, LGBTQ+ players’ ability to be themselves is fueling the league’s growing mainstream popularity. During All-Star Weekend, charismatic Minnesota Lynx players Court Williams and Natisha “T” Hiedeman livestreamed off-court antics on their Twitch channel, StudBudz, to give fans unprecedented behind-the-scenes access for 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250901-VALKYRIESDJS01816_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ LadyRyan plays her set as a friend chats with her at the “Cut a Rug” event at the venue ForTheCulture in Oakland on Sept. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They went viral, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6507411/2025/07/22/stud-budz-studbudz-courtney-williams-natisha-hiedeman-wnba-twitch/\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> called them a “sensation.”\u003c/a> During the same weekend, the Dallas Wings’ No. 1 overall draft pick Paige Bueckers hard-launched her relationship with University of Connecticut player Azzi Fudd, adding to a growing list of WNBA couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shellheart was at the center of the All-Star Weekend, hanging with the players at the celebrations and afterparties. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For LadyRyan, DJing on such a massive platform that centers women comes with a sense of pride. Her sets feature amped-up anthems like Beyoncé’s “My House” and Doechii’s “Nissan Altima.” “It just feels comfortable and really empowering,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Chase Center during Valkyries games, it’s common to see Pride flags, fashion-forward queer friend groups and couples on dates. But LadyRyan warns that openness comes with backlash: a contingent of incel-ish MNBA fans routinely post sexist and homophobic comments on social media. In the past month, three men were arrested for throwing sex toys onto the court during WNBA games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t discriminated against to begin with, we wouldn’t have to be proud about it, you know? We’re just not past it,” LadyRyan says. “As much as people wanna say everything’s fine, we still have an administration that is working against our existence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing LadyRyan and DJ Shellheart in the DJ booth is especially meaningful to fans like Vanessa Hernandez, the co-founder of Valqueeries, an LGBTQ+ Valkyries fan club that organizes meet-ups and events at games and bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00749_TV-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00749_TV-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00749_TV-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00749_TV-KQED-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250819-VALKYRIESDJS_00749_TV-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Shellheart plays a set for the Golden State Valkyries during a game at Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As the Valkyries are still figuring out their identity, I hope in the future they still continue to lean on LadyRyan and Shellheart because they’re huge influences in the Bay Area, especially in the DJ community,” she says. “In the queer community at large, these people are so essential to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Chase Center, the Valkyries’ fandom transcends gender identity, sexual orientation, race and age. Shellheart knows that by bringing their skills, she and LadyRyan are inspiring the next generation of fans, no matter their background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her second-ever game spinning for the Valkyries, a young boy approached her for an autograph. “I was, like, ‘Oh, s—, nice,’” she says. “You just don’t know who you’re motivating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Billie Eilish has extended her Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour to include two dates at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/chase-center\">Chase Center\u003c/a> on Nov. 22 and 23, 2025, and we’ve got details on how to get tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, popular stars like Eilish have three or four different presales for tickets, including a fan club presale, a Live Nation presale, a venue presale, a CitiCard presale, and a Certified Member of Some Elite Club You’ve Never Heard Of And Will Never Get Into® presale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets for Eilish’s shows in San Francisco are simpler and a little more egalitarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13838671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13838671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/MG_6946.jpg\" alt=\"Billie Eilish performs at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, Aug. 10, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/MG_6946.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/MG_6946-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/MG_6946-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/MG_6946-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/MG_6946-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/MG_6946-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billie Eilish performs at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, Aug. 10, 2018. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s a presale for American Express cardholders on Tuesday, May 20, starting at noon. Then there’s a general onsale starting Thursday, May 22, at noon. Links for both are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/billie-eilish-tickets/artist/2257710?_ga=2.193644591.386331962.1747690777-1717370913.1739293577&_gl=1*c7mxrb*_ga*MTcxNzM3MDkxMy4xNzM5MjkzNTc3*_ga_C1T806G4DF*czE3NDc2OTA3NzYkbzIyJGcxJHQxNzQ3NjkxMTE5JGo2MCRsMCRoMCRkZG14clpyRFFZQnVYQlNKT05RRzQ4RGJnRnVZdktQQUhYUQ..*_ga_H1KKSGW33X*czE3NDc2OTA3NzYkbzIxJGcxJHQxNzQ3NjkxMTE5JGo2MCRsMCRoMCRkV3VramdCcUpoS2FmTTM0ZmI2S1p3eGJCYnV4ekJTT3RsZw..*_gcl_dc*R0NMLjE3NDQ5NDI2OTEuMmViNWJjNmU5NGNmMWI0MDhjYmRkNDZmMjE5ZWI4Yzc.*_gcl_au*MTI0MDI3OTk4OS4xNzQ3MTYzNTcz\">here\u003c/a>. That’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets \u003cem>can\u003c/em> be bought via a fan club presale, but presale codes have already been emailed by Ticketmaster to select fans who happened to sign up for Billie Eilish alerts. If you haven’t gotten that email by now, with a presale code unique to you and your Ticketmaster account, it’s likely you cannot access the fan presale. (You could try the \u003ca href=\"https://store.billieeilish.com/pages/tour\">“Sign Up for Info” link on this page\u003c/a>, I suppose, but no guarantees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_2010101892062']Options also exist for “Changemaker” tickets, which are essentially Platinum Tickets — far, far more expensive, with “a portion” of the proceeds going to charity. (Q: How much of a portion? A: ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, and laudably, Eilish has requested that resale tickets — think Stubhub, or Ticketmaster’s own ticket-scalping feature — \u003cstrong>only be sold for face value\u003c/strong>. According to the press release:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Billie Eilish wants to give fans, not scalpers, the best chance to buy tickets at face value. 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For the Warriors’ Muslim Heritage Night, the burritos will be the first halal dish served inside Chase Center. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of El Halal Amigos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been a month of milestones for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/golden-state-warriors\">Golden State Warriors\u003c/a>, who in recent weeks have seen Steph Curry swish his \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6202940/2025/03/14/steph-curry-warriors-3-point-record-legacy/\">4,000th three-pointer\u003c/a> and then, just two nights later, watched as Steve Kerr became the team’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/warriors-steve-kerr-wins-record-f0741722c6530099cc7240fb69bc8601\">all-time winningest head coach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later this week, the Chase Center will mark another, more delicious breakthrough. For the first time ever, Warriors fans will be able to purchase halal food inside the arena — hefty, well-packed burritos from San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elhalalamigos/?hl=en\">El Halal Amigos\u003c/a>, to be specific. The halal-friendly burritos will be featured during the Dubs’ game against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, April 4, which the team has designated as its fourth annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1441594320597455&id=100042407024320&set=a.382933859796845\">Muslim Heritage Night\u003c/a>, in collaboration with food festival organizer \u003ca href=\"https://www.halalfest.com/\">HalalFest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big step right now in a most vital time — to be a Palestinian, to be a Muslim, and go into a very popular, brand new stadium and be recognized,” El Halal Amigos chef-owner Hisham Abdelfattah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the food, the event will also include official Warriors-branded Muslim Heritage Night T-shirts, opportunities for kids from local Muslim communities to high-five the players as they’re coming out of the tunnel, and a designated prayer room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972.jpg\" alt=\"Fans cheer and dance on the jumbotron at Chase Center during a Warriors game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Warriors fans cheer and dance on the jumbotron during the 2024 edition of Muslim Heritage Night. \u003ccite>(Meriam Salem, courtesy of HalalFest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting to serve halal food to young Warriors fans at the game feels particularly meaningful to Abdelfattah, who says he often felt left out as a Muslim kid growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to sports games my whole life with my dad,” he says. “I remember being at Niner games, A’s games when I was seven, eight, nine years old, and I would only get to eat popcorn or soda. I never got the really cool burgers; I never got to have that hot dog experience. It sucked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah_times\">call to prayer\u003c/a> came during the game, Abdelfattah and his father would just have to pray out on the concourse in front of everybody. He still remembers how uncomfortable that felt: “At the time, it was very weird for people to see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It feels like a real landmark in representation, then, for Abdelfattah to be able to sell his burritos (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHw2cCyytiM/?hl=en\">via pre-purchase\u003c/a>) at Friday’s game, and for the Warriors to provide a place where Muslim fans can pray in private — even if it is only for one night. In the past, the only \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareahalalfoodies/posts/1553404965345854/\">viable food options\u003c/a> for halal-keeping Chase Center attendees have been located outside the arena itself (including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962220/fikscue-best-indonesian-texas-barbecue-smoked-brisket-alameda\">Fikscue\u003c/a>, the forthcoming Indo-Tex halal barbecue spot in Thrive City). For Friday night’s Muslim Heritage Night promotion, the concessions team will also offer a halal chicken option at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/vendor/modelo-cantina/\">Modelo Cantina\u003c/a> restaurant in the Upper Concourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300.jpg\" alt=\"Two young women of Arabic descent hold Golden State Warriors–branded Hello Kitty plushies inside a sports arena\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young Warriors fans hold Warriors–branded Hello Kitty plushies at last year’s Muslim Heritage Night event, which coincided with Hello Kitty Night. \u003ccite>(Meriam Salem, courtesy of HalalFest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muslim Heritage Night has grown steadily since it started during the peak of the pandemic. “Last year, over 600 people from the Muslim community came,” HalalFest founder Irfan Rydhan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='news_12033099,arts_13958466,arts_13962220']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>A handful of tickets for this year’s event, ranging from $110 to $320 each, are still available by emailing HalalFest at info@halalfest.com. Food tickets need to be purchased separately through the same email address — $23 for a burrito (steak or chicken), or $20 each when purchasing four or more. Each order will come with a side of chips and El Halal Amigos’ signature Nar (Arabic for “hellfire”) hot sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, Abdelfattah expects to wrap between 100 and 200 burritos for Friday’s game. The dream, he says, would be to eventually bring El Halal Amigos — and halal food, more broadly — to Chase Center on a long-term basis. (Indeed, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGp_uRQCq7M\">similar collab\u003c/a> with the San Jose Sharks culminated in a permanent El Halal Amigos concessions stand at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sapcenter.com/plan-your-visit/food-beverage\">SAP Center\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was growing up, it was just very unheard of to see halal food in cool places,” Abdelfattah says. “And now I can’t believe that I’m the one serving it. That’s cool, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This year’s \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nba.com/warriors/tickets/group-theme-nights-and-giveaways\">\u003ci>Muslim Heritage Night\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> will take place during the Warriors vs. Nuggets game at the Chase Center at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 4. To take part in the promotion, purchase tickets to the game by emailing info@halalfest.com. Pre-purchase El Halal Amigos food tickets via the same email address by no later than April 2. After ordering, customers will receive instructions on where to pick up their food during the game.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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For the first time ever, Warriors fans will be able to purchase halal food inside the arena — hefty, well-packed burritos from San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elhalalamigos/?hl=en\">El Halal Amigos\u003c/a>, to be specific. The halal-friendly burritos will be featured during the Dubs’ game against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, April 4, which the team has designated as its fourth annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1441594320597455&id=100042407024320&set=a.382933859796845\">Muslim Heritage Night\u003c/a>, in collaboration with food festival organizer \u003ca href=\"https://www.halalfest.com/\">HalalFest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big step right now in a most vital time — to be a Palestinian, to be a Muslim, and go into a very popular, brand new stadium and be recognized,” El Halal Amigos chef-owner Hisham Abdelfattah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the food, the event will also include official Warriors-branded Muslim Heritage Night T-shirts, opportunities for kids from local Muslim communities to high-five the players as they’re coming out of the tunnel, and a designated prayer room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972.jpg\" alt=\"Fans cheer and dance on the jumbotron at Chase Center during a Warriors game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Warriors fans cheer and dance on the jumbotron during the 2024 edition of Muslim Heritage Night. \u003ccite>(Meriam Salem, courtesy of HalalFest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting to serve halal food to young Warriors fans at the game feels particularly meaningful to Abdelfattah, who says he often felt left out as a Muslim kid growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] quarter century ago, during the 2000 NBA All-Star slam dunk contest, Vince Carter put on a show that solidified his nickname of “Half-Man Half-Amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hit a reverse 360 dunk that made Shaquille O’Neal react like a 7-foot kid. He followed it with “The East Bay Funk,” in which he hit off a bounce pass from his cousin and fellow member of the NBA Hall of Fame Tracy McGrady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his final attempt, he jumped so far into the sky that upon his descent, he was able to put his entire right forearm into the rim, hanging there for a few seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stars in the audience were stunned. Carter hanging off the rim from his forearm is an image forever etched into basketball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All-Star Game returns to the Bay Area this February. A lot has changed since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1712px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970096\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1712\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg 1712w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-800x1196.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1020x1525.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-768x1149.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1369x2048.jpg 1369w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1920x2871.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors hangs with his forearm inside the rim during the NBA Allstar Game Slam Dunk Contest at the Oakland Coliseum on Feb. 13, 2000. \u003ccite>(Jed Jacobsohn /Allsport)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Vince Carter finally returned to Earth, he landed on the floor of the Oakland Arena. Professional hoops are no longer played there; the Warriors moved to the Chase Center in San Francisco in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Dubs have won four NBA championships, three before leaving Oakland. But this year, after a promising start, they’re playing .500 ball. As star guard Steph Curry said in a recent interview, “We’re very mid right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_12006567']In fact, the whole Bay Area pro sports landscape, once rich with accolades, has been mid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco 49ers, one of the winningest franchises in NFL history, had a dismal year. Over the past three decades, they’ve repeatedly come close to being crowned champs, but they haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Raiders, founded in Oakland in 1966, moved to Las Vegas in 2020. And last year, the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team that once shared a stadium with the Raiders, also left for Las Vegas — taking the scenic route through Sacramento for a couple seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan cheers during the A’s final home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento sports fans are no stranger to change either. Their basketball team, the Kings, recently fired head coach Mike Brown. That’s par for the course; the team has had eight different head coaches in the past 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only remaining major league baseball team in Northern California, the San Francisco Giants, were two games under .500 last year. And Northern California’s only pro hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, had the worst record in the entire NHL last year — and they aren’t doing much better this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it’s not all bad. The Bay FC soccer team had a solid inaugural year. The Golden State Valkyries play their first WNBA game later this spring. And the Oakland Roots soccer team is set to play a few games at the Oakland Coliseum next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_12019505']But on the whole, it’s been rough for local sports fans. Last year we mourned the loss of legendary athletes Rickey Henderson and Willie Mays. We even said goodbye to an entire collegiate athletic division, the Pac-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this to say, when the All-Star Game comes around, you might run into some sports fans with some chips on their shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland ‘The Town’ logo is projected on the floor before a game between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings at the Chase Center in 2020. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ot only has sports been mid, the cost of living has been high. That’s reflected most directly in the issue of housing disparity. In 2000, the City’s second-ever homeless census counted 5,376 people living without proper shelter. Last May, San Francisco tallied more than 8,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2018 United Nations report characterized the living conditions of San Francisco and Oakland’s unhoused population as “cruel and inhuman” and “a violation of multiple human rights.” Those conditions were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and last year, the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision led to large sweeps of encampments all around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these efforts to rid the streets of the people who call them home, mass homelessness is so widespread that visitors enjoying the glitz of All-Star weekend will have no choice but to be at least subtly aware of what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg\" alt='RVs in an encampment with signs that read \"Where do we go?\" and \"Respect existence or expect resistance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover two RVs at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while CalTrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about homelessness, crime and the fentanyl epidemic have fueled political turmoil, as voters have rallied for tough-on-crime stances, voted against prison reform initiatives and lost faith in elected officials — even recalling two local district attorneys and the mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As driverless cars whiz past the neon lights of cannabis dispensaries, new high rises have redrawn the City’s skyline. The region has grown not just vertically but horizontally, with new developments adding to urban sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the influence of tech money in the region is as clear as the Rakuten logo on the Warriors’ official jersey. If you haven’t been here since 2000, it’s changed a lot. Even to those of us from here, it looks like an entirely new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13964538']In the winter of 2000, I was a 12 year-old aspiring baseball player, but I couldn’t pass up free tickets gifted to my oldest friend Jon and I for the NBA All-Star weekend rookie game. We considered hiding out in the bathroom to see the dunk contest later that evening, but ended up hanging out in front of the arena and enjoying ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy in the Town was live. Around the arena, radio station vans pulled up and people played arcade-style hoop games. Despite the losing records of the local sports teams and the community issues of the time, it was fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg 924w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-800x1174.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-160x235.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-768x1127.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Evelya of Oakland dunks the ball at one of the many basketball activities outside the Oakland Arena for the 2000 All-Star Game. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]o as we dig deeper into 2025, I acknowledge that some of us are on edge about both national and local issues. And yeah, our pro sports teams are going through something right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this event, first and foremost, is for the home team. Make it memorable. And to visitors coming to the Bay, be prepared: there are different realities based on your economic status. After bringing your luggage straight to the hotel instead of leaving it in your car, come out and enjoy the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will inevitably be a protest of some sort, you’ll hear some E-40, and I’d bet my pink slip that there’ll be at least one sideshow that weekend. This is one of the most unique places in the world, mostly because there are so many people here from all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While our sports teams (hopefully) get on the mend, there’s arguably no place with more game. Soak some.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In fact, the whole Bay Area pro sports landscape, once rich with accolades, has been mid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco 49ers, one of the winningest franchises in NFL history, had a dismal year. Over the past three decades, they’ve repeatedly come close to being crowned champs, but they haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Raiders, founded in Oakland in 1966, moved to Las Vegas in 2020. And last year, the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team that once shared a stadium with the Raiders, also left for Las Vegas — taking the scenic route through Sacramento for a couple seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan cheers during the A’s final home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento sports fans are no stranger to change either. Their basketball team, the Kings, recently fired head coach Mike Brown. That’s par for the course; the team has had eight different head coaches in the past 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only remaining major league baseball team in Northern California, the San Francisco Giants, were two games under .500 last year. And Northern California’s only pro hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, had the worst record in the entire NHL last year — and they aren’t doing much better this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it’s not all bad. The Bay FC soccer team had a solid inaugural year. The Golden State Valkyries play their first WNBA game later this spring. And the Oakland Roots soccer team is set to play a few games at the Oakland Coliseum next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But on the whole, it’s been rough for local sports fans. Last year we mourned the loss of legendary athletes Rickey Henderson and Willie Mays. We even said goodbye to an entire collegiate athletic division, the Pac-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this to say, when the All-Star Game comes around, you might run into some sports fans with some chips on their shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland ‘The Town’ logo is projected on the floor before a game between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings at the Chase Center in 2020. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">N\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ot only has sports been mid, the cost of living has been high. That’s reflected most directly in the issue of housing disparity. In 2000, the City’s second-ever homeless census counted 5,376 people living without proper shelter. Last May, San Francisco tallied more than 8,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2018 United Nations report characterized the living conditions of San Francisco and Oakland’s unhoused population as “cruel and inhuman” and “a violation of multiple human rights.” Those conditions were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and last year, the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision led to large sweeps of encampments all around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these efforts to rid the streets of the people who call them home, mass homelessness is so widespread that visitors enjoying the glitz of All-Star weekend will have no choice but to be at least subtly aware of what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg\" alt='RVs in an encampment with signs that read \"Where do we go?\" and \"Respect existence or expect resistance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover two RVs at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while CalTrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about homelessness, crime and the fentanyl epidemic have fueled political turmoil, as voters have rallied for tough-on-crime stances, voted against prison reform initiatives and lost faith in elected officials — even recalling two local district attorneys and the mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As driverless cars whiz past the neon lights of cannabis dispensaries, new high rises have redrawn the City’s skyline. The region has grown not just vertically but horizontally, with new developments adding to urban sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the influence of tech money in the region is as clear as the Rakuten logo on the Warriors’ official jersey. If you haven’t been here since 2000, it’s changed a lot. Even to those of us from here, it looks like an entirely new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the winter of 2000, I was a 12 year-old aspiring baseball player, but I couldn’t pass up free tickets gifted to my oldest friend Jon and I for the NBA All-Star weekend rookie game. We considered hiding out in the bathroom to see the dunk contest later that evening, but ended up hanging out in front of the arena and enjoying ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy in the Town was live. Around the arena, radio station vans pulled up and people played arcade-style hoop games. Despite the losing records of the local sports teams and the community issues of the time, it was fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg 924w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-800x1174.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-160x235.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-768x1127.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Evelya of Oakland dunks the ball at one of the many basketball activities outside the Oakland Arena for the 2000 All-Star Game. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>o as we dig deeper into 2025, I acknowledge that some of us are on edge about both national and local issues. And yeah, our pro sports teams are going through something right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this event, first and foremost, is for the home team. Make it memorable. And to visitors coming to the Bay, be prepared: there are different realities based on your economic status. After bringing your luggage straight to the hotel instead of leaving it in your car, come out and enjoy the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will inevitably be a protest of some sort, you’ll hear some E-40, and I’d bet my pink slip that there’ll be at least one sideshow that weekend. This is one of the most unique places in the world, mostly because there are so many people here from all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Maybe it was the election anxiety. I went to see live music \u003cem>compulsively\u003c/em> in 2024 — over 50 shows, and that’s on top of another 20-odd plays, art exhibits, movies and events. Yes, it’s part of my job, but it’s also my connection to others, my spiritual practice, my therapy. And while I was able to review 15 live music shows for KQED by stars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953284/nicki-minaj-review-oakland-arena-pink-friday-2-tour\">rap\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962051/review-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-chase-center-guts-tour\">pop\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955312/review-green-day-fillmore-photos-san-francisco\">rock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13951043/review-michael-tilson-thomas-mahler-5-san-francisco-symphony\">classical\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953845/review-brandee-younger-alice-coltrane-san-francisco-sfjazz\">jazz\u003c/a>, many others went unnoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are dozens of reasons for all of us to see live music, and to especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11027790/keep-listening-notes-on-turning-40-and-still-seeking-out-new-music\">seek out new music, no matter your age\u003c/a>. But in 2024, you’ll notice below, I also allowed myself the guilty pleasure of nostalgia. Here, then, are 30 shows I saw in 2024 which I didn’t review, now reviewed in just one sentence each — complete with bad photos from my phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-800x613.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-1020x782.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-160x123.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-768x589.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-1536x1178.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan. 14\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>David Hegarty\u003cbr>\nCastro Theatre, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore the double feature of \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Robocop\u003c/em>, I made a point of writing down the beloved organist’s setlist: “Consider Yourself,” “S’Wonderful,” “This Could Be the Start of Something Big,” “A Wonderful Guy,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “That’s Entertainment” and, naturally, “San Francisco” (two weeks later, before a screening of \u003cem>2001\u003c/em>, he played “Also Sprach Zarathustra”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1126\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969132\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-800x696.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-1020x888.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-160x139.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-768x668.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Howard Wiley\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGod bless saxophonist Howard Wiley, who advertised a gospel music show and then opened his set with Ornette Coleman’s “The Face of the Bass.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1590\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969143\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-800x663.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-1020x845.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-160x133.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-768x636.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-1536x1272.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>MDC\u003cbr>\nThe Ivy Room, Albany \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis San Francisco punk band once \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12454758/bay-area-warehouse-scene-threatened-after-decades-of-incubating-art\">squatted inside the giant underground beer vats\u003c/a> of the former Hamm’s brewery on Bryant Street, just two and a half blocks from KQED’s current headquarters; at this haywire show, “Born to Die” still sounded tremendous, 43 years later. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"1096\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-800x679.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-1020x865.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-160x136.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-768x651.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Deltrice\u003cbr>\nChris Club, Vallejo \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI want Deltrice to sing the hook on almost every Bay Area rap song I hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/cellski.main_.jpg\" width=\"1286\" height=\"866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959762\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 22\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cellski with the Top Chefs\u003cbr>\nBrick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is nothing like a whole city turning out to shower love on one of its own, who performed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3rqbZIraS_/\">every single song\u003c/a> from \u003cem>Mr. Predicter\u003c/em> for its 30th anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1286\" height=\"866\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969135\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM.png 1286w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 24\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lil Kayla\u003cbr>\nPhoenix Theatre, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDear Lil Kayla, I apologize on behalf of Sonoma County that only 85 people came to your show, hope you give us another shot someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-1536x1056.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 28 (and 31)\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band\u003cbr>\nChase Center, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am not allowed to talk about Bruce Springsteen in public, because eventually someone spins their forefinger around their ear in the universal sign for “this guy’s crazy,” but suffice it to say, he opened with “Something In the Night” (!!) and when I got home I immediately bought a solo ticket to the second show. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"994\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969136\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>April 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Danny Brown\u003cbr>\nRegency Ballroom, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOpener Alice Longyu Gao bent minds with “Let’s Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire” and Bruiser Wolf melted hearts with “Momma Was a Dopefiend,” but it’s Detroit’s era in rap, and Danny Brown still brought the heat (speaketh the forefather: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv_OIFmLwg\">My hoe got tats on her face, sell me them cookies from Oakland\u003c/a>”). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1715\" height=\"1638\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147.png 1715w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-800x764.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-1020x974.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-160x153.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-768x734.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-1536x1467.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1715px) 100vw, 1715px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 8\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>454\u003cbr>\nThe Independent, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLet us all have the energy of 10 bowls of Frosted Flakes before we bound onstage and bounce, weave, skitter and float about for 40 minutes of unfiltered joy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1526\" height=\"1384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM.png 1526w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-800x726.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-1020x925.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-160x145.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-768x697.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1526px) 100vw, 1526px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 18\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Piner High School Band\u003cbr>\nRose Parade, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt should be considered cruel and unusual punishment to force high school music students into military marching rituals, and yet I, a former band kid, still felt a strange sort of pride to see my alma mater persisting against brutal budget cuts to public school music programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1298\" height=\"1276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM.png 1298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-800x786.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-1020x1003.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-160x157.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-768x755.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Too Short\u003cbr>\nLake Merritt Bandstand, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOakland Is the Most Amazing City In the World, Chapter 3,276: Too Short agreeing to this free afternoon show on the shore of the lake for thousands of people on a random Tuesday … to promote \u003cem>voter registration\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1162\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971.png 1275w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-800x729.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-1020x930.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-160x146.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-768x700.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 29\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Alegres del Barranco\u003cbr>\nJuilliard Park, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is an attraction in \u003ca href=\"https://bohemian.com/listening-to-huey-lewis-outside-the-fence-at-the-sonoma-county-fair-isnt-all-that-bad/\">listening to concerts from outside the fence\u003c/a> — and just a few nights after watching Los Alegres del Barranco’s norteño corridos through the chain link, my daughter and I stood outside City Hall in San Francisco to hear Skrillex’s set wafting through the nighttime air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1288\" height=\"1102\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969117\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM.png 1288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-800x684.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-1020x873.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-768x657.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 9\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Gary Bartz\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTruly (and I imagine guest trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire agrees) all of us can only hope to be one-tenth as funny and creative as Gary Bartz when we, too, are 83. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1722\" height=\"1324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969118\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM.png 1722w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-800x615.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-1020x784.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-768x590.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-1536x1181.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1722px) 100vw, 1722px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 15\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Houston Person\u003cbr>\nTown Plaza, Healdsburg \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI played his version of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3K7msLNes\">Young, Gifted and Black\u003c/a>” for a week straight afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969116\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>July 6\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Standing on the Corner\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAcross a 13-song set of spaced-out songs like “Angel,” “Get Out the Ghetto” and “Genocide,” Gio Escobar recited original poetry, covered Chuck Berry and showed that New York, though it historically looks down on the Bay Area, has a bit of our experimental, political bent after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1522\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969121\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-1020x809.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-768x609.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-1536x1218.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aug. 20\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>X\u003cbr>\nGuild Theatre, Menlo Park\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI danced and danced and danced and danced and danced, and did not stop until an acoustic duet of John and Exene singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9zfrW0F2K8\">See How We Are\u003c/a>,” and only because it rendered my knees too weak to move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"936\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969119\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-800x655.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-1020x835.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-160x131.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-768x628.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Fifteen\u003cbr>\nArlene Francis Center, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe lines “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/fv5ZFuiGiXQ?si=UqRQ4WULyM6Qv2Gy&t=165\">I was born a little too late to see the dream that they called America / See I only wanna be a free man but it’s against the law to sleep on the ground in God’s land\u003c/a>” felt more relevant than ever after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision criminalizing camping on public property\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1042\" height=\"776\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM.png 1042w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-800x596.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-1020x760.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-768x572.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1042px) 100vw, 1042px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Smoking Popes\u003cbr>\nGreat American Music Hall, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThey dropped a minute or so of the Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait” into the middle of “Gotta Know Right Now,” and I died right then and there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"1002\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-800x701.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-1020x893.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-160x140.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-768x673.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Future and Metro Boomin\u003cbr>\nOakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile Future isn’t a rap dinosaur by any means, when the transcendence of “March Madness” filled the arena, I had a sobering realization that the song is now nearly 10 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969126\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM.png 1140w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-800x550.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-1020x701.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-768x528.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 16\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pulp\u003cbr>\nBill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt was a Monday night, tickets on Stubhub were literally $9, and Jarvis Cocker talked about Richard Brautigan living on Geary Street before soaring through “This Is Hardcore,” a perfect song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1582\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969114\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-768x633.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-1536x1266.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Linda Lindas\u003cbr>\n924 Gilman, Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPerhaps the most wholesome punk show I’ve ever seen; I lost count of how many parents I ran into in the packed crowd, bringing their children to Gilman for the first time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1146\" height=\"828\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969112\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM.png 1146w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-800x578.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-1020x737.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 23\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Nicki Minaj\u003cbr>\nChase Center, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI WISH I COULD QUIT YOU NICKI 🤷♂️\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"770\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969113\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM.png 1138w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-800x541.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-1020x690.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-768x520.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 28\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Built to Spill\u003cbr>\nThe Fillmore, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe new rhythm section shreds, the transition from “Twin Falls” into “Some” is better than hospital painkillers, and Doug Martsch’s beard has grown capable of knocking over tall buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"846\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-800x592.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-1020x754.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-160x118.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-768x568.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 6\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Billy Ocean\u003cbr>\nGraton Casino, Rohnert Park\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA very long-overdue show in the Bay Area; Billy Ocean basically has six hits, but they are really, really good hits, and he still has \u003cem>that voice\u003c/em> — let’s hope we don’t have to wait another 20 years for him to return. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1134\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM.png 1134w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-800x571.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-1020x729.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-768x549.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1134px) 100vw, 1134px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bladee\u003cbr>\nThe Warfield, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTwo years ago, with ecco2k, Bladee delivered a beautiful, joyful show at Complex in Oakland, and maybe fame really does curdle people, or else Bladee was simply leaning hard into the concept of \u003cem>Cold Visions\u003c/em>, because this time around, bleakness reigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1006\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM.png 1140w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-800x706.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-1020x900.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-160x141.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-768x678.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 19\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>History of the Bay\u003cbr>\nThe Midway, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Area has an eternally deep well of unsung rap heroes, which means that as monumental as it is to get B-Legit, Kamaiyah, Souls of Mischief, Rick Rock and Mob Figaz on stage together, it still feels like a mere sliver of talent; shout out to Dregs One for playing the long game and building the history piece by piece. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"972\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-800x680.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-1020x867.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-160x136.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-768x653.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 19\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>D.R.I.\u003cbr>\nNeck of the Woods, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTwo people got thrown out, girls crowdsurfed over the pit, someone fell asleep on the stage, and afterward, talking to singer Kurt Brecht with swirling thoughts of 500 things to say, all I could muster was “Thank you for the great art you have given the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"950\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM.png 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-800x665.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-1020x849.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-768x639.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 27\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phoenix Halloween Show\u003cbr>\nPhoenix Theatre, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA classic Halloween-covers night, except this year at the Phoenix, Miss Minor’s insanely elaborate Britney Spears tribute — period-correct in wardrobe, set and choreography — capped the night, along with a giant balloon drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969133\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM.png 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-800x712.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-1020x907.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-160x142.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-768x683.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nov. 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kirk Franklin’s Reunion Tour\u003cbr>\nOakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI went for the Clark Sisters, but the surprise of the night was Yolanda Adams, who, at 63, sent shivers down the spine; meanwhile, Kirk Franklin only had to play two piano notes before a spontaneous mass acapella sing-along of “Silver & Gold” broke out around the arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1996\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-800x832.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-1020x1060.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-160x166.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-768x798.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720-1478x1536.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nov. 30\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Victims Family\u003cbr>\nThe Big Easy, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAfter Victims Family’s epic 40-song set to celebrate their 40th anniversary, I genuinely worried that I had permanent hearing loss, but you know, I wouldn’t have complained if this life-affirming show had been the last music I ever heard.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Maybe it was the election anxiety. I went to see live music \u003cem>compulsively\u003c/em> in 2024 — over 50 shows, and that’s on top of another 20-odd plays, art exhibits, movies and events. Yes, it’s part of my job, but it’s also my connection to others, my spiritual practice, my therapy. And while I was able to review 15 live music shows for KQED by stars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953284/nicki-minaj-review-oakland-arena-pink-friday-2-tour\">rap\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962051/review-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-chase-center-guts-tour\">pop\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955312/review-green-day-fillmore-photos-san-francisco\">rock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13951043/review-michael-tilson-thomas-mahler-5-san-francisco-symphony\">classical\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953845/review-brandee-younger-alice-coltrane-san-francisco-sfjazz\">jazz\u003c/a>, many others went unnoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are dozens of reasons for all of us to see live music, and to especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11027790/keep-listening-notes-on-turning-40-and-still-seeking-out-new-music\">seek out new music, no matter your age\u003c/a>. But in 2024, you’ll notice below, I also allowed myself the guilty pleasure of nostalgia. Here, then, are 30 shows I saw in 2024 which I didn’t review, now reviewed in just one sentence each — complete with bad photos from my phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-800x613.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-1020x782.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-160x123.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-768x589.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_4637-scaled-e1733464046796-1536x1178.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan. 14\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>David Hegarty\u003cbr>\nCastro Theatre, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore the double feature of \u003cem>Blade Runner\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Robocop\u003c/em>, I made a point of writing down the beloved organist’s setlist: “Consider Yourself,” “S’Wonderful,” “This Could Be the Start of Something Big,” “A Wonderful Guy,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “That’s Entertainment” and, naturally, “San Francisco” (two weeks later, before a screening of \u003cem>2001\u003c/em>, he played “Also Sprach Zarathustra”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1126\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969132\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-800x696.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-1020x888.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-160x139.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.41.41-PM-768x668.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Howard Wiley\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGod bless saxophonist Howard Wiley, who advertised a gospel music show and then opened his set with Ornette Coleman’s “The Face of the Bass.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1590\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969143\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-800x663.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-1020x845.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-160x133.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-768x636.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_5133-scaled-e1733463947410-1536x1272.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>MDC\u003cbr>\nThe Ivy Room, Albany \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis San Francisco punk band once \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12454758/bay-area-warehouse-scene-threatened-after-decades-of-incubating-art\">squatted inside the giant underground beer vats\u003c/a> of the former Hamm’s brewery on Bryant Street, just two and a half blocks from KQED’s current headquarters; at this haywire show, “Born to Die” still sounded tremendous, 43 years later. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"1096\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-800x679.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-1020x865.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-160x136.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.45.07-PM-768x651.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Deltrice\u003cbr>\nChris Club, Vallejo \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI want Deltrice to sing the hook on almost every Bay Area rap song I hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/cellski.main_.jpg\" width=\"1286\" height=\"866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959762\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feb. 22\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cellski with the Top Chefs\u003cbr>\nBrick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is nothing like a whole city turning out to shower love on one of its own, who performed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3rqbZIraS_/\">every single song\u003c/a> from \u003cem>Mr. Predicter\u003c/em> for its 30th anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1286\" height=\"866\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969135\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM.png 1286w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.48.20-PM-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 24\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lil Kayla\u003cbr>\nPhoenix Theatre, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDear Lil Kayla, I apologize on behalf of Sonoma County that only 85 people came to your show, hope you give us another shot someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/IMG_6004-1536x1056.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 28 (and 31)\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band\u003cbr>\nChase Center, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am not allowed to talk about Bruce Springsteen in public, because eventually someone spins their forefinger around their ear in the universal sign for “this guy’s crazy,” but suffice it to say, he opened with “Something In the Night” (!!) and when I got home I immediately bought a solo ticket to the second show. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"994\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969136\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.51.05-PM-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>April 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Danny Brown\u003cbr>\nRegency Ballroom, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOpener Alice Longyu Gao bent minds with “Let’s Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire” and Bruiser Wolf melted hearts with “Momma Was a Dopefiend,” but it’s Detroit’s era in rap, and Danny Brown still brought the heat (speaketh the forefather: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv_OIFmLwg\">My hoe got tats on her face, sell me them cookies from Oakland\u003c/a>”). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1715\" height=\"1638\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147.png 1715w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-800x764.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-1020x974.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-160x153.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-768x734.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.04-PM-e1733464012147-1536x1467.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1715px) 100vw, 1715px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 8\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>454\u003cbr>\nThe Independent, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLet us all have the energy of 10 bowls of Frosted Flakes before we bound onstage and bounce, weave, skitter and float about for 40 minutes of unfiltered joy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1526\" height=\"1384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM.png 1526w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-800x726.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-1020x925.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-160x145.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.54.36-PM-768x697.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1526px) 100vw, 1526px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 18\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Piner High School Band\u003cbr>\nRose Parade, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt should be considered cruel and unusual punishment to force high school music students into military marching rituals, and yet I, a former band kid, still felt a strange sort of pride to see my alma mater persisting against brutal budget cuts to public school music programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1298\" height=\"1276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM.png 1298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-800x786.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-1020x1003.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-160x157.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-8.57.10-PM-768x755.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Too Short\u003cbr>\nLake Merritt Bandstand, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOakland Is the Most Amazing City In the World, Chapter 3,276: Too Short agreeing to this free afternoon show on the shore of the lake for thousands of people on a random Tuesday … to promote \u003cem>voter registration\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1162\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971.png 1275w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-800x729.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-1020x930.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-160x146.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.01.34-PM-e1733463982971-768x700.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May 29\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Alegres del Barranco\u003cbr>\nJuilliard Park, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is an attraction in \u003ca href=\"https://bohemian.com/listening-to-huey-lewis-outside-the-fence-at-the-sonoma-county-fair-isnt-all-that-bad/\">listening to concerts from outside the fence\u003c/a> — and just a few nights after watching Los Alegres del Barranco’s norteño corridos through the chain link, my daughter and I stood outside City Hall in San Francisco to hear Skrillex’s set wafting through the nighttime air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1288\" height=\"1102\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969117\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM.png 1288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-800x684.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-1020x873.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.02.29-PM-768x657.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 9\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Gary Bartz\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTruly (and I imagine guest trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire agrees) all of us can only hope to be one-tenth as funny and creative as Gary Bartz when we, too, are 83. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1722\" height=\"1324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969118\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM.png 1722w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-800x615.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-1020x784.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-768x590.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.03.23-PM-1536x1181.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1722px) 100vw, 1722px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 15\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Houston Person\u003cbr>\nTown Plaza, Healdsburg \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI played his version of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3K7msLNes\">Young, Gifted and Black\u003c/a>” for a week straight afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969116\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/E99FCECE-8347-4F39-87B5-E3D5B50892F3_1_201_a-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>July 6\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Standing on the Corner\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAcross a 13-song set of spaced-out songs like “Angel,” “Get Out the Ghetto” and “Genocide,” Gio Escobar recited original poetry, covered Chuck Berry and showed that New York, though it historically looks down on the Bay Area, has a bit of our experimental, political bent after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1522\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969121\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-1020x809.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-768x609.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/A054A4D5-A61A-45BA-9A0B-F51B003D27C5_1_105_c-1536x1218.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aug. 20\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>X\u003cbr>\nGuild Theatre, Menlo Park\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI danced and danced and danced and danced and danced, and did not stop until an acoustic duet of John and Exene singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9zfrW0F2K8\">See How We Are\u003c/a>,” and only because it rendered my knees too weak to move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"936\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969119\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-800x655.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-1020x835.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-160x131.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.09.39-PM-768x628.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Fifteen\u003cbr>\nArlene Francis Center, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe lines “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/fv5ZFuiGiXQ?si=UqRQ4WULyM6Qv2Gy&t=165\">I was born a little too late to see the dream that they called America / See I only wanna be a free man but it’s against the law to sleep on the ground in God’s land\u003c/a>” felt more relevant than ever after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision criminalizing camping on public property\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1042\" height=\"776\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM.png 1042w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-800x596.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-1020x760.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.11.28-PM-768x572.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1042px) 100vw, 1042px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Smoking Popes\u003cbr>\nGreat American Music Hall, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThey dropped a minute or so of the Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait” into the middle of “Gotta Know Right Now,” and I died right then and there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"1002\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-800x701.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-1020x893.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-160x140.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.14.15-PM-768x673.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Future and Metro Boomin\u003cbr>\nOakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile Future isn’t a rap dinosaur by any means, when the transcendence of “March Madness” filled the arena, I had a sobering realization that the song is now nearly 10 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969126\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM.png 1140w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-800x550.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-1020x701.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.17.27-PM-768x528.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 16\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pulp\u003cbr>\nBill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt was a Monday night, tickets on Stubhub were literally $9, and Jarvis Cocker talked about Richard Brautigan living on Geary Street before soaring through “This Is Hardcore,” a perfect song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1582\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969114\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-768x633.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/F3AE3AD0-48A6-482E-8102-017383C095FB_1_105_c-1536x1266.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The Linda Lindas\u003cbr>\n924 Gilman, Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPerhaps the most wholesome punk show I’ve ever seen; I lost count of how many parents I ran into in the packed crowd, bringing their children to Gilman for the first time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1146\" height=\"828\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969112\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM.png 1146w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-800x578.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-1020x737.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.25.55-PM-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 23\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Nicki Minaj\u003cbr>\nChase Center, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI WISH I COULD QUIT YOU NICKI 🤷♂️\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"770\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969113\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM.png 1138w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-800x541.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-1020x690.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.27.28-PM-768x520.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 28\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Built to Spill\u003cbr>\nThe Fillmore, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe new rhythm section shreds, the transition from “Twin Falls” into “Some” is better than hospital painkillers, and Doug Martsch’s beard has grown capable of knocking over tall buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"846\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-800x592.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-1020x754.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-160x118.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.28.28-PM-768x568.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 6\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Billy Ocean\u003cbr>\nGraton Casino, Rohnert Park\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA very long-overdue show in the Bay Area; Billy Ocean basically has six hits, but they are really, really good hits, and he still has \u003cem>that voice\u003c/em> — let’s hope we don’t have to wait another 20 years for him to return. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1134\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM.png 1134w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-800x571.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-1020x729.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.29.39-PM-768x549.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1134px) 100vw, 1134px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Bladee\u003cbr>\nThe Warfield, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTwo years ago, with ecco2k, Bladee delivered a beautiful, joyful show at Complex in Oakland, and maybe fame really does curdle people, or else Bladee was simply leaning hard into the concept of \u003cem>Cold Visions\u003c/em>, because this time around, bleakness reigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1006\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM.png 1140w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-800x706.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-1020x900.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-160x141.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.31.18-PM-768x678.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 19\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>History of the Bay\u003cbr>\nThe Midway, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Area has an eternally deep well of unsung rap heroes, which means that as monumental as it is to get B-Legit, Kamaiyah, Souls of Mischief, Rick Rock and Mob Figaz on stage together, it still feels like a mere sliver of talent; shout out to Dregs One for playing the long game and building the history piece by piece. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"972\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM.png 1144w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-800x680.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-1020x867.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-160x136.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.34.02-PM-768x653.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 19\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>D.R.I.\u003cbr>\nNeck of the Woods, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTwo people got thrown out, girls crowdsurfed over the pit, someone fell asleep on the stage, and afterward, talking to singer Kurt Brecht with swirling thoughts of 500 things to say, all I could muster was “Thank you for the great art you have given the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"950\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM.png 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-800x665.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-1020x849.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.36.36-PM-768x639.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 27\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phoenix Halloween Show\u003cbr>\nPhoenix Theatre, Petaluma\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA classic Halloween-covers night, except this year at the Phoenix, Miss Minor’s insanely elaborate Britney Spears tribute — period-correct in wardrobe, set and choreography — capped the night, along with a giant balloon drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969133\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM.png 1142w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-800x712.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-1020x907.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-160x142.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-05-at-9.38.28-PM-768x683.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nov. 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kirk Franklin’s Reunion Tour\u003cbr>\nOakland Arena, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI went for the Clark Sisters, but the surprise of the night was Yolanda Adams, who, at 63, sent shivers down the spine; meanwhile, Kirk Franklin only had to play two piano notes before a spontaneous mass acapella sing-along of “Silver & Gold” broke out around the arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1996\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13969144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/img_1409_720.jpg 1920w, 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in neon pink and purple outfits reminiscent of the 1980s pose together in front of a Christmas tree.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968772\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Best friends Anndrea Miller, left, and Krista Ball pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cyndi Lauper came to San Francisco Tuesday night on what she’s promising is her final tour — and her fans came appropriately dressed in style. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Gina Castro was there to document the looks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13968734/review-cyndi-lauper-san-francisco-farewell-tour-chase-center\">Read our review of the show here\u003c/a>, and see photos of fan fashions at the Chase Center below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968776\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee of the Cyndi Lauper concert holds up a pink glove during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968771\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon McVey, left, and her daughter Bridget McVey, 16, pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dione Zumbach, of Reno, NV, poses for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. Dione became a fan when her father gifted her Cyndi’s record ‘She’s So Unusual’ when she was around 7 years old. Her mom made her a custom red dress similar to Cyndi Lauper’s dress on the cover of album. For Dione, Cyndi represents power, love and the freedom to be whoever you want to be. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1318\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-1536x1012.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-1920x1265.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dione Zumbach wears a Cyndi Lauper pin for the concert during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. Dione became a fan when her father gifted her the album ‘She’s So Unusual’ when she was around 7 years old. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968764\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends Rebecca Lee, of Grass Valley, and Tangerine Gyi pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968773\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Erwin Kunnen, from the Netherlands, Shannon Spicer and Greg Phelps pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Tan poses for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1910px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1910\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968774\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed.jpg 1910w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-768x536.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-1536x1072.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1910px) 100vw, 1910px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trixie Mattel, drag queen, DJ and TV personality, opens for Cyndi Lauper during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cousins Elaina Hernandez, left, and Karista Cavasos, right, pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. Elaina remembers rollerblading while listening to Cyndi Lauper in the ’80s. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sister Shalita, left, and Sister Roma, right, both with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, attend the Cyndi Lauper concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968766\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikey Medrano poses for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. Mikey’s mom played Cyndi’s music when he was young, and he’s been a fan ever since. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1936px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1936\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968778\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed.jpg 1936w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-768x529.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-1536x1058.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-1920x1322.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1936px) 100vw, 1936px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, friends Adrianne Adams, Heather Parker, Pamela Collver and Jennifer Bernstein, all coming from Eureka, pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968775\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trixie Carr looks out across the crowd during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968763\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janelle Graves of Palo Alto, a Cyndi Lauper fan since the early ’80s, poses for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in neon pink and purple outfits reminiscent of the 1980s pose together in front of a Christmas tree.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968772\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-12_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Best friends Anndrea Miller, left, and Krista Ball pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cyndi Lauper came to San Francisco Tuesday night on what she’s promising is her final tour — and her fans came appropriately dressed in style. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Gina Castro was there to document the looks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13968734/review-cyndi-lauper-san-francisco-farewell-tour-chase-center\">Read our review of the show here\u003c/a>, and see photos of fan fashions at the Chase Center below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968776\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee of the Cyndi Lauper concert holds up a pink glove during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968771\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-14_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon McVey, left, and her daughter Bridget McVey, 16, pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-6_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dione Zumbach, of Reno, NV, poses for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. Dione became a fan when her father gifted her Cyndi’s record ‘She’s So Unusual’ when she was around 7 years old. Her mom made her a custom red dress similar to Cyndi Lauper’s dress on the cover of album. For Dione, Cyndi represents power, love and the freedom to be whoever you want to be. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1318\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-1536x1012.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-7_qed-1920x1265.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dione Zumbach wears a Cyndi Lauper pin for the concert during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. Dione became a fan when her father gifted her the album ‘She’s So Unusual’ when she was around 7 years old. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968764\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-4_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends Rebecca Lee, of Grass Valley, and Tangerine Gyi pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968773\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-13_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Erwin Kunnen, from the Netherlands, Shannon Spicer and Greg Phelps pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-8_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Tan poses for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1910px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1910\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968774\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed.jpg 1910w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-768x536.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-18_qed-1536x1072.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1910px) 100vw, 1910px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trixie Mattel, drag queen, DJ and TV personality, opens for Cyndi Lauper during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-9_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cousins Elaina Hernandez, left, and Karista Cavasos, right, pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. Elaina remembers rollerblading while listening to Cyndi Lauper in the ’80s. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-23_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sister Shalita, left, and Sister Roma, right, both with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, attend the Cyndi Lauper concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968766\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-5_qed-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikey Medrano poses for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. Mikey’s mom played Cyndi’s music when he was young, and he’s been a fan ever since. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1936px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1936\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968778\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed.jpg 1936w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-768x529.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-1536x1058.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-11_qed-1920x1322.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1936px) 100vw, 1936px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, friends Adrianne Adams, Heather Parker, Pamela Collver and Jennifer Bernstein, all coming from Eureka, pose for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968775\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-21_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trixie Carr looks out across the crowd during the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968763\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janelle Graves of Palo Alto, a Cyndi Lauper fan since the early ’80s, poses for a photo ahead of Cyndi Lauper’s concert for her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cyndi Lauper didn’t once mention the election Tuesday night, but it hung in the air so clearly that she didn’t need to. For a San Francisco crowd that included Nancy Pelosi in the third row, Lauper acknowledged the past three weeks without once saying the E-word or, God forbid, the T-word. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I’d be a second-class citizen again, and not have autonomy over my own body because of my gender,” she said at one point. She talked about rock bands full of “men, men, men, men, men”; she spoke of the power in a woman driving herself somewhere, or writing her own songs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968723\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-27-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-27-1020x653.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-27-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-27-768x492.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-27-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-27-1920x1229.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyndi Lauper performs during her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, after opener “She Bop” — a once-scandalous ode to (gasp!) female masturbation that underscored just how far American society has progressed since the 1980s — she talked about pretty much anything on her mind, like the ways American society has moved backward, particularly on women’s equal rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauper is on what she’s promising is her final tour, and she’s so beloved by fans that she padded an hour-and-45-minute farewell set with these extended, off-the-cuff monologues. But it was the songs that got the people to their feet, from the belting Gene Pitney torch ballad “I’m Gonna Be Strong’ to the No. 1 single “Time After Time,” performed to an arena bathed in phone lights. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-44.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-44-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-44-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-44-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-44-768x538.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-44-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-44-1920x1344.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyndi Lauper performs during her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is an odd artifact of the 1980s that both Cyndi Lauper and Donald Trump advocated for and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsKMb899g2Y\">participated in\u003c/a> pro wrestling. “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” and its attendant film montage gave Lauper a reason to shout out wrestlers like Lou Albano, Fred Blassie and Rowdy Roddy Piper. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How Trump used pro wrestling’s playbook and a reality TV show (on which Lauper \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Ie5B6utUA\">appeared\u003c/a>) to commandeer a political party and twice take over a nation will be studied for decades. For her part, Lauper on Tuesday night introduced a song that, as she said, seemed more true than ever: “Money Changes Everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-46.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1480\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968726\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-46.jpg 1480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-46-800x1081.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-46-1020x1378.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-46-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-46-768x1038.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/20241127_CyndiLauper_GC-46-1137x1536.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyndi Lauper performs during her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, just about any song from Lauper’s smash album \u003cem>She’s So Unusual\u003c/em> won over the mostly 40-and-up crowd. During “When You Were Mine,” the masterwork by Prince about the aftermath of a situationship, you could feel the energy of thousands of people remembering what the song once meant to them, or who they shared it with, and where, long ago. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That connection persisted for “True Colors,” the enduring LGBTQ anthem which Lauper performed on a small stage in the center of the arena, a sheer rainbow fabric rippling in the air above. 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On Tuesday night, oddly, that meant three giant portraits of the artist Yayoi Kusama, stern and unsmiling, on the giant stage backdrop, and a set and wardrobe bathed in Kusama’s red-and-white polka dots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyndi Lauper hugged Nancy Pelosi. Opener Trixie Mattel came back out to sing the second verse. Confetti ribbons shot into the air. If this truly was the last time San Francisco will see Lauper sing her hits, it left a memorable image. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a white dress, Charli XCX lightly swayed on the small stage while performing “Stay Away.” The crowd of 500 had come, curious to see the new British sensation who had broken through as a songwriter on Icona Pop’s “I Love It.” Her original ’80s-tinged, gothy pop showed individuality and \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> importantly for a 21-year-old on her first U.S. tour \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, this wasn’t the Sweat tour with Charli XCX and Troye Sivan at the Chase Center, but rather Charli XCX’s first-ever Bay Area show at the San Francisco club Slim’s in 2013. I’d gone to it enamored with her debut album \u003cem>True Romance\u003c/em>; she joked with the crowd, gave it her all, and in lieu of a deep catalog, covered Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy.” The whole thing was charming, unpolished and promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven years and seven albums later, that promise reached its apex Sunday night as Charli dominated a very, very sold-out crowd of 20,000 in San Francisco, still riding high on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/chartscharli/status/1848226339981038054\">this year’s dominant \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She’s also graciously chosen to lend her clout to Sivan, a tour co-headliner on paper but a junior-league colleague in spirit, whose songs are fine but pale in close comparison to his tour partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_0581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_0581.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_0581-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charli XCX on her first U.S. tour at Slim’s in San Francisco in 2013. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ask any one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorbook.io/hexcolors/view/8ACE00\">#8ACE00 green\u003c/a>-bedecked fans last night in “Gay Son” or “Thot Daughter” shirts to explain brat summer, and they’ll riff on a rotation of themes: living each night like it’s your last, looking extremely hot, going out and getting high with friends and strangers and being young and in love with the world. Which is to say, every teenage summer since modern times, except this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/12/20690515/hot-girl-summer-meme-define-explained\">like those before her\u003c/a>, Charli’s been able to soundtrack — and siphon — the horniest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That soundtrack sounded downright celestial Sunday night in a high-energy performance drawing heavily from \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>. “Club Classics,” “Von Dutch” and highlight “Sympathy Is a Knife” boomed with authority as Charli danced like a glitching \u003cem>Street Fighter\u003c/em> character on molly around the stage’s bare-scaffolding aesthetics of a warehouse rave. Whether playing to the camera beneath the stage’s transparent catwalk or reaching to fans over the furthest corners of its railings, Charli painted a canvas of the album that I’d always pictured when listening to it, minus any big gimmicks, pyrotechnics or backup dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-1920x2400.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charli XCX performs during the sold-out Sweat tour stop at Madison Square Garden on September 23, 2024 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Rich Fury/MSG/Getty Images for MSG Entertainment Holdings, LLC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Apple” got its viral dance moment with a group of fans on the jumbotron, “Vroom Vroom” and “I Love It” got the crowd pumped and deluxe edition track “Spring Breakers” was a nice surprise. But it was during “Girl, So Confusing” that I noticed the crowd singing along to the verses louder and more passionately than the chorus, a testament to Charli’s focus as a songwriter, and her ability to connect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivan’s appeal is a little more inexplicable, juxtaposed as it is on the Sweat tour with Charli’s pop genius. All of the edges that Charli leaves jagged and honest, he sands off. With undulating choreography and undeniable sexiness, his performances of hits like “Youth” and “One of Your Girls” drove the crowd into a frenzy. Writhing on the satin sheets of an onstage bed, making out with his backup dancers, country two-stepping in chaps and a Stetson: Sivan knew the playbook for connecting with a very gay crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-1920x2879.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troye Sivan performs at Viejas Arena in San Diego on Oct. 18, 2024 as part of his Sweat tour with Charli XCX. \u003ccite>(Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But take away the early YouTube fame, the gyrations of his backup dancers and the brilliance of his music videos, and what you’ve got is playlist music that might make for a decent 3 p.m. slot on the Twin Peaks stage at Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivan’s singing is limited (“Rager teenager!” came off like a monotone Drake melody; other songs’ higher notes were handled by a backing track), and his stage patter consisted mostly of saying the words “San Francisco” as many times as possible. Checking my notebook from last night, I found myself writing “He has the range of a fencepost and the stage presence of a wet receipt on the sidewalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2159614515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2159614515.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2159614515-800x482.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2159614515-1020x615.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2159614515-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2159614515-768x463.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2159614515-1536x925.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2159614515-1920x1157.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charli XCX joins Troye Sivan on stage during the Something to Give Each Other Tour at OVO Arena Wembley on June 27, 2024 in London, England. \u003ccite>(Katja Ogrin/Redferns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s harsh, I admit. (You might have gotten an opposing view if Charli and Troye’s tour publicists \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/supermarke/status/1847327677356896373\">didn’t ridiculously deny press requests\u003c/a> from Bay Area queer journalists.) But Charli wasn’t always such a hypnotizing artist either. After that first San Francisco show at Slim’s, it took years and no small amount of risk-taking, of experimenting and sometimes failing, to refine her singular voice as a writer, singer and performer. Sivan is a perfectly fine avatar, but I don’t know if he’ll be adventurous enough to try similar risks, and that’s what it will take for him to fully come into his own as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summertime is over, anyway, but you’d never guess it from the rapt crowd last night, screaming and dancing and on their feet for the entire 90 minutes, even during the ballad “Track 10” or during set-change lulls. After performing “1999” together, and a closing duet of the “Talk Talk” remix, Charli and Sivan bid farewell to the sea of green, and it spilled out into the street flush with rapture and, yes, sweat.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a white dress, Charli XCX lightly swayed on the small stage while performing “Stay Away.” The crowd of 500 had come, curious to see the new British sensation who had broken through as a songwriter on Icona Pop’s “I Love It.” Her original ’80s-tinged, gothy pop showed individuality and \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> importantly for a 21-year-old on her first U.S. tour \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, this wasn’t the Sweat tour with Charli XCX and Troye Sivan at the Chase Center, but rather Charli XCX’s first-ever Bay Area show at the San Francisco club Slim’s in 2013. I’d gone to it enamored with her debut album \u003cem>True Romance\u003c/em>; she joked with the crowd, gave it her all, and in lieu of a deep catalog, covered Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy.” The whole thing was charming, unpolished and promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven years and seven albums later, that promise reached its apex Sunday night as Charli dominated a very, very sold-out crowd of 20,000 in San Francisco, still riding high on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/chartscharli/status/1848226339981038054\">this year’s dominant \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She’s also graciously chosen to lend her clout to Sivan, a tour co-headliner on paper but a junior-league colleague in spirit, whose songs are fine but pale in close comparison to his tour partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_0581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_0581.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/IMG_0581-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charli XCX on her first U.S. tour at Slim’s in San Francisco in 2013. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ask any one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorbook.io/hexcolors/view/8ACE00\">#8ACE00 green\u003c/a>-bedecked fans last night in “Gay Son” or “Thot Daughter” shirts to explain brat summer, and they’ll riff on a rotation of themes: living each night like it’s your last, looking extremely hot, going out and getting high with friends and strangers and being young and in love with the world. Which is to say, every teenage summer since modern times, except this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/12/20690515/hot-girl-summer-meme-define-explained\">like those before her\u003c/a>, Charli’s been able to soundtrack — and siphon — the horniest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That soundtrack sounded downright celestial Sunday night in a high-energy performance drawing heavily from \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>. “Club Classics,” “Von Dutch” and highlight “Sympathy Is a Knife” boomed with authority as Charli danced like a glitching \u003cem>Street Fighter\u003c/em> character on molly around the stage’s bare-scaffolding aesthetics of a warehouse rave. Whether playing to the camera beneath the stage’s transparent catwalk or reaching to fans over the furthest corners of its railings, Charli painted a canvas of the album that I’d always pictured when listening to it, minus any big gimmicks, pyrotechnics or backup dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2174224055-1920x2400.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charli XCX performs during the sold-out Sweat tour stop at Madison Square Garden on September 23, 2024 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Rich Fury/MSG/Getty Images for MSG Entertainment Holdings, LLC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Apple” got its viral dance moment with a group of fans on the jumbotron, “Vroom Vroom” and “I Love It” got the crowd pumped and deluxe edition track “Spring Breakers” was a nice surprise. 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Writhing on the satin sheets of an onstage bed, making out with his backup dancers, country two-stepping in chaps and a Stetson: Sivan knew the playbook for connecting with a very gay crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/FG3A4962-1920x2879.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troye Sivan performs at Viejas Arena in San Diego on Oct. 18, 2024 as part of his Sweat tour with Charli XCX. \u003ccite>(Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But take away the early YouTube fame, the gyrations of his backup dancers and the brilliance of his music videos, and what you’ve got is playlist music that might make for a decent 3 p.m. slot on the Twin Peaks stage at Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivan’s singing is limited (“Rager teenager!” came off like a monotone Drake melody; other songs’ higher notes were handled by a backing track), and his stage patter consisted mostly of saying the words “San Francisco” as many times as possible. 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(You might have gotten an opposing view if Charli and Troye’s tour publicists \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/supermarke/status/1847327677356896373\">didn’t ridiculously deny press requests\u003c/a> from Bay Area queer journalists.) But Charli wasn’t always such a hypnotizing artist either. After that first San Francisco show at Slim’s, it took years and no small amount of risk-taking, of experimenting and sometimes failing, to refine her singular voice as a writer, singer and performer. Sivan is a perfectly fine avatar, but I don’t know if he’ll be adventurous enough to try similar risks, and that’s what it will take for him to fully come into his own as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summertime is over, anyway, but you’d never guess it from the rapt crowd last night, screaming and dancing and on their feet for the entire 90 minutes, even during the ballad “Track 10” or during set-change lulls. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the KQED series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fandomvote\">The Fandom Vote\u003c/a>, exploring the election-year concerns and voting preferences of pop culture fanbases.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen we began planning to talk to pop culture fandoms about this year’s election, we knew we couldn’t overlook the Barbz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicki Minaj fans come from all walks of life, unified in their fierce loyalty to the Queen of Rap. As a pivotal figure in music who blew open the doors for today’s female rappers, Nicki is an icon — one whose fanbase has as many different political leanings as \u003ca href=\"https://nickiminaj.fandom.com/wiki/Alter_egos\">she has alter egos\u003c/a>. [aside postID='news_11999092']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicki’s own politics don’t exactly fit into a box, either. She’s expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/nicki-minaj-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-barack-obama-sandra-bland-6804598/\">admiration for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama\u003c/a>, but has also \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438256221660663812?lang=en\">decried\u003c/a> being told what to do by Democrats, including getting COVID vaccines. In trademark chaotic style, she once \u003ca href=\"https://www.eonline.com/news/760126/nicki-minaj-dedicates-anaconda-to-donald-trump-and-joe-biden-at-time-100-gala\">dedicated her ass-centric hit “Anaconda”\u003c/a> to \u003cem>both\u003c/em> Joe Biden and Donald Trump, “in the spirit of unity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it wasn’t too surprising that outside Nicki Minaj’s show at the Chase Center in San Francisco, just over a month before Election Day, we found Barbz for Trump, Barbz for Harris, Barbz who didn’t care — as well as Barbz who flat-out hate both candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You already know in advance what political opinions you’ll get at a Ted Nugent concert. Or a Phoebe Bridgers concert. Nicki, though? It’s all over the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Gage, left, and Elissa Amin, right, pose for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024 \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m voting Trump all the way, and anybody that got a problem can fight me,” said Elissa Amin, from Reno. “When he was president four years ago, everything was better, prices were lower. He’s even said he’s gonna lower all the prices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amin praised Trump’s foreign policy as well. “I feel like we’ve just been at war with a lot of countries. You can just make peace with someone in a phone call. That’s what he does,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for other issues, like abortion, Amin said that she was “definitely learning more about that stuff right now. I’m trying to extend my knowledge on that. But I’m definitely all about pro-choice, whatever a woman wants to do with her body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend, Jeremiah Gage, just turned 18. “I’m not really big on politics,” he said. “But I feel like it’s cool. Everyone has an opinion, and everyone’s opinion can change the world, you know? Definitely, next year, I will be voting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domi Nhan, left, and Anecia Brown, right, of Modesto pose for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Domi Nhan came to the show from Modesto with her friend Anecia Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go Kamala,” Nhan said, planning to vote for the candidate who “can actually have a difference and not go backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, look at the presidential debate. It was a mess. You can’t spit false information 24/7 just to save your ass,” Nhan said. “And women’s rights mean a lot to me. That’s \u003cem>something\u003c/em>, at least, and I’d rather go forward with something than nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-16-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sierra Northcutt, left, and Leanna Taylor, right, of Sacramento pose for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sierra Northcutt, from Sacramento, was blunt about her stance on the candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re both evil. They both fuckin’ suck,” she said. “I don’t think any one of ’em would be a good choice. We need somebody who’s actually for the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend Leanna Taylor agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13963687']“Either one, they’re just not ready for the White House,” Taylor said. “’Cause [Kamala] stands with how Joe Biden stands. I feel like Joe Biden hasn’t really done as much as other presidents. And Donald Trump, people say he’s crazy and everything, but there’s also just his age. We need somebody a little bit younger, who sees more of the younger generation’s perspective on things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what qualities would their ideal candidate have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody who doesn’t come from privilege, obviously,” said Northcutt. “And under 70. Actually, under 50.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siena Starr of San Jose, 15, poses for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Siena Starr was just one year old when Nicki Minaj’s debut album \u003cem>Pink Friday\u003c/em> was released. Hailing from San Jose, Starr plans to start voting when she turns 18, but for now, at the age of 15, she’s already paying attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, if I could vote, I’d vote for Kamala Harris,” Starr said. “I feel like she’s very woman-empowering. I feel like she’d be a good representative for our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starr added that she doesn’t like Trump, stating it plain: “He used to be our president, and I didn’t like the ideas he had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-1920x1267.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Nikaiyah Williams and Kiera Baldwin attend the Nicki Minaj concert at Chase Center on Sept. 23, 2024 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiera Baldwin and Nikaiyah Williams, both from Hayward, are that rare breed of Bay Area voter: undecided about whether to vote for Harris or Trump. And it’s not that they don’t participate in elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I vote,” Baldwin said. “But right now, I’m still thinking about it.” Baldwin cited the economy, homelessness and women’s rights as issues that are important to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said her concerns in this election cycle include “homelessness and low-income families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for any issue that Nicki fans are united on, “I would probably say women’s rights, most likely,” Baldwin offered, noting that Nicki Minaj is a mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965827\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-11-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trini of Oakland poses for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trini, a recording artist from Oakland, did not hesitate in her opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vote Kamala,” she implored. “Please get Trump out of my face. I don’t want to see him no more. And I just hate the fact that he’s even an option. If a felon can run the country, then why can’t felons get jobs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An advocate for reproductive rights, Trini worries about what could happen if Trump wins and assumes the role of a dictator, especially since he’s given a lot of leeway already, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as the debate, he didn’t answer no questions directly. Just tiptoein’ around. I’m just over it. It’s like a theatrical performance at this point,” Trini added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965823\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-5-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Punani of Stockton poses for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ronnie Punani came from Stockton for the show to celebrate her four-year anniversary with partner Nate — but was decidedly not celebrating her choices at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each candidate “kind of sucks ass, you know, at this point,” she said. “It’s like, what the lesser evil is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Ronnie encouraged people to vote anyway. “There’s a lot of people that are not registered, whose voice does matter. Every voice matters, wherever you come from, no matter your skin tone or who you are. Your voice matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Nate nor Ronnie wanted to say who they’d be voting for. But Nate offered an array of issues on his mind this election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-6-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Punani of Stockton wears pink boots for a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everyday middle-class American jobs are always an issue,” Nate said. “Pay is always an issue. Living situations are always an issue. Groceries, everything from eggs to milk to bread and butter, are an issue.” He added that taxes, high rent, poverty and crime create poor living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you come in to the city, here in Frisco, it almost looks like a third-world country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for solutions? “I think we need to bring American jobs back to the states. I think taxes need to be lowered, I think police need to be reinforced, and I think that local government needs to step up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronnie said she’s not very concerned with Nicki Minaj making an endorsement of one candidate or the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look in an interview, she always makes sure that her Barbz go to school. She’s encouraged people to make sure that they get their college degree. But when it comes down to politics, it’s like… you’ve seen the meme of Nicki Minaj with the American flag, right? Nicki for President, honestly. Period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965826\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-9-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-9-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-9-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ally Thomas, left, and Cordè Faafiu, right, of Chico, pose for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ally Thomas came for the show from Chico with her friend Cordé Faafiu. And while the three-hour drive proved her passion for Nicki Minaj, Thomas doesn’t have the same interest the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to avoid it, to be honest. It’s just a mess,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about any issues that concern her in Chico, Thomas said, “I mean, wildfires are always a concern, up in Chico. I was evacuated twice this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1428\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-17-KQED-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-17-KQED-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-17-KQED-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-17-KQED-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-17-KQED-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-17-KQED-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Lakayla Shelton, Shanquae Perry and Loretta Stanberry pose for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lakayla Shelton, from San Francisco, said that with her background as a prosecutor, Harris would be a firm but fair president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s just a strong, independent woman, and that’s what we need in the office right now,” Shelton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13960424']Her friend Loretta Stanberry, also from San Francisco, acknowledged some good in the Trump administration, like the stimulus checks authorized during the first year of COVID. But she plans to vote for Kamala, and “it’s not just because she’s a woman or she’s an African American,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the direction Trump’s going, we’re not going to make it too long. And I also feel like if you could be a felon, indicted on felonies, and still run? I don’t think that’s fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanberry went on to praise Harris’ mindset. “Even when working with Biden, she’s on our team, all the issues, she’s working for us. She’s for all minorities. No matter what descent, what you identify as, she’s equal to everybody. I feel like she’ll be a great president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read more stories of pop culture fandoms and the election in the KQED series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fandomvote\">The Fandom Vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You already know in advance what political opinions you’ll get at a Ted Nugent concert. Or a Phoebe Bridgers concert. Nicki, though? It’s all over the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Gage, left, and Elissa Amin, right, pose for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024 \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m voting Trump all the way, and anybody that got a problem can fight me,” said Elissa Amin, from Reno. “When he was president four years ago, everything was better, prices were lower. He’s even said he’s gonna lower all the prices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amin praised Trump’s foreign policy as well. “I feel like we’ve just been at war with a lot of countries. You can just make peace with someone in a phone call. That’s what he does,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for other issues, like abortion, Amin said that she was “definitely learning more about that stuff right now. I’m trying to extend my knowledge on that. But I’m definitely all about pro-choice, whatever a woman wants to do with her body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend, Jeremiah Gage, just turned 18. “I’m not really big on politics,” he said. “But I feel like it’s cool. Everyone has an opinion, and everyone’s opinion can change the world, you know? Definitely, next year, I will be voting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domi Nhan, left, and Anecia Brown, right, of Modesto pose for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Domi Nhan came to the show from Modesto with her friend Anecia Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go Kamala,” Nhan said, planning to vote for the candidate who “can actually have a difference and not go backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, look at the presidential debate. It was a mess. You can’t spit false information 24/7 just to save your ass,” Nhan said. “And women’s rights mean a lot to me. 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They both fuckin’ suck,” she said. “I don’t think any one of ’em would be a good choice. We need somebody who’s actually for the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend Leanna Taylor agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Either one, they’re just not ready for the White House,” Taylor said. “’Cause [Kamala] stands with how Joe Biden stands. I feel like Joe Biden hasn’t really done as much as other presidents. And Donald Trump, people say he’s crazy and everything, but there’s also just his age. We need somebody a little bit younger, who sees more of the younger generation’s perspective on things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what qualities would their ideal candidate have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody who doesn’t come from privilege, obviously,” said Northcutt. “And under 70. Actually, under 50.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_NICKIMINAJFANDOMVOTE_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siena Starr of San Jose, 15, poses for a photo ahead of a Nicki Minaj concert at the Chase Center on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Siena Starr was just one year old when Nicki Minaj’s debut album \u003cem>Pink Friday\u003c/em> was released. Hailing from San Jose, Starr plans to start voting when she turns 18, but for now, at the age of 15, she’s already paying attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, if I could vote, I’d vote for Kamala Harris,” Starr said. “I feel like she’s very woman-empowering. I feel like she’d be a good representative for our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starr added that she doesn’t like Trump, stating it plain: “He used to be our president, and I didn’t like the ideas he had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/20240923_NickiMinajFandomVote-27-1920x1267.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Nikaiyah Williams and Kiera Baldwin attend the Nicki Minaj concert at Chase Center on Sept. 23, 2024 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kiera Baldwin and Nikaiyah Williams, both from Hayward, are that rare breed of Bay Area voter: undecided about whether to vote for Harris or Trump. 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Living situations are always an issue. Groceries, everything from eggs to milk to bread and butter, are an issue.” He added that taxes, high rent, poverty and crime create poor living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you come in to the city, here in Frisco, it almost looks like a third-world country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for solutions? “I think we need to bring American jobs back to the states. I think taxes need to be lowered, I think police need to be reinforced, and I think that local government needs to step up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronnie said she’s not very concerned with Nicki Minaj making an endorsement of one candidate or the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look in an interview, she always makes sure that her Barbz go to school. She’s encouraged people to make sure that they get their college degree. But when it comes down to politics, it’s like… you’ve seen the meme of Nicki Minaj with the American flag, right? Nicki for President, honestly. 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