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As KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739894/bay-area-has-3rd-largest-homeless-population-in-country-nearly-70-have-no-shelter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported last week\u003c/a>, the Bay Area has the third-largest homeless population in the United States, with nearly 70% of the region’s homeless living unsheltered on the streets, in cars, in tents or elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the visibility of the homeless is a separate issue. With the action in \u003cem>Down Here Below\u003c/em> sprawled across the room in an almost haphazard manner, there’s no one seat in the house from which attendees can catch every moment of the play, mirroring our inability to absorb and understand every detail of our surroundings when out in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, we’re all limited by what we choose to see, and what chooses to be revealed to us. But as \u003cem>Down Here Below\u003c/em> suggests, the bigger picture of our shared humanity is well within our view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Down Here Below’ runs through April 28 at the FLAX Building (1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way) in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ubuntutheaterproject.com/below\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For a show that didn’t have a confirmed venue until a couple weeks before opening night, it’s somewhat appropriate that the world-premiere production of \u003cem>Down Here Below\u003c/em>, from Oakland’s Ubuntu Theater Project, is set in a homeless encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ubuntu’s production, situated in the loading zone of the Oakland branch of FLAX artist supply store, the cast occupies an ephemeral camp called the “Village of Radical Acceptance.” It’s a bare-bones suggestion of a camp, really, created from a few tarps and chairs, scattered milk crates, a refrigerator box, and graffiti-covered walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By serendipitous coincidence, Ubuntu’s run of \u003cem>Down Here Below—\u003c/em>an adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s \u003cem>The Lower Depths\u003c/em> by Ubuntu associate artist, Lisa Ramirez—coincides with that of \u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em>, across the Bay at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. Though \u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em> has a bigger budget, and therefore a more realized immersive experience, both productions put their audience in the same physical and psychological space as the characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon walking into FLAX, the audience must navigate a path through the waiting performers, who ask for spare change and sandwiches. Once seated, hunched around the playing area as if at a bonfire, the audience is pulled into the daily routines of the camp and its denizens without the artificial distance of a proscenium stage. We are all a part of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13855144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13855144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_J-Jha-as-Zig-Zag-and-Margherita-Ventura-as-Chicken-Little_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_J-Jha-as-Zig-Zag-and-Margherita-Ventura-as-Chicken-Little_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_J-Jha-as-Zig-Zag-and-Margherita-Ventura-as-Chicken-Little_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_J-Jha-as-Zig-Zag-and-Margherita-Ventura-as-Chicken-Little_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_J-Jha-as-Zig-Zag-and-Margherita-Ventura-as-Chicken-Little_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J Jha as Zig Zag and Margherita Ventura as Chicken Little in the Village of Radical Acceptance. \u003ccite>(Jose Manuel Monteczuma)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That \u003cem>Down Here Below\u003c/em> is a story without a beginning or an end only adds to its immersive quality. The inhabitants of the Village are already familiar with each other, and therefore have no need to painstakingly lay out their backstories—at least not until their backstories come looking for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Altogether, 20 actors are involved, giving stage time to a broad swath of the lower strata: street kids, veterans, dealers, recyclers, artists and auto-didacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13855143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13855143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Matt-Standley-GI-Joe-and-Kimberly-Daniels-Mama-Gwen_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Matt-Standley-GI-Joe-and-Kimberly-Daniels-Mama-Gwen_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Matt-Standley-GI-Joe-and-Kimberly-Daniels-Mama-Gwen_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Matt-Standley-GI-Joe-and-Kimberly-Daniels-Mama-Gwen_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Matt-Standley-GI-Joe-and-Kimberly-Daniels-Mama-Gwen_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Matt-Standley-GI-Joe-and-Kimberly-Daniels-Mama-Gwen_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Matt-Standley-GI-Joe-and-Kimberly-Daniels-Mama-Gwen_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Matt-Standley-GI-Joe-and-Kimberly-Daniels-Mama-Gwen_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GI Joe (Matt Standley), and Mama Gwen (Kimberly Daniels) in Lisa Ramirez’ ‘Down Here Below.’ \u003ccite>(Jose Manuel Monteczuma)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While each character gets a moment in the spotlight, it’s the tight-knit family of camp “mayor” Mama Gwen (Kimberly Daniels) and her two children Blue (Rolanda D. Bell) and Little Bit (William Oliver III) who hold the center of both the play and the stage. The comfortable ease with which they communicate—whether mediating camp disputes, discussing family chores, or facing down city workers trying to sweep them out—speaks to the strength and dignity they cultivate in each other and, through their actions, impart to the camp at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a third child Abbey (Champagne Hughes) comes to visit, she has her middle-class assumptions challenged by Blue, who calls the camp—but not her blood sister—her “family.” And like any family, despite the squabbles, tensions and addictions that plague its members, the Village offers at its core a vision of true acceptance. A vision in which it’s understood that no one person will ever know the whole of another’s life, but that within the context of a certain place and time, they can be a part of each other’s stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13855142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13855142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Champagne-Hughes-Abbey_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Champagne-Hughes-Abbey_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Champagne-Hughes-Abbey_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Champagne-Hughes-Abbey_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/DownHereBelow_Champagne-Hughes-Abbey_credit_Jose-Manuel-Moctezuma.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champagne Hughes as Abbey visits her sister Blue in the Village of Radical Acceptance. \u003ccite>(Jose Manuel Monteczuma)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Directed by Michael French, \u003cem>Down Here Below\u003c/em> is a naturalistic doorway into an everyday milieu that’s disproportionately ignored by both our playwrights and politicians. As KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739894/bay-area-has-3rd-largest-homeless-population-in-country-nearly-70-have-no-shelter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported last week\u003c/a>, the Bay Area has the third-largest homeless population in the United States, with nearly 70% of the region’s homeless living unsheltered on the streets, in cars, in tents or elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the visibility of the homeless is a separate issue. With the action in \u003cem>Down Here Below\u003c/em> sprawled across the room in an almost haphazard manner, there’s no one seat in the house from which attendees can catch every moment of the play, mirroring our inability to absorb and understand every detail of our surroundings when out in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, we’re all limited by what we choose to see, and what chooses to be revealed to us. But as \u003cem>Down Here Below\u003c/em> suggests, the bigger picture of our shared humanity is well within our view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Down Here Below’ runs through April 28 at the FLAX Building (1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way) in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ubuntutheaterproject.com/below\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Bay Area nightclub owner who increased service fees on tickets in order to pay for a large bonus for himself has been defeated in a pair of costly breach-of-contract lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For music fans, including thousands who purchased online tickets to the nightclubs involved, the lawsuits illustrate little-known details of the online ticketing industry—including signing bonuses and advances for small club owners, and how they can increase the dreaded “convenience” fee paid by ordinary ticket buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits go back to 2014, when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenewparish.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Parish\u003c/a> in Oakland and the \u003ca href=\"https://brickandmortarmusic.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brick & Mortar Music Hall\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission District began using a different company to sell advance online tickets for shows. Fans had previously bought tickets through San Francisco-based online ticket provider Ticketfly, but the clubs’ co-owner Jason Perkins dropped the company after a competing ticket provider, Crowdtorch, offered a signing bonus and advance totaling $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the change in providers and the large signing bonus for himself, Perkins effectively increased the service fees paid by ticket buyers by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that decision is about to cost greatly for Perkins, a controversial figure in the local music community. Perkins for years has made headlines across Bay Area media for sparring with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Brick-amp-Mortar-Music-Hall-sounds-off-4744795.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city officials\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/25/oakland-music-venue-claims-illegal-shut-down-after-alleged-police-raid/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police and fire departments\u003c/a> and, in one case, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcritic.com/2017/04/19/mixing-business-with-poison-why-readers-cant-trust-sf-sounds/29467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a popular local band\u003c/a>. (Last year, in a widely publicized incident, he was shown on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/nightclub-owner-accused-threats-attack-homeless-man-surveillance-video-surfaces/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaked security footage\u003c/a> in a physical altercation with a homeless man.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ticketfly and Crowdtorch sued Perkins and his business partner Michael O’Connor for breach of contract. In its filing, Crowdtorch alleged a pattern by Perkins of “taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in signing bonuses from an online ticketing provider and then abandoning the provider without paying back any of the bonuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowdtorch won judgment in 2017 for $323,000. And last month, after the court admonished Perkins for withholding evidence, a ruling favoring Ticketfly opened the door to another six-figure judgment. Should a judge award full damages claimed, Perkins and O’Connor will be on the hook for over $738,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"The New Parish in Oakland is one of the clubs involved in the Ticketfly and Crowdtorch lawsuits. Jason Perkins has reportedly since sold his stake in the popular club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Parish in Oakland is one of the clubs involved in the Ticketfly and Crowdtorch lawsuits. Jason Perkins has since sold his stake in the popular club. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Passing Along Large Bonuses to Fans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits stem from a 2014 agreement between Perkins and Ticketfly, now owned by Eventbrite, to provide ticketing services for Parish Entertainment Group venues, including the Brick & Mortar and New Parish through 2019. The five-year contract included a perk more commonly associated with professional sports: a $110,000 signing bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketing companies are widely reviled for their high “convenience” fees tacked on to the face value of a ticket. But the contract also outlined one of the industry’s secrets: the practice of venue owners receiving a cut of each ticket’s service fees. In the agreement, Ticketfly established a split: for a $10 ticket, for example, the service charge would be $2, of which the venue owners would receive $.25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins signed the five-year Ticketfly agreement on April 7, 2014. But nine days later, on April 16, according to court filings, Perkins told a Crowdtorch representative that he was “entertaining offers,” and began bargaining with the company weeks after contracting with Ticketfly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the sales process, Mr. Perkins made reference to other vendors he was considering for ticketing services, and even rejected our first offer as not competitive ‘with the vendors we have whittled down to consider,’” the Crowdtorch employee wrote in a sworn declaration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2014, Perkins signed a four-year agreement with Crowdtorch, court filings show, with highly favorable terms: a $150,000 signing bonus, plus a $350,000 advance on ticket sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help pay for Perkins’ large bonus and advance, the contract included an increased service charge on tickets, passed along to fans at checkout. The $2 surcharge on a $10 ticket rose by 50 percent, to $3, costing fans a total of $13 before an additional 3 percent credit card fee. The club’s cut of the surcharge, meanwhile, rose by 500 percent to $1.50. (Service fees varied by face value, but their increase did not: a $50 ticket, for example, came with a Ticketfly service fee of $6, which with Crowdfire rose 50 percent to $9.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this time, Perkins remained under contract to Ticketfly, who had paid him its own signing bonus. In December 2014, as emails surfaced in litigation show, Crowdtorch agreed to wire $250,000 earlier than previously arranged if Perkins confirmed that his Ticketfly contract was “null and void.” “I agree with all points below,” Perkins responded. “I appreciate the timely release of funds[.]” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketfly sued Perkins and O’Connor three months later. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False and Evasive’ Responses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the San Francisco judge granted Ticketfly legal fees and “terminating sanctions,” effectively ending the case in the company’s favor. The dollar amount of damages to be paid by Perkins and O’Connor will be determined at a future date, but Ticketfly claims it’s owed more than $400,000. Combined with the Crowdtorch judgment, that would bring the total in damages to be paid by Perkins and O’Connor to more than $723,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by email, Perkins did not provide comment on the ruling. The attorney representing Perkins and O’Connor did not respond to multiple requests for comment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the four-year lawsuit, Ticketfly’s attorney Nitoj Singh accused Perkins of strategically “keep[ing] this case barely alive” by “avoiding default time and time again…in an apparent effort to delay a resolution,” a charge with which the judge agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants’ repeated failures to provide timely discovery responses and to comply with the Court’s orders constitute willful, repeated, and egregious misuse of the discovery process,” wrote San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman in the order filed Feb. 28, 2019. Schulman also criticized Perkins and O’Connor for “false and evasive discovery responses [and] their admitted spoliation or loss of relevant documents.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re pleased that this has finally come to resolution with the court dismissing the case in our favor, awarding Ticketfly terminating and monetary sanctions,” the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Ticketfly was granted "terminating sanctions" in a judge's decision in February. \" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ticketfly was granted “terminating sanctions” in a judge’s decision in February. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘A Pattern and Practice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Evidently, Ticketfly’s lawsuit did not deter Perkins from signing with yet another ticketing company while under contract to Crowdtorch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowdtorch, now a part of San Francisco company Vendini, filed its suit in 2016 alleging the same type of contract breach, saying Perkins collected the bonus it paid to him before signing with a third ticketing company. “Defendants’ conduct was malicious and intentional, and consistent with a pattern and practice,” Crowdtorch’s attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2017 judgement in favor of Crowdtorch, for $323,000, was later sustained in appellate court. It is unclear in the lawsuit which ticketing company Perkins signed with while under contract to Crowdtorch, or if he received yet another large signing bonus when he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brick & Mortar’s current online ticketing provider is Ticketmaster subsidiary Ticketweb.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A History of Conflict\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perkins, whose ventures have also included Leo’s Music Club in Oakland and the Crafty Fox alehouse in San Francisco, has a well-documented history of conflict with city officials in various departments. In addition to media coverage in several Bay Area outlets, he published the defunct tabloid \u003cem>SF Sounds\u003c/em>, using unsigned editorials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10973414/entertainment-commission-nightlife-heroes-or-instrument-of-destruction\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticize the San Francisco Entertainment Commission\u003c/a> and, in one article, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcritic.com/2017/04/19/mixing-business-with-poison-why-readers-cant-trust-sf-sounds/29467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appearing to fabricate quotes disparaging Brothers Comatose\u003c/a>, a local bluegrass group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s kept a low profile since Twitter users dubbed him “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23valenciavigilante&src=typd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ValenciaVigilante\u003c/a>,” mimicking the viral hashtags used last year to describe filmed incidents of street harassment around Lake Merritt by “#JoggerJoe” and “#BBQBecky.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23valenciavigilante&src=typd\">hashtag\u003c/a> spread last year after leaked security footage showed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/06/14/jason-perkins-of-parish-entertainment-group-dubbed-valenciavigilante-accused-of-accosting-homeless-man\">altercation\u003c/a> between Perkins and a homeless man outside his Mission District venue. A former employee, David Palmer, then \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/ex-employee-comes-forward-id-club-owner-threats-burn-homeless-encampment/\">provided screenshots\u003c/a> of text exchanges that he said showed Perkins taking credit for \u003ca href=\"https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/the-sana-g-morning-show/content/2018-06-19-bay-area-club-owner-exposed-for-threatening-homeless-valenciavigilante/#.WywSt6kJOKw.twitter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving threatening notes\u003c/a>, specific language of which echoed Perkins’ social media posts, on nearby tents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(At the time, Perkins denied leaving the notes, and said the video showed self-defense.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following public outcry, O’Connor \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/parish-entertainment-group-dissolves-amid-allegations-against-jason-perkins/Content?oid=17480110\">dissolved\u003c/a> the Parish Entertainment Group, the moniker for his partnership with Perkins, although he and Perkins remained co-owners of Brick & Mortar, he said. It was then reported that Allen Scott of Another Planet Entertainment had \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8473757/new-parish-oakland-sold-allen-scott-another-planet-entertainment\">bought out\u003c/a> Perkins’ stake in the New Parish. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a declaration in the Ticketfly case, Perkins wrote that he now lives with his family in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A Bay Area nightclub owner who increased service fees on tickets in order to pay for a large bonus for himself has been defeated in a pair of costly breach-of-contract lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For music fans, including thousands who purchased online tickets to the nightclubs involved, the lawsuits illustrate little-known details of the online ticketing industry—including signing bonuses and advances for small club owners, and how they can increase the dreaded “convenience” fee paid by ordinary ticket buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits go back to 2014, when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenewparish.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Parish\u003c/a> in Oakland and the \u003ca href=\"https://brickandmortarmusic.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brick & Mortar Music Hall\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission District began using a different company to sell advance online tickets for shows. Fans had previously bought tickets through San Francisco-based online ticket provider Ticketfly, but the clubs’ co-owner Jason Perkins dropped the company after a competing ticket provider, Crowdtorch, offered a signing bonus and advance totaling $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the change in providers and the large signing bonus for himself, Perkins effectively increased the service fees paid by ticket buyers by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that decision is about to cost greatly for Perkins, a controversial figure in the local music community. Perkins for years has made headlines across Bay Area media for sparring with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Brick-amp-Mortar-Music-Hall-sounds-off-4744795.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city officials\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/25/oakland-music-venue-claims-illegal-shut-down-after-alleged-police-raid/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police and fire departments\u003c/a> and, in one case, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcritic.com/2017/04/19/mixing-business-with-poison-why-readers-cant-trust-sf-sounds/29467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a popular local band\u003c/a>. (Last year, in a widely publicized incident, he was shown on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/nightclub-owner-accused-threats-attack-homeless-man-surveillance-video-surfaces/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaked security footage\u003c/a> in a physical altercation with a homeless man.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ticketfly and Crowdtorch sued Perkins and his business partner Michael O’Connor for breach of contract. In its filing, Crowdtorch alleged a pattern by Perkins of “taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in signing bonuses from an online ticketing provider and then abandoning the provider without paying back any of the bonuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowdtorch won judgment in 2017 for $323,000. And last month, after the court admonished Perkins for withholding evidence, a ruling favoring Ticketfly opened the door to another six-figure judgment. Should a judge award full damages claimed, Perkins and O’Connor will be on the hook for over $738,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"The New Parish in Oakland is one of the clubs involved in the Ticketfly and Crowdtorch lawsuits. Jason Perkins has reportedly since sold his stake in the popular club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/NewParish-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Parish in Oakland is one of the clubs involved in the Ticketfly and Crowdtorch lawsuits. Jason Perkins has since sold his stake in the popular club. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Passing Along Large Bonuses to Fans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits stem from a 2014 agreement between Perkins and Ticketfly, now owned by Eventbrite, to provide ticketing services for Parish Entertainment Group venues, including the Brick & Mortar and New Parish through 2019. The five-year contract included a perk more commonly associated with professional sports: a $110,000 signing bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketing companies are widely reviled for their high “convenience” fees tacked on to the face value of a ticket. But the contract also outlined one of the industry’s secrets: the practice of venue owners receiving a cut of each ticket’s service fees. In the agreement, Ticketfly established a split: for a $10 ticket, for example, the service charge would be $2, of which the venue owners would receive $.25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins signed the five-year Ticketfly agreement on April 7, 2014. But nine days later, on April 16, according to court filings, Perkins told a Crowdtorch representative that he was “entertaining offers,” and began bargaining with the company weeks after contracting with Ticketfly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the sales process, Mr. Perkins made reference to other vendors he was considering for ticketing services, and even rejected our first offer as not competitive ‘with the vendors we have whittled down to consider,’” the Crowdtorch employee wrote in a sworn declaration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2014, Perkins signed a four-year agreement with Crowdtorch, court filings show, with highly favorable terms: a $150,000 signing bonus, plus a $350,000 advance on ticket sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help pay for Perkins’ large bonus and advance, the contract included an increased service charge on tickets, passed along to fans at checkout. The $2 surcharge on a $10 ticket rose by 50 percent, to $3, costing fans a total of $13 before an additional 3 percent credit card fee. The club’s cut of the surcharge, meanwhile, rose by 500 percent to $1.50. (Service fees varied by face value, but their increase did not: a $50 ticket, for example, came with a Ticketfly service fee of $6, which with Crowdfire rose 50 percent to $9.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this time, Perkins remained under contract to Ticketfly, who had paid him its own signing bonus. In December 2014, as emails surfaced in litigation show, Crowdtorch agreed to wire $250,000 earlier than previously arranged if Perkins confirmed that his Ticketfly contract was “null and void.” “I agree with all points below,” Perkins responded. “I appreciate the timely release of funds[.]” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticketfly sued Perkins and O’Connor three months later. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False and Evasive’ Responses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the San Francisco judge granted Ticketfly legal fees and “terminating sanctions,” effectively ending the case in the company’s favor. The dollar amount of damages to be paid by Perkins and O’Connor will be determined at a future date, but Ticketfly claims it’s owed more than $400,000. Combined with the Crowdtorch judgment, that would bring the total in damages to be paid by Perkins and O’Connor to more than $723,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by email, Perkins did not provide comment on the ruling. The attorney representing Perkins and O’Connor did not respond to multiple requests for comment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the four-year lawsuit, Ticketfly’s attorney Nitoj Singh accused Perkins of strategically “keep[ing] this case barely alive” by “avoiding default time and time again…in an apparent effort to delay a resolution,” a charge with which the judge agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants’ repeated failures to provide timely discovery responses and to comply with the Court’s orders constitute willful, repeated, and egregious misuse of the discovery process,” wrote San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman in the order filed Feb. 28, 2019. Schulman also criticized Perkins and O’Connor for “false and evasive discovery responses [and] their admitted spoliation or loss of relevant documents.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re pleased that this has finally come to resolution with the court dismissing the case in our favor, awarding Ticketfly terminating and monetary sanctions,” the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Ticketfly was granted "terminating sanctions" in a judge's decision in February. \" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Ticketfly-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ticketfly was granted “terminating sanctions” in a judge’s decision in February. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘A Pattern and Practice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Evidently, Ticketfly’s lawsuit did not deter Perkins from signing with yet another ticketing company while under contract to Crowdtorch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowdtorch, now a part of San Francisco company Vendini, filed its suit in 2016 alleging the same type of contract breach, saying Perkins collected the bonus it paid to him before signing with a third ticketing company. “Defendants’ conduct was malicious and intentional, and consistent with a pattern and practice,” Crowdtorch’s attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2017 judgement in favor of Crowdtorch, for $323,000, was later sustained in appellate court. It is unclear in the lawsuit which ticketing company Perkins signed with while under contract to Crowdtorch, or if he received yet another large signing bonus when he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brick & Mortar’s current online ticketing provider is Ticketmaster subsidiary Ticketweb.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A History of Conflict\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perkins, whose ventures have also included Leo’s Music Club in Oakland and the Crafty Fox alehouse in San Francisco, has a well-documented history of conflict with city officials in various departments. In addition to media coverage in several Bay Area outlets, he published the defunct tabloid \u003cem>SF Sounds\u003c/em>, using unsigned editorials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10973414/entertainment-commission-nightlife-heroes-or-instrument-of-destruction\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticize the San Francisco Entertainment Commission\u003c/a> and, in one article, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcritic.com/2017/04/19/mixing-business-with-poison-why-readers-cant-trust-sf-sounds/29467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appearing to fabricate quotes disparaging Brothers Comatose\u003c/a>, a local bluegrass group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s kept a low profile since Twitter users dubbed him “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23valenciavigilante&src=typd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ValenciaVigilante\u003c/a>,” mimicking the viral hashtags used last year to describe filmed incidents of street harassment around Lake Merritt by “#JoggerJoe” and “#BBQBecky.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23valenciavigilante&src=typd\">hashtag\u003c/a> spread last year after leaked security footage showed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/06/14/jason-perkins-of-parish-entertainment-group-dubbed-valenciavigilante-accused-of-accosting-homeless-man\">altercation\u003c/a> between Perkins and a homeless man outside his Mission District venue. A former employee, David Palmer, then \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/ex-employee-comes-forward-id-club-owner-threats-burn-homeless-encampment/\">provided screenshots\u003c/a> of text exchanges that he said showed Perkins taking credit for \u003ca href=\"https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/the-sana-g-morning-show/content/2018-06-19-bay-area-club-owner-exposed-for-threatening-homeless-valenciavigilante/#.WywSt6kJOKw.twitter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving threatening notes\u003c/a>, specific language of which echoed Perkins’ social media posts, on nearby tents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(At the time, Perkins denied leaving the notes, and said the video showed self-defense.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following public outcry, O’Connor \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/parish-entertainment-group-dissolves-amid-allegations-against-jason-perkins/Content?oid=17480110\">dissolved\u003c/a> the Parish Entertainment Group, the moniker for his partnership with Perkins, although he and Perkins remained co-owners of Brick & Mortar, he said. It was then reported that Allen Scott of Another Planet Entertainment had \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8473757/new-parish-oakland-sold-allen-scott-another-planet-entertainment\">bought out\u003c/a> Perkins’ stake in the New Parish. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Assistant City Administrator Joe DeVries \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13836097/homeless-cleared-from-mosswood-park-ahead-of-burger-boogaloo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said at the time\u003c/a> that the sweep was to make room for a camp for youth with disabilities.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Burger Boogaloo has partnered with the \u003ca href=\"http://homelessactioncenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeless Action Center\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides free legal assistance to people experiencing homelessness. 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The program, which had been on hiatus since 2016 following a fire at the park’s recreation center, expects 150 participants next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns over issues created by the encampment, such as the sizable amount of syringes littering the grounds, led to the city clearing the park, a decision DeVries said was announced four months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t have 150 disabled students recreating in a park where we routinely collect hundreds of hypodermic needles,” DeVries \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/06/26/homeless-cleared-out-of-north-oakland-park/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, news of the sweep \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Indybay/status/1011699489332068356\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spread on social media\u003c/a>, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/totaltrashproductions/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burger Boogaloo promoters\u003c/a> came under \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/charmainesnames/status/1011821672775630854\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticism\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burger Boogaloo released an official statement Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Burger Boogaloo is pained by the ongoing homeless crisis in Oakland and everywhere,” it read. “As a consequence of events and programs planned at Mosswood Park, including our permitted event, people living there were asked to leave by Oakland Police. 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Some say Perkins also appears to have been behind flyers posted around the Brick & Mortar Music Hall which called for homeless people to clear out, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/06/14/jason-perkins-of-parish-entertainment-group-dubbed-valenciavigilante-accused-of-accosting-homeless-man\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threatened physical violence and burning\u003c/a> for those who did not. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland police officers cleared out homeless camps at Oakland’s Mosswood Park Tuesday, days before the popular punk festival Burger Boogaloo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sweep removed an estimated 20 people living in tents on the park grounds, according to Joe DeVries, assistant to the Oakland City Administrator. While the removal occurred just days before Burger Boogaloo, DeVries said that the city cleared the homeless in preparation for a program serving disabled youth. The program, which had been on hiatus since 2016 following a fire at the park’s recreation center, expects 150 participants next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns over issues created by the encampment, such as the sizable amount of syringes littering the grounds, led to the city clearing the park, a decision DeVries said was announced four months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t have 150 disabled students recreating in a park where we routinely collect hundreds of hypodermic needles,” DeVries \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/06/26/homeless-cleared-out-of-north-oakland-park/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, news of the sweep \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Indybay/status/1011699489332068356\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spread on social media\u003c/a>, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/totaltrashproductions/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burger Boogaloo promoters\u003c/a> came under \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/charmainesnames/status/1011821672775630854\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticism\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burger Boogaloo released an official statement Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Burger Boogaloo is pained by the ongoing homeless crisis in Oakland and everywhere,” it read. “As a consequence of events and programs planned at Mosswood Park, including our permitted event, people living there were asked to leave by Oakland Police. Prior to the Tuesday expulsion, Burger Boogaloo staff spent time assisting people in the park with the move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burger Boogaloo also stated that it had donated to \u003ca href=\"http://apcollaborative.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda Point Collaborative\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.homeaway.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Home Away From Homelessness\u003c/a>, two homeless assistance organizations, adding that “we encourage our friends and anyone concerned about the plight of people here in our community to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival further announced that the \u003ca href=\"http://homelessactioncenter.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Homeless Action Center\u003c/a> will have a presence at the two-day festival, with members collecting donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Boogaloo founder Marcos Ribak were not returned at press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues of homelessness have overlapped with the local music scene in recent weeks, with Jason Perkins of local venues the New Parish and Brick & Mortar Music Hall \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/06/14/jason-perkins-of-parish-entertainment-group-dubbed-valenciavigilante-accused-of-accosting-homeless-man\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caught on security video pepper-spraying a homeless man\u003c/a>. Some say Perkins also appears to have been behind flyers posted around the Brick & Mortar Music Hall which called for homeless people to clear out, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/06/14/jason-perkins-of-parish-entertainment-group-dubbed-valenciavigilante-accused-of-accosting-homeless-man\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threatened physical violence and burning\u003c/a> for those who did not. (A homeless benefit featuring Equipto, La Misa Negra and Mistah F.A.B. scheduled at the New Parish was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835668/with-latest-album-equipto-calls-out-housing-crisis-and-gentrification\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moved to a different venue\u003c/a> in response.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aleksander Prechtl, friend of Ribak and singer for the band Battleship, who are scheduled to perform at the festival this weekend, told KQED that he was “confident” Boogaloo’s organizers “advocated the city on behalf of the homeless and would assist in minimizing the disruption to their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve known Marcos for many years and have no reason to think he’d be anything but kind and generous to everyone, especially the homeless,” Prechtl wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prechtl opined that because the festival uses only half the park, an option might have been to move the encampment to another site in the park, but away from the festival. He added that it’s on the city to “treat the housing crisis as the emergency it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not allow homelessness to be ever seen as normal nor acceptable. We, as a society, need to treat housing and healthcare as the human rights that they are,” Prechtl wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>My daughter has a close friend who often says, “I’m a millennial, which means I’ll never own a home.” What a sad comment. But it’s pretty realistic here in the Bay Area, with its elusive and over-priced homes. So that makes \u003cem>The House Imaginary\u003c/em>, the new show at the San Jose Museum of Art, among the most important of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curator Lauren Shell Dickens says she began with the question: what does a single family home mean in the Bay Area today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of today’s housing crisis, but also in terms of today’s era of mobility, and immigration,” she said. “And how can a house signify both stability and a place of refuge, but also such uncertainty in today’s world?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13829851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13829851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Tabaimo‘s ‘Dolefullhouse‘\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-1200x825.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-1920x1320.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-960x660.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-240x165.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-375x258.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o-520x357.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/tabaimo-dolefullhouse-2007_40295249865_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tabaimo‘s ‘Dolefullhouse‘ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Jose Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the pieces in the show is an illustration by Carmen Lomas Garza of a Latino family eating watermelon on their front porch (above), and it’s a serene image of safety and family togetherness. And then, for contrast, there’s a drawing by Roger Shimomura of a pleasant room with a birthday cake and barbed wire visible outside the window. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s a kid, I vividly remember asking myself, how does someone end up homeless? How could you collect change all day and not have enough for a place to stay? How could there be so many empty buildings downtown, with the lights on at night, while there are people sleeping outside?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never brought those questions to the people sleeping at the bus stop, surviving under the freeway or living in temporary shelters on the sidewalk. But I should’ve asked. That’s how to get the real story about how someone becomes homeless, and how we can help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, I sat at a 20-foot-long brown lunch table in the multipurpose room of Oakland SOL Middle School in East Oakland as Mitzi Lewis, a formerly unsheltered woman, engaged in a dialogue with over 40 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an eager trio of students asked the first questions, the rest of the inquisitive 6\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> graders rapidly followed suit. It was like watching a pack of post-game reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do unsheltered students go to school?” and “What can the Oakland SOL math class do to help the unsheltered?” the kids asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis used her lived experience to provide answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13828844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13828844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mitzi Lewis, a formerly homeless Oakland resident, talks about her life experiences with students from Sol Middle School in East Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitzi Lewis, a formerly homeless Oakland resident, talks about her life experiences with students from Oakland SOL Middle School in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never stayed at a shelter,” said Lewis. “Some are safe, some aren’t. Especially for women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told them about dialing 2-1-1 on these ancient things called pay phones to get information on food and health services. She mentioned the double standard of churches, “where they tell you to ‘come as you are’ but judge you when you walk in the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told them about the compromise people face when they send their kid to school while homeless; fearing that if a staff member finds out, they’ll report the family and have child taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She mentioned the unexpected death of one of her daughters and the depression that came thereafter. That depression led to lack of motivation, and subsequent unpaid bills, which ultimately led to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ewis spoke at Oakland SOL Middle School with Nick Houston, who serves as the Community Engagement Officer for The East Oakland Collective, an organization that works on a multi-tiered approach for community betterment, through civic engagement, economic empowerment and initiatives on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective has only been around for just over two years, but during that short time, it has become a conduit for local residents to voice their concerns and take action. There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/eoakcollective/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> page, which is updated multiple times per day. There are community forums, where politicians listen to their constituents. And then there are the food giveaways, the most recent of which brought out over 300 people to make lunches and toiletry bags at 7am on the Oakland SOL campus. The next one, on Apr. 15 , is expecting even more volunteers. (You can \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/feedthehood5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective even worked with Lewis to get her off the street and back on her feet by running a successful GoFundMe campaign. Lewis got the keys to her new house just days prior to speaking to the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13828845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13828845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Houston of East Oakland Collective checks on the homeless encampments in East Oakland once a week to assess residents' needs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Houston of The East Oakland Collective checks on the homeless encampments in East Oakland once a week to assess residents’ needs. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ess than an hour after Lewis’ talk with the preteens concluded, Houston and I were on the streets of East Oakland. He allowed me to come along during a check-in on a nearby encampment. This is something he does a couple of times per week, sometimes during his off day from his full-time job or after work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been checking in the Deep East Oakland encampments; they’re the most overlooked encampments in Oakland,” said Houston. “But I’ve touched every encampment in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me about the work he does as we walked through the rain-soaked grounds. The fraught landscape looked almost like another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We came to a plot of land bordered by train tracks ran to our right and busy San Leandro Street to our left. Houses made of plywood and camping tents stood adjacent to a mound of old bike parts. There was a noticeable spot where a fire had recently occurred, one of the many encampment fires as of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The misnomer is that the homeless population are drunks or on drugs. Most of these folks work or have income,” Houston told me as a BART train ran overhead. “They just can’t afford $2,200 for a one bedroom, or $6,000 to move in! I can’t even afford that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He followed up by telling me another reason he does the work, “For one, people don’t look at them like they’re human. And for two: shit, this could be us!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13828846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13828846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A temporary shelter near a creek at a homeless encampment in East Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A temporary shelter near a creek at a homeless encampment in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he problem of homelessness is multilayered and needs to be tackled on multiple levels. So while Houston is checking encampments, Marquita “Keta” Price, an Oakland native who serves as the collective’s Urban and Regional Planning Officer, is networking with other stakeholders. Price says that The East Oakland Collective has worked with Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, BART and the East Bay MUD, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The networking has been the greatest gain,” Price told me over the phone. “The networking has allowed us to gain insight on what these agencies are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a college student who works with Oakland City Councilmember Abel Guillen says, “on my lunch break, I’m taking calls for EOC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finished by telling me that The East Oakland Collective provided an opportunity for her to apply her vision for cooperative economics, and she credits Candice Elder for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder is the founder and director of the East Oakland Collective. She’s a former paralegal and President of the Museum of African Diaspora Vanguard Board. She left her job to do work full-time in the community she grew up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We want dedicated folks who want to make change in East Oakland.’ — Candice Elder, founder of The East Oakland Collective\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Driving through the East, going down Hegenberger and commuting to S.F., I could see the lack of resources,” Elder told me. “Nothing has changed, as far as development, in years. All these places I remember fondly as a child, and they were thriving. This area is the last frontier. We have to do something, I have to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She simply started with a Facebook group. “If I’m feeling this way, I wonder how many other people of like mind are feeling this way?” She questioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from that, a grassroots organization grew. It’s membership based, with an application process, but fees are waived. “We are more concerned about building community power than charging people,” says Elder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want dedicated folks who want to make change in East Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What better people than the youth? And what better way to inform their efforts to create change than to give them firsthand accounts of the issues at hand?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13828860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13828860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"East Oakland Collective started out as a Facebook group but quickly grew into a multi-tiered action network.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Oakland Collective started out as a Facebook group but quickly grew into a multi-tiered action network. \u003ccite>(Charles Lee/@picturemesirius)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">G\u003c/span>oing back to the conversation between Mitzi Lewis and the students, there was an exchange that I heard just before leaving the campus of Oakland SOL Middle School that still resonates with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do our unsheltered neighbors need?” One student asked toward the end of the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other than housing,” Nick Houston added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Peace of mind,” said Lewis. Adding that a simple “hello” goes a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis concluded by saying, “You go back to your parents and tell them, just because we look different and don’t have housing, don’t judge us by the way we look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most kids, I was taught to not talk to strangers, and to be aware of “crazy” people. And I don’t wholeheartedly disagree with that philosophy, as safety is a priority. But, if I would’ve had a platform to engage in dialogue with people from my community, I bet it would’ve erased some of the “stranger danger,” the fear or preconceived notions surrounding homelessness — and that might have opened up more channels to assist people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do unsheltered students go to school?” and “What can the Oakland SOL math class do to help the unsheltered?” the kids asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis used her lived experience to provide answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13828844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13828844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mitzi Lewis, a formerly homeless Oakland resident, talks about her life experiences with students from Sol Middle School in East Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitzi Lewis, a formerly homeless Oakland resident, talks about her life experiences with students from Oakland SOL Middle School in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never stayed at a shelter,” said Lewis. “Some are safe, some aren’t. Especially for women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told them about dialing 2-1-1 on these ancient things called pay phones to get information on food and health services. She mentioned the double standard of churches, “where they tell you to ‘come as you are’ but judge you when you walk in the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told them about the compromise people face when they send their kid to school while homeless; fearing that if a staff member finds out, they’ll report the family and have child taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She mentioned the unexpected death of one of her daughters and the depression that came thereafter. That depression led to lack of motivation, and subsequent unpaid bills, which ultimately led to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ewis spoke at Oakland SOL Middle School with Nick Houston, who serves as the Community Engagement Officer for The East Oakland Collective, an organization that works on a multi-tiered approach for community betterment, through civic engagement, economic empowerment and initiatives on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective has only been around for just over two years, but during that short time, it has become a conduit for local residents to voice their concerns and take action. There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/eoakcollective/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> page, which is updated multiple times per day. There are community forums, where politicians listen to their constituents. And then there are the food giveaways, the most recent of which brought out over 300 people to make lunches and toiletry bags at 7am on the Oakland SOL campus. The next one, on Apr. 15 , is expecting even more volunteers. (You can \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/feedthehood5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up here\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective even worked with Lewis to get her off the street and back on her feet by running a successful GoFundMe campaign. Lewis got the keys to her new house just days prior to speaking to the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13828845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13828845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Houston of East Oakland Collective checks on the homeless encampments in East Oakland once a week to assess residents' needs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Houston of The East Oakland Collective checks on the homeless encampments in East Oakland once a week to assess residents’ needs. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ess than an hour after Lewis’ talk with the preteens concluded, Houston and I were on the streets of East Oakland. He allowed me to come along during a check-in on a nearby encampment. This is something he does a couple of times per week, sometimes during his off day from his full-time job or after work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been checking in the Deep East Oakland encampments; they’re the most overlooked encampments in Oakland,” said Houston. “But I’ve touched every encampment in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me about the work he does as we walked through the rain-soaked grounds. The fraught landscape looked almost like another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We came to a plot of land bordered by train tracks ran to our right and busy San Leandro Street to our left. Houses made of plywood and camping tents stood adjacent to a mound of old bike parts. There was a noticeable spot where a fire had recently occurred, one of the many encampment fires as of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The misnomer is that the homeless population are drunks or on drugs. Most of these folks work or have income,” Houston told me as a BART train ran overhead. “They just can’t afford $2,200 for a one bedroom, or $6,000 to move in! I can’t even afford that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He followed up by telling me another reason he does the work, “For one, people don’t look at them like they’re human. And for two: shit, this could be us!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13828846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13828846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A temporary shelter near a creek at a homeless encampment in East Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A temporary shelter near a creek at a homeless encampment in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he problem of homelessness is multilayered and needs to be tackled on multiple levels. So while Houston is checking encampments, Marquita “Keta” Price, an Oakland native who serves as the collective’s Urban and Regional Planning Officer, is networking with other stakeholders. Price says that The East Oakland Collective has worked with Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, BART and the East Bay MUD, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The networking has been the greatest gain,” Price told me over the phone. “The networking has allowed us to gain insight on what these agencies are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a college student who works with Oakland City Councilmember Abel Guillen says, “on my lunch break, I’m taking calls for EOC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finished by telling me that The East Oakland Collective provided an opportunity for her to apply her vision for cooperative economics, and she credits Candice Elder for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder is the founder and director of the East Oakland Collective. She’s a former paralegal and President of the Museum of African Diaspora Vanguard Board. She left her job to do work full-time in the community she grew up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We want dedicated folks who want to make change in East Oakland.’ — Candice Elder, founder of The East Oakland Collective\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Driving through the East, going down Hegenberger and commuting to S.F., I could see the lack of resources,” Elder told me. “Nothing has changed, as far as development, in years. All these places I remember fondly as a child, and they were thriving. This area is the last frontier. We have to do something, I have to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She simply started with a Facebook group. “If I’m feeling this way, I wonder how many other people of like mind are feeling this way?” She questioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from that, a grassroots organization grew. It’s membership based, with an application process, but fees are waived. “We are more concerned about building community power than charging people,” says Elder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want dedicated folks who want to make change in East Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What better people than the youth? And what better way to inform their efforts to create change than to give them firsthand accounts of the issues at hand?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13828860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13828860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"East Oakland Collective started out as a Facebook group but quickly grew into a multi-tiered action network.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DSCF8602-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Oakland Collective started out as a Facebook group but quickly grew into a multi-tiered action network. \u003ccite>(Charles Lee/@picturemesirius)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">G\u003c/span>oing back to the conversation between Mitzi Lewis and the students, there was an exchange that I heard just before leaving the campus of Oakland SOL Middle School that still resonates with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do our unsheltered neighbors need?” One student asked toward the end of the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other than housing,” Nick Houston added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Peace of mind,” said Lewis. Adding that a simple “hello” goes a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis concluded by saying, “You go back to your parents and tell them, just because we look different and don’t have housing, don’t judge us by the way we look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most kids, I was taught to not talk to strangers, and to be aware of “crazy” people. And I don’t wholeheartedly disagree with that philosophy, as safety is a priority. But, if I would’ve had a platform to engage in dialogue with people from my community, I bet it would’ve erased some of the “stranger danger,” the fear or preconceived notions surrounding homelessness — and that might have opened up more channels to assist people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s a scene in Brenton Gieser’s documentary film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/238410662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tender Souls\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in which a young girl named Emily walks down the street, with her mother at her side, as she celebrates her third birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duo ventures through San Francisco’s notoriously rough Tenderloin neighborhood, holding colorful celebratory bags, toward a crowd of people posted on a corner. The crowd gives warning the little girl is coming. Not so they can cue up a sing-along to “Happy Birthday” (although one man does eventually sing to her), but to make sure that all the drugs are put away and the corner is a kid-friendly environment — if only for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This scene is symbolic of the film as a whole. It shows kindness in the middle of this “rough” community. It shows people taking time to understand and respect the presence of this little girl. And most importantly, it shows the significance of understanding someone’s life story, even if only for a few moments on their third birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13823206\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson.jpg\" alt=\"Corey Jackson in the documentary 'Tender Souls.'\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CoreyJackson-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Jackson in the documentary ‘Tender Souls.’ \u003ccite>(Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ociety has developed a number of ways to assist people living in “rough” neighborhoods, in the margins of society, in the shadows of Silicon Valley and on the streets of San Francisco. There are outreach and intake programs, mental health offices and drug addiction clinics, halfway houses and houses of the lord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are short-term remedies: In Oakland, there are people \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/11/29/oakland-tuff-sheds-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">living in Tuff Sheds\u003c/a>. In San Jose, people are \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/19/on-peninsula-and-in-south-bay-rvs-have-become-symbol-of-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">living in RVs and trailers\u003c/a>. In San Diego, hundreds of people are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/sd-me-tent-opening-20171130-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">living in one big-ass tent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It makes absolutely no sense why the disparity in wealth is so geographically close.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are legislators, both on a local and statewide level, who seem to care. But last week, during his State of the State speech, Governor Jerry Brown failed to mention rising homelessness in California, completely avoiding one of the biggest issues in the state. That same week, Leilani Farha, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to housing, visited Oakland and San Francisco. She was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/01/21/united-nations-expert-describes-oakland-and-californias-homeless-crisis-as-cruel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appalled at the way people were living\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her credit, Farha didn’t just drive by and shake her head at the shantytown-like compounds of tents and other makeshift structures, cropping up with increasing regularity in the Bay Area. Instead, she spoke to the people living in them, and got an understanding of their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s what \u003cem>Tender Souls\u003c/em> does: seeks understanding in order to puts these stories in context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823211\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13823211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brenton Gieser, director of 'Tender Souls.'\" width=\"478\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1.jpg 478w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1-240x313.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1-375x489.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenton Gieser, director of ‘Tender Souls.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Filmmaker and photographer Brenton Gieser uses the analogy of a funnel to describe the process of addressing the needs of those living in poor housing situations. “The movement toward change starts with stories,” Gieser says. He believes that understanding the background of someone’s life story is imperative to assisting them. “And then, you get more narrow, where the actual change happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows that it’s not just a matter of hearing someone’s story and then, \u003cem>voilà!\u003c/em>, problem solved. “I think soulful change is a multifaceted thing,” says Gieser. “It can’t just be ‘hey, make a nice film’ and that’s it. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gieser, 32, has been working as a documentarian in the Tenderloin for two and a half years. He’s also behind the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tendersoulsproject.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tender Souls photo project\u003c/a> with collaborator Felix Uribe, and has represented the younger generation on a special committee at Glide Memorial Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of \u003ca href=\"https://www.citychurchsf.org/City-Hope-Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Hope\u003c/a> as executive producers, Gieser and his team made \u003cem>Tender Souls\u003c/em> on a shoestring budget, shot it just over a week, and although he’s had multiple screenings and has accumulated \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/238410662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 35,000 views on Vimeo\u003c/a>, he has made no money off the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet through making “a nice film,” he has the chance to reach audiences who might have the resources to assist — you know, the people who just drive/bus/rideshare past the shantytown-like villages under freeway overpasses on their way to their well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13823208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis Bradford in the documentary 'Tender Souls,' about life on the margins in the Tenderloin.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curtis Bradford in the documentary ‘Tender Souls,’ about life on the margins in the Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> person could stand in the heart of the Tenderloin and throw a crack rock to the doorstep of some of the wealthiest businesses in the world. It makes absolutely no sense why the disparity in wealth is so geographically close. Gieser wants to change that. “With tech being the pervasive culture, we’re seeing the polarization of different cultures between the haves and have nots. It’s important to capture the attention of the people who \u003cem>aren’t\u003c/em> walking through the Tenderloin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gieser is just one of the many individuals and organizations who do this work. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glide Memorial\u003c/a> has been a cornerstone for eons. On my side of the Bay, in Oakland, the work of organizations such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/The-Village-in-Oakland-feedthepeople-731643677003021/?fref=mentions&pnref=story.unseen-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Village\u003c/a> in Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/eastoakcollective/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Oakland Collective\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://shadowproof.com/2017/09/12/inspired-black-panthers-peoples-breakfast-oakland-helps-neglected-government/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Breakfast Oakland\u003c/a> is more than necessary. As Gieser said, it’s going to take a multifaceted effort. It’s going to take legislation and healthcare. It’s going to take organized religion and random individuals. And it’s going to take understanding and compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13823210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_.jpg\" alt=\"Tiffany McClendon and daughter Emily in the documentary 'Tender Souls.'\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/Tiffeny.Emily_.Embed_-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiffany McClendon and daughter Emily in the documentary ‘Tender Souls.’ \u003ccite>(Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But before all that, at the wider end of the funnel, Gieser remains a firm believer that the power of empathy can alter the situation. To that end, he’ll continue to screen his film and work in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stories have the power to not only educate,” he says, “but to open hearts, and to break hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are short-term remedies: In Oakland, there are people \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/11/29/oakland-tuff-sheds-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">living in Tuff Sheds\u003c/a>. In San Jose, people are \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/19/on-peninsula-and-in-south-bay-rvs-have-become-symbol-of-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">living in RVs and trailers\u003c/a>. In San Diego, hundreds of people are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/sd-me-tent-opening-20171130-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">living in one big-ass tent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It makes absolutely no sense why the disparity in wealth is so geographically close.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are legislators, both on a local and statewide level, who seem to care. But last week, during his State of the State speech, Governor Jerry Brown failed to mention rising homelessness in California, completely avoiding one of the biggest issues in the state. That same week, Leilani Farha, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to housing, visited Oakland and San Francisco. She was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/01/21/united-nations-expert-describes-oakland-and-californias-homeless-crisis-as-cruel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appalled at the way people were living\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her credit, Farha didn’t just drive by and shake her head at the shantytown-like compounds of tents and other makeshift structures, cropping up with increasing regularity in the Bay Area. Instead, she spoke to the people living in them, and got an understanding of their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s what \u003cem>Tender Souls\u003c/em> does: seeks understanding in order to puts these stories in context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823211\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13823211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brenton Gieser, director of 'Tender Souls.'\" width=\"478\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1.jpg 478w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1-240x313.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/unnamed-1-375x489.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenton Gieser, director of ‘Tender Souls.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Filmmaker and photographer Brenton Gieser uses the analogy of a funnel to describe the process of addressing the needs of those living in poor housing situations. “The movement toward change starts with stories,” Gieser says. He believes that understanding the background of someone’s life story is imperative to assisting them. “And then, you get more narrow, where the actual change happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows that it’s not just a matter of hearing someone’s story and then, \u003cem>voilà!\u003c/em>, problem solved. “I think soulful change is a multifaceted thing,” says Gieser. “It can’t just be ‘hey, make a nice film’ and that’s it. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gieser, 32, has been working as a documentarian in the Tenderloin for two and a half years. He’s also behind the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tendersoulsproject.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tender Souls photo project\u003c/a> with collaborator Felix Uribe, and has represented the younger generation on a special committee at Glide Memorial Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of \u003ca href=\"https://www.citychurchsf.org/City-Hope-Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Hope\u003c/a> as executive producers, Gieser and his team made \u003cem>Tender Souls\u003c/em> on a shoestring budget, shot it just over a week, and although he’s had multiple screenings and has accumulated \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/238410662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 35,000 views on Vimeo\u003c/a>, he has made no money off the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet through making “a nice film,” he has the chance to reach audiences who might have the resources to assist — you know, the people who just drive/bus/rideshare past the shantytown-like villages under freeway overpasses on their way to their well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13823208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis Bradford in the documentary 'Tender Souls,' about life on the margins in the Tenderloin.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/01/CurtisBradford-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curtis Bradford in the documentary ‘Tender Souls,’ about life on the margins in the Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> person could stand in the heart of the Tenderloin and throw a crack rock to the doorstep of some of the wealthiest businesses in the world. It makes absolutely no sense why the disparity in wealth is so geographically close. Gieser wants to change that. “With tech being the pervasive culture, we’re seeing the polarization of different cultures between the haves and have nots. It’s important to capture the attention of the people who \u003cem>aren’t\u003c/em> walking through the Tenderloin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gieser is just one of the many individuals and organizations who do this work. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glide Memorial\u003c/a> has been a cornerstone for eons. On my side of the Bay, in Oakland, the work of organizations such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/The-Village-in-Oakland-feedthepeople-731643677003021/?fref=mentions&pnref=story.unseen-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Village\u003c/a> in Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/eastoakcollective/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Oakland Collective\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://shadowproof.com/2017/09/12/inspired-black-panthers-peoples-breakfast-oakland-helps-neglected-government/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Breakfast Oakland\u003c/a> is more than necessary. As Gieser said, it’s going to take a multifaceted effort. It’s going to take legislation and healthcare. It’s going to take organized religion and random individuals. 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To that end, he’ll continue to screen his film and work in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stories have the power to not only educate,” he says, “but to open hearts, and to break hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. 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The stately building was torn down, but instead of turning the land into an open park downtown, city planners ran Santa Rosa’s busiest street through it, squeezed some park features on either side, and, with a giant pair of scissors on opening day, cut a proud ribbon. 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The mall had been built, putting mom ‘n’ pop stores out of business all over downtown, and a huge cluster of megastores like Best Buy and Costco had been erected on Santa Rosa Avenue. The street that was paved through Courthouse Square — which had doubled as the transit hub for the city’s loud, noxious city buses — played host to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYz_iXO5Qjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">constant stream of traffic, speeding right past\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-1536x1091.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-1920x1364.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started to loudly declare that Courthouse Square should be reunified — in my zine, in letters to the mayor, at parties. I was “that guy.” I had no hope that it would actually happen, but at least discovered I wasn’t alone: cutting Courthouse Square in half was cited, with ever more frequency, as one of Santa Rosa’s famous mistakes. One that maybe could be fixed. Demolishing the mall or re-routing the freeway were unfeasible pipe dreams. But reuniting Courthouse Square, as I learned through donating to various fundraisers and commissions and think-tanks, wasn’t such an unobtainable goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a long time. It only happened because of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/reunified-old-courthouse-square-poised-to-make-its-debut-in-downtown-santa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rare confluence\u003c/a> of a united city council, the right amount of funds at the right time, and a collective will to finally go for it. Today they open it officially, and cut a new kind of ribbon. One that might as well say: “Whoops, Progress Was Right Under Our Nose All Along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s intermission time. Some favorite memories of Courthouse Square:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. The time the city tried putting speakers in the trees to pipe classical music into the square in an attempt to drive teenage punk rockers and derelicts out. (The idea failed spectacularly; in a \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em> story about its efficacy, a homeless person was quoted: “I like it, but I wish they’d play some Mahler or Shostakovich. Beethoven is so \u003cem>common\u003c/em>.”) My friend Donovan was there the day that one of the speakers fell out of the tree and onto the ground. A group of punks ran over and started kicking it, until one of them said, “Hey, this is a nice speaker, it’s probably worth some money,” and they picked it up and ran off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Jumping into the circular Rosenberg fountain with Evan late one night. We’d been walking around, complaining about how we were tired of observing the world from a distance, as teenagers do, and how we wanted to live more \u003cem>in\u003c/em> the world. We threw pebbles in the water and watched the ripples bounce off of the walls and overlap, discussing how every action has an impact. It was all very deep. Then I realized we were doing exactly what we’d been complaining about earlier — observing something, instead of living in it — and I turned around and dramatically fell backwards into the fountain. I made Evan do it too. We walked home soaked, determined from then onward to live differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Cutting school for a Gulf War protest in the square, 1991. The square was not only physically divided but politically divided: pro-war people on the East side, antiwar people on the West, both shouting at each other. I was sitting listening to speakers talk about oil and Middle East relations and Kuwait, when suddenly my mom appeared. “I thought I’d find you here!” she shouted across the crowd, pointing at me. I was busted for cutting school… or so I thought. My mom came over, sat down, put her arm around me and said she was proud of me. We hung out downtown the rest of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Playing on Courthouse Square’s stage with my band Santiago, celebrating the release of our album about Santa Rosa, \u003cem>Rosenberg’s After Dark\u003c/em>. (I’d recorded the intro late at night sitting on a bench near the Rosenberg fountain; you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYz_iXO5Qjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hear cars driving on the fake cobblestone\u003c/a> of the now-removed street in the background.) We brought Madigan’s Stationery and Eggen & Lance Mortuary signs to flank the stage. We had a song called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7g50PzgwQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Calm of Courthouse Square\u003c/a>,” about finding peace in the square on Christmas morning after breaking up with a girl who’d wanted me to decide between staying in Santa Rosa or following her to a bigger, more exciting city. We opened \u003cem>and\u003c/em> closed our set with it. I’ve played at famous clubs from CBGB to the Fillmore, but headlining Courthouse Square was more special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Finding \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202580895261158&set=p.10202580895261158&type=1&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two pot plants growing in Courthouse Square\u003c/a>! Crazy! They were only about six inches tall. I uprooted them and carried them home, where I planted them in larger and larger pots and watered them in our backyard until they grew taller than me. I don’t really smoke weed at all, but how often do you find it growing right in the middle of downtown? I gave away a lot of “Courthouse Kush” to friends that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Driving Lena home from the hospital when she was just one day old, and parking in front of Treehorn Books. “I’ll be right back,” I told Liz. I ran to the fountain and pooled some water in my hands, and walked back to the car, and to our new child. I trickled some of the water on her soft forehead. “Welcome to town,” I whispered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I, of all people, should be sad and upset that the old square is gone. People who know my propensity for living in the past have joked that I was already nostalgic for the old square the minute they brought in the tractors. It’s true. I can’t help looking back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like the man said, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. Santa Rosa has stayed the same, more or less, for the past 15 years, and I’m ready for some newness. Now, suddenly, we’re on a precipice of some major changes. The square is one of them. The SMART train is another. And lots of other changes add up to what could quickly be a very different Santa Rosa than the one we’ve known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the square, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/hotel-plans-taking-shape-on-santa-rosas-old-courthouse-square/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">boutique hotel for tourists\u003c/a> complete with valet parking is coming soon. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/category/biteclub?fbclid=IwAR1ATFQT6JJwmc6MhBQr0zefZLLcqGQpForARsZsG3KaVpGR6Qc06dk3_x8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eight new restaurants\u003c/a> are opening downtown in the next few months, bringing more handcrafted cocktails and artisanal menus. Even the Astro Motel is \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/spinster-sisters-restaurant-owners-buy-astro-motel-in-santa-rosa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being remodeled and reopening soon\u003c/a> as another boutique destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and more, we find ourselves on “Best Places to Live” lists. The Russian River Brewing Co. is ground zero for our status as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/beer/article/Santa-Rosa-dubbed-microbrew-capital-of-the-U-S-11084669.php?fbclid=IwAR2iJljIYdTBEJ5DYevugSf9BOS1knZ3Pf4XoZPIzFEywjU1fB0IX5_ooNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">capital of craft beer\u003c/a>. Next door, what used to be Sawyer’s News selling magazines, racing forms and cigarettes is now an English-style tea parlor and a real estate sales office. Up the block, a storefront that sold shoes is now a financial planning service. Arrigoni’s, the 77-year-old family deli, is now a create-your-own-pizza place. And a restaurant from Healdsburg will soon take the place of La Bufa, the no-frills, family-run Mexican joint which \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/la-bufa-mexican-restaurant-in-santa-rosa-closing-after-42-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closes Sunday after almost 45 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have you seen Clover’s new billboards? The ones that used to feature a cartoon cow and silly puns, and now present elegant phrases about their milk’s “mouthfeel”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa has been on this trajectory for a while, transforming from the Redwood Empire to Wine Country. But it’s gonna come extra fast and hard in the next year or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, mere hours after the square’s fences came down yesterday, a man slept in a sleeping bag under the redwood trees. Twenty minutes later, Liz and I watched as a cop came and rustled him awake, and pulled out his ticket book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have an enormous housing problem in Santa Rosa, and more homeless than I can ever remember. I don’t know what to say to those who complain about homeless people without seeing the connection to the luxurification of Santa Rosa, except that you can only have so many landlords \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/santa-rosa-ca/stays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turning their units into permanent Airbnbs\u003c/a> for Pliny the Younger fans before there’s no place for people who grew up here to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911706\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home sales here have hit their \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-home-sales-median-price-fall-in-april/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest median price in history\u003c/a>, out of range for the average first-time buyer. Rents have skyrocketed, completely out of reach for most of my friends. And the freeway underpasses on Sixth Street and Ninth Street have become mini-villages of homeless people who simply can’t afford a basic roof over their head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city knows this, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-thinks-granny-units-could-help-solve-housing-crisis/?artslide=0&fbclid=IwAR0S-oYaMNSNxMn6BF4DvNsoCu9ZWooP8ZjGJBbPOiQ8uxhTIj-T0i2L6QE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trying\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FairandAffordableSantaRosa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">address\u003c/a> it. But the changes Santa Rosa faces are going to come much faster than city policy. Meanwhile, the city wants the square to succeed, and an important part of that — in the eyes of many — is to keep it “nice,” “clean,” and “welcoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words: clear of homeless people. I mean, we witnessed it right there, firsthand, after the square opened, as if on cue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m nervous. I’m also excited. I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I do know that I love this city, and that today is a historic day for Santa Rosa. To the critics of the new square’s design, I say: It’s a canvas. I know of no construction project that doesn’t go in phases. (And, $10 million is cheap. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-states-120-million-green-center-takes-center-stage/?ref=related&gallery=2358864&artslide=0&fbclid=IwAR1XlYEGAuT4I8Z4J2V0TX8bJJmjw4bENE4LVH0beoqNveS57GeIDm_cGqk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Really\u003c/a>.) Look at the photo earlier for what the square looked like when it opened in the early ’70s: flat, empty, a lot of concrete. Things adapt. Trees grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, a town square is just that — a place. What makes it special are the people, and what they do with it. And time will tell what we do with this square. Some modern-looking LED towers are on the way. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11665156/ruth-asawa-fountain-delicately-removed-preserved-in-santa-rosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ruth Asawa fountain will be reinstalled\u003c/a>. I, for one, would love to add a gazebo or permanent stage for speakers and musical performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last night, as I noticed new plaques commemorating the old Rosenberg fountain and the current city council, I was glad to see an older plaque that someone decided to keep. Giving a brief history of the square, it includes the name “J. Carrillo.” That’s Julio Carrillo, someone I’ve written about at length, who donated his family’s land to help lay the foundation for Santa Rosa — including the land for the square. Developers and businessmen did their thing, and Santa Rosa flourished. Julio Carrillo, the son of Spanish settlers who drank and gambled as much as he believed in high-minded ideas, went broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of his life, Carrillo, basically penniless, worked as a janitor for the courthouse. By day, he and his wife sold tamales on the sidewalk to help support their large family. All this on valuable land he’d once owned, and naively signed over in service of a high-minded idea called Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Change comes fast. Carrillo eventually got a prince’s funeral, with a huge crowd in the square, and a parade to the cemetery. And his name – some of it, at least – is memorialized on a plaque in this new, reunified square. But just like it was in Carrillo’s day, Santa Rosa is still a city of the haves and the have-nots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a grand metaphor to be made here about reunifying the square and reunifying our splintered city, divided by wealth and class and race, but I just can’t bring myself to be that hopeful. Not yet. But I’ll give it time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for today, and the big celebration in the new (finally!) reunified Courthouse Square, and this new era of downtown, whatever it may bring?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s our city. Our square. Let’s make it great. I’ll see you there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Liz and Lena and I walked down to Courthouse Square last night. Today’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/reunified-old-courthouse-square-poised-to-make-its-debut-in-downtown-santa/?ref=related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grand opening\u003c/a> ceremony with Chris Coursey and Gaye Lebaron and other official speeches, but we’d heard the fences were already down, and I couldn’t wait. Patching up a scar through he heart of the city is something I’d already waited for — for, oh, about 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids tumbled on the brand-new grass. Dogs ran circles around each other. Everyone turned around in a panoramic circle, pointing out new features, or trying to estimate where the old ones had been. There was a sense of hesitant excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I overheard one guy nearby, sitting on benches, who shrugged. “I don’t know if I like it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” his friend replied. “I’ll give it time, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those who grumble at the new square — a flat, expensive patch of concrete, they say — that may be my best advice. Give this new Courthouse Square time. We’ve got a lot of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know the story by now: in 1966, the county outgrew its old courthouse, which anchored the center of Santa Rosa. The stately building was torn down, but instead of turning the land into an open park downtown, city planners ran Santa Rosa’s busiest street through it, squeezed some park features on either side, and, with a giant pair of scissors on opening day, cut a proud ribbon. It read: “Symbol of Progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156578_10211377613053605_8536823908719878453_o-800x701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156578_10211377613053605_8536823908719878453_o-800x701.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156578_10211377613053605_8536823908719878453_o-1020x894.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156578_10211377613053605_8536823908719878453_o-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156578_10211377613053605_8536823908719878453_o-768x673.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156578_10211377613053605_8536823908719878453_o.jpg 1189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1990s, that “progress” looked more like de-evolution. The mall had been built, putting mom ‘n’ pop stores out of business all over downtown, and a huge cluster of megastores like Best Buy and Costco had been erected on Santa Rosa Avenue. The street that was paved through Courthouse Square — which had doubled as the transit hub for the city’s loud, noxious city buses — played host to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYz_iXO5Qjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">constant stream of traffic, speeding right past\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-1536x1091.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o-1920x1364.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192447_10211377718816249_3016441479001586066_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started to loudly declare that Courthouse Square should be reunified — in my zine, in letters to the mayor, at parties. I was “that guy.” I had no hope that it would actually happen, but at least discovered I wasn’t alone: cutting Courthouse Square in half was cited, with ever more frequency, as one of Santa Rosa’s famous mistakes. One that maybe could be fixed. Demolishing the mall or re-routing the freeway were unfeasible pipe dreams. But reuniting Courthouse Square, as I learned through donating to various fundraisers and commissions and think-tanks, wasn’t such an unobtainable goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a long time. It only happened because of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/reunified-old-courthouse-square-poised-to-make-its-debut-in-downtown-santa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rare confluence\u003c/a> of a united city council, the right amount of funds at the right time, and a collective will to finally go for it. Today they open it officially, and cut a new kind of ribbon. One that might as well say: “Whoops, Progress Was Right Under Our Nose All Along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s intermission time. Some favorite memories of Courthouse Square:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. The time the city tried putting speakers in the trees to pipe classical music into the square in an attempt to drive teenage punk rockers and derelicts out. (The idea failed spectacularly; in a \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em> story about its efficacy, a homeless person was quoted: “I like it, but I wish they’d play some Mahler or Shostakovich. Beethoven is so \u003cem>common\u003c/em>.”) My friend Donovan was there the day that one of the speakers fell out of the tree and onto the ground. A group of punks ran over and started kicking it, until one of them said, “Hey, this is a nice speaker, it’s probably worth some money,” and they picked it up and ran off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18199347_10211377825858925_7681476918943987217_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Jumping into the circular Rosenberg fountain with Evan late one night. We’d been walking around, complaining about how we were tired of observing the world from a distance, as teenagers do, and how we wanted to live more \u003cem>in\u003c/em> the world. We threw pebbles in the water and watched the ripples bounce off of the walls and overlap, discussing how every action has an impact. It was all very deep. Then I realized we were doing exactly what we’d been complaining about earlier — observing something, instead of living in it — and I turned around and dramatically fell backwards into the fountain. I made Evan do it too. We walked home soaked, determined from then onward to live differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Cutting school for a Gulf War protest in the square, 1991. The square was not only physically divided but politically divided: pro-war people on the East side, antiwar people on the West, both shouting at each other. I was sitting listening to speakers talk about oil and Middle East relations and Kuwait, when suddenly my mom appeared. “I thought I’d find you here!” she shouted across the crowd, pointing at me. I was busted for cutting school… or so I thought. My mom came over, sat down, put her arm around me and said she was proud of me. We hung out downtown the rest of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238100_10211377698575743_4982369222838759827_o.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Playing on Courthouse Square’s stage with my band Santiago, celebrating the release of our album about Santa Rosa, \u003cem>Rosenberg’s After Dark\u003c/em>. (I’d recorded the intro late at night sitting on a bench near the Rosenberg fountain; you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYz_iXO5Qjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hear cars driving on the fake cobblestone\u003c/a> of the now-removed street in the background.) We brought Madigan’s Stationery and Eggen & Lance Mortuary signs to flank the stage. We had a song called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7g50PzgwQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Calm of Courthouse Square\u003c/a>,” about finding peace in the square on Christmas morning after breaking up with a girl who’d wanted me to decide between staying in Santa Rosa or following her to a bigger, more exciting city. We opened \u003cem>and\u003c/em> closed our set with it. I’ve played at famous clubs from CBGB to the Fillmore, but headlining Courthouse Square was more special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Finding \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202580895261158&set=p.10202580895261158&type=1&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two pot plants growing in Courthouse Square\u003c/a>! Crazy! They were only about six inches tall. I uprooted them and carried them home, where I planted them in larger and larger pots and watered them in our backyard until they grew taller than me. I don’t really smoke weed at all, but how often do you find it growing right in the middle of downtown? I gave away a lot of “Courthouse Kush” to friends that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Driving Lena home from the hospital when she was just one day old, and parking in front of Treehorn Books. “I’ll be right back,” I told Liz. I ran to the fountain and pooled some water in my hands, and walked back to the car, and to our new child. I trickled some of the water on her soft forehead. “Welcome to town,” I whispered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I, of all people, should be sad and upset that the old square is gone. People who know my propensity for living in the past have joked that I was already nostalgic for the old square the minute they brought in the tractors. It’s true. I can’t help looking back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like the man said, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. Santa Rosa has stayed the same, more or less, for the past 15 years, and I’m ready for some newness. Now, suddenly, we’re on a precipice of some major changes. The square is one of them. The SMART train is another. And lots of other changes add up to what could quickly be a very different Santa Rosa than the one we’ve known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the square, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/hotel-plans-taking-shape-on-santa-rosas-old-courthouse-square/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">boutique hotel for tourists\u003c/a> complete with valet parking is coming soon. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/category/biteclub?fbclid=IwAR1ATFQT6JJwmc6MhBQr0zefZLLcqGQpForARsZsG3KaVpGR6Qc06dk3_x8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eight new restaurants\u003c/a> are opening downtown in the next few months, bringing more handcrafted cocktails and artisanal menus. Even the Astro Motel is \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/spinster-sisters-restaurant-owners-buy-astro-motel-in-santa-rosa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being remodeled and reopening soon\u003c/a> as another boutique destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18192450_10211377705335912_6964387410853039091_o.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and more, we find ourselves on “Best Places to Live” lists. The Russian River Brewing Co. is ground zero for our status as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/beer/article/Santa-Rosa-dubbed-microbrew-capital-of-the-U-S-11084669.php?fbclid=IwAR2iJljIYdTBEJ5DYevugSf9BOS1knZ3Pf4XoZPIzFEywjU1fB0IX5_ooNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">capital of craft beer\u003c/a>. Next door, what used to be Sawyer’s News selling magazines, racing forms and cigarettes is now an English-style tea parlor and a real estate sales office. Up the block, a storefront that sold shoes is now a financial planning service. Arrigoni’s, the 77-year-old family deli, is now a create-your-own-pizza place. And a restaurant from Healdsburg will soon take the place of La Bufa, the no-frills, family-run Mexican joint which \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/la-bufa-mexican-restaurant-in-santa-rosa-closing-after-42-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closes Sunday after almost 45 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have you seen Clover’s new billboards? The ones that used to feature a cartoon cow and silly puns, and now present elegant phrases about their milk’s “mouthfeel”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa has been on this trajectory for a while, transforming from the Redwood Empire to Wine Country. But it’s gonna come extra fast and hard in the next year or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13911700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-160x15.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18157782_10211377597133207_2734933436833314751_n-768x73.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, mere hours after the square’s fences came down yesterday, a man slept in a sleeping bag under the redwood trees. Twenty minutes later, Liz and I watched as a cop came and rustled him awake, and pulled out his ticket book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have an enormous housing problem in Santa Rosa, and more homeless than I can ever remember. I don’t know what to say to those who complain about homeless people without seeing the connection to the luxurification of Santa Rosa, except that you can only have so many landlords \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/santa-rosa-ca/stays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turning their units into permanent Airbnbs\u003c/a> for Pliny the Younger fans before there’s no place for people who grew up here to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911706\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18238440_10211377647174458_537120752881380645_o.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home sales here have hit their \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-home-sales-median-price-fall-in-april/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest median price in history\u003c/a>, out of range for the average first-time buyer. 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I know of no construction project that doesn’t go in phases. (And, $10 million is cheap. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-states-120-million-green-center-takes-center-stage/?ref=related&gallery=2358864&artslide=0&fbclid=IwAR1XlYEGAuT4I8Z4J2V0TX8bJJmjw4bENE4LVH0beoqNveS57GeIDm_cGqk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Really\u003c/a>.) Look at the photo earlier for what the square looked like when it opened in the early ’70s: flat, empty, a lot of concrete. Things adapt. Trees grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, a town square is just that — a place. What makes it special are the people, and what they do with it. And time will tell what we do with this square. Some modern-looking LED towers are on the way. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11665156/ruth-asawa-fountain-delicately-removed-preserved-in-santa-rosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ruth Asawa fountain will be reinstalled\u003c/a>. I, for one, would love to add a gazebo or permanent stage for speakers and musical performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last night, as I noticed new plaques commemorating the old Rosenberg fountain and the current city council, I was glad to see an older plaque that someone decided to keep. Giving a brief history of the square, it includes the name “J. Carrillo.” That’s Julio Carrillo, someone I’ve written about at length, who donated his family’s land to help lay the foundation for Santa Rosa — including the land for the square. Developers and businessmen did their thing, and Santa Rosa flourished. Julio Carrillo, the son of Spanish settlers who drank and gambled as much as he believed in high-minded ideas, went broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13911707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/18156338_10211377723096356_1643596746478933906_o.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of his life, Carrillo, basically penniless, worked as a janitor for the courthouse. 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